I think my Diamond can get a bit faster. I used TF3D Config and then noticed something interesting: It seems like TF3D gets a bit of a boost if I use less Tabs. So I decided to delete some tabs which I don't use often. For example the internet tab - I simply put an Opera shortcut on the program tab and done.
Now to the music thing..
I was wondering if there is might be a way to enjoy music on the diamond without the candy and sometimes unhandy Music tab on TF3D. I like the Windows Media Player from WinMo, cause its very basic but opens with a very usable archive-view which shows my music. So i think its cool if we put the media player with a shortcut on the program-tab and get rid of the TF3D Music Tabs.
...But to things are somehow disturbing:
1. The Media Player isn't that cool when it comes to mp3 tags, so I need a small app which let me edit tags on my music files
2. Of course, to make this idea work, we need a black media player skin which suits into the interface. Don't know where to get this. It should have eyecandy things like showing the albumcover, huge buttons for tapping with the finger, or less buttons plus a concept how to configure the diamond buttons with the media player.
Any ideas how to solve this? Or are you all satisfied with the TF3D Music functionality?
Im not satisfied with TF3D as a whole, mainly because of the music tab.
So I use PocketMusic. For me this is how music on the pda is supposed to be.
TF3D music player is not for nomad use. The interface is cute, but really not made for an everyday use.
I've tried a lot of music players on my diamond.
The 3 best ones in my opinion are :
1) Conduits Pocket Player (has a WMP-like skin, btw)
2) MortPlayer
3) PocketMusic.
Each one has pros and cons. Though, the huge amount of config options in Pocket Player and MortPlayer allows quite good things, much more than with PocketMusic.
Though, I still haven't found a way to correctly map my volume buttons with any of these three apps (see my other post about this issue).
The best combo I've got for the moment is AEBPlus + Pocket Player : Long Press DOES work for volume buttons, but inhibits them in TouchFlo.
Pocket player has some cool features, I agree, but in my opinion pocketmusic simply has the best sound.
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Hi everyone,
I removed T3D from my diamond and replaced it by SPB Mobile Shell 2 (much faster, customizable). But Windows Media Player cannot be used easily with fingers, especially when you want to choose your playlist etc.
Does anyone knows any application that can be used as easily as the media player in TF3D ?
Thanks.
Guillaume
the best for me is s2p ! You can find it easy here in xda.
Have a nice day
I tried both S2P and and Pocket Player. And I choose to keep Pocket Player. The interface is more atractive and there is more options. Waiting for future updates of S2P
How can an alternate music player be launched by pressing the Touch Flo 3D music tab ?
Recently, my iPod Video got stolen so now all I have to listen to music is my AT&T Tilt. I bought an 8GB Micro SD card and I don't really like the default media player that I'm using.
What media player do you recommend? I'd love to be able to create playlists easily and to browse music quickly and efficiently.
Thanks alot.
Hmm... it doesn't do playlists yet, but I haven't found anything that's as nice and easy to use as S2P
Try Nytrogen, i like it.
I pref coreplayer
Yep coreplayer for me or if freeware mortplayer is very good.
Me, I liked Pocket Player so much I paid for it
I'm an Itunes user, so I like the AAC support and the nifty browsing.
PocketPlayer 4.1 for music as it's got awesome sound a great interface & CorePlayer v1.3.5 Build 7340 for videos
I have PocketPlayer V4.0. It is very good & sounds good with a 3.5mm adaptor & good headphones.
i've gone through quite a few audio players. yesterday, i revisted the latest version of pocket player and i was BLOWN AWAY!
so i remembered reading this thread...dug it up...and decided to
1. give my props to pocket player (i am considering purchasing it!!!)
2. provide brief reviews of pocket player as well as other audio players i've tinkered with over the last 2 years.
HTC Audio Manager (most recent versions are similar with minor differences)
1. FREE!
2. has shipped with nearly all HTC official ROMs...integrates nicely with HTC Home and Manila2d/3d.
3. good audio quality but no built in equalizer. if headphones are plugged in, you can get equalizer functionality with the HTC audio booster.
4. now playing view is quick and to-the-point.
5. library is easy to use and straight forward.
6. auto detects music files across the entire device (i consider this to be a bit more "poky" than necessary).
7. bit sensitive to bad/corrupt mp3 files. often crashes even if a single mp3 file is indexed into your library.
8. finger scrolling is NOT kinetic and relies COMPLETELY on touchflo scrolling. this means that if you are like me (i.e. you use WM6.5 and you have completely disabled touchflo scrolling to allow WM6.5 native thumb scrolling to work properly), you will have to use the d-pad or scroll wheel or the scroll bar on the side to navigate the album
9. some versions on some ROMs are unable to play music through the loud speaker if the device is put to standby (playback through head set ALWAYS works with nearly every player in this list when device is on standby)
10. seems to support playlists but thats it! i don't think you can "manage" playlists more than just picking an existing one to play.
S2P (0.73beta)
1. FREE!
2. good alternative if you want something that looks a bit like the ipod/iphone music player. similarities are mostly cosmetic though.
3. library view is good! uses its own native kinetic thumb scrolling.
4. i think it supports playlists but i didn't see good support for building a playlist.
5. library navigation with the d-pad felt a bit unintuitive.
6. proper access to the library requires ordering your files in a certain heirarchy of folders.
7. good but not as clean to use (e.g. in the car) as nitrogen and not nearly as good as pocket player
Nitrogen
1. FREE!
2. skinnable. however, i found that most skins are made EITHER for portrait OR landscape but NOT both. that means rotating your screen and bringing up nitrogen meant manually switching to a landscape theme before you could see the rest of nitrogen's GUI.
3. tries to provide its own kinetic thumb scrolling but falls flat on its feet on my kaiser with WM6.5. i just couldn't make the scrolling usable enough to be able to navigate my music folders with ease.
4. the now playing view is easy and straight forward to use and most of the skins make the now playing view almost FUN to use.
5. like S2P, nitrogen requires the library to be arranged in proper files and folders for your own good. this is because nitrogen's library is really not a library! its just a glorified file/folder browser. however, nitrogen supported some nice features such as enqueue, enqueue and play, etc, suggesting that its internal playback is indeed building up some sort of a playlist that can be managed/saved.
6. does NOT continue to play through the loudspeaker if you put your device to standby (works fine through headset when put on standby). stutters on WM6.5 if the WM6.5 lockscreen comes up.
7. equalizer felt good but i didn't test scientifically.
Pocket Player v4.1
1. NOT FREE! (BUT WORTH IT, READ ON!)
preamble: on the desktop, i swear by WinAmp. once properly configured, WinAmp is the best experience for music playback on the desktop IMHO so i always sought something similar on the mobile (similar in functionality and power, not necessarily in looks). pocket player turned out to be shoe-in!
2. extremely customizable, lots and lots of options
3. only player in this list of AUDIO players that provides VISUALIZATIONS
4. only player in this list of AUDIO players that can play VIDEOS too
5. skinnable (supports native skins, winamp skins, and also auto detects available windows media player skins)
6. now playing view revolves around an explicit editable/managable/savable playlist. what this means is that in other players, the playlist is implicit. when you choose to playback an album, the tracks in the album are the ONLY tracks maintained in this implicit/hidden playlist. when you choose another album, the old playlist is cleared and the new album listing is loaded as the new playlist. this works but it is limited. with pocket player, you can dynamically BUILD a playlist. its a powerful concept that brings a level of experience similar to winamp on the desktop.
7. EXCELLENT library view. behaves like htc audio manager (because it does not require a special reorganization of your files and folders). looks for files to add to the library only in folders explicitly chosen by the user (like S2P and nitrogen).
8. playlist in now playing view is fully thumb friendly with kinetic scrolling (smoothest i've experienced on the kaiser).
9. library is fully thumb friendly with kinetic scrolling and with alphabetic indexing strip on the right (smoothest i've experienced on the kaiser).
10. large menus (regardless if you have WM6.1 or WM6.5).
11. POWERFUL options in the popup menus of items in the library. what behavior or what menu pops up is controlled through simple gestures. the mappings are all up to you!
12. keeps playing with the device in standby, through loudspeaker as well as through headset. no stuttering experienced so far.
13. supports crossfading.
14. equalizer felt good (i was using the "fast" equalizer, perhaps the other equalizers can give even better quality).
15. i can't stress this enough...the library view is a DREAM!
Pocket Player...HIGHLY recommended!
cheers!
Whats a good Media Player like the one on HTC TruFlo3D?
I dont like the S2P also, its a crappy iphone knock off, no offense to the developer but this is coming from someone who had a iphone.
i also try lookin for the HTC Audio Manager and some how i think i downloaded the wrong ver cuz it was rather small on the my screen.
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its been asked and answered several times before and varies from person to person....alot recommend coreplayer...
coreplayer is to complex. am looking for something simple but with alot of functionality, am coming from a iphone so am looking for a audio player along that line, so far i like the HTC TouchFlo3D player but thats only enable when u have touch flo on, if i disable touch flo am stuck without music
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Mort player maybe? It has some simple layouts and deep features if you dig into it.
I use the WMP most of the time. Simple and already there.
What I would like is a app the sends playback control commands to WMP while another app like GPS is in the foreground. Something like butler that would use swipe L and R (on the joypad surface not the screen) for prev and next track, maybe swipe up to toggle play/pause and down for next play list or album? That would not interfere with most apps and would put and end to 95% of my task switching.
If you're coming from an iPhone and are expecting similar software, there really isn't any. You'll just have to go out and get an iPod Touch. It's not that WinMo media players are worse, they're just different, so if you can't get used to having something different you probably won't find anything you like.
As always, searching is good. To get you started, look for CorePlayer, TCPMP, Conduits Pocket Player, or MortPlayer.
I am a long term kaiser owner, couple of years now.
I decided to try it as my day to day mp3 player. I normally use a Sony dedicated player but as I have a spare 16GB micro SD, I thought I would put that to use.
Does anyone have any tips on a good audio player that is installable as a cab because I have no real knowledge of flashing custom roms (apart from orginal ones, ie, setup.exe, next, next )
many thanks all for a great place for info
Best AudioPlayer i.m.o is PocketPlayer download the demo give it a shot
Best audio player and it's FREE...is Mortplayer. I use it on my TyTN II and have used it for many years now. I am unable to upload cab, but the latest is MortPlayer-v3.31b77. You won't need another mp3 player. Just Google it and you'll find it.
cheers all
Sadly I used the windows media player, there was a way to turn the screen off with it so I used it.
NITROGEN IS THE WAY TOO GO
fast,simple,light, and you change change the skin
always been using this
yeah windows media player all the way
The only thing I have to say about Nitrogen is that it does not sort my memory by album, artist, etc... Otherwise, I MUCH prefer Nitrogen to anything else, just feels 'right'... all the buttons do what I feel they should do, the scroll wheel is the volume, and the volume is independant of all other sounds on the device. Allows me to balance my voice navigation agaist my mp3s, etc.
How does Mort player stand up?
+1 for Nitrogen
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.
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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?