Ewiger Sandkasten

New app: Multipost

2011-08-19T16:47:00.001+08:00

Do you use multiple social network sites and is tired to post the same message on each site time and time?

This app can launch apps for each social network in a batch, so you can just input message one time, then just tap "Send" or "Post" on your favorite social apps.

Note: You need app supporting "share" function for the social network site you use.

search keyword: Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Google Plus, Google +, Linkedin

Releasing develop version of Meridian Revolution:

2011-07-06T17:31:00.002+08:00

http://sites.google.com/site/eternalsandbox/Home/meridian-player/MeridianPlayer.apk

Changes:

Change art behavior in album list, video list, and playQ list
Change track number format to #.
Support pad's external SD card and USB storage
Move "show unrated songs" option to star threshold dialog
Fix album forced low resolution album art in play view bug
Fix video tab or file f/c or ANR bug
Fix bitmap memory leak f/c bug
Remove "video playlist", integrated into playQ.
Remove "audiobook tab", integrated into playQ.
Remove "Rapid Browser", which is a workaround for really old Android and devices.

The most encouraging update for Android Market ever

2010-12-17T17:49:00.000+08:00

These days Android Market has a major update, both in use client and developer console.
I have to say the updates are marvelous and hitting the points.
The promotion space is much better now. I can now put 8 screenshots, linking a video, and have now 4000 characters to describle my app. Well I know no user will read more than 1000 characters, but it's very good for searching and noticing.
Also, the "Recent Changes" is important. When I update an app I always want to know what's new. Forcing users to read Change Note web page is non-sense.
I also like the new Market user client, but you all can see how it's changing, so I won't talk here.
Good job, Google. (and the team from WebOS I guess)

Meridian new widget questionnaires

2010-12-06T10:38:00.002+08:00

We're taking care of new widgets of Meridian.
Please let us know your thought at: http://goo.gl/YKHM2

About lock screen widget of Meridian

2010-11-24T15:39:00.000+08:00

After trying Lock Screen widgets of like Mixzing and PowerAMP, and lock screen apps like WidgetLocker or so, I choose to make a special lock screen widget of Meridian.
I strongly recommend users to install a lock screen app (WidgetLocker Lockscreen is very nice), then put Meridian's normal widget on it. This way works more flawlessly and beautiful.

Difference between Meridian Pro from Market and PayPal

2010-11-01T10:53:00.000+08:00

First of all, buying Meridian Pro from Market or PayPal does not differ in the application features. They are totally identical except the authorizing method. Also, you don't need both of them. One of them is fine.

The differences are:

With a Market auth app you need to keep it installed in the phone, and with a PayPal auth key you need to input it into Meridian main app.
Market auth app is Google account dependent, where PayPal auth key is device dependent.
Thus, if you changed your phone with a PayPal auth key, you need to mail me for a new key.
In the other hand, if you changed your Google account for some reason, you need to rebuy Pro if you're using a Market auth app.
With price $2.99, PayPal's fee is $0.42 and Market's fee is $0.90. More than twice, but since on PayPal I need to pay effort for device changing request, both are fine for me.

As a user I'll suggest you to buy from Market if you can. It's much convenient.
I have also heard PayPal will join Market's payment, maybe it will be the time I totally shift to Market buying.

Stupid F/C bug in 1.2.2

2010-11-01T10:03:00.000+08:00

In Meridian Hermit 1.2.2 there's a major bug, which will make everyone turning data collection off force closes every time.
First of all I want to say I'm not forcing you to enable data collection. If I want to do so I'll just remove the option or doing that secretly.
Okay, so what's the problem? This is the buggy code:

  if (tracker != null) {

    // do tracks...

}

tracker.stop();

If user disable data collection, the tracker will be a null pointer. and thus F/C on a NullPointerException.
Yeah, very stupid bug. It of course need to be this:

  if (tracker != null) {

    // do tracks...

    tracker.stop(); 

}

I apologize for the bug but all test phones I use was turning collection on :p
You know it's hard to develope and test everything by one man blah blah.
Sorry for the inconvenience again, in addition to tens of mails I got and replied X_X

New twitter account for Meridian

2010-10-14T16:45:00.000+08:00

Since the old twitter account is shifted to my private social and using Japanese, here's the new account for Meridian in English:
http://twitter.com/#!/Meridian_Andro

But Google's support really sucks

2010-10-14T10:03:00.000+08:00

The country problem took me ONLY five days to know how to handle, but now there's another problem:

Android Market console says it has payed out some money
Can see nothing in my AdSense account
Contact support again and this time get NOTHING helpful
Nine days ago, by the way
It seems like the support team can't understand my problem at all
I have reported a broken link but get no touch on it
My AdSense account's "payout history" becomes a broken link, for a week
NOW HOW MANY DAYS DO I NEED TO FIND WHERE IS THE ADSENSE CONTACTING FORM?

That's why I didn't want to make Meridian can be installed to SD card

2010-08-24T09:18:00.000+08:00

Well OK, you guys want to install Meridian to SD card without knowleges, so Meridian is now installable to SD.
And for those can't find where the widget is, put Meridian back to your phone and reboot.

Google continues messing up Android Market

2010-07-05T15:14:00.000+08:00

http://www.medieval.it/google-is-censoring-bluetooth-on-android-the-proof/menu-id-66.html

I think this is the point - Meridian requires bluetooth permissions (to play music through them), so it disappears.
My complains are same as theirs. Android Market team really sucks.

New App: Queek Music Shuffler

2010-06-21T22:52:00.002+08:00

Just want to easy and shuffle play your massive lovely songs? Try Queek!
Queek is a great tool for people have lots of songs in their phone, and is tired to index them all the time.
Just play. Auto shuffle, auto skipping songs you don't like that much.
For indexing and play lists, please try Meridian Media Player.

http://market.android.com/details?id=org.sais.queek

Bad news and bad news for Android

2010-06-17T14:27:00.001+08:00

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/android-team-laser-focused-on-the-user-experience-for-next-release/

I wish this article is just an unreal rumor.
There are so many things and issues to fix and so many functions to make, and they decide to fight against their so-called "partners" huh?
Absolutely Google works so bad with cooperations, the Market payment region extending process is fucking slow, my app disappears from Market and I have no some more detailed information of what's happening, Google does not have a support mechanism, I just keep apologizing to my users.
And I'm still stuck with Android's weak multimedia framework, the AdMob component does not show up, the Google Adsense is another US only feature, blah blah.
It was a bright future to me a year ago, but now it's filled with darkness. Android is running toward a wrong direction.
Wish it's not too late to join Apple's side.

Meridian Pioneer is currently invisible on Market for 1.5 and 1.6 devices

2010-06-11T11:13:00.000+08:00

In fact I don't know what's going on, and I don't think it's me messed up something.
I keep the min SDK as 3 and target SDK as 4, they should not act like that.
Google says it's fixed three days ago, but no, it's not.
I'm asking Google and finding some resolution to avoid this, but with no luck yet.
Hope we can overcome this soon.

Android Developers Blog: Android Application Error Reports

2010-05-25T15:45:00.000+08:00

Android Developers Blog: Android Application Error Reports

Yeah I have received the bug reports from users. This is very, very helpful and cool feature. Thank you Google!
But I wonder what devices get this? I thought this is a Froyo feature, but I have seen some reports from Droid. They're not getting Froyo right?
And I also don't have it on my Nexus One running Froyo. There's just one Force Close button there. It's not from the OTA but a 44 MB update.zip, maybe it's the difference?

If there's anyone want to know Meridian Conservative's update frequency

2010-04-27T10:10:00.002+08:00

It's planed to be one update for two month to a quarter.

Flurry seems to be not usable for me

2010-04-19T14:20:00.000+08:00

The region is a mess (Australia 80%? What are you talking about?), the version tag is not working, the device and carrier information is totally wrong, and the help center does not reply any of my mails.
Maybe it's time to throw it out and use Google analytic only.

So people who complain about updating...

2010-04-01T10:32:00.000+08:00

does not read the app's description too.
They just don't know Conservative version is there, huh.
Maybe I'll put a dialog in Pioneer...Oh no, they won't read that either.

Lossless audio support of Meridian

2010-03-29T19:39:00.001+08:00

Thank to avs234 and his work Andless, from 0.15.0 Meridian supports lossless playback including flac, ape, alac, wav, wave pack, and mpc.

Some words to say:

- You can play these files as normal ones, but tags (and thus album arts) won't work because Android does not scan them. Meridian does not have its own tag parsing system.

- flac cues are not supported, because there is an integration problem with current cue system.

Enjoy!

Double version try - Pioneer and Conservative of Meridian

2010-03-24T11:12:00.002+08:00

Today I published a new app on Market called "Meridian Player Conservative", which is essentially Meridian itself, but is more so-called stable (0.13.1 by now), and will update in lower frequency.
"Meridian Player Pioneer" is what "Noble" is, and will go updating in current frequency.
People don't want to be annoyed by lots of update, please use the Conservative version. If you don't care, you don't need to change anything.
Hope this can satisfy each kind of users more.

Why there're only few not-so-good apps with equalizer or extra codec supporting on Android Market

2010-03-18T11:01:00.001+08:00

Android framework has a MediaPlayer class, which will do file recognizing, dispatching, decoding, rendering, and synchronizing for apps.
Most video/music player apps just call this awesome class, and it works as you can see.

However, if you want a equalizer or implementing your own codec, the story is all different.
MediaPlayer class does not support those features, and Android splits Java codes and native C/C++ codes into two parts.
Main functions of MediaPlayer is native code, and bound with the device using special signatures. Apps on Market have no way to change that, and pure Java code is too slow to process such heavy-loading work.

Okay, so some people say you can use NDK.
Yes, you can use NDK to make your own MediaPlayer --- The WHOLE MediaPlayer.
You need to write (or copy) your own code of recognizing, dispatching, decoding, rendering, synchronizing, and all other MediaPlayer efforts. Oh, don't forget to plug in EVERY codec you support, since you can't access Android's default decoder in NDK.

So what's the result? You can try Audio Player WithEQ and yxflash to see what they provide.
Believe me, they pay much effort and have very good tech on these app. But the quality says how this is hard to do.

Meridian won't go that way. Still waiting Android to publish a better solution for this.

Meridian 0.13.0 is released, with new widget and album art fixes

2010-03-16T17:21:00.000+08:00

(Pro) 4x3 widget with album art
Button style settings
Fix customized album art now showing bug
Fix phone start-up f/c bug
App version number shows in preference, about page, and FAQ page on title bar

The new widget looks like below. Also, you can change the button style now (Only two styles so far though). Please do it from preference as you can see.

Meridian 0.12.0 is released

2010-03-05T15:13:00.002+08:00

Change note:

Add insert after current feature
Fix ID3 editing not working bug
Fix media auto scanning not working bug
Fix bug that can't find media files in root folder of sdcard
Fix album not showing bug in genre view
Fix sorting problem in Browser
Fix customized album arts are not shown in album list bug
Fix video zooming wrong when come back from another view
Prevent Nexus One rotating video goes to white bug

Many people complaining about the update frequency (even after dropping to once per week), but well, you can just don't update it if you don't have any problem.
For those going to uninstall I can only say, go ahead. If you really don't like updates, Meridian is bad for you.

[Meridian] "Insert After Current" feature

2010-03-05T10:58:00.001+08:00

After 0.12.0, Meridian supports a feature called "Insert After Current".
It is quite same as inserting into playlist in default Music app, but it uses PlayQ instead.
Basically, it will create a new PlayQ and shift to it automatically. The auto-created PlayQ is named "Now Playing (x)", where x is a sequential number.
However, if you add other songs into this "Now Playing" PlayQ, it will just be added into it, without creating new PlayQs.
Hope you guys will like it.

Meridian Pro Auto-buying is now online

2010-01-27T18:18:00.000+08:00

In past two days I studied about Python and Google App Engine, and now the auto-buying site is working. Wow, what an era.
From now you just need to tap the Upgrade button in MENU, check out with PayPal on your phone, then you'll get an e-mail with authorization information.
If you meet any problem with auto buying please let me know.

About Meridian's Pro version

2010-01-26T10:14:00.000+08:00

Meridian has a beta-version Pro version now - you can buy it here.
There's some unavoidable reasons for this bad type selling:

I'm a Taiwanese, and Google Market does not offer selling paid apps in Taiwan yet. I'll complain Google is soooooo slow on this, but the only thing I can do is to wait.
I'm now generating keys manually, and since I can not use full time on Meridian, massive orders will knock me out.
The "Upgrade" button in Meridian is planned to be enabled if one of above two problem is solved. I'm asking about someone to make a PayPal-paying webpage that can automatically generate keys, but no response yet.
Pro version by now does not have many features. At least I want to implement PlayQ picking and another music playing view.
By the way, I plan to sell Pro version with $2.99.

I'm sorry for the inconvinience and know it's a hard competition on Android's local file multimedia player. I beg you for the patience, please wait with us.

Thank you!

All about Meridian's data collection

2010-01-26T10:02:00.008+08:00

Since version 0.7.1 of Meridian Noble, free version of Meridian starts to collect anonymous user data for developing.
The mechanism is using Flurry and Google Analytics, which will collect data for:

Meridian Errors. This is most important, as with this we can get information for debugging without requesting users to install Log Collections or so on.
The actions of Meridian, like one video play, browsing using which tab, headset button pressed, etc. This is used for counting what mechanism is more used, so we'll do more effort on those features.
Your device model, carrier, and firmware version. This is used for device-dependant features priority, for example, if there's still a lot of people using Android 1.5 devices, Meridian will keep supporting 1.5, instead of going to a minimum 1.6 release.

And Meridian will NOT collect the informations like:

Meridian does NOT collect what's in your phone or SD card. We will be reported you played a music or video, from artist or album, but we don't know what it actually is.
Meridian does NOT collect anything related to your Google account, like your account name, mail, calendar, everything.
Meridian does NOT collect your location information, other than which country you live (using IP information). At the very first 0.7.0 it did, but now removed.
Meridian does NOT collect your call information. It only knows the phone is hooked or not.
Meridian does NOT collect your phone number, messages, or contacts.

This data collection can be disabled in Pro version. For Pro version info please check here.

Auto Starting Bug

2010-01-12T15:02:00.000+08:00

This is a confirmed major bug, but I still can't find the reason.
I have gotten several different reports of auto starting (Disconnecting headset, disconnecting bluetooth, end of a call, etc.), but all of them do not appear when I do it in my office :(
In fact myself sometimes meet the auto-start, but I have totally no idea since I'm not taking log yet. Hope the logged version now will produce more hint.
...First of all, I can only wait it occurs. Grrr.

Why some BlueTooth headset butons does not work in Meridian Modified

2009-12-16T10:35:00.002+08:00

09/12/17

I'm responded from HTC that this is because some devices, like HTC Magic or Hero in Android 1.6 or older, uses HTC's own bluetooth driver.
As a result, it's not intercepting signals, but it just can't be used by thrid-party apps.
This will be fixed after Android 2.0 (As we know Android fully supports bluetooth from 2.0), so let's wait.

Guys, I know you really want an Equalizer

2009-12-03T15:42:00.002+08:00

But an equalizer can't be done in the Java layer and Android does not support that feature yet.
So until Android does it, I can't do anything for it.

0.1.4 release

2009-11-16T15:00:00.002+08:00

I'm now going to do another work so I only shortly say it's a fixing update.
Oh ya, you can buy pre-release Pro version here: http://sites.google.com/site/eternalsandbox/update-to-professional-version

About 0.1.0

2009-11-12T22:54:00.000+08:00

Okay I never know Device ID is a HEX sequence rather than DEC one.
I'll fix it tomorrow, Meridian will keep unpublished for about half a day.

About the Pro version

2009-11-11T11:04:00.000+08:00

I'm working on it, but as I'm not a U.S. nor U.K. citizen, I can't sell it on Market.
By now the plan is to sell on SlideME and AndAppStore, they offers Paypal payment.
Also, I'm not going to move many current features to Pro version only, but it also means Pro version won't have many extra features by now.
It does not make sense, maybe I'll think more about the Pro version's value.

About Moto Droid support

2009-11-11T11:00:00.000+08:00

Okay, I don't have a Droid (and it's not sold here), and for some unknown reason my emulator keeps crashing, so I don't know how to implement Meridian to Droid or other WVGA devices now.

Meridian 16.3, and some message

2009-10-30T15:23:00.000+08:00

16.3 is out, but I have no time to write documentation 'cause there's another work coming...
Since Google is so sloooooooooooooooow for money issues in countries outside US and UK, Meridian can't make money, and something can't make money can't make the boss happy.
Google Google, can I see the money plan for Taiwan when I'm alive?

Vocation Time

2009-10-21T16:18:00.000+08:00

I'll take a trip to Japan for one week, and no response of Meridian will be applied in the week.

About ID3 Editing

2009-10-21T10:46:00.001+08:00

Edit (10/29):
I was wrong, there's really a bug with gerne writing. Not along under I write.
This bug will be fixed at version 16.1, sorry for the bug and misdirected message.
==
In several days I get many report of editing ID3 tag will force close.
This is a bug, or maybe I should say it's a not well ported code.
Meridian now uses myid3 for tag editing, and it's written for PC Java.
I modified something to port it to Android, but not optimized it. So it eats lots of memory when saving a big tag, usually with an albumart picture. Phones have small memory, so it crashes.
I'm looking for native codes for this, but NDK does not support C++ standard library, so it's quite hard to find one. I'm not going to write from zero, so I need to wait pure C library, C++ support for NDK, or modify myID3.
Anyway, time is needed. I'm sorry for the inconvinience, please wait patiently for this.

Meridian Player Evolve 15.0 is now released

2009-10-19T12:00:00.000+08:00

New Features

Support QVGA
Video view orientation changing gesture (URU for portrait, URD for landscape)
Disable trackball volume adjustment when turning off gestures

Bugs fixed

f/c when deleting files with apostrophe in name or path
f/c on Donut 1.6 ROM while modifying SD card
Delete wrong files when deleting while playing

Update details

Support QVGA
New small-screen devices like HTC Tattoo will be able to get Meridian from Market directly by now.

Video view orientation changing gesture (URU for portrait, URD for landscape)
You can now use gestures to fix video orientation, note that this is a permanently changing, so if you want to change it back to automatic, you need to the open preference page
Slide up-right-up for portrait, up-right-down for landscape.

Disable trackball volume adjustment when turning off gestures
This can avoid unstable volume changing.

Meridian Player Evolve 14.0 is now released

2009-10-15T12:19:00.000+08:00

New Features

Indivisual tab display ON/OFF
Seperately decide screen orientaion of all three views
AlbumArts can now be saved in /sdcard/AlbumArt folder, with filename of .jpg
Simplyfied Chinese support thank to 剜刀

Bugs fixed

f/c when queue is empty

Update details

Indivisual tab display ON/OFF
In MENU -> Preferences -> General, now there's an option "Tabs".
You can choose only tabs you want to show now. If you uncheck every thing, a single browser tab will remain.

Seperately decide screen orientaion of all three views
Screen orientation selection, including automatic rotating, is now seperated into Browser/Video/Music catalogies, so you can decide them independently now.

AlbumArts can now be saved in /sdcard/AlbumArt folder, with filename of .jpg
If you want to use local files for the albumarts, now you have another choice.
For example, If I want to customize album No Border 's art, I will:

Save the art file as a jpg file.
Name it No Border.jpg . Notice the file name (including the .jpg) is case sensitive, and you can't use special characters that can't appear in the filename.
Create a directory in sdcard named AlbumArt, put the file in it. The folder name is also case sensitive.
I'm done.

By the way, you can use unknown.jpg for unknown albums, but it will only be used in playing view, not in album list view.

It's middle of the October...

2009-10-15T09:50:00.002+08:00

Yes I've heard your f/c issues on Donut 1.6, but my HTC Magic does not have the ROM update yet :(
I think it will come with the Hero ROM update, I'm waiting for the update, so please wait patiently.

Some features

2009-02-18T18:17:00.002+08:00

Last weeks I was working for deafult features, but today I put a ringtone feature on Meridian Player.
You say the ringtone feature is a crap? No no no, it's because you can't edit it.
With Meridian, you can long press on a song, then launch Ringdroid directly. I like thie feature so much.

It's a decision

2009-02-09T15:07:00.003+08:00

If I need to make some features to let people like Mikkon or Shabbaworm know it's just you don't know how to use the app, or may I think that I don't need to serve people without a brain? Hmm.

Oh yes, the playlist function is moving. By now it's only for music play, but I think I'll extend it for videos.

Meridian Player - Music Playback

2009-02-05T15:12:00.003+08:00

Yap, it's copied and modified from the Android Source Code, so it's pretty similar.
Also, I decide to build media database by myself and the mp3 part is built.
Why don't use the same database (using ContentResolver) ? Simple. I don't know how to do :(
I hope it won't be problems while making playlists and sync with other apps...

OK, here is the scale of Music Player

2009-02-02T11:29:00.003+08:00

365.9KB (source code only)
OK. I need time, but it's OK.
The major problem is license. Of course I'll use codes that opened, but some files it just...is that.
I think simply copy that file into my project will force Meridian Player also licensed under Apache. So I need to find some ways to avoid that...

Progress: Playback Activity (The starting point)

Here is part of the MP3 support of Meridian Player

2009-01-22T12:07:00.002+08:00

The next move of Meridian Player

2009-01-21T10:32:00.003+08:00

Yes, it will be rename to Meridian Player since I'll make it be able to play music!
Once I did something I'll write it here.
==
Codec supports? Ugrrr...maybe another day.

Yeah, Meridian Video Player does not update for a while

2009-01-12T10:20:00.003+08:00

Okay, I can say it's because I'm trying to make the player be able to play other file formats like mpeg2, wmv9, flv/vp6 etc.
But it's very hard...I have no idea when I can reach. It's too hard to be free :(
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Native Faith - MP4 header parser

2009-01-06T09:53:00.001+08:00

700ms-930ms -> 350ms-550ms (depending on garbage thread)

Well, native methods are faster, but not as fast as I've thought about. (I wished for a like 10-times speeding up)
I'm very worry about if ffmpeg can be run on G1......

The HDD is about to back

2008-12-24T09:54:00.001+08:00

Thank god

I'm very very sorry to say that

2008-12-18T14:52:00.002+08:00

My HDD for work is dead and the backup of Meridian is Ver 0.2.0.

I sweared I'll never buy a Seagate HDD again when I'm in the university, then now my office gave me a Seagate HDD and it just crush without any warning. How cute.
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Details for 0.5.1 updates - Meridian Video Player

2008-12-16T15:45:00.002+08:00

Many users say they get pausing and pausing, so I restrict the flipping to 165 degrees. God bless.
And an auto-detection of Rapid Browser is applied.
Finally, you can now brwose ALL video files in your SD card with an option. No need to know exactly where the file is.

Ahh, Android Market does not have auto-update checking

2008-12-15T11:40:00.002+08:00

That really sucks...I have no idea how many users are not noticed for the powerful updates.
But to insert auto-update checking makes no sense, too. It only makes the player slow and proceed more Force Close.
I think it's not difficult to do this for Google, god bless we can have one as soon as possible.
==
The versioning can stop me for update but can't help my users' updating lol

Screenshots for Meridian Video Player 0.5.0

2008-12-11T17:47:00.004+08:00

Main browser in emulator, portrait

Preference Settings, Landscape

Real Playback on G1

Gesture Control - No need of buttons

Well if you like buttons, here you are

Seeking Gestures, Seek Bar

Details for 0.5.0 updates - Meridian Video Player

2008-12-11T09:47:00.004+08:00

Update details:

Enhanced resuming point
Whatever how you leave the playing playback, the player will resume automatically so you can just continue watching.
Even if you exit the player normally, watching the same video to last played will resume, too.
Notice: If the player changes its situation while video is paused, the video will be played automatically. I tried to prevent this but yet not find the way.

Preference settings
Now you can customize the player.

Rapid Browser
Playability guessing and extra information are good, but it takes time especially if you put many files in one directory.

Exit on Finishing
When a video is finished or can't be played, you'll be bringed to browser screen automatically.

Automatically Rotate
Sensor-based rotating. Of course auto-resume when you change the direction.
You may turn this off, and use fixed orientation. Beside Landscape and Portrait, I also apply the "Dual" mode, which is Portrait for browser but Landscape for playback.

Gestures ON/OFF
Sometimes a single tap pause is annoying. You can turn it off here.

Flipping
When you put the device on a table faced-down, the video will pause automatically. Turn it face down and put it into a pocket does not need any tap.
Restart the video by yourself anytime.

Improved Layout & Appearance
Recently played items are now built as tabs so there's more space for the browser.
Icons are completed.

The project page is at
http://sites.google.com/site/eternalsandbox/Home/meridian-video-player

Big trap in "downgrade"

2008-12-06T14:01:00.003+08:00

Using "App Installer", I tried to uninstall my app (v0.4) for replacing a older version (v0.3), then Android says it's an "incompatible update".
When I turn to adb, it says "Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]".
The worst thing is, now I want to go back to v0.4, but I still got these messages.
I can't find any way and there's Factory Reset. It works of course. SUCK.

I guessing it's because App Installer uses -k for uninstalling...

Meridian Video Player updates to Ver 0.4.0

2008-12-04T17:07:00.001+08:00

I've put it on the Android Market, or you can access its page below:

http://sites.google.com/site/eternalsandbox/Home/meridian-video-player

Update details:

Mute
Gesture: Up-Down
Set mute ON/OFF. G1 does not supply a mute button, so I make one. Also in the control menu.
When the playback is over, mute will automatically set as OFF.

Playable not playable guessing display
I still don't know what actually G1 can play, but at least I can guess.

New seeking gesture
Well this one comes from Cinema(Will it updates?). This method is good for delicate seeking. You can use the seekbar for big jumping.

Menu control panel
Well I know people don't read gesture (ry

File delete
Only deletion now.

Better seekbar
The previous one is just nonsense. Okay, okay, I know this one does not make much sense either, but at least is better.
I'm not a designer at all.

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BTW, I know many people don't read tutorial, but it's sad to get one star just because the user does not read tutorial :<

(Stick) Meridian Pro Version FAQ and Feature

1999-04-27T12:10:00.000+08:00

First of all, you can now buy Pro version (professional version) by tapping the Upgrade button in Meridian's MENU. (Don't do it by donate please, donate is just donate)
Some FAQ and Features are contained below.

FAQ

Q: Why don't you just sell it on Google Android Market?

A: Because the Market does not support my country - Taiwan - to sell (or even buy) paid app yet. I really want to do it now, but Google quite sucks on dealing this.

Q: What if I replace my phone? Do I need to rebuy serial key?

A: No, you don't. However, the key is bound by the phone, so you need a new key for your new phone. Foward your PayPal recipient to urakagi@gmail, and I'll give you a new one at free.
This will get simple if Google allows me to sell on Market :/

Q: I need to use Pioneer version for the features?

A: Not all of them, but basically YES.

Features

.lrc file support
For a song named "song.mp3" (or other extensions), name the lrc file "song.lrc" and put it in the same folder, or /sdcard/Lyric. The lyric will show up concurrently.

Search and Download album art

Steps and screen shots are here

4x3 and 4x4 widget with album art
It looks like this:

PlayQ picker

You can select multiple media files by just tapping them once. Do this by long tapping on your PlayQ, then choose "Picker".
You can watch a demo video here.

Audio book tab

Please create an "AudioBook" directory under sdcard (or if you open AudioBook tab it will create one), and put your files in a sub-directory named as the book. Then you will find the directory in AudioBook tab, tap it will play the audiobook.

Sleep timer

When playing music, you can set a timer to auto stop music in specified time.

Cue music file playing support

Please use Browser tab to tap on the cue file. Also please make sure the path described is correct.

Subtitle adjustment

You can adjust the text size and color of subtitles in the Preference page.

Brightness adjusting gesture

Long tap video until you see "Gesture Holding Mode" in the top-right corner, that slide up for lighten, down for darken.