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[hack.rid]

checkout http://www.xdlab.ru/en/download.htm

its nice and portable, use thinapp to make the previous mentioned audio converter portable, too.

[hack.rid]

you can also juse xmedia recode to convert mp3 tp wma

[hack.rid]

i just want to add something.
because i cant edit my posts i have to do it that way.



1. you can use wma files encoded with more than 192kbit CBR

2. i have several mp3s which cant be converted
 Free-Mp3-Wma-Converter-1.7.3 crashes and xmedia recode just skipps them.
 but ACE-High converter does the job, but only with 128kbit, no other selectable

[MahoppianGoon]

updated to v0.13  
v0.13 - Friday the 13, August 2010
* added: minimizes to the system tray icon!
* added: 'About' tab (tells you information about the program!)
* added: 'FMIM Music Converter' tab (convert FMIM back to WMA files!)
* added: 'FTP Uploader' tab (upload/delete any file on the Xbox 360!)
              (saves the IP address, username and password in the registry!)
* added: automatically backups the original mindex folder on Xbox 360!
* added: automatically uploads the created files to the Xbox 360!
* fixed: songs will appear when you select the genre!
* fixed: songs will appear when you select the artist!

Happy Friday the 13th! BOO!   hah
yeah, I've pretty much given up on adding more songs to already existing XMI file, it just seems impossible. the only possible way to figure it out is to reverse-engineer the media player on the Xbox 360, and I have no idea how to do that. the way the program is right now is the best I can do with my limited knowledge, lol...seriously, literally thousands of google searches... i'm surprised I got that far with it lol... someone with far more knowledge then me will figure it out, eventually... i might add a mp3 converter if I can figure it out, but thats probably about it...after over a month, and still no closer then when I first started lol... weird

so for now, im going to grab my popcorn!   lol

[hack.rid]

wow thank you mate!!

a converter for mp3 could be easily done with a-simple-c-wrapper-for-ffmpeg

think about this:

you can use wma s encoded with more than 192kbs!

i've successfully testet 320 kbit/s.


a renamer for your existing mp3 files to bring it in the "artist - title.mp3" form would be great too.

see this resources for it. could find out if its possible with ffmpeg

i'd be glad to see your sources

greetings


edit:

"delete selected file" on your ftp uploader disconnects my ftp connection.
just kinda non functional button.

my intentaion was to delete the existing mindex folder on x360

edit2:

the conversion back to wma files seems also a big strange?
edit: artist and title info still missing in fmim header, didnt get this first. i believe this was a little step for you to add as far as you allready are.

where do i select the mindex folder i want to convert to wma files?
theres just a "output path", i think an input path would be as important as this!


suggestion for adding files to existing collection:
convert them all back to wma first, adding the "files to add" to the que.
and convert them all in one go back to fmim?


i've postet some where where the song duration is stored in mindex.xmi. that would be also a small step for you to add, and nice to have

[naizarak]

not to be a drag, but you guys do know that you can stream songs to your 360, even during games

i've personally used this feature forever, i don't have any songs on the 360, everything is streamed from my pc

[DARKFiB3R]

Streaming sucks for me, trying to browse my nas with around 24000 tracks is a painfully slow experience. I suppose if the 360 stored a local database this wouldn't be an issue, but it doesn't, so it is

[clouduz]

thanks for the awesome program. As for the comment above, well not everyone wants to stream or might take their 360 somewhere then where is your music? yeah at home. For right now I just either use my ipod or the stupid long cdrw method. They should have been more like the ps3 and just let us copy videos and music no problem.

[MahoppianGoon]

updated to v0.14  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
v0.14 - August 21, 2010
* added: Automatically convert 'mp3, ogg, and wav' files to WMA!
* added: Automatically rename the 'mindex' folder, if it exists in the
same folder as the 'Output Directory", on your computer!
* added: Update checker in the 'About' tab!
* added: Volume and Now Playing menus to system tray icon!
* added: Next, Stop, Pause, Play, Previous buttons to tray icon menu!
* added: System tray icon shows the name and time of the song playing!
* added: 'Music Player' (wma/mp3/ogg/wav) in the 'mindex.XMI Cre' tab!
* added: Automatically add the converted FMIM->WMA files to the list!
* added: 'Choose FMIM Folder' in the 'FMIM Music Converter' tab!
* fixed: Songs length number in the XMI file!
* changed: textbox in the 'mindex.XMI Creator' tab is now a listview!

and more! just too many to list lol
wow! this is the update of all updates! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) added a converter, so it will convert any 'mp3, ogg, or wav' file to wma automatically when you create the xmi file! and now since you can add mp3s to the list, why not make a player? OK! so now it will PLAY the songs that are in the list. just click the 'MP!' checkbox! its almost an exact replica of 'Windows Media Player' without using the WMP Component, and you can also control the player from the system tray icon!

QUOTE(hack.rid @ Aug 14 2010, 05:39 AM)

a converter for mp3 could be easily done with a-simple-c-wrapper-for-ffmpeg

wow that looks complicated. I just used Bass.NET for the converter, so I don't have to use external exe's, alot easier. and it can also play the songs and read the ID3 tag!

QUOTE(hack.rid)

you can use wma s encoded with more than 192kbs!
i've successfully testet 320 kbit/s.

yeah, but the 360 uses 192kbps (i think) and maybe its just me, but I don't notice any big difference. and it's double in size going from 128 to 320kbps, so you would save alot of space! unless you have a 1tb HDD, then it doesn't matter. lol

QUOTE(hack.rid)

a renamer for your existing mp3 files to bring it in the "artist - title.mp3" form would be great too.

it will first read the ID3 tag to get the artist and song title, it that doesn't exist, then it'll use the '-' to get the 'Artist - Title', if the '-' doesn't exist, then it'll use the entire filename for the song title.

QUOTE(hack.rid)

"delete selected file" on your ftp uploader disconnects my ftp connection. just kinda non functional button. my intentaion was to delete the existing mindex folder on x360

you can't delete folders with that, thats why it says 'Delete Selected File', lol the problem is you have to go through each folder deleting each file first, you can't just delete the folder and everything at once, and I couldn't get it to work. you could just use FSD to delete the folder. takes about 5 secs. lol

QUOTE(hack.rid)

the conversion back to wma files seems also a big strange?
edit: artist and title info still missing in fmim header, didnt get this first. i believe this was a little step for you to add as far as you allready are.

yeah, that only works with FMIM files created with v0.13 and above because I forgot to add the artist and title to the FMIM header. and for this version it will get the ID3 tags from the file, so it doesn't matter what the name of the file is, if theres an ID3 tag, it will always work!

QUOTE(hack.rid)

where do i select the mindex folder i want to convert to wma files? theres just a "output path", i think an input path would be as important as this!

haha! thats because its just drag-n-drop the files in the big white box, simple! ok, fine! I added a 'Choose FMIM Folder' box. You have to choose the '0000' folder!

QUOTE(hack.rid)

convert them all back to wma first, adding the "files to add" to the que. and convert them all in one go back to fmim?

umm... not sure what you mean there. I added a 'Add Converted WMA files to Converter List' so after you convert the FMIM files back to WMA, it will automatically add them to the 'mindex.XMI Converter' list! right?

QUOTE(hack.rid)

i've postet some where where the song duration is stored in mindex.xmi. that would be also a small step for you to add, and nice to have (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

yeah, I finally figured out the song length. I knew where it was, just couldn't figure out what it was. the last 2 digits screwed me up. your right, its probably just (length in milliseconds * number of channels) and those other 2 digits at the end is just 4 added to the next song. so the first song its 5, then 9, 13, 17, and so on... I can't believe I didn't notice that before! lol

anything else? lol (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

QUOTE(naizarak @ Aug 15 2010, 12:28 AM)

not to be a drag, but you guys do know that you can stream songs to your 360, even during gamesi've personally used this feature forever, i don't have any songs on the 360, everything is streamed from my pc

well thats no fun! then you would have no reason to use my program, unless you just wanted to listen to music! lmao  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

[hack.rid]

thanks mate !

i'll check it later, sounds nice so far!

[hack.rid]

i dont want to criticize you, i try to help making your program perfect. okay?

its impressive how much features you already put in there, seems you learn stuff very fast

• i just noticed a converter problem
  but cant exactly say whats the reason to fail...
  
  mp3 before conversion
  resulting wma
  
  compare both, i'm sure you hear a slight difference
  i had that problem once before with several mp3->wma converters.
  
  ace high converter worked perfect for with ALL mp3s. i wonder you if you could manage to use some sort of windows media encoder stuff...
  this would be great and surely working, i think for all mp3s.
  
  just read that media encoder is no longer supportet, now its called "expression encoder"
  
• more hints to come, but since i cant edit my posts i have to quadpost or some

[Profound_Darkness]

Nice tool though I have had the strangest problems with it (.14 version).

1 - some file names fail in a big way (crash).  For example: "Liquid Tension Experiment 03 - K.wma"
From some other testing that stumbled on this - I suspect it has to do with files that have a single character and whitespace (as in that K) but I am not sure... simply renaming the file and tacking an "a" on the end fixed this one.

2 - Relatively common I am having a problem where I already have some wma files and once ran through the app they won't play on the xbox, also if I use the fmim converter those same files won't play on the computer.  Using a hex editor it seems that some of the wma header is being stripped off.
By discovering which tracks fail to play and then using fmim converter and a hex editor I can determine the chunk that is missing and copy it from the original into the fmim file.  Copying that over to the box fixes it.  I know almost nothing about wma format so I don't know what is significant about the stripped header data.

Here you will find a wma file which exhibits this problem.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ssecdyqhrgv6g6a
FYI - file is a conversion from module music format...

3 - Another crash I forgot about - if the id3 tag equivalent data contains... say... Japanese characters.

4 - Another crash I missed - crashes (index out of bounds looks like) on more than 63 songs.

Other than those - MUCH better than trying to browse through music library remotely (takes FOREVER).

This post has been edited by Profound_Darkness: Oct 11 2010, 07:09 AM

[Pjoto]

Love this tool, although I've been having some problems with adding more than 63 songs or whatever at a time.
Just wondering if there is any way to add more songs? Like, will it work if I first convert 63 songs, then FTP them, then convert the next 63 songs and FTP them?
Or will the first 63 be forgotten then since the new XMIheaderFile-file will overwrite the old one?

And if so. is there any way to merge them or anything like that? Can I copy/paste from the first XMIheaderFile to the new one with a text-editor?

[Pjoto]

Nevermind, just used another program to convert from .mp3 to .wma and version 13b to convert from .wma to xbox-format.
Didn't encounter any problems then.

This post has been edited by Pjoto: Nov 3 2010, 02:45 AM

[bubbada]

noticed If the music files are already wma the convert process doesnt take tong at all.
 

um can xbox read more than 50 songs in a mindex?

because  have 175 songs i want to put on there,

but all i can do is 50 in 1 mindex. (so can multiple mindex's be created for the 360 and work?)

hope a new update of the music orginizer gets realesed soon, thankyou for a great prog. It!