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Hi i would like to use my Wizard as my main Media Device, i have an old ipod mini but i would like to have the same features as the ipod for podcast on my wizard.
As of now i use Juice (former Ipodder) and sync my podcasts with windows Media Player ---> this soulution stinks, ints buggy as hell and far to slow, the podcast in the media library get updated far to slowly, an sometimes it misses new entries...
I would like a program that sits on my desktop and has the ability to sync podcast seamlessly with my wizard and vidcasts to i can`t just sync the folder were i download all that stuff becouse it de vidcast ar far to big for my one gigger miniSD so i need a programm that takes the .avi (divx) or MPG4 and recodes them for my wizard!
PLEASE help me i am getting so pissed of by Windows Media Player
When you find a solution, let me know! I would like exactly the same thing. I am currently doing similiar to you, downloading podcasts/vidcasts with PodNova and then synching them using Windows Media Player. The problem I face is that WMP doesn't support m4v files, so I can't even get those files to sync using the WMP auto playlist synching. Boooo.
Have you tried Skookum Subscriber?
I've know of two programs for podcatching directly on the PPC:
Skookum Subscriber is in beta and looks like it has some potential, but truth be told I haven't tried it out yet:
http://www.skookummobile.com/index.html
There's also SmartFeed. I've used it for about a month now and it's OK but the UI is a bit wonky: It doesn't work with the keyboard on the SX66, you can't move between podcasts using the navigation pad, there's no way (that I've found) to select multiple podcasts for deletion, and after deleting a podcast nothing is selected by default which forces you to tap on another podcast to do anything.
http://smartfeed.org/
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I've been wanting to get a subscription service that will stream to mobile devices (I mainly use Rhapsody on my pc, and it too will NOT work with mobile devices even though you have the option to use it through a browser-based interface) so I read your post and signed up for the 30 days trial, and sure enough it works over 3G as well.
The only problem I have is when I go to the main page through PIE on my Tytn, it automatically goes to a mobile version of the site, and I can only select certain artists that have been pre-selected based on my genre settings. There is a search line at the top where you can enter artist or album, but there is no Enter or Go button, and pressing Enter on the keyboard does nothing. In other words, I can't navigate to any specific artist, I can only listen to the pre-selected ones. Do you know how to get that search bar to work? If I go to the page on my desktop pc, the interface is totally different and getting to a specific artist is no problem.
I'm not sure what to tell you on the WMP thing... I have no issues with WMP thus far...
Neither of you have tried orb? I can't say enough about it...all of your mp3's on your PC at home are available to you on your phone 24/7. The only drawback is getting the mp3's and always leaving your PC on. It works the same way- you choose your song and it streams to WMP. This will also work for Videos and TV (with the proper setup, slinbox is far better though).
I haven't had any problems with this using wmp.
Patman,
Yes I do have Orb and use it quite a bit, and I do love it!! I stream my music and my recorded TV from my media center pc at home. BUT, the reason I wanted a subscription-based service on my phone is because you can stream any song, any artist any time. I own about 6,000 mp3's that are on my harddrive on my pc at home that I can stream on Orb, but with a subscription-based music service like AOL or Rhapsody, I have the choice of about 2.5 million songs, on-demand, at my fingertips.
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Patman,
Yes I do have Orb and use it quite a bit, and I do love it!! I stream my music and my recorded TV from my media center pc at home. BUT, the reason I wanted a subscription-based service on my phone is because you can stream any song, any artist any time. I own about 6,000 mp3's that are on my harddrive on my pc at home that I can stream on Orb, but with a subscription-based music service like AOL or Rhapsody, I have the choice of about 2.5 million songs, on-demand, at my fingertips.
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Yeah I figured there was a reason.
Does it cost anything per song, or is it a time-based ($xx.00/month) service?
I'm glad others are interested. Subscription music means you pay a flat fee per month (usually around $10) and you can listen to any artist, any album, any song in their entire library whenever and (hopefully soon) wherever you want. It's the holy grail IMO as far as portable music. Especially when you don't want an iPod/MP3 Player, but rather a convergence device like this. The problem is that the flash memory is very slow, and very space limited. Streaming music from a subscription service is the way to go. Orb is a great idea, but you still have to download the songs first. Me personally, I'm fed up with downloading organizing and managing music files. It's just become tedious. I'd rather have a jukebox available at all times with every artist in existence. In other words, I'm sick of collecting music. The new technology has made me look past that.
As I mentioned, AOL Music Now is the only web based service, thus the only one that can work on Windows Mobile (Rhapsody has a web browser plugin but it only works on certain desktop browsers).
Good news though. I just discovered (or is it brand new?) that Music Now supports RSS feeds. This could really be the answer to a having a solid experience using the streaming from a subscription music service on a PPC.
You can save an RSS feed of just about anything. All the artists in your library, your playlists, all the albums, all the songs, top 20 lists, etc.
I'm about to try and find an RSS reader for WM5 that might make this a reality. Even if one doesn't exist that works well, the RSS provides an open source for others to make a music browser type interface. Who knows what will happen. One could potentially make a program for WM that reads the RSS feeds and lets you browse, select, and play music much like the interface on an iPod or something. The difference being you have up to 2 million songs to choose from at any given time.
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I used a app on my old n95 which was amazing for downloading mix sets etc
I've tried the rss hub but its poo
any good ones out there that have good search functions too?
I've searched quite a bit for this (came from a N78 and a few other symbian phones before that). The built-in podcast aplication from nokia is superb, easy downloading and browsing for new ones. But if you have a fixed set of podcasts you download (like I do) then RSS Hub works fine for me. Add the feeds manualy and there you go, downloading en starting media player from within the app. Kinda like on the nokia. It downloads over wifi when connected so even without a data-plan it's usefull.
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I've searched quite a bit for this (came from a N78 and a few other symbian phones before that). The built-in podcast aplication from nokia is superb, easy downloading and browsing for new ones. But if you have a fixed set of podcasts you download (like I do) then RSS Hub works fine for me. Add the feeds manualy and there you go, downloading en starting media player from within the app. Kinda like on the nokia. It downloads over wifi when connected so even without a data-plan it's usefull.
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thanks mate
i've added my own feeds etc, but its such a pain trying to add new feeds etc
i'd rather think, right, i want to find a drum and bass podcast mix sets, and search for one, download a couple to listen to on the way to work, nice a easy!
but its not
another tick against the iphone which i dont really want to go to in fear of being called a "fanboy"
Yeah, it is that time again.
I haven't seen one of these threads in a while and since most of us have had our phones for several months, I'm curious to see what kind of usage we have here. After all, things change when most of the tinkering and tweaking is done.
Include as many as you wish. I have skipped calling and texting, because it is a phone after all, but feel free to post anything.
Here is mine:
1 - Browsing (stock Opera and SkyFire)
I do this daily and sometimes several times per day.
2 - RSS Feeds (SPB Insight ftw)
I can't imagine how I have lived before my daily news/sports/weather updates .
3 - MP3 Player (mostly Pocket Player and MortPlayer)
Almost every day. Especially when there is travelling/waiting/etc. involved.
4 - E-Book Reader (MS Reader)
At least a few times per week. Sometimes I don't read for a while, but then, I do it all week.
5 - Online Hexxagon!!! (SPB Online)
That game is absolutely addicting and I cannot stop playing it.
games but not a lot
rss various
weather various
sms
ebooks alot! mainly ms reader
music coreplayer
video not a lot coreplayer
surfing opera
facebook panel a bit of ms faceboo
1. SMS/E-Mail
2. Calls
3. Videos (WMP)
4. Music (Media Panel)
5. Microsoft MyPhone
6. Google Maps
7. Browsing Internet (Opera)
8. CNN Panel (News)
9. Windows Live Messenger
10. TomTom
11. Games
Contacts
Appointments
Tasks
Calls
SMS messages
Excel
And the occasional browsing of some news sites.
(I don't have to take my lap top everywhere for work now).
I used to use it for everything that I phone can do.
Now I only use these types of features:
1) Text Messages
2) Phone Calls
3) Dictionary
4) Flashlight
5) Memo and Organizer
I'm not going to use it for entertainment anymore. I need to get a good GPA so I can get grants for my college education. I got a little spoiled during my first year in college.
1. Flashing
2. eMail
3. Contact-management
4. Appointment-management
5. Couple of phone calls
6. Surfing some news pages most of the time with Opera Mini
7. Checking weather forecasts with SBSH pocketweather
8. Listening to music and sometimes to football matches in radio (using Power Radio)
9. Sometimes playing some cool JAVA-games like Pro Golf 2010 or Wimbledon 2010
10. Searching ways to improve the performance of my X1 it can do better!
11. Few other things I do with my X1 probably in my subconsciousness
de Wolfe said:
1. Flashing
2. eMail
3. Contact-management
4. Appointment-management
5. Couple of phone calls
6. Surfing some news pages most of the time with Opera Mini
7. Checking weather forecasts with SBSH pocketweather
8. Listening to music and sometimes to football matches in radio (using Power Radio)
9. Sometimes playing some cool JAVA-games like Pro Golf 2010 or Wimbledon 2010
10. Searching ways to improve the performance of my X1 it can do better!
11. Few other things I do with my X1 probably in my subconsciousness
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Can you show me how to play java games and where to get those?
Of course. The ones I mentioned are from GAMELOFT. You can get them right there. Native-WVGA-Examples are Pro Golf 2010, Golf the Open 09, Wimbledon 2009, Roland Garros 09, Sonic Unleashed or SpiderMan Toxic City. Digital Chocolate also offers a few ones, e.g. Beach Games 12-pack.
1. SMS
2. Calling
3. Music/Videos
4. Organizer - loaded up my class schedules and other such things into the calendar
5. Alarm clock
6. Notes
7. Games - for when I'm bored in class/anywhere else.
8. Twitter
9. Taking photos - because I am lazy to carry my camera everywhere.
10. Bragging rights - because I am the only one in my class with an X1 [just kidding]
11. Mirror - I have a screen protecter that is coloured such that it turns into a reflective surface when the screen is off.
I've had my X1 for slightly over 2 and a half months and I swear this phone has changed my life - in a good way.
1. Phone calls
2. SMS
3. Browsing the web
4. Playing music
5. TomTom
6. Calc
7. MyPhone
8. Basic notetaking
9. Appointments/Calendar
10. Alarm Clock
1. User Interface (SPB MS 3)
2. Calling (SPB MS 3 Contacts)
3. Weather (SPB MS 3 + buienradar)
4. Email (Windows Mobile, but love to find another software where I can use bold tekst f.e.)
5. RSS (Newsbreak)
6. Internet (Opera 9.7b)
7. Agenda (ThumbCal + SPB Diary)
8. Translate (Babylon)
9. Calculate (HiCalc)
10. Navigate (TomTom 7)
11. Finding address (Google Maps)
12. File Explorer (Resco Explorer)
13. Photo's (Resco Photo Viewer)
14. Note (MS Notes)
15. Radio (SPB Radio)
1. Phone
2. Internet browser (Opera)
2.5 RSS Freeds - Speeed Reader: Google Reader Client for Windows Phones
3. GPS - TomTom and Google Maps
4. Messaging - SMS/Email
5. Music - MXP Panel /Windows Media Player /Pandora
For me the X1 is a real PC that I always have with me :
Phone calls (home and work)
SMS
MMS
Calendar (home and work)
Notes
X1 is my primary contact source for all my pc's (home and work) with iContactBE
Web browsing (Facebook and some forums, and of course Google and Wikipedia or theater programs or looking for a nice thing to go out in the evening for example) and RSS feed (second panel)
Alarm Clock (I wake up every day with G-Alarm)
Torch (hTorch)
Cooking clock (countdown with SPB Time)
Calculator, time, currency and unit conversion (various software including HP 48 emulator)
Password repository (Keepass)
Camera (when I don't have my Sony DSC-H20 with me)
Music (Pocket Player) everyday in the train to go to work
Weather forecast (SPB Weather)
A few games (Bejeweled, Archibald's Adventure, Xtrakt and some others)
Email (when I can't read my personal email from home or @ work)
GPS navigation (TomTom)
Looking where I am in a foreign town or looking for a shop or a restaurant with Google Maps
Geocaching (Leaf GPS Dashboard)
QR code scanner (BeeTagg or iNigma)
Video (CorePlayer (including YouTube) or Windows Media Player) sometimes in the train
e-book reader (Mobipocket or Adobe DF)
Translator (Google)
Country database (CIA World Factbook)
Business card scanner (WorldCard Mobile)
Bluefire VPN + Putty and sometimes also VNC and Remote Desktop (work)
And probably other uses that I forget right now
1. Phone
2. Browser
3. Flashing for Fun
4. Movies
5. Citrix client to access electronic medical records. It is GREAT to be on call (I'm a physician) and be able to travel around but still have access to complete electronic charts and order capability.
6. Camera
7. Tethering
TOP 10
1. Phone and SMS (Of course)
2. Wikipedia in my Tomeraider
3. Destinator 7
4. Morphgear Emulator (NES, Neo Geo, SNES)
5. IPhoneToday
6. SPB Insight
7. Terminator (to remotely monitor your Xperia in case of loss or theft)
8. Facebook Panel
9. Youtube Panel
10 Torch Button with registry patch
my list only goes down to 3:
1. phone
2. sms
3. gps
other than those 3, are rarely used. and now i'm thinking of getting a standalone gps because the gps function in the x1 (or any phone for that matter) are SLOW.
standalone gps navigation systems are much faster with better precision and have faster refresh rate. i tried driving with a garmin nuvi and it beats gmxt in my x1.
It's my personal computer. So:
1. Internet (Opera Mini 4.2, Opera Mobile 9.7b)
2. Calling, sms, mms
3. Email (with amazing Profi Mail app)
4. Photo alot (with editing photos with XnPocketView)
5. Music (SE media panel rulez)
6. Facebook (Facebook app, FiM Facebook chat)
7. Games a little
8. Flashlight
9. Office a lot (with DocsToGo)
10. Calendar, tasks, notes alot
11. Sketch drawings
12. Ebooks (Mobipocket reader)
13. Google Maps
14. YouTube
15. Converters
16. RSS (BeyondPod)
17. Podcasting (Bambuser)
18. Blogging
19. Twitter (PockeTwit)
20. Stopwatch
1. Opera Mini
2. E-mail, Calendar, Tasks
3. Opera Mobile 9.7b
4. IGO8
5. Alreader (E-book reader client - the best)
6. WM Remote Desktop
7. CorePlayer (as a YouTube client mostly)
8. WM Office (Word, Excel, Ppoint)
9. Camera
10. FM Radio
11. WM Player
12. Skype
13. Comic Reader
14. FoxitReader (PDF reader - the best)
15. Google Maps
Object of masturbatory fantasies and comfort blanket.
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Object of masturbatory fantasies and comfort blanket.
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Okay........
Just thought I'd make a quick post as I haven't seen much dicussion on Subsonic. I have Subsonic installed on my server with about 100+ Gigs of music.
I installed Subsonic for android on my 4G today and connected it to my server. Setup was easy. Works great. 100Gigs of music in my pocket anywhere I get a cell connection! Connect to the aux in the car for 34 days of commercial free music.
What's not to like!!
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this. Subsonic is simply amazing.
Install software on your desktop PC to set up web access to your music. You get a very nice web interface. And an Android app.
www.subsonic.org
I'm also using Subsonic and really enjoy it. I had a little trouble initially with the server side setup, but once I figured it out and got a connection to my EVO, it's worked great for the most part. I do have an occasional pause in the playback, but I think that's more related to signal strength than anything else, because it always starts back up where it paused.
We also had Subsonic set up to stream movies a while back. A soon as I get some time I'm gonna try and see if I can use it to stream video to the EVO.
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Just thought I'd make a quick post as I haven't seen much dicussion on Subsonic. I have Subsonic installed on my server with about 100+ Gigs of music.
I installed Subsonic for android on my 4G today and connected it to my server. Setup was easy. Works great. 100Gigs of music in my pocket anywhere I get a cell connection! Connect to the aux in the car for 34 days of commercial free music.
What's not to like!!
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Hey, thanks for this. I never heard of this... works perfectly!!! Much appreciated!
First time hearing of this. I am downloading now.
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I downloaded it..but i don't get how to set it up? I have the desktop client downloaded..
sent from your stolen evo
Thank you this is what i have been looking for ever since I got my EVO.
I was a frustrated HP Media Smart Home Server user who finally gave up on the HP crapware, and went the DIY WHS route. That's what led me to Subsonic as a substitute for the HP software.
A way better choice. This program actually works without tying up the server doing indexes and hogging CPU cycles like the HP Twonky Media software did.
Access to your entire music library, and it doesn't even store anything on the SD card!
My next project will be to get it working with MP4's so I cantake movies with us on the road.
I'm setting up a server just to use this. How is the UI on the app? Is it usable as a primary music app?
It is really just designed for streaming from your server. There may be a way to use it as a music app but I haven't looked into that yet.
I just checked, you just select Offline for the server. Works fine.
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It is really just designed for streaming from your server. There may be a way to use it as a music app but I haven't looked into that yet.
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Wait, so how does that work...I'm going to check their website to see if I can reformulate this post with an actual question lol.
EDIT: OK, I think I phrased the initial question wrong. Would the experience of picking a song be similar to using any other music app as if music was stored locally? I'm not going to have anything on the phone, everything will be streamed.
EDIT2: Ignore what I said up there, here are some screen shots and video of the UI: http://www.subsonic.org/pages/screenshots.jsp
Does the app work in landscape mode?
Ok guys, you can download the Subsonic app from the Market and connect to their "test" server to see how the app works.
It works in the landscape mode. Has no widget, unfortunately. But song/file browsing, and playback is VERY functional.
If you need help installing this on the desktop side, read this: http://www.subsonic.org/pages/installation.jsp
You should note that while the desktop app is 100% free, the use of mobile apps is limited to 30 days at which point you have to "donate". The donation can be any amount, and you will be provided with the unlock key which you use inside the web interface of your server.
Well I installed the desktop client but can't seem to open the webpage no matter what.
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Well I installed the desktop client but can't seem to open the webpage no matter what.
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Are you trying to open it from the desktop or the phone?
Am I the only one using subsonic for video too? The music/app are great, but having streaming flash access to my video library anywhere is the best. Has to be done through the browser for now though.
Instructions here:
http://www.hackourlives.com/cross-platform-music-and-video-streaming-with-subsonic/
I'm trying to work out a way to encode/stream my live TV signal through my tuner card kinda like a slingbox. I'll post if I have some success, but I don't have much time to work on it these days.
Thanks for the link!
We had video streaming set up to our laptops, but hadn't tried setting it up on the cell phones yet.
I turn over all the details to my 15 yr old who is much faster than I am at doing all the setup. We'll get started once he gets a break at school.
We did have it set up to open whatever Media Player we wanted to use. If my son remembers what he did I'll try to get him to post the instructions.
Should be no need to play it in an external player on the evo - just switch to landscape and it will go to full screen. If you really want play it in an external player, FLV player (from the market) might work. Or if you want to download the video before playing (so you don't get any skipping while you're on 3G), you can download the file from either the app or the web interface, and play it with FLV Player.
Subsonic wants you to make a donation of 10 Euros to continue using the subdomain they have you sign up for during setup. But if you like rolling your own, sign up for a free subdomain an use a DNS updater (built in to some routers or available for any platform) to make sure the reference to your IP stays up-to-date.
For DNS updaters and more free subdomains than you can shake an iPhone at:
http://freedns.afraid.org/
this is great ! thanks for suggesting it. I was looking for something similar, tired of having to carry around the ipod just to hook up in the car. I'm going to test it out for a few days, but I think I'm going to donate for sure!
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Subsonic wants you to make a donation of 10 Euros to continue using the subdomain they have you sign up for during setup.
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Wrong. The denominations under donation menu are merely suggestions. You are welcome to donate ANY amount you CAN ($2 worked for me) to get your license. Just manually send a payment through PayPal to his email (you can get the email from the forums somewhere, do a search for donation).