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Windows Media Player black Kaiser looking skin - cab file

I have made a WMP black skin cab file out of bits and pieces I have found for the Hermes, and will work fine on other 320x240 WM6 devices. It is tested and working fine, plays video files and shows the album art ok. Just remember to select this skin in both portrait and landscape mode.
I first posted this at 4winmobile.com
I have a couple of reports back that you cannot drag the blue bar along while playing video files, which is no big deal other than that it is fine.
The cab file is available HERE
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I'd be getting this if I didn't have to login/register at some other site.
lazy ftl.

Hi
We already know this Skin.
In the Portait mode it does not show however the whole picture.
Compare with Landscape mode and you see it.
Starbase64
For those, which would not like to open an account, the file is in the appendix.

starbase64 said:
Hi
We already know this Skin.
In the Portait mode it does not show however the whole picture.
Compare with Landscape mode and you see it.
Starbase64
For those, which would not like to open an account, the file is in the appendix.
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You obviously do not know this skin, I made this cabfile and skin and it works as stated, jasjamming is using it in his Black X - RC beta rom at the moment.

ok
Thanks for the skin.

boz said:
You obviously do not know this skin, I made this cabfile and skin and it works as stated, jasjamming is using it in his Black X - RC beta rom at the moment.
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Compare portait mode with fullscreen mode.
S64

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Compare portait mode with fullscreen mode.
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Have you got your Media player set up correctly, I have just tried this with the built in "nature" video clip, and cannot see the problem, anyone else seeing this?

Lovely skin. Working fine for me. Thanks Boz

@Boz
Well I tried it on The BA 6 rom and it looks great.
What are the (Enter) and (Lightning) buttons for ??

MDAIIIUser said:
@Boz
Well I tried it on The BA 6 rom and it looks great.
What are the (Enter) and (Lightning) buttons for ??
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Glad you like it. The lightning button will give more info on the track playing with Album art, the enter button will repeat tracks or videos.

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Have you got your Media player set up correctly, I have just tried this with the built in "nature" video clip, and cannot see the problem, anyone else seeing this?
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Yeah, the video screen has a black bar on the left side about 1 cm in portrait / landscape skin mode, no problem in full screen mode.
I'm playing 3gp and mp4 from the built in camera btw, both have the same result.

boz said:
Glad you like it. The lightning button will give more info on the track playing with Album art, the enter button will repeat tracks or videos.
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im not gettin anything with this button......why does this not display the album art? is it cuz i installed on sd card?

bump....what is the fix to resolve the album art issue?

How get album art to show in HTC music tab?

Hi...
I have 3 other players witch shows the album art perfectly as it should but as soon as i want to use my tf3d it only show the same album art for all the songs
Has anyone else had this problem and how do i solve it? I have the art inbeded in the mp3 files so should not be a problem. For example my Coreplayer 1.3 shows it correctly.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance

I had the same problem. I just put songs with the same album arts in same folders. Basically Touch Flo 3d gets confused when all of the songs with different album arts are in a same folder. Hope it helps.

Basically you need one folder for each Album/song.
I have Artist-Album and songs inside the album.

best way is Artist/Album/songs then put your albulm thumbnail as hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg itll do it but it seems to get confused easily and put wrong album covers especially if you have 2 albums same name like "unknown Album". you can also make a copy of the album cover named folder.jpg for media player. its tedious work but it let you control it.

the best way is to put the album cover in the mp3
you can use mp3tag http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Also to note with the Artist/album directories, be careful with album names.
say u have /Michael Jackson/Greatest Hits/ and an album Suicidal tendancies/Greatest Hits/ it often confuses them and you'll end up with your Michael Jackson greatest hits album cover on your suicidal tendancies songs even with album art embedded and in the directory. so you have to name every album name unique.

I had a same problem and solution is: all album art named "folder" a everything work fine

Rainbow86 said:
Hi...
I have 3 other players witch shows the album art perfectly as it should but as soon as i want to use my tf3d it only show the same album art for all the songs
Has anyone else had this problem and how do i solve it? I have the art inbeded in the mp3 files so should not be a problem. For example my Coreplayer 1.3 shows it correctly.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance
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Actually best way is to sync ur music with windows media player. Lets say u put an album in library of windows media player. Find and album art and paste it and then u sync and voila!! now u have album art in tf3d player (atleast i do )

Someone mentioned in other thread, about the app MediaMonkey, it's free. With it u can integrate the album art in the song. I use it and so far there're no problems with the album art. It has a lot of options, really great app. http://www.mediamonkey.com/download/

i agree with the man
you should sync from wmp it will add to your htc with the album art

after syncing with WMP11 it shows no music found on htc music manager
while wmp on device displays correctly

Tip on resolve the TouchFlo Album Art
Create Folder for each of the Artist, "album art" image change to folder.jpg and place in the Artist Folder along with "folder.jpg".
Example:
Folder Named as "Jocie"
folder.jpg = Image of Jocie
All Jocie's songs placed in this folder
The following step is important . . .
Goto > Device\Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng
Rename > AudioManager_Eng to AudioManager_Eng000
Do a "Soft Reset"
Done.
Following are Optional after you had soft reset . .
You can go back to > Device\Application Data\HTC\AudioManager_Eng
Delete > AudioManager_Eng000
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Super High colour High quality sample video for Desire...

Here is a very colourful short clip I formatted to fit the Desire screen resolution in H.264 format. It is the IDEAL way to show off the superb clarity and vivid colour of the desires screen. Gorgeous.
Video here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lguenqyamgw
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Looks incredible on the Desire's screen at full brightness!

we want more clips like this

yeah. the colours are seriously vibrant

Wowowow lol, thank you, damn it looked awesome, plus it made me wanna see the actual film lol, cheers again
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

your welcome. I got it form here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
There are some more very colourful wonderful HD clips there. I just used a program to crop them very slightly (to fill the phone screen) and resize to 800x480 in H.264. Love it.

This looked better on my phone that it did on my laptop!

wow, really shows off the screen! Cheers!

mcgon1979 said:
Here is a very colourful short clip I formatted to fit the Desire screen resolution in H.264 format. It is the IDEAL way to show off the superb clarity and vivid colour of the desires screen. Gorgeous.
Video here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lguenqyamgw
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Nice clip....Cheers!
Can you give the name of the program and settings you used to encode this please?
Cheers.

Thanks for this, I was looking for some good clips to show off the screen.

hehe.. Thought you guys would like it. I was looking for a clip that really had enough movement and colour in it to show the screens wow factor, and this is it
I used "Any DVD Converter Professional 4.0.5". You can try a trial version here http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_dvd/
It has an option for the 'Android Nexus one' in it which will automatically resize the video to 800x480 and convert to H.264 Mp4. The good thing is you can also crop the sides of the original if necessary to remove the black letterbox bars on top and bottom of wide-screen movies etc. It's a shame to leave any of the Desires screen not in use, so I normally crop clips to fill the entire 800x480. you lose maybe 5% off each side of the original clip, but its worth it to remove the letter boxing and see the whole screen filled

this might be a stupid question but how do you play videos? I know it is possible to install some media player like aPlayer, or to use camera app but why there's no a default media player? And if I go to settings->manage application I see the Streaming Media Player icon but there is no widget or app to invoke it! wtf?

this might be a stupid question but how do you play videos? I know it is possible to install some media player like aPlayer, or to use camera app but why there's no a default media player? And if I go to settings->manage application I see the Streaming Media Player icon but there is no widget or app to invoke it! wtf?
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Personally, I got a file manager (like Linda) and if you select a video from there it'll launch it in the default player.

you don't need a player. The phone will play video.
Just copy the files to a folder in your photos directory.
Then just browse to the photos icon to launch the gallery. Your newly copied videos will be in there. just click to play.

mcgon1979 said:
Here is a very colourful short clip I formatted to fit the Desire screen resolution in H.264 format. It is the IDEAL way to show off the superb clarity and vivid colour of the desires screen. Gorgeous.
Video here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lguenqyamgw
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Please make this video if you can http://web.canon.jp/imaging/ef/samples/ef8-15_f4l_f_usm/
it will be awsome.... thx in advance

Windows phone notifcation Concept (Dev.)

I wanted to respond to someones else's post about Windows phone's notification
system and I ended up creating something and showing it to a few people they
thought it was cool enough so I like I'd share.
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here is a quick explanation ,
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The notification tile/hub acts like a normal tile on the homescreen . It flips
and rotates different notifications as shown in the gif, but based on the
setting it can also be static.
when double pressed like launching an app it expands to fill the rest of the
screen , all this happen on the home screen. The remaining apps darken like it
does when moving around live tiles and the notifications show up as shown int he
second image. you close it and it returns to the normal home screen.
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SIDE NOTE:
I have zero developer knowledge but am quite good design and using a cooked
ROM version of WP7.8 I can olnly imagine what can
be done with Windows Phone. Any one who finds this cool enough and have
developer experience can contact PM me. Maybe we can work to
have this work on Windows Phone .

Good idea:good: (+) I wait for beta test:cyclops: (I'm not a developer but I can tested it).

very good idea!
hopefully some coders like ultrashot,heathcliff74 and of course all other coders have time to look into it...

First one is debatable, but I dislike the notification tile concept, the live-tiles itself are notifications, so there is no need for an extra tile to 'mirror' the other tiles.
It's sort of contracting to the Live-Tile concept even.

MarysFetus said:
First one is debatable, but I dislike the notification tile concept, the live-tiles itself are notifications, so there is no need for an extra tile to 'mirror' the other tiles.
It's sort of contracting to the Live-Tile concept even.
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I agree with you that the live tiles itselfs are notifications... but with a notification tile, you dont need additional tiles like E-Mail, Messages,..
One Tile with all notification, where you can see all incoming mails, messages,... and i would be great if you can open your mails from this notification tile directly

Exactly.
If we have eg. four email account we have to add to homescreen four tiles. In Windows Phone Notifications concept we have all email box in one tile + messages.

Looks awesome, but wouldn't every single app need to be patched to send notifications to the tile? Like Facebook, twitter, blah blah?

Interesting concept, but very hard to make. I don't think there is an easy way to intercept notifications from other apps. Expanded view is also something new on the platform, so it could require OS itself to be patched. Personally, I don't think it can be done, but good luck with the project.

Looks awesome, but wouldn't every single app need to be patched to send notifications to the tile? Like Facebook, twitter, blah blah?
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Interesting concept, but very hard to make. I don't think there is an easy way to intercept notifications from other apps. Expanded view is also something new on the platform, so it could require OS itself to be patched. Personally, I don't think it can be done, but good luck with the project.
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Yeah i thought so too, the most difficult part will be to intercept notification from the apps, which seems quite impossible .. but one can only dream,

Song title on always on display

I can’t find the setting to show song titles of songs playing on phone on the “always on display “ any help appreciated

rmewpm said:
I can’t find the setting to show song titles of songs playing on phone on the “always on display “ any help appreciated
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go into settings and just search "now playing" at the top search bar.

rmewpm said:
I can’t find the setting to show song titles of songs playing on phone on the “always on display “ any help appreciated
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I believe it is under "Sound" settings.
And it is the last option in that settings.

Yep it sure is. Settings -> Sound -> Advanced -> Now Playing

Thanks but that only shows songs playing around you not songs played by phone

Yeah, I was curious about this as well. If they play a snippet of a song on a podcast I'm listening to on phone, will that show up?

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Yeah, I was curious about this as well. If they play a snippet of a song on a podcast I'm listening to on phone, will that show up?
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Current songs show up in the notification center. Is that what you are referring to? If so, that was default behavior for me. I didn't have to enable anything I don't think.
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Current songs show up in the notification center. Is that what you are referring to? If so, that was default behavior for me. I didn't have to enable anything I don't think.
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Hmmm...tried to add screenshot but I guess new forum members can't do that? Anyway, I see currently playing tunes showing up there. Even podcasts from the Pocketcast app will show up there as well.

I think he may want currently playing song information on the "always on display" vs just the lock screen. On my device I see the Google play music icon on the AoD but I do not see the currently playing song information. I've done some digging and I'm unsure if we can enable what OP is asking for, though that sounds like a really handy feature to have.

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I think he may want currently playing song information on the "always on display" vs just the lock screen. On my device I see the Google play music icon on the AoD but I do not see the currently playing song information. I've done some digging and I'm unsure if we can enable what OP is asking for, though that sounds like a really handy feature to have.
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Ah yes...I think it's important to distinguish between "Always on" and "Lock screen"...I didn't think about that. I think you're intuition is correct.

Revival of thread with your answer.
Here you go
Ambient Lock Screen Music

mrdunlop said:
Revival of thread with your answer.
Here you go
Ambient Lock Screen Music
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Are there any apps that do this without root? I am guessing not.

Requires root
mrdunlop said:
Revival of thread with your answer.
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Ambient Lock Screen Music
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This does require root, but works great!