Time Baby V12b - MP3 Player

[Art]

Time Baby V12b - MP3 Player

Hi Guys,
This is Time Baby V12 release... or a preview release really,
since there is still much to be done in the V12 Mp3 Player series.

I have released this version a little early due to the fact that it
already provides a better alternative to runing Time Baby under iRshell
to play mp3 playlists to use Time Baby functions and hear music at the same time.
Use of the Mp3 player causes Time Baby to clock the PSP at 333/333 Mhz,
as does the Heart Rate Monitor. Otherwise the CPU is still 133/146 Mhz.



The selected track in the middle is highlighted. It didn't turn out in the screenshot.

TODO for V12 series:
As I said, there is still much work for this series.
Some text will be replaced by graphics, and some border graphics will be added,
The playlist currently operates in reverse (last song selected is first played),
USB functions will be implemented, and the program will not launch from iRshell,
Headphone remote control functionality may be added, as well as ffwd & rewind,
User playlists might be saved to Memory Stick, CPU may be able to run slower.
Use of the Mp3 browser currently pauses the Solar monitor and Heart rate monitor.

This is not supposed to provide an alternative to the mp3 players out there,
just an alternative to running Time Baby under iRshell to run playlists.

FAQ:
Q: Does Time Baby run on the PSP Slim and Lite?
A: No.

Q: Will Time Baby ever run on the PSP Slim and Lite?
A: Not because of any action taken by me.

Q: How much sleep do you lose over this?
A: None.

Donate a 32Mb Memory Stick and see your name appear in the greetings intro screen!
Thanks to Slasher for the heads up on the mp3 player source

Download from Rapidshare:
http://rapidshare.com/files/95398327..._V12b.zip.html

Cheers, Art.

[explosions]

How badly do you want a 32MB memorystick? lol...

[Odd_Sam]

Apparently he needs a crap load of them...

[bhunter]

Why would you need a crap load of them? Hehehe a rack with Raided 32Meg cards

[Art]

Because I use them to store various restore points while programming
(eboot.PBP and all source on a 32Mb Stick),
Then when I find a bug, I trace it back by running each version of the program
leading up to where I found the bug, and I have the source on the same MS.

I forgot to document the controls.
Circle starts the Mp3 file browser, and overclocks the PSP to 333MHz for the rest of the program session.
Then in the browser, CROSS will exit the browser and play the selected track.
SQUARE will add to the playlist until you press CROSS to exit the browser.
TRIANGLE will stop, or skip to next playlist track.

Pressing CIRCLE to enter the browser clears the current playlist,
but the current track is allowed to finish.
Art.

[Insert_Witty_Name]

Set yourself up a subversion account on http://www.assembla.com/

[TheSpiral]

Hmm, I'm finding 32 MB sticks for the same price as 2 GB sticks... That's so odd....

[maxexcloo]

Originally Posted by TheSpiral

Hmm, I'm finding 32 MB sticks for the same price as 2 GB sticks... That's so odd....

What are you suggesting?

Anyway great job Art

[nicodemus82]

cheers mate, will try it out in a bit

[Art]

Thanks, guys.
I'm serious about improving this, although it is not the most user friendly,
It should show some potential.
I always thought that iRshell was a ME driven mp3 player, but that's not the
case. It does chew CPU resources.

What are you suggesting?

That is true, I also purchase the odd MS from secondhand shops, some people
offer low capacity Memory Sticks on eBay for quite outrageous prices.
I wouldn't pay more than $10 AU on principal. I last paid $8 for a 512Mb Sandisk
from a pawnbroker. That is much more fair when you consider the price of new 4-8Gb Sticks.

[infinity888]

FAQ:
Q: Does Time Baby run on the PSP Slim and Lite?
A: No.

Q: Will Time Baby ever run on the PSP Slim and Lite?
A: Not because of any action taken by me.

Q: How much sleep do you lose over this?
A: None.

lol classic, and fine with me. I'm not going to rush out a buy a shiny new psp untill mine breaks. And even then i might just pick up one of the cheaper unsold fats still on the shelfs. And thanks Art in my book you are keeping the 1.50 kernel alive. Intentionaly or not, I dont care. Altho i would tell you that you should give cfw 3.52-4 a try. IMHO its the greatest cfw for older heaver psp's lol and still fully suports 1.50 kernel and so far i havent found a game that it wont play. I allso have a ms mostly dedicated to your releses time baby, road dog, and Audio Mechanica works flawlessly

[Art]

Good to hear.
I should end up with both models, but still prefer fat as a programmer.

The problems with later CFW over the version I have is autoboot program set in
recovery doesn't work, and the sleep bug. I think I could upgrade to a later 3.03OE
(C or something) where formatting with the PSP creates the ISO directory.
that the PSP won't start without... even if there's no ISOs in there.

[infinity888]

Not trying to sell you on a cfw but... 3.52-4m33 is what im useing and the sleep bug is not in this cfw at all and never was. It didnt rear its ugly head till 3.71m33. And I just put the contents of my time baby folder in /psp/game/boot and turned on the auto boot option in recovery and set my game folder to 1.50 kernel restarted my psp and was greeted by time baby before the sce logo even appeard. pretty nifty as this is the first time i ever tried that option. Any way just letting you know that 3.52m33 is the last cfw that fully supports 1.50 kernal 100% and atleast for me the auto boot function is not broken. I mostly say this because when 3.52m33 came out i never updated to it becouse i was leary of m33 i was dedicated to dax so i stayed on 3.40oe forever untill i found out m33 was dax then i upgraded and tottlay loved the new features. But when slim and light came out so did 3.60 and support for 1.50 kernel was lost and never came back, exept for dax's 1.50 addon but it has its problems. So i have stayed at 3.52m33

cheers

[Art]

Does Time Baby wake the PSP from standby or suspend when the START or SELECT button is
used to turn off the PSP until the alarm time?

[infinity888]

Originally Posted by Art

Does Time Baby wake the PSP from standby or suspend when the START or SELECT button is
used to turn off the PSP until the alarm time?

yes works 100% very good homebrew. That is actually the way i use time baby most i can set the alarm and push the start button then hours will go by my psp will wake up and sound the time then alarm. all the while it has used very very little battery power

[Art]

Thanks, I will try it then. It's not like it can't be reversed
Just too lazy,, have my head down a lot. Never even used Pandora yet.

[infinity888]

do you have a pandora jigkick battery and magic memory stick? if you do then id pop it in and back up my nand befor doing any thing. that will 1 make sure your pandora works and 2 make it to were if you dont like the new cfw you can go back to what you had with out reinstalling the old cfw

[Art]

Doesn't matter, I kept the 3.03 OE backed up.
For a one off, it would be easier to do it the old way, and use Pandora if I get into trouble.

Have found a bug that I will address.
There are a few mp3s in a collection that
appear at the bottom of the list out of alphabetic order that crash the
program if they are used in a playlist, but not if the track is played by itself.
I don't yet know what makes them different, but Irshell lists them correctly.
I'll have to find out.

[infinity888]

thanks for the heads up but i am trying to get tbv12 to play an mp3 but i cant is there a folder i need to make to put the mp3's or were does it look for them at?

[ab88]

Well not posting in relevance to the program but I'm just to advice you that I also think 3.52-4 is the best firmware if what you are looking for is a bug free smooth experience.
I always liked 3.03 OE-C but found the broken autoboot to limit the possibilities. At one time I updated to 3.7x but found the sleep bug rather annoying when playing UMD's and Homebrew. The solution would have been to not install the kernel addon of course, but then what advantage would it be to have a phat PSP?
So I went back to 3.52-4 and have never missed any of the newer 'features', and probably would not update if it wasn't for Crisis Core, and GOW coming out soon 0_o
Just wanted to throw it out there that some people still might prefer older CFW for their stability ;]

[infinity888]

Originally Posted by ab88

So I went back to 3.52-4 and have never missed any of the newer 'features', and probably would not update if it wasn't for Crisis Core, and GOW coming out soon 0_o

heres a question if i buy cc or gow and rip it to iso does the psp still do fw verion checks befor playing the game

Now back on topic time baby still wont play mp3's for me i added a mp3 to the main dir that time baby is in and a made a folder in there called mp3 and music and i have mp3's in my main music folder in my psp. all i get when i push circle is this
and the only way to get out of it is when i push circle agian and that crashes the unit

[Art]

It should be looking in ms0:PSP/MUSIC/ where the XMB looks.
I've found a few bugs, but can't explain that one.
Do you have more than 990 mp3s? How many?

I don't know what firmware restrictions (if any) the irshell mp3 player has,
but I'd still expect the browser to work.

[infinity888]

Oh ok, heres the thing my psp's xmb looks here ms0:MUSIC/
the music folder is in the root of the mem stick. I formated my mem stick with my psp and thats were it made the folder. The xmb and other homebrews seem to find them. Do you think you could plz make the app look there to or add a config were we can tell it were to look? thanks

[Art]

That's funny, must be a later firmware thing.
Funny because one of the Mem Sticks I recieved, I noticed had it's MUSIC folder there.

Yes, easy fix, if there's no files where I look , I'll check the other directory.
-= Double Post =-
There's an update for the folder problem, and bugfixes.
You shouldn't be able to crash it now.

[ab88]

In later firmwares the PSP looks on both
ms0:MUSIC/ and
ms0:PSP/MUSIC/

I guess they did that to make it easier for people to put stuff on their PSPs without much technical knowledge. I still think that the different Video folders could have been evaded and just have the firmware autodetect what kind of clip it was. Very Sony like.

@infinity: The PSP would still check to see what firmware version the game asks for (Since the ISO is an exact copy of the UMD). You could for example edit and lower the required version, it works for some games (don't know if it still is posible on newer ones), however if the actual game requires the PRX's from the higher firmware the game will freeze, not work properly or aomething similar.

[infinity888]

kewl it works now thanks Art

[skyline1993]

nice one

[Bense]

with the new mp3 support, does this mean that I can run the PSP and it will display time, and then when it's time for the alarm to go off, it will start playing the mp3s?

I realllllly hope that this is the case. I have a psp fat that has a dead UMD drive. and I've been wanting to find an alarm clock that supports flash memory. I'm hoping that this works, because this will be perfect, and it even has battery backup too!

[Art]

The alarm is still using the cooleyes mp3 implementation,
but in the end, I want it to use the song selected in the file browser.
Right now there are two seperate mp3 players in it.


Might as well test out thread close......