Hello,
I would like to listen to my WM(mp3 player) while my device is in my pocket with some type of screen lock or buttons lock. If I play music and turn the device off the music stops.
Is there anyway I can get around this?
many thanks
PocketPlayer does this...
Great software!
you can set the wmp so that you can toggle off the screen when playing mp3z...some helpful chap had a post on how to do this...or you can use apps like nodisplay or screenoff which allows you to switch off the screen and still play the wmp.
To answer my question.
What I did was used that togged screen fuction which turns off the screen and made all buttons set to play, which means pushing any button while listen to music would just keep playing it with having the screen lock on.
I have a wmp 9 and it has settings/buttons - > "un-map buttons during background play" but I could not find an option to turn the screen off, where did you find this option?
I suggesest GSPlayer!
It is an MP3/OGG player with veriy good sound quality.
paulmc said:
I have a wmp 9 and it has settings/buttons - > "un-map buttons during background play" but I could not find an option to turn the screen off, where did you find this option?
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This does not mean what you think it means.
The button settings you set in wmp are only active while wmp is running. If you set "unmap buttons during background play" the button settings you set are only active while wmp is in the foreground, e.g if you go to the today screen you will not be able to change to the next track using mapped buttons.
The option to switch the screen off is called "screen toggle". If mapped to a button, this will switch the screen on or off when you press on it.
I see many people not understanding these wordings, which is a shame, as with the screen off you can get similar play times to an ipod. With the screen on its likely you can only get 3-4 hours
Surur
FOR one button to lock and unlock , you can use software"displayoff".
FOR two button to lock and unlock , you can use software"screenlock", i recommand this one
both software just lock the screen, the Ops still process.
easy to search in Google
Weis Soft ScreenLock
What's up with Media Player 10? Like 9, certain buttons can be set for pause, next tract, etc, but with 10, there is no option to have these buttons active when WMP is in the background. This is crappy for me since I like to use another program to disable the screen (screenlock-rc) which conveniently disabled every button apart from the ones WMP overides.
Now I can't have the screen and buttons turned off, and pause/change tracks whilst phone is in my pocket.
I just upgraded my Blue Angel (M2000) to a ROM with WMP10 and I love the skinning ability, but this severely crappens my experience!
Am I missing something?
Pete
Hello, i have a touch dual and is it possible for me to turn off the screen while it plays music?? keeping the screen on seems like a waste of battery life.
thanks in advance
it depend on the player or if you have another screen toggle program
it all comes down to setting a key to handle sreen toggling
lol i tried looking in the button assignment part of windows media player and found it
thanks so much.... dint think of looking there
please tell us what you did...
can you please explain what you did, to turn off the screen while playing?
I have pocketplayer and it supports that.
But you can also use S2U2 to do it: Configure it to turn off the display after x seconds and while playing music just lock the device and put it into your pocket
Install CorePlayer.
Go to Menu\Options & tap Blank Screen.
In Start Menu u should also find a Shortcut named Display Switch.
Could also assigned to Hardwarebuttons.
Hello! Xda-viewers,
I had a question about Coreplayer,
maybe usefull for other music players as well.
When I want to listen to music and put my HD2 in my pocket,
I can't put off the screen because the music will stop.
I enabled the screen off in 5minutes, so when I put my phone,
in my pocket with screen on, after 5 minutes it puts off the screen,
and by this also the music.
Is there any app or mod to let the music play even with screen off.
For example, the Media player standard on the HD2, keeps on playing,
even with the screen turned off.
With my HTC P3600 I also used Coreplayer and could use the blank screen
futur in Coreplayer to put off the screen with sound still on. But this function,
doesn't work that well with the HD2.
thanks and greetings,
SOLUTION: Post 7-8
Timo
Hi,
the same problem with nitrogen.
same here, with coreplayer
Well...
My investigations...
So I found this with Coreplayer: If I press the power button to turn off the screen it will do as you said Coreplayer just stops, I think this is power saving mode.
However I have the screen off delay on default (I never changed the setting) which is about 1min and found that if I left the device to turn the screen off itself Coreplayer would just carry on. So rather than pressing the power button I leave it to turn itself off which means my music keeps playing.
Now from your first post I see that your having the issue when it turns itself off as well so could this be something to do with changing the delay, maybe trying the default 1min for power off and 30secs for backlight dim might help. Maybe someone else with the default settings could confirm this. Or maybe I'm just one lucky man
Cheers,
Prime
when coreplayer is on and playing music etc just press the windows key and then tap on 'lock'. you can leave the phone like this or press power button for blank screen. coreplayer or any other media player will continue to play.
hope this helps
will try
I'll try these solutions, if one works I'll post back,
if not, maybe there is somebody that can rip something from
the windows media player app, this one works just fine with
the screen turned of in any way
thanks!
Timo
Try this. I hope this will resolve Your problem.
Solutions
I tried the folowing:
-Normal way, press On/Off button to lock and put off screen while Coreplayer is playing
Music stops playing
-Settings: Light 10sec time-out, device 1min time-out. While Coreplayer is playing, I let the device time-out by itself. It also locks itself.
Music keeps on playing, works!!
-With Coreplayer on, goto start-menu, press LOCK (down-left in the screen). After this, the device time-out, it also locks itself.
Music keeps on playing, works!!
-Used the CAB 'BlackMe'. Installed, when runned it turns off the screen, also auto locks.
Music keeps on playing, works!!
So many solutions, THANKS!!
Hi!
I am not sure why you are spending so much effort. Just use the "blank screen" feature of the coreplayer!
In version 1.2.5 (build 4506) you will find it under "Menu -> Options -> Blank Screen". This switches off the screen and disables the keys.
Bye,
Basti
Coreplayer Blank screen
As I said in the top of the conversation,
I used the 'Blank screen' option from Coreplayer,
menu -> option -> Blank screen,
when I had my P3600 it worked fine, with my HD2
when I active this the screen go's blank, good,
but after a second the screen goes back on, in lock mode, not good
Timo
I got the same problem too.
Does this cab file mean that you can now use the power button and it carries on playing, or does it mean you have to muck about with things still before turning the power 'off'?
I'll probably try it anyway and thanks for providing it but this is a real pain for me after having Coreplayer working just right on the Touch HD.
Thanks!
CAB solution
The CAB will not change the fact that the sound goes off with the power on/off button. So yes, you have to start up coreplayer, put on you're music and then run the program installed by the CAB.
Timo
Thanks for clarifying.
Hmmm, I appreciate the trouble someone's gone to to provide this cab and am grateful for the effort but if I'm not mistaken, I'd guess it's less messing about just to let the screen time out by itself?
Sorry if that sounds ungrateful or critical - it's not meant to!
Cret said:
Thanks for clarifying.
Hmmm, I appreciate the trouble someone's gone to to provide this cab and am grateful for the effort but if I'm not mistaken, I'd guess it's less messing about just to let the screen time out by itself?
Sorry if that sounds ungrateful or critical - it's not meant to!
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I slighty disagree, when I want to put on some music fast, I startup coreplayer, start the music, press homescreen button and press the black_screen in my quick menu. So it's a personal thing, wait.... or quick black screen . Also when you want you're time-out on say 10min or longer, the black_screen app is also a handy tool to quickly put off the screen with music on.
And it didn't sound critical, it's a forum, so no hard feelings
No worries mate. It was a guess really or assumption since I've not actually tried the cab.
Good points and well made.
xda shutdown works to. Change sleep setting to "lights out".
I found it very unconvinient to stop MP3 player (if someone is talking to you, or you want to listen for some message at the station). Especially I it is not show the Player screen after unlock.
Is there a way to use one of the HARDWARE keys to stop/start playing?
In that way I miss my SonyE mobile ...
I know there should be a way to reassign hardware keys to play/pause somehow, but I don't know the specifics.
Generally, if you lock while the media player tab or the media player itself is open and visible, it should be visible right after unlock.
Another option you could try is S2U2 with S2P
S2U2 is an unlocking program and S2P is a media player
S2U2 can display the media controls of S2P on the unlocking screen itself, saving you of a mere couple of presses. However S2U2 is extremely ugly without a proper skin so you might want to look into those.
starbright_ said:
I found it very unconvinient to stop MP3 player (if someone is talking to you, or you want to listen for some message at the station). Especially I it is not show the Player screen after unlock.
Is there a way to use one of the HARDWARE keys to stop/start playing?
In that way I miss my SonyE mobile ...
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I SO get that.
I want to be able to press a button and stop playback, while leaving the phone in my pocket. Its allways a hassle to pull it out, unlock it, press the appropriate touch-button and than be able to listen to the guy who just said something to you!
this is the second threat today where I just want my old Herm300 back.. loads of hardware buttons, all mapable, everything just "working"... and a hardware keyboard lol oh how I miss THAT.