I want to be able to play ogg files in media player on my XDAIIi, is this possible? If not, then I see there are a plethora of media players out there, Which would be most similar to media player to use?
Thanks,
Allan
ps I want ogg support as I believe it is the best quality codec for small files, please let me know if anyone has any opinions on this? or better codecs?
http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about
is the player that most people like
not 100% sure but i dont think mediaplayer from ms on pocketpc can use external codecs
it only really likes ms's own formats and then it does mp3 too but otherwise it's pretty poor supportwise
The old BetaPlayer as it was known back then is great features wise, but not very slick.
I think that PocketMusic is a great alternative, or perhaps at least for BP to be used as well as a commercial program.
The Bundle version of PM plays OGG files as well, amongst others.
Cheers
Ant
as above really, fed up of trying to find a decent app to play flac files, so i'm wondering if anyones cooked flac in to work with media player?
I know it isnt a ROM but it is a program that can play FLAC files. VLC was ported to the mobile platform a few years back though it never got out of Alpha. Here is the last build that was performed for the application. Hope that helps!
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/wince/trunk-20060214-0130/vlc-0.8.5-svn-20060214-0130-wince.zip
Hi, I've got a HTC Touch HD (Blackstone). I'm looking for a free application that can play FLAC audio files.
The inbuilt music player (in TouchFlo 3D) and the Windows Media Player recognise and play normal mp3s fine.
I have tried GS Player
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
but I didnt like the interface and still couldnt get it to read my FLAC files.
Can someone help me please?
PocketPlayer can play FLAC it's not free but well worth the price considering features.
Use TCPMP player, it's great for flac files
Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5687064#post5687064
I copied some FLAC files to be sim card but I cant even see them. When I open ASTRO I cant even see them? How do I play FLAC? I am trying to use WinAMP.
hi guys,
I just wanted to ask you if maybe anyone here can tell me what i have to do to get flac an wave files working on the htc media player?
I'm asking, because i'd like to leave my ipod video 5g (30gb with rockbox) at home and buy a 16gb card for the hd2
any solutions?
greetz,
Eck
Install and use TCpMP player instead of HTC original music player. Works perfect with all kind of audio, video and pic files.
Is there any way to use remote control buttons in TCpMP ?
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Is there any way to use remote control buttons in TCpMP ?
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Not that I know of. Anyway Pocket Player also supports plugins and you can download tha ape and flac ones from the Conduits website.
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Not that I know of. Anyway Pocket Player also supports plugins and you can download tha ape and flac ones from the Conduits website.
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Let's visit Conduits website then, Thanks a lot man
Yes, but isn't there any way to make the plugins work with the original media player, because i really like the tab player of the HD2, fits better to the whole device than a third party player and I don't want to start installing millions of apps to be able to open each file, I mean isn't it better to find a way to make it more simple and don't have to full up the memory and the registry of the phone?
Bump... any way of integrating FLAC decoding into this nice-looking program?
i also would like more plugins ffor the htc player because the controls look realy good and it plays full screen. flv, divx, etc, etc, and even wmv would be nice. somebody please.
Most of my music is MP3's, but one of nmy favourite albums is in WMA. I just noticed that my phone can't play back WMA audio files.
I have tried both from my music app (Vinyl) and also the built in player in my file manager (MiX).
I can play them via VLC, but from my understanding, that uses its own decoder, and does not rely on the ROM's decoders.
Is it just me? 0r is it a known failing of A11 on the pixel 4a, that it cant decode WMA audio?
Try PowerAmp - it's a very powerful and customizable music player that supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files.
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
blackhawk said:
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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In my OP i already stated that VLC can play WMA files. I do not use VLC as my default music player.
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I can play them via VLC, but from my understanding, that uses its own decoder, and does not rely on the ROM's decoders.
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JohnC said:
Try PowerAmp - it's a very powerful and customizable music player that supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files.
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Thanks, but I am not looking for a replacement of my music player. I am asking if this is the case for everyone. PS. I am still on the march build of A11.
No one who actually posted, confirmed what I was asking?
Meh, I use Poweramp mostly have .wav files.
Pretty sure my stock N10+ can not play WMA files.
This seems to confirm there's no native support:
What Is a WMA File (and How Do I Open One)?
A file with the .wma file extension is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. Microsoft created the format to avoid the licensing issues associated with the MP3 format.
www.google.com
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No one who actually posted, confirmed what I was asking?
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Since you found one or more players that could not play WMA files, that should be a pretty clear indication that the device doesn't support WMA natively and that you will need a player that includes it's own WMA codec. So, you actually confirmed yourself that the A11 on the Pixel 4a does not have native support for WMA files.
And if someone replied that wma files play fine on their A11 Pixel 4a, it could simply mean that their player has it's own wma codec.
If you really want to know if A11 on a pixel 4a has a native wma codec, you can probably find a diagnostic app in the playstore that might list the codecs in a device.
blackhawk said:
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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MS free, really...
blackhawk said:
Meh, I use Poweramp mostly have .wav files.
Pretty sure my stock N10+ can not play WMA files.
This seems to confirm there's no native support:
What Is a WMA File (and How Do I Open One)?
A file with the .wma file extension is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. Microsoft created the format to avoid the licensing issues associated with the MP3 format.
www.google.com
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ummm... I hope you don't have too many WAV files, as its a format created by Microsoft and IBM.
WAV - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Since you found one or more players that could not play WMA files, that should be a pretty clear indication that the device doesn't support WMA natively and that you will need a player that includes it's own WMA codec. So, you actually confirmed yourself that the A11 on the Pixel 4a does not have native support for WMA files.
And if someone replied that wma files play fine on their A11 Pixel 4a, it could simply mean that their player has it's own wma codec.
If you really want to know if A11 on a pixel 4a has a native wma codec, you can probably find a diagnostic app in the playstore that might list the codecs in a device.
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It is pretty clear that it would not support WMA, but I was simply checking that it was not specific to my phone. I do have a lot of customisations.
My previous device was running Oreo, and it ... wait ...whaaat... I just checked my old old Oreo device, and it doesnt support WMA either. I never noticed that before.
It's probably because WMA is a Microsoft format and might require a license/royalty, just like why the Pixel doesn't support exFAT because that too is a Microsoft format.
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MS free, really...
ummm... I hope you don't have too many WAV files, as its a format created by Microsoft and IBM.
WAV - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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The codec maybe not the content.
I have over 6000 .wav and HDCD files... it's too late
Just to put some context, I have over 3500 music audio files (+a thousand or so sound effects for alarms, notifications etc etc etc), of which, only 10 are WMA. This is why, even though I have had these files for probably over 10y, I haven't noticed. ie <0.33% I guess I have to dig that CD (mostly a single album) out of storage and re-rip.
Sorry for any wasted time due to MY confusion.
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Just to put some context, I have over 3500 music audio files (+a thousand or so sound effects for alarms, notifications etc etc etc), of which, only 10 are WMA. This is why, even though I have had these files for probably over 10y, I haven't noticed. ie <0.33% I guess I have to dig that CD (mostly a single album) out of storage and re-rip.
Sorry for any wasted time due to MY confusion.
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Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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That would likely downgrad the audio quality...
buffal0b1ll said:
Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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That would likely downgrade the audio quality...
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As I said, I only had about 10 out of over 3500 music files. Nearly all were from a single album, that I Ripped from CD back on Win2K before MP3's were natively (or its been so long since I installed the extension) supported by Windows, and I wasn't a Napster user, so wasn't heavily invested in MP3's, at the time. And my portable MP3 player (a Creative Labs product, not directly MS) actually could decode WMA's.
Anyway, I pulled the album out of storage (it was much easier to find than I expected), and re-ripped it, so all is good. Actually went down the road of Flac, it is one of my fav albums.
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As I said, I only had about 10 out of over 3500 music files. Nearly all were from a single album, that I Ripped from CD back on Win2K before MP3's were natively (or its been so long since I installed the extension) supported by Windows, and I wasn't a Napster user, so wasn't heavily invested in MP3's, at the time. And my portable MP3 player (a Creative Labs product, not directly MS) actually could decode WMA's.
Anyway, I pulled the album out of storage (it was much easier to find than I expected), and re-ripped it, so all is good. Actually went down the road of Flac, it is one of my fav albums.
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If it's a HDCD you must rip it as a wav file or you will lose the HDCD subtext ie degrade it.
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If it's a HDCD you must rip it as a wav file or you will lose the HDCD subtext ie degrade it.
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This happens to be a CD back from the year 2000. (No HDCD logo on cover) All I care about is the actual audio, and the Album, artist, song title metadata. My ears are over 50 years old, and although I do like my sub-woofer and hi's boosted, I am mostly listening in my car, with traffic and car noise, I dont think the HDCD encoding would be of much benefit. I only ripped to flac (lossless), as it was a single album and I only selected 7 songs, and it was handy for me to do at that moment in time. I wont be doing the same for the other 3000+ songs, or any new ones in the future. Flac was overkill to begin with and HDCD is just getting ludicrous for me personally.
DiamondJohn said:
This happens to be a CD back from the year 2000. (No HDCD logo on cover) All I care about is the actual audio, and the Album, artist, song title metadata. My ears are over 50 years old, and although I do like my sub-woofer and hi's boosted, I am mostly listening in my car, with traffic and car noise, I dont think the HDCD encoding would be of much benefit. I only ripped to flac (lossless), as it was a single album and I only selected 7 songs, and it was handy for me to do at that moment in time. I wont be doing the same for the other 3000+ songs, or any new ones in the future. Flac was overkill to begin with and HDCD is just getting ludicrous for me personally.
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The subtext creates the broader sound stage which you can hear when using a stereo (or more) image in an open listening area.
An inaudible 20 khz audio wave collides with a inaudible 18 khz audio wave to produce a 2 khz wave that you can hear and so on. Thousands of interactions per second.
Many HDCDs are not label as such.
You need a 24 bit digital signal path to a 24 bit or higher DAC to glean about 90-92% of the HDCD subtext. A HDCD decoder gleams 100% of it.
HDCDs are around a 22 bit image vs a CDs 16 bit.