Hi
Did a search and couldnt find anything on this. Is there a way to make wmp more finger friendly. I dont want to change the player but is there a way to make for example the library view menu icons larger as to select "All Music" "Artist" etc options are quite difficult with fingers and dont want to have to use the stylus all the time. Same for all other sub menus within those like album names and song titles if they were abit larger it would be so much better for navigating!
Thanks!
+1. WM 6.5 modified the menu's so navigating b/w the player and the library is fine now, but the library list is still very small to use.
Maybe there's a registry key to change the size of the font?
hmm not ready to try 6.5 yet so yer if something could be ported over?
Also I tried installing some skins for media player but they didnt work windows media player didnt find them for some reason so then i tried to delete them from the folder and i accidently deleted the default skin. So i would appreciate it if someone could send me the default skin and also why wouldnt the skins work in the first place? I used a cab which stuck them straight in the windows media folder?!
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I'm after a media player for WM 5.0 as it seems that my Univeral didn't come with a decent one (I don't consider WMP to be decent - lacks one of my requirements). I have two real requirements - might add some if I think of them:
- Must be able to play .mp4 files, .avi (DivX if possible), .wmv and .mpeg
- Important: must be able to skip through files one after another.
Explanation: the XDA2i which I used to have comes with an 'Album' program which can be used to view photos and videos. This had two great features; the ability to view photos and videos in one program (not a problem for me as I have an even better photo viewer now) and the ability to point it at a folder of videos and then watch them one after the other, skipping to the next just by pressing on the d-pad.
Can anyone name a good media player which can meet both criteria? I've looked at some comparison charts but none seem to specify what seems to be a small feature to them but is actually an important one to me.
I have tried TCPMP and that doesn't seem to meet the second criterion.
Suggestions?
Look at TCMP again, but this time look in the settings menu and configure some hotkeys to skip tracks, there are is no shortage of keys on the Universal when it comes to picking a hotkey.
I'm willing to have another go, but doesn't 'skip track' mean to just go to the next one in the playlist?
Due to the way I use my device (take lots of short videos when out with friends) I can't be constantly adding them to playlists. The number of files I deal with is too large for me to have to organise them myself.
TCMP's playlist idea is completly different to mediaplayer. Browse to your folder in TCMP's file selector and use the select ALL option to give yourself a temporary playlist with all the files in the folder. You can even use the DIR command to select your Media folder which may have further folders below it with music, pictures and video in them and everything will be selected for your playlist.
Ahh okay, I didn't realise one could do this. Going to give it another go then report back.
Thanks.
No probs, it will also play your images too so you've got everything your XDA IIi could do, and probably more
Seems to be okay, I'm a bit confused with the buttons but I have set it so they at least change the playing video. I also managed to get it to play all the files in a folder.
Its best to pick something you will remember, like 'N' for next and 'P' for previous.
I found some windows media player mobile skins a few weeks ago which wern't quite what i liked, does anybody know how to build my own or what programs ill need?
you dont need any programs. Use notepad to make "skn" file for WMP and use paint/photoshop or any graphic editor for making the graphics
I say the easiest way is to ask for permission of the owner and edit instead of from sratch, fastest way
all skins from later wmp i've treid to use have worked just fine
can anyone tell me how hard it would be to make a really good music player for pocket pc's. because I find it baffling that with all the music/media players out there that none of them are any good!!!( i believe they try and make them to complicated) I'm looking for one that as easy finger touch screen interface and one handed use! I want to me able to scroll and move between all my music, artists, albums etc, by finger and D-pad. Seen as Microsoft seem to want to ignore the media part of the phone(can't see why they can't just put portable media center into WM5) then I think we are going to have to do it?!?!?!
Any ideas? anyone agree?
baspooner said:
can anyone tell me how hard it would be to make a really good music player for pocket pc's. because I find it baffling that with all the music/media players out there that none of them are any good!!!( i believe they try and make them to complicated) I'm looking for one that as easy finger touch screen interface and one handed use! I want to me able to scroll and move between all my music, artists, albums etc, by finger and D-pad. Seen as Microsoft seem to want to ignore the media part of the phone(can't see why they can't just put portable media center into WM5) then I think we are going to have to do it?!?!?!
Any ideas? anyone agree?
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If you need big buttons easily pressable with just a finger, get MortPlayer. It's in no way the best media player (taking everything into account - see my previous multimedia reviews), but it's free and has BIIIIIIIG on screen buttons.
i've tried mortplayer, but as user interface goes it's rubbish!!! how hard would it be to write a full interface that is like portable media center?
Hi all.
Apologies to begin with - can't find the WMP mobile troubleshooting page MS alludes to on it's "welcome to win mobile" page.
Questions:
1. With WMP mobile 10.3, any tracks from a compilation album (i.e. different artists but same album name) cause the album to be listed loads of times, one per artist. Obviously I'd like the album listed only once. Any clues? Is this a bug? I import with winamp and the album names are identical, the tags are clean, the folder structure on my desktop hard drive is VA\Album for compilations, artist\album for normals.
2. If this isn't workaroundable, does anyone know if there's a manual for coreplayer? I have it & use it for videos but can't make head nor tail of it's library function - i think it might be corrupt, in fact. Or should I give up completely and use pocket player 4?
3. WMP mobile - will skins improve the size of the library items? It's tough to hit them on the move, give the small size. Seems ill-thought-out, given the amount of free space on the page. Classic Microsoft, I suppose.
Thanks all!
Dez
2. Found manual here, which helps. CorePlayer is massively unintuitive and both have been designed with no consideration that the users may be mobile, and don't want to have to use the stylus all the time.
No ideas for #1? Fixing this would save me having to use CorePlayer to play music, which would be a bonus since it's a pain to go through so many menus to do something so simple...
I just recently upgraded from windows mobile 6.1 to 6.5. I noticed that when you exit out of a program, it totally exits now instead of continuing to run in the background. is there any way to change that back like 6.1 had it? an example of why i wanted this was for playing a playlist. I had the windows media player widget on my home screen and i would add a playlist, then be able to exit out of windows media player and see my home screen again while the music still played. or does anybody have any ideas of a widget that will allow me to play music while still doing other things on my phone? Thanks in advance.
This is a simple answer but maybe is what you are looking for
Have you tried making the "X" minimize your programs instead of ending them?
Go to:
Settings->System->Task Manager->Button
End programs by tapping and holding "X"