Hi all,
Just wondering if anyone knew a way of loading/changing saved playlist on Pocket Music; I can't seem to find any quick way to do this.
All I want is to press a button (hardware or software)- that brings up all the saved playlist and for me to be able to select it and play.
At the moment it is a long winded process; select playlist button>load playlist> select the playlist required> press the tick button.
I currently use the PocketMusic Skin mode (as opposed to the WinAmp one) and it would good to have a single button which brings up the playlists.
Maybe there is another player to do this?
Thanks.
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OK, it's probably just me, but I cannot figure out the TouchFlo music player at all.
I synced 7 or 8 albums from various artists onto the storage card using Windows Media Player on my desktop. All of the albums have appropriate album art visible within Media Player.
After a bit of hit and miss, TF Music Player found the albums. But only some of the have album art. Those that do have a ~hTC_<album name>.jpg file, others have a AlbumArt_{long guid}_Large.jpg file. Any way to automatically fix this?
OK, now on to the bigger problem. I just can't figure out how to get the player to play what I want. I press Library, go to Artists, Select an artist, then an Album. Click on a track, and it starts playing that album. Do the same again, except select a different album and selecy Add to play list, and .... nothing happens.
I've messed around for quite a while. About 1 in 4 times I can get it to play what I want, but it's seems far from intuitive. I'd just like a 'Play' button on the screen that lists the albums for instance.
The only thing I seem to be able to do reliably is queue up everything, so I guess that'll have to do.
Sorry for the long winded rant, but I've been fighting with this for a while, it's nearly 1am and I'm tired.
If the album art picture is called folder.jpg the TouchFlo player will pick it up and assign it as the album cover , it creates the ~hTC_<album name>.jpg file file when it does so.
When I click on a track from within an album it plays the track and cues the rest of the album to play, but it does play the track I select. I'm not 100% sure, but from your description it sounds like yours doesn't?
But in general to answer your question: no, its not a particularly useful UI for song selection (especially compared to what I'm used to coming from the S60 music player). Really wish in particular that you could do as you say and select an artist/genre and just hit play - instead you have to select the artist, then click on the music note to bring up all the songs, click on any one and then it cues them all (same goes for playing by genre etc). Also wish you could narrow down selection with the keyboard (or virtual keypad), like in contacts, or at least have the alphabet sidebar for selection. Only thing I really like about it, other than looking quite pretty, is that its fairly finger friendly.
Thanks, the folder.jpg bit seems to have worked mostly. It's not picked a couple of them up yet, but I guess it will eventually.
As for queueing up tracks, I'm not sure what happens and when. It just seems that sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. Mostly I can queue up a single album just fine, but if I want to add a second album to the queue it seems hit and miss.
Best way is to create a playlist and add them to that, but its hardly intuitive or user friendly, worst of all the playlist editor is not that finger-friendly either. Its adequate for me, but only just.
Hi!
I use the Music tab in Sense to play my music, because it's really neat to have it so easily accessible. There is one feature I miss, though, and I think it could be easily added. I miss having the option to enqueue(hope that's the right spelling ) the song to the Now Playing playlist instead of playing it right away. I used to make a queue of songs I'd like to hear in all my previous music players and I don't wanna give it up or be forced to use WMP. So is there a possibility any good programmer would add that feature? It would be like: short press - play, long press - enqueue. Or something like that. I would be really grateful. Thanks
P.S. Yes I know I can build playlists, but I'd like this better.
I'll be following this thread. It's the one (major) thing missing from the music player. Let's hope there's a solution.
I also miss the option to just browse for a certain folder! The album names sometimes do not match, which results in songs being catogorized several times in the album list.... A new tab would be wonderful
Hi ,
I created a play list in zune. i dont know how to shuffle..it keeps playing albums 1 by 1 anyone knows how to shuffle ?
Shan
Press on the album art, press the shuffle icon.
In Zune music swipe sideways untill you get to songs, then select shuffle all
brummiesteven said:
Press on the album art, press the shuffle icon.
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sorry ..i dont see anything..nothing happening even after long press.
CAH000 said:
In Zune music swipe sideways untill you get to songs, then select shuffle all
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but i want to shuffle songs only in my playlist not all songs in my zune
i got it now..i have to press almost at the bottom of the album art to get the option..thanx guys..
shanssv said:
i got it now..i have to press almost at the bottom of the album art to get the option..thanx guys..
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Whoa.
And here I thought WM7 would be user friendly. I still can't do this. I've got a playlist, some albums... Is it that hard to include a shuffle button at the bottom?
When I long-press on the album art I either get a grey "share" option or the following options: "add to play now", "delete", "pin to start".
I'm honestly not taken in by this player. How do you shuffle songs?
EDIT: The only reference to shuffling that I saw was the on the "all songs" list. But I want to shuffle an album, not the whole songs library.
I had a Zune HD for a year and the controls were spot on (music & video), I don't know why they were not ported straight to WP7 but hopefully that will be updated soon.
Check this article:
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/windows-phone-7-vs-zune-hd-video
Peew971 said:
I had a Zune HD for a year and the controls were spot on (music & video), I don't know why they were not ported straight to WP7 but hopefully that will be updated soon.
Check this article:
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/windows-phone-7-vs-zune-hd-video
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Are you suggesting the feature is not there, or that using it is shown in the YouTube video? (I can't watch YT videos at this very moment...)
EDIT: After more Googling, I found the answer to my question. To get to those features one has to tap the album art.
I always associated "pressing" on phones with a "long press", which in this case brings up the Zune context menu for that given object, but doesn't contain the shuffle option.
Shaamaan said:
Whoa.
And here I thought WM7 would be user friendly. I still can't do this. I've got a playlist, some albums... Is it that hard to include a shuffle button at the bottom?
When I long-press on the album art I either get a grey "share" option or the following options: "add to play now", "delete", "pin to start".
I'm honestly not taken in by this player. How do you shuffle songs?
EDIT: The only reference to shuffling that I saw was the on the "all songs" list. But I want to shuffle an album, not the whole songs library.
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ok, step-by-step
- Open Music & Videos
- Select Music
- Select your artist (Click the artist name, rather than the Play button next to them)
- Select your album (if you want to play all the album, you can just click the album art at this stage, which will immediately start playing the album)
- Select the album Art (not long press, just a tap will do)
This will make the album art gray out and 3 button will appear over the top of it, the first being Repeat, the middle is like/dislike/no opinion, the 3rd is the Holy Shuffle Button
I've never owned or used a Zune device before so can't comment on whether it's better/worse/different/the same. But it's easy enough for me.
Note: When you're in the WP7 Library, the "Play" button you'll see next to the artists name in Artist View (for eg.) immediately plays all that artists songs you have. Just an FYI as the Play button pops up in a few places and has different effects than Selecting the artist by tapping their name for example.
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Are you suggesting the feature is not there, or that using it is shown in the YouTube video? (I can't watch YT videos at this very moment...)
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The feature is there but if I remember correctly on the Zune HD it appears on the screen without the need for a long press.
The video just highlights differences between Zune on the Zune HD and on WP7, for instance on the ZHD you can fast forward a video by sliding on the playing bar.
In the "Songs" menu, once I've found the song I want to hear first, there's no way to then shuffle the rest of the songs. After the selected song is finished, it goes on to the next song in the list. A bad omission.
whilst the song is playing, where the album art is, click on it... three icons will appear over the album art... shuffle, repeat, favorite (i think).
Yeah thanks..I found it
Try this
I have a brand new Nokia WP7 and was having a little trouble finding this option, but it does exist. Yes, you can shuffle play your playlists!
Go to your playlist, pick a song out of the playlist. When the graphic of the song comes up, there are three icons on the RIGHT. The icon in the middle that looks kind of like a set of headphones/crab is the shuffle icon. I thought it was some kind of share icon, so initially ignored it. Just turn it on and you are good to go.
Aside from the little hiccup, I am loving my WP7.
In Winamp, is there a way to get it to shuffle a playlist? Hard to believe that feature isn't in there somewhere.
I know this isn't the answer you are looking for, but winamp for android is not nearly as good as it is for pc. The android version is very basic.
Hey, go into your playlist and hit your menu button, shuffle On comes up in the first pop-up options
Hi,
Can someone help. I don't get how to make a playlist in Zune.
And what is the purpose of "make a selection" ? it does not work.
The way that I've been doing it is this. I play a Song that I want. Once its playing, I go through zune and press hold the song's or artists and select add to current playlist. Once I have the playlist set, I press on the now playing from music history screen. From there you can press more options and then select save playlist.
This is how I create playlists. Still haven't figured out how to edit playlists though
makman25 said:
The way that I've been doing it is this. I play a Song that I want. Once its playing, I go through zune and press hold the song's or artists and select add to current playlist. Once I have the playlist set, I press on the now playing from music history screen. From there you can press more options and then select save playlist.
This is how I create playlists. Still haven't figured out how to edit playlists though
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Many thanks.
Can please someone help?
I still do not understand how I am supposed to create playlists on my WP7 phone...
makman25 said:
The way that I've been doing it is this. I play a Song that I want. Once its playing, I go through zune and press hold the song's or artists and select add to current playlist. Once I have the playlist set, I press on the now playing from music history screen. From there you can press more options and then select save playlist.
This is how I create playlists. Still haven't figured out how to edit playlists though
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It does not work. As soon as I want to save a song in my Selection, I am asked to give a name to my Selection ???!
Then if I check this playlist I wil have 562 tracks that are not mine and that I did not selected. What the hell !!!
And it sems that there is no Shuffle function. How to play he playlist tracks randomly?
How is it so complicated?
Zune does not even find my photos and music on pc.Just bought a titan. My hd2
was easier.