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Turn your Kaiser into an electronic picture frame

Electronic picture frames are slowly catching on, and we all have gigabytes of family pictures on our desktops at home, but dont have much opportunity to see them.
Ive just bought a Tilt, which has the ideal design for either a desktop clock or a small picture frame. I tether every day, so its normally sitting next to my laptop, powered, but doing nothing.
My solution is in 2 parts. 1 free and 1 will cost $9.95
First, how to get your pictures on the device. This is simple using the media synchronizing abilities of active sync and desktop Windows Media Player.
First enable the media sync plug-in in activesync, then go to Windows Media Player and go to the sync tab with your device plugged in. There you should see your device as a sync-able storage device. Select it, chose to create a new sync profile, be sure to remove all the ones that are already there by default, choose to sync pictures, and add a further criteria to only sync say 10 MB. Set it to sync automatically.
This will copy about 10 Mb of photos (shrunk down to 320x211 resolution) to your device, to a Pictures folder at the root of your device.
Next you need an app called Dockwave Pro. This is not free (they do offer a free version, but it does not have the configuration options we need). Install it, point it to the pictures folder on your device, set the time out and the job is done.
Now every time your device is powered and idle for a few minutes, you will be surprised by a random selection of photos from your collection.
There is not much detail in this post, as I'm not sure how many people are interested, but it obviously can be fleshed out more with screen shots etc if there is enough interest. For a Tilt/Kaiser user its near perfect of course, as the device almost seemed designed for the role.
BTW, there is a built-in option in the built-in picture viewer, under options/slide show to play a screen saver of the pictures under the My Documents\My Pictures directory if your device is idle for 2 minutes, but Windows Media Player wont synchronize pictures to a directory accessible to that software, and the transitions are poorer.
Surur

Interesting idea. Could probably whip up a custom app for that. Now comes the problem. I have no pictures! (I should really get a camera, lol )

Chainfire said:
Now comes the problem. I have no pictures! (I should really get a camera, lol )
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I think you may have a decent 3 megapixel one lying around
If you are going to make a custom viewer, you really need to try out Google photo screen saver out for inspiration. It has a brilliant zoom and pan mode which really brings your pictures to life, and it also downloads pics via RSS, which makes for a nice ever-changing performance.
http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html
Surur

surur said:
I think you may have a decent 3 megapixel one lying around
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Right Too bad it has no flash and even though it has 3MP the quality is nothing to write home about. I mean a real camera, that takes pictures I want to keep
If you are going to make a custom viewer, you really need to try out Google photo screen saver out for inspiration. It has a brilliant zoom and pan mode which really brings your pictures to life, and it also downloads pics via RSS, which makes for a nice ever-changing performance.
http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html
Surur
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Overkill I think for on a 320x240 device, but who knows. I don't even know if or when I'm going to do this, just an idea

Well, Chainfire,
For one, I would LOVE to see what you could come up with for a custom application! To test it out, just download a few pics from someplace....
$9.95 isn't bad...but something that matches the elegance of our Kaiser/Tilts is deserving of something GREAT!

Chainfire said:
Right Too bad it has no flash and even though it has 3MP the quality is nothing to write home about. I mean a real camera, that takes pictures I want to keep
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Quality won't have to be stellar on that small screen though

surur said:
Next you need an app called Dockwave Pro. This is not free (they do offer a free version, but it does not have the configuration options we need). Install it, point it to the pictures folder on your device, set the time out and the job is done.
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This is already a feature of WM Pictures & Videos (w/out fancy transitions):
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borealcool said:
This is already a feature of WM Pictures & Videos (w/out fancy transitions):
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From my post above.
BTW, there is a built-in option in the built-in picture viewer, under options/slide show to play a screen saver of the pictures under the My Documents\My Pictures directory if your device is idle for 2 minutes, but Windows Media Player wont synchronize pictures to a directory accessible to that software, and the transitions are poorer.
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Surur

borealcool said:
This is already a feature of WM Pictures & Videos (w/out fancy transitions):
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he mentions that in the post but also has it's limitations like as far as when you sync to wmp...
EDIT: you beat me to the reply....hehe

HTC Diamond Audio Manager

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*created by kidnamedAlbert found on freewarepocketpc. Enjoy.

Or you could have gotten it from my site
http://www.4shared.com/file/51674625/12a7c540/HTC-Diamond_AudioManager.html
But nice post, none the less.

P1Tater said:
Or you could have gotten it from my site
http://www.4shared.com/file/51674625/12a7c540/HTC-Diamond_AudioManager.html
But nice post, none the less.
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haha, I miss one day in here and i find myself way behind. Thanks for the tip.

what does this prog have that you cant just simply use windows media player for...i listen to audio(mp3's, stream live radio and news, and watch sports and news broadcast's on windows media player, so what specifics other then being just and audio manager does this thing do perfect for listening to music.

Also is this one less resource intensive than the previous one (one on the Cruise ver 1.02 build 1017.717)? I had read a thread somewhere comparing the cpu usage of wmp compared to audio manager and remember audio manager being more resource intensive. Also anyone know how this one performs when opening up with over a thousand songs? The aforementioend one lags.

hambola said:
Also is this one less resource intensive than the previous one (one on the Cruise ver 1.02 build 1017.717)? I had read a thread somewhere comparing the cpu usage of wmp compared to audio manager and remember audio manager being more resource intensive. Also anyone know how this one performs when opening up with over a thousand songs? The aforementioend one lags.
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I prefer audio manager over windows media. First, audio manager is more user friendly, second, you can trim music for your ringtones, what else is there to state?

this does seem a bit faster than the older htc audio manager...before if a song was playing, and i went to the library, all songs...and just scrolled through them quickly using the d-pad...the music would stop every few seconds, now i can scroll from top to bottom and it doesn't skip at all.
thanx for the find...but only if i could get the true htc touch diamond audio manager w/ the cover art. that plus htc diamond weather and i'd be set

you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.

moegdaog said:
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
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It comes down to personal choice. I like how Audio Manager handles its categories.

yea personal taste is what it all boils down too...i just hate wasting space in my device thats unneccessary even tho i have a 2gig card (i have a huge phobia of going over 35-40mb of space on my total of 125 on my device storage not microsd card) im currently at 35mb..with 90mb on the dot free on my device. Becauuse obviously the more device storage u waste up, you start clogging up your phone and it starts slowin down and eventually you have the tough chose of bearing on with the slight but burdening sluggishness or hard reset your phone and start from scratch again and even if you uninstal apps, some of their .dlls or temp files still stay embeded in your phone and you will never be able to delete them unless you hunt them down in the windows folder and im too scared that i might delete the wrong file and it could be a system file and i end up doing some dumb**** ...but i also do wanna try it out and see if having another media player thats specifically for playing mp3's is worth it. So there you have it, a break down of my harddriveaphobia...but for you guys ill try out the app. This was like therapy..thanks nobody that really helped.

moegdaog said:
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
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ok dudette, WMP does not trim.

totally!!!!! ahaha

redbandana said:
ok dudette, WMP does not trim.
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I LIKE TRIM LOL

redbandana said:
*created by poorlyduck found on freewarepocketpc. Enjoy.
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actually that picture shows MY diamond audiomanager not poorlyducks...

moegdaog said:
you can add mp3's on your sd card or device to be your ringtones without this application tho....so i still see no difference in this and WMplayer other then cool lookingness and its an htc app specifically for audio playing and not for a wide range of things like how windows media player is.
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One great thing about Audio Manager over WMP is that it can remember the last song you were playing. Good luck doing that with WMP.

So...
It's not diamond manager, it's only images skin for HTC audio manager packed to CAB file...
Better is WMP diamond skin

I seem to be the first to say this. But after Audio manager is installed. Were is it suposed to be located? been looking around for 30 min now and i cant still find it...

guys I installed this program and I can't find the program in my program list at all. after I installed the program, it shows that its installed in my phone, its in my remove programs list in settings...but theirs no program icon in programs...and theirs no folder for it in my program files folder on my device and in my storage card where I asked it to install to. So has anyone ran into this problem before? I can't open this app at all because their is no folder or program icon for it...can someone help? p1tater, redbandana? somebody? thanks

trying to install the cab by itself does not change anything about the audio manager skin...so is their some files I need to replace to get the updated diamond audio manager to work correct?

This looks to be just a theme. All it does is copy some pngs to the windows folder.

TCPMP (Porkie Edition)

This is a version of TCPMP I finished Mar.7,2010. Hope you enjoy!
www.4shared.com/file/236159674/2559877c/porkenhimer_projects_tcpmp__po.html?s=1

porkenhimer said:
This is a version of TCPMP I built using dll's, plugins & codecs i have collected. Hope you enjoy.
4sharedcom/file/233969768/cdfd473b/tcpmp_porkie_edition
Video Formats:
WMV
XVID
DIVX
MOV
MP4
3GP
FLV
FLV4
H.263
H.264 (AVC)
Plus many more common formats.
Added & Fixed:
Fixed FLV fullscreen shaking by adding a newer FFMPEG.PLG
Added 24 languages
Added 2 subtitle plugins
Added AVRCP control
Added GAPI driver
Fixed equalizer
Instructions:
Install cab to sdcard then open TCPMP for the first time & then close it. After closing copy all the files in the zip to the TCPMP program folder. if it ask to overwrite select yes to all. Do not copy the files to the program folder unless u have already opened and closed TCPMP. After copying the files open TCPMP again. You will get a few error alerts but thats fine. Now you are finished. No need to soft reset.
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what the rubber duck is a 'dll'

4shared.com/file/233969768/cdfd473b/tcpmp_porkie_edition
CORRECT URL

porkenhimer said:
4shared.com/file/233969768/cdfd473b/tcpmp_porkie_edition
CORRECT URL
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I know that Android is beginning to replace WinMo, but if you want to get a foothold on Android your going to have to port your media player to android first.
never used winmo, put had a 'play' the other day, it is truly awful, but haret.exe fixed it, the diamond now has Eclair 2.0 on it, and hell it works much better... when camera fully works will do nand flash and get rid of the winmo bs )

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Firerat said:
I know that Android is beginning to replace WinMo, but if you want to get a foothold on Android your going to have to port your media player to android first.
never used winmo, put had a 'play' the other day, it is truly awful, but haret.exe fixed it, the diamond now has Eclair 2.0 on it, and hell it works much better... when camera fully works will do nand flash and get rid of the winmo bs )
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The main difference between winmo and android/iphone is that one is for professional use (intelligent people who work and think) and one is for entertainment (children, adult handicaps and people who don't know how to hold a pencil). Unfortunately looks like WinPho7 is going that way too - another toy. You might like it

darfri said:
The main difference between winmo and android/iphone is that one is for professional use (intelligent people who work and think) and one is for entertainment (children, adult handicaps and people who don't know how to hold a pencil). Unfortunately looks like WinPho7 is going that way too - another toy. You might like it
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>/dev/null

I don't want to bring you down but you're bundling a lot of useless files (same as Tech1 build... all those dll files are either useless or already exist in the ROM). I get the feeling you used Tech1 pack as base and added some files from the fake 0.81 and the other ones are from bimbam...
Some may prefer the subs.plg (because it works in all video modes) but has a lot of flickering in fullscreen depending on the video size and must be activated (in settings) everytime you play a movie with subs.
Only advantage is that using an old player.exe makes the lyrics plugin work...
However it's a (way) bigger setup, without skin support (unless you consider the backgound used by the lyrics plugin) and older components.

Some Pointers...
You may want to see exactly which plugins your executable uses, and which it does not... These will vary depending on which versions you have. More is not always better, and fewer plugins means more speed, and greater efficiency. With testing, you will be able to determine which ones you can delete, and which ones are necessary...

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Both(topics) are good, imho.
fewer plugins means more speed, and greater efficiency.
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not..exactly..true, but nvmd,
it is matter of choices(and testing, idd).

[APP] Simple (unrestricted!) YouTube app [V0.3] - Updated

Hey all,
I was tired of not being able to find certain video's in the popular YouTube apps out there in the MP. So I decided to throw a quick and simple app together which (at least for me) is able to locate and play the same results as the desktop version of YouTube.
So VeVo video's etc and other copyrighted stuff normally not available on mobile is available with this app. Please let me know if it also works in Germany.
Let me know if there is any interest, i might do further development. It is very basic now and all built in one day. Dont expect too much of it. Quick and simple, enjoy it!
Xap is attached...
Some screen shots:
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Thank you! Great App!
I tried it on my Omnia 7 and It works fine, but some videos aren't smooth, for example Pixie Lott - Turn It Up by pixielottvevo in Standard Definition.
If you could fix it, it would be perfect
Thanks again!

I have to say that it is so nice to have a YouTube app that has a wonderfully clean interface, allows us to watch ALL videos, and runs so smoothly. Haven't noticed anything about choppy video playback. I don't mean to discredit the other wonderful Youtube apps available but the clutter that comes with them seems unnecessary and very distracting. It is my belief that most users are just searching and watching and the "featured", "most played", and most "discussed" sections of other apps are overkill. This is the perfect replacement for the HTC YouTube app which for most of us has to be sideloaded(like this one of course) but which also doesn't play copyrighted videos. Please, please, please keep it simple and focus on optimization if anything if future updates Even the simplicity of your icon is perfect!!!! And the use of the native player without the overlay and extra options is great as well!!!!

Yes that was indeed my intention. Ill fix the crash bug when there is no internet (stupid wp7 apis need 100 try catches).
Also Ill probably implement something like search on channel and add the possibility to read comments. The main focus is to get ALL videos supported.
Also I have no control over the smoothness of playback as it is handled by native wp7, could be a crappy encoded video. Or maybe a memory issue (restart might fix it?). So I cant really optimize on that regard.
I might add a pivot to move to the left for comments and related videos? Seems usefull I think. And perhaps allow one to click on the name of the publisher/channel so I can load up those videos.
Thanks for the positive and useful feedback!

Very nice, I never noticed that the videos were restricted (via metrotube or anything).
I also like how minimal this is, straight to the videos is great.

AshleyT said:
Thank you! Great App!
I tried it on my Omnia 7 and It works fine, but some videos aren't smooth, for example Pixie Lott - Turn It Up by pixielottvevo in Standard Definition.
If you could fix it, it would be perfect
Thanks again!
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Make sure your phone is not connected to the pc as this will disturb smooth playback. It can be that the video is badly encoded or a memory issues. I pass the playback directly on to the wp7 media player.
Updated! Added some more features and some refinements. I think ill also implement the reading of comments, not sure if ill implement also commenting itself as that would require login etc which is quite some work.

Nice additions (authors, playlists by search). Simple but something I think a lot of users use a lot. Comments might be nice, seeing as the your UI design allows for it once you've selected a video (there's space for it). I know its your app but i really think you have something here and dare i say you could easily charge for this and make some money other than the ads. Although the ads are hardly noticeable due to the way you've implemented them. Videos load faster and smoother than any other app out there. They are right on par with the HTC Youtube app. I might be alone in this, but Im happy that you took out the "featured videos" that load when you start the app. I can search and be watching what I want before most other apps have even loaded. Stellar. I love the white background as well but might I suggest a black theme (might go nice with the metro dark theme if thats what a user is running).

Thanks
Yes I can get it into the mp without ads, Im only afraid I can not use these logos and name and ill have to use a non branded name than. Ill have to think about maybe an in app pay system to remove the add. But all this will come much later. Will still have to design a start page and implement comments.
Should i use a button to toggle the comments or a pivot?

i would recommend a pivot. That way it gives the user the option to look at them if they want. I would assume it will allow for a quicker load of the "play video" page but it will still leave the option available if the user wants. Also, a pivot will add to the already nicely implemented "metro" theme. To be perfectly honest, the ads are minimal and very non-invasive. I would have no problems if you just left them and Im sure most other people would agree. Of course, entering the marketplace etc. is something I can't speak to. Any plans for a dark theme.

dosnt seem to play age restricted videos and no log in option available is their a way around this?
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sunspark said:
dosnt seem to play age restricted videos and no log in option available is their a way around this?
Sent from my 7 Pro T7576 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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No login implemented yet. Ill look into the age restricted stuff later. With unrestricted I mean whether users can watch vevo etc.
Also Ive not specifically looked into germany as germany may get different results (in the xmls it specifically states restricted DE... Can any german guy confirm whether VEVO returns a result?)
The login might come but that needs more work, the simplicity and availability to play desktop results were first. Its quickly built
@yeahyeahyeah1981: good news man, I implemented a pivot with comments and related videos its looking nice. I still have a tiny problem with losing the instance so ill have to implement some saving and loading but that will be done somewhere this week and that ill post the newer version
Dark theme no plans yet. But should not be too hard to implement, ill just need to cut out the logos and dont like that haha other than that its just binding to variables find and replace Black with {Binding ForeGroundColor} and same for white. But I also need to make settings etc.

[App][Apk attached]Xperia Music app beta updated to 9.0.0.A.2.0beta

Hi guys,
Sony has published a new update for Xperia Music with new features
Changelog
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You can get it by subscription to the beta Google+ group
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Uploaded APK from my Phone
If This helps press Thanks button :good:
Sent from my D6503 using Tapatalk

Thanks for the upload.
So disappointed to see that artists from compilation albums still show in the artist list. I can't express how much I hate it.
I have a lot of music on my phone which includes many compilation albums where I have one off artists especially on mix albums where it has serveal different songs on one track and the artist ID is something like artist1/artist2/artist3.
I stick to using Google Play Music as like most other decent players it will ignore artists from albums marked with Various Artists in the information and won't add the individual tracks artist information to the artist list.
See the comparison in the screen shots. It makes the list triple in size with unnecessary artists I don't need to see.

keyz86 said:
Thanks for the upload.
So disappointed to see that artists from compilation albums still show in the artist list. I can't express how much I hate it.
I have a lot of music on my phone which includes many compilation albums where I have one off artists especially on mix albums where it has serveal different songs on one track and the artist ID is something like artist1/artist2/artist3.
I stick to using Google Play Music as like most other decent players it will ignore artists from albums marked with Various Artists in the information and won't add the individual tracks artist information to the artist list.
See the comparison in the screen shots. It makes the list triple in size with unnecessary artists I don't need to see.
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Have you tried to download music info?
If you have any problems you can report it in the group they really help

a.hamameh96 said:
Have you tried to download music info?
If you have any problems you can report it in the group they really help
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I don't really think you understood to issue, I don't need any more info added, all the ID3 Tags are written perfectly, I'm not missing anything its just showing me more than I need to see.
It doesn't follow the same rules that every other music player does and ignore listing artists from compilation albums.
I have requested to join the group, just waiting for approval.

keyz86 said:
I don't really think you understood to issue, I don't need any more info added, all the ID3 Tags are written perfectly, I'm not missing anything its just showing me more than I need to see.
It doesn't follow the same rules that every other music player does and ignore listing artists from compilation albums.
I have requested to join the group, just waiting for approval.
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I have understood but that's really strange

Cool, but how can I rescan my database? I deleted some folders via Solid Explorer but still shown in Music/Walkman

a.hamameh96 said:
I have understood but that's really strange
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In the three years I've been using Xperia devices, the Walkman app has always been like this.

Hmmm...I don't get it away from statusbar and lockscreen....

rohorubo said:
Hmmm...I don't get it away from statusbar and lockscreen....
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Swipe it away when not playing music

Yep, got it. Well, more annoying is that deleted folders still are shown in database. I alreqdy deleted app data and cache in settings but no luck. Still have the deleted folders in it...

rohorubo said:
Yep, got it. Well, more annoying is that deleted folders still are shown in database. I alreqdy deleted app data and cache in settings but no luck. Still have the deleted folders in it...
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Ok, you have to reboot the phone. Then database will update.

I want to ask a question, what is spotify walkman addon? what does it do

abasba said:
I want to ask a question, what is spotify walkman addon? what does it do
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Just launches Spotify app nothing else

Seems like a good change. But will miss the WALKMAN tag.
Thanks for sharing!