MercuryX: New Album Based Media Interface

Download:
Mercury Preview

UPDATED Requirements:
Display Resoutions @ 640x480x32 Bit
DirectX: 8.1a (Not sure if this works with versions > 8)
Ram: 128 MB
CPU: 500 Mhz
HD: ~20 MB


Current Features:
TouchScreen Based
Winamp 2.91 Frontend
Database Managed Music
Album Based music selection + CD Cover Support
Spectrum Analyzer Vis.
Written in Visual C++/DirectX. No more slow BitBlt'ing

Things that are working but not in this preview:
Video/Movie Player/Video Browser - Still need to work out some bugs with this one.

Planned Additions:
Griffin Powermate support for optional control
Embedded CoPilot GPS for Navigation
Camera Support
FM Radio Support
A decent OnScreen Keyboard!
Skinning/Theming
Support for NonTouch/VGA LCD/TFTs
Cleaning the code up to OpenSource it.

Things I would like to do, but need some help:

IRMan Support: I know alot of people have these things, however I do not. So if someone can tell me how these work, I can code some stuff in for it.

OGG Support: Is this is big deal to many people?

Anything else that would be nice! Just ask.

Screenshots:

Player Interface:
http://www.ece.utk.edu/~qjones/player.jpg

Album Browser:
http://www.ece.utk.edu/~qjones/browser.jpg

Music Screen:
http://www.ece.utk.edu/~qjones/music.jpg

Backgrounds courtesy of Mitokondria. And the Arby's Button's on the Player.

Hopefully I can get the Preview out Tommorow, or maybe Monday.

Thanks,
Quincy

hurry up, we're waiting :)

something like this is exactly what ive been looking for, even for my home PC
you can do something like it with naming the album cover to folder.jpg and then doing a view->thumbnail but its just not the same

aoLhaTer:

I definately have both in mind. There really is not much out there. So far all I have seen is MCE by Microsoft, and MyHTPC(Which is shaping up quite well). However I definately have the car functionality on my mind first.

On a side note:
I am Fixing a couple of little bugs now, only a few more small ones to fix so that it should work on everyone elses setups.

Quincy

OK, The Preview is finished up. If you have any questions or problems please let me know!. Couple of things with this release:

Instructions:
Open the "mercuryx.ini" file in the directory where you unrar the Mercury files to. Change the line: "MusicLocation="C:\My Albums\" to where your music files are. If they are in "C:\Bob's Music\" change the line to: "MusicLocation="C:\Bob's Music\".
And if you want to resync the DB, change the line: "synced=1" to "synced=0". Anything else just let me know.

Things I need feedback on:

1. Everyone stores/sorts and tags there mp3's differently. For my files it works great, but yours might be different. Please let me know what bugs, or problems you encounter with the album browser/database stuff.

2. Also, let me know if anything is running slow, locking up, or doing anything strange like that.

3. Please understand the difference between Albums, and things that should be in a playlist. Right now, the program has features implemented to make playing/navigating *Albums* very easy. A folder with a bunch of random songs should be handled differently. So please wait until the actual release for this. However please feel free to throw any random directories at the database syncing part of the program. i.e. give it directories with lots of subdirs/etc or something that could cause problems!

4. ANY advice or help with the graphics is very appreciated. I can code decently, but Photoshot usually gets the best of me :)

Things that I know do not work:
1. You cannot adjust volume from the Album Browser, or Music Home Screen. Only the player interface.
2. Visualization is kind of squirrely. I need to play with this some.

Musicmatch Jukebox Has That built in......

Mongrat: Has what built in?

The album cover art feature.

Ive been doing all my mp3s up with the album art, but since I didnt do it as I ripped them, super tagging is taking me forever to correct any mistakes. I have like 350 CDs to go through lol.

~Mong

Yes, I used MusicMatch to rip all of mine. This is also what I used to get my Album Art. And I was wondering, what all does the Super Tagging let you do in MusicMatch?

Hrm I got an error for you :)

I downloaded the preview and changed the location in the ini but now when I start the program I get this error:

DirectX error:
Failed to Create Direct3D Device!

and the program crashes....

My system specs
Intel Celeron 1.0 GHZ
ATI 7000 PCI 64 MB GFX card
Direct X 9
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
321 MB SDRAM
Windows 2000 PRO

I would think it would be the DX9 but im the the coder....