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Ragart · 11-14-07, 12:18 AM

My big, cow-sized beef with Coreplayer at the moment is that it just won't play music well on my TyTN. I skip very badly upon switching orientations or after a phone call. I've played with all the settings I could get my hands on, but to no avail. I've listed it as a bug on their forums and their official bug tracker but have received no response after about 1.5 months.

CC will release posts like the one above, and the ones on their own forums. And they will say they've answered questions -- but in my eyes the information can be quite

scattered. I think that CC feels they've been updating the community although they are busy with the testing of their Symbian platform, their codec, their desktop platforms, etc.

etc.

That's a lot of launches, a lot of diff development. I'm no developer, but I am one of their customers. And I just have no idea when I'll see any of this new, cool stuff that applies to me.

Coreplayer 1.0 for Windows Mobile was released last September, I think. This last summer around July saw the release of 1.1. I was extremely impressed with the amount of feeback and care that CC showed the community after the release. We were talking and they listened to feature requests and bugs. They released a 1.1.1 soon after. But then came the time to test

the Symbian beta and I've since left the CC forums (occasional check) for lack of any real new information.

I think CC and the community would get along a lot better if there was a central location for information useful to the community. I have to say it stung when Betaboy posted an iPhone Coreplayer ad in

the Windows Mobile section of the CC forums. I mean, it's his place -- he can do what he wants. But as a customer, I bought Coreplayer to get a cool, evolving media player and have heard all these promises -- but most of what I see heads in other directions. I feel that in the past few months having a conversation with Corecodec has been like sending a letter in the mail and getting a banner ad as a reply. Everything is huge, broad, sweeping, and I miss the days of this past summer where 1.1.1 came out about a week after 1.1 did.

In the meantime I'm going to buy Pocket Player 3.5 -- it's not as fast as CC, nor does it have the ridiculous number of great codecs, but it has a nice finger-friendly interface, great album art support, and it plays my music consistently without chopping up.

I look forward to Coreplayer 1.2 and the bug fixes, but it'd be fantastic if we could have some real, down-to-earth updates on the Windows Mobile situation.

11-14-07, 12:18 AM	#15 (permalink)
Ragart Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 66 Device: HTC TyTN! Carrier: Rogers Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My big, cow-sized beef with Coreplayer at the moment is that it just won't play music well on my TyTN. I skip very badly upon switching orientations or after a phone call. I've played with all the settings I could get my hands on, but to no avail. I've listed it as a bug on their forums and their official bug tracker but have received no response after about 1.5 months. CC will release posts like the one above, and the ones on their own forums. And they will say they've answered questions -- but in my eyes the information can be quite scattered. I think that CC feels they've been updating the community although they are busy with the testing of their Symbian platform, their codec, their desktop platforms, etc. etc. That's a lot of launches, a lot of diff development. I'm no developer, but I am one of their customers. And I just have no idea when I'll see any of this new, cool stuff that applies to me. Coreplayer 1.0 for Windows Mobile was released last September, I think. This last summer around July saw the release of 1.1. I was extremely impressed with the amount of feeback and care that CC showed the community after the release. We were talking and they listened to feature requests and bugs. They released a 1.1.1 soon after. But then came the time to test the Symbian beta and I've since left the CC forums (occasional check) for lack of any real new information. I think CC and the community would get along a lot better if there was a central location for information useful to the community. I have to say it stung when Betaboy posted an iPhone Coreplayer ad in the Windows Mobile section of the CC forums. I mean, it's his place -- he can do what he wants. But as a customer, I bought Coreplayer to get a cool, evolving media player and have heard all these promises -- but most of what I see heads in other directions. I feel that in the past few months having a conversation with Corecodec has been like sending a letter in the mail and getting a banner ad as a reply. Everything is huge, broad, sweeping, and I miss the days of this past summer where 1.1.1 came out about a week after 1.1 did. In the meantime I'm going to buy Pocket Player 3.5 -- it's not as fast as CC, nor does it have the ridiculous number of great codecs, but it has a nice finger-friendly interface, great album art support, and it plays my music consistently without chopping up. I look forward to Coreplayer 1.2 and the bug fixes, but it'd be fantastic if we could have some real, down-to-earth updates on the Windows Mobile situation.