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Unable to Map Windows Media Player Buttons

When I try to map functions of Windows Media Player it only allows me to map my UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, and ACTION buttons. I use these for Volume Up, down, next, previous, and play/pause, respectively. I want to map another button to toggle screen but when I try to assign the CONTACTS button for example- it goes to my contacts and doesn't assign.
Does everyone have this problem and if not any iideas on how to fix?
Thanks,
Daniel
ps- I like WMP and don't want to switch to another music program

How to allow music playing after pressing power button

Hello,
Is there any way to allow music to keep playing in Windows Media Player after I press power button?
Greg

the easiest way is, u install a custom wm6 rom, so itook this way and its works
greetz lessew

lessew said:
the easiest way is, u install a custom wm6 rom, so itook this way and its works
greetz lessew
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I dit. I cooked my own ROM but in previous ROM this feature was working somehow (pressing power button did not stop music playing) but in my ROM it does.

you can also just click the windows key, click on the "today" icon, go to the today screen and then just lock the window. let the screen turn off by itself.
thats what i do. i've never been able to hit the power key.

i use pocket player. you can assign a button to turn the screen off. unfortunately the program isnt free.. unless you know where to look.

get TCPMP,the core media player and assign a hot key to turn off the screen.its in the options.

If you use pbar (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284952&highlight=pbar), you can use the blue icon at the bottom of app to turn the screen off and save the battery sucked up by display.
I use this when listening to WMP or TCPMP and works fine.

For some reason, the link did not paste correctly for pbar. Here goes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284952&highlight=pbar

Until you figure it out. You can always set a hotkey from Media Player (menu/options/buttons). Then assign a key to Toggle Screen (I use Hold Up). Click on 'Toggle Screen', press Assign button, press key you want to assign to that function. If you hold the up button from the direction pad for a second it should take.

This is what I do (I'm using NBD v9.2 BTW): Play a song, wait until it finished the first song, click power button. Works everytime. If you press it too early you're gonna cut your music off along with your screen. The key word is wait.

Display Switch
Or you could use the program called display switch. it turns off the screen only and you can assign this to a button on your wizard. that's what I do

Controll Windows Media Play and Sound Settings with screen off?

Is there any way to do this because say if im listening to a song and i want to change it i always gotta turn on the screen in order to do so when i really dont need to.
any help would be greatly appreciated

Plug in your headphones

that doesnt work - it makes no differnece to the buttons

There's a way to modify that radio button on the stock headphone piece to do one command. It can be stop, forward, back, or whatever.

Can you please be more specific on how to change track using the button on the headset? also having the problem where screen turns on everytime I change track. GSplayer has this feature, but I prefer WMP

i dont use the original headphones - there must be a reg edit or something to allow the use of buttons with the screen off?

comeradealexi said:
Is there any way to do this because say if im listening to a song and i want to change it i always gotta turn on the screen in order to do so when i really dont need to.
any help would be greatly appreciated
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the easiest thing you can do is change the button config within WMP.
- Open WMP
- Go to view the player (not the library) by either playing a song or by hitting OK
- Hit Menu > Options > Buttons
- Scroll all the way down and select "Toggle Screen"
Now this is where you have to decide what button you want to use to turn the screen on and off, personally, I picked the center button (the optical joystick button) as my on and off screen, which is currently the Play/Pause button. For these instructions, I will use that button as the example.
- Hit the "Assing" button and hit the middle (optical joystick) button.
- Hit OK
Now you can turn the screen on/off (by hitting that button) while still being able to increase/decrease the player's volume, change tracks back or forward, and if you do a long press then you can fast forward or rewind the track.
Hope this is what you were looking for...
Hope this helps

solarleox said:
the easiest thing you can do is change the button config within WMP.
- Open WMP
- Go to view the player (not the library) by either playing a song or by hitting OK
- Hit Menu > Options > Buttons
- Scroll all the way down and select "Toggle Screen"
Now this is where you have to decide what button you want to use to turn the screen on and off, personally, I picked the center button (the optical joystick button) as my on and off screen, which is currently the Play/Pause button. For these instructions, I will use that button as the example.
- Hit the "Assing" button and hit the middle (optical joystick) button.
- Hit OK
Now you can turn the screen on/off (by hitting that button) while still being able to increase/decrease the player's volume, change tracks back or forward, and if you do a long press then you can fast forward or rewind the track.
Hope this is what you were looking for...
Hope this helps
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awesome - thanks mate!

Screen off while listening media player

I want to turn off the screen while listening to the media player on the speaker. Normally this can be fixed by configuring a hardware button.
Open up Windows Media Player on your Pocket PC
Tap Menu > Options > tap the right arrow to toggle over to the Buttons tab
Tap the Buttons tab and scroll down the page to the end until you see the "Toggle Screen" option. Tap it to highlight it, then tap the Assign button and then press the button you 'll press to toggle the screen on or off.
Tap OK at the top of the screen and you're done.
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However, I can not find a button which works. Has anyone an idea to fix this?

yep me too
yep, i have this problem too. like to go to sleep listening to the player but then the light stays on the whole time!

any update

A work around
I have had the same problem. My solution is to use AE button plus.
I've assigned Volume up key as follows. 1 click - up arrow, 2 click - page up and long click - volume up.
(Similar for down volume)
Next in media player I assigned up volume key to toggle screen.
Now when I 1x click volume up the screen toggles, but if I long click I get volume bar which then allows volume keys to work as normal ie Single clicks up/down volume.

alternatively if you're just listening to music you could install nitrogen player. which is far better than the standard media player (imo)
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-nitrogen-player.html
just press the 'power' icon and the screen will switch off and the audio continue to play.

tracksuit said:
alternatively if you're just listening to music you could install nitrogen player. which is far better than the standard media player (imo)
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-nitrogen-player.html
just press the 'power' icon and the screen will switch off and the audio continue to play.
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Pocket music is also good

Nitrogen! It's superb. And, the volume buttons still work with the screen off (although the latest build links its own volume to the system volume which causes problems - I use v1.0 which leaves system volume separate).

You can use PowerOptions to turn off the screen while listening to music, see here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544475

Trick
Hi,
This is a trick that works with the Touch.
1. play some music with the Headphones jacked in
2. with the headphones still in, turn off the screen
3. pull out your headphones and the mediaplayer will use the built in speaker, even though the screen is OFF.
try it and report the results
no warranty, since it works with my Touch, but I don´t know, it may work with the Diamond II.

Didn´t work
Uhmmmm!!
I got my Diamond 2 last weekend and I tried this without success.
Sorry guys

Default music player and hardward buttons

I wonder is there anyway to map the L/R button in the default music player as last song/next song.
If not, is there anyany to change the music player launch button in "CLOCK" to another software eg:winamp or poweramp?
Thanks in advance

Personally I wouldn't map those buttons.
If you've got it in your pocket your going to be getting a few track skips.

i want to use it while driving, cos It is hard to skip songs while on the dock.

TBH i was thinking the same thing. Would be lovely if it turned out doable.

I wish. A universal key mapper would do wonders

NeoTechni said:
I wish. A universal key mapper would do wonders
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That would be awesome. It would also fix the Making R the camera trigger problem.

solution found:
Found it in the market , need to be rooted thou
- button remapper ($AUD1.00)
remap the HARDWARE L or R buttons to Next media or Dpad center
to skip songs and to use as shutter button
the only problem is that if you map it as Dpad center, some games control doesnt work properly if the game does not allow you to config the buttons. Map as media next seems fine.
I can now skip song while using the dock

uccoffee said:
solution found:
Found it in the market , need to be rooted thou
- button remapper ($AUD1.00)
remap the HARDWARE L or R buttons to Next media or Dpad center
to skip songs and to use as shutter button
the only problem is that if you map it as Dpad center, some games control doesnt work properly if the game does not allow you to config the buttons. Map as media next seems fine.
I can now skip song while using the dock
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I'm rooted but the option to download is greyed out and says it's not compatible with my device. I'm on an R800a. Anybody else seeing this?