Elvis is a
nice little jukebox for your Palm powered handheld. You can use it for
cheering up, for refreshing your musical memories, for playing a little
musical quiz by
yourself or with friends and finally, of course, for replacing the boring
standard alarm of your handheld. Thanks to Elvis, you can now wake up
every morning with a different song!
There is actually more
than that to Elvis, but we will leave it to you to figure it out. All you
have to do is download and run the Light version. For the lazy types, here
is a list of the major Elvis features:
Load and play various collections of MIDI
songs
Export to standard
PalmOS device date book alarm
Predefined sound
collections (classic, film, rock, children, pop...)
Standard and secure modes
for PalmOSŪ devices with true MIDI support
Background sound play (currently not available
in secure mode)
Create your own sound collections
Support for lyrics or other information associated to a song
Large and nice analog clock
One-tap alarm setup (a
hit among frequent travelers!)
Preset or random alarm sound
Musical quiz with
hi-scores
Note: Entries in
green require the
Elvis Pro version, which we kindly
invite you to purchase. Not only you will get the described extra
features, you will also help us develop more and better programs,
games and sound collections for you and all other participating
users. Support shareware!
By ordering Elvis Pro you will
also get access to the growing collection of Elvis albums at our
site. Feel free to submit and share the albums you have created
yourself!
Note on hardware limitations, compatibility,
Secure Mode and single- and multi-channel melodies
Some PalmOS powered devices can handle sound better than others. For
example, most Palm devices are equipped with simple resonance
speaker with very short frequency range and they can usually only
play simple single tone melodies.
Other devices, such as Handera 330 can do a little better on the
sound reproduction, but are still limited to single-tone (also
called single-channel) melodies without special software efforts. In
order to provide compatibility with all devices, ESE does not pay
special attention to the extra Handera 330 capabilities.
Sound albums for such devices are single-channel albums.
Playing multi-channel album (that is, an album consisting of
multi-channel songs) on a standard Palm device is practically
possible, but will hardly manage to please the ear.
There are devices, such as Sony Clie T615C, which have built-in
software and/or hardware to produce better sound and eventually play
several notes simultaneously.
Even then, due to hardware and OS limitations they may sometimes only play well if they devote all their computing power to it. They
may
not do anything else when they play (or the
sound would decrease its quality).
Normally, Elvis uses ESE in standard mode, which is background play.
This leaves you the control over the application. On devices like
Clie T615 this would result in poor sound quality, unless you switch
to secure playing mode. This will stabilize the sound, but will take
you away the ability to operate the application while the sound is
playing. In Secure Mode, the play will continue until the music is
over or until you tap the screen. |