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.
Hello all firt im new here i like the site, secon i have a the version 5 software(i guess, don really need he v.6)
ok problem 1 i cant seem to be able to put music in my phone or starage card and have it played in the media player, it basically does not appear, but everything does apear in the ringtones seccion. When i try to syn withe active sync and media player on my pc i get this :
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is on another computer, verify that you are connected to the network. If you typed a path, verify that it is correct. If the problem persists, the server might not be available."
Problem 2, i have a chess game i got but cant seem to put it in my phone, can some one tell me exactly what folder to pu it in
P.S and good game you recomend?
thanx in advance, oo and i did read lots of posts but none helped me
Don't crosspost. You posted the same question on three boards.
My standard Touch Pro is not playing most mp3's. Some will work but a majority stop at 7, 8 or 12 seconds. It ws at first coming up with an error report for Microsoft, but now even that doesn't happen, it just hangs.
All I have done on the phone is increase the system pagefile to 8mb to make the touchflo 3d work better, as per a post in these forums. Aside from that it is bog-standard. WMPlayer seems to be fine with the mp3's, it just seems to be the HTC Audio Manager
Any ideas?
Did you softreset already?
several times. I may try a hard reset but wondered if anyone had seen this behaviour before.
my guess is that you are using mp3pro or similarly formatted music and the htc software cant handle it, you should upload a problem track for someone else to try, i bet you it wont work on their machine either,
But all the music is on the memory card from my kaiser, and it played fine in that...
Edit: Anyhoo, I am going to try a hard reset now and see if that makes a difference. I had originally copied the music from my pc onto the memory card. I have copied the same music to my wife's diamond and it works fine...
[QUOTE Edit: Anyhoo, I am going to try a hard reset now and see if that makes a difference. [/QUOTE]
Nope! I just hard-reset the phone and did nothing at all to it. I went to music player and while scanning for music it came up with:
A problem has occurred with AudioManager_eng.exe
Please tell Microsoft about this problem, at no cost to you. The data is used exclusively to improve products.
etc etc
got exactly the same issue. When using the build in music player there are errors.
I'm getting the same issue - it doesn't play anything. BUT, if I take my storage card out (SanDisk 8GB) and soft reset it plays the built in music fine.
I'm intending to try formatting the storage card and copying the music over again via Windows Media Player to see if that fixes the issue.
I had the storage card in my Kaiser until yesterday, and all the music played fine in HTC Audio Manager on there.
There is a thread in the Diamond forum which talks about embedded album art being a potential cause of this problem, but I'm not sure how you work out if the album art is embedded in the mp3 or not.
Any updates on this issue?
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yes any? i have this issue; all worked fine ten one day it all stopped. i cant even find music when tf3d searches but can play it in WMP fine
Same problem: HTC Touch Pro music player wouldn't work. I have no problem tapping on the Library and Menu tabs but it just wouldn't play anything at all. Everytime I tried, I get this annoying message about AudioManager_eng.exe not working. Admitedly, I've been installing quite a few third party stuff on it e.g. Advance Config Tool, Skype, GoogleMaps AnswerKey Disabler etc., so I tried uninstalling all of them but still no luck! Soft reset, tried that too. I was about to do a hard reset but not after reading comclusive's post.
So far none of my music is stored on the storage card, and I have no problems playing all songs using the Windows Media player
Would really appreciate if someone, anyone, can help!
Same here for me. The Touchflo 3d music player stopped working on my Touch Pro... Audiomanager_eng.exe is at fault. It happened when I copied a folder containing subfolders of music (e.g. an artist folder containing all of their albums) over to my storage card. Im pretty sure this is what bogged it since i had no trouble having a single folder (just the album folder) stored directly onto my storage card. This is the 2nd time this has happened to me. A hard reset does fix it... but i dont want to loose all my contacts/appointments/settings again. Does anyone know how i can back all that stuff up and just load it back on once i did a hard reset??? Thank you in advance.
Oh and i deleted the folders off the storage card, but strangely enough the music player still says the files are there, its like it saved it to memory and there's no way to clear it.
Hello guys!
I surely can tell it's a problem with some mp3 files you have.
I had the same problem. I turned mad for this to find a solution.
The symptoms are:
- you can play only some files and only some seconds of the working mp3s, then TF3D MP stops playing
- you can notice, after you deleted audiomanager_eng.vol, that catalog process takes much time than normally
- you can't change song with up/down buttons
- you can't change song even if you select another mp3 in the library.
I had 176 mp3s on my SD card.
They came from the old SD card in my HTC Universal.
I thought were was a problem for TF3D MP to read my files, because of the subfolder structure I did.
But finally I found that there was only 1 file (on 176 files...) that TF3D music player didn't like.
I found this file by trying to add 10 mp3s at a time.
At every add, I tried TF3D to see if it worked fine.
When TF3D blocked, I undestood that in these 10 files I copied, there were one or more wrong files.
When I deleted audiomanager_eng.vol, I copied one by one, until I found the wrong file.
I don't know what's wrong with these files and do block TF3D MP.
With PocketMusic they play good.
With every other PPC music player, they play.
In the PC they play good with Winamp and WMP.
I checked the non working files in the PC, they are standard mp3s (no mp3-pro), with standard costant/variable bitrates, no strange mp3 tags or strange characters in the tags.
Nothing strange with them.
I know it's not pleasant to do and it's take much time, but you must check one by one (or by copying some files at a time like I did) until you find the wrong files.
so what did you do with the non-working music files? did you convert them into a different format and see if they worked that way?
Hey guys!
I had the same problem a couple of days ago...
But I opened WMP and made a Playlist of all my mp3's and then I opened the playlist in the TF3D MP.
The problem stopped!
For me that is, don't know if it will work for you, maybe it's worth a try!
Hi, I had the same issue. I think it comes from the system used to show the cd cover and classify the files. All the mp3s must have correct metadata (album name, artist, etc.) If some mp3s don't have this information, there is a crash. As I didn't want to edit the metadata of each mp3 I listen to, and I don't like software which dictate a way of storing files, I decided to switch to Pocket music player, which in fact I find better (not as pretty but what's the point when you want to LISTEN to music ? It works nearly the same way as winamp and that's perfect for me) and I turned off the player tab with TF3D in order not to have software errors when I use Touchflo 3D. They want people to use windows media player to put their music on their device, but I don't use this crappy software on my PC and I don't want to use it just to add music in my phone...
I ran into the same problem two days ago. Luckily, I'd put all of my songs in directories sorted by artist and album so that I was able to find the album that ended up causing my problem. In my case, the "searching..." function just hung. I let it run for 2 hrs leaving it untouched before I touched the "Library" icon. At that point, I saw some of my music but only up to the offending album. Also saw problems selecting new songs to play and scrolling through song in the "Now Playing" top level. I then went back to my desktop where the songs came from and looked at the id3v2 tags on the mp3 files and noticed that this album had a genre of 147 (Synthpop). I then did a quick check on all of my songs and found the following genres:
TCON (Content type): Alternative (20)
TCON (Content type): Classical (32)
TCON (Content type): Country (2)
TCON (Content type): Folk (80)
TCON (Content type): Folk/Rock (81)
TCON (Content type): Heavy Metal (137)
TCON (Content type): Indie (131)
TCON (Content type): Jazz (8)
TCON (Content type): Latin (86)
TCON (Content type): New Wave (66)
TCON (Content type): Synthpop (147)
TCON (Content type): Other (12)
TCON (Content type): Pop (13)
TCON (Content type): Rhythmic Soul (118)
TCON (Content type): Rock (17)
TCON (Content type): Rock & Roll (78)
TCON (Content type): Soul (42)
TCON (Content type): Soundtrack (24)
TCON (Content type): Swing (83)
TCON (Content type): Vocal (28)
As you can see 147 is the highest value. Did a bit of research and found the official ID3 website and it's "official" list of genres here:
http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-129376727ebe5309c1de1888987d070288d7c7e7
Everything above 79 are winamp extensions and found that in addition to the winamp extensions listed in the id3v2.3 spec there are more that added later:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=852239#post852239
With all of this info, I came to believe that perhaps tf3d did not implement all of the latest winamp genre codes and that causes some problems. I rewrote the tag on all of the mp3s in that album to 20 instead of 147 (only took a single commandline using id3v2 command on linux) and reloaded them to my microsd card. Cleared my tf3d library and rebooted. After booting, I went to the music player tab and it went into searching mode. after about 15-20min (could have been shorter but I was doing something else) I saw that it had come out of "Searching..." and was showing the standard "Now Playing" screen. Checked the Library and all of my music was imported, pushing the play button gets immediate response, and I can scroll through my songs. I was also able to select an artist and play all songs from that artist without problems. I don't know if this will fix anyone else's problem but give it a try. BTW, I have some files with blank creater/comment fields and other missing info in the id3 tag and they play fine so that does not seem to be the problem by itself.
Some more findings... I tested each genre between 137 to 148 and found that it indeed does fail at 147 and 148.. I can only assume anything between 147 and 254 inclusive will fail. I do have some songs that are 255 which is defined as "Unknown" and it appears tf3d handles that value correctly. Of more interest, when I go below 147, it appears there is an offset error of 1. What I mean is synthpop comes up as 147 in everything I can find online but the mp3 that I tagged as genre 146 came up as synthpop on tf3d. After some thinking figured that the issue probably happens near the original id3v1 genre boundary and the winamp extensions mentioned in the id3v2 spec (namely between 79 and 80). Looked through my music collection and I indeed have some with a genre of 80 which is "Folk". Located those songs on the tf3d player and found it listed as "Folk/Rock" which should be 81. As it turns out I've got another set of songs that are tagged as 81 and on tf3d it shows up as "National Folk". "National Folk" is supposed to be 82. So here's the breakdown...
Winamp extentions according to id3v2 spec and freedb.org:
80: Folk
81: Folk/Rock
82: National Folk
83: Swing
...etc
genre shown on tf3d:
80: Folk/Rock
81: National Folk
82: Swing
...etc
So first problem is their genre table is wrong and if it's something that they don't explicitly map (i.e. between 147 and 254) then the app that creates the library spins and things go bad.
I had the similar issues with both my Hermes and new Raphael units. I figure it was file fomatting mentioned in other replies. If I copied directly to the memory card using my computer adapter, then installed the card in the phone, the player in the phone would either not play correctly, or didn't recognize at all.
Once I copied to the card while it was installed on the phone, the software performed a conversion and I could read/play all files correctly.
Try these tweaks:
HKLM\System\Storagemanager\Fatfs\Cachesize = 16384
This makes a large enough cache for the player to read all MP3 data from a 2 GB SD card collection. First time it takes a little while to load, but subsequently it goes much faster. Raising this to 32 MB does not make a difference, 8 MB is a bit too little still as I figured out.
HKLM\Software\HTC\Audiomanager_Eng\Config\Request_memory = 8388608
(=8 MB) Gives more memory to the audio player at the cost of free memory.
HKCU\Software\HTC\Taskmanager\MemoryThreshold = 83886080
>> (80 MB) Believe it or not, but this solved the MP3 problem. My theory : It seems that both Windows Media Player (WMP) as well as the HTC audiomanager share some components namely the WMP library file. Using the HTC audiomanager for sure opens the WMP library. If the WMP library starts to take up more memory, less is left for the HTC audiomanager somehow to play songs?? Reserving a smaller chunk of memory for the taskmanager (assuming that WMP is doing some memory management outside the taskmanager from HTC seems to solve it, weirdly enough)
Soft reset, and then let the windows media player find all your songs on your device (update the library for WMP and HTC).
BONUS:
HKLM\Software\HTC\Audiomanager_Eng\Config\Music_player_volumn = 80
All values between 1 and 100, this indicates the max volume of the HTC player and may give somewhat more room to use the volume + and - keys.
It also avoids you becoming deaf...
Here is how I easily send all my Mp3s directly to the Storage Card of my HTC Touch Pro using the Mediamonkey application.
1. Connect the phone using active sync (not disk mode). Do this before opening Mediamonkey in order for the application to correctly identify the phone
2. Open Mediamonkey
3. Create a Library of songs in your PC (duh)
4. Use the Mediamonkey to organize/edit/add artwork to your songs.
5. Select any number of songs you need to send to the phone and right click. Select the option “Send to …” and “Storage Card (Synchronize)”
6. Soft reset the phone. This is for the “Music” TF3D application to identify the songs
It worked for me every time. The “Music” TF3D application now shows all songs with artwork and all.
i know this is an old thread, but just wanting to say thanks.
i was trying to get mediamonkey to sync with my tytn ii for ages, and couldn't work out why it wasn't visible.
turned out that i had to sync then open MM.
hoping that someone else out there that uses MM (great proggie) might find this useful too.
thanks again.
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?!