Penfold

A sound re-mapper for the Danger Hiptop

Penfold is an application for the Danger Hiptop which allows the user to assign sound effects to any system sound event.

The main screen provides folder list of system events that you can reassign. In beta 0.2, there are some events that are not used by the Hiptop OS. Sounds cannot be assigned to these events. They may be removed from the list in a later version

Before assigning tones to system events, the user should populate the "MyTones" list. This is done from the MyTones screen, which allows the user to organize their sounds into folders. WAVs, MIDIs, RMIs, and AIFFs can be loaded into MyTones, however they must be properly encoded for the hiptop because they are loaded directly to the device without the benefit of the backend service to transcode them.

To add sounds to MyTones, use the the Add Tones dialog. Note that some settings can be modified later from the Tone Properties dialog, while others cannot. You must chose your flash and vibrate settings at the time of loading the sound because they cannot be changed later.

After MyTones is populated, you can assign tones from the main screen using the "Assign" function.

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Penfold Beta 0.51

I have found that the consumed resource issue is not as severe as I first thought. The resource ID's seem to have quite a high upper limit. In my testing on the simulator, I found that it would take several years of near constant tone loading to exhaust the counter. Hence I've decided that it isn't a problem. However, I have given the MENU-SHIFT-N command to nuke all tones and reset the counter should someone wish to. Use it at your own risk. It will remove all tones, both internal and external to Penfold.

Download here: Bundles for various devices

Answers to questions

Why the name 'Penfold'?

Penfold is Danger Mouse's Sidekick. Get it?

It's a beta name, a place holder until I come up with something better.

Why the expiration? Why can't you just give me a bundle?

A few reasons. First, it forces you to upgrade to the latest version. Second, if I decide to try to sell this thing in the catalog, it doesn't pollute the market with free, older versions. I've never "sold" any of my software thus far, so this may not happen. In this case, I'll post a free, unlimited version.

Danger Mouse and all its characters are (c) Cosgrove/Hall Productions. This application is not endorsed by or affiliated with Cosgrove/Hall.