[KeyLoveMobile]

There also seems to be a memory leak in xPlayer when streaming, my device runs out of free memory after about 20m of streaming.

[Earthdog]

Since I must be missing compatibilty on thier website. Does XPlayer support the Bold?

Never mind I found the answer on the Download Page...

[SHAPE]

TinCanFury, what do you mean by a rating system? To rate radio stations? Currently xPlayer doesn't support that, but I'll forward your request to the tech team.

[SHAPE]

KeyLoveMobile, thanks for your reports, I've forwarded them to the tech team and will inform you about the results.

[KeyLoveMobile]

Originally Posted by KeyLoveMobile

There also seems to be a memory leak in xPlayer when streaming, my device runs out of free memory after about 20m of streaming.

This memory leak (or whatever) caused me no end of trouble, took me over a day to fix up my mobile. The symptom of the leak are a nearly-constant hourglass, very poor responsiveness and constant network traffic. I was not able to get back to xPlayer to stop the stream before running out of patience and rebooting the device.

After the device rebooted, there was constant network traffic, both send and receive. Initially the device was still responsive, but after a short while of this (15m) the hourglass returned. A hard reboot (battery pull) did not resolve the problem.

I tried re-installing the OS through DM. Constant traffic after restart.
I tried wiping the device (keeping apps) through the Security menu to increase available memory. Constant traffic after restart.
I tried wiping the device (deleting apps). Constant traffic after restart.
Finally, I had my BES admin issue a remote wipe command. That solved the problem.

So then I tried to reproduce the problem. My device was virgin, freshly scrubbed, with only BIS enabled and xPlayer installed. I had experimenting at the time wtih WiFi to cellular handoff when the problem occurred, so I started a stream and swapped it back and forth a few times. That did not recreate the problem.

Just trying to use it normally, I ended up closing xPlayer once immediately after stopping the stream, while there was still traffic. That seemed to cause the constant traffic problem. I rebooted the device, but the constant traffic was still there upon reboot. I uninstalled xPlayer, rebooted, and the traffic went away. It seemed like the same problem, although it didn't feel exactly right (no better explanation).

So my theory is that there is a component of xPlayer that sometimes stays resident even if the client is shutdown or the device is rebooted or that a request is issued by xPlayer to the OS that remains persistent that generates the network traffic.

I'll try to experiment a little more, but I can't break my device for too long, I do need it for work.

[SHAPE]

Thank you KeyLoveMobile, I've reported about the issue to our developers.

[KeyLoveMobile]

I've noticed when streaming that sometimes the music will stop, but when you look at the player, it is not buffering, and the elapsed time is still incrementing.

Once or twice the music did resume, but in general, I had to stop the stream, exit the player, then launch the player and stream again. Simply stopping the stream and and reconnecting would hang somehow.

[SHAPE]

ok, thanks, we'll be investigating.

[KeyLoveMobile]

Hi SHAPE, me again. I love your responsiveness!

I've noticed the player stops playing (and sometimes exits entirely) when my BB auto-locks due to the Security Timeout. I'm on a BES and the timeout is required to be enabled.

[SHAPE]

Hello, we haven't encountered such issue. Please contact your System Administrator about it.

[TinCanFury]

Originally Posted by SHAPE

TinCanFury, what do you mean by a rating system? To rate radio stations? Currently xPlayer doesn't support that, but I'll forward your request to the tech team.

No to rate music tracks locally. I like to download lots of free released tracks from the music blogs, label websites, etc. throw them all on my media device and listen (or winamp/amarok). when I used to have an ipod I could use the star rating system to note which tracks I enjoyed and which I didn't. now I use the notepad on the blackberry to write down the name of tracks/artists I like, but if I could do something similar directly in the media player that would be a whole lot easier.

in theory it could also be used in a smart shuffling algorithm.

[TinCanFury]

I can't connect to
mms://media-wm.cac.washington.edu/kexp-live
http://kexp-mp3-1.cac.washington.edu:8000
http://www.live365.com/play/293353?from=pls&bitrate=256
for streaming

[pshute]

Just a couple of requests for future versions, I've probably already posted them:
- Search for a track to add, e.g. enter a string and display all songs with that string in the title. This is to save time scrolling through albums. Or a live search like the one in the Blackberry Browser app's bookmarks would be good.
- End bookmark. The bookmark feature is great if you don't want to hear the first part of a track. The same kind of thing so it knows where to stop as well would be really useful.
- Track notes in playlists. The track titles and file names don't always tell you what you need to know, sometimes I'd like to add a short note about one (and have it displayed it in the list).

[pshute]

And a couple of bugs:
- When saving a bookmark, I suspect it can only remember a whole number of seconds. I often find that my bookmarks are a tiny bit different to the point the recording was at when I saved them.
- Bookmarks are ignored if the player proceeds automatically to the next track, or if I press N during a track to jump to the next track. They only work if I start a track manually.
- If I load a playlist, then make a modification and go to save it, I have to type in the playlist name to update the original one. I think the default name should be the one that was most recently loaded, unless the list was cleared.

[SHAPE]

Thank you for your reports.
Our tech team will consider them in future updates.

[JacenSolo6986]

I'm using a BlueAnt Z9i and I know it doesn't have A2DP but I was told that xPlayer would still send audio through bluetooth. when I select bluetooth as the output ("bluetooth" not "bluetooth A2DP") all I hear is static through my headset. Is there a way to get music through my Z9i?