panel linkage? - XPERIA X1 General

something just occurred in my mind, it has been said that apparently X1 uses the default WMP to playback movies and music that being accessed from media experience panel; this would mean that there is some link that connect that panel to WMP.
Now the important question is, can the panel link be redirected into other media players? If this is possible, it will be a great thing!
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even better if the same could be applied into the internet explorer home UI -is that a panel?-, which mean we can use Opera or others

It actually can play music through the panel directly also without using wmp

but it still use WMP right? or is it actually have it's own player?

nap007 said:
but it still use WMP right? or is it actually have it's own player?
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In my opinion; It can be either... Panels are applications that not only are stand-alone applications, but they actually tie in with the device letting you communicate with other applications. Communication would of-course depend on the application in question... as in how much information it gives out that you can use in your panel and so on.
I love Panels over TF3D 'cos of customizability and its overall potential.
I myself am looking forward to implement panels - probably some completely stupid and useless stuff...
I downloaded the SDK and installed it when released, however was bummed out that for Panels you have to use C++. It has been AGES since i used that languge other than when really needed. I have been hearing that SE will support C# and vb.nEt in the end for Panel development, and i am really looking forward to that day. (maybe they already have, 'cos i haven't really checked for updates)

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but it still use WMP right? or is it actually have it's own player?
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I does both on the preview I've seen of it. He showed the music playing in the actual program and he showed that you can open it into wmp. As far as if that can be changed i don't know.

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Which is the best MUSIC PLAYER??

I don't like the actual music player (Audio Manager) and I don't care ever about windows media....
So what is the best Music Player?
Does anything like Ipod or Iphone software exist??
there is
pPod which is pretty much an ipod clone pretty poor though dont support screen toggle or other formats then mp3
there is mortplayer which have many ipod'ish skins
there are winampaq
there are many ipod'ish skins for wmp too
but in generaly you get as many various replys as
you do with questions like
"whos the best actor"
"whats the best cheese"
"whats the best car".......
people openions and tastes differs pretty much
gsplayer AND srs wow.
imo.
best sound quality, and least cpu usage had 40tiplay.
I have already SRS WOW, and it's great...
I have heard something about this "40iplay", but I can't enter in its main site.....
What do you think about that?
Rudegar said:
there is
pPod which is pretty much an ipod clone pretty poor though dont support screen toggle or other formats then mp3
there is mortplayer which have many ipod'ish skins
there are winampaq
there are many ipod'ish skins for wmp too
but in generaly you get as many various replys as
you do with questions like
"whos the best actor"
"whats the best cheese"
"whats the best car".......
people openions and tastes differs pretty much
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Do you know somethinh that look like the Iphone one??
Does exist a problem with the same features?
take a look at pocket player 3.51. I am sure it has its flaws as well but it has some nice iphonish features.
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/
Thanks
Curious George
Ive tried em all but always come back to plain old windows media player - it has less bugs than the others.
curious george said:
take a look at pocket player 3.51. I am sure it has its flaws as well but it has some nice iphonish features.
http://www.conduits.com/products/player/
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Curious George
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I have already tried it....
but when I minimize the player, It shuts down.....
Have you a solution? (This is a nice player....)
That is most likely in the advance settings. I don't have a Touch but I put it on a friend of mines that does. It worked great. In the settings I believe there is a choice of what action to take when minimized. I know mine is set to continue playing and provide a player control on the today screen via a "notification" button on the bottom tool bar. Definately contact their support center because they will help you fix the bug.
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CG
PocketMelody
Anyone tried PocketMelody??
I copied all the directory into my memory card...
The program starts correctly, but when I try to see the mp3 list, a black screen appears and if I push the screen again, the first screen of pocket melody comes back.....
Any solution??
If you don't need video and like options, Mortplayer rocks. It is the only player I have found where I can start playback of a certain folder with one button push.
I like conduits pocket player it has a couple bugs but I like alot of its features like built in web radio and streaming podcasts.
I also have a touch and dont have that problem when minimizing so you might want to check the settings.
Did i miss it or did really no one mention TCPMP or The Core Player?
Both play ogg of cause and also speex (highly compressing speech codec, good for audio books or comedy stuff) and the Core Player (not free unfortunately) also handles Bluetooth Headsets with the AVRC Protocol
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Did i miss it or did really no one mention TCPMP or The Core Player?
Both play ogg of cause and also speex (highly compressing speech codec, good for audio books or comedy stuff) and the Core Player (not free unfortunately) also handles Bluetooth Headsets with the AVRC Protocol
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I know the first one, but I think that it hasn't many graphic effects/backgrounds...
Are there any players that support FLAC/Lostless format?
speoples20 said:
Are there any players that support FLAC/Lostless format?
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Best player is still PocketMusic and yes it's support flac
Newest version is V5.05
My favourite player is Simpletunes.
more:
http://visualit.co.uk/PocketPC/simpletunes.htm
ipod skin, turn off display, hide player...
best player
I prefer conduits pocket player because it has crossfading.
Do you know of any other players that support crossfade?
divocak said:
My favourite player is Simpletunes.
more:
http://visualit.co.uk/PocketPC/simpletunes.htm
ipod skin, turn off display, hide player...
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Very nice..... But I think that it misses some graphic effects and images.....
Do you know anything like the new Iphone player?
mortplayer
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&entry=mp_program&action=list

Sony's Media Panel - you know the one

Ok - Using several different ROMs I have found the one that suits me the best - I have one nagging problem - videos that previously were played in landscape full screen are now chopped in half and being played via portrait??
So my question is what / where is the media player that is being used on that panel - I want to see if I have options to change the view setting - or ifs it just windows media player then i give up.
kheavy said:
Ok - Using several different ROMs I have found the one that suits me the best - I have one nagging problem - videos that previously were played in landscape full screen are now chopped in half and being played via portrait??
So my question is what / where is the media player that is being used on that panel - I want to see if I have options to change the view setting - or ifs it just windows media player then i give up.
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maybe not a custom rom issue but more a media player issue ! working with an original/std factory rom & it is so crappy that i know use core player which is really better ! we are multiple people having concerns with the sony media player (xmb panel)
the panel files are under /program files/panels
im using itjes rom as well, reinstalling mxp fixed most of the problems.
have you tried playing your vids in windows media to see what happens?
i forgot to say, opening mxp as a standalone using pubbas doesnt work, so there might be something else going on, when i get some time ill take a look.
Well they play landscape in media player but it looks like crap- plus the touch controls on the sony media xper thing are much better - i have looked in the panels and the other location but i dont see anything that i can look at or set - - so with jacks rom the panel plays perfectly (once you install it) but the one that i want to use and like is the touch one - but the panel just has that one flaw - i have tried to uninstall and reinstall the panel same thing.
I've encountered the same problem and uninstalled the media panel alltogether. I think it relates to Itje's "experience" ROM, as I didn't encounter the issue before installing it. With another ROM the problem might well be solved; just tinker around with it a bit.
Thanks for the replies -
Just installed coreplayer - works well enough - still miss my touch screen menu overlay on the video - but Its worth it on this ROM that works better than stock.

[Music]

I have had this phone for a few months now, and i'm a bit bored and annoyed with the music players on it, WMP is ok, but difficult to navigate when on the move, and the panel is ok, but i want a prog to run in the background of another panel,
I was wondering which is the best program for playing mp3's out there, I would prefer a free (and legal) one, but i dont mind paying a small amount if its good enough.
I have had a look through this forum but havent found anything stating a list of players that work on the X1 and some user reviews,
There are some interesting prgrams out there that i have found in different places, but most of them dont run on the X1 WVGA screen so look tacky and naff, or they just plain dont work and keep crashing I tried quite a few, but most dont run on the VGA screen. One call Nitrogen was good, but for VGA screen, had a wheel like iPods on the screen for moving between tracks.
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated
Well, if the media panel suits you, you've got no problem. Check the Pubba Panel Installer (direct link). But I don't like some things about the media panel as well so I use Pocket Player. It's quite good, but I didn't really test it too much, so I'm not sure of it's qualities yet.
I strongly can recomend MortPlayer to you!!! Been using this for years now. Get it here: http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&action=view&entry=112

is there any other Photo view and media player for the X10???(hate mediascap!!)

hi
i realy disappointed of the Mediascape on the X10 its realy slow and not responding to finger touch good enught + the photo viewer is pretty slow!
is there any other APPS i can download to use as viewer and they good and fast enguth??
amir84 said:
hi
i realy disappointed of the Mediascape on the X10 its realy slow and not responding to finger touch good enught + the photo viewer is pretty slow!
is there any other APPS i can download to use as viewer and they good and fast enguth??
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Search the Market, there's a lot of free apps there that you can choose from.
i allready did sch there
didn't find anything useful thats why i'm asking here maybe for some recomndetion
I'm using MixZing for playing music ...
funny these threads. listed as one of the main selling points of this device was mediascape. you must have read that but bought it anyway! did you not try the phone 1st? this is a prime example of why we all should! not having a go so dont start flaming! expressing my opinion. there is no app within the app store that will deliver anything near what mediascape does right now so for this phone its the best you gonna get! in time when custom roms are being made then we may see the likes of what htc have to offer. we are also currently lacking in apps that do offer more but hopefully corecodec will develop an app for android! until then and until custom roms are available i would just stick with mediascape. no matter how much you hate it, the alternatives are even worse!
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some coredec images for the cp2.0 for android.
http://tweetphoto.com/10841643
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I'm using MixZing for playing music ...
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i like MixZing! thanks!!
is there any good app also for Photo Viewer ??
playlists
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
Baggyb said:
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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Yeah... I don't think that's possible. Which kind of sucks but something I can live with. I mostly just use Spotify anyway.
And I also want to know about any good picture gallery. I had one but it wasn't really good at all.
Ah, fair enough. At least it's not me going daft. I was searching Google and the results were implying that you could generate lists but they must have meant that it could be done via media go software.
As far as media players go i would consider that to be a basic feature that is required (especially if you have a large library).
As for the gallery I can't say I'm too impressed with that either. However I did like the one previewed on the mini. Hopefully that will be included in future updates, if there are to be any.
Just typing this on the phone itself using the HTC keyboard. The only thing missing are the directional arrow keys, tapping the screen in the correct place is hit and miss for me.
You can generate Playlists with the Astro Filemanager, which you should have installed anyway...
Yeah I do have that instaled. I'll try that out. Cheers mate.
PiQture is pretty good photo viewer.
I found se's other music player in the phone but cant shortcut to it to use it easily.
Im using the file manager by nalic (green and blue pie chart icon). Navigate to system/media/audio/ringtones (ogg) and play one, a different player called music opens to play it, now leave the file playing and pull down the notification tray and touch the play icon then press the left menu key then library button and you are in.
Now this player will be listed in the recently used app list (hold middle button) unless it gets moved off the list by opening more than 6 more apps without opening it again to bring it to the front of the list.
I like this one better than mediascape as its less cluttered and straightforward and you can create playlists which are drag and drop editable and show up in mediascape.
It would be nice to get to it easier though.
There is also a video player and picture viewer but they are very simple with few options.
loggy said:
I found se's other music player in the phone but cant shortcut to it to use it easily.
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Hi
I found it too. I managed to create a shortcut on home with Tasker :
hxxp://tasker.dinglisch.net
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Hope this helps.
One of my main reasons for wanting the X10 is mediascape. Since I've only seen videos, and you guys actually have the X10... I'm looking forward to hearing why Mediascape is a poor media player and gallery. It certainly looks more robust and feature filled than any of the current media players I've seen.
Baggyb said:
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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it is possible but via media go I think, I spent ages trying to work out how to get a playlist set up but I think you have to literally set up a play list on your pc, then transfer that playlist on to the phone (?) only reason I say this is because there is a playlist option in the library in media go. Unfortunately I'd already moved my music across before noticing this so didn't want to double it up or remove it and start again.
I found an app called mortplayer which is free and works a charm for music
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it is possible but via media go I think, I spent ages trying to work out how to get a playlist set up but I think you have to literally set up a play list on your pc, then transfer that playlist on to the phone (?) only reason I say this is because there is a playlist option in the library in media go. Unfortunately I'd already moved my music across before noticing this so didn't want to double it up or remove it and start again.
I found an app called mortplayer which is free and works a charm for music
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Or get a file manager from the market and follow my instructions above, any playlists created will be automatically integrated into mediascape.
Its easy once you suss it. !
Hi,
Anyone know how to disable the mediascape from caching thumbnail for music file ? I think this would vastly improve the speed, as mediascape would only have to read the tagging info and not the image/albumart.
I tried to set the folder as read only, but it doesn't work, the phone still write to it
Hi all - I've sussed this out (alternate Music player and playlists)... download an app called "AnyCut" from the market... in here you can add all sorts of different things.. one of which is under the "activity" option.. called "Music" this is the stock android music app (mentioned by baggyb above).. this way you'll have a link to the music app on your home page which you can then use to create your playlists...
All these work arounds to create playlist are fine but the main PIA is when I want to add tracks to Current Play list while listening to music. Can't be done. I hope SE will soon release a upgrade to address some of these basic issues.
Also, when you try to add contact as Shortcut on Home Screen it brings up list of all contacts and there is no search or 'letter' list on side to select the names. You can to scroll all the way down to select names. I guess SE QA and design team tested the phone only with one track of music and one contact in address book.

Idea for a best WP app ever

Hi guys ;D
Sooo, I do not post very often, lol, I do not post at all due to constant lack of time, you know, daily job, family and stuff, anyways, here is the thing and I need your professional advice.
I've got a brilliant idea to make an app for a Windows Phone 8, basically, there is no application which syncs music using wireless, right? Yeah, so that will be an app like that, you know, easy sync, you can view music library from the phone, one click to transfer you songs to a phone, browse playlists, made by different music players, syncs them as well (I am aware of that there is no way to actually sync playlist object though).
Now, what I'm concerned about, is that a good idea for an app? Or maybe that's a stupid idea and no single person on planet earth will ever use it?
I am not really sure, because I do not want to invest a huge amount of a time to find out that. Can you help with making a right decision and give some advice maybe?
Thanks
I believe XBox music does this. Install it on your computer and it will scan your files and add them to your 'collection'. Which, in essence is your cloud collection. You can then retrieve anything you download through your xbox music pass on your phone / pc that is in your collection.
sukanaher said:
Hi guys ;D
Sooo, I do not post very often, lol, I do not post at all due to constant lack of time, you know, daily job, family and stuff, anyways, here is the thing and I need your professional advice.
I've got a brilliant idea to make an app for a Windows Phone 8, basically, there is no application which syncs music using wireless, right? Yeah, so that will be an app like that, you know, easy sync, you can view music library from the phone, one click to transfer you songs to a phone, browse playlists, made by different music players, syncs them as well (I am aware of that there is no way to actually sync playlist object though).
Now, what I'm concerned about, is that a good idea for an app? Or maybe that's a stupid idea and no single person on planet earth will ever use it?
I am not really sure, because I do not want to invest a huge amount of a time to find out that. Can you help with making a right decision and give some advice maybe?
Thanks
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My app already does that. Sort of.
@Plazma1
I was basically thinking about completely offline software, - all this cloud stuff does not appeal to me. I am the guy who prefers to have my stuff 100% private, you know So do a lot of people I think
@mcosmin222
Can you post a link to your app or is it in your signature?
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@Plazma1
I was basically thinking about completely offline software, - all this cloud stuff does not appeal to me. I am the guy who prefers to have my stuff 100% private, you know So do a lot of people I think
@mcosmin222
Can you post a link to your app or is it in your signature?
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Signature.
@mcosmin222
Yeah, I've seen your app some long time ago, when it was pretty much "young"
But your solution differs quite a lot But I was just curious - are you using default WP8 music player mechanisms? Or maybe xaudio2 for example? With last, you can do more stuff - equalizer, lets say, nice controls for audio playing - you know, track bars and stuff. The only drawback is that you really do not have any access to WP audio library and that limitation sucks big time
I was thinking about such player but that is just too much hassle with storing music in isolated storage
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@mcosmin222
Yeah, I've seen your app some long time ago, when it was pretty much "young"
But your solution differs quite a lot But I was just curious - are you using default WP8 music player mechanisms? Or maybe xaudio2 for example? With last, you can do more stuff - equalizer, lets say, nice controls for audio playing - you know, track bars and stuff. The only drawback is that you really do not have any access to WP audio library and that limitation sucks big time
I was thinking about such player but that is just too much hassle with storing music in isolated storage
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By default the app uses the built-in player but you can switch modes to make it use a different player with more features. Go to Help+Settings, last tab.
I found ways of getting music in isostore faster for the user, one of them involves downloading from skydrive, the other involves direct file transfers between the phone and a desktop companion.
For WP7, what you propose is pretty difficult. But I can do this on Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8 app (I am building a companion app which runs on Metro). Once I can get myself a windows phone 8, this will get sped up considerably
I'm not sure third party apps can change things in the music library. Still, even if it would require its own player, I say go for it, because the native WP8 player makes me sad.
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I'm not sure third party apps can change things in the music library. Still, even if it would require its own player, I say go for it, because the native WP8 player makes me sad.
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The app is almost ready for public release. I am just waitting to finish the 8.1 version and make them both public at the same time.
You can download the phone version from the link in my signature.
@mcosmin222
Yes, I was talking about WP8, - I didn't realize that your app is for WP7 actually ;P Dunno how things looks like on WP7 regarding xaudio2, on WP8 you got C++ support for it, and I have tested playing some random music with it and in fact, it works. Equalizer works - not the best EQ I've seen in my life but its something.
@SilverHedgehog
Nope, there is no write access to the music library on WP8 device, you can only read songs names and that's it. Not a big deal. But anyways, with a custom player there are following issues:
1. Player has to have its own music library within app isolated storage, so now you have 2 places where you have your music stored and that is inconvenient.
2. Player must be put in a background, and yet there are no "legal" ways to use proper multitasking. And even if we put this app in a background as geolocation app (so it need to use GPS time to time as well), - there will be no integration with a system itself - so no quick controls and stuff.
I was talking about completely custom 3rd party audio player, without any single standard mechanism used.
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@mcosmin222
Yes, I was talking about WP8, - I didn't realize that your app is for WP7 actually ;P Dunno how things looks like on WP7 regarding xaudio2, on WP8 you got C++ support for it, and I have tested playing some random music with it and in fact, it works. Equalizer works - not the best EQ I've seen in my life but its something.
@SilverHedgehog
Nope, there is no write access to the music library on WP8 device, you can only read songs names and that's it. Not a big deal. But anyways, with a custom player there are following issues:
1. Player has to have its own music library within app isolated storage, so now you have 2 places where you have your music stored and that is inconvenient.
2. Player must be put in a background, and yet there are no "legal" ways to use proper multitasking. And even if we put this app in a background as geolocation app (so it need to use GPS time to time as well), - there will be no integration with a system itself - so no quick controls and stuff.
I was talking about completely custom 3rd party audio player, without any single standard mechanism used.
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C++ for WP8 only works for native games. You can not build a player app that will run in the background using C++. So your library is useless, unfortunately.
My app fully supports WP8 as well.
As I said, there are ways to legal ways to go around the problems you just mentioned, and my player does that already. But you can not use C++ to do it. My decoders are written in pure C#.
You can not avoid "standard" mechanisms when working on an operating system. Even if you wrote all with ANSI C++, you would still depend on the system.
if you want, we could collaborate and use your library for winRT.
@mcosmin222: You can create native "component" (a C++/CX DLL) which is usable by non-game apps just fine. It *should* even work with background agents (there's no technical reason it wouldn't; is there a policy against it?) so I don't think that would be a problem. Marshaling data across the ABI does impose a small performance penalty but it shouldn't be significant for audio data.
Yes, that is what I was saying, C++ component, which implement all audio functionality using xaudio2, it completely manages all buffers and offsets and just plays audio All the rest is C# code, which calls component in a separate thread - there is no such requirement when calling xaudio2 engine from games, but from regular app it has to be in a separate thread. I am not really sure right now because I was doing this research almost a year ago, just when got my ATIV S; from what I can recall, C# CG impacts in some way audio buffers processing by the system, basically that is what GoodDayToDie said. So this rest of the code is also responsible for working in a background by implementing pseudo geolocation functionality. And thats it! We got a background app which plays music
I've done this - I know it works
But, there is always some but, there is always something that just not play nice.
1. Music must be stored in app iso storage.
2. No integration with quick controls for music playback
3. Additional desktop app, that will transfer music to WP8 app iso storage
I really don't think that a regular users will ever go after such solution, which requires additional app to be installed. Another thing is that is requires user to learn new way of playing his/her music, - such app will never succeed. By success I mean attraction of at least half of a million users.
@mcosmin222
I am not saying that your solution will never succeed, if you are using standard methods and do not require user to change his/her habits - there is a good chance
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@mcosmin222: You can create native "component" (a C++/CX DLL) which is usable by non-game apps just fine. It *should* even work with background agents (there's no technical reason it wouldn't; is there a policy against it?) so I don't think that would be a problem. Marshaling data across the ABI does impose a small performance penalty but it shouldn't be significant for audio data.
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Oh well...it is worth the try...
But I don't think it will work(just a guts feeling xD).
But I expect some stupid policy to stop it, especially those related to p/invoke.
EDIT: Hmm...this might actually work. I tried adding a reference to a C++ runtime lib project from a C# background audio agent and surprise surprise, it worked.
I stand corrected then
not sure how this all relates to dll's written using ANSI C++ though.
I do not believe the marshaling overhead would be too great. It probably would be small enough to work even with apps requiring better performance.
@sukanaher,
Do you have the component already ported to WP8? If so, can you share it please? It would speed things up considerably.
@mcosmin222
I haven't understood correctly - you were talking about using background agents, I was talking about multitasking by imitating geolocation tracking app, - well, I am not sure if this will work with background agents due to the fact, from what I remember, there are 2 types of background agents on WP8 - I got no idea how things look like on WP7. So, there is a local music playing agent and music streaming agent - in both cases you do not have access to a raw audio data, to raw bytes, you just specify network source or local source and thats it.
If you are planning to use xaudio2 and all its benefits - you will need to extract audio PCM data from file and audio stream as well, so you will need your algorithms working with a raw bytes (an actual file) - it is not possible in case of background agents on WP8 - they just load your file or stream and thats it - you cannot access its data.
For proper music player, you will have to implement everything from scratch, no background agents, proper, android like multitasking, access to a music library, access to a system, system integration, basically you need everything that is not available on Windows Phone 8 and from what I observe will not be available in 9 - MS just holds this functionality for them selfs, thats it, we are limited to the minimum.- that is why I am thinking more about dumping my WP device.
Yeah, I have an xaudio2 wrapper lib written a year ago somewhere on my PC - it is a mess, it depends on my other libs and it is just a static linking lib, it is not a component. If I would ever share this, I will have to prepare a proper static library or component, but at this moment, besides daily job, I'm involved into other projects.
sukanaher said:
@mcosmin222
I haven't understood correctly - you were talking about using background agents, I was talking about multitasking by imitating geolocation tracking app, - well, I am not sure if this will work with background agents due to the fact, from what I remember, there are 2 types of background agents on WP8 - I got no idea how things look like on WP7. So, there is a local music playing agent and music streaming agent - in both cases you do not have access to a raw audio data, to raw bytes, you just specify network source or local source and thats it.
If you are planning to use xaudio2 and all its benefits - you will need to extract audio PCM data from file and audio stream as well, so you will need your algorithms working with a raw bytes (an actual file) - it is not possible in case of background agents on WP8 - they just load your file or stream and thats it - you cannot access its data.
For proper music player, you will have to implement everything from scratch, no background agents, proper, android like multitasking, access to a music library, access to a system, system integration, basically you need everything that is not available on Windows Phone 8 and from what I observe will not be available in 9 - MS just holds this functionality for them selfs, thats it, we are limited to the minimum.- that is why I am thinking more about dumping my WP device.
Yeah, I have an xaudio2 wrapper lib written a year ago somewhere on my PC - it is a mess, it depends on my other libs and it is just a static linking lib, it is not a component. If I would ever share this, I will have to prepare a proper static library or component, but at this moment, besides daily job, I'm involved into other projects.
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Ok, long story short:
Yes, you can access the stream of raw bytes from local storage. You may or may not do the same with online sources.
No, MS does not use a different kind of multitasking system. The difference is the MS player can actually access to user library.
Maybe, we can implement an equalizer filter which can be applied before the raw bytes get to the player. This can be done with C# too, so it is not required to use C++ at all (the difference in performance is minimal anyway) However, in order to do such a thing, one must implement media stream sources for the file formats which usually do not require streaming (like mp3, mp4, wav etc), so we can have access to the raw bytes sent to the player. This is very time consuming, and the reward isn't really all that big. Sure, if you have codecs in CX that are usable in WP apps, we can do this...
The only thing MS does to impair a proper music player is access to the user library.
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Anyways, we have strayed off topic a little bit, but from what I can see - there is no interest in such application, that will sync music to PC using wireless

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