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MP3 Player software for $20

Has anybody used this software or does it suit the XDA 2?
http://www.starbriteltd.com/

JUST WONDERING WHY SOMEBODY WILL PAY $20 FOR ANOTHER MP3 PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH WMP9 THAT CAME WITH WM2003?

or if one is a winamp on pc hound winampaq works just fine and look and act like winamp and can use winamp skins aswell
and is free of cause

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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 18:38 Post subject:
JUST WONDERING WHY SOMEBODY WILL PAY $20 FOR ANOTHER MP3 PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH WMP9 THAT CAME WITH WM2003?
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Personally, I hate the crappy playlist editor. You can't sort by filename, and there's no drag-and-drop. I also dislike the massive waste of screen real-estate - Why not show the playlist instead of that huge video display? Same-same for DivX, although the playlist editor is a little better.
Winampaq has a nice playlist editor, but the last time I installed it the song titles aren't displaying properly in the player (they're fine in the playlist).
PocketMusic is nice, but I found it did something to my Bluetooth which disabled bluetooth beam receive. I made a posting about that little issue.
The hunt for the perfect player continues....

Pay!!!
I think you are on the wrong website mate.
If it ain't free its not worth downloading. especially with the chance of losing it all again if the machine goes down
And secondly i like to try a lot of software. change it arround like a spring clean
I use The standard MP3 player with some different skins, and I used the MORT player. MORT player is real good, with a nice equilizer in it

DO NOT USE ON XDA2!!!
I downloaded and tried using this pPod on my QTEK 2020. When I opened the application, it gave some error message and then did not output any sound. I logged a support call with the developers but never heard from them so I decided to uninstall it. Once I did that, the Volume on my pda would always return to zero i.e. I would turn it right up, and then go back in to find that its been turned back down again, and Media Player could no longer play mp3 files (gave some error about corrupt files). Only a hard reset fixed these issues.
Any one had any luck with this software I would be interested in knowing.

o2 xda Orbit II.....AAC Files

Please could someone help or explain.I purchased the orbit II last week,I am still getting used to its power and capabilities.
In the manual it says it can play AAC files.I have downloaded some onto the storage card and the touch flo player hasnt recognised them, nor has the windows media player.
It recognises and plays MP3 files.The aac files are not protected they are ones that I downloaded myself from my own cds.
Also why can I not see photos that I have just taken that are saved to my storage card,in the photo viewer on Touch flo.
Thank you in advance for any help,
Peter

pocketmusic can play aac

Thansk for that,but I was looking to find out what the situation was with the phone rather than get a programme that will do something that the manufacturers are saying the phone should do.
I have noticed that the windows media player does add the tunes to its catalogue but files them under ARTIST "UNKNOWN" (as though the tags arent working).The touch flo or HTC player however doesnt even do this.
Does anybody know of a solution to this other than spending money on a progamme to do something that the phone should do already,
many thanks
Peter15965

It's really wierd. I have the same problem and also had this problem with my previous phone which was an O2 XDA Orbit 1 (i.e. rebranded HTC Artemis).
I'm afraid that I never found a solution that didn't involve third party software. I think the problem is that, although HTC have included the decoder to play AAC and AAC+ files, neither of the built in players seem to be able to read the tags from the m4a container format so, although they can play the contents, they can't incorporate the tracks in a meaningful way into the library (I also saw Windows Media Player putting everything as unknown).
I know it's not what you were hoping to hear, and I'd love for someone to prove me wrong, but right now I think you're stuck with going the third-party route.
If you don't want to spend money then I initially used TCPMP. It doesn't have any library browser built in but I found that by intelligent choice of the directory tree structure I used to store my files (My Music/<Artist>/<Album>/<Tracks>) then I could use the file browser in TCPMP to browse my collection in a fairly convenient manner. I now use Conduits PocketPlayer because that has a fantastic library browser and reads the m4a tags perfectly; the program is pretty resource hungry but for now I'm keeping the faith in the hope that they'll address that at some point in the future (their support is good).
- Julian

Thanks Julian at least I know its a common problem(does 2 handsets constitute common).
I will look into pocketplayer as a solution for the timebeing.I was hoping I wouldnt have to put other apps on that would slow the phone down.
Thanks again
Peter15965

peter15965 said:
Thanks Julian at least I know its a common problem(does 2 handsets constitute common).
I will look into pocketplayer as a solution for the timebeing.I was hoping I wouldnt have to put other apps on that would slow the phone down.
Thanks again
Peter15965
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You're welcome.
In most cases putting other apps on shouldn't slow down the phone. The reason apps can slow down the phone (and/or drain battery) can be because they have a Today plugin which, if not well written or if it needs to keep accessing the network, can slow things down. If an app does have a Today plugin (as PocketPlayer does) then you can often disable it (as you can for PocketPlayer).
The other reason for third party apps to slow down the phone is because Windows Mobile default behaviour when you click the top-right "x" button is to minimise the app (i.e. leave it running in the background) rather than close it down completely. Again, in this case an app that does anything significant when it is running in the background can slow down the phone. Clearly a music player needs to keep running while it is playing music but, once finished, you can make sure it is out of memory completely by selecting Exit from the application's menu.
In short, if you're careful to fully close apps when you don't need them, then you shouldn't slow down your phone at all (except so far as having a music player running in the background, whether built in or third party, will always put a drain on the CPU and make other apps run more slowly while the music is playing).
- Julian

Oops. One big thing I forgot to mention. If you do look at PocketPlayer then don't download the latest version (3.51) from their web site. There is a nasty problem in that build specifically related to playing AAC files on HTC devices that I reported to them and has been fixed in an internal beta for 3.52 which, as the reporter of the bug, I have been given to test. You should email [email protected] and say that you want to use it for AAC on an HTC device and hopefully they (Carrie) will let you try out a beta build with the issue fixed.
The issue by the way is that 3.51 doesn't correctly detect end-of-stream when an AAC track has finished so (a) it doesn't auto-advance to the next track in the playlist because it thinks the current track hasn't finished yet and (b) even worse, if you forget to explicitly turn off your device after you've finished listening then PocketPlayer thinks it is still playing your last track and so the device will not put itself into standby and can drain the battery. The issue is fixed in the latest beta build and as an added bonus it also parses m4a tags natively (in 3.51 you could tag your collection by using an option in PocketPlayer to infer the tags from the filenames used in your folder structure but it now reads the real tags in the latest beta).
There is also one other more obscure problem I'm trying to help them diagnose related to AAC on HTC devices but I've been a bit busy recently so am due to give them some feedback and check status on that today or tomorrow. This may or may not be fixed at this stage, I can probably give more feedback in a couple of days so personally I would hold off until I give you an update. If you definitely want to go ahead with a beta build then I can give you a workaround that works most of the time.
- Julian

Thanks again Julian, a fantastic answer by all accounts.I will hold off until you get an answer back about the problems you mention.
Thanks again for a most comprehensive answer.How will we know when the fix is through?
Peter15965

peter15965 said:
Thanks again Julian, a fantastic answer by all accounts.I will hold off until you get an answer back about the problems you mention.
Thanks again for a most comprehensive answer.How will we know when the fix is through?
Peter15965
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I emailed them this afternoon and got the answer. They've fixed the problem and I'm about to install a new beta to check it's OK. Apparently it was a Windows Mobile bug that they've managed to work around. I'll play with this new update pretty extensively tomorrow so you should get an answer from me in about 24 hours.
- Julian

peter15965 said:
I have downloaded some onto the storage card and the touch flo player hasnt recognised them, nor has the windows media player.
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I found out some interesting thing: Some files are playing correctly but others refuse to work. I think that has to do with the bitrate of the files. All my m4a-files are bought from Apple Music Store. Most times my files are the unprotected ones with higher bitrate, but I have a few files which were protected (unfortunately I must have lost the copy protection somewhere, I'm really sorry for that ). The protected ones were encoded in a lower bitrate. What I found out is, that all my former protected files are played correctly. So maybe Windows Media Player can only handle files up to certain bitrate which obviously should be lower than 256kbps.
Further test: I created a playlist within windows mobile, but the Audio Manager (Touch Flo) wasn't able to read it. I managed that the playlist was recognized by the program, but it couldn't find any files.
So it is possible to play aac files (up to a certain bitrate) and to create playlists in Windows Media Player without any issues (yet). But I couldn't get it working in TouchFlo.
So, ok, I made half the way. Now it's up to you to make it fully functional.

have the same issue, I see the AAC file in the explorer and can play them from there but they are not loaded in the catalogue. anybody any other idea how to make the visible there? is buying pocket player the only solution?
thanks for the help in advance to everybody

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I emailed them this afternoon and got the answer. They've fixed the problem and I'm about to install a new beta to check it's OK. Apparently it was a Windows Mobile bug that they've managed to work around. I'll play with this new update pretty extensively tomorrow so you should get an answer from me in about 24 hours.
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The news isn't as positive as I'd hoped. The latest build has improved the problem (so at least they've identified it and found the right area to make changes) but it hasn't fixed it completely.
The player is still usable with AAC files but there is one glitch. After it's been playing for a while, say about 2 hours, then something seems to get corrupted in the image or via a bug in Windows Mobile itself such that thumbnails of the artwork for the album covers no longer display properly when browsing your music library. With the previous build the device would lock up at this point and require a soft reset so at least they've fixed that problem but there is still some sort of issue unresolved.
The workaround seems to be to just fully exit PocketPlayer every couple of hours and then re-launch it again so it's not too arduous and shouldn't prevent you playing with the trial version (although this partially-fixed beta isn't publicly available so you will need to contact support to see if they'll give it to you and given that it still has a known issue they might just ask you to wait a bit).
I'm obviously still working with them to try and 100% nail this issue.
- Julian

RingtoneTrimmer?

I'm running LolliGPE and was wondering if there's a way to get the ringtone trimmer back. I found "HtcRingtoneTrimmer.apk" on some download sites, but they all require security permissions that make me think they are spyware or something.
Anyone have a legit HTC Ringtone Trimmer APK that will work on Lollipop?

Do you have access to a computer? There are many ringtone makers/trimmers on the Play Store, but Audacity is a free (open source?) program that will let you trim mp3 files (among other things, it's quite powerful). What makes it so good is that you can find the starting point, and get real precise on the waveform exactly where you want it to start, so it's just right, and then set the length (30 seconds is good). And then you can apply effects, like have a fade-in, so your phone doesn't just start blasting your ringtone.

[APP] Stealth Audio Player - play audio through earpiece

Usually, there are two ways of playing music on Android device. You can either use your headphones or a speaker. But how about a third option?
The purpose of this app is to enable the users to listen to something when they do not have earphones and they don't want to use speakers.
When you are with someone and you must listen to an audio file e.g. a voice message, etc. you can now listen to it using your device's earpiece (from which you hear phone calls) using this app.
This is useful not just for usual audio files, but also for podcasts, and comes in handy for when you forgot to bring headphones and do not want to disturb those around you. Stealth Audio Player enables you to make good use of the tiny speaker to listen things which should not play from the main big speaker.
Download from Play Store:​https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsbyusman.stealthaudioplayer
FEATURES:​
Plays any kind of Audio from the earpiece of your device.
Plays Videos on screen and their audio is routed through the earpiece.
Folders Browser lets you locate specific files.
Ignore Folders option under Settings makes a Blacklist of folders to ignore.
Basic and functional Audio and Video players.
Dedicated lists for Audio and Video files.
Option to remove ads in Settings screen.
UPDATES:​v17:
THIS IS A MAJOR UPDATE:
*** VIDEO PLAYER ***
Now you can play VIDEO files using this player - the audio will come through the earpiece!
v16:
Introduced a PRO UPGRADE to remove ads
Introduced a Settings screen where you can add some folders to the ignore list.
v14 (Major Update):
Folders support: Now browse any folder on your device to look for and play specific files.
New Navigation Drawer: All the sections of the app in one place.
Partial ***VIDEO*** support: Open a video file from a folder and the app will play its audio (more support will be coming later).
Previous (v13):
All crashing issues fixed!
Performance improvements.
Player becomes untouchable when the phone is near the ear (to avoid accidental touches).
WhatsApp audio messages will not appear in this app.
"Unable to read file" issue fixed.

Excellent concept.
this app is very helpful when i want to listen something without disturbing others and my earphones are out of my reach.

Thanks man! I really appreciate your feedback

Please support more audio code, it support only mp3, i use m4a itunes

Ok I'll see if it works. Currently it supports mp3, ogg, and wav files.

Just published an update to this app. Here's the summary:
The app now supports m4a file format, in addition to mp3, ogg, and wav files.
Few bug fixes and performance improvements.

Amazing work dude!!! thanks

I'm glad that you like it. Thanks for the feedback

Left a comment in Google Play and that's not very common for me.
Simplicity and ease of use are outstanding. Good work!
Wysłane z mojego SM-G930F przy użyciu Tapatalka

Cool brogood job:good:

Man, from at least 2 years i wish to have an app like this... Incredibly useful. Trying it in some minutes, thanks a lot.

Guys thanks a lot for all the feedback and reviews! I have published another update just now. Here is a summary of what's new:
v1.2:
Now supports EPI file format.
External sd card is supported.
v1.1:
Now supports m4a file format, in addition to mp3, ogg, and wav files.
Few bug fixes and performance improvements.

usman farhat said:
External sd card is supported.
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Just what i thought to ask you as I made a jump here again. Now that's everything i could desire. Thanks again

I'm glad that you like it

A couple of ideas that i could suggest to you to make this lil' app just perfect in every aspect, is first - adding an option to search music; second - add a side slider to reach alphabetically a certain letter.
I'd like to premise that these ideas could be useful just in my opinion, where i don't wanna use this as daily player obviously, but with more than 50 songs the research become huge and hard... What do you think?

A+ for the idea Nice, light-weight application. May it be useful to create the sticky notification with the control buttons and the name of the track? It will be shown when the app is running, and the song is playing. Several times, I have minimized the application instead of closing it or at least stopping the playback, put the phone in the pocket, and the music continued playing

RedSkull23 said:
A couple of ideas that i could suggest to you to make this lil' app just perfect in every aspect, is first - adding an option to search music; second - add a side slider to reach alphabetically a certain letter.
I'd like to premise that these ideas could be useful just in my opinion, where i don't wanna use this as daily player obviously, but with more than 50 songs the research become huge and hard... What do you think?
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Thanks for the feedback.
There is already an option to search music. You can search by Title, Artist, or file name.
About the slider: That would be very useful. I also want to implement it, and I will probably bring an update about it but right now I am working on making the app crash free for all devices.

onix.avacom said:
A+ for the idea Nice, light-weight application. May it be useful to create the sticky notification with the control buttons and the name of the track? It will be shown when the app is running, and the song is playing. Several times, I have minimized the application instead of closing it or at least stopping the playback, put the phone in the pocket, and the music continued playing
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The nature of this app is that we only hear the audio while the device is attached to the ear. In this position I don't think there is a need to bring features of full fledged music players. The users will stop hearing anything as soon as they are able to interact with their devices so there will be no use of bringing the notification controls.
This app is not a music player, it's more of a utility for hearing the audio in a different way.
However, I do have plans to better manage the minimizing of the application. This will be addressed in near updates.

usman farhat said:
Thanks for the feedback.
There is already an option to search music. You can search by Title, Artist, or file name.
About the slider: That would be very useful. I also want to implement it, and I will probably bring an update about it but right now I am working on making the app crash free for all devices.
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You're right, didn't noticed the lens icon in the upper right space. Maybe because i didn't reboot the phone after the last update..? Anyway I've seen that the list of available mp3s have to be reloaded by filename every time that the app is launched. You think that a preload of the list like a normal music player could ever be made someday?
Thanks to you for the creation of this app.

I have been trying to preload the data with different approaches. But it's getting a little tricky. I am gonna try something new tomorrow, which will hopefully make it A LOT more stable, and I am positive that the files will show up faster and with more stability than all previous version.
An update was also published today (evening) which addressed several crashing errors which the complainants are reporting to have been rectified now.

Samsung has a cool sound assistant app which made me wonder why no one else is trying that.

A lot of us read on our smartphones. Whether it's a social media post or something your boss sent you to read. The key thing is we all read. Now think of coming back from your job or school after a long tiring day. You have to read something and you don't feel like it. What would help you in this situation is an app called voice aloud reader.
Simply select the text, tap share, and choose the app. It will automatically start reading the text for you. You can turn your screen off and lie down on the bed or make a cup of coffee.
This is cool. You know what would be even cooler? Some background noise.
The voice coming from a Text to speech app never sounds like an actual human being. Sometimes it's harsh, sometimes there are words we don't comprehend clearly. Adding a calm song in the background from your Spotify playlist while listening to Voice Aloud Reader makes it much better so listen to that robotic voice. Almost the same as what Youtubers do nowadays.
But there's a problem. The sound coming from Spotify will have the same amount of loudness as the sound of the voice coming from VAR(Voice aloud reader). Because they're both using the same system sound. The music would be too loud at that point and VAR will be unrecognizable.
Samsungs Sound Assistant(SA) can tackle this. It has two handy features.
• Per-app sound profile: Let's you set different sound levels for each app. You can set 90 for Spotify when you listen to podcasts and 60 for your music player.
So the music player won't be too loud and the voice in Podcast won't be too low. You won't have to set it every time you open those apps.
• Multi Sound: Spotify and Music Player both will run and play preset sounds simultaneously. You can play Mozart on your Music Player, set the volume to 20. Come back and play Podcast and set its volume to 80. This fixes the problem I've mentioned earlier in my post.
Here's the conclusion. You might think there aren't many people who listen to something and want another thing to run in the background. I can't argue with that.
Then again, you won't know something you like until you taste it. I never knew I needed it until I used a Samsung phone for a week. It grew on me and it's hard to live without it now.
I made a post about anti-flicker/dc dimming a few months ago for people with sensitive eyes like me. I saw a lot of responses saying flickering problems happens to very few people. Now I'm posting about something even rarer. I know it's a long shot but if Samsung could do this years ago, others can do it now if they try. And I'll be hoping for something like this one my Xiaomi or Pixel.