As I sit in this meeting wishing for a way to be entertained privately with multimedia playing in the ear distant from view, I wonder why the darn audio won't output to my headset from either Media Player, and is only good for making phone calls it seems.
Any insight Fella's?
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has anyone found a mp3 player for ppc that comes with a decent eq? windows media player sounds very poor and flat. a few others i tried came with a eq but it still sounded quite poor.
i use shure e5's with my xda2 and im i must say they sound terrific when plugged into a discman with a good eq but plugged into my xd2 its almost torture. all the low frequencies on ppc players are almost non existant. its not very exciting at all.
thanks for your time.
I use PocketMusic from http://www.pocketmind.com I have purchased the retail version but there is a freeware version available for download as well.
I also use the timer feature as an alarm clock waking to an MP3 sound track.
Ed
does that extra bass boost on the purchase version seem worth it? pocketmind was actually the most decent eq i could find on any of the players.
For example winampaq - port of winamp to ppc.
www.winampaq.com
pocket player is by far the best player for pocket pc, has the equalizers plus visualizations etc.
Marc
I am new to BT audio, but I have come across something very strange. I have a new Motorola S9 BT headset and a Cingular 8525. I have been able to make and receive calls, pause and skip songs in Media Player 10, but I had an awful time trying to make stereo play on the headset. It delivers system beeps, alerts, and ActiveSync tones to the headset. After some hard-resets, and some troubleshooting, I found this combination does indeed deliver very nice sound quality (without the A2DPfix). The problem is that it doesn't send AAC (.m4a) songs to the BT headset. I realize that there is only limited support for AAC, (WMP doesn't recognize the META data from them) but it does play them thru the phone speaker.
Why would WMP play some formats thru the BT headset and others thru the speaker?
not sure but you can use tcpmp with aac plugin
Any searches on audio quality return phone call quality.
What about the audio quality, judged against a stand-along mp3 player, using a good pair of headphones (e.g. Etymotic Research, Sennheiser 580's)?
(No comments about Bluetooth audio, please. The current choices aren't anywhere near the two phones listed above...)
Is the output powerful enough? Flat frequency response? Low noise?
I was hoping that, with an 8525 + 4GB microSD, I could dump my current phone AND my flash mp3 player...
What sounds good to you for a MP3 player? There is no way any phone in the market can sound as good as a standalone player.
Why not? It all depends on the choice of components. I can imagine that the analogue-to-digital convertor chip in the Hermes is better than that in many cheap and regular standalone mp3 players.
You have to test to make sure though, and then there's personal preference...
check SONY ERICSSON W800i
check SONY ERICSSON W800i
i think all mp3 players are just like the built in mp3 players on your phone. I'm using my xda trion with logitech headphones and the bass and audio is thumping man! I swear, i see no difference from my friend's ipod video, my logitech earphones give me all the bass and treble and whatever else u can think off, it's awesome! depending on the mp3 (quality etc), when i listen to really good downloaded songs, i feel like i'm hearing it live! it's a matter of earphones/headphones man! whatever ur mp3/ipod/whatever is, if they got crappy earphones/headphones, u'll get crappy sound, if u use ur hermes with good quality earphones/headphones, i swear u'll enjoy ur audio experience
Good application to use
A good application to use is pocket player by conduits. Costs a couple of bucks off handango, but with the skin of version 2.8(available on their sight) it is soooo easy to use. I can use it with out a stylus. You can't listen to more than 100 mp3s in a week. Sure you probably won't be able to store your entire library on the pda, but it is so convienient. Plus, if you have a pda/phone, you won't miss a call at the gym!
Check out conduits pocket player though... make sure to get the skin of version 2.8 or 2.0 on their website.
Short answer.. No
I have a few different sets of decent headphones (Shure e2c and e3c, and Grado's SR80's) and the phone doesn't sound anywhere near as good as my iRiver.
I use my Jasjam as my music player and I find it great. When a call comes in the music pauses and then when your done it starts no stopping you MP3 player then answering your phone all just one simple operation. I find it great!
i also picked up the 8525 after my dell jukebox's headset jack started having problems and causing undesireable amounts of static. loved that player, had it for many years, replaced HD to give it a few more gigs of space, and i have absolutely no complaints about the 8525 as an mp3 player. i use headphones all the time and i havent had any problems with it.
the phone slows down a little bit when using BT and windows media, but a lot of the time i'll use the standard headphones and it runs fine. its real nice to be able to have the music pause automatically so you can take a call
4gig isnt as much as a lot of mp3 players, ie i used to have a 20g, but as long as your a little more selective in your songs you can still virtually have an endless supply of music (ie picking the songs you really like instead of just droppin full albums into it)
I have a x7500 and using Bluetooth Receiver setup with headphones and headset for phone. Good news is that all of this actually works pretty well overall. Bad news is that my MP3 music players restart automatically after I receive a phone call upon the ending of the phone call I can tell Pocket Player not to restart after the phone call and this works. However, iPlay still wants to start no matter what! Is there any way to tell the audio gateway or A2DP or ???.....NOT to restart music after a phone call ends.
I would appreciate any help on this. I have been searching forums and looking at registry entries but no success in stopping the restarting of music players so far.
that is a software compatibility issue
i have no problem listinging or watching movies via AD2P
when phone comes in, it pauses, and goes to Phone mode
when i finish talking, and hang up
it switches back to Music / Movie mode in AD2P
no restart no issues at all
using CorePlayer
i got 3 different headsets
Jabra BT8010
Moto HT820
Sony DS970
they all work perfectly
my guess is the Pocket Player you are using?
try another Audio Player software
Yes. I agree. It is a compatability issue but sometimes there are still options to exert control. So Pocket Player has option to restart after phone call but iPlay does not. Thus Pocket Player offers pretty good control in this area. However, it just so happens that iPlay has some very, very high end features that I really like but just does not have the phone handling at this time with the version that I have (although plays fine thru Bluetooth). I am hoping there might be some registry setting to tell A2DP not to try to restart music after a phone call.
Anyone ever heard of the ability to do this?
doesn't have to be a software issue. I have the same problem but with Touch Flo 3D skin. It starts playing music after the call, even if before the call I wasn't listening to the music I've tried to disable the Touch Flo 3D, but then the standard Media Player starts after the call . I have to remember to turn off the music after every call - it's driving me crazy!!
All I care about is that it has BlueTooth to connect to some wireless headphones and a competent music player.
I will only use it when I go out for a jog, and I want to listen to music without having to bring my phone.
I will never synch it with a phone, don't care about notifications, etc..
I got a knockoff GT08 basically for free and it works, technically. The BT connection is actually pretty solid, but the music player is terrible. No support for playlists, or playing by album or artist.