When using Windows Media Player, the closest solution I found to saving power on my phone and still have music play is to use the toggle screen function, which turns off the screen but doesn't lock the buttons. I found that annoying when I see my IE open up in my pocket while I try to change songs unnoticing. The more closer solution is to use BT headphones and standby the device, in which the music still plays.
What would be awesome would be (when not using headphones) is to have the device lock with the screen off and have the media player continue to function. Best way was either with the BT headphones, or use "Device Lock" on the today screen. But that just sucks when you have to minimize WMP to do that, and when you have to change songs, you have to unlock it and go through the whole process with a stylus. Redundant and time-wasting.
How does one go about at least locking all the buttons except the directional buttons?
been looking at this today,
found an app here:
http://www.pocketmind.com/
called pocket music, the registered version includes the features you are looking for i think
Features:
- WMA file support. PocketMusic is the first alternative Pocket PC player to Windows Media player with WMA support.
- MP3 and OGG Vorbis support.
- Alarm feature - wake up with your favorite music!
- HTTP streaming audio support for MP3 and Ogg internet radio broadcast. Title streaming also supported (ShoutCast, IceCast).
- Audible audio books support.
- Winamp 2.x skins support (More than 9500 skins are available in the Internet).
- Bookmark feature. This feature is especially useful for those who use the player for listening to audiobooks, recorded radio programs, lectures, DJ sets, and other long-time audio files.
- Extra Bass feature.
- Landscape Mode with large buttons and controls for using in the car.
- PocketMusic Today item � control music playback directly from the Today screen!
- Various Sound Presets for Equalizer and the capability to create your own presets.
- Possibility to change ID3 tags of MP3 files (set track title, artist, album, etc.). ID3 and ID3 v.2 tags support.
- Advanced Playlist Organizer (great for managing song library and playlists!).
- Fast forward/rewind track by adjustable steps from 5 to 120 seconds � useful for audio books.
- Capability to search for songs in a playlist by specific words or quickly find needed entry by number.
- Powerful player control with hardware buttons (Map any action to any hardware button).- Function of mapping +-10 sec rewind action to hardware buttons.
- Optional screen AUTO-TURN OFF fea ture to automatically turn off the screen while music is playing (timer from 5 seconds to 3 minutes). Ability to automatically block hardware buttons when the screen is off.- Ability to block hardware buttons from main menu or even assign one hardware button to lock other keys.
- Feature of scanning all folders (local content) or selected folder on device to find all supported media files and add them to playlist.
- ... other.
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hope its of some use!
mortplayer does all that for free
zephus said:
When using Windows Media Player, the closest solution I found to saving power on my phone and still have music play is to use the toggle screen function, which turns off the screen but doesn't lock the buttons. I found that annoying when I see my IE open up in my pocket while I try to change songs unnoticing. The more closer solution is to use BT headphones and standby the device, in which the music still plays.
What would be awesome would be (when not using headphones) is to have the device lock with the screen off and have the media player continue to function. Best way was either with the BT headphones, or use "Device Lock" on the today screen. But that just sucks when you have to minimize WMP to do that, and when you have to change songs, you have to unlock it and go through the whole process with a stylus. Redundant and time-wasting.
How does one go about at least locking all the buttons except the directional buttons?
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If WMP is the only player you want to listen to music on, then there's an app called delta lock that will lock all buttons and turn off the display while your music is still playing. I use this app all the time and not only to listen to music. 2 softkey buttons have to be pushed at the same time to get back to the today screen. You can have it set up using WM5NewMenu, where you can rename the "calendar" button to "Menu" for ex., add delta lock to the list of items, place delta lock(can be renamed to device lock, etc.)at the top of the list, hit the action button(center button in 4way navigation), device locks. Or you can just remap any hardware button to delta lock if you don't want the items in the WM5NewMenu app. There's several ways to do this according to your preferrences, for ex. it can be placed in the start menu, where the lock can be activated no matter where you are on the device.
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hotdog53 said:
If WMP is the only player you want to listen to music on, then there's an app called delta lock that will lock all buttons and turn off the display while your music is still playing. I use this app all the time and not only to listen to music. 2 softkey buttons have to be pushed at the same time to get back to the today screen. You can have it set up using WM5NewMenu, where you can rename the "calendar" button to "Menu" for ex., add delta lock to the list of items, place delta lock(can be renamed to device lock, etc.)at the top of the list, hit the action button(center button in 4way navigation), device locks. Or you can just remap any hardware button to delta lock if you don't want the items in the WM5NewMenu app. There's several ways to do this according to your preferrences, for ex. it can be placed in the start menu, where the lock can be activated no matter where you are on the device.
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This actually looks promising. Thanks a lot, I'll look into it.
zecoj said:
mortplayer does all that for free
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just installed mortplayer, so much faster than anything else ive tried and does everything i need thanks.
I have noticed that certain roms i try like the TNT 1933 has the out of box ability to put phone in standby and music will keep playing I however have not been able to find out what they did to achieve this and i have not gotten responses on this subject yet but its there for u to look into as well...
I must also recommend the Mortplayer (links to d/l page). I've used it almost from the beginning of my Wizard adventures. It has all of the features a modder could want:
totally FREE
playlist management
skinnability
album art display
optional landscape mode capable
built in equalization
bass boosting
d-pad function mapping (pause/play, ff, rew, vol up, vol down)
disables screen and all others except power to restore
plays many other music formats besides mp3 and wma
there's even a today plugin available (links to .cab directly)
I can get the album I'm listening to to shuffle, but it won't shuffle from the whole music selection - am I being a halfwit and missing something?
Also, for information purposes, I used doubleTwist to transfer the music from iTunes and it works flawlessly, so comes highly recommended from me...
Bring up the list view of all the artists -> then scroll along the bottom to songs -> tap the first song -> then tap the shuffle icon.
David Horn said:
Bring up the list view of all the artists -> then scroll along the bottom to songs -> tap the first song -> then tap the shuffle icon.
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Thank you!
I have two 'problems' with the music tab in HTC Sense.
First: When I make a playlist in HTC Sense music tab and I select in menu 'Play', then it is not playing the songs in the playlist but instead its playing the songs that has focus in the album view.
Second: Within the album view. Tilting my HD2 from portrait to landscape changes the display only when the volume buttons are at the bottom. Tilting the other way, the display does not change. Is this a setting?
Does someone know how to fix it yet?
play from playlist
When I select a single song within my playlist and select play the playlist is played. When I select none it's indeed playing the albums (again). Maybe trying to select a song?l
I'm probably missing something obvious but I haven't been able to find out how to randomize music. It just progresses through my playlists in alphabetical order. I've gone through all the settings in the player and also looked in the manual but can't find any info on how to do it.
just go to the first music tab for all, pick random song, right above the progress bar for the song theres a shuffle icon, tap it
Awesome. Thanks a lot. I new it was something simple.
Btw, do you know if there's a way to add multiple albums/artists/genres to a playlist at once?
no idea, long press id imagine, but im in the small group of people who get database errors when sorting by artist
Yeah, tried that but it doesn't work. Don't think there's anyway. It gets extremely tedious when you have a lot of songs each by a different artist. In the playlist you have to:
1.) Hit the Settings button
2.) Press "Add"
3.) Press "Sort by Artist"
4.) Press the artist you want to add
5.) Select the songs you want to add from that artist (or press "Select All)
6.) Press "Add"
7.) Go back to 1
That's a minimum of 6 presses just to add one artist. :/
you can also hit the 'All' tab, press 'Menu', 'Add to playlist' and then you'll have an alphabetical list of all of your songs with check boxes. go down the list checking off what you want to add to your playlist, click 'Add' and then select the playlist you would like to add them to or just create a new one.
hopefully that will save you some time. however, would be nice to just long press on a specific album and add the whole thing at once.
Anyone else have this problem?
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Nexus 4
Android 4.2.2
Problem: Songs/albums adding themselves to the queue
Instructions:
1. ensure the queue is clear
2. go to the albums list
3. tap on an album
4. tap on a song in the album's song list
- you are taken to the queue screen where all the songs from the album appear
5. tap on another song while on this screen
6. tap on the headphone symbol (top left) to take you back to the albums list
7. now tap on a different album
8. tap on a song in the album's song list
- you are taken to the queue screen, but this time all the songs from BOTH albums now appear
You can repeat this process and generate a massive list of songs in the queue.
NOTE: you have to actually tap on the song selection, using the forward/backward navigation keys will not generate the problem.
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Thanks
Dave