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Just to let you know, there's a beta of MortPlayer in the Android Market ("MortPlayer Music (beta)").
Don't expect it to be the 50" thick swiss army knife MortPlayer for WM became.
Some features still need to be added (sleep timer, caching database, ...), but mostly I want to keep it simple to use.
So, what you get with "MortPlayer Music" is a simple, folder based player. No "favorites", just a selectable main folder. No playlist support, because that just caused confusion about the current mode and when to save. (However, there might come support for existing playlist files that determine the order of files in the same folder.) No special audio book support - but I plan to offer a separate "MortPlayer Audio Books", which of course will have it's own main directory.
What it does offer so far:
- Simple folder based navigation with folder skip buttons and hierarchical selection (tap cover)
- Selection of current track (tap track information, you can switch folder from there as well)
- Supports all common album art storages: ID3 (currently buggy), cover.jpg, folder.jpg, AlbumArt.jpg
- Shuffle and repeat modes as known from WM version
- Restores previously selected track
- Widgets (Cover = play/pause, track information = "remote control" popup)
What's planned:
- Cache directory structure and tag data in database (except covers, don't want to clutter the device storage...)
- Show tag data in track list
- Some eye candy (e.g. animations, background images)
- "As next track" option in track list
- Sleep timer, maybe alarm clock
- Audio book version (separate app)
- Version history dialog
- PayPal button in Help/About
- Different main screens (selection or skinning, let's see what's possible...)
What won't be implemented (soon):
- Equalizer, effects, other formats. I use Android's playback methods, and Android doesn't offer them...
- Streaming. Maybe some time as separate app, but I think there are already better solutions for that.
Maybe, some day:
- Playlist support (read only, only for files in same folder)
- Temporary folder selection (play some folder(s) not in main directory, don't save/cache anything for it)
- Tag based navigation
- Search function
- Playlist version (similar to MortPlayer for WM in playlist mode)

Sweet! Can't wiat for this when I get my Mytouch 3g.

It looks nice so far, particularly the ability to have it only read from one folder and not grab every audio file on your sdcard like the standard player... (wasn't able to try with audio yet... Left my headset home and I'm at work)
Question though... does it support crossfading or gapless audio?
No other media player I've seen in android does... I'm just starting android programming so I haven't gone through the SDK all that much so I can't see why this might be...

Its a very good idea, to make a good player for android with a good features list.
I hope it will be sucessfull.

ssbfalcon said:
Question though... does it support crossfading or gapless audio?
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No, afaik the SDK doesn't allow that (at least didn't find something). (OK, maybe I could start a 2nd MediaPlayer instance shortly before track ends... but I think that'd be pretty hard to time correctly...)
But the gaps are pretty small, at least on my Milestone. I had some intro / song follow-ups where I barely noticed the track change.
discine said:
Its a very good idea, to make a good player for android with a good features list.
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I try to focus a bit more on usability than on features for this one. The WM version became "a bit" bloated and complicated over time...

This is great news! I plan to get an Android as my next phone. It will be great to see my favorite WM application there.

Yet another "New MusicPlayer?" suggestion
Hey Mort!
i really love the idea of a new music player for android (finally someone did it )
however what i (and i guess a big part of the community) prefers is a player with a library like the default android player. I'm NOT telling you to change something on MortPlayer, i am just suggesting that a nice new app would be a MusicPlayer that has:
- Nice library with SIMPLE listview, not extended listview as in default music player
- Tabs instead of those buttons for Artist, Album, etc.
- Backgroundservice that prohibits the player from being crashed when running in the background
- Theme Support(?)
- Widget / maybe even LockScreen plugin? (dunno if that is doable)
just suggesting.... not telling you you have to do this but everyone would appreciate it, as the amount of 3rd party players is in my opinion. Either they are slow, or totally overloaded with features, buggy, or incompatible...
P.S.: Shouldn't be too hard as Android has a MediaService that recognizes and puts the whole Music in a library, so all you would have to do is an interface for that service.

just wanted to say THANK YOU for bringing my favorite Audioplayer at Win Mobile to Android too. I really loved MortPlayer for Win Mobile and I'm shure that I will also love Mort Player for Android. Please do also a decent Audiobookplayer because the players availible aren't even worth to mention.

Like the remote pop-up. So far looks quite good.
Would like it to maintain functionality first- coverflow etc. will be nice, but keep it usable first

Thank you for dev this. Android still needs a good media player that is simple and still nice to use and look at. I was using Meridan player which was fine but just kind of boring. This on the other hand is nice from what I seen/use so far. It shows that you can make app easy to use and still pretty to look at!

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however what i (and i guess a big part of the community) prefers is a player with a library like the default android player.
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Sorry, don't think this will be anytime soon. IMHO there are enough alternatives for that, even the new one from Androi 2.1 probably would too soon become a reasonable alternative.
- Nice library with SIMPLE listview, not extended listview as in default music player
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What's wrong with extended listviews? It's not harder to select an item and saves space. I was thinking about it myself.
- Tabs instead of those buttons for Artist, Album, etc.
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If I add tags browsing, of course this will be the case.
- Backgroundservice that prohibits the player from being crashed when running in the background
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If the player window isn't visible, only the background service is running. If Android decides to kill the service, there's not much to stop it from doing so - with all bad side effects. All I can do is restart the service when it's required...
- Theme Support(?)
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Pretty hard to do while maintaining flexible adjustment to different screen sizes. I was thinking about some selectable themes (i.e. colors, button styles, etc.) and layouts (i.e. where is what) and selectable background images in a later version, but of course that's not even close to skinning...
Widget / maybe even LockScreen plugin? (dunno if that is doable)
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Widget's there. I think there's some tool to add a Widget to the LockScreen, but I don't think that's a good idea anyway. Just imagine you start the player accidentally in office...
P.S.: Shouldn't be too hard as Android has a MediaService that recognizes and puts the whole Music in a library, so all you would have to do is an interface for that service.
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Yeah, I know that service. It sucks (imho). It seems pure luck when it detects new files, has several bugs in tag reading (some of my files were shown with weird chinese texts), doesn't offer a quick and easy way to get the tags to a given file, ... That's why I use own ID3 and database routines.
sthoeft said:
Please do also a decent Audiobookplayer because the players availible aren't even worth to mention.
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As told, it's planned. However, I can only support encodings Android supports, so no Audible and the like...
Branwen said:
Would like it to maintain functionality first- coverflow etc. will be nice, but keep it usable first
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Think so myself.
archboy69 said:
It shows that you can make app easy to use and still pretty to look at!
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I guess nobody would've said that about the WM version...
Well, it's a better system and learned from some errors in the past...
Attached is a preview of the next update. It contains quite some changes (database, sleep timer, headset support, some bugfixes, ...), so it'd be nice if it's a bit tested before I upload a worse than current version to Market...

Next try... I think this one should be stable and fast enough to publish it in Market. But better safe than lots of 1 star ratings...

Bugfix, now folder navigation should work again.

Thx Mort for the great effort again!
I used Mort Player in wm for long time and it works like a charm!!!
And now u are contributing to Android. You are always the best dev i met!!!
Little suggestion, are A2DP and AVRCP possible in ur masterpiece?
Once again, thx and YOU ARE TE MAN!!!!!

rickylcp said:
Little suggestion, are A2DP and AVRCP possible in ur masterpiece?
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Of course. A2DP is done by Android anyway, and AVRCP handling is quite easy (once you discovered MEDIA_BUTTON means all media related buttons...). I wish it was half as easy and stable with WM...
However, on HTC hero you need "headset button enabler" (in Market) because it doesn't send the correct "intents".
Update: New update available in Market.

The latest v0.3.3 works very well!!!
Now the AVRCP works with my Liquid~
5-starred MortPlayer in market! thanks!
You are the MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

5*'s
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thx for your work
EDIT: I found what seems to me like a bug (or at least an unexpected feature...). If I touch the widget it brings up the remote control pane and functions properly on my G1 (cm4.2.13). If i touch "Show main player" it does. From here, if I hit the home button, the next time I touch the widget, I get the Main intent instead of the remote. If I hit the "back" button from the Main player, the widget again shows the remote control pane as expected.
Cheers!

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EDIT: I found what seems to me like a bug (or at least an unexpected feature...). If I touch the widget it brings up the remote control pane and functions properly on my G1 (cm4.2.13). If i touch "Show main player" it does. From here, if I hit the home button, the next time I touch the widget, I get the Main intent instead of the remote. If I hit the "back" button from the Main player, the widget again shows the remote control pane as expected.
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I know, but I didn't find any workaround to this weird Android behaviour.
Main trouble is Android's Activity handling. An "Activity" is similar to what you'd call window or dialog in Windows. In Android, only one activity is running per app, i.e. if you move from main screen to folder selection, the main screen activity is stopped, and then restarted when you return. Exactly the same happens when you move to the home screen, get a call, open a notification, etc. Only exception is the back button, where the activity is "finalized" (similar to a "real close", but still cached for reuse).
It seems Android doesn't like to start a new activity (the remote screen) when another one of the same app is still running.
I could "finalize" the player at other events as well, but the only ones invoked when pressing the Home button are the same as when you enter e.g. folder selection. So if I'd finalize the main view there, returning from folder selection would return to a no more existing activity, i.e. the app isn't visible anymore. Not exactly what you'd want...
Sorry for the long technical explanation, but I it's a bit hard to put Android's handling in better words...

Just glad to see you've moved over to Android! I used your player for a long time when I was on WM, but I have to say it was getting more complex than I needed. I would like to see many of the features your working on, but stability and simplicity are much more important. Album art seems to plague the players I've worked with, so if you can reliably handle all the methods you mentioned, that would be great...The only one that seems to be a problem for me is the ID3 embedded art.
Keep up the great work!

Mort said:
I know, but I didn't find any workaround to this weird Android behaviour.
Main trouble is Android's Activity handling. An "Activity" is similar to what you'd call window or dialog in Windows. In Android, only one activity is running per app, i.e. if you move from main screen to folder selection, the main screen activity is stopped, and then restarted when you return. Exactly the same happens when you move to the home screen, get a call, open a notification, etc. Only exception is the back button, where the activity is "finalized" (similar to a "real close", but still cached for reuse).
It seems Android doesn't like to start a new activity (the remote screen) when another one of the same app is still running.
I could "finalize" the player at other events as well, but the only ones invoked when pressing the Home button are the same as when you enter e.g. folder selection. So if I'd finalize the main view there, returning from folder selection would return to a no more existing activity, i.e. the app isn't visible anymore. Not exactly what you'd want...
Sorry for the long technical explanation, but I it's a bit hard to put Android's handling in better words...
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makes sense, I figured it has something to do with Activity handling.
Thank you for the technical response. I really appreciate it.
Hrm..perhaps this is why Stericson uses AndExplorer for file selection in MetaMorph (or maybe he just didn't feel like / hasn't gotten around to writing a file picker...)

[APP] Beta 1 of Ubermusic/Fede's Music App

Here is a link to the beta release of Fede's Music app (creator of Launcher Pro). It has a WP7 look and feel and fits nicely with our tabs.
** I don't make this. Don't ask me for features or when the final is coming out. I know as much as you do. Ask Fede yourself. **
http://ubermusic.com
Updated June 28 2011 - Link to Beta 1
Beta 1
Note: The user interface is now driven by the new skinning engine. I'll be releasing all the details on how to make skins as soon as I'm finished writing them (will take some time). I think this app has the most powerful skinning engine on the market right now.
The official/default skin drops the WP7 look, but the skinning engine is flexible enough that it can be made to look exactly like the previous Alpha versions through skins. If you want the WP7 look back, you'll have to wait until someone releases a skin for it (which I'm sure won't take long once the details on how to make skins are released). The Beta versions have a different package name than the Alphas, so they can coexist in your device (you can install the Beta without overwriting the Alpha).
Also, I've started a Crowdin.net (collaborative transaltion) project for UberMusic. So if you'd like to see UberMusic translated in your language, feel free to head over to the project page and submit translations/corrections or vote for the best translations.
Changed the disable lockscreen option so that it only disables the lockscreen when something is playing. It should also work even if you leave the Now Playing screen, but it's not failproof.
Changed the layout of the Now Playing screen on LDPI devices so that scrolling isn't necessary.
Improved the track seeking functionality of the progress indicator. You can now click anywhere on the indicator to seek to that position.
Alpha 7
Fixed the force-close when opening the Recently Added playlist.
Fixed the trash can appearing on the Album screen.
Alpha 6
Playlists can now be edited through the app. Open a playlist and press Menu > Edit. Use the handles (up/down arrows) to drag/move songs. Drag them to the trash can to remove them from the playlist.
The widget's Play button should now work even if the queue is empty.
Added a menu item on the Now Playing screen to go to Settings.
Added an option to disable the lockscreen while on the Now Playing screen.
You can now choose to scrobble through the official Last.fm app, through ScrobbleDroid / SLS, or disable it entirely.
Fixed some problems in the shuffling code that were causing force closes.
Alpha 5
Mixed startup force close that happened on some HTC phones.
Made the entire widget clickable, so that clicking anywhere (outside the play/pause/next buttons) will open the app.
Added the ability to delete playlists by long-pressing on a playlist and choosing "Delete".
Added an option to set the default tab to show when the application is started.
New option to use a custom status bar instead of the system status bar. Touch it to reveal more info (battery charge, Wifi status, signal strength, data connection). Swipe it down to open the notifications panel. Please note that due to limitations in the Android system, it's not possible to show notifications in the custom status bar or customize the notifications panel.
Alpha 4
Fixed a bug that caused the app to fail to restore the shuffle setting when restarted.
Added a 4x1 Widget with album art, song info, and playback controls
You can now long-press any song/artist/album/playlist/genre to add it to a playlist. You can also create a new playlist by choosing "New" instead of an existing playlist.
Added a new "Folders" tab that lists any folders that contain music from your library. Clicking on a folder name will open a list of the songs in that folder.
Added a new option in the Settings screen to choose which tabs to show in the main "Music" screen.
Added a new option to show/hide album art in the "Now Playing" screen..
Alpha 3:
Fixed some out-of-memory FCs related to album artwork and artist backgrounds.
Fixed a FC when "shuffle all" was pressed before having played any songs.
Fixed the previous song's album art showing in Now Playing when no artwork is found for the current song.
Fixed a visual glitch for album art in the Now Playing screen on Honeycomb.
Enabled vertical scrolling in Now Playing (portrait mode) for low resolution devices devices like HTC Wildfire.
Modified status bar notification layout to include album art of the currently playing song.
Added menu item to go back to Library from the Now Playing screen (Menu > Library)
Added menu item to open the Now Playing screen from any other screen (Menu > Now Playing)
In the Now Playing screen, clicking on the artist name will take you to that artist's screen. Same with album name.
Disabled artist background downloading when roaming, and data roaming is disabled on your phone.
You can now long-press any song/artist/album/playlist/genre to add it to the current play queue.
Added compatibility for scrobbling with the Last.fm app
Added a Settings screen (in the main "Music" screen press Menu > Settings)
Added support for controlling playback with your headset. You can disable this in the settings.
Added option to download artist backgrounds only when connected to Wi-Fi to avoid data charges.
Added option to change the UI accents color (default is blue).
Added a provisional icon to the app.

Bee playing with this for a week and its brilliant. Love the simplicity of WP7 apps.
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Thanks a lot bro for share this !!!!
p.s sorry my bad english

Any reason why this isnt seeing my music but doubletwist does?

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Any reason why this isnt seeing my music but doubletwist does?
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Is you music on your SD card or internal? All my music I store on my external SD card and it sees it fine. I will test with internal. It is still alpha stage after all but works awesome.

Thanks for sharing this with us mate I absolutly love this music app, even though it's still in Alpha fase, I'll definately keep using it.

I love the look, it finds all my tunes...
But FCs after about 3 minutes.
JPY with Speedmod and Voodoo.
I really want this to work. I love the look and Fede's work.

Any word on whether Fed is working on compatibility with the new Google Music streaming service?

Why is fede focusing on this app and not the "promised" rewrite of launcherpro?

not working ont G2 at all
Not working on the G2...nothing but forcecloses.....can anyone help plz! i really want this on my G2 unrooted

The changelog says "[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Added compatibility for scrobbling with the Last.fm app", but I can't find place in the UI to enable/disable scrobbling. I the last.fm app installed and Winamp is scrobbling fine in my Captivate. Did I miss something or is the scrobbling functionality targeted for a later release?
I hope a Launcher Pro widget that can be placed in the lock screen (WidgetLocker in my case) is in the works. Very nice app... can't wait for future updates.
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vince_junior said:
Why is fede focusing on this app and not the "promised" rewrite of launcherpro?
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why does it matter? launcher pro works great and a new app from a him could only mean more good things...

zetsubou.shin said:
why does it matter? launcher pro works great and a new app from a him could only mean more good things...
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My thoughts exactly. This has quickly (especially since he added a way to move to the now playing screen from the other windows) become my favorite music player, and it doesn't even have an official name yet. In addition, it appears from the rules of his naming contest that the WP7 visual style is going to be one of many that will be able to be applied to it. I will gladly pay for this app when it is officially released.

tamanaco said:
The changelog says "[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Added compatibility for scrobbling with the Last.fm app", but I can't find place in the UI to enable/disable scrobbling. I the last.fm app installed and Winamp is scrobbling fine in my Captivate. Did I miss something or is the scrobbling functionality targeted for a later release?
I hope a Launcher Pro widget that can be placed in the lock screen (WidgetLocker in my case) is in the works. Very nice app... can't wait for future updates.
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If you have last FM installed it scrobbles. Uninstall it and no more scrobbling. He hasn't added the toggle for on/off yet.
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vince_junior said:
Why is fede focusing on this app and not the "promised" rewrite of launcherpro?
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I you paid attention to his blog/website you'd have read he wasn't going to do that for a while. Main give away was that he updated it with widgets and new features.
MMontanez347 said:
Not working on the G2...nothing but forcecloses.....can anyone help plz! i really want this on my G2 unrooted
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This isn't the G2 forum so no, we probably can't help.
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slimdizzy said:
If you have last FM installed it scrobbles. Uninstall it and no more scrobbling. He hasn't added the toggle for on/off yet.
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Thanks slimdizzy... with today's 1.8.4 last.fm update to support Google Music 3.0.1... scrobbling now works with Fede's Music App Alpha 3.

Does the music app come with a widget already?

vince_junior said:
Does the music app come with a widget already?
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Not yet. It will eventually.
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vince_junior said:
Does the music app come with a widget already?
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Alpha 4 was released today and has a 4x1 widget.
http://launcherpro.com/music/
Alpha 4
* Fixed a bug that caused the app to fail to restore the shuffle setting when restarted.
* Added a 4x1 Widget with album art, song info, and playback controls
* You can now long-press any song/artist/album/playlist/genre to add it to a playlist. You can also create a new playlist by choosing "New" instead of an existing playlist.
* Added a new "Folders" tab that lists any folders that contain music from your library. Clicking on a folder name will open a list of the songs in that folder.
* Added a new option in the Settings screen to choose which tabs to show in the main "Music" screen.
* Added a new option to show/hide album art in the "Now Playing" screen..
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Thanks ! LOVE the simplicity~! if has an equalizer like the poweramp! this is tough to beat!

[Feature Request] Interface doesn't auto-hide when playback paused

Hi, I'm using MX Player v1.8.10 on android 5.1.1 and would like to report what I believe to be a bug.
In Settings > Player > Controls, I have set "Touch action" to "Show interface + pause/resume".
Also I have set "Interface auto hide" to 1.0 sec.
When I play a movie and touch the screen once, it pauses the movie, but the problem is that in this case the Interface does NOT hide after 1.0sec. In fact, interface will never hide until I touch the screen again to resume playback.
This is annoying as sometimes I would like to pause a movie and see that still frame without anything else on screen (hide interface).
If this is a bug, I hope it can be corrected.
If this is by design, I would like to request a feature to enforce that navigation is hidden after 1.0sec like chosen in the setting.
Thanks for your support.

Looks intentional -- interface does not hide in any circumstance where the video is paused, presumably as pausing means you want to interact with the controls in most cases. This would be a feature request to apply the time-out also to when the video is paused.

Thanks for your support CDB-Man, and for adding it to the feature request list. I look forward to it ^^

Hi CDB-Man, is there any hope to implement this (very small) feature in a timely fashion? ^^;

After waiting a year and a 1/2, any hope to get an update for this?

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After waiting a year and a 1/2, any hope to get an update for this?
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Hi,
Sorry for the long wait. We have already noted down this. But, not on the priority list. Here is the quick workaround with existing settings.
Method 1:
Set the touch action to Pause/Resume. No interface will be shown on touch. You can get the interface by tapping the pause icon on the top left.
Method 2:
Set the touch action to show/hide interface & enable the double tap gesture. You can pause by just double tapping. If you want to hide the interface tap once.

Thirumalai.K, your reply is much appreciated.
Wise workarounds, that seem to work well!
Using method2 for now so as not to have the pause icon, even if it's small.
I still think having "Show interface + pause/resume" AND respecting the "Interface auto hide" disappear after set time (1.0 sec here) would be ideal so I really hope for a bugfix eventually ^^;
Thanks for your support.

Thirumalai, would you know if there's an update on this front?

Bump in the wind...

Mx Player team, any feedback on this request after so long?

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Mx Player team, any feedback on this request after so long?
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We would like to confirm that your request has been shared with our relevant team and in our roadmap. However, we will not be able to provide any ETA as our team currently working on the high priority the features that are more useful for the most.

A little bump..

MXPlayer, still very interested in a proper fix for this bug.
In a nutshell, again, I just wish for MXPlayer to respect the "Interface auto hide" setting when set to 1.0 sec.
In Settings > Player > Controls, I have set "Touch action" to "Show interface + pause/resume".
But when I play a movie and touch the screen once, it pauses the movie, but the problem is that in this case the Interface does NOT hide after 1.0sec.
Please fix this small bug. I know it's clearly not high priority but I've been waiting for more than 3 years now..
Thank you for your support.

Ps24u said:
MXPlayer, still very interested in a proper fix for this bug.
In a nutshell, again, I just wish for MXPlayer to respect the "Interface auto hide" setting when set to 1.0 sec.
In Settings > Player > Controls, I have set "Touch action" to "Show interface + pause/resume".
But when I play a movie and touch the screen once, it pauses the movie, but the problem is that in this case the Interface does NOT hide after 1.0sec.
Please fix this small bug. I know it's clearly not high priority but I've been waiting for more than 3 years now..
Thank you for your support.
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We are sorry to keep you waiting. We would first like to clarify that MX Player doesn't hide the interface automatically intentionally on the paused state since it will require an additional tap to resume for most other users. So, this request is not prioritized. However, we will revisit this again based on the user demands and work on it again in future if found viable. Meanwhile, request you to use one of the workarounds suggested earlier.
Thank You!

How can I tap "YES" to accept the license agreement, when there is no "YES"?

How can I tap "YES" to accept the license agreement, when there is no "YES"?
I upgraded my MX Player Pro to the new version just now, and a license agreement page comes up saying I must tap "YES". but there is not a YES anywhere to tap. How can I get past this?

Mike Ehlert said:
I upgraded my MX Player Pro to the new version just now, and a license agreement page comes up saying I must tap "YES". but there is not a YES anywhere to tap. How can I get past this?
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You see the big massive button that says yes I agree - press it!
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Mike Ehlert said:
I upgraded my MX Player Pro to the new version just now, and a license agreement page comes up saying I must tap "YES". but there is not a YES anywhere to tap. How can I get past this?
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Kindly share a screenshot with us. It will help us to understand the issue better.

Here is a screenshot:

TheFixItMan said:
You see the big massive button that says yes I agree - press it!
See screenshot in attachment
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Thanks but I only see the top half of that screen on my MTCE GS (Xtron) car head unit, running Android 8.0. There is no way to scroll down to see that button.

Mike Ehlert said:
Thanks but I only see the top half of that screen on my MTCE GS (Xtron) car head unit, running Android 8.0. There is no way to scroll down to see that button.
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Do you have access to the accessibility options in your device settings
You can try changing the default font size to tiny (or the smallest) - run the app & see if the button is visible then once pressed change your device settings back

Mike Ehlert said:
Thanks but I only see the top half of that screen on my MTCE GS (Xtron) car head unit, running Android 8.0. There is no way to scroll down to see that button.
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Thanks for sharing the screenshot. it seems to be a layout issue on landscape orientation. We will fix it in the next release.

Small font
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Do you have access to the accessibility options in your device settings
You can try changing the default font size to tiny (or the smallest) - run the app & see if the button is visible then once pressed change your device settings back
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I went into the Android Settings > Display > Font Size and selected the smallest font, but when I ran MX Player again the screen appeared identical as in my previous screenshot. It seems it's not using the smaller font I selected.

Mike Ehlert said:
I went into the Android Settings > Display > Font Size and selected the smallest font, but when I ran MX Player again the screen appeared identical as in my previous screenshot. It seems it's not using the smaller font I selected.
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As a work around you can try this apk
It allows you to force set the screen orientation
You can try setting it to portrait (or other options)

TheFixItMan said:
As a work around you can try this apk
It allows you to force set the screen orientation
You can try setting it to portrait (or other options)
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It sounded like a great idea, but unfortunately setting it to Portrait or Landsape modes had no effect. The (GS) Xtrons head unit appears to be hardcoded for Landscape mode only.

Mike Ehlert said:
It sounded like a great idea, but unfortunately setting it to Portrait or Landsape modes had no effect. The (GS) Xtrons head unit appears to be hardcoded for Landscape mode only.
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Oh well can't think of anything else
You will have to revert to a previous version & wait for them to fix the layout

I have exactly the same issue after updating the paid app, Xtrons TD699A cannot change out of landscape mode so I cannot see the button to accept.
Trying to revert to a previous version until a fix is forthcoming

Where can I find the previous version 1.9.22 or even version 1.9.21?
The latest previous version I could find was version 1.9.19 which has an annoying bug in which the audio will intermittently cut out for a second. This appears to happen every few minutes.

I found version 1.9.23 which doesn't have the "tap YES" screen, but that annoying 1-second audio loss issue is also present in this version. I thought it might be a codec issue so I tried the "MX Player Codec (ARMv7 NEON)", but the only two versions I could find were 1.9.20 and 1.9.19 and both these versions want me to tap the invisible YES so I can't run them either.

Mike Ehlert said:
I found version 1.9.23 which doesn't have the "tap YES" screen, but that annoying 1-second audio loss issue is also present in this version. I thought it might be a codec issue so I tried the "MX Player Codec (ARMv7 NEON)", but the only two versions I could find were 1.9.20 and 1.9.19 and both these versions want me to tap the invisible YES so I can't run them either.
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All versions of mx player can be downloaded from here
https://www.apkmirror.com/?post_type=app_release&searchtype=apk&s=Mx+player
Custom codec depends on app version and can be found here - add at the bottom of the decoder section in the app menu
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0B1cOHQ70J9vlSUVMMG1MSHFXbTQ

After several weeks, and Google Play did an automated update to version 1.9.24 again so I was back to the broken "Tap YES to agree" screen.
This time I went back to an even earlier version of MX Player Pro 1.9.19 which had the added benefit of no longer cutting out the audio for a split second when playing local MP4 files. With version 1.9.23 this issue was occurring once or twice every minute.

Mike Ehlert said:
After several weeks, and Google Play did an automated update to version 1.9.24 again so I was back to the broken "Tap YES to agree" screen.
This time I went back to an even earlier version of MX Player Pro 1.9.19 which had the added benefit of no longer cutting out the audio for a split second when playing local MP4 files. With version 1.9.23 this issue was occurring once or twice every minute.
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Hi,
Probably there might be some other settings which might have caused the audio issue. There weren't many changes on the playback engine. The most recent changes are to comply with the GDPR & other some minimal changes to prevent some crashes.

There was an "app settings" mod made quite some time ago that allowed you to change resolution settings for each app you have installed. I cant remember the name of it. Thats what Im going to try... once i remember the name of it! lol

[APP][5.0+] Ultra Volume: Themes & utility for volume panel

Ultra Volume is the customization tool designed to replace your system's boring and simple volume slider with a powerful controller. It provides many different controls for volume streams including alarms and notifications. Casting sliders are also available, as well as live captions.
You can enable it in 2 easy steps and apply any custom skin with 1 tap. Each theme is built independently and mimics the exact smooth animations and responsiveness you would expect to delight your experience.
Key Features
✓ Different skins:
- Status bar & navigation bar integration
- Android 10 Vertical
- Android 8 Horizontal
- iOS 13
- MIUI
- OxygenOS
- OneUI
- Many more inside
✓ Full color customization: Choose the colors that match your overall phone's theme, or make it stand out.
✓ Gradient slider: Add a beautiful customizable gradient on any skin. Flowing animation available.
✓ Layout arrangement: Set your desired size and exact position on screen. Only show the volume streams you want in the expanded form.
✓ Behaviour control: Adjust the time for the control to stay on screen. Play a vibration when volume limit is reached.
✓ Side swipe gesture: Swipe from the edge of your screen to open up the volume panel, instead of using the physical buttons. The gesture works in a reliable way. Additional quick tile to open the panel.
Enjoy a high quality volume control experience and make the UI your own. You can set everything up easily.
Download on Play Store
XDA:DevDB Information
Ultra Volume, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
treydev
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2020-05-02
Last Updated 2020-05-02

A (for me) essential feature is switching between output device (speakers, headphones) from the volume panel.
Is there a way you could add this?
I really like the design of the app, but I need that feature :/

Chaphasilor said:
A (for me) essential feature is switching between output device (speakers, headphones) from the volume panel.
Is there a way you could add this?
I really like the design of the app, but I need that feature :/
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Thanks for the feedback! I have this in plan for the next update.

Chaphasilor said:
A (for me) essential feature is switching between output device (speakers, headphones) from the volume panel.
Is there a way you could add this?
I really like the design of the app, but I need that feature :/
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Hi. Getting back to say that this feature is now available

treydev said:
Hi. Getting back to say that this feature is now available
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You mean by clicking the settings icon when the sliders are expanded? Isn't there a way for a custom dialog, where I don't have to press back?

Chaphasilor said:
You mean by clicking the settings icon when the sliders are expanded? Isn't there a way for a custom dialog, where I don't have to press back?
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There is actually a separate button (once the sliders are expanded). Please update to latest version and make sure the "show media output button" is enabled in settings.

treydev said:
There is actually a separate button (once the sliders are expanded). Please update to latest version and make sure the "show media output button" is enabled in settings.
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Dude that's awesome! I guess the updated was a bit delayed, because I installed the app after you said you updated it, but only got the update now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway, this is exactly what I was looking for! Behaves just like on OOS, even better that AOSP 10! Huge Props!
(the label my fourth output device is a bit cut off at the buttom though)
Works really well

Chaphasilor said:
Dude that's awesome! I guess the updated was a bit delayed, because I installed the app after you said you updated it, but only got the update now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway, this is exactly what I was looking for! Behaves just like on OOS, even better that AOSP 10! Huge Props!
(the label my fourth output device is a bit cut off at the buttom though)
Works really well
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Glad to hear! I'll make the list scrollable.

This was exactly what I was looking for my wife's phone as she dropt hers and bent volume buttons and she cant do anything to up or down volume.
When I found this I was like i just hope it works.
And it does perfectly thank you great app

very great app this was exactly what I was looking for too.

This is a wonderful article, given so much info in it.

THANK YOU, TREYDEV!!!! perfect! (almost!)
my list of devices are all listed as MAC addresses. any thoughts why? (they all show up normally in my Bluetooth menu under Settings: Connections: Bluetooth)

HenryHunter said:
This is a wonderful article, given so much info in it. Drift Hunters
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I like this opinion. complete no frills.

a problem i have with the app is that since theirs only a vertical position slider it only sets the vertical position but as soon as i go landscape the volume slider is hidden of the screen because theirs no way to set the horizontal position, im using android 11

Works great