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Audio player recommendations

Hi,
I tried using Windows Media player to play songs but they do not support copy right m4a files and other misc audio formats. Thus i used TCPMP player which is good to solve the problem but it does not have a SEARCH function.. any advice and other takes on other audio players?

Audio Manager is good. Works when display is off.

S2P or Slide 2 Play is the best one.
Audio manager is good but you can't specify a single folder to use, it will automatically scan for all mp3 and sometimes other audio files on the mem card. I it wasn't for that I would say Audio Manager.

I tested S2P but it does not have the SEARCH function, it doesn't even support playlist function... but its interface is very nice... any more better audio players out there?

I use Mortplayer and I also tried GSPlayer earlier on (both shouldn't be hard to find).

DUDE, this is a phone not an mp3 or a qps device. You don't need to play audio..
tcPiMP gets my vote.

Mort Player
Mort player is my favorite!
It has it all - great for Audio books too!
Get it here:
Stable version
Beta version
Vista Skin
or see below...
Enjoy!
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so any recommendation to play videos??

That's good
pop music is best one

ChumleyEX said:
DUDE, this is a phone not an mp3 or a qps device. You don't need to play audio..
tcPiMP gets my vote.
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are you kidding me? why do people like you always chime in like this w/ irrelevant replies
"i dont use my phone for this, so i think its dumb that anyone else uses its for (blank) purpose"
if you forgot, there are phones like the iphone, sony ericson music phones, nokia n series, etc that are great multipurpose phones...which is EXACTLY what the kaiser is. if you're gonna stick w/ that ideology why don't you stick to a nokia 3395.

PocketMusic Rocks
For me this is a serious bit of kit. It's my phone, GPS, personal organizer and now an MP3 player in the car. That was made possible with PocketMusic - http://www.pocketmind.com/pmfp.htm
Get the full version otherwise the real benefits are not seen.

Looking for HTC AudioManager with Album Art Support

I've searched high and low for this and can not find it. All I am finding is the HTC Audio Manager without album art support. Does anyone know where it is?
It looks like that the Dutty's ROM has HTC AudioManager_1_2-1212.716 that has album art but I cant find the cab for it.
Does it not exist?
Please help.

If this is what you are referring to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388947
He has a screenshot of Windows media player with Audio manager skin. See in the picture at the top is says "WINDOWS MEDIA". There is no HTC Audio Manager with Album Art as far as I know unless you have Diamond or Touch Pro with Touch flo 3d.
However, you might find something interesting in the Touch Flo 2d forums
Do a search for Touch flo 2d or manila 2d

ok I see. I was taken in by the AudioManager look and not realized it was just a WMP skin.
Thanks for the info. I'll take a look at the manila 2d stuff.

Why do you want audiomanager with Album art support anyway when you can use Windows media that already has album cover support. Or S2P with Album cover support, or TCPMP with album cover support or..... There are many to choose from is what I am saying. You don't have to limit yourself to Audiomanager.

I like the finger friendly interface of AudioManager. WMP is not finger friendly.
I will check out the rest of the apps that were mentioned.
Thanks

As said earlier, you might want to take a look into TouchFlo 2D / Manila...
I just flashed the lastest Garmin ROM with Manila, and it has Audio Manager with Cover Albums. So maybe in the Manila Thread you will find the CAB for this version of Audio Manager (version 2 build 1819.2129, thats what i have).
I also love Audio Manager compared to WMP or CorePlayer, and also it works great with my remote control.

I also Use Mort Player for in the car as it has some really nice big finger friendly buttons + Supports album cover as well. Mort Player is also free
edit: for mort player just download skins from the mort player web page to get the skin for car to get the big buttons skin

guigui42 said:
As said earlier, you might want to take a look into TouchFlo 2D / Manila...
I just flashed the lastest Garmin ROM with Manila, and it has Audio Manager with Cover Albums. So maybe in the Manila Thread you will find the CAB for this version of Audio Manager (version 2 build 1819.2129, thats what i have).
I also love Audio Manager compared to WMP or CorePlayer, and also it works great with my remote control.
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I just flashed the Garmin 4.3a rom and my Covert Art does not work in Audio Manager. How did you get it to work? Do you need a jpg in the album folder called something specific?

australo said:
I just flashed the Garmin 4.3a rom and my Covert Art does not work in Audio Manager. How did you get it to work? Do you need a jpg in the album folder called something specific?
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Yes. Call the jpg "cover" or "folder" One or the other or maybe both will work. Then place the album cover jpg in the album folder. This is the same with WMP - S2P and TCPMP. TCPMP will show some embedded album art sometimes too and I thing so will S2P

hotrod101 said:
Yes. Call the jpg "cover" or "folder" One or the other or maybe both will work. Then place the album cover jpg in the album folder. This is the same with WMP - S2P and TCPMP. TCPMP will show some embedded album art sometimes too and I thing so will S2P
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Thanks hotrod! Mine were named cover.jpg and they need to be folder.jpg . Guess I have some renaming to do....

hotrod101 said:
If this is what you are referring to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388947
He has a screenshot of Windows media player with Audio manager skin. See in the picture at the top is says "WINDOWS MEDIA". There is no HTC Audio Manager with Album Art as far as I know unless you have Diamond or Touch Pro with Touch flo 3d.
However, you might find something interesting in the Touch Flo 2d forums
Do a search for Touch flo 2d or manila 2d
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i just used this added this skin to WMP and i love it. It seems like WMP works a hell of a lot better than htc audio manager when it comes to bluetooth headphones. i simply had a lot of problems w/ audio manager.
BUT...does anyone know if there's anyway to actually arrange the songs in WMP by the actual song name itself, in alphabetical order? i must say i HATE that, it makes going to a particular song extremely time consuming especiallying since there's no search function or anything

simbadogg said:
i just used this added this skin to WMP and i love it. It seems like WMP works a hell of a lot better than htc audio manager when it comes to bluetooth headphones. i simply had a lot of problems w/ audio manager.
BUT...does anyone know if there's anyway to actually arrange the songs in WMP by the actual song name itself, in alphabetical order? i must say i HATE that, it makes going to a particular song extremely time consuming especiallying since there's no search function or anything
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You might want to look for a play list editor of some sort. There are several available that I have seen. I only tried one and honestly don't use it that much so don't really know if I can arrange songs alphabetically
OK I just checked. the Play list Manager I am using can sort the songs alphabetically. I will try to find the link to where I found it but you can try to search yourself it is called Vicsoft PlaylistMgr. If I can't find the link I will look for my copy of the cab and post it here later.

OK I tried doing the obvious searches and not a single hit and I don't have the patience tonight to keep searching online for the link. I really wish I could give credit to the author of this freeware app.
Here is my copy of the cab. It was easier for me to find then I thought.
have fun with it.
edit: I found the link http://mobile-sg.com/software/?p=PlaylistMgr&platform=ppc
Check it out (Lots of screenshots and information and if you feel that this app is worthy of a donation - The author is accepting donations.

thanx for the help man. i download the program, and i can't get it to work at all. it wont open playlists, it'll search for playlists but then wont allow me to open it or edit it. and it wont allow me to save any playlists. i guess i'll have to live w/out alphabetical playlists for a while longer.

hey i downloaded the newer/larger/possibly non corrupted version on their website. finally got everything up and running...even finished all the playlists for the 30+ albums i have on my microSD card. thanx for the help man.

stupid browser, sorry for the double post

Touchflo musictab problems + bad video performance

Guys, do you have that many problems with the Musictab too?
Playlists are very important for me, so I create playlists on my PC and tried to use them with the Musictab.
Musictab finds the Playlists, but is mess up the covers, it only shows one cover for all songs.
And sometimes the Musictab doesn't cognition them after I set new ones on the card.
Any experience?
The other thing is that videos are never floating. They always bucking the first seconds or when I jump to a nother scene.
Any experience here?
This problem was the reason why I will switch to the iphone, cause the media peformance is very imporant for me.
And it's still so callow on TouchFlo (WM devices).

For the video performance issue, just use Coreplayer Mobile. It manages to run atleast realtime on all videos I've thrown at it.

I wouldn't waste more time with HTC Audio. I spent months and months trying to get it to work without success. I now use Coreplayer for all media needs and it works extremely well. Cheaper than an iPhone as well with better user control of managing files IMO.
Edit: For playlists I recommend the standalone application PlaylistMgr - very simple and effective.

But the Coreplayer isn't fingerfriendly! Why does the HTC Video application work so bad?
Edit: For playlists I recommend the standalone application PlaylistMgr - very simple and effective.
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Wished I would know that before. I set my Phone on eBay know.
Do you or someone else use this program?
If you create playlists with it, it works perfectly on the musictab (HTC Audio Manager)? The songs in the playlist has got all their own covers an so one? I had a lot of problems with the covers, the musictab only used one for the whole playlist.

F-Styla said:
But the Coreplayer isn't fingerfriendly! What does the HTC Video application work so bad?
Wished I would know that before. I set my Phone on eBay know.
Do you or someone else use this program?
If you create playlists with it, it works perfectly on the musictab (HTC Audio Manager)? The songs in the playlist has got all their own covers an so one? I had a lot of problems with the covers, the musictab only used one for the whole playlist.
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I understand what you mean about swiping with fingers but I went through a lot of hassle because I wanted all that too and it was all a waste of time. Really the quality I am getting from CorePlayer surpasses any need for finger friendliness. CorePlayer is still very useable with fingers anyway using menus and I never use stylus.
PlaylistMgr has an option to save playlists in all formats including HTC Audiomanager format so yes you can create and then play in HTC Audio.
Regarding album covers/artwork I think the easiest way is to embed the art work on the computer using iTunes or similar. I do this and everything shows up in HTC Audiomanager and Coreplayer. I also spent a bit of time messing around with folder.jpg etc.. and sometimes it worked sometimes not. Album Art looks really good in Coreplayer.

I'm asking myselfe, why it' has to be that complicated to create a nice working playlist with a 600 EUR device.
Choosing a folder on the storage card and putting every song of if into a playlist, every song shown with the right albumart is possible on every walkman mobile mobile these days, but not on a 600 EUR Smartphone? That's absurd.
Yes coreplayer is maybe good, but I want a stylish fingerfriendly software for music, and the music tab ist stylish and fingerfriendly but it mess up in practice.
And videos should be playling floatly by stock too.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
take this program for video encoding. it works super with htc album.

PhilXdaOrbit2 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
take this program for video encoding. it works super with htc album.
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I used it but the videos were still bucking.

F-Styla said:
I'm asking myselfe, why it' has to be that complicated to create a nice working playlist with a 600 EUR device.
Choosing a folder on the storage card and putting every song of if into a playlist, every song shown with the right albumart is possible on every walkman mobile mobile these days, but not on a 600 EUR Smartphone? That's absurd.
Yes coreplayer is maybe good, but I want a stylish fingerfriendly software for music, and the music tab ist stylish and fingerfriendly but it mess up in practice.
And videos should be playling floatly by stock too.
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I find Coreplayer looks better using the attached skin in case it helps.

Best Music App for HTC Touch Pro

Ive tried searching and googling but I cannot find the best dedicated Music app for the HTC touch pro.
Any help would be fantastic. thanks.

Personally, my favorite app to play audio is TCPMP. It is lightweight, but highly customizable. It is the only app I know that allows you to control playback speed (something I like).

i ve a wired headset w/all the playing buttons (play-stop,pause,vol+-,etc) and it only works with windows media playe. At least without making some reg changes.

I use Nitrogen. It's one of my favorites.

I use HTC Audio Manager. It looks clean and it recognizes the playlists I created in Win Media Player.

the best has to be Pocket Music hands down, it has way more features and options than any of the above and i know coz i've used all of them, Pocket Music lets you customize it heaps and it includes radio FM and tons of equalizers, playlists and skins etc, it's awesome.

me too
I am also searching for a better audio player. The windows media player that come with my room is a big brick of SH*T. I hate it, while playing, the music stop when end, and looks like the phone is dead. Too slow.
Coreplayer is good, but dont have much options and crashes.
The one i am using now is Pocket music player, but it also have a lot of bugs and CRASHES too, at least have so many options, and its a lot flexible. and thats what i want, but there is a delay when changing music ( i dont know why, is this configurable?) that i really dont like.
any one knows something better than Pocked music?

how about S2P?
It's my favorite APP with WM6.5 HTC Touch Pro...

I like Nitrogen too. It has nice looking skins and I like using the sleep timer.

merovigiam said:
I am also searching for a better audio player. The windows media player that come with my room is a big brick of SH*T. I hate it, while playing, the music stop when end, and looks like the phone is dead. Too slow.
Coreplayer is good, but dont have much options and crashes.
The one i am using now is Pocket music player, but it also have a lot of bugs and CRASHES too, at least have so many options, and its a lot flexible. and thats what i want, but there is a delay when changing music ( i dont know why, is this configurable?) that i really dont like.
any one knows something better than Pocked music?
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I like Conduits Pocket Player better. Check it out.

My vote goes to S2P - combined with S2U2 it is absolutely perfect
I'm missing some features though like playlists or viewing some additional info (bitrate etc.)

I like s2p for music and pocket player for podcasts, PP has a great bookmarking feature that alot of others don't have

I like windows media player mobile. Coz it supports my audio adapter hardware buttons. But I miss the sleep/close/pause timer on it.

PocketMusic in Hermes 2 months ago, now TouchFLO Music Tab
I had used PocketMusic on my Dopod 838 Pro (HTC Hermes)..
It has features I need :
Sleep Timer
Playlist
Control playing with Hardware buttons even when minimized (like in Nokia XpressMusic)
Bass Boost
Now, I'm using the built-in TouchFLO 3D 2.1 dedicated Music Tab on my HTC Touch Pro..
Now, I need a player with PocketMusic features that can replace the Music Tab (because I love the integration), also better if it has integration with S2U2
S2P hides the taskbar, right?

[Q] : Any Roms with a modified music player?

Hey Guys,
I just entered the world of Flashing Roms and is completely taken aback by all the amazing ROMS available here.
The one thing I hate so much in my TP2 is the default music player. The way the library is managed is just awful. Especially due to the lack of scrolling by alphabet feature.
I know there are other music players out there that does a better job. But I was just wondering whether there are any stable roms out here which has tweaked the default manila music player?
Please dont bash me if this has already been discussed. I did a lot of search in the ROM Development thread and couldnt find anything relevant.
Thanks in advance

Hi, I don't know if it's any ROM with a modified HTC player out here, but I think the easiest way is to just install a player you like, and use that.

I think HTC player is nothing more than just a slightly modified user interface of the windows mobile player. It's the WinMo player that sucks unfortunately. I always experience the device running slow with the music player and would love to use a better player.
I think installing third party player is the best option.

PUTALE said:
I think HTC player is nothing more than just a slightly modified user interface of the windows mobile player. It's the WinMo player that sucks unfortunately. I always experience the device running slow with the music player and would love to use a better player.
I think installing third party player is the best option.
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Nitrogen is a really good lightweight music player, with some amazing skins as well. But I don't want a lightweight one. Man.. I wish there was a music player for WM with all the functions music players should have, like: Playcount, search, nice organised libraries (not just searching your entire storage card...), nice playlist setup etc. I'm gonna try out MortPlayer soon, just after I get these ROMs uploaded

seeM_ZA said:
Nitrogen is a really good lightweight music player, with some amazing skins as well. But I don't want a lightweight one. Man.. I wish there was a music player for WM with all the functions music players should have, like: Playcount, search, nice organised libraries (not just searching your entire storage card...), nice playlist setup etc. I'm gonna try out MortPlayer soon, just after I get these ROMs uploaded
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Try Pocket Player I think it has all that

husam666 said:
Try Pocket Player I think it has all that
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+1 for Conduits Pocket Player.
I'm using the Sense interface when it comes to music, you just need to organize your favorite sings into playlists Makes the player a far more usable imo.

Jackos said:
+1 for Conduits Pocket Player.
I'm using the Sense interface when it comes to music, you just need to organize your favorite sings into playlists Makes the player a far more usable imo.
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I setup MortPlayer last night, it's pretty awesome as well Just have to get a new theme. iGloss and Blob (or something like that) are both really brilliant.

Music App for Windows Mobile
S2P is a good music app with alphabetized song, album, and artist listings. It has a nice layout with full screen album art. Really easy to use.