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Bitoholic · 05-13-2004, 07:13 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveC

Never use playlists myself either so (for me) coding playlist support would be a waste of effort. I would suggest that you can rely upon the user making sure that their MP3s are properly formatted etc before loading into the carpc.

I'm amazed that no-one has embedded XM support yet. I use TouchXM which is just screaming out to be integrated (and skinned) into one of the media control packages. Either XM PCRs aren't vey popular or it's harder to do than I first thought.

Steve

We have a plug-in being developed for XM-PCR support right now. Do not know when we will release this yet... I hope soon.

lopan · 05-13-2004, 10:20 PM

Quote:

We have a plug-in being developed for XM-PCR support right now.

If you guys had somthing like that I'd have to switch immediately, touch xm works, but it clearly wasn't designed to be full touchscreen enabled. I need a channel up and down button, presets need to be programable without the keyboard, and better handling of the channel list.... but thats my small rant.

I know I'm a little late coming on board here but, I'm still getting the error you get when you don't set your config. The app works great if I point it to a directory thats empty

but when I point it to my main music dir it just dies and throws that same error.

I also have to agree that yeah the scroll works but you do need some kind of page jump.

Other then those 2 things, I'm very impressed and am anxiously waiting a not so alpha release.

Also, just my opinion here, I don't know too many mp3 people that actually use genre, being that most online databases you access to pull your tags royally hose them anyway. If your like me you probably have around 2000 different artists in your collection, and an even larger number of song names. That being said I think a directory based navigation with some kind of easy to use search feature would be awesome. Perhaps a search button that takes you to a menu with your choice of artist, song, genre or whatever to search against.

The ability to append, replace and insert would also be awesome, I used to use the hell out of those features on my empeg.

SteveC · 05-14-2004, 12:26 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by HybridEngineer

I guess I was looking for examples and feedback from developers on which things they would like to control from scripts. I want this thing to really be flexible. So you can do anything you want with the system pretty much.

I am going to assume that you will have embedded MP3 / DVD / XM / RADIO into the basic software package - GPS may or may not be embedded depending upon which GPS is chosen and whether it has an SDK - I prefer Routis and so I'm gonna be out of luck but at least I can launch it, set the window size etc through Javascript scripting.

Other things I'd like to do would be to launch and control external apps such as my OBD2 digital dashboard and also drive the parallel port to control switching relays. I can do all of that through Javascript.

So for me, scripting control would be used to drive external apps and not to program the apps themselves - is that what you had in mind? Or were you intending for the scripts to become mini-apps in their own right?

jmbickham · 05-15-2004, 11:24 AM

I know I am late in the game and definitely in the minority on this, but... .NEt 2.0 doesn't work for me. I simply will be unable to test your software for an undetermined amount of time, as I run Japanese Windows (XP, 2k and Me). We're only at .NET Framework 1.1, and who knows when MS will see fit to bring us up to 2.0. It'll be the same for other international versions of Windows too.

Just a thought.

BTW I use playlists. My files are only kept as Artist- Song and use ID3 tags. I suggest making the ability to use playlists available for those who use them, and no biggie not to for those who don't.

Since I can't test the software, is this setup to run as a shell replacement? That'd be my preference... I never EVER want to see the Windows desktop in my car (once system is setup and installed)...

xBrady · 05-16-2004, 01:29 AM

Don't mean to bug but, when are you going to make your next release?
Thanks

xBrady · 05-28-2004, 08:19 PM

Uhhh did this project die?

All4Norway · 06-03-2004, 05:19 AM

How bout just making a cellphone like osk.

When you want to write "Happy" you must press 4-4-2-7 ... 7-9-9-9 you get my drift?

Most people now are fast txt'rs so it wouldn't be a big problem...

Christian...

dug1967 · 06-03-2004, 10:45 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by brady

Uhhh did this project die?

I was wondering the same thing lately.... It looks REAL promising, so I hope it hasn't disappeared....

Any update Hybrid?

Bitoholic · 06-05-2004, 10:47 PM

Sorry for the delayed response... I was on vacation for a couple weeks. I got back this past week and have been coding my a$$ off. We have been incorporating all the bug fixes you have reported, wrote a new sound engine so that we are not piggy backed off WMP anymore.

The plan is to have a new build ready for Monday morning. I have also had to write a new MediaLibrary from scratch due to the fact that we are not using WMP's Media Library anymore. It will be an XML database of all your music.

Support for Red Book Audio, MP3-MP1, Ogg, WMA, and WAV will be supported for the new release.

We are focusing on each component being 100% before moving on to the next one. Once the Music Player is done as far as most of you are concerned we will move on to Video Player including DVD. We have our own DVD decoder so you will not be required to install software like WinDVD, PowerDVD, etc.

I am working away, so be patient

Thanks for all the feedback guys, it is much appreciated!

Take care

dug1967 · 06-22-2004, 07:38 AM

I hate to beat a dead horse (well most of the time I hate it).... but I am really starting to feel this a dead project...

Any updates Hybrid???

Just curious, you have some really interesting software and I would very much like to see it continue.

HybridMike · 06-23-2004, 12:19 AM

Hey guys, First I want to thank everyone for all the wonderful feedback to help us get were we are today......
new for this release:
1. completely stand alone, does not piggyback any other software all decoding of mp3's are done by our software.
2. superfast database update times, beats winamp, and Windows media player in 1/3 the time...
3. sonique visualizations have been ported over to our app. we will continue with winamp, wmp plugins in the near future.
4. we also included a mini visualization in the upper right corner that can be used in conjuction with the main visual too.
5. DVD playback, also being decoded by our software, no need for a DVD player codec.
6. Video file playback

Have Fun with it and give us plenty of feedback, we are working really hard at making this the best software for the carPC.

again for MP3Car members you can get your alpha 2 copy at this web address:
http://www.hybrid-mobile.com/mp3car
user name: mp3car
password: user123

My Engineer will be monitoring the forum for bug reports and technical questions starting tomarrow...(he needs the rest tonite)..lol

FoxRunner · 06-23-2004, 12:26 AM

Sweet another interfacer for the carputer...

Im installing now....

Ohh yea 1st reply!

antimatter · 06-23-2004, 12:33 AM

Will it play radio...and ifso what hardware is supported?

HybridMike · 06-23-2004, 12:40 AM

It will support radio, we are in negotiation with a few manufacturers of USB Radios, as we fine tune the player over the next couple weeks, the next step will be an Plugin interface for our CECU, (already in beta testing) this allows you to turn the key on, the pc powers up, turn the key off and the pc hibernates. once pc is off, the power supply to the cpu is disconnected via a relay to eliminate dead batterys if you leave your vehicle parked for long periods of time.. the power supply for our cpu is integrated with the C.E.C.U. as well as a bank of 8 relays and 3 inputs. Plugins will be added reguraly.
Thanks again,
Mike

antimatter · 06-23-2004, 12:53 AM

What other plugins? I know for my system DVD/Video (DivX)/Radio/MP3/Visualizations/Skinnability/GPS (this is a big one)/rear view cam/Voice controlled/TTS are absolutly crucial.

It looks like you have a good solid base and i cant wait to see when you start adding some more goodies