Hello,
Is anyone here able to reccommend some programs that can offerr the following:
Audio player that I can start to listen to an audio book mp3 file then can close the application or switch off the phone then go back and reopen the player and continue listening from the same point?
Application so I can password protect or pincode protect some folders - Just a simple pin code protection is all i need.
Thanks
Regards,
Neil
No one? - Please can someone help?
Nitrogen - http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=59478
And HTC Audio Manager
I can't see how the Nitrogen app can do what I need!
Bumping this thread - I need the same program that Neil is asking for. Just a simple file protection by password - nothing elaborate needed. When I had my Palm treo the built in messages software had the ability to just secure each file by a password if needed. Looking for the same here. I've done searches and nothing relevant came up. Anyone?
I used Pocket Music for audio book for long time. It is the best.
It has bookmark feature and automatically save the last point you listened to, and resume when next time you start it. ( all those features have to be turned on via settings)
Also I set the Camera button to act as play/pause key very handy...unfortunately hardware button mapping doesn't work with raphael. It works perfects with old wm phones but has some issues on raphael/diamond.
I downloaded it from iphone-forum.org and pda4x.com long time ago.
Don't know if you can find one (especially the latest one with crack )
encrypt folders -- use winrar or zip for wm?
rctneil said:
Audio player that I can start to listen to an audio book mp3 file then can close the application or switch off the phone then go back and reopen the player and continue listening from the same point?
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I've been using MortPlayer to do that. The setup wizard allows even a novice to select directories with songs to use in regular music mode, and directories with audiobooks. Everyone else can set it up easily through the menus.
With a tap on the screen I can switch to the music directory to listen to music, or flip to the audio-book directory to continue listening from where I was at in the book. Long drives in the car require some variety...
PocketPlayer
GSPlayer
TCPMP
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Has anyone else noticed that with either Windows Media Player or the HTC Audio Manager, it will always use the same shuffle order? Doesn't this defeat the purpose? Anyone know how to get it to "reshuffle" with every play. I am getting tired of hearing my play lists in the same order everytime.
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Has anyone else noticed that with either Windows Media Player or the HTC Audio Manager, it will always use the same shuffle order? Doesn't this defeat the purpose? Anyone know how to get it to "reshuffle" with every play. I am getting tired of hearing my play lists in the same order everytime.
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Amen, thought I was the only one who noticed this!
Yes, surprising isn't it. Even a using a search on all forums didn't turn up this same question. I think this is true for Wondows Media Player on all devices, or at least the one's I have owned. Would be nice is HTC could provide a shuffle option that actually shuffles with the Audio Manager. Perhaps they should call it "Reorder" instead of "Shuffle".
Just searched and this is the only thread I could find on this problem.
My media player doesn't actually play the library in folder order, but seems to shuffling only a few songs on the list.
Is playing them from the library the only option? - you can play only one song at a time when accessing the music folder with windows explorer.
to "reshuffle" have you tried turning off shuffle, selecting another track, playing it, then turn shuffle back on.
Thanks for the suggestion - yes I've tried that, but it just seems so hit and miss with the Windows media player and the shuffle play seems to repeat a few tracks too often.
I've now installed MortPlayer and it's working great, so I'm not going to bother with the WM player now.
Thanks.
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to "reshuffle" have you tried turning off shuffle, selecting another track, playing it, then turn shuffle back on.
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Yes, this is my half baked solution. I just scroll down and start a few songs later in the list as it is sorted via the playlist. It still does not "shuffle" though, just puts me at a different point in the (properly termed...) reordered playlist. If it's a short playlist though, you will figure out pretty quickly that the songs go in the same order every time, you just started at a different point.
In computing, the random doesn't exist, we can only approach it by simulating.
You won't never get a "real" shuffle. When you select this mode in WMP or HTC audio manager, it follows an algorithm, that's why you always hear songs in the same order with the same playlist. The best way is to change your playlist.
I hope this explanation is helpful and clear, and if somebody can give us more details on the subject, don't hesitate (I like learning more and more )
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In computing, the random doesn't exist, we can only approach it by simulating.
You won't never get a "real" shuffle. When you select this mode in WMP or HTC audio manager, it follows an algorithm, that's why you always hear songs in the same order with the same playlist. The best way is to change your playlist.
I hope this explanation is helpful and clear, and if somebody can give us more details on the subject, don't hesitate (I like learning more and more )
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I hear what you saying regarding computers not being good at random, but I can tell you that this MortPlayer is doing a damn fine job of it.
I think that these workarounds with the playlist are a poor reflection on WM media player - I have about 1.5G in my music folder and MortPlayer can shuffle the lot without the need to first create a playlist.
I didn't say that you need to create a playlist. On the contrary, more the numbers of songs is high, more the order in which you will hear its is changing, because the probability of finding the song "m" on a sample "M" diminishes when you increase "M" ( "M " can be a playlist or 1.5 GB of songs)
I've recently started using HTC's Audio Manager instead of Windows Media on my Tytn II, and I like everything about it except the way it sorts songs on an album. All of my songs are tagged with '01', '02', etc. in the beginning of the song title, and Windows Media correctly understands this and puts the songs in the order they appear on the album. However, Audio Manager only orders the songs in alphabetical order regardless of the order the songs appear on the album (even though the tags exist that should make them sort correctly). Anyone else notice this? Is there a fix for this?
i got the same problem...anyone know how to solve this?
audio manager track listing
yep, couldn't agree more- audio manager is great and with an 8gb sd card- i have an iphone killer. however the track listing problem really pisses me off. anyone got any ideas out there?
someone on this forum said that there is a new version of audio manager on the touch dual which doesn't have that bug anymore but i haven't seen it here yet...
When you originally rip the files on your PC the mp3 files have to have the track number information associated with them.
Go back to the files on WM player on your PC and right click then open 'Advanced Tag editor' ( the standard tags are being replaced) to change the track number or simply right click on the album and use 'Find Album info' as it will do all this for you.
Hope this helps.
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When you originally rip the files on your PC the mp3 files have to have the track number information associated with them.
Go back to the files on WM player on your PC and right click then open 'Advanced Tag editor' ( the standard tags are being replaced) to change the track number or simply right click on the album and use 'Find Album info' as it will do all this for you.
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we meant the htc audio manager not the wmp...wmp is working fine...the mp3s are tagged correctly...
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we meant the htc audio manager not the wmp...wmp is working fine...the mp3s are tagged correctly...
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Yeah but did you know WM pocket player uses 'old' tags and HTC's uses the new advanced v2 ?? (that's why I mentioned them!!)
Soz you will even find this prob in early versions of TCPMP.
Just trying to help.
Try dutty's htc audio manager:
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I've recently started using HTC's Audio Manager instead of Windows Media on my Tytn II, and I like everything about it except the way it sorts songs on an album. All of my songs are tagged with '01', '02', etc. in the beginning of the song title, and Windows Media correctly understands this and puts the songs in the order they appear on the album. However, Audio Manager only orders the songs in alphabetical order regardless of the order the songs appear on the album (even though the tags exist that should make them sort correctly). Anyone else notice this? Is there a fix for this?
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I think this is the same version as above, but I can guarantee it works as you want:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1656801&postcount=448
This is really a useful app now. I just ditched WMP out of my cube.
-R
Note: I have never messed with podcasts up to this point, so I will easily look like I don't know anything on this
There is a lot of stuff to find here related to what RSS reader to use, etc, and I can explore that...but...
I have MS Voice command, and hope to be able to call up podcasts with it. What I'm not sure if is if MS Voice Command requires MS Media Player to operate for playing music. I assumed so, so I thought I woudl download podcast mp3 files, and create a playlist called Podcasts.
But, I find for some reason that when I try to import the downloaded MP3 into the library that it will not come in.
So, I"m left wondering, what is best method to do podcasts on the Tilt, and be able to call them up with MS Voice Command?
Any thoughts based on that? (In meantime, I"ll be reading the multitude of threads on RSS Readers, etc.)
Thanks!
I am gathering from the lack of response that it must not be possible to use MS voice command to play any downloaded MP3s (podcasts).
Yes you can. However, you will need to sync it through desktop WMP. Before you sync it you must fix it's properties though. You must give it a title & Artist name, Genre, Album Name, etc... In MSVC you can only launch media by these types of commands, i.e. Play news, play podcast play "artist name". Read the MSVC help file regarding media selections.
Also depending what you mark the MP3 format as being hanled by (File Asosciation) you can have it play in most popular media players. I prefer TCPMP.
Before you sync it you must fix it's properties though
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That must be my problem. I'll see if I can figure that out. Thanks for the input. Sounds kinda painful though, as I'd have to manually input properties on every one I download to get it to load in WMP.
I've been thinking of looking into the TCPMP. Will MS Voice command work with that application?
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Hmmm...actually, my problme is that WMP won't even pull the file in for me to then add the necessary information to synch it. I'll have to figure that one out.
Hi All - I think it must be me, but I can't get my head around the HTC Audio Manager. I deleted all the 'supplied' songs on my device and added some new ones from my own collection. Windows Media Player picked up the revised song list but Audio Manager still seems to show all the *original* tracks. Obviously, when I click on them in Audio Manager, the programe says cannot find the track. I can't seem to make the device 'refresh' the tracks in Audio Manager
I can see I have a small animated magnifying glass towards to the top right of the program - does that mean it's searching or doing anything? It seems to run forever (20 minutes and counting) and not do much...Should I have left it running -is that how it refreshes the list?
Thanks
On my HTC TYTN II (with shipped ROM), the HTC Audio Manager automatically updates via the rotating magnifying glass in the upper right corner, as you observed. Also, I have noticed that every time I open HTC Audio Manager, it seems to do a search. I had a similar problem once, and I went into Windows Media Player and used the "Update Library" function there, then went back to HTC Audio Manager and it updated. Hope this helps you.
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Thanks...I guess I should wait a little longer for the magnifying glass to stop! It's got quite a bot of data to get through on my 4Gb Micro SD card. I did try updating the library in Media Player...but the results didn't seem to transfer over to/into the Audio Manager - strange!
As I say, maybe I should just give it longer to do the magnifying glass thing...
Hhmmmm. I left the magnifying glass spinning for three hours...and it was still spinning. I guess something is not working properly here with the playlists. Is there any way to manually delete all the playlists and start again?
Thanks
Stevep, I had a similar problem recently. Where the audio manager didn't update files that windows media could see. I decided to just delete all files in Strage Card >> Music and resync the playlists. Seems to work fine now.
Playlists not updating in Audio Manager
Hi foaf - glad to see it's not just me then! When you say you deleted all the files, do you mean the actual MP3 files themselves or the playlist file - if it's the latter, where is the playlist data held?
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Does anyone know how you can associate mp3's & mwa's to open with Audio Manager? (Making it the default player for my music files)
Hey all. I listen to Audio Books a LOT. I have a lot of Idle Time when I am on a bus or a plane.
I know that back in WP7 days, they had to do all of this strange crap to get the media files on the phone to get them to work since there was no direct write access to the phone's Media folders. I am using LyndyAudio right now, but in order to get the books on there I have to upload them to DropBox then download them through the app. Also, no multi-tasking, if I leave the app in any way, it stops playback.
With WP8, we now have access to these media folders and can put the files directly on the device for use.
The app does not have to be flashy or anything but just very simple functions:
Set default audiobook folder (include subfolders)
Play
Pause - This action bookmarks your place for resume later
Fast FWD/Reverse
Skip FWD/Reverse
Pause on phone ring/answer
Resume on call end
(Any other features that can be thought up)
I'll even pay for this app and whoever can come through with this will have a huge advantage as I know many people within my company are looking for a similar app.
Please feel free to PM me or reply here if there are any questions.
Thanks!!
I agree, we need audiobook functionality back. I know we have Audible, but most of my audiobooks are mp3s burnt from CDs. +1 for an audiobook app that will let me add my own files.
Audible
Did you try Audible?
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/audible-audiobooks/bdc813dd-c20b-41f8-8646-de72fa0b365d
MethodGT said:
I agree, we need audiobook functionality back. I know we have Audible, but most of my audiobooks are mp3s burnt from CDs. +1 for an audiobook app that will let me add my own files.
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Yes, please. At least with WP7 you could convert MP3's to a podcast and transfer it and then control it with the built in media player. Can't even do that now. This is one area where 8 really hosed us.
I would love one as well. One that lets you use your own files as audiobooks without having to use their library. All I need is a bookmark feature really.