Announcement: multiPlay for Blackberry Pearl 8100 - beta - Page 3 - BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community

rivviepop · 02-09-2007, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dollars5

When contacted RIM regard to this - we were replied RIM does not want to open up trapping side volume control keys for third party developers as of now.

I hope your team replied "then you write a better @#%& MP3 player than that garbage you shipped" when they told you.

oh ho ho I amuse myself...

Rebel XT · 02-09-2007, 09:39 PM

The mp3 player is indeed not very intuitive. Like someone else posted, you cannot switch between the controls at the top of the screeen and the bottom of the screen once you move the cursor to the top row. The only way to remedy this is to fully exit the program and restart. A very annoying/unfortunate bug.

Adding songs to a list and creating a new playlist took a lot of playing around and button pressing, and I still couldn't smoothly create a list. The pocket-windows media player on PDA (HP) has a very simple but effective playlist creating process. Options to Create/Edit/Delete playlist, and once you click on the playlist you have the option to add/remove/move files. Click on ADD and it leads you to folders, click on folders and it shows the list of files where you can click the boxes beside each file then press ok to add the files.

Another nice option would be to be able to sort the list by Alpha, size, type.

Thanks and great work!

dollars5 · 02-09-2007, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rivviepop

I hope your team replied "then you write a better @#%& MP3 player than that garbage you shipped" when they told you.

oh ho ho I amuse myself...

lol

But the player that comes with Blackberry is not that bad, many devices does not even have a player, we are at least fortunate in that case. Consider Palm is totally relying on PocketTunes (now the corePlayer is gaining momentum) and there is no media player provided/developed by the manufacturer itself.

dollars5 · 02-09-2007, 11:39 PM

For scrolling from top to bottom of the screen, while the focus is on the playlist - slide your trackball to left or right to skip the playlist scrolling - this is not documented but is implemented. By moving left focus goes back t volume buttons, when moved right - focus goes to the gauge and moving down will take you to play control buttons (play, pause, stop etc.)

We will check to improve the playlist creation experience in future versions. any suggestions regard to this are always welcome and we are open and willing to implement for you. Since it is a mobile device with restricted screen and resources, we have tried our best to provide better user experience always.

Regards,
Dollars5.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rebel XT

The mp3 player is indeed not very intuitive. Like someone else posted, you cannot switch between the controls at the top of the screeen and the bottom of the screen once you move the cursor to the top row. The only way to remedy this is to fully exit the program and restart. A very annoying/unfortunate bug.

Adding songs to a list and creating a new playlist took a lot of playing around and button pressing, and I still couldn't smoothly create a list. The pocket-windows media player on PDA (HP) has a very simple but effective playlist creating process. Options to Create/Edit/Delete playlist, and once you click on the playlist you have the option to add/remove/move files. Click on ADD and it leads you to folders, click on folders and it shows the list of files where you can click the boxes beside each file then press ok to add the files.

Another nice option would be to be able to sort the list by Alpha, size, type.

Thanks and great work!

Ketchums · 02-10-2007, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dollars5

Our vNotes module does it, and it is non-optimized and an highly optimized voice recorder for Blackberry pearl is almost up to release (when you purchase a professional license for multiPlay - you can get that voice recorder with it) - but you will have to wait for atleast 3-4 days before we announce final version releases. [Some features: in our stress test - it recorded for more than 1 hour continously, very fast processing for generating G711 audio files, plans to add high quality GSM 6.10 which is better than AMR]

Hey...just to be clear, what you're speaking of is a recorder in the program that will record phone conversations as they're going on? As in, I'm talking on the pearl, and the recorder will record what's going on? cuz if so, I DEFINITELY need that license...

Also, with the music player, is there any way to play an entire folder at once instead of song-by-song, without having to make a playlist? Like how the Blackberry player before had a "play all in folder" option?

Otherwise, great program, keep up the good work

dollars5 · 02-10-2007, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ketchums

Hey...just to be clear, what you're speaking of is a recorder in the program that will record phone conversations as they're going on? As in, I'm talking on the pearl, and the recorder will record what's going on? cuz if so, I DEFINITELY need that license...

Also, with the music player, is there any way to play an entire folder at once instead of song-by-song, without having to make a playlist? Like how the Blackberry player before had a "play all in folder" option?

Otherwise, great program, keep up the good work

We originally had worked with a call recording program - but it was causing interference and distortion of call quality so we dropped it, but sooner we might have that as a separate application.

The Voice recorder that is bundled with multiPlay is the one that allows users to take voice notes (similar to voice memos) - and allows various formats/codecs for recording (AMR, WAVE[PC, ulaw and alaw], AU).

Adding/playing all songs in a folder without creating playlist is available for professional edition users. For personal edition users and beta users we will try to accommodate it sooner.

Thanks for your interest with multiPlay.

yunlin12 · 02:47 PM

Thanks for the beta. I've been playing with the mediaPlayer, have some feedback:

1) volume control is too complicated as others indicated
2) Mute button on top of the Pearl only works when mediaPlayer is in the foreground
3) I had to tweak a few times for the shuffle setting to stick
4) no quick way to scroll through the playlist section (middle part of the player screen showing list of songs in the playlist). If your screen is showing songs begin with letter W, and you are looking for a song starting with letter F, and you've got a 2GB card filled with songs, and on a playlist that contains all songs, you got a long way to go. Anyway to make that easier, like if user hit a letter while going through the list, it jumps to that letter?

dollars5 · 02-11-2007, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yunlin12

Thanks for the beta. I've been playing with the mediaPlayer, have some feedback:

1) volume control is too complicated as others indicated
2) Mute button on top of the Pearl only works when mediaPlayer is in the foreground
3) I had to tweak a few times for the shuffle setting to stick
4) no quick way to scroll through the playlist section (middle part of the player screen showing list of songs in the playlist). If your screen is showing songs begin with letter W, and you are looking for a song starting with letter F, and you've got a 2GB card filled with songs, and on a playlist that contains all songs, you got a long way to go. Anyway to make that easier, like if user hit a letter while going through the list, it jumps to that letter?

Thanks for your feedback. The professional edition has many these made easier.

We will try to implement the quick playlist navigation for the future versions. Thanks again.

richieg · 02-11-2007, 07:01 AM

I have tried out the voice recorder but i cant get it to record to the folder i want which is on my card. It keeps recording to store/home/user. Any advice

dollars5 · 02-11-2007, 09:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by richieg

I have tried out the voice recorder but i cant get it to record to the folder i want which is on my card. It keeps recording to store/home/user. Any advice

That is a restriction on personal edition or beta version of multiPlay and is mentioned in the user manual too.

michalopoulosgk · 02-11-2007, 03:39 PM

A very nice feature of the textnotes is the fact that though they save in the device memory, they can be "found" using the Explore function of the media icon. This is not the case for the Memopad program that come bundled from RIM. Once found, one can change the name (using the Rename command) and the Move them to the media card! To my knowledge, this and the program microNotes posted recently are the only two programs that allow (even though tortuously) saving text notes to the media card! Does anybody know of any other programs that can do that?

I81u812 · 02-11-2007, 07:47 PM

boomarked for when I get home!

dollars5 · 02-12-2007, 08:57 AM

Products announced and multiPlay is out of beta. multiPlay personal edition continues to be available for free with full customer support at Dollars 5 Complete forums.

Product announcement page at http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...tml#post447600

Please upgrade to the new version as it has many bugs fixed.

blackberry_jack · 02-12-2007, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhendriksen

Does this program allow me to record conversations? I used that all the time on my E61, and it is almost worth getting rid of the Pearl over. I am in the car and on the phone all of the time, and talking while driving is dangerous enough, much less taking notes.

That would be great. If we're adding wishlist items, I could really use an app that allows in-phone (not remotely hosted) voicemail. I always had that on my phones in Japan - can't believe there's no BB functionality for this yet, it seems to have plenty of memory.

icepulse · 02-12-2007, 10:29 AM

Voice notes will not create a new file name for each new note. Consequently, after the first one, if you record another and try to save, it says that the file already exists, do I wish to overwrite? Is this a bug, or is this another cobbled feature in the "personal" version? I suggest you allow a pro version demo (15 days or so: full functionality) so that we may use the full version prior to commiting to a purchase.

dollars5 · 02-12-2007, 10:56 AM

We are considering full version 15 days trial run - but that will not be available till next week.

n1kon · **I Get An Error -** 02-16-2007, 07:40 PM

when i open multiplay i go to file explorer and there is nothing there so i go to the menu and try to press create and when i do it crashes and says uncaught exeption: java.lang.Nullpointer Exeption....anyone know how to fix this?

dollars5 · 02-16-2007, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by n1kon

when i open multiplay i go to file explorer and there is nothing there so i go to the menu and try to press create and when i do it crashes and says uncaught exeption: java.lang.Nullpointer Exeption....anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks for reporting, we will fix this bug sooner.
Can you provide us more details onto this:
1] Do you have a sdcard?
2] Did you see something like 'device' in the 'File Explorer' screen?

These information should be helpful in getting the bug fixed sooner.

RDx · 02-20-2007, 01:04 AM

WEll, if your on a call and get placed on hold and don't like there crapy music, put on multiplay and w/e song plays, will play thru ur ear phone or bluetooth set.

blackberry_jack · 02-20-2007, 11:32 AM

How can I run .cod, .jad and .alx files? When I click on them, my computer asks what programs open them.

dollars5 · 02-20-2007, 02:09 PM

ALX+COD files are required to install using your Blackberry Desktop Manager. If you wish to install Over The Air (OTA install) -from your blackberry Pearl browser, type the jad url and the OTA installation should progress.

Should you have any doubts, feel free to get back to us.

n1kon · **Error On Javalang -** 02-21-2007, 01:22 AM

yes i do have a SDCARD its a 1 gb and no when i click file explorer it says *empty* so i click create and i get that error FIX IT PLZ!

dollars5 · 02-21-2007, 04:47 AM

Thanks for reporting we will try to fix it at the earliest.

Glate · **incorrect link -** 02-21-2007, 07:13 PM

The link here:

dollars5.com/plete/blackberry/vnotes-for-blackberry-pearl-8100/

for vNotes says:

OTA: dollars5.com/OTA/vNotes.jad

but points to:

dollars5.com/OTA/mediaPlayer.jad

p.s sorry for no links, new to the forum

p.p.s Is your software free for personal use or not? In your initial post you say yes, but all I can find is the version that costs $10

dollars5 · 02-21-2007, 07:37 PM

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we will fix it sooner. The correct link is http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/vNotes.jad

Please be informed that multiPlay personal edition is the free for personal use version Link: Dollars 5 Complete » multiPlay personal edition for Blackberry Pearl 8100
multiPlay does have a limited vNotes as a module.

But vNotes as a separate application is a commercial product for $10 only: Link: Dollars 5 Complete » vNotes for Blackberry Pearl 8100

Glate · 07:44 PM

I just tried to load your "professional" software using the ALX file provided on dollars5.com and I get the error "vNotes-1 not found".

After inspecting the ALX file I found that it says this:

<files >
vNotes.cod

</files>

but should read:

<files >
vNotes.cod
vNotes-1.cod
</files>

dollars5 · 02-21-2007, 07:45 PM

No it reads fine for me - tried the same link;

You can copy paste the following content into your alx file and use it:

Code:

<loader version="1.0">
	<application id="vNotes">
		<name >
			vNotes
		</name>
		<description >
			Voice Notes for Blackberry Pearl
		</description>
		<version >
			1.0.0.918
		</version>
		<vendor >
			Dollars 5 Complete
		</vendor>
		<copyright >
			Copyright (c) 2007 Dollars 5 Complete
		</copyright>
		<fileset Java="1.25">
			<directory >
				
			</directory>
			<files >
				vNotes.cod

			</files>

		</fileset>

	</application>

</loader>

Also mind that Unlesss you enter a license - you will not be able to preview teh vNotes version. note that in a day or two we are to announce trial period for the professional applications and sure will let you know where tyou can test ride this application.

dollars5 · 02-21-2007, 07:46 PM

Did you use your Blackberry Desktop manger to install and did you have the alx and cod files as of
http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...tes/vNotes.cod
http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...tes/vNotes.alx

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glate

I just tried to load your "professional" software using the ALX file provided on dollars5.com and I get the error "vNotes-1 not found".

After inspecting the ALX file I found that it says this:

<files >
vNotes.cod

</files>

but should read:

<files >
vNotes.cod
vNotes-1.cod
</files>

Glate · 07:50 PM

As you can see in your post your file has the same error:

<files >
vNotes.cod
</files>

When I use that ALX file it does not load vNotes-1.cod and the application will not run.

Perhaps I downloaded the zip file in the middle of a site update? The zipfile I downloaded 10 minutes ago had vNotes.cod and vNotes-1.cod. Now the zip on your site only has vNotes.cod

dollars5 · 02-21-2007, 07:47 PM

Or you can get the links from http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/vNotes.cod http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/vNotes.alx which many people used to install successfully.

dollars5 · **New! Improved! Now even better!!! -** 02-22-2007, 11:14 AM

Hello,

Thanks for supporting us with purchase of our software, we are contacting you to inform you of he availability of upgraded version of the software you purchased and trail version of some of our other software for your preview.

We are pleased to announce upgrades for mediaPlayer (v 1.0.0.1035), vNotes (v 1.0.0.927) and txtNotes (v 1.0.0.1466) software for your Blackberry Pearl 8100 smart phones.

OTA Links for th new versions:
http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/mediaPlayer.jad
http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/vNotes.jad
http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/txtNotes.jad
If you donot have licenses for any of the versions - feel free to trail them by obtaining a trial key from Dollars 5 Complete » Trial Request - mediaPlayer, vNotes and txtNotes for Blackberry Pearl 8100

The following are the improvements/features currently offered for each software and their download links:
mediaPalyer:
• Highly optimized Blackberry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphones
• Plays a variety of music formats like AMR, Wave, MP3, MP4, AU, AAC
• Multiple Playlist management
• Sorting of Playlist
• Trackball/Pearl dancing lights for music sound
• Full background playback
• Auto pause of music while during phone calls
• Songs position seeking using the selectable player gauge
• Direct play by selecting a song from the now playlist
• Songs shuffle and repeat with a button click
• Volume control using keypad keys ‘QW’ and ‘OP’; UI buttons
• File browser to list and select media files from device memory and card memory
• New! Quick launch to last visited folder while browsing for faster file selections
• New! Library creation of all music in device and sd card memory as a playlist
• Newly improved! User friendly interface for better user experience
• Customizable UI field colors
• More menu commands
• One-time payment – lifelong Free upgrades and bug fixes
• Premier customer support via e-mail and community forums
Links:
ZIP: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...ediaPlayer.zip
COD: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...ediaPlayer.cod
ALX: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...ediaPlayer.alx
Product Link: Dollars 5 Complete » mediaPlayer for Blackberry Pearl 8100

vNotes:
• Highly optimized Blackberry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphones
• Voice notes creation in various formats
• Supported codec formats are AMR-NB, AU, Wave (standard, uLaw, aLaw)
• Saving voice recording files to device memory and card memory
• New Improved! Longer and better! Full background recording allowing user to use other applications while recording
• Tagging voice recordings with memos
• New! Limit your recordings! Ability to set record limitation in terms of time or memory size
• New! Indication for background recording with LED flashing and fully customizable for colors you like (with preview menu command)
• New! Get the estimated recording time for the free space in destination folder
• Recordings management with instant preview/play, rename and remove recordings
• New Improved! Player gauge to indicate wave file play positions
• Sorting the recorder log list by name, date, memo tag presence and duration of recording
• New! Quick launch to last visited folder while browsing for faster file selections
• Newly improved! User friendly interface
• Customizable UI field colors
• More menu commands
• E-mailing recordings (beta implementation)
• One-time payment – lifelong Free upgrades and bug fixes
• Premier customer support via e-mail and community forums
Links:
ZIP: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...tes/vNotes.zip
COD: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...tes/vNotes.cod
ALX: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...tes/vNotes.alx
Product Link: Dollars 5 Complete » vNotes for Blackberry Pearl 8100

txtNotes:
• Highly optimized Blackberry® Pearl™ 8100 smartphones
• ASCII Text files creation
• Saving Text files to device memory and card memory
• Importing a Memopad memo as text file
• Export a text file as memopad memo
• User friendly interface
• More menu commands
• E-mailing text files as attachments (beta implementation)
• One-time payment – lifelong Free upgrades and bug fixes
• Premier customer support via e-mail and community forums
Links:
ZIP: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...s/txtNotes.zip
COD: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...s/txtNotes.cod
ALX: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl...s/txtNotes.alx
Product Link: Dollars 5 Complete » txtNotes for Blackberry Pearl 8100

Should you have any problems or find any bugs with our software, please feel free to get back and report that we will try to fix them at the earliest.

Thanks again,
Dollars 5 Complete Technical Support.

dollars5 · 02-22-2007, 12:16 PM

multiPlay license holders, you can download and use the above three products with out any problem and experience unlimited lifetime use with your existing license key.

esbe02 · 02-22-2007, 12:24 PM

Im a complete NEWB, but when requestiing the trial key, what do I put in for DEVICEKEY?

dollars5 · 02-22-2007, 12:33 PM

Device key can be found from the License screen of the applications.

Once you download or install the application you will be shown with a License screen where the device key is mentioned and is case sensitive when you enter in the web-form.

esbe02 · 02-22-2007, 12:57 PM

thanks for the quick response Dollar5...

I have another problem now, its not taking the validation key, I tried at least 3 different times, getting an error saying its invalid.

dollars5 · 02-22-2007, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by esbe02

thanks for the quick response Dollar5...

I have another problem now, its not taking the validation key, I tried at least 3 different times, getting an error saying its invalid.

Please send an email to [email address]

with your device key - they should be able to help you. Thanks for your interest with the products.

dollars5 · 02-24-2007, 08:48 AM

@esbe02: There has been some problems with the trial codes, not we have fixed it and offered an unlimited 1-week testdrive, new links available from Dollars 5 Compile Labs» Blog Archive » A major Test drive Crash!!! but no problems; we have got some improvements too!

dollars5 · 03-02-2007, 08:48 AM

New upgrade available with delighting features: http://www.blackberryforums.com/afte...-features.html

Now New! Improved! with critical bug fixes.

Version 1.0.0.1494 with Major Improvements:
Ability to create Playlist Library of all media in SDcard and device memory
Highly customizable UI (change field colors, player pointers)
Sorting playlist by name
Dancing Trackball lighting during music
Newly added menu functionalities for all UI actions
Recorder background mode LED flashing indication with customizable colors flashes as you wish
E-mailing recording and text files
Keypad shortcuts - '1' Record, '2' Stop etc.
minor bug fixes

Links:
OTA: http://www.dollars5.com/OTA/multiPlay.jad
ZIP: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl.../multiPlay.zip
COD: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl.../multiPlay.cod
ALX: http://www.dollars5.com/downloads/bl.../multiPlay.alx

Thanks to all users who actively provided suggestions to improve the product further.

n1kon · **Grrrr -** 03-03-2007, 05:49 PM

Unfourtunately I Got The New Version....and I Still Get The Javalang Error :(:(:(:(

dollars5 · 03-03-2007, 06:26 PM

Hello n1kon,

If you could post when you get the error and what exactly is the error message - that would help us help you, we can fix that bug asap with your details.

Also kindly be informed that there are thousands of other users who are able to use this software successfully.