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s2p with opengl!

The mighty A_C comes out with another corker, he's incorporated opengl support into his music player..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=417511
Album scrolling really flies on the X1
If anyone is looking for a great freeware finger friendly music player then this should be it!

excellent. this does exactly what i want from a music player and it's free. yay !

fards said:
Album scrolling really flies on the X1
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hmmm, like a pig on my x1. glitchy and incredibly sluggish. did a soft reset and have been playing with it for about half an hour now to let it catch up with my album covers loading etc. havent yet managed to smooth scroll from one side of the album collection to the other, it just glitches out then 5 secs later it updates. Cant say this is an enjoyable experience

doesnt work for me, can start the programm one time after each softreset. otherwise it starts an closes immediatle after i select a track...

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hmmm, like a pig on my x1. glitchy and incredibly sluggish. did a soft reset and have been playing with it for about half an hour now to let it catch up with my album covers loading etc. havent yet managed to smooth scroll from one side of the album collection to the other, it just glitches out then 5 secs later it updates. Cant say this is an enjoyable experience
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in that case you probably havent tweaked your x1
i can flick through my entire collection very quickly

I have the same experience as SamAsQ, and I HAVE tweaked my X1.
Also, the phone completely freezes if you touch the panel button when S2P is running. Taking out the battery is the only solution.
Actually, previous versions like 0.55 ran a lot better on my X1, as in fewer bugs. Album flow is smoother now though.

+1 for huge issues. even landscape seems to be broken, scroll is sloooow

v0.58s
Since this thread belongs to Xperia, I think it's more appropriate to post a new beta build here... it's trying to fix:
1. screen displacement when S2P is started in Landscape mode;
2. system hang when Panel button is pressed.
Please try & post your result.
P.S. the zip file contains the S2P.EXE only.

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Please try & post your result.
P.S. the zip file contains the S2P.EXE only.
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Just a quick try on my side:
Scrolling is alot better, with the previous version i had major vsync issues. Going into landscape to s2p simply switches it to portrait, and sliding out the keyboard breaks the graphics.
Hower 1 thing confuses me, when you take the edge of the album art and twist it, it WILL go to landscape mode, without glitches.
Anyway, i love the software already, and fixing landscape mode by slider/button activation would make this great software even more perfect.
(btw, performance is very good, but that figures since i only have 2 albums atm. (i have a 256mb sd-card at the moment )

Scroll list of folders isn't working, white on white on this version, so can't select which folder to open, however the list of songs is.
EDIT close s2p and restart it and folders list work fine.
Coverflo is working very quickly, took just over 2 seconds to load all the album artwork, thats 60 albums!
Reflection in default potrait screen isn't quite right but I can live with that (if I can get mymobiler working in wine again I'll do a screen grab).
S2P hangs temporarily when you press the optical joystick on coverflo screen, I think it's trying to change artists, just takes a while.
Just noticed coverflo works in portrait, wowsers that's fast! Still not certain how I got there but I like it!

SomeoneSimple said:
Just a quick try on my side:
Scrolling is alot better, with the previous version i had major vsync issues. Going into landscape to s2p simply switches it to portrait, and sliding out the keyboard breaks the graphics.
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It'll be fixed in the next release.
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Reflection in default potrait screen isn't quite right but I can live with that (if I can get mymobiler working in wine again I'll do a screen grab).
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Set AlbumLayout to 2.
Just noticed coverflo works in portrait, wowsers that's fast! Still not certain how I got there but I like it!
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Double tap around the Album title.

A_C: Great to see your working on the issues!
I tried the latest exe from this thread and it did however not fix system hang when panel button is pressed. Same exact error as before.

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Set AlbumLayout to 2.
Double tap around the Album title.
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Superb that works a treat!

I wish I could use this player. I looks great, but as I have more than 8Gb of music on my X1, it crashes. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.

msetten said:
I wish I could use this player. I looks great, but as I have more than 8Gb of music on my X1, it crashes. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.
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It's the same for me. But I noticed that the cover scrolling in portrait was much smoother (until it crashed).
Keep up the good work and I hope you solve the +8GB crashing soon.
This is the best pocket player. I use it everyday at work, but when I'm in my car it's back to media panel because my x1 is in landscape mode in the carholder.

msetten said:
I wish I could use this player. I looks great, but as I have more than 8Gb of music on my X1, it crashes. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.
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Have you tried changing any of the settings to see if they help?
I'm on 67 albums, 35 artists at the mo.

better, but still no ok. Sometimes the right portion in landscape mode doesn't work
anyway, performance are now awesome loaded 311 songs with at least 300x300 pixel albumart for each... No slow down
thanks for your efforts!

Coverflow sometimes hangs here. When it's running, it's running smooth and nice, but after a few covers the system hangs for a few seconds then everything is fine again. Even when I tip a cover to see the songlisting, it takes a few seconds to get the action done.
I don't have much music on my storage card, but could it be that it is too slow because it's just a 8GB Type 2?

hmmm, just tried the non-opengl version out of curiosity (am using the opengl one atm) and I can say that the OPENGL version is noticeably faster and smoother, particularly when flicking b/w albums. can't wait for u to release the next version! I'll be sure to donate some more after that

A_C posted a s2p.exe that replaces the original .exe in another threat. With this, the coverflow runs smooth without hangs.
The file is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3043275&postcount=8
But I still have the problem that when I change back from coverflow to music player, the wrong cd-cover is animated. For example, I hear "As I lay dying" but when I flip the cover (to see the song listing) the cover of "Heaven shall burn" is flipping. Maybe that's an issue because I only have embedded covers but it's strange and not good when I show someone the "cool music player"

Problems

Hi,
Had my HD for just under a week now and I must admit I wasn't overly impressed with it at first. Quite slow in general and video playback wasn't great...decided to hard reset it and start from scratch...before I did anything I followed the performance increase tutorial on here and now I'm happy as larry with the HD - it's exactly what I hoped it would be even the keyboard is good on the screen in landscape mode.
However there is still one problem that I can't resolve or find a lot of information about...it's the music tab in the touch flo....yes I know there's a lot of posts about album art etc - but none seem to mention AudioManager_eng.exe crashing when you try to use it...other people have mentioned this on other forums but no-one seems to know what's going on...does anyone know what causes this...??
Thanks,
Dan

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463296
You might wanna track this thread and see what goes on here. Unfortunately no solid resolution as of now.

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However there is still one problem that I can't resolve or find a lot of information about...it's the music tab in the touch flo....yes I know there's a lot of posts about album art etc - but none seem to mention AudioManager_eng.exe crashing when you try to use it...other people have mentioned this on other forums but no-one seems to know what's going on...does anyone know what causes this...??
Dan
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I saw that very early on when I started putting music on my HD.
By a process of elimination, I isolated it to a "rogue" music track, (or else my HD simply disapproves of Blondie ).
I suspect that although the music file in question played back fine on the PC, there was something about it that thoroughly confused audio manager to the point of crashing. I imagine that the meta tags are the most likely culprit, but never got round to conclusively proving that. When I removed the album in question and soft reset, the problems went away.
Note that you seem to need to soft reset the 'HD to make it rebuild the music indexes.
- Steve

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I saw that very early on when I started putting music on my HD.
By a process of elimination, I isolated it to a "rogue" music track, (or else my HD simply disapproves of Blondie ).
I suspect that although the music file in question played back fine on the PC, there was something about it that thoroughly confused audio manager to the point of crashing. I imagine that the meta tags are the most likely culprit, but never got round to conclusively proving that. When I removed the album in question and soft reset, the problems went away.
Note that you seem to need to soft reset the 'HD to make it rebuild the music indexes.
- Steve
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The most likely cause still remains an unsupported file. Wonder why though

Hey thanks for the replies!
Well I bit the bullet yesterday....got myself a few bottles of beer lined up and went through all the music I had one the HD. I firstly set my PC to show protected operating system files and begun checking everything. On my HD I am using the folder structure Storage Card --> My Documents --> My Music --> Album Name.
In all of the album folders I left only the mp3's and the album art image which i renamed to folder.jpg. I went back to the Music tab and the same crash occurred. So I turned off touch flow...deleted AudioManager_eng.vol then fired up touch flo again...this recreates the AudioManager_eng.vol but the crash still occurred.
I then removed all music and started to copy the albums on one by one...started with Foo Fighters and happy days it worked! So I continued on with the others until I got to Nirvana - Nevermind....anyway the tags on the mp3 for track number were 1 - 2 - 3 - 4/13 - 5/13 - 6/13...etc. Set all the tags to just the single track number and hey presto everything works fine...I can just dump music into the storage card following the same structure, hit the music tab and there it is ready to play!! I now officially love this device! lol Sorry for the long winded explanation! Thanks again for your replies!

Freezing on Music Tab update from HTC

Just received this from HTC;
Hello, I understand that your HTC HD2 freezes up when you are accessing your music. We are aware of this issue and we are currently in process of coming up with a software fix. Once this fix is released you will be able to locate this at http://www.t-mobile.com/wmupgrade. We have become aware that some of the freezing issues with the HD2 can be cause by the HTC Sense. You can disable this as well, to see if it helps in the mean time. You can disable the sense by going to Settings, Personalize, Customize Tabs. I want to apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced. I want to thank you for contacting HTC.

Yup, the update that was officially released today (but leaked last week) is supposed to address the SMS freezing issues, and some users that have installed it have reported that it does make a difference.

if ur music tab is the problem what i did was downloaded mediamonkey and had it recode all mp3 files and it did the trick for me

wingtytn said:
if ur music tab is the problem what i did was downloaded mediamonkey and had it recode all mp3 files and it did the trick for me
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What seemed to fix my music issues (granted I have over 5GB of music) was to copy the audio_manager.exe from the windows folder and past it into the start up folder. Now it only lags for a few second as it loads all the albums and it only does that when I restart my phone. Works a lot better!

Rockbox for Android

Hey everyone!
I couldn't help but notice on the Rockbo homepage (rockbox.org), under unusable ports it has listed Google Android and in this thread: forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=14177.30 the last post says that someone had actually gotten sound to work through Rockbox on a HTC Legend phone:
Hello guys,
I'm right now listening music with my newest music app on my phone:
Rockbox plays music on my HTC legend \o/
The first song was Edward Maya vs Alicia - Stereo Love.
I'm overly happy that I've gotten that far now. I'm looking forward to
finally bring gapless playback, dynamic playlists and an extensive
equalizer (and more) to Android! Although there's a lot of work still to do.
Best regards.
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This is rather exciting! I've used Rockbox before on an old iAudio X5 and it was a powerful alternate firmware. Anyways I just wanted to post this here just incase anyone else would be interested.

I found some more information digging around the interwebs. I found a blog from a Rockbox developer who talks about Rockbox as an application and he mentions this achievement and includes a link to the users git repositories for Rockbox on Android. You can read about it here: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/07/30/the-rockbox-app-part-ii/
Here's a quote from the blog:
While I’m told the current state is rough and there’s no installer or anything yet, I’m sure I share the view of lots of others that this is a great moment in the Rockbox history. A milestone. Thanks Thomas, I hope your work continues equally good and that we get an app to try out at the end of the summer or so.
Thomas’ git repo is here: h ttp://repo.or.cz/w/kugel-rb.git
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Also Rockbox as an application was accepted into Google's Summer of Code program (info here: rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2010#Rockbox_as_an_Application )

Yeah!!!!!!!! I d like to see rockbox on android, I used it on an ipod mini, and it was really great with a great sound quality

There are no prebuilt apk's yet but you can download the source code and build Rockbox for android.
It works rather well, I'm using it in favor of the stock built in media player on my Legend.

kugel. said:
It works rather well, I'm using it in favor of the stock built in media player on my Legend.
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Could you share the apk?

There's a link on the wiki page I created today:
xttp://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AndroidPort (remember to change the xttp to http).

Just out of curiosity, could someone post a screenshot ?

Pre-Compiled Links
Prebuilt 240x320: http://www.alice-dsl.net/simonemartitz/rockbox/Rockbox-240x320.apk
Prebuilt 320x480: http://www.alice-dsl.net/simonemartitz/rockbox/Rockbox.apk
Prebuilt 480x800: http://www.alice-dsl.net/simonemartitz/rockbox/Rockbox-480x800.apk

Looks pretty promising and I know its not in any stage to be shown off but I couldn't even effectively navigate around. Hope they keep working on this.
Sent from my ADR6300

hazard666 said:
Looks pretty promising and I know its not in any stage to be shown off but I couldn't even effectively navigate around. Hope they keep working on this.
Sent from my ADR6300
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That's probably because the default touchscreen mode is the so called grid mode. In this you navigate with d-pad like controls (the screen is divided into 9 rectangles, top middle is up, down middle is down, center middle is select, etc). You can change it to the absolute point mode in the settings.

This is the best thing to happen to my phone since I bought it!
The only problem is that's it's a bit jumpy from time-to-time, especially if 'multi-tasking.
But generally I'm impressed already. True gapless playback at last! A volume control that doesn't move in HUGE increments (I.E. I can make it really really quite if I'm falling asleep listening to music)
Great stuff!

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The only problem is that's it's a bit jumpy from time-to-time, especially if 'multi-tasking.
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I assume you have an HTC phone running the official 2.1 ROM?
Those have a bug which causes music to drop out sometimes if the app is in the background/minimized.

Not working for me on Motorola Milestone. This is how it looks like:

Define "Not working". The screen shot looks ok, except the font is too small (the default font should be bigger indeed).
Try loading the cabbiev2 or selecting a bigger font. And also remember what I said about the grid mode on the previous page.

The pre-built APKs are not working for me either. I'm trying this on a Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) running stock rom. All it shows is the rockbox splash screen and doesn't go from there.

Hi there!!
Neither works on milestone (Personal Argentina's 2.1u1 official rom).
It loads, I can navigate (and configurate the screen) but it won't actually play any file...
BTW, the screen font size and graphics from the original skin has been an issue since I firts got it for my old (from a couple of weeks now) rokr e2...

Impressive!
Installed the 480x800 build on my Milestone (Canada Telus SHOLS_U2_03.11.0) and started experimenting.
Have a few questions:
1. Noted after editing config.cfg (in order to add a WPS file) that my paths were changed from /sdcard/rockbox/ to /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/.
Is it implicit that /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/ is the way to point to sdcard?
2. My WPS contains %pc (Current time in track) and %pt (Total track time); the latter is right but the former is always 0 (%px shows 0 too).
3. Maybe silly: I'm able to use the grid to navigate but did not figure out how to exit Rockbox. How to exit?

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Impressive!
Installed the 480x800 build on my Milestone (Canada Telus SHOLS_U2_03.11.0) and started experimenting.
Have a few questions:
1. Noted after editing config.cfg (in order to add a WPS file) that my paths were changed from /sdcard/rockbox/ to /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/.
Is it implicit that /data/data/org.rockbox/app_rockbox/ is the way to point to sdcard?
2. My WPS contains %pc (Current time in track) and %pt (Total track time); the latter is right but the former is always 0 (%px shows 0 too).
3. Maybe silly: I'm able to use the grid to navigate but did not figure out how to exit Rockbox. How to exit?
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1) Yes. Rockbox removes the path and looks on the sdcard first so don't worry. In fact, any path will work. In order to remember it over restarts the files the setting point to need to be in /sdcard/rockbox though.
2) Don't know what's wrong there. I can't imagine it's an Android specific issue though.
3) There's also the absolute point mode, you just need to enable it (we didn't get around making it default yet). You don't *exit* Rockbox, you just stop/pause music (stopping will be slightly better for battery life) and leave the app (as with any other app like the built-in media player).

I have installed Rockbox on a HTC Tattoo. Not the most powerful phone out there, I know.
I am also very impressed. I had given up using my phone as a music player. I don't think that any of the apps on the Market are very good. None support gapless or EQ etc., and the format support is also very limited. But now there is hope.
I had to figure out how to use it first, and I found out how in the Rockbox forums. It seems like the UI is working very fine. The only thing is that they don't support the hardware buttons yet.
The music also plays back. But there is one (serious) problem: the playback stutters once in a while. It may be the same problem as reported above with HTC phones. So it is not quite usable yet. But they are definately on the way. These are early days, and the app isn't even downloadable from their web-pages yet, so I didn't excpect this much.

Update.
Fussing around with settings, noted (just once) that %pc (Current rack time) was working as it should; however, it subsequently displayed as 0 (as before) even though I modified nothing.
Another point: it seems that settings from tagnavi_custom.config aren't working.
On some occasions music did not play at all; display sometimes reverted to the very tiny initial default and it was not possible to select a font from the menu, among other menu navigation problems.
Despite those gripes, I noted no jumps while playing; in this respect, it's better than either andLess and AMPlayer, which I've been trying to play FLAC files.
Will stay attuned; am very glad that Rockbox as an app is being ported to Android and is already useable.

Jelly Bean Issues (Please Stick)

So Far I Have Found
- Default Apps Will Not Stick
- Custom Ringtones Do Not Stick
Anybody found anything else?

I have no problems with them, nore do I have it on my s3, but both of those are reported by others on the s3 too (but not by too many people).
I imagine its a mixture of something you ahve installed, or the way your setting them that differs from people like myself who are having no issues at all.

first thing i noticed.
opening browser and looking at a webpage using video (HTML5) and close it. the audio from the video continue in the background although all windows are closed, and only way to kill it is closing wifi.
but maybe its just a onetimer.

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I have no problems with them, nore do I have it on my s3, but both of those are reported by others on the s3 too (but not by too many people).
I imagine its a mixture of something you ahve installed, or the way your setting them that differs from people like myself who are having no issues at all.
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Not out to find fault with the devices , i love it , but these things should work ideally ie. replacing existing ringtones on /system/media, but it doesnt

1-Quick controls on the Browser are not precise and the X button in it either missing or not working properly.,the one on my Galaxi Tab 10.1 are much better.
2-The rebranded stock Swype Keyboard is not good.on my original Mote worked great,I use Swype all the time.
3-On the Lock Screen cant change the location of the Clock while with ICS it was possible,I preffer the clock on the bottom of the lock screen since pulling it slightly from the Napa cover will reveale the time.
4-The music sound with the Earphone is very low and the Equalizer doesnt help at all to raise the volume as it was the case with N1.
5-Both in the Gallery or the Camera app every time touching the picture a manue of picture thumbnales appear at the buttom blocking the view which is very annoying due to limited screen size.
6-Tap and Rotate the Lock Screen to open the Camera application is very buggy and doesnt work all the time.
7-Scrolling in the stock Weather App is instant without any transition or animation which sort of reminds me of my old HD2 Windows Mobile.
So far these..

I found that all my videos which were on the SD card was not being detected by the default video player unless i moved them to the Internals SD
Dont know if this is a fault with my Firmware or everyone

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3-On the Lock Screen cant change the location of the Clock while with ICS it was possible,I preffer the clock on the bottom of the lock screen since pulling it slightly from the Napa cover will reveale the time.
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W H A T A portrait wall will look terrible then!