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 want to "cut the cable" and stream audio from my JAMin to a set of lightweight BT headphones while I workout.
I have a JAMin but I have not bought any BT headphones yet.
Primarily I use the Mobile Slingplayer and TCPMP to watch videos (mostly with mono audio).
I have seen the hacks for A2DP but I worry that the processing overhead required for A2DP will kill video performance and also that the Slingplayer and TCPMP don't stream over this profile (from the postings only WMP seems to work?).
Would I at least be able to get mono audio working wirelessly while watching video? Which BT headphones would you recommend for this?
Thanks in advance.
A2DP hack available at this site accept audio stream from any programs. Windows Media Player mentioned as only one program which support remote control functions like Play/Pause, Fwd, Bwd. Prophet performance good enough to watch video with stereo over A2DP. I don’t know about Slingplayer and TCPMP my preference are different, but my experiences with SmartMovie are successful to watch video with stereo audio.
Having spend several hours searching for information on the extent to which various stereo headsets are fully supporting A2DP and AVRCP on the Prophet with the A2DP hack, and not really getting a clear overview, I thought it might be useful if a thread was started to list the headsets in common use with an indication of their capabiliteis. Hope people will contribute in providing a useful resource:
So here goes: I have a Globalsat BTH-820:
What's Working:
Note: Only tested with Media Player 10 (results may it seem differ with for example Pocket Music/Pocket Player)
-Once paired, connects with a 4 second press of the On-Off button.
-Next and Previous track buttons work.
-Volume Up and Down work (amplification is by the unit, not the PPC)
-With the Voice Command hack via BT, MS voice Command can be heard through the headset and replied to via the built-in mic
What's Not Working:
-Play/Pause. Audio can be paused and stopped remotely (the latter with the on-off/call answer button) but cannot be resumed without using the PPC.
-Voice Command initiation: Has to be initiated via a button on the pocket pc
Other Observations:
-Sound quality is pretty good so long as the pocket pc's volume is set at max and the BTH-820 volume control is used with restraint. Background noise becomes apparent when the BTH-820's volume is cranked up too far.
-No pauses, skips or breakup of signal if within range of the PPC. Signal strength is pretty good too (though I think primarily because the Prophet's bluetooth signal is particularly strong)
-Bass is good but treble is a little thin and metallic (I think in common with all MS BT Stack A2DP implementations and down to the poor SBC compression algorithm).
Note that the BTH-820 works perfectly on devices with the Widcomm BT stack. On the iPaq hx4700, for example, the sound is very good indeed.
Even the h6340 (running a slower OMAP processor than the Prophet) acquits itself very well
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Steve
Try use Pocket Music Player 4.2.6. All AVRCP function is worked. :lol:
Good to have a Thread like this by now. I want to buy the Motorola HT820 and i like to have good Bass - I friend of mine has got the Sony Walkman Mobile Phone with these awesome in-ear Headphones.
Does a BT Headset have the same/better Sound than a wired one ?
What about the Motorola ?
Battery drain?
How much more battery is drained when you listen to music with bluetooth compared to thru a normal "wire" from the phone to earplugs?
Thanks
Hi: I've not really attempted to keep track of battery drain. There's obviously the overhead of having Bluetooth on and the processing required to compress the audio for transmission. Nothing like as much as with WiFi on, though.
Regards,
Steve
I have:
Sony Ericsson HBH-610
Doesn´t seem to work at all :=(
Can´t get it to make me an offer to check the box for "use as wireless headset", got the option when I rightclick the icon, although it´s greyed out.
My guess is that this headset can´t be used for this, anyone who have it working?
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
The track fades makes the whole experience a lot better....
Best regards,
Rayan
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
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Ok, but I don´t wan´t those with the wrap around the head.
How about Sony Ericsson DS970, anyone tried those?
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp...der&php=php1_10394&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
/fahlis
Moto HT 820
AVRCP works with WMP, Pocket Player 2.72 and up with gen_wmhost.dll plug-in, PocketMusic 2.6.XXX. SOmetimes with WMP u do have to tap play|pause on the screen once to make it work from headphones.
Auto reconnects, however play|pause button also initialises connection.
Uptime: around 12.5 hrs of continious playback, whereas JAMin/display off, Bt on, GSM on, Non overclocked CPU, music from SD card/ stays for something around 7 hrs (6.5 when overclocked to 240).
Bluetake i-phono mini?
Hi,
I am looking to buy the Bluetake i-phono mini (a pain to get hold of in Australia :shock: ). Has anyone tried to pair with this set of headphones (and what was the quality like?)
Cheers,
Winkie
pocket music player
stevep,
I have the same bluetooth bth-820 and have the exact same issues with windows mobile media player.
But goddamn, sas90850 is completely right. Pocket music player solved all the issues. Play/pause now works, plus it has an equalizers and aac support.
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Update 7/26/2006:
PocketMusic was just too resource heavy for my HTC Wizard. Even though my Wizard is overclocked at 264mhz, I still would get skipping, white screens and having to constantly reboot because of application freezes. PocketMusic doesn't work reliably with the Wizard.
I did however find another, lighter and arguably better player. PocketPlayer by Conduits.
First install version Pocket Player 2.8. AVRCP will not work until you install WMP plugin adapter 1.1. Everything works and it is awesome. The program has everything you need.
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Pocket Player version 2.8
WMP plugin adapter 1.1
HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125)
Qtek OS 2.17.7.2
Globstat BTH-820 Stereo headset
I do own a Anycom BSH-100. Always skip every 20 sec. Never got it work with nothing.
Looking to change it.
Option.
Bluetake mini with they audio gateway
BlueAnt X5 (are they the same as the sonorix???)
Globalsat BTH-820 with BTA-830
if i could find an audio gateway
Jabra 620s
Motorola HT820
Any other suggestion would be welcome.
fahlis said:
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, but I don´t wan´t those with the wrap around the head.
How about Sony Ericsson DS970, anyone tried those?
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp...der&php=php1_10394&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
/fahlis
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Click to collapse
I really really want these for my new m600.. anyone got any update on their compatability?
cheers
Re: pocket music player
Nemolacuna said:
stevep,
I have the same bluetooth bth-820 and have the exact same issues with windows mobile media player.
But goddamn, sas90850 is completely right. Pocket music player solved all the issues. Play/pause now works, plus it has an equalizers and aac support.
----------------------------
Update 7/26/2006:
PocketMusic was just too resource heavy for my HTC Wizard. Even though my Wizard is overclocked at 264mhz, I still would get skipping, white screens and having to constantly reboot because of application freezes. PocketMusic doesn't work reliably with the Wizard.
I did however find another, lighter and arguably better player. PocketPlayer by Conduits.
First install version Pocket Player 2.8. AVRCP will not work until you install WMP plugin adapter 1.1. Everything works and it is awesome. The program has everything you need.
------------------------------
Pocket Player version 2.8
WMP plugin adapter 1.1
HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125)
Qtek OS 2.17.7.2
Globstat BTH-820 Stereo headset
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi: Downloaded Pocket Player 2.8 and can confirm that it works well with the BTH-820. I can recommend this combination: no pauses or dropouts on my JAMin.
I believe that Conduits are using sbc.dll for audio compression, so some sound quality issues do still exist, These can be compensated for to some extent by using the equalizer built in to Pocket Player. In the longer term I hope MS will re-visit this code: Broadcomm's (Widcomm) A2DP implementation produces much higher quality sound...
Cheers,
Steve
chonkey said:
fahlis said:
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, but I don´t wan´t those with the wrap around the head.
How about Sony Ericsson DS970, anyone tried those?
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp...der&php=php1_10394&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
/fahlis
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I really really want these for my new m600.. anyone got any update on their compatability?
cheers
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BengalBoy has a review of them and based on it, I ordered one from ebay. It's bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and AVRCP, so it should work with any device that supports it. It should be a week or so before I get it, but it looks like it will work fine if you have a device that supports it.
http://www.bengalboy.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=527&forum=20
(WARNING: sometimes the reviews are NSFW.)
fahlis said:
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, but I don´t wan´t those with the wrap around the head.
How about Sony Ericsson DS970, anyone tried those?
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp...der&php=php1_10394&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
/fahlis
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Click to collapse
I just received mine from Expansys. I have an i-mate JAMin with i-mate's latest WWE ROM and smartmobile.se's version of the A2DP patch and I have used Windows Media Player and PocketMind's Pocket Music:
+ Sound quality is excellent!
+ Play/pause works.
+ Previous/next works as well.
- The display does not show song details.
Using the headset for phone calls works well and the display shows the caller ID. But the phone seems to be unable to use the headset for handsfree and wireless stereo at the same time as the phone doesn't want to switch back to wireless stereo once a phone call has ended. I have to go in to Bluetooth settings and mark the headset for wireless stereo again to switch back to music. I suspect this could be a problem with the "unofficial" support for A2DP on the Prophet and not the DS970.
I've succumbed and ordered a pair today.. looking forward to getting them working tomorrow/friday depending on the delivery time..
Need to get my head around the fixes for my m600 now...
fahlis said:
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, but I don´t wan´t those with the wrap around the head.
How about Sony Ericsson DS970, anyone tried those?
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp...der&php=php1_10394&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
/fahlis
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Click to collapse
I don't get it, if you want wireless headphones why buy these? You might as well just plug them in to your device.
Matterhorn said:
fahlis said:
I have the Plantronics Pulsar 590 and they work flawlessly with PocketMusic.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, but I don´t wan´t those with the wrap around the head.
How about Sony Ericsson DS970, anyone tried those?
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp...der&php=php1_10394&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
/fahlis
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't get it, if you want wireless headphones why buy these? You might as well just plug them in to your device.
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Click to collapse
Wireless refers to lack of wires between phone and headphones. The wires you have on the DS970 are just long enough to allow you to keep the receiver/remote in your shirt pocket, while you can keep the phone stuffed somewhere else . . . (no more embarassing questions about why those headset wires going down the front of my pants!)
Wireless refers to lack of wires between phone and headphones. The wires you have on the DS970 are just long enough to allow you to keep the receiver/remote in your shirt pocket, while you can keep the phone stuffed somewhere else . . . (no more embarassing questions about why those headset wires going down the front of my pants!)
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One thing that kept me from buyin the headphones is exactly this: when you're wearing a shirt or coat, you can keep the DS970 in your pocket. but when you wear a t-shirt or sweater, you have nowhere to tuck them away, and they'll just be hanging on your chest, causing all sorts of complications when you bend over and all sorts of weird looks from passerbys...
Has anybody tried this BT headset on qtek 9100 with a2dp?? Whats the sound and volume compared with wired headset in package??
I will delete the tread after i get few answers.
thanks in advance
Anybody ?? Are these good heaphones???
They're the best headphones I've tried, but I don't really use A2DP very much. I can't compare them to the wired headset since I didn't get one with my eBay-purchased 9100.
"They're the best headphones I've tried"
Good to read that.
How dont u use a2dp?? What mp3 player do u use and what rom u have ??
I have the T-mobile MDA with their official 2.26 rom and use windows media player to play my mp3 files. The sound quality is good and the ability to use the audio controls while your phone is put away is very helpful for those bus rides or walking around campus. Using them as a headset for a phone call is a bit difficult with background noice, you have to speak up in order to be heard clearly. The sound tends to stutter a bit when using TCPMP to play movie files unless I have the MDA overclocked, but in all I consider it a good investment. I also invested in the Motorola bluetooth usb dongle and enjoy using the headphones while using my laptop as well. I'd have to say I was satisfied with my purchase.
Good. I get the headset in 1 week, will report about working, clear sound etc..
I read that the working lenght is about 70m in free land. Could u try that for me, please?? Or in whole house?!
I read also, that if u dont have a2dp is the mp3 sound bad, so how come, that u could listen without that "standard" - a2dp??
btw Thank u both for infos.
the headset is good. It works up to 10m, its comfortable and nice looking. good buy
Hi,
I was hoping for a little advice from someone who has the Vario III. I am on T-mobile in the Uk and I am currently thinking of getting shut of my N95 and getting one of these. I primarily want a smartphone that has good music playback facilites as well as a good web browsing phone. The N95 can play Mp3's through headphones but the quality is noticebally not as good as on my Ipod.
Is the Vario III a good music player , it seems to have a high spec in all other areas. Also do you use the built in MP3 player or is there a better third party app that can play them. What's the battery life like when just playing back music and what is currently the largest memory card it takes.
Lastly, am I right in assuming the Vario III is the same as the Kaiser? Is it just rebranding?
Thanks for any help!
The Kaiser/TyTn II/Vario III/whatever else they want to call it has pretty decent audio out.
I personally use a stereo bluetooth headset for listening to music which is damn near perfect.
The hands free kit that comes with it has... well... what you expect from a hands free kit - fairly bad audio reproduction.
I haven't tried many of the audio adapters found in this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=332164 thread but I'm thinking of buying one of them for when I connect it up to an external source.
Hope this helps..
I find the audio on the Kaiser to be excellent - a definate improvement over my old Blue Angel.
For example, when I have TomTom going as well as music, the voice directions mix in perfectly with the music - no crackles, no distortion etc. In fact, at times we miss the directions cause they mix in so well we think it is part of the song
I use Pocket Player as it plays WMA and has a much better interface than windows media player - all the functions can be controlled by keys, plus you do not need to make playlists, it will auto scan the tags and build a database from that.