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Dynamic/Smart playlists in WMP on Mobile (or on an alternative player)

Hi everyone,
As you know WMP has an "Auto playlist" option that lets you create playlists on a set of rules. However, when it syncs it to the WMP mobile, they turn to regular playlists.
E.g if I have a playlist that is "Not played in last 5 days" and I play some songs from it on the WMP Mobile, all the songs will still be there. Is there a way for truly dynamic playlist on WMP Mobile? If not, what other player you know that supports this feature?
Thanks!

I'd love this feature as a way to create a playlist that stays filled with the latest podcasts downloaded from RSS Hub -- and ideally that deletes the ones I've listened to. Any suggestions?

Yeah I've been really disappointed with the media player features as well as the alternative media players in winmo. I hate having to carry my earbuds as well as a jabra bluetooth dongle, so I've switched back to carrying both an ipod and my phone. I'd pay $100 for a decent player with similar features to my ipod touch or my wife's zune.

Conduits Pocket Player. All you'll ever need, including dynamic playlists.

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Conduits Pocket Player. All you'll ever need, including dynamic playlists.
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I'll try that out; looks like it has a 30-day trial. I've been playing with Mortplayer, and it does at least some of what I'm looking for, for free.

Pocket Player's finger-friendly library is great: it has smooth flick scrolling, handles large libraries (2000+ tracks) effortlessly and is very customizable. Hope you like it too.

Try out Kinoma's Player. Not sure if this one does what you're trying to do, but there is a free version and so far in my use of it, is ridiculously cool. Also supports Orb.com and other streaming content providers, has RSS podcasts that will stream in (not sure if there's a way to download them to the device, again, haven't been using it very long).
http://kinoma.com/freeplay/download/

I've been playing with the Conduits Pocket Player trial and the Kimona FreePlay, which is a crippled version of the full Kimona Player. It's hard to compare them, because Pocket Player is a 30-day trial of the full version, whereas all of the relevant features are turned off in Kimona's free version.
Pocket Player does everything I need. It's great.
Kimona FreePlay's interface, though, is fantastic. If the full version does everything Pocket Player does -- dynamic smart playlists, especially -- it would probably be better than Pocket Player.
(I listen to podcasts on my 30-minute drive to work. Pocket Player has a smart playlist called "recently added", which stays full of various podcasts I subscribe to through RSS Hub -- which is great for one-tap skipping ahead and so forth while I'm driving).

A year has passed.
Has anyone come up with something less clunky for Windows Mobile smart playlists of podcasts (automatically or on demand download new episodes, add to playlist and delete old episodes) than using having to deal with using 2 different apps?
Seems like a really common request that's being ignored for Windows Mobile while good apps are made for Andorid, Blackberry and iPhone.
Even Stitcher.com has elected to make apps for every major smartphone OS except Windows Mobile.

Windows Mobile Media Players?

I love my iPhone because it can be my media player and my phone. But, I need more functionality offered in Windows Mobile.
So, do you guys use your Windows Mobile device as a Media Player? Or do you have separate Zunes/iPods/etc. to do the work of the media player?
If you do use Window Mobile, let me know what program you use for your media!

TCPMP is an excellent media player. I have not found an unlocked audio or video file it could not play. If you search for TCPMP in this forum or in the XDA-Developers Wiki you'll find most anything you'd want to know.
That said, while TCPMP is a nice player, it is not an organizer nor does it have a fancy "choosing" function for selecting files. Perhaps someone could recommend an application that makes launching TCPMP more intuitive.

Both have their place
I've got a Zune 30 that I bring along when I know I'll want plenty of music to choose from. My main reason is that battery life on my Tilt is not what I'd like it to be because my 8 gig sd card has plenty of room for tunes, and S2P is one of the slickest programs I've ever seen. You would be comfortable with it immediately. I do listen to Audible content (newspaper) on my phone every morning with the Kinoma player. It's actually easier to get the content onto my phone than to get it on my Zune. Audible's manager program blows hard. The Kinoma player can handle pictures, video, and streams as well. I use it for Youtube all the time.
As an added bonus for us Zune owners, I recently discoverd that ZunePass subscription content can be synched to our phones with Windows Media Player and plays just fine in either WMP or S2P, so I have been putting more music on the SD card lately.

on those occasions when i only want to carry one device then I use S2P to play audio files on my Trinity.

S2P on the Tilt for music, TCPMP for movies. Done.

Is s2p free? What media formats does it support? Is it A2DP compatible? And does it have any way of controlling music in standby mode (Can you click the D-Pad while the screen is off to skip a song??? Can you control volume using the toggle switches?
Thanks for the tips guys!

I use the HTC Audio Manager, which has a very similar interface to the classic iPod. You can use the D-Pad to control it and the volume switch to change the volume (but I think the device has to be on)
It supports A2DP.
You can also control it from the home screen (http://www.unwiredview.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/htc-touch-diamond-official.jpg)

Kinoma Player
I've used this free program called Kinoma Player which is brilliant.
It has full touch friendly interface, it can stream youtube files, supports many other files, it's great overall, even has podcasts.
I'd recommend that program, you can get it off of Windows Mobile Total Access or from Kinoma's sight directly.
Hey, about the ZunePass stuff, my subscription music doesn't work on my T-Mobile Wing. Any clue why? probably cuz of the DRM's but you guys said urs worked, so it leaves me wondering.
Do you sync ur Zune music to your phone using Windows Media Player sync? Or do you just drag & drop the music to ur card?

Sync the ZunePass content through WMP
and it should work. At least that is what works for me.

Best iTunes sync for android?

Hey guys I got a lot of music in my iTunes library and I'm wondering what are the best apps out there to use to sync with android. I hear about winamp and double twist but never used any of them. What are your guys opinion on these apps.TIA.

You can use MeloDroid. It's a free download for Windows.
melodroid.weebly.com
There's also a paid app (0.99) that let's you use your Android phone as a remote for iTunes.

Another alternative would be doubleTwist - it works very well, with the optional AirSync-component you may also sync your music via WiFi

Musicbee on windows. Fast itunes-like media player with many functions, like tabs, lyrics and now playing list. Can import itunes library. Syncs playlists to phone. Has functions to auto-get lyrics and album artwork. And best of all, if you use last fm scrobble, music bee has a function to import lastfm playcount into library which helps keeping a global playcount

winamp is really good. free airsync

[Q] Looking for music/podcast player for Android with a PC equivalent

hi all.
I'm considering an Android based music player device and I'd like to get a music and podcast app that synchronises with a desktop equivalent.
Can anyone make any suggestions?
I listen to music and podcasts on several devices and ideally what I'd like is an app and desktop equivalent that can manage my subscriptions and sync based on whether or not I've listened to a feed item on any device.
Similar I guess to the Zune software but without the frustrating proprietary technology lock and non-standard support.
I know I can subscribe directly to my android handset and sometimes I'll do that but mostly I subscribe via a desktop or cloud and sync to the devices selectively.
I'm looking at Media Monkey at the moment for the desktop app but it doesn't seem to sync with an Android device except as a hardware storage device which I suspect means that whilst it will sync podcast content none of the management will go with it.
Any advice or suggestions about Media Monkey, Winamp, DoubleTwist or Songbird would also be appreciated.

Mediamonkey can sync as mass storage device or as a mediaplayer device but as you say, it doesn't really manage it.
Winamp has a android app but I never checked it as I don't like the desktop software.

I sort of go around.
I use foobar2000 ( the best media player around?) + podcatcher. On android I just use default music player. I don't see a point in podcast manager on a phone.
It doesn't support sync per say, but you can customize to do so.
RMB > File Operations > Copy To > ... There you can customize a profile where to copy. Just assign shortcut to it and off you go.

[Q] Does Android possible to sync the music folder with pc?

Or more specific sync with foobar2000 as it really a good player and it manage all my music file.
It got a apple plugin for a long time, will it happen on android
Most of my music is ape+cue so musicmonkey doesn't work at all

Hey,
I recently found a good possibility to sync my music with my PC: It's a freeware called Audials Light that I have on my computer and an app calles Audials on my Android.
Both have a function Audials Anywhere that makes the syncing of music and videos pretty easy.
Here's the link to get the freeware: personalmediacloud.com
And the app you get in the Android Market (now Google Play ): just search for "Audials"
Hope I could help you!

I sync with windows media player