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[Feature Request] Change HTTP User-Agent

Please, change the HTTP User-Agent to something less malware-like than a space.
MX Player would be fine or maybe just Linux/Android for some obscurity.
This could be easily done and it would prevent us getting blocked by some sites/CDNs and even false IDS alerts.

L1gh7n1ng said:
Please, change the HTTP User-Agent to something less malware-like than a space.
MX Player would be fine or maybe just Linux/Android for some obscurity.
This could be easily done and it would prevent us getting blocked by some sites/CDNs and even false IDS alerts.
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MX Player uses Linux/Android style and MX Player/<version> style user agent.
But ads network may use different value. I will check it out.
Thanks

bleu8888 said:
MX Player uses Linux/Android style and MX Player/<version> style user agent.
But ads network may use different value. I will check it out.
Thanks
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I don't think it's the ads network:
Code:
GET./480p/{file}.mp4.HTTP/1.1
.User-Agent:.
.Accept:.*/*
.Range:.bytes=36151293-
.Connection:.close
.Host:.{domain}
.Icy-MetaData:.1
I tap on a video link in the browser and open it in MX Player, so I'm not starting anything directly.
Also I don't think Chrome proxies the request (like ES File Exp.) but even if it does it would use it's own UA.
Thanks.

L1gh7n1ng said:
I don't think it's the ads network:
Code:
GET./480p/{file}.mp4.HTTP/1.1
.User-Agent:.
.Accept:.*/*
.Range:.bytes=36151293-
.Connection:.close
.Host:.{domain}
.Icy-MetaData:.1
I tap on a video link in the browser and open it in MX Player, so I'm not starting anything directly.
Also I don't think Chrome proxies the request (like ES File Exp.) but even if it does it would use it's own UA.
Thanks.
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This might be fixed on latest test build:
https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build
Thanks

It's in the store. Thanks for making it customizable.

[Q] Access Mx video player watched and resume status file

Hello everyone. This is my first post on XDA so please bear with me. I am using MX video player for Android on my Samsung Galaxy S3. My goal is to locate the status file of a video and extrapolate from it the watched status (Not finished/finished) and the resume point. I've tried searching for threads that may help but turned up empty handed. My ultimate goal is to use this data to update my own personal SQL video database that I've created which is synced to my xbmc. I could use Trakt (if there is support for that) but directly updating my database is somewhat preferable. If any one can help me with this I would greatly appreciated. Thanks

Royekx said:
Hello everyone. This is my first post on XDA so please bear with me. I am using MX video player for Android on my Samsung Galaxy S3. My goal is to locate the status file of a video and extrapolate from it the watched status (Not finished/finished) and the resume point. I've tried searching for threads that may help but turned up empty handed. My ultimate goal is to use this data to update my own personal SQL video database that I've created which is synced to my xbmc. I could use Trakt (if there is support for that) but directly updating my database is somewhat preferable. If any one can help me with this I would greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Why don't you make use of export > activities...?
You can domp the entire status to xml file.
Sent from my SM-G900H

ktsamy said:
Why don't you make use of export > activities...?
You can domp the entire status to xml file.
Sent from my SM-G900H
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Thanks for the reply. I actually did not know about the export feature. I would like this process to be as automated as possible. I was thinking of using dropsync or something of the sort to sync the local files and run whatever parser I plan on writing either remotely or locally on my phone. But I may be asking for too much.
However, I did just look into the exporting which seems like it will work out but there are two hitches in my master plan.
1.) I will be streaming most of my shows externally from my home server using BubbleUPnP which uses MX player as the renderer. All of that works great. So when I checked the xml file it has the activity but the name listed for the stream is the ip address followed by some generated file name (ex a1b2c3d4.mp4) which is not the actual name of the video I am watching and makes it useless. Whether it's being changed my BubbleUPnP or MX player is something I have to figure out.
2.) The position listed for the video in the xml file is the frame number which may be a pain for me to work with.
I'd really like to get the information as is as in the attached picture. It is a screenshot of the info of a selected video displayed through MX player. In essence I'm trying to figure out where that data is being stored on my mobile.
Sorry if this is a bit confusing and I appreciate any help. Thanks

@Royekx
1. How do you play the video?. In my tests it has right name on the activity logs. Kindly note that some file managers acts as localhost & will forward the encoded uri rather than the actual one.
2. The position mentioned in xml file is "Time in milliseconds". You can easily do a calculation to convert into sec or min or Hrs whatever you want
Sent from my SM-G900H

[Q] Automatic refresh on MXPlayer

Hi,
I use MX on a Minix 8HPlus, to play videos on big screen. I use FTPDroid to push and delete videos on the device. Unfortunately there is no option in MX Player to refresh*automatically the folder. The result: MX keep in its memories the previous videos list and try to read files already deleted. Regularly I have errors «*impossible to read this video*» .
Moreover I’ve noted that «*random mode*» is not really random. I have around 90 videos and it seems there is around 10 videos with are played frequently…
1) Could it be possible to add an option in order to refresh automatically the folder every minutes/seconds?
2) Can you tell me if there is an option to "lock" folder that contains videos?I would like MX play videos in specific folders. Currently, MX play them all.
Thanks for your feedback.
Regards.

1) Could it be possible to add an option in order to refresh automatically the folder every minutes/seconds?
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I'm not sure that this can be done in a sane way that doesn't also unnecessarily keep the CPU awake.. Also I believe @bleu8888 might be considering a file system event detection feature, that will have MX detect file system events, but I'm not sure if he still thinks this is feasible..
Also, should hit the manual refresh button on the video list as well.
2) Can you tell me if there is an option to "lock" folder that contains videos?I would like MX play videos in specific folders. Currently, MX play them all.
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Settings > List > Folders
Specify which folders you wish for MX to scan.
Moreover I’ve noted that «*random mode*» is not really random. I have around 90 videos and it seems there is around 10 videos with are played frequently…
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I assume by random, you mean shuffle. Have you tried selecting all the videos in the folder first and then selecting Play on the selected videos, then choosing shuffle in the playback menu?

CDB-Man said:
I'm not sure that this can be done in a sane way that doesn't also unnecessarily keep the CPU awake.. Also I believe @bleu8888 might be considering a file system event detection feature, that will have MX detect file system events, but I'm not sure if he still thinks this is feasible..
Also, should hit the manual refresh button on the video list as well.
Settings > List > Folders
Specify which folders you wish for MX to scan.
I assume by random, you mean shuffle. Have you tried selecting all the videos in the folder first and then selecting Play on the selected videos, then choosing shuffle in the playback menu?
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Many thanks for you reply.
1)Power consumption is not a problem for me because the minix is always connected to 220v. I understand my case is specific… I’ve tried to create an action with Tasker but it not works. Manual action is required.
2) Yes, I’ve tried this method but it’s not efficient at 100%. I have to play DIFFERENT videos each month. In order to do that easily, I’ve created several folders named «*september*» «*october 2015*» «*november*» etc.. In those folders I put videos regularly. If we are in september, I would like MX play only «*september*» videos but actually is not the case.
With your method, that means each month I have to specify which folder to scan but I’m not in office every days…
3) Yes, I’ve meant «*shuffle*». sorry for my english. I’ll will try your method and give a feedback here.
Thanks!!!

thanks

leconquerant said:
Many thanks for you reply.
1)Power consumption is not a problem for me because the minix is always connected to 220v. I understand my case is specific… I’ve tried to create an action with Tasker but it not works. Manual action is required.
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Yeah, bleu will have to look.
leconquerant said:
2) Yes, I’ve tried this method but it’s not efficient at 100%. I have to play DIFFERENT videos each month. In order to do that easily, I’ve created several folders named «*september*» «*october 2015*» «*november*» etc.. In those folders I put videos regularly. If we are in september, I would like MX play only «*september*» videos but actually is not the case.
With your method, that means each month I have to specify which folder to scan but I’m not in office every days…
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I believe this should be possible with Tasker and the MX API, give it a try: https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/api
Possibly the video_list extra.
leconquerant said:
3) Yes, I’ve meant «*shuffle*». sorry for my english. I’ll will try your method and give a feedback here.
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Cool, we'll see the result.

CDB-Man said:
Yeah, bleu will have to look.
I believe this should be possible with Tasker and the MX API, give it a try: https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/api
Possibly the video_list extra.
Cool, we'll see the result.
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Hi,
quick feedback about your solutions. I've cannot succeed to use this api. I'm really a newbie with this kind of softaware.
I've selected only the videos I l ike to play and it seems that video are played more randomly. However it's an impression. I can't prove this with stats, facts.
I've found an app which can scan and update libraries on Android. I'll test it.
Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer v. 1.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-xposed-media-scanner-optimizer-t2942609
Edit 2: After used Media Scanner I can't see a difference. I have the impression that Android system refresh the library (I can see it in the folder in Mx interface) but MX player can't see it: I still have "unable to read this video" even if the video is still not in the folder...
It seems that MX keep in memories the last file scanned and try to read them.
For random mode, its an impression but it play the same file regurlarly...

leconquerant said:
Hi,
I use MX on a Minix 8HPlus, to play videos on big screen. I use FTPDroid to push and delete videos on the device. Unfortunately there is no option in MX Player to refresh*automatically the folder. The result: MX keep in its memories the previous videos list and try to read files already deleted. Regularly I have errors «*impossible to read this video*» .
Moreover I’ve noted that «*random mode*» is not really random. I have around 90 videos and it seems there is around 10 videos with are played frequently…
1) Could it be possible to add an option in order to refresh automatically the folder every minutes/seconds?
2) Can you tell me if there is an option to "lock" folder that contains videos?I would like MX play videos in specific folders. Currently, MX play them all.
Thanks for your feedback.
Regards.
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File update: In fact, MX Player is monitoring directories to make any changes updated immediately. But directory monitoring API is broken on Android 6 and reported to Android team as an Android bug.
Shuffle: Randomness would be improved on latest nightly build (26-Jan build) since random function is changed to one with cryptographic level. Nightly build can be found on https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build
Lock folder: Not supported. I think there might be 3rd party apps having this feature.

Many thanks for your update.
Édit : I'm not using mx on 6.0 but 5.1 or 4.4
I'm using the beta version (Build date: 25-JAN-2016) and I cannot see improvement on random mode. I have around 120 videos (around 4min) and there is one which have been played twice at 15 min interval.
Can you tell me if there is a way to have a list of all files played, a log ? I feel that random is not really efficient. Always the same videos coming back (I have around 150 files)

[APP] TubeCast - Youtube to Chromecast Audio

Hello everyone,
As you all know youtube app on android and ios does not support Chromecast audio, so I've developed a new android app that let users cast youtube to Chromecast Audio. It finds only audio track, so you do not need to worry about network traffic, as the audio track size is usually much smaller than the video size. My intension is to support more websites, currently it works best for youtube.
Key features:
- Detect music audio tracks from the websites you visit and cast to Chromecast
- Support queue, so you can add many items once and let Chromecast do the rest
- Support repeat playback, repeat all/one/none/shuffle
- Support playback and volume controls
- Built-in browser with multi-tabs
- If websites contain both video and audio, this app will select only audio track, so you do not need to worry about network traffic, as the audio track size is usually much smaller than the video size, which is very efficient for Chromecast Audio.
The app works pretty the same way as Google Youtube App, you click on a video, it shows a dialog and let you choose to play or add video to queue, and it also allows you to move the queue items up and down, and play the queue on repeat (repeat none, all, one or shuffle).
It can also with normal Chromecast video, of course, but you only see thumbnail on the tv screen, and the music, not the video, as I already mentioned - only audio.
Here's the video demo on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGkoC6LPp0
And the app on PlayStore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sibimobilelab.castwebaudio

Great job!
What I miss:
-Add some way to store playlists
-Add whole playlist from YouTube (This could be too traffic intense and lead to banning the app that is already in gray area...)

drkbg said:
Great job!
What I miss:
-Add some way to store playlists
-Add whole playlist from YouTube (This could be too traffic intense and lead to banning the app that is already in gray area...)
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Hi,
The idea is to create playlists with your youtube account and I will implement the feature to add the whole playlist to the queue. I will try to do so in upcoming releases.
I know it's risky to do things with youtube, but how do you know it's in gray area?

SibiMobile said:
Hi,
The idea is to create playlists with your youtube account and I will implement the feature to add the whole playlist to the queue. I will try to do so in upcoming releases.
I know it's risky to do things with youtube, but how do you know it's in gray area?
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If you are asking yourself: "Is this legal?", then it is in the gray area.
You are providing easy way to get content without paying (YouTube red or ads).
-the playlist feature will be better if it works with playlists in general not just ones from your account.
-storage is local.
Because:
1.spares all the queries you have to make for each song in playlist every time you open it(there are playlists with hundreds of songs).
2.privacy concerns

Well, I think gg should provide youtube support for Chromecast Audio for free, just like they do with normal Chromecast, since they do not send ads to stream in normal Chromecast as well.
This app allows users to cast to chromecast audio only, not anywhere else, and not play locally or download videos/audios which I think will make it more "legal". So just let's wait and see
About storing the playlists, since I'm not using youtube API, and youtube is the only one of many websites this app supports, the video/audio links that I can get live only for a short time (approx. 1 day) then they will get expired, so storing playlists is not an option for me unfortunately. The official youtube app also does not store playlists locally.

Then make sure to not throw hundreds of requests at once when parsing the playlist.
And one small thing: the "playing" icon (the three animated bars) is annoying (at least for me). You have made plain simple UI keep it that way and just put the simple triangle thing without animation ( ▶ ). It's an Unicode symbol. (one less image to take care of).

drkbg said:
Then make sure to not throw hundreds of requests at once when parsing the playlist.
And one small thing: the "playing" icon (the three animated bars) is annoying (at least for me). You have made plain simple UI keep it that way and just put the simple triangle thing without animation ( ). It's an Unicode symbol. (one less image to take care of).
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Ok, thank you, I'll keep this in mind

This is GREAT! I purchased Chromecast audio only to find out I can't cast from Youtube app. Such a stupid move from Google

Perfect

@SibiMobile
1. is there a way you implement playing playlists from Youtube?
2. is there a way we can donate to you, as you're a life saver bro!

mig0r said:
@SibiMobile
1. is there a way you implement playing playlists from Youtube?
2. is there a way we can donate to you, as you're a life saver bro!
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Hi,
Thank you for your offer, unfortunately this app development is suspended and I've removed it from playstore. Now I'm working on an replacement - Amaze Browser, it can also cast youtube to chromecast audio, however the queue function is not yet added, I do plan to add it in future releases.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-amaze-browser-auto-detects-audio-t3508876

SibiMobile said:
Hi,
Thank you for your offer, unfortunately this app development is suspended and I've removed it from playstore. Now I'm working on an replacement - Amaze Browser, it can also cast youtube to chromecast audio, however the queue function is not yet added, I do plan to add it in future releases.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-amaze-browser-auto-detects-audio-t3508876
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Great! I installed it and it works. Only thing I'm missing is playing Youtube playlists. That the app would automatically play YT playlist videos in a row... other than that, big up!!

mig0r said:
Great! I installed it and it works. Only thing I'm missing is playing Youtube playlists. That the app would automatically play YT playlist videos in a row... other than that, big up!!
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It would be a heavy request to google server and I avoid doing this to protect the app in play store . In fact I removed most of the things with YouTube - download, background playing, only leave the Chromecast feature.
Pls keep in mind that the queue feature is not yet added in Amaze Browser, continue to use Tubo cast if you need this feature.

SibiMobile said:
It would be a heavy request to google server and I avoid doing this to protect the app in play store . In fact I removed most of the things with YouTube - download, background playing, only leave the Chromecast feature.
Pls keep in mind that the queue feature is not yet added in Amaze Browser, continue to use Tubo cast if you need this feature.
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Tubo Cast was a great app so far!!! It would be great if you publish a hacked version out of the Play Store... I'd be glad to donate to you! Youtube playlist support is a must in my opinion... it'd be a killer feature for sure!
Maybe you could publish it on the Play Store "as is", and let we download an unofficial plugin that enables that feature!
Probably I'm only dreaming...

bart.found said:
Tubo Cast was a great app so far!!! It would be great if you publish a hacked version out of the Play Store... I'd be glad to donate to you! Youtube playlist support is a must in my opinion... it'd be a killer feature for sure!
Maybe you could publish it on the Play Store "as is", and let we download an unofficial plugin that enables that feature!
Probably I'm only dreaming...
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Hi, I cannot promise the playlist feature, what I have right now is a new version of tubo cast with the fix for the disconnection issue, I can upload it here.
Do you encounter the disconnection issue by the way?

SibiMobile said:
Hi, I cannot promise the playlist feature, what I have right now is a new version of tubo cast with the fix for the disconnection issue, I can upload it here.
Do you encounter the disconnection issue by the way?
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Mh... I'm a new Chromecast Audio user, since I bought it last week, anyway, I tried several way to cast youtube contents to that thing... and your app (I found it somewhere around the web after reading this post) is the best solution because it doesn't need a constant stream between phone and chromecast. It'd be absolutely perfect with playlist support... and I mean perfect indeed!
I didn't have disconnection issue till now... I'm having more issues with apps like Deezer, just to say, because it randomly disconnects, starting to play the sound from my phone's speaker...
By the way "I can't promise" means "no" or "maybe"!

bart.found said:
Mh... I'm a new Chromecast Audio user, since I bought it last week, anyway, I tried several way to cast youtube contents to that thing... and your app (I found it somewhere around the web after reading this post) is the best solution because it doesn't need a constant stream between phone and chromecast. It'd be absolutely perfect with playlist support... and I mean perfect indeed!
I didn't have disconnection issue till now... I'm having more issues with apps like Deezer, just to say, because it randomly disconnects, starting to play the sound from my phone's speaker...
By the way "I can't promise" means "no" or "maybe"!
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Means " no" for now
If you encounter the disconnection issue, follow the workaround mentioned in the home page to solve it

Again we published it to playstore, and also added premium verion.
Change log:
- Upgraded browser, added startpage, bookmark, history, search suggestion
- Use wifi wakelock to prevent disconnection issue
- Upgraded to more stable version of Google Cast API
- Added premium version

1.What is premium? Just supporting your efforts or something else? One can't really understand from changelog/app.
2.Is there a typo in the name? I see now TubCast instead of the previous TubeCast.
3.What is the difference to the other browser app that you are developing.
4.Is there a list of supported sites?
5.Any chance that vbox7.com can get into the list of point 4?
6.Youtube playlist support is not on the table anymore?
Thanks for update.

drkbg said:
1.What is premium? Just supporting your efforts or something else? One can't really understand from changelog/app.
2.Is there a typo in the name? I see now TubCast instead of the previous TubeCast.
3.What is the difference to the other browser app that you are developing.
4.Is there a list of supported sites?
5.Any chance that vbox7.com can get into the list of point 4?
6.Youtube playlist support is not on the table anymore?
Thanks for update.
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regarding your question:
1/ Yes premium is to add a little support for the development
2/ Tubecast is the name in playstore, in the app I made a tupo name Tubcast which is funny
3/ It supports queue, the other browser does not yet support queue, this one focuses on chromecast audio and shows popup dialog directly when it finds audio links, this app is also more lightweight and removed part of the UI in compare to another browser,
and the UI is more close to the youtube app
4/ It supports most of the sites except flash websites
5/ Will need to check with vbox7.com
6/ You still need to add songs one by one, adding the whole youtube playlist is not possible

[APP][4.1+] Rulers Player - audio player with ability to search and download music.

Rulers Player - directory based audio player with ability to search and download music and internet radio support.
Features:
- The player supports audio formats: mp3, wav, ogg, flac, mid, 3gp.
- Playing audio tracks from video: mp4, m4a, flv, avi.
- Search for music on a fairly large database.
- Search for soundtracks by the name of the movie.
- List of top popular music.
- Display bitrate, the size of the found tracks.
- Supports internet radio. The ability to add and edit your own radio stations.
- The function of loop cycling. (Called by the hardware menu button)
- Playlist, search by folders and much more.
Google Play:
Download

Had to open then close out the app 3 times to get it to search for music. Search feature is VERY slow. Any idea why?

Mikekelso421 said:
Had to open then close out the app 3 times to get it to search for music. Search feature is VERY slow. Any idea why?
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Well, i believe the problem is in connection. Another question is whether this is due to your internet connection or to the server's response. As an option, the server is overloaded. Anyway thanks for your response, i'll try to find the reason.

kara4k said:
Well, i believe the problem is in connection. Another question is whether this is due to your internet connection or to the server's response. As an option, the server is overloaded. Anyway thanks for your response, i'll try to find the reason.
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Did a speed test while having the issue. I was getting 40mbps down and 12mbps up. Maybe server issues.

Updated.
Added search for soundtracks by movie title (kinomania.ru)
Minor fixes.

Updated.
Improved stability.
Added apk file to attachments.

Updated.
- Bug fixes.
- Minor UI changes.

Updated!
- UI fixes
- Added bitrate display for local media files
- Added file size and bitrate for search
- Changed the search mechanism (if you do not request a bitrate and the size should load info more quickly)
- Bitrate display is enabled in the settings

Hi. The app crashes sometimes when trying to download songs. And when the app is on background, it consumes a lot of battery (about 25% for an hour!).
But I like it. Perhaps you can optimize battery consumption and it would be perfect. Thanks for the effort doing this!

androideobjetivo said:
Hi. The app crashes sometimes when trying to download songs. And when the app is on background, it consumes a lot of battery (about 25% for an hour!).
But I like it. Perhaps you can optimize battery consumption and it would be perfect. Thanks for the effort doing this!
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Thanks for your response, i'll try to find the reason why this happens. Can you provide some info about your device like model and android version?

kara4k said:
Thanks for your response, i'll try to find the reason why this happens. Can you provide some info about your device like model and android version?
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Of course. I have the LG G3 Verizon version (VS985), running Android 5.0.1. Thanks in advance!

After search result it doesn't play or download listed files?

alwynjoshy said:
After search result it doesn't play or download listed files?
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It should play online and download any listed files, except for some that were removed from the server, but the links on the site
still remained.

Then i will check again and get you back with result

Updated!
- Fixes, improvements.
Comments and suggestions are welcome. Thank you for your feedback!

Updated!
- Music downloading fixes.

Updated!
- Music downloading fixes.

kara4k said:
Updated!
- Music downloading fixes.
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I think is not illegal?
Where get source of music files?
Is this free?

Webshack said:
I think is not illegal?
Where get source of music files?
Is this free?
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Yes, its free. Source is here.

kara4k said:
Yes, its free. Source is here.
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Website getting error.
HTML:
An error occurred.
Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.
If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.
Faithfully yours, nginx.