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music browser issue

Hi all,
I recieved my new touch diamond today (really impressive exept for the battery)
Anyway, I wanted to add an album to the existing ones. The thing is that now, I can't brows threw the albums (iphone way). I have to enter in the library and choose an album. If I scroll up and down, it changes the tracks and does not switch between the albums.
Any ideas to get the iphone like browser back?
Thanks

Mine is the same way. Only i had some songs on the internal storage, then i updated to 1.37. Now it shows those songs in the flip, like ipod, but others i add do not show up. I have to go into library to see them.

I have the same thing. Never figured it out! I think it may only function like that if All Songs are selected and Shuffle is on.
But even that only seems to work occasionally...

I have the same. The touch flow player is just complete disfunctional crap. Dont even bother trying to get it to work because it wont. Your either one of those people which get it working straight away or one that wont ever get it to work. Its useless. Use mediaplayer instead, atleast that works. Its better too as it actually has a volume slider which the touchflow player doesnt which is annoing because that way you have to change your volume all the time and change it back again which I think is way to much trouble.

I agree. I've given up on it and have forked out for Pocket Player 3.
Audiobooster also leaves me with no bass so I can't use that anymore.
It's a real shame HTC have messed thing up so badly as I really liked the old AudioManager player.
Luckily the Diamond battery doesn't last long enough for me to get that pissed off with its functionality!

there's a wide misconception that the phone flicks through like iphone cover flow. it doesn't. what it does is flick through your current album selection or playlist. when we got the phone it looked like cover flow because there were a selection of tracks in one initial list all with different art.

ericsson68 said:
there's a wide misconception that the phone flicks through like iphone cover flow. it doesn't. what it does is flick through your current album selection or playlist. when we got the phone it looked like cover flow because there were a selection of tracks in one initial list all with different art.
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I see, I'll try to look into it.
I hope htc comes ou twith a fix.
Thank you all for you replys

nickytheshaft said:
I see, I'll try to look into it.
I hope htc comes ou twith a fix.
Thank you all for you replys
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This is not a bug, so why fix it ?
This is just browsing thru your "Playing Now" in stead of browsing thru an album.
If you want functionality like an iPhone, by an iPhone

bdormael said:
This is not a bug, so why fix it ?
This is just browsing thru your "Playing Now" in stead of browsing thru an album.
If you want functionality like an iPhone, by an iPhone
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what no way i'll stick with this functionality. The thing i that they sold it as an album browser (just read all the pre tests) and it would be easyer if it was in fact an album browser, keeping you from having to entre the library each time.

I have to agree, it was definitely positioned as if it performed like cover flow. In no videos or presentations I've seen does it say "look you can see the cover art" - which is essentially all we're getting unless you play all (and then all your tracks are in alpha order and not album or artist order).
Essentially it works but it was a bit naughty of HTC to position it as something it clearly is not.
I can live with it - a bigger issue for me is that my fave photo album never sticks!

In the user guide P68, they say that you can brows threw albums or songs...

And they would be right, you click library first and.... browse through albums or songs. There is no mechanic in the touch-flow music in order to browse albums by flicking and then it showing you the list of songs for that album. I'm sure it's possible but it hasn't been coded in that way.

MUSIC - How do get all ALBUMS up?

When I use MUSIC, it lists every song on the TF GUI, whereas what I want it to do is show every album. i cant seem to get it to do so. Anyone?

it doesn't work like that. it only shows your current playing album or playlist. it's not the same as iphone

it was the first time i ran it

Is there no possibility to show the Albumd and then brows to them?

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it was the first time i ran it
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No it wasn't if you're talking about the installed music.
Each of those files was a distinct single track from an album each having different meta-data. They were attached to a single playlist and the phone is set up as such that on a hard reset that playlist loads up on default.

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Is there no possibility to show the Albumd and then brows to them?
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Sorry I meant to reply to you as well.
No unfortunately there isn't in touch-flow. How would it work? Each single press on a cover launches the actual play function it doesn't issue a drill-down command.

Better than HTC Album?

Hi,
Anyone know application like HTC Album but better?
An application that can view IMAGES and VIDEOS .. but it is finger friendly, easy to operate (zoom, delete, go back).
HTC Album is ok, but it could not view videos ... and sometimes very hard to zoom (does it really work???).
Thanks.

PocketCM image viewer IMO is the best still image viewer, unfortunately will not preview videos

I used to use HTC album, tried PocketCM picture viewer and liked it, but found it too hard to navigate. It would zoom in when I didn't want it to, change pictures accidently. Now I use A_C's S2V, really like it, quick and easy to zoom in and out with the D-pad.

Hi,
use resco photo explorer

I agree, in my opinion, S2V is the best software to view still images.
I'm not sure if there are any softwares out there made to view still images and videos. I think it's one or the other.

I use right now HTC Album 2 with SJ's Full Player plugin so I can play video directly within. Not the greatest but it will do for now.

I think the best solution is using resco photo explorer

Eyephoto's pretty good too, no video though...

Kinoma Play
I've heard good things about Kinoma Play, http://kinoma.com/play/
Being commercialware, I have yet to try it.

how can i change the sort order in HTC Album?
first image in preview is the last in explorer and so on
i would like to have it sorted upwards

gogol said:
HTC Album is ok, but it could not view videos ... and sometimes very hard to zoom (does it really work???).
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You probably have an old build of HTC Album. The stock build on my HTC Touch Cruise zoomz very easily (via touch screen and jog dial). I once tried an XDA build, but found that gestures would often cause rotation when I wanted to zoom, and zoom when I wanted to rotate.
As for videos, HTC album does preview them, but when you click on it, it opens them in Windows Media Player. Is this the behavior that you experience?
You could try the new HTC album floating around from the Opal/Manilla 2D.

Astro Player Beta

Astro Player is a media player with audiobooks and podcasts support. AP has advanced bookmarking functionality. It introduces several unique features like fast playback, equalizer, and non-unicode tags support. Moreover, it shows lyrics, supports scrobbling, album art, has convenient file browser with play folder option. It's still in beta and could be unstable. Any suggestions or opinions are welcomed!
New thread in "Android Apps and Games": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7268951
Download: http://www.astroplayer.com/download/Astro Player Beta.apk
2010-07-16 1.40
Playlists: add several files or folders
Fixes in the music browser
New actions: fforward/rewind 1min, 2min, 3min, 15sec, custom
New skin TestSkin.xml has been created
2010-06-25 1.39
Album/artist browser
Stability fixes
2010-06-25 1.38
Stability fixes
2010-06-20 1.37
Lock screen widget with gestures and album art
WVGA screen and quit button fixes
Stability fixes
2010-06-04 1.35
Overall speed improvements
Audio stuttering fix
Background mode fix
Multiple covers per track
Stability fixes
2010-05-15 1.34
Stability fixes
2010-05-08 1.33
Hotkeys, buttons, actions organizer
Fetches missing album art
Podcasts improvements
New landscape design
Stability fixes
2010-04-10 1.32
Menu organizer fixes
Stability fixes
2010-04-03 1.31
Menu items configuration
Fixed long delay between tracks
Tags instead file names in the playlist
Adapted new design for Droid
2010-03-23 1.30
Widget fix
Loading screen fix

Initially it looks good. I'm still going through it and will edit this post i'm sure. The first thing I noticed was your directions on how to add files. Anyone with common sense would be able to figure it out, however, for those that can't figure it out- you need to darken the text. White instruction text on a light background is hard to read. Other than that, so far so good!

Thanks, Ok it will be addressed in the coming build. We have no such issues in other skins: e.g. menu > more > select view > main view.

Just installed. Initial impressions are good.
The UI when the screen is rotated 90 degrees is a bit off-putting (ran that way for five minutes before re-orienting and getting the WAY pretty interface).
EDIT: Just read your reply about other skins. Fixed my issue. I'm retarded.
I dig it. More to come and I use and abuse it.

I'm been looking for an audio player that displays lrc lyrics. Otherwise some basic tag editing out be a nice touch as well.

There's a lot potential in this player and what it can do when it is fully developed, I love the equalizer, I think, one of the first, if not the first music player that offer eq that works! but some presets are always welcomed to be more user-friendly.. just my 2-cents

Christopher3712 said:
Initially it looks good. I'm still going through it and will edit this post i'm sure. The first thing I noticed was your directions on how to add files. Anyone with common sense would be able to figure it out, however, for those that can't figure it out- you need to darken the text. White instruction text on a light background is hard to read. Other than that, so far so good!
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It's fixed in #31

Why does it need location and phone state permissions? I think I'll stick to the stock, non stalker player.

Phone state (READ_PHONE_STATE) is used for handling the headset button (we don't handle it while incoming phone call)
Location (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) is used for ads

xaueious said:
I'm been looking for an audio player that displays lrc lyrics. Otherwise some basic tag editing out be a nice touch as well.
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lrc lyrics and tag editings are on the way.

Andrew Terekhine said:
Phone state (READ_PHONE_STATE) is used for handling the headset button (we don't handle it while incoming phone call)
Location (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) is used for ads
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Thanks for the clarification. I wish every dev listed out the exact use for each permission request.
Tried out the player and it's great. I tried "Music Folder Player" many times but it never worked properly with CM (wouldn't populate the playlist). This app creates a playlist from my default music folder and play them as designed...

Astro Player's new version 1.33 is now available.
Changes:
Hotkeys, buttons, actions organizer
Fetches missing album art
Podcasts improvements
New landscape design
Stability fixes

Does it still cut out and/or stop playing when you switch to another process such as gmail?

Hi,
I can't seem to search my music via Artists or Album, am i being stupid ? Most likely i am.
It just lists all songs in Alphabetical order according to Artist name.
I do like it though, works well on my HTC Desire, no bugs so far, screen works well, landscape and Potrait. Artwork is correct. HTC Headphones controls work. Will play more with it later tonight.

I can't seem to get m3u playlists to work.

When I added my music folder, I noticed that it lists all the invisible Mac-related metadata files that start with ._ If you could hide those files, it will keep folks from trying to play them - it looks like it might be locking up the player if I try to open one of them.

The fetch album art function does not always fetch the correct art if there is more than one .jpg present. I have some folders with both front and back album art and it has been selecting the back album art. All the other music players I have tried have selected the correct .jpg or have an option to change the art. Is the program looking for a certain filename such as "folder.jpg" or "albumart.jpg"? Also, is the program able to fetch art from the internet? I have not been able to do so. I have only had art show up in folders that already have it present.
Other than that the player is excellent and I love the EQ! However, I second that presets would be very nice to include and get people started, as would giving frequencies for the EQ bands instead of just "High" and "Low" if this is possible to achieve.
Hope these suggestions are useful to you to improve what is one of the best media players I have tried (and I have tried every one that I can find!)

Thx great app !
Also be cool if you made reset to dafault button in equalizer settings.

Very nice. Two thumbs up, friend.
As for the lyrics option, is there a way we can have them to be possibly read from a txt file on sdcard? I'm just assuming you're going to use it with a website, of course. However, a lot of music, heavy metal for example, commonly lacks lyrics online.
Just a suggestion, and should be easily enough implemented.
Still, very nice application. =]

iHaos said:
Thx great app !
Also be cool if you made reset to dafault button in equalizer settings.
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It's already there: Eq screen > menu > Reset

HTC One - Gallery other look

Hey guys I am wondering if I can change the look of my
gallery.
I don't want that there is always created a new album 23/06/2013, 24/06/2013, 25/06/2013.
Can't I have a simple album with all my photos in it, I shot and then for example a "downloads" album and so on?
greetings
Exxorzist

Exxorzist said:
Hey guys I am wondering if I can change the look of my
gallery.
I don't want that there is always created a new album 23/06/2013, 24/06/2013, 25/06/2013.
Can't I have a simple album with all my photos in it, I shot and then for example a "downloads" album and so on?
greetings
Exxorzist
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If you click the top left when in Gallery you can change the view between Album, Events and location but only album View seems to do away with the dates, it simply shows your albums as opposed to putting the photos in stupid dates like it normally does ... Sadly the album view doesn't look as visually good IMO but I hated seeing dates with folders ... Hopefully this helps.

AllAboutTheCore said:
If you click the top left when in Gallery you can change the view between Album, Events and location but only album View seems to do away with the dates, it simply shows your albums as opposed to putting the photos in stupid dates like it normally does ... Sadly the album view doesn't look as visually good IMO but I hated seeing dates with folders ... Hopefully this helps.
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Thanks man! yes you are right, the design isnt that great

Exxorzist said:
Thanks man! yes you are right, the design isnt that great
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Lol, the default view looks way better but you should be able to have it without all the dates that's for sure.