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I have been setting up my mogul to be used as an MP3 player but I have run into some issues that are driving me nuts.
WMP - Plays the first 30 seconds of a song and then skips to the next track. On the plus side it continues to play in the background while I surf the web or do other things.....
TCPMP and Core player - Plays MP3s wonderfully (no skipping to the next track). But when another program is accessed/opened both TCPMP and Core player will stop playing music and close itself.
I have spent the last two days looking for a remedy on any of these players, but have come up with nothing.
Anyone have any input on this issue? Thanks in advance!
Sprint Mogul
ROM: DCD 3.1.2
Radio: 3.39.10
i use mort player. its great and free. google it and get a good skin.
how do you move to using other programs like surfing ?
if you click the x it could be that those 2 programs really close rather then minimize
if you can try clicking start and choosing desktop and see if they still stop playing
Rudegar said:
how do you move to using other programs like surfing ?
if you click the x it could be that those 2 programs really close rather then minimize
if you can try clicking start and choosing desktop and see if they still stop playing
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Tired it. It keeps playing while its minimized (at the desktop), but as soon as I open another program it quits. Thanks for the suggestion!
Found The Problem
Well I found the problem....Hope this helps anyone with the same problem...
Started disabling apps one at a time until I found the culprit.
It was: HTC TaskManager 2_1_33556_1 Large Icon
Once I disabled this everything started working fine.
This was an OEM I loved and I added to DCD's kitchen... Looks like I am flashing to get rid of it!
I've noticed that when having over a certain amount of albums (or files), going to Library from the TF3D Music Tab and selecting All Music does not scroll them but makes them dissappear. Anyone else can confirm this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450982
How many albums/files you mean by "certain amount of"?
I have approx. 250 songs, categorized by music tab into around 35 albums.
I didn't notice there's anything like this... I can scroll thru all songs properly.
Could you be more specific?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450982
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I believe the link is not so related to this thread..?
tnyynt said:
I've noticed that when having over a certain amount of albums (or files), going to Library from the TF3D Music Tab and selecting All Music does not scroll them but makes them dissappear. Anyone else can confirm this?
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I get the same.A page of songs, scroll up then jst blank. Audio manager causing many problems for lots of users. Hope a fix comes soon.
I got the same problem with a french Touch HD.
maddie said:
How many albums/files you mean by "certain amount of"?
I have approx. 250 songs, categorized by music tab into around 35 albums.
I didn't notice there's anything like this... I can scroll thru all songs properly.
Could you be more specific?
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Likewise, my UK machine does not cause any problems in this area.
Like maddie above says ~ How many songs & albums do you have?
Is there a limit on the amount of albums/material displayed?
My car's computer can display 999 tracks but only 99 albums. Not related but it's just to give you the idea.
Berads
I also think it's a limit of the player.
I put on mine all my library (~8GB of music).
Beards said:
Likewise, my UK machine does not cause any problems in this area.
Like maddie above says ~ How many songs & albums do you have?
Is there a limit on the amount of albums/material displayed?
My car's computer can display 999 tracks but only 99 albums. Not related but it's just to give you the idea.
Berads
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Yep..
Mine is also UK machine, I ordered it from Clove..
I have installed some softwares (CE-Star, Gyrator 2 etc..) and some tweaks have been made.
Don't see any problem with the tab...
Also, I see some people mentioned that when they put the HD into standby mode, the music will stop, which also haven't happened to my HD..
Beards said:
Likewise, my UK machine does not cause any problems in this area.
Like maddie above says ~ How many songs & albums do you have?
Is there a limit on the amount of albums/material displayed?
My car's computer can display 999 tracks but only 99 albums. Not related but it's just to give you the idea.
Berads
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379 files in 29 albums is ok.
Will add one by one to find the limit.
Hmm.. But I do find another bug, in the TF3D Music Tab, if you flick once up (previous track) and then twice down (next track) without stopping between each changing, it will just stuck at 0:00 and not play.. not until you press pause and play again.
Confirmed.
On the French version the bug is here also: unable to scroll on "list of all songs". Just one page appears.
Album list and Artist list do work.
arturobandini said:
Confirmed.
On the French version the bug is here also: unable to scroll on "list of all songs". Just one page appears.
Album list and Artist list do work.
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Same with me problem only occurs with songs in library - ok with albums and artists. I wonder if it cannot read all the songs because they are all organised in so many separate folders - but that would not explain why it shows the first eight songs on the first page.
Ive just put about 50 songs in 20 folders on my SD card and although I can see all the tracks in the albums and all songs tabs from the library button, the music player plays nothing. It appears to be frozen.
Ive tried soft resetting a couple of times but nothing.
Will removing the battery have any effect?
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Ive just put about 50 songs in 20 folders on my SD card and although I can see all the tracks in the albums and all songs tabs from the library button, the music player plays nothing. It appears to be frozen.
Ive tried soft resetting a couple of times but nothing.
Will removing the battery have any effect?
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Removing the battery is just the same as carrying out a soft-reset.
Do the music files play when using Media Player?
Beards
I've also noticed that TF3D will scroll through albums and artists, but not all songs. It simply displays the first eight, and when I try to scroll down, the first eight appear again, each time I try. Probably due to the number of tracks on my card - 948. Hope they fix this.
I can scroll through approximately 180 songs no problem. I have organized them in a MUSIC>Album>Song.mp3. Each folder has the picture file named "folder". Oddly, I get cover art randomly displayed. I've spent hours organizing and trying to determine the problem.
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Removing the battery is just the same as carrying out a soft-reset.
Do the music files play when using Media Player?
Beards
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They appear to play fine in media player. I do have the SD tune prog also.
Apart from a few folders on my card, one of which has my CAB files for fonts etc there is nothing else on it.
I dont really want to do a hard reset if possible. Im hoping HTC or someone can fix this. Its pretty poor for what is essentially supposed to be a multimedia device. Thats the reason I wanted it.
I thought the music would play fine using Media Player.... Which proves it's not your SD card (which I doubted was not this anyway).
I would assume the problem lays with TF3D
You haven't installed/altered anything to do with TF3D?
Beards
Beards said:
I thought the music would play fine using Media Player.... Which proves it's not your SD card (which I doubted was not this anyway).
I would assume the problem lays with TF3D
You haven't installed/altered anything to do with TF3D?
Beards
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I had installed various things such as fonts, clock, no curtains but I have just done a hard reset (Its gona take a while to get everything back how I want it)and it made no difference. Every time I went to the music tab it would show for a few seconds and then I got a Microsoft error message, the problem being with audiomanager_eng.exe.
I managed to get it to scroll from the first song to the next one before the message. Every other time after that, nothing then the error.
Hi
Is it possible to scan through albums on the music player then when you select an album get it to play the whole album.
At the moment, "flicking" just takes me to the next track in the current album.
I can do it via the library but it seems a more intuitive way to flick through your albums on the first screen.
Thanks
Mal
Hi All
Been lurking a while but never posted, but found this thread when searching for the answer to the same question. So instead of typing the same question out I thought I'd bump this up and see if anyone knows the answer? If it's possible at all, that is...?
I'm bumping it up too, I thought I was just overlooking something obvious...
I've looked into this extensively in the past.
As far as I know, there is no way to "flick to next album" in TouchFLO's music player. I wish it were possible.
There is a third-party app that will work similar to iTunes's cover view. However, when I tried it out back in December, it didn't work right for me. Maybe they have improved it by now.
Here is a youtube sample video. It's called S2P player.
If you search the forums here, you'll find it. Google will also bring you to it, however, I don't know which one is the latest updated version. If I find the latest version, I'll post a link here.
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Here is the thread in XDA
Here is the developer's own website
I don't know if it supports WVGA resolution. Edit: yes, there is a version for HD, Xperia etc.. (although it still says VGA).
Okay, I just installed it. It works better now, but it is still buggy. However, here are some downfalls (at least in my case):
1. It does not support using my bluetooth headset.
2. The volume buttons don't work. So, I have to use the application's volume slider to adjust volume.
3. In cover flow, it is not easy to return back to the album you are listening to. The scrolling is sometimes choppy and sometimes way too fast. Hard to control.
4. In cover flow, I cannot adjust volume (since my volume buttons don't work). I have to return to portrait mode to adjust the volume.
5. Navigating through your music is not very user-friendly (other than in cover flow). It's basically a built in folder explorer - so you can't compare it to TFL3D's library. And sometimes that folder explorer window goes blank on me and I have to restart the app.
So, it definitely can use some improvement, but I still like it. I guess it's a bit more eye candy than anything, although it is nice to be able to flick from one album to the next. Maybe I'll use it sometimes, but it definitely won't replace my TFL3D player imho.
Thanks Chris, just thought I was missing something, it least I don't feel stupid now.
My music is currently ordered alphabetically with all the albums mixed together.
How do I set it so that it displays music in order?
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My music is currently ordered alphabetically with all the albums mixed together.
How do I set it so that it displays music in order?
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what music player are you talking about? TouchFLO or S2P?
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what music player are you talking about? TouchFLO or S2P?
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Im using Touch FLO.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Im using Touch FLO.
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In the player's library, you see several tabs at the bottom. The one with the musical note by itself lists "all songs" in alphabetical order. Try a different tab depending on what order you want.
Is that what you meant?
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In the player's library, you see several tabs at the bottom. The one with the musical note by itself lists "all songs" in alphabetical order. Try a different tab depending on what order you want.
Is that what you meant?
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I've selected Library => Album tab => up - which takes me back to the Touch Flo screen.
Ive then used the up \ down arrows to cycle through the tracks and its still in alphabetical order.
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I've selected Library => Album tab => up - which takes me back to the Touch Flo screen.
Ive then used the up \ down arrows to cycle through the tracks and its still in alphabetical order.
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What do mean by "up"?
Anyway, while in Album view (don't go to "now playing" just yet).
Tap the album you want to listen to.
Now the songs are listed.
Tap the song you want to start playing.
That album is now your new "now playing" list.
If in step 2, the songs are listed alphabetically and not by track number, it is probably because the mp3 tags for those files don't have a track number entered in them.
Are your mp3 tags well organized?
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What do mean by "up"?
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When you enter the Library, there is an Up option on the left hand side... Now Playing is on the right.
Chris Cross said:
Anyway, while in Album view (don't go to "now playing" just yet).
Tap the album you want to listen to.
Now the songs are listed.
Tap the song you want to start playing.
That album is now your new "now playing" list.
If in step 2, the songs are listed alphabetically and not by track number, it is probably because the mp3 tags for those files don't have a track number entered in them.
Are your mp3 tags well organized?
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Yep, that kinda works, but it only plays that particular album. It doesn't go onto the next album.
Thanks for the suggestions so far.
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When you enter the Library, there is an Up option on the left hand side... Now Playing is on the right.
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Oh okay. On mine it says "Back". I use Dutty's 3.7 ROM.
Yep, that kinda works, but it only plays that particular album. It doesn't go onto the next album.
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yeah, that part is annoying. It's not easy to flip from one album to the next in TFL3D. That was the original question in this thread.
What you could do is:
set up a playlist and add the albums you want to it (or only the songs from certain albums).
If you play that list, then it will go from one album to the next
but if you manually want to skip to an album in that playlist, you'll have to enter the library, and choose it from the now-playing list.
Another option (if you will only listen to one artist that has several albums) is:
Go to the Artist tab
select the artist
then in that window, go to the all-songs tab, and tap a song.
The player will now start with that song, but all of the songs from that artist are in your now-playing list.
Yeah, just to confirm, this is something that I also researched for quite some time after TouchFlo came out (specifically being able to flick between albums on the TouchFLO screen itself). Unfortunately, as we've already discovered, it's not possible. The two workarounds that Chris Cross mentions above are the closest you can get to it. As much as I would have loved to be able to do everything in TouchFLO and never have to leave it, I actually ended up turning off the music tab altogether. Since the tab itself is so lacking in features, it was much more worth it to install one of the many other great, free media player apps found here on this forum.
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Oh okay. On mine it says "Back". I use Dutty's 3.7 ROM.
yeah, that part is annoying. It's not easy to flip from one album to the next in TFL3D. That was the original question in this thread.
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Bugger.
When I first started using Touchflo it played through fine. (Ok, I couldnt flip through albums, but that didnt bother me.)
I then tried to add new mixes to the library, and that messed up the play order.
Chris Cross said:
What you could do is:
set up a playlist and add the albums you want to it (or only the songs from certain albums).
If you play that list, then it will go from one album to the next
but if you manually want to skip to an album in that playlist, you'll have to enter the library, and choose it from the now-playing list.
Another option (if you will only listen to one artist that has several albums) is:
Go to the Artist tab
select the artist
then in that window, go to the all-songs tab, and tap a song.
The player will now start with that song, but all of the songs from that artist are in your now-playing list.
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Thanks for the help.
Does anyone use the built-in music player to listen to random songs in their collection?
If so, how?
I have set Shuffle on. On going into the Music Player, I select 'All Songs', naturally it shows them all in Alphabetical order so by default it starts playing the first one and then I hit the forward arrow. It takes me another song, which is random in that it has nothing to do with the first song and is not the second one in alphabetical order, but it is always the same one. The next song after that is again unrelated to the first two, but is also always the same. Basically the shuffle option is almost always the same. That's not what I call Shuffle.
Anyone any ideas?
I'm having the same problem and I'm amazed no one else have been posting about this or have they? Will keep on looking in the forums but if you read this and know something, please reply to this call for help
Edit: Been looking through the search results for "Shuffle" and no success, there isn't a mention of it in the wiki either.
Edit#2: Edited the wiki to make it reflect the status of the problem.
I have always found this with HTC Audio Manager but it took me a long time to realise. It would get stuck on artists beginning with "B" then sometimes it might venture to "C" occassionally "T" but then always back to "B". Often it would stay stuck on one album and play two or three tracks even though it was set to shuffle.
It is not until you use another music player that you realise that you have not been listening to hundreds of songs in your library.
I give up with anything to do with HTC Audio Manager and I think it is easy to get attracted by the eye candy of it but frankly it does not work well at all. Shuffle is just one of many problems.
The shuffle and sound quality on Core Player is highly recommended.
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The shuffle and sound quality on Core Player is highly recommended.
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I've succumbed and started to use Core Player, I am allthough looking forward to see this fixed in an official rom or maybe some touch diamond 2 rom..
Is the problem still there in Diamond 2?
tuomi said:
I've succumbed and started to use Core Player, I am allthough looking forward to see this fixed in an official rom or maybe some touch diamond 2 rom..
Is the problem still there in Diamond 2?
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I have been using WM6.5 for quite some time now but did try some ROMS with the new Manila from D2/Topaz a while back and I seem to remember it worked much better with shuffle.
Hi
Sorry to compare with the iphone again, but with the iphone, any movies that i am watching and leave half way start again at the place where i stopped watching.
with the hd2, they start again from the beginning. is there a way of setting it so they start from where i left it?
I'm using the stock rom so not using any third party software at the moment.
any suggestions or tips would be greatly used
What do you mean??
First of all, did you close teh player on the HD2 when you paused?
Because I thought iPhone does not close the player at all when you hit the home button, that is why iPhone continue your last watch movie?
Movies
Seems to work perfectly fine on my HD2 using coreplayer.
I can pause and go do something else and when I go back coreplayer is waiting
to continue playing where I was.
This also works when I actually close down the application too, re-open it and the film/tv show I was watching is waiting to be continued where I left off.
George
Iv just been using windows media player on the HD2 and it will only start where i left it if i pause the player and not close it via task manager.
It sounds like coreplayer is the way to go.