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[Q] How to take advantage of SRS with another player?

Hello!
I've got my Sensation yesterday
Loving it, despite of the bugsss
I see that Sensation can config SRS in the default player, wanna use it with speakers
But I rarely use the default player =\ .. mostly mSpot and I'm thinking of testing Google Music, both having their "custom" players
Is it possible to take advantage of SRS with any other streaming music player?
Or make the default player see the songs downloaded by mSpot? (yea.. I wasn't able to make it do that )
That's weird, cuz it can find musics downloaded by "MP3 Music Download". And it's not the codec either, it's m4a by mSpot.
Thanks in advance!

SRS and Dolby 5.1 are only available through stock apps from my experience. To get your media to show up in the stock app use an app that causes a new media search. SDRescan is free on the market. I use Extended Controls.

GorillaPimp said:
SRS and Dolby 5.1 are only available through stock apps from my experience. To get your media to show up in the stock app use an app that causes a new media search. SDRescan is free on the market. I use Extended Controls.
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Thanks for your reply.
I tried the SDRescan, but it didn't work =\
I've also rebooted the phone.. it just doesn't see the mSpot folder -.-

I'm not familiar with mSpot. You say it stores m4a files on your phone? Try to look for the directory with Astro or Estrong. I'm betting they aren't there or are in a hidden directory. Make sure you set the file manager to show hidden files. Check mSpot to see if there is a setting that allows you to hide media from the Android system. Subsonic has a setting like that.

I did a test copying the mSpot file to another folder.. it was able to see the music
So I guess the file is not the problem
But still can't make it to scan mSpot folder

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I'm not familiar with mSpot. You say it stores m4a files on your phone? Try to look for the directory with Astro or Estrong. I'm betting they aren't there or are in a hidden directory. Make sure you set the file manager to show hidden files. Check mSpot to see if there is a setting that allows you to hide media from the Android system. Subsonic has a setting like that.
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The files are there. Didn't find any setting like that.
I think I'm just gonna try Google Music (to sync) and play them with default player
Thanks, though!

Oh.. I found a file named ".nomedia" inside mSpot's folder
After deleted that file, it was able to scan the folder ^^
But the song's properties (song name, singer, album..) are encrypted, so they're all messed up XD can't use it!
Just gonna try Google Music..

Use Volume+.

ercliou said:
Oh.. I found a file named ".nomedia" inside mSpot's folder
After deleted that file, it was able to scan the folder ^^
But the song's properties (song name, singer, album..) are encrypted, so they're all messed up XD can't use it!
Just gonna try Google Music..
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That sucks man. DRM sucks. Yeah any folder with a file .nomedia or any folder that begins with a . is hidden from a media scan. The period first in the name is how you label a file or folder hidden in Linux.

[Q] How can I play music by folder - Sensation XE

Hi everyone,
My Sensation XE is completely stock, not rooted or anything.
I have a few folders storing songs, & I'd like to play the music by folder.
How do I do that?
Thanks,
D

Well, as far as I know you can't play music by folder...Unless inside the folder there is only one album. Then it would show as different albums, not folders.
Hope I helped.
Have a good day.

There are a few paid apps that will allow you to play by folder, e.g. poweramp and winamp. An excellent free app alternative is mort player, which can also play folders.

beston94 said:
Well, as far as I know you can't play music by folder...Unless inside the folder there is only one album. Then it would show as different albums, not folders.
Hope I helped.
Have a good day.
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I see.
corumuk said:
There are a few paid apps that will allow you to play by folder, e.g. poweramp and winamp. An excellent free app alternative is mort player, which can also play folders.
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Beats Audio doesn't work with these paid & free apps correct?
I'm trying poweramp per your suggestion & I feel like it's not as good as stock player with Beats Audio.
I'd like to be able to use Beats Audio or a program equivalent.
Please advice
Thanks.

Seems PowerAMP did get something to do with Beats support recently: http://powerampapp.com/2012/02/poweramp-v2-0-5-build-473/

I use the stock player with beats audio. It does not play foldersm but there is a workaround - you can create m3u playlists in each folder.
The stock player can see/play those just fine. Its just like playing the folder but requires a bit of extra work.
I run linux and use a script to auto generate m3u playlists for each of the folders on the computer, so whenever the files are synced up, its always up-to-date

tblade2 said:
I use the stock player with beats audio. It does not play foldersm but there is a workaround - you can create m3u playlists in each folder.
The stock player can see/play those just fine. Its just like playing the folder but requires a bit of extra work.
I run linux and use a script to auto generate m3u playlists for each of the folders on the computer, so whenever the files are synced up, its always up-to-date
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yeah, seems like creating a play list is the only way to work around it for stock player & Beats audio.
Your linux approach sounds like a great idea. But I know nothing about it. Wish you were my neighbor hehehe.
Thanks gentlemen!
D

Best folder based music player?

Hi guys,
I'm currently using Folder Player but I find it a bit slow and it won't play many formats (flac, etc). I was wondering what people are using these days. One must have item for me is that it MUST be folder based (like Folder Player) and FREE. Any suggestions are welcome.

Currently the most popular is "PowerAmp Music Player" . It plays most format of music files.

RayySP said:
Currently the most popular is "PowerAmp Music Player" . It plays most format of music files.
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I've read good things about it but it doesn't display the folders in a Windows like way.

rawfa said:
I've read good things about it but it doesn't display the folders in a Windows like way.
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"PlayerPro Music Player" can be found in Play store and also you can choose songs from folders.
Cheers.....LinChina

rawfa said:
Hi guys,
I'm currently using Folder Player but I find it a bit slow and it won't play many formats (flac, etc). I was wondering what people are using these days. One must have item for me is that it MUST be folder based (like Folder Player) and FREE. Any suggestions are welcome.
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You play flac on your phone? Even if you have the best audio compression, the speaker is crap anyway, so no point in playing those, unless you use very good Headphones...

Try ttpod

ISO music player app

I am looking for a music player app. Nothing fancy. I have 1 request that it MUST do.
I have 2 folders on my phone: "Music" and "Audiobooks"
I want the music app to play stuff ONLY found in the "Music" folder. So far every app I have tried cannot be regulated to 1 main folder (in "Music" I have many sub-folders). So when I push shuffle I get audiobooks in there as well. I do not want that.
This will be installed on an unroofed galaxy 5S with up to date software.

I would recommend MortPlayer Music and MortPlayer Audiobook!
I use it myself for many years and I'm satisfied.

Oh common man...you can do that with any music player.....just rename the folder "audiobooks" to ".audiobooks".......ie just put a dot before the folder name..... And all music players will stop scanning files from that folder..... You may need to clear media database first......for that simplest method is settings-apps-all apps-com.android.providers.media-clear data.......then reboot and wait for a while so that all the stuff in our gallery and music player comes back...this time nothing will show up from audiobooks folder.

GoneMAD Music Player. You can select which folders are to be scanned and thus which audio files are shown in the music library.

I believe poweramp has this feature, too.

Honestly, if you want to go deep with it, I would use this modded Sony Walkman app. It is awesome and most, if not all features work depending on device and Android version.
Check it out HERE

gins100 said:
I would recommend MortPlayer Music and MortPlayer Audiobook!
I use it myself for many years and I'm satisfied.
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downloaded Mortplayer. This was exactly what I was looking for (at least so far) thank you.

separate music files with audio files ?

Hi ... I notice all my music / audio files are all in one place . If I open the Files folder and select Audio everything that is audio is listed, its nice and all but when I want to just listen to music I also get audio files which aren't music playing too. Is there application or program I can install which will separate music from plain audio files ? I know I can create a play list but I'm just curious if there a program I can use to do such? Thanks

using 3rd party music players like black player or poweramp have the option to filter songs from size or length

Dude905 said:
Hi ... I notice all my music / audio files are all in one place . If I open the Files folder and select Audio everything that is audio is listed, its nice and all but when I want to just listen to music I also get audio files which aren't music playing too. Is there application or program I can install which will separate music from plain audio files ? I know I can create a play list but I'm just curious if there a program I can use to do such? Thanks
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Soo put your audio files in a separate folder .
(Ex: Let it be like this "Folder" - "My-Audios) .. Move all the audio recordings to My-Audios folder . now open the same folder and create a new file and rename it to .nomedia (no capslock) ..)
Once done , all the audios in the folder won't be listed in any music player .
When u need them , open the folder and play each manually from file explorer . it's better to use Es file Explorer
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gopinaidu77 said:
Soo put your audio files in a separate folder .
(Ex: Let it be like this "Folder" - "My-Audios) .. Move all the audio recordings to My-Audios folder . now open the same folder and create a new file and rename it to .nomedia (no capslock) ..)
Once done , all the audios in the folder won't be listed in any music player .
When u need them , open the folder and play each manually from file explorer . it's better to use Es file Explorer
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This is what I thought I could do but it isn't the case . I already have my music with folder from the artist but once I try using their player all my music and audio files show up and I don't even see these folder, its all in one

Dude905 said:
This is what I thought I could do but it isn't the case . I already have my music with folder from the artist but once I try using their player all my music and audio files show up and I don't even see these folder, its all in one
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Then 3rd party music players are what you need. The ones with the option to filter out other audio formats.

Dude905 said:
This is what I thought I could do but it isn't the case . I already have my music with folder from the artist but once I try using their player all my music and audio files show up and I don't even see these folder, its all in one
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Yeah, but u should create a .nomedia file in the audios (an empty text file with .nomedia as name : dot nomedia) ... Later ur audio files will not show up in music player .
Poweramp has a different kind of sorting ,where u can filter to now show up which is less than 500kb ,1mb, 2mb soo on . u can try this too
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