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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
I attached a version with should support non-ANSI characters. Could everyone test this please? (A)

//Edit; It's a WINDOWS(XP/VISTA/7) application which requires DOT NET 3.5, just for your info :)

Gz Reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cayee:
What i should do? Just click the file and execute it :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Unzip, run it..

It will ask you to open an mp3 file, select one and press OK..

Tags will be displayed in a popup...

gz Reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cayee:
Here is the message. Then . . .:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Is this correct? Yes or No?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cayee:
Yes. But what is the result :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
If the tags on the messagebox are actually correct, means that I succesfully implemented non-ANSI characters.

This will mean that iMulator v2 will have non-ANSI support;)

Thanks for testing,

Gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cayee:
Good Job! v2 please come early:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bismuth89:
Hi, how is your work going?

Any ETA for v2? :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DiverCat007:
Multiple crashes

Greetings,

I downloaded your program yesterday and really like the UI - clean and simple, plus large album art.

Wanted to report crashes I have experienced. The first occurred when tapping the "Back" button in the upper left corner when in cover art view (shots 1 & 2). The second happened when tapping cover art to reveal the time slider.

I've also attached an image of the settings.ini file. Installed to device, about 1600 songs on the SD card.

Thanks for this program, I think it has much potential! Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daedric:
Take it easy! I rather have it later and working good than sooner and buggy :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bismuth89:
Ok I'm just asking, not forcing him or anything :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Thanks for reporting the bugs with such detail, I will fix the bugs in the upcomming (v2) release!

Hehe, I rather release a properly working Application than a Buggy one ^^. In my opinion I released v1 way too fast.

Anyway I think I will have a reasonably working version in 1 month. So I think somewhere in Q1 2011 the final version will be released :)

Gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bismuth89:
Thanks for the great info reb3lzrr, we will look forward to the release, good luck with your study and everything ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] robeyluv:
Omg this is beyond amazing, literally the best music player I've seen for Winmo!

Excellent job bud! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daequitas:
Helloo there, is it me or is there no link for imulate Beta. cab???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Hi all,

I wanted to post some progress on the new iMulator beta!

I was planning to release the new beta around christmas, eversince that is just around the corner I think that I could give a more precise date; the new version will be released within a month from now!

So what are the BIG improvements?

- No waiting time when pressing Songs/Albums/Artists/etc.. !

- Only 5MB ram for 1500 songs!

- No waiting time when you want to play a song!

- Much better GUI ( Graphics User Interface ), exact copy from the iPhone.

- Lots of animations, exact copies from the iPhone as well ;)

As for now, I'm not sure wether to release the new version for free. I'd like to charge something for it ( €1,- or €2,-), but because of legal issues I'm not sure wheter I CAN charge you guys for it:O!

Anyway more information will be released when available!

Here is some feedback on the comments:

Thanks!

Thanks! Keep an eye out to the next version, it's even improved in many ways!

The bata is currently developed in private, there are only a handful of people that have acces to the latest beta.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nagagaya:
hi

hi

i am using htc hd2. application is super but shuffle is not working. when we select shuffle after song played we need to press next button to go for another songs.

option is not working or no screen for that. Please advice thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alabama20:
Hi!

I had the same problem, just delete your settings.txt and it's done (for me fixed) ;)

FormatException

i System.Single.Parse(String s,

NumeberStyles style, IformatProvider

provider)

i System.Single.Parse(String s)

i

iMulator.INI_Setting.GetFloatValue(Single

DefaultValue)

i iMulator.Settings.LoadFromINI(String

Location)

i iMulator.MainForm..ctor()

i iMulator.Program.Main()
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bakkertakker:
I created a playlist and the next start iMulator crashed. Settings deleted and everything worked fine :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
The *.ini file was bugged, it didn't correctly write a new line, that is now fixed. The next version will not have this bug :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] firefoxvn:
I downloaded your program and really like the UI - clean and simple.

It's more beautiful than Windows media.

I hope you can support 320×320.

Thanks a lot.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gmanfuzing:
I'd really like to be able to try the next version of Imulator, it feels like i've been waitin ages to see it !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
iMulator is still under development! Please wait patiently for it to come out;)

Real live has been demanding quite more than I've expecited it be.

Gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mandrewthebarbarian:
New Release

I'm also very excited to see the new release. This is by far the best WinMo player out today.

Great job and thanks for all your hard work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tehrzky:
ive been using Nitrogen Music Player...

can you add tilt to change song?

tnx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] brendanvista:
Hey there, I just want to thank you for all your hard work. I hope everything is going well for you in your studies. This program is awesome. I am interested in beta testing this if you have the need. God bless.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mikelundi:
Been a while since anyone has posted in here... How's the progress going on your program, Reb3lzrr?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pipoawas:
It works but it has some bugs:

- Doesn't install on the SD card (I have a driver to support 4Gb cards otherwise my device would only support 2Gb, maybe that's the reason, but it's the 1st time it happens)

- When playing, the "file menu" only has a loop option, but I can glimpse a second menu line trying to appear (1 pixel height). Is it supposed to be that way?

- Doesn't support some mp3 (can't find a pattern here)

- The top arrow buttons 'now playing' and 'Base' have a font too small and jagged.

And now some suggestions/improvements:

- When clicking the playlist, the stars could be smaller (too much realstate)

- Is it really necessary to cache the album art? it adds many dozens of small files to my storage card, increasing fragmentation, and besides, the album art is too small when showed in the library anyway; I only want it when playing the songs. At least make an option to turn it of, please.

- And specially, support for AAC/m4a files. Why supporting only mp3, since there are other codecs which for the same ammount of quality create files with a smaller file size? this is very important when dealing with devices with limited storage capability such the ones your player is made for.

And for the ones claiming that it's very similar to S2P, well, S2P is a clone of the excellent iPhone player... although the question remains: why having this instead of S2P? Well, if you want to make yours better, add support for AAC audio (which is the most advanced ou there), or at least OGG Vorbis.

The lack of this feature is by far the biggest limitation of S2P, and if you added this feature, it would definetly make your player stand out from S2P, which actually isn't even a player at all, but just a fancy interface for Windows media player.

If you don't know how to do this, make you player modular so others could make plugins for many formats, or use some open source player engines (like Nitrogen I think), that way you could use it's input plugins.

Best regards, and I hope you find my suggestions usefull.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pipoawas:
I would say he'd probably bought an Android by now...

EDIT: In fact, so did I, and it's awsome.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Thanks for your feedback, please review my quesions remarks:

1. While adding media it gave you an exception? If so; Please post the error message.

2. Right, I need to do some memory clean up. I'll do this asap

3. I'm not sure why its unable to install onto your storage card, i'll check that aswell.

gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zinconnu:
Works on WM 6.5.x, but on 6.1 too?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
I think my lil brother ( which has a TyTTN II ), runs WM6.1 ( not 100% sure... ) and it works on his device.

Gz Reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
Same problems on my device, i could not install into My Storage or Storage Card, even if selected so it installs into device memory.

When selecting browse albums or browse artists it throws this error. I have not been able to play anything.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rickmatic:
I tried this new media player and i was impressed but its too similar to the s2p. so i think people would be hesitant to download this new player because the s2p is well known already. with that being said. i think if you can implement some features like controlling it on the 6.5 lockscreen or even the ability to create a playlist on the player itself. that can maybe set it apart from the s2p.

Good Job and Good Luck ill keep my eye on it for future builds.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
this looks wonderful. good initiative :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Alireza2n:
Nice start!

It would be great if you add support for wired handsfree (like HTC RC-E100) in your player. :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] akshay2000:
See dude, the thing 'Paid Version' doesn't sound too good here. Why don't you use S2P like thing or just make S2P use library? Because, S2P handles album art icons greatly. Its eye candy. And, I've got a suggestion. You should consider changing the name. You are taking efforts to write a whole new program, then let it be new. Why call it clone or emulator of some another program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jagan2:
Looks very nice, but on qvga (opal) its not working just after the application is launched, if i click anything like album or anything instantly i get error mentioned on previous page.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] davidguate:
Hi, im trying to try this nice app on my HD2 but im unable. I get this message when i try to use it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] davidguate:
I also tryed to add media to library but i got fail message again, a diferent one. Take a look:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lin5230:
Hopes to have coverflow mode
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Wow quite some reactions overnight, let me respond to all of them:

I'll implement playlists in the near future, and the major diffrance is that my player is library based. If you have any more suggestions please let me know :D

I can... I'll send you a Private message cause I need some info!

I see what your trying to say; about the paid version... I dont really know whether I'm gonna make one or not, lets just wait untill I decided.

About the name, I used to call it 'MediaPower' which is kind of lame in my opinion. When iMulator came up, I found it quite touching :P

You should add media first, anyway

in the next version I'll detect first runs...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ma7ija:
how to uninstal?

How can i remove imulator? It's not visible in remove programs, on 6.5.5 rom.

Thanks for answer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jaskiratsingh:
go to program files and delete the imulator folder
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
I exidentely enabled 'no remove' I'll change that in next version.

Gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aalbrecht:
Hi,

looks great, but startup screen has strange behaviour: I have to click "Done" for several times to get to the player itself.

Then, after I added my media to the library, I tried to browse "All songs", "Albums", etc, but I always get an IndexOutOfRange exception in System.String.get_Chars(Int32 index) in iMulator.FrameContainer.Draw() in iMulator.MainForm.All_Songs_Click(.....)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dijay_94:
how do we remove it then, please help
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] HD2MAX:
A question

Can try to support the volume up/down on remote control headphones? + -
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Birger:
Hi, I added the media and it does not crash anymore when selecting an album or anything on the main menu. During the import however, he only found about 150 songs of the 1500+ on my storage card.

The scrolling is smooth, but it is like the parts below the Alphabethical letters is not following the same scroll rate. It kind of flikkers from time to time. this is mostly noticable when doing slow scrolls near the stop.

When scrolling through all songs, sometimes the bar with Alphabetical letters are disapeared. "E and F" most of the time

When playing a song, and putting the timebar on, the time and remaining time also flikker.

Cover art does not show up in the player nor in the list of albums.

Hope these remarks help the development.

Regards,

Birger
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arturobandini:
Always good to see a new music player. Thanks.

What a pity this one has an Iphone-like UI.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Zepiii:
Error message on my HD2. Programms start then, if I click on songs or anything : CRASH.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
that is odd... The next update will enable users to import files that are stored anywhere on the device, that should fix it.

Noticed the bug(s) will fix that!

Noticed the bug(s) will fix that!

Noticed the bug(s) will fix that aswell!

It should appear in the player, however the album list doesn't support it (yet) will implement it asap!

thanks for the feedback!

Gz Reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
My brother had simulair problems, I tracked down the source and it will be fixed in the next update!

gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
New version is online!

Here is the change log:

[26 apr 2010]
-	Changed when adding media, tags will be updated when 'Modify Time' has changed, instead of the size.
-	Changed when adding media, the whole device will be scanned for media, rather than only the storage card.
-	Fixed the "Dissapearal" of the current Playing list.
-	Fixed the "Index Out Of Range" Exception when browsing songs.
-	Fixed 'Flickering' of the Time Passed & Remaining.
-	Fixed the 'Ordener' redraw bug.
-	Fixed the ( %CURENTPLAYING% / %CURRENTPLAYING.COUNT% ) it was off by one.
-	Fixed Better Tag Support.
-	Fixed Memorry Leak
-	Added first run detection, this will prevent users to browse their emtpy library and cause errors.
-	Added a triangle in the currentplaying list.
-	Added that the Player will update the 'Duration' stored in the db, and current playlist thanks to the player library.

[25 apr 2010]
-	Initial Alpha Release
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] igorca:
Many thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raadius:
I'm glad there is another iPod/iPhone music player, it's easily the best created for a mobile phone or music player. While S2P is very similar, I hate how he tags the name at the bottom screen, scrolling, also it kinda of lags a bit (the version I had).

I have one question and a request, if I have to delete this will WinMo6.5 reinstall my original music player back on my TMO US HD2? My request is, can you put the the bottom of the screen just like the iPod? IE: "Playlist, Artist, Songs, More"? Here is a pic for reference:

I figure, if your gonna make it like the iPod and call it iMulator go all OUT, who cares if it's like S2P, more options = BETTER :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] felipemadox:
- When i try to play any song = crash

- splashscreen is sucks :-)

- Doesnt have a uninstaller

* HTC Diamond Wm6.5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JonFolse:
can u control the volume while the screen is locked for the the HD2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lesscro:
Nice to see a new Dev...

especially a Young dev...

I will help for this one... if you want create your own graphics... still finger friendly but not same as iPhone... i can make this...

Send me PM if you are interested...

have fun... & keep it up... :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rajivshahi:
thanx for this wonderful software.... Now i can finally put aside the WMP... as other media players didn't support library, so i sticked with WMP.. Thanx a lot for the great app...:D:D:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
why do developers try to make our devices look like i phones if we wanted an i phone i would have bought one please make this app skin-able and open it's full potential :)

we can make it match sense or what ever (windows) :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] indresh88:
this looks promising.....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Well,, let me explain why i didnt by an iphone:

- I wanted a hardware keyboard ( qwerty )

- I didn't want T-Mobile ( back then t-mobile was the only one to give out contracts ).

You can partually change the looks by change the images in the images folder ;)

gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raadius:
No one said you have to d/l, geez, relax and hit back on your browser.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
How are you locking? Default 6.5 lock will lock all buttons, regardless of the music player. S2U2 will also lock all buttons.

S2P however has a blank screen feature, so you can turn off the screen and still use the DPAD for tracking / volume.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fireant:
good!

The album cover flow view will add even more interest to imulator, and I hope you consider it again.

Although this is your first mobile app, this is a quality app. You are off to a good start, and keep up the great work! Thanks for this app, I will keep checking your new releases. :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JonFolse:
Im locking by pressing the end button and I donr have a DPAD. *snaps fingers*
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jebise101:
dude this will kick s2p ass if you can get it on par to s2p as it is now. I use s2p everyday but i hate a few things one MAJOR one is the library and this is a plus for many of us. I will wait for a beta release i hope you you work out the bugs and give us a nice beta real soon. Only reason i don't want to try this is because there is no playlist or album art support. But can't wait thank god its WMP based, i used wmp to sync my music but playlist are weird with s2p for me.

If this becomes fully featured like s2p and go beyond i would not mind paying for it if its like 2-3 dollars or so.

I just noticed is scans the entire device, that's not a good idea the samsung touch player dose the same and it all music files on the device such as ringtones and dings/rings etc. Can you have it so you select a folder or multiple folders. Or something so it dose not grab the random music files of the device.

Dose it support shuffle/repeat and all that yet?

One suggestion i have is there are a few people that are asking for heavy demanding things and if you do decide to add some of them please consider making a lite version for users that don't have a snapdragon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bajaoc:
can you make it like nitrogen that can play while in offline mode? thanks for this
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] romeo0119:
Support gapless play back??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SEscobedo:
Hey reb3lzrr,

I installed the cab on my unlocked TMOUS HD2 and everytime I attempt to access my library or artists, it ends up giving me a "unexpected error". I will copy and paste the error for you.

iMulator.exe

IndexOutOfRangeException

at System.String.get_Chars(Int32 index)

at iMulator.FrameContainer.Draw()

at iMulator.FrameContainer.Refresh()

at iMulator.MainForm.All_Songs_Click(Frame f, Boolean Refresh, Boolean AddToLogger)

at iMulator.Frame_Song.Click(Frame f, Boolean Refresh, Boolean AddToLogger)

at iMulator.FrameContainer.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int32 lParam)

at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop(IntPtr hwnMain)

at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form fm)

at iMulator.Program.Main()

There ya go. Going to reboot and check to see if that fixes the issue.

*edit* I rebooted and still having the same error.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fiendskillz:
me2 i am getting an error on my hd2 tmousa
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Birger:
add media first and its solved.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Win_XP:
I get the same error on my Universal with WM6.1 :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] young blade:
@reb3lzrr

Hey!! where going to the same school!! (Engineering and aplied sience):D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Johny_G:
Looks nice so far! But had no time to try it yet. However - does it also let WMP to use its registry entries during playback? I am asking just because I cannot find any good, fast and touch-friendly player with Last.fm support anywhere. But implementation of PocketScrobbler is incredibly easy, so if it is not done yet, please consider doing it :-). I will report back as soon as I try your app.

How to: Implement support for a media player when you have access to its source code
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ox_eye:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6302722&postcount=35
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] reb3lzrr:
Lol that is funny which year / grade?

I'll make a 'smart playlist' which tracks the amounts played and ratings etc.

gz reb3lzrr

gz reb3lzrr
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] felixdd:
Question: will playlist support include support for the M3U format?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zen kun:
pretty nice app, didint test it yet but seems pretty nice IMO s2p has several bugs, i like it but i cant make work property. and this seems pretty nice tbh

would be nice support for BT headset i gues you can use WMP plugins. like pocket player do. keep the great work ;D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Toldo:
This app is nice as seen on the screenshots. I tried running on the Omnia (i900), it starts, but crashes immediately after adding files to library or when at the start I choose any option (all songs, etc). The softkeys work but the rest doesn't. I couldn't even manage to play anything. Eitherways it's worth working on it. If you need some test done to make a WQVGA version, I'd be happy to help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] djorke:
great app

Hi, I find it really usable. Scrolling is amazingly fast but it could be greater if you change it a bit. If I scroll very fast and want to stop scrolling it always starts playing a song. This could be fixed maybe if you just a little increase time needed for choosing a song.

Keep going! Regards