CrackBerry Exclusive: PushLife *Beta* for BlackBerry Smartphones - A Better Way To Listen To Your Music!

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Says Blackberry Storm is not included in this beta.

Tried to download and got a message stating that the storm was not included in the beta.....

No Storm2 support with pics of a Storm geezs!

i got an error with my 9700 when I connected to the page and selected "Get started now"

Aww. Can't download cause of no Storm support at this time. Was looking forward to trying this out. Guess I have to wait for official release.

I got an 8900 (OS 5.0.0.509) and no such luck. Get the error 404 message. Item isn't on server or something like that...

I can't download on my Tour either, says 404: Not Found.... would really like to get in on the beta, but are the links even working yet for anyone?

Seems like the download is broken. Once you click 'Get Started Now' a 404 error pops up.

Not working get a 404 error what is this they said first thousand.....? beta this 8===D

Definitely not working. Would love to try this out.

Just downloaded it!! Gonna check it out now!! :)

Got mine :)

Worked for me, try link @ the bottom of the post.

same here on Bold 9000, error 404 :(

edit: Downloading now :D

Seems to work for me too...

Maybe check browser settings?

Worked for me, try the link @ the bottom of the post.

Tour 9630 sprint..

My tour 9630 is rockin now! thanks crackberry

Not working....

FIgured out the problem! In the post it says to go to pushlife.com/crackberry, when really you need to go to www.pushlife.com/crackberry <------ did this and now it works

I can't believe there is no Storm support for this beta!!!

When I go to the site I get an error

I got the same error, but i clicked continue reading article, then used the download link at the bottom of the article instead and it worked, hope this helps

It is pretty lame that they would post pictures of the app being used on a Storm and not actually include the Storm in the current beta.

Storm2 user, tried to download it, and it said "NO SOUP FOR YOU!"

They show the Storm in the product pictures, but don't have software for it, >_<

Getting an error

Download works Fine (Bold 9000) via www.pushlife.com/crackberry.

Geez folks, why show the storm and then not include it in the beta. That's not a good way to start things off.

eye4ni is right, just go to www.pushlife.com/crackberry instead! Good find!

Works like a charm on my tour, I wish it would synch album art too. Scanned all the music on media card and plays much better than bb media player. 2 thumbs up here!!

Make sure you got to www.pushlife.com/crackberry and not http://pushlife...

Taking forever to scan my 8gb of music on my memory card... i hate waiting...

Hi, I'm Ray from PushLife. We meant to release storm as well but had to delay it unfortunately. For crackberry users that want to get on the storm beta, please email beta@pushlife.com with subject "Storm Beta Request from CrackBerry" and we will make sure we include you on the storm beta invite list when it goes out.

Ray

I can already tell that I don't like it. I don't like the UI, it seems a little laggy, and it has ads..... no thanks

Why doesn't Crackberry just list, right at the start, which devices aren't compatible with posts like this.

Waste of time... and it only serves to upset Storm/Storm2 users. I usually am unwilling to go back and test a product that wasn't available on the Storm/Storm2 upfront and won't pay for one in the end that left out Storm input on Beta's because they never work right without touchscreen feedback.

Geez! I kept getting the 404 error using www.pushlife.com/crackberry. For those getting it I think the server is a bit overwhelmed. Just keep hitting the button til you get through. I hit it about 5 times before I got to the download screen

this is the link to the actual download page for the Bold
http://www.pushlife.com/crackberry/index.php?eman=crackberry@pushlife.co...

Hi,
It seems like our server side device detection may have been causing a few users trouble - we just swapped the page so that you can manually select the device model you have and get to the download. Those who had trouble can retry the link www.pushlife.com/crackberry and it should work now...

I did it once and it gave me an HTTP error, but then went back about half hour later and it asked me to select my devide and it worked and is currently downloading...interesting but cool!!

I don't really listen to music very often and when I do, I usually put it on random, so I don't know if this will offer me more than the music program that came with my BB (features that I'd actually use that is) but I'll definitely check it out.

A couple problems to syncing songs but slowly figured out how to do this :)

It says for devices running OS 4.6 and higher but the website says Curve 83XX devices are compatible. Does this mean it will work with OS 4.5? Anyone had success on an 8330 running 4.5?

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Amazing app

I have 8GB of music on my micro SD card. It just passed the 1/3 mark of adding my library while I was typing this comment. I started the scan over half an hour ago; closer to 50 minutes.

If I waste all this time just adding my music library and don't end up using the app the equivalent amount of time it took me to add my music to it (which is looking like a possible 2+ hours as it stands) then I'm gonna consider this quite the disappointment.

Is it a limited beta, or will it last forever?

I've used this for about twenty minutes on my Tour, and here are my first impressions:

Good:
-UI is very attractive and easy to use
-MANY options
-Runs smoothly
-Love the Biography! Great addition.

Issues (for me):
-I don't particularly care for the images displayed of groups and such at the top of the screens, or the Taylor Swift wallpaper... not my genre of music, and having to stare at her each time will probably get really annoying really quickly ;)
-The Recommends would be more effective if it were like Genius, and based on the tune you're currently listening to; I listen to jazz and I get recommendations for Lady Gaga and Timbaland... not very effective ;)
-Photos of the artist are all extremely blurry, even at such a small size. It's as if the preview size at the bottom is the actual resolution.
-Biggest issue: Tracks on a CD that have different artists are made into separate albums from the whole. For example, I listen to the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang soundtrack and it's all one album, except the last track, Robert Downey Jr's song Broken, and it places that track in the album list as a separate album. It would be nice if it grouped by title alone, especially for compilation albums.

I really, really like where this is going, though! Very intuitive and smooth to run.

Question.....

In fact, I find BB Media Sync an ok way to get the song files on to my BB. With that said, can you run just the BB portion of pushlife to play back your music that is already on your SD card and not have to have Pushlife push the music from your PC?

Yeah I've enjoyed using the app so far... neat stuff!

The song previews are nice, but when can we purchase them? Is tehre a future release date?

Same with ringtones..

Wallpaper preview sucks though, can barely see what you might be buying.

I like it. Great UI and the music is well organized.

i want it for storm 2!

so far everything is working well...am quite surprised!!!itunes sync'd w/o a hitch! will keep you guys informed....thx

I hate it. Maybe it's the record companies I should be mad at, but why does an album get listed multiple times when the artist has a featured artist on a track?? For example, The Eminem Show is listed 12 times under albums...Blue Man Group's The Complex is listed 14 times...it's ONE album people...ONE...list it that way. WMP gets it right...why can't this? How can I listen to an album when it's not listed properly by the media player??

I won't be using this unless and until they fix this glitch.

If you sync with the BB Media sync.. then let this app scan your media on the card. Then try to sync with the pushlife app it will duplicate your stuff in itunes as it will do a 2 way sync.

I now have to go through and delete all my duplicate podcasts. Good thing I only have a few.

It would be nice though if it used the same sources as the BB Media Sync so they didn't conflict.

I got the app installed and running, but i still have not received my e-mail to set up on my PC after about 30 minutes? Anyone else not receiving the e-mail or had the e-mail take a long time to deliver?

I am not experiencing any lag and it synced up over 400 songs and their album art fairly quickly for me. I really like the Twitter feature. The link it posts on Twitter lets people read about the artist and displays the lyrics of the song. Pretty cool.

It's scanning all my media on my phone now to add to the library.

Scanned music and seems to be running ok

but I don't really like it, the only feature I do like is the ability to edit the tags. I don't like the Library itself, for instance when you go to album, it shows every song of every album :S

I have a 9630 running OS 5.0.0.484 and it appeared to install correctly but each time I click on the icon to run it, the screen seems to freeze. I have to hold the BB button to switch to the home screen. It never starts. I did a battery pull, no help.

I downloaded Push Life and it is GREAT. Far superior to the music player on my 9630. I did not get the email instructions on setting up my ITunes but I scanned my phone and it pulled all my music into Push Life. I recommend BB use this player instead of there own. GREAT APP

With over 1400 songs it takes over an hour to scan. I want to shoot myself in the face!!! :-(

To make matters worse, the first time it scanned, I went to look at songs and it said 0...yes zero. So I scanned again, this time it got them all, but when I connected to the desktop, it said that it detected a crash and restored my database to the last successful sync. You guessed it, zero again. So I'll try to scan one last time, but if it doesn't work, I'm deleting this app. Nearly 4 hours and I haven't heard a song play yet.

The Mute button mutes instead of pauses? Gay. Why cant I adjust the volume if the application is closed? Like bad memories of pandora all over again :(

I'm still waiting for my registration e-mail that I entered in the app to receive instructions on how to sync with my PC...I've been waiting for at least an hour now and spam folder is empty. I've requested resend once with no luck. Could the beta test pool be full already??

I downloaded it at 10:30 and still havent received anything

got my copy and I must say this thing is SLICK! its like having some of the better features off of a ipod, on the blackberry...very nice...

**crossing fingers this stays free!, unfortunately this will probably cost a pretty penny when released>>>**

I can't get the sync to work. I sent an email to support. Hopefully they'll help me out. This looks like a cool app.

Where is my email??? I sent it out half an hour ago -_- This is a great looking app though, I synced up my SD card already. Great alternate to the regular Media player

It crashed my Bold taking forever to synch....30 minutes in and it had only scanned 400 of over a 1K songs....I need something fast...this aint it.

This app still has some major bugs. It told me, when I plugged my Tour in a second time, that the media had been synced with a previous version, and asked if I'd like to clear it and resync. Of course I said no, because if it's going to do this every time I am done with the software. I deleted it, to free up memory and because, while limited, the music player the BB came with is good enough for me.

So I delete the app, but it didn't stop there. It also messed up my memory card, so Desktop Manager says its full, yet I go to my music and all that's there is the demo track. Now I have no music on my BB at all, except the demo song, and Desktop Manager won't let me sync anymore.

Fantastic.

I still haven't received a confirmation e-mail and it's been HOURS! :-( I just sent an email to support@pushlife.com so hopefully I get a reply soon... through e-mail or here... I've been looking for an app like this for a while!

Pushlife in the fall for $10 - is this any different than the version I purchased (and have recently updated)? Thanks.

How Tos on pushlife.com really helped with loading desktop plugin. No problems with synching.

Spent forever getting this app and adding my music. I got the music from itunes but it never let windows media player sync. It took 4ever to load my songs off itunes messed up my phone and took up more memory with songs then I would like. I don't like the screens or anything bb media is better for me. Deleted it off my bb then had to go on my pc and delete the junk files it left behind. I will not take it for free let alone have to pay at some point. Don't download unless you have 2hrs to waste away. Sorry I really wanted to like it and I tried.

a beta tester now. I have had the program for a couple hours, therefore I am sure I qualified to give some input :) I have the Tour on Verizon running leaked .419. The download and install were smooth. The only hesitation I had was at the first sync. I was worried that it would try to sync my whole library, when I wanted to have only one playlist sync'd to the tour. However, the program gave me the option prior to the actual sync so all was well. After the sync, my heart sunk (that's almost an alliteration) when I saw my whole library listed on the tour. The I realized that only the transferred items were in bold font the non-transferred items were slightly greyed. The distinction could be more contrasting - but maybe my eyes are just too old.

Overall, this was one of the best music sync'ing operations I've had. It now have the one playlist I want on my BB. I can have itunes sync other lists with my ipod and everything seems to be playing well together.

Albert

Anyone here know how to fix a BB that's reading memory wrong? It says my BB is full, but it has NOTHING on it, and I put in a different card, a 1 gig, and it says 100 songs is too many. Already did a few battery pulls and a Restore, to no avail.

This app DESTROYED my BlackBerry. Stay away!

It downloaded fast and is now scanning my phone for music I had already loaded.

So, it seems to work on 85XX phones.

It seems to work fine for me, but I'm trying to figure out if its worth the 1.5(?)mb. I have a very limited amount of space for apps and I don't see myself using many of the features included in this app. I don't need the twitter feature, editing tags feature, or the jewel case stuff. I basically want it to shuffle my music and sound good via an eq. I think I can do that with the bb app. I'm also scared to death of trying to sync anything again.

This app isn't doing anything for me. I've taken some time to ensure my music collection contains everything I want, such as full albums and album art. I've got 780 songs, and it took probably 30 minutes to add them to the library off of the media card. Way too long. Other concerns:

None of my album art is displaying. It's all there on my media card, why should I have to sync to display the pictures that I already have?
Holding the volume up key won't skip to the next song like BB Media Player, so I have to keep the app open to switch songs.
My left convenience key is set to the app switcher, it doesn't work when the app is open. Alt + Escape works, but I programmed the convenience key so I wouldn't have to hit A+E. **EDIT** Neither convenince keys work when the app is active.
As was mentioned, mute key mutes the music. What good is that? Why wouldn't it pause? What good is muting the music?
In the options on the home screen, I turned on Shuffle, but then in the player, I had to turn shuffle on manually again.

It keeps trying to sync with Windows Media Player, which I don't use. I use iTunes, and it does not give me the option to sync with that.

So I have removed the application. Glad it is working for others out there.

The program scans my media card and only recognizes mp3s. No WMA. The wma music is recognized by the stock media player. All my music is in the same music directory. This is on my 9700.

i hate to sound like a noob, but will this program ever sync with zune? yes, i still have 3 zunes at home as well as my ipod touch...don't hate:)

I have tried to get the email resent to me five times since last night when I installed it and still no email. If I can't sync, then I might as well just use the BB player.

Sucks.

I have a 16gb, with about 3000 songs and its only recognizing 2631 songs, but only loading up to letter I '1001' songs. anyone else not getting all of their songs loaded?

I've downloaded the app, looks promising, but I've yet to receive an email since yesterday. I'm unable to sync with iTunes as illustrated via their support videos. I have been able to sync music via BB desktop manager on my MacBook. I then search phone for the music and they're shown in Pushlife. When playing, no artwork or relevant data is available. Therefore I guess I need so sync using the program to be provided via their email. The one that's yet to arrive.

I'll wait another day and if no email comes, then it's not meant to be and I'll delete the app altogether.

Downloading and hoping i do not run into any of the problems are having. especially with my memory card....

All,

An updated sync client has been put up at www.pushlife.com/crackberryplugin

For people who are having trouble with WMP or not receiving the email, this is the sync client to get you started.

Contact me at mark@pushlife.com if you have questions!

Mark

Sorry folks at Pushlife, but I had to get this thing off my BB and my laptop, it really did a number on my Itunes. It wound up loading a copy of each song on my itunes, one of everyone that I had on my BB. Really did a number on my library. I got so PO last night I just got rid of it and now have to spend the time going through my 30 gb library looking for dups. Sorry, seems like a nice product but you def have some bugs to work out.

Mark, shot you an email.

i really dig the lyrics and the jewel case part!!!!i really hope to keep it!!!