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Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry




Haemish Graham of electricpocket.com extends the following offer to the BlackBerry community...

We would like to invite you to try the beta release of FlipSide, an MP3
player for BlackBerry from Electric Pocket. To
install FlipSide simply point your BlackBerry here (the installer is
about 70k).

http://flipside.fm/flipside.jad


Here are five handy hints.
1. Use the trackball to swoosh through your albums and bring up the
list of tracks.
2. Press space to toggle between pause and play.
3. Hold down space to skip to the next track.
4. Hold down the trackball to add an album or track to the playlist.
5. Press a letter to jump to and cycle through artists starting with
that letter.


I look forward to hearing from you in the group.
If you want to report a bugs or suggest features for FlipSide reply to this thread. The top posters will receive a free copy of FlipSide once the trial is over.

There's also a Yahoo support group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlipSideBlackBerry/
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Just downloaded this beast!! So far so good. Excellent navigation as well as simple to use. My favorite part so far has to be the find album artwork! And I love that its slightly animated. Makes all the difference especially in a music player.

I'll probably make another post as soon as I discover more but I'm immediately excited by this app.!~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Downloading!

There seems to be a lag between "next" and "previous"...and for whatever other reason, it skips to another song somewhere else inthe play list other than the next song inline on the album I choose.

Other than that, this is amazing! Seemless integration when I go "up" to the next song on the album and click that one, immediate stop of the current song and play of the one I choose.

I might just not be seeing it, but is there a way to "group" the songs---like i have 5 different birtney spears songs...can I group them into one thing?

I love the app though....alot like the iPhone app, and I love that one! The "animation" is great....Lovin the black background too!

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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Thanks. Just downloaded, will put some MP3's on the BB when I get home from work.



EDIT: I did have one MP3 on the curve. I like the fact that it is minimalistic on the screen while playing. I myself don't find a need for those graphical thingys while music is playing. Pardon my elaborate technical speak of graphical thingys, can't remember what they are called at the moment. I'm getting old.

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Thumbs up Free Mp3 player - Flipside

Check it out guys, it looks very nice!
http://flipside.fm/flipside.jad

Handy tips:
- Use the trackball to swoosh through your albums and bring up the list of tracks.
- Press space to toggle between pause and play.
- Hold down space to skip to the next track.
- Hold down the trackball to add an album or track to the playlist.
- Press a letter to jump to and cycle through artists starting with that letter

Last edited by cubus; 11-09-2007 at 11:04 AM.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

There seems to be a lag between "next" and "previous"...and for whatever other reason, it skips to another song somewhere else inthe play list other than the next song inline on the album I choose.
Have a look in the menu and make sure that "Shuffle" is not selected.


I might just not be seeing it, but is there a way to "group" the songs---like i have 5 different birtney spears songs...can I group them into one thing?
FlipSide will read any tags in your music and organise it appropriately. If your music does not have tags we make a guess based on the directory it is in. Try putting all your Britney tracks in the same directory.

Alternatively add them to the playlist. To add a track to the playlist navigate to it and hold the trackball down. The playlist is the last album on the far rights, there is a menu item to swoosh to it.

Haemish
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Re: Free Mp3 player - Flipside

http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com...lackberry.html

Looking forward to some user reviews

Last edited by cliffr39; 11-09-2007 at 11:41 AM.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Very nice app. I didn't think I would be putting music on my Berry, but I'm reconsidering!!

EDIT: How hard would it be to add a "find lyrics" option?
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

very nice looking app!

I don't see a "show playlist" or a "clear playlist" command in my menu. Can you tell me what these do and how to get them? Thanks.

Last edited by cyberspastic; 11-09-2007 at 11:39 AM. Reason: added question
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Downloading now...will post back

Edit: After playing with this for only 5 minutes I love it. Very nice. Very similar to the way the iphone MP3 player works.

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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Excellent application. I have only been playing with it for about 20 mins or so and I have just one complaint so far. It finds my mp3 ringtones and makes them a part of the playlist as well. If there is way to select what folders to include or even just exclude it would be great.
The find biography feature, though not a make it or break it item in a music player is a nice little bonus.
Electronic seems to have done their homework on this application.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~ thanks nice app I,ll post back after I get done Downloading
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Why is an MP3 application trying to access my phone logs?
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

I just downloaded this app... so far I'm liking the display and animations! Will report back when I've played with it for a while.

I'm not finding any artwork, which I am sure is b/c my songs have been converted to MP3s and must have lost the tag in the process. Which leads me to ask - how are people putting music on their BB, that enables them to keep the artwork info?
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The find art function seems to work well.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Nice application but I still don't find useful ways of navigation like in MP3 players.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Works excellently besides that one little annoyance posted above about not being able to select which folders are scanned for music.

~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~
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Re: Free Mp3 player - Flipside

~via BB
The find art feature is not consistent and requires that the user refresh the music list to find new album art.
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Re: Free Mp3 player - Flipside

Wow its damn cool!!! Looks like a mac but its not free. ~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

is this for certain models only? ie 88xx, 81xx, 83xx. I saw the word "trackball", so I guess my 8700 isn't compatible, maybe?
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

This is definitely gonna be a great app for people that use their BB as their mp3 player. The graphics are awesome and I'm finding it very easy to use thus far.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Wow! Great job on this app! I love the cover art just roll the track ball to change ablums
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Re: Free Mp3 player - Flipside

It's not free? I just had a chance to turn on for a second and then had to take the memory card out.
Sorry if I made a mistake posting it as free. :-(
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

for some reason it only found 1 song on my SD card and I have about 20 songs on there. Other then that it works great.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

~via BB (wap.pinstack.com)~

I had given it a try and seamless integration indeed. I would suggest scrolling down the trackball brings up the controls and scroll up slides down the controls just like the mac dock.

Searching for music is pretty fast but it would be good if I can rename and create more than 1 playlist.

Should inculde a pop up notification if searching for an artwork failed/zero results.

Include a brief user guide maybe?

To make adding playlist simplier, perhaps can add a file explorer so that users can browse thru directories and import the desired folder because if the media card contains tons of music and automatic search during initial launch may cause a lag if the device has some other apps running in the background.

It's a very good start by the way and I believe all of us are gonna love it. Good job!
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Originally Posted by shynjpoet View Post
for some reason it only found 1 song on my SD card and I have about 20 songs on there. Other then that it works great.
Do you have your music in a different location on the memory card from the default Blackberry\Music?
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Not bad on the Pearl. Nice to have one app for local music and a seperate one for my playlists (nuTsie).
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

It looks excellent, much smoother and better looking than the mediaplayer from dollars5.
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What will the cost be?

Last edited by beamolite; 11-09-2007 at 01:41 PM. Reason: Automerged.
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

Originally Posted by quiche View Post
EDIT: How hard would it be to add a "find lyrics" option?
We are working with partners to provide services like this. Currently it is limited to "Artist Biography" but there are more things in the pipeline.

Haemish
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Re: Beta testers Wanted: FlipSide MP3 Player for BlackBerry

volume seems lower than other players.
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