Develop Bugs

[Q]About the manila music

When I use the Dutty's 2.1rom, it is usually stuck (for example, the song stop for a little moment) when i use the manila player to play the music, is there any way can fix that? Thank you.

Hi,
check out all 25 pages of posts - there is no method that totally stops the stuttering
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=460100

could someone explain why the hell the manila music player cant play my files in the right order? it just plays a few tracks of an album, e.g. 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 12th track.
very crazy!! i tried all possible options but no way to just play in normal order. and it doesnt show any album covers which are in the same directory, jpeg files. is this program just trash?

It seems earlier versions weren't the best but if you flash to one of the more recent roms the problems have mostly been sorted

cb8rwh said:
It seems earlier versions weren't the best but if you flash to one of the more recent roms the problems have mostly been sorted
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Thank you.right,for example,the dutty's 2.3 rom seems fix it, but I don't like the new start menu~and I find is use wmp it will never happen,seems it is someting wrong with manila......

If you use task manager to disable enlarge start menu service, you will see the standard start windows menu instead. This worked on both 2.3 and 2.4 roms.
Regarding the track order, the solution I have is to create playlist and store them under \storage card\playlists. Once playlists are generated, I can pick the album from the playlists and its in the correct order. I have a tool that generates the playlists by scanning \storage card\music folder. I can share if any one needs.

sproxy said:
If you use task manager to disable enlarge start menu service, you will see the standard start windows menu instead. This worked on both 2.3 and 2.4 roms.
Regarding the track order, the solution I have is to create playlist and store them under \storage card\playlists. Once playlists are generated, I can pick the album from the playlists and its in the correct order. I have a tool that generates the playlists by scanning \storage card\music folder. I can share if any one needs.
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Thank you for the advice of new star menu,but if you do this, when you show the program page in manila and tap any icon in the page the old start menu will jump out. Is there any way to fix it?
And could share the software you said for the music scanning?

Hi there,
I am not sure if I understood you correctly. When I disable the service named EnlargeStartMenu(EMX0: ) , the start menu returns to calssic windows one. The size is also reverted back to default start menu. To disable the service, I set it to start manually and restarted. The only side effect I have is that, since programs tab is not available in new manila, I loose the quick launch tab. However, I don't see it as a problem.
Regarding the playlist tool, I have attached the files here. PlayListUtilityApp.zip contans an exe you need to launch in your device. You can copy it to any folder. Then set the location of music files as well as playlist export folder. Then File -> Create Playlists will scan the folders and generate a playlist for each album.
The output folder \Storate Card\playlists seems to be scanned by manilla player, so once you export them, playlists will be visible in manila and track will be correct order.
This may not work for everybody because it requires the following layout in music flibrary:
Artist
-----Album
-----------01. Track
-----------02. another track
or
Artist
-----Album
-----------DISC 1(CD 1 or 1 as folder name is ok as well)
------------------01. Track
------------------02. another track
-----------DISC 2(CD 2 or 2 as folder name is ok as well)
------------------01. another track
------------------02. another track
also
Artist
-----Album
-----------d101. Track
-----------d102. another track
-----------d201. another track
-----------d202. another track
Over the years all my albums are stored like this in my hard drives therefore, a simple copy and paste makes them work for me.
The code for directory browser is from here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446567.aspx

SOLVED! make the HTC Music Player (TF3D music tab) library IGNORE specific folders?

Anybody know how to make the HTC music player (think it's called AudioManager) on the TF3D music tab completely IGNORE specific folders when its creating the library?
I have a folder into which I save recorded phone calls (yes, its legal here in Minnesota, I checked). But if I want to have the music player play ALL songs on random, I'll be driving along listening to music and all of a sudden the next song is a friggin phone call I saved. Kinda lame.
Anybody know how to fix this? I know there is a registry key to make the HTC Album ignore specific folders, so I tried copying that key into the Audio Manager area of the registry, but it didn't work (of course).
Greatly appreciate any help!

I save my ringtones on my SD card so that they're easier to recover after a hard reset or a new ROM flash. To prevent the music player from picking them up, I save them into a zip file. In your case, you'll have to manually move the file into the zip every time you finish recording a call. If that's sounds ok to you, then you can give this a shot.

Yeah, that'd be alot of work for me right now. I'm going through some crap which requires me to save at least a couple calls a day, so having to constantly re-zip stuff would get pretty cumbersome.
Actually though, I might try that. I think the player only refreshes the library when run for the first time, after which you have to delete the .vol file in the Application Data -> HTC -> AudioManager folder. So if that's true, I could zip what I currently have, force the library to refresh, and then unzip and leave them alone.
I'll see if that works, and the player doesn't automatically refresh the library and find those files again.
Thanks for the suggestion...

SOLVED!!!
Sweet!
While using Resco Explorer to try your suggestion, I stumbled upon the solution! I was looking to see if I could zip them directly with Rescoe, which you can't do, when I had another idea.
Using Rescoe, all I had to do was make the FOLDER with the audio files I did NOT want included in the library a HIDDEN FOLDER. Then went to the music tab in TF3D and bam! Those files were no longer in the library!
Sweet!!!
So thanks for your suggestion, it was that alone which made me figure out this unbelievably easy way to pull this off!
Oh, and sure enough, the call recorder still works and has no problem storing the recorded phone calls in the hidden folder. I'm using ACR - Automatic Call Recorder, in case anyone is wondering. It's FREE, and works great.
Thanks!

The Finish In Touch
I Know, double posting, but it's the real solution and i've been searching all over the forum, so to help others i've answered this thread as well.
Here's what i did and found:
EDIT REGISTRY
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\AudioManager_Eng\C onfig]
"device_scan_path_type_0"=dword:00000001
"device_scan_path_path_0"="\My Documents"
"device_scan_path_path"="\My Documents"
"music_player_time_mode"=dword:00000000
"music_player_mute"=dword:00000000
"music_player_shuffe"=dword:00000000
"music_player_loop"=dword:00000000
"music_player_index"=dword:00000000
"ring_tone_path"="\My Documents\\My Ringtones\"
"uid"=dword:000113E5
"drag_mute_timer"=dword:00000000
"Resume_play_delay_time"=dword:000007D0
"music_player_volumn"=dword:00000064
"Request_Memory"=dword:00300000
"Enable_ForcePrevious"=dword:00000001
"enter_suspend"=dword:00000001
"disable_mute_hotkey"=dword:00000001
ADD new STRING
"sd_exclude_path_path_0"="\My Ringtones"
ADD new DWORD
"sd_exclude_path_type_0"=dword:00000000
Each folder you want to exclude needs a STRING and a DWORD
The number in above example (_0) is the number of the "folder set" if there's already a number just add 1.
The DWORD 1 means device 0 for storage card
For example if i'll add another one:
folder on device "\My Documents\Recordings"
ADD new STRING
"sd_exclude_path_path_1"="\My Documents\Recordings"
ADD new DWORD
"sd_exclude_path_type_1"=dword:00000001
Restart device (soft reset), no need to hide any folders

Thanks for this
Hi Softappz,
Thanks for this solution just tried it on my HD2 and it's banished those pesky ringtones from the player

Doesn't work for me when I enter
"sd_exclude_path_path_0"="\Program Files"
"sd_exclude_path_type_0"=dword:00000000
It finds some ring tones in the sub-folders. Do I have to specify every single sub-folder?

This will serve me a lot! thanks

Didn't work for me. So I used the solution found here.
Quick note: Total Commander did not make sub-directories hidden as well. I had to mount my sd on my pc and manually set any folder I wanted as hidden. It all works flawlessly now

I still can't get the reg entries to work. I've looked into hiding folders and this doesn't work either.
The only way I can find to do this is to hide the actual audio files. This can be done in total-commander - but as akpidis found out if you want to hide sub-folders and files then you will need to do this from a PC. You can select multiple audio files from total commander (you can even do a search for all .mp3 files in sub-folders) and then set them as hidden, which may be better than hiding all files and folders from PC.
Hope this helps someone. (I'm using TouchFlo2.1)

HTC Media Player or WMP Help

Okay Ive looked everywhere for this question or answer, and it doesnt seem to exist, so I'll ask. Is there a hack, registry edit, or some unknown key sequence to add files to the library? Now before you all go nuts, I am not talking about the update library command. I have near 400 ringtones, plus mp3's plus videos. When I hit update library it updates everything it finds. I dont want that, I want to be able to choose what to add and not have to do it one file at a time. Is there a way to choose a folder and have it scan that folder only so this way the ringtones dont get added to the library?
And as a comment, it really sucks that there is no way to select more then one file, like selecting 10-15 files at a time in file explorer, really didnt want to add a third party software for such a simple command

is there a way to manage playlist from computer with any program rather than using the tf3d library? its kinda long to create many playlist
thanks

Zune Artist Background Image - Solution

I see a lot of topics asking how to get the Artist BG Image in the Zune Player. I always reply with this solution and then, once I've replied, the threads always seem to die. This I guess suggests that not only does the solution work for me, it works for everyone else too.
I decided to post the solution here in a separate thread, as I've seen a lot of topics on the subject both here and in the WP7 forum. Hopefully this will stop new topics being made (as it will come up in the "Similar threads we found).
Anyway here's the solution:
1) Transfer your music to your phone
2) Play the music without the BG image
3) Click on the Artist's name... This will take you to the summary of the artist
4) All songs* of this artist should now be shown, below this you have a Marketplace heading with an Arrow, click this Arrow.
5) All songs* in the marketplace should now be displayed.. IF the artist has a BG image it should load up now
6) Press back to go back to now playing, the BG image should still be present and will be present now for all songs by that artist
7) Repeat the process for each artist.
*It may be albums that come first, I can't remember off the top of my head.
Known Faults:
- Incorrect tagging
For example, "Mr. Hudson" in the marketplace is "Mr Hudson" thus music tagged as "Mr. Hudson" wont display a BG Image. To identify this, nothing will load when you try and load Marketplace items for that artist. To fix, simply rename in Zune
- Certain Artists
While this has worked for 99% of my collection, there are 1 or 2 artists who have BG images when in artist view but then this image just wont copy over to now playing. I have no idea why and have no Solution for this.

I can't seem to replicate these steps.
Not able to find this step...
4) All songs* of this artist should now be shown, below this you have a Marketplace heading with an Arrow, click this Arrow.

Same here. Step 4 doesn't show anything. It will only display the albums I have of the singer. I'm using a track by Avril lavigne, which has already been linked via Zune social tagger. Again I think its somehow related to your region.

mankie said:
I can't seem to replicate these steps.
Not able to find this step...
4) All songs* of this artist should now be shown, below this you have a Marketplace heading with an Arrow, click this Arrow.
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When you play a song, click on the artist name in now playing.
You should get a summary of the artist. It should look like this:
ARTIST NAME
SONGS
IN COLLECTION
-A
-B
-C
Scroll all the way down and you should see :
MARKETPLACE
V
V
At the bottom. Click on that circle with the 2 downwards arrows in it.

knave said:
Same here. Step 4 doesn't show anything. It will only display the albums I have of the singer. I'm using a track by Avril lavigne, which has already been linked via Zune social tagger. Again I think its somehow related to your region.
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Unless the Zune Marketplace is not available in your region then it should work in said region, it's simply a link to display albums of that artist in the marketplace.

brummiesteven said:
Unless the Zune Marketplace is not available in your region then it should work in said region, it's simply a link to display albums of that artist in the marketplace.
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I've tried it several times and no dice. Searching for the artist in the marketplace shows results but doing it your way shows nothing. I'm pretty sure the mp3 files are tagged correctly, unless it's not only using the artist/album name and that's why it can't find a match.
I'm in Spain though, which might also be related, although we do have marketplace access here.

Spybreak said:
I've tried it several times and no dice. Searching for the artist in the marketplace shows results but doing it your way shows nothing. I'm pretty sure the mp3 files are tagged correctly, unless it's not only using the artist/album name and that's why it can't find a match.
I'm in Spain though, which might also be related, although we do have marketplace access here.
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Do you mean that when you click on the arrow under Marketplace nothing shows up? This means that there is something wrong in your tagging, check the Artist and Album Artist in Zune and verify that it matches the name of the artist exactly how it is in the Zune Marketplace.

The thing is that it doesnt work all the time...
I did the things that you wrote a few weeks ago from a different thread. It worked with some artists. I could hit the "arrow" button and then it would load after a second the available tracks.
But on some artists if I hit the button it shows that it's loading but then kind of fades away and there is no more option to press the button again. Seems like a bug to me cause some artists work this way. Or again, it could be some tagging problems...

BIG-Stan said:
The thing is that it doesnt work all the time...
I did the things that you wrote a few weeks ago from a different thread. It worked with some artists. I could hit the "arrow" button and then it would load after a second the available tracks.
But on some artists if I hit the button it shows that it's loading but then kind of fades away and there is no more option to press the button again. Seems like a bug to me cause some artists work this way. Or again, it could be some tagging problems...
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It's not a bug, in my experiences that's definitely a tagging problem.
The reason why it fades away is because it couldn't find any trace of that artist in the market at all.
Remember the smallest things make a difference, Capital Letters, Accents, Dots etc etc

ok, makes sense... will look through my library but take for example dr. dre. There are not that many ways to mispell him I tried every possible combination. And still zune cant match him. Searching for him works though...Really weird stuff.

BIG-Stan said:
ok, makes sense... will look through my library but take for example dr. dre. There are not that many ways to mispell him I tried every possible combination. And still zune cant match him. Searching for him works though...Really weird stuff.
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Try another Artist.
When I said this works for 99% of my collection...
Dr. Dre is one of the ones that for some reason it just hasn't worked, Will Smith is the other.

Hmm strange. Dr. Dre - 2001 worked for me

Yah, cause i'm in Canada, marketplace doesnt have any music so it doesnt sync artists

mankie said:
Yah, cause i'm in Canada, marketplace doesnt have any music so it doesnt sync artists
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Just put your PC location as the US.

VonCrisp said:
Just put your PC location as the US.
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That doesn't appear to work. I can browse US Zune content on the PC client after changing regions if I sign out of my Canadian Zune account, but even after creating a new US Zune account and logging in on my desktop client, backgrounds don't sync over to the phone (and Zune Tagger can't find any Zune music store content when attempting to link albums). It does still remember sync'd content between the phone and desktop client after switching accounts, and will sync still, but no information from the US marketplace gets to the phone. It appears that because the default phone account is linked to a Canadian Live/Zune account (needed to purchase WP7 apps), it blocks access to the US Zune marketplace info.
Have you actually tried this and had it work in a region that doesn't have any access to the music marketplace (like Canada)?

Another method
I had success to get all the artist images and stuff on my phone by right clicking any artist in the Zune Software on the PC and then choosing "More from this artist".
On the next sync, I had all the images.
The "More from this artist" menu entry does not show up for any artist in my list, though, so I haven't pictures for all of them. But the ones that don't are more or less some indie artists, that aren't even on the marketplace.

dodgetigger said:
I had success to get all the artist images and stuff on my phone by right clicking any artist in the Zune Software on the PC and then choosing "More from this artist".
On the next sync, I had all the images.
The "More from this artist" menu entry does not show up for any artist in my list, though, so I haven't pictures for all of them. But the ones that don't are more or less some indie artists, that aren't even on the marketplace.
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if I do that I get: Error, this item is no longer available at Zune marketplace..
I try with Michael Jacksons latest album "Michael". So it is a new album and I can find it in zune marketplace... So why can't I find info when I have michael in my own collection?

dodgetigger said:
I had success to get all the artist images and stuff on my phone by right clicking any artist in the Zune Software on the PC and then choosing "More from this artist".
On the next sync, I had all the images.
The "More from this artist" menu entry does not show up for any artist in my list, though, so I haven't pictures for all of them. But the ones that don't are more or less some indie artists, that aren't even on the marketplace.
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This is the same idea but just through Zune rather than on the handset itself.

Yup the above works although not all artists are supported. Good job.

Guys i'm from Malaysia but they don't have an account here so i created an American one..but i'm still nt 2 sure hw 2 do this..maybe a video..thanks..

[REQUEST] or [IDEA] for NEW Picture Homebrew application

Hi,
is possible to make HOMEBREW app which can access destinatation \My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\ and see the pictures which are in Picture HUB ?
This app should have also possiblity:
1. Edit images through programs like Photo Enhancer
2. Deleting multiple images
3. Manual Album creation
4. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Skydrive, Hotmail, Dropbox
5. Take pictures
6. Copy and Paste to Skydrive folders
Thanks for info.

You should add [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the thread title
And I would actually LOVE an app that makes it able to organize pictures on-device. It's such an annoyance to first sync them to Zune and organizing them and then sync them back.
EDIT: I might do one myself, but if anyone knows anything about how Zune and the phone organizes pictures and videos I'd appreciate to get that info. Will look into it myself later today thou, but any help would be awesome
Regards
Izaac

IzaacJ said:
You should add [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the thread title
And I would actually LOVE an app that makes it able to organize pictures on-device. It's such an annoyance to first sync them to Zune and organizing them and then sync them back.
EDIT: I might do one myself, but if anyone knows anything about how Zune and the phone organizes pictures and videos I'd appreciate to get that info. Will look into it myself later today thou, but any help would be awesome
Regards
Izaac
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OK, I added [REQUEST] or [IDEA] to the title.
Well I don't know much about how Zune organizes the pictures but I know that Zune, Camera saves photo this destination
\My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\ and save it to some file for example 3d.jpg; 03.jpg; 39.jpg etc.
But Zune must store [ some dat file maybe in \My Documents\Zune\Content\0300\00\zunedb.dat] the real name of the picture that on computer looks like WP_000002.jpg.
It will be nice to have alternative to Picture Hub and if you will look on it it will be great.
I don't know if I help you a little bit ?

zunedb.dat work
I've been looking a bit on the zunedb.dat file in 101 Editor and the identifier or what ever it's called is ZMDB (Zune Media DataBase i think) and I could really use some help on this because this isn't really my area of expertise
Could attach a copy of the file I've been looking at if anyone is interested?
EDIT: Attached it in a zip anyway, and here is some of the information I've found so far.
The albums I've synced from my computer are these, with their respective start address in the file, or at least where the album name is in the file, and after each album name there are paths and such to the particular files, but also a lot of information that I don't know what it is.
Misc [47c00h]
tmp [47each]
Diablo 3 [48920h]
Regards
Izaac

Maybe it could help some Microsoft developer on Microsoft forum ?
But I think that nobody research it yet.

Posted a thread over at the development forum at Microsoft, like here:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/105185.aspx
I really hope I could get some information regarding this.

Well it's 100% that this app wil not autorization from MS but for the homebrew app its not needed.
I hope that someone share the info which you need.
Just a question:
is it possible to create an own homebrew app which will take and save photo in
folder \My Documents\Pictures + it will have features like as I wrote
1. Edit images through programs like Photo Enhancer, 2. Deleting multiple images, 3. Manual Album creation,
4. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Skydrive, Hotmail, Dropbox, 5. Take pictures, 6. Copy and Paste to Skydrive folders ?
then we dont realy need any info from MS because you can upload it to Skydrive + you cann access the phone file system via WPDM or WMDC/ActiveSync launcher if zou have phone unlock etc.
What do you think ?
Thanks for info.
R,
Marek

Well, it's possible. There are other apps doing everything of that, except the saving location, so I doubt there would be any problems.
The reason for my app and what it does is that it enables you to organize the photos, add/delete/rename albums shown in the Pictures Hub, and move photos between these albums.
AND if zunedb.dat is "worked out" it will also enable us to add music and videos to the Zune app, which means if you use any Music Downloader, you could add them to the regular player, instead of having to open that particular music app to play them.
I hope you see why I think this really is something worth investigating.
Regards
Izaac

Yes, you are right, it's worth for investigating.
So lets hope that we will have good luck.
Do you know which apps can do the things like iwrote in previous comment?
Thanks.

I think there's an application called Private Hub that does most of it, not sure thou.
It will also enable you to password protect certain images/albums (in app ONLY)
Regards
Izaac