Hey guys,
I like using GSPlayer2 on my HD2. However, the program does not detect the button presses from the remote. I have the Sense MP3 player disabled, so now when I press the call/play button on the remote, it either goes to the call menu, or goes to windows media player.
Simple question -- how do I change its behavior, so that it can control GSPlayer? I'd imagine the solution will be similar (but not identical) to the the one implemented by AVRCP program floating on XDADev somewhere....
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When using Windows Media Player, the closest solution I found to saving power on my phone and still have music play is to use the toggle screen function, which turns off the screen but doesn't lock the buttons. I found that annoying when I see my IE open up in my pocket while I try to change songs unnoticing. The more closer solution is to use BT headphones and standby the device, in which the music still plays.
What would be awesome would be (when not using headphones) is to have the device lock with the screen off and have the media player continue to function. Best way was either with the BT headphones, or use "Device Lock" on the today screen. But that just sucks when you have to minimize WMP to do that, and when you have to change songs, you have to unlock it and go through the whole process with a stylus. Redundant and time-wasting.
How does one go about at least locking all the buttons except the directional buttons?
been looking at this today,
found an app here:
http://www.pocketmind.com/
called pocket music, the registered version includes the features you are looking for i think
Features:
- WMA file support. PocketMusic is the first alternative Pocket PC player to Windows Media player with WMA support.
- MP3 and OGG Vorbis support.
- Alarm feature - wake up with your favorite music!
- HTTP streaming audio support for MP3 and Ogg internet radio broadcast. Title streaming also supported (ShoutCast, IceCast).
- Audible audio books support.
- Winamp 2.x skins support (More than 9500 skins are available in the Internet).
- Bookmark feature. This feature is especially useful for those who use the player for listening to audiobooks, recorded radio programs, lectures, DJ sets, and other long-time audio files.
- Extra Bass feature.
- Landscape Mode with large buttons and controls for using in the car.
- PocketMusic Today item � control music playback directly from the Today screen!
- Various Sound Presets for Equalizer and the capability to create your own presets.
- Possibility to change ID3 tags of MP3 files (set track title, artist, album, etc.). ID3 and ID3 v.2 tags support.
- Advanced Playlist Organizer (great for managing song library and playlists!).
- Fast forward/rewind track by adjustable steps from 5 to 120 seconds � useful for audio books.
- Capability to search for songs in a playlist by specific words or quickly find needed entry by number.
- Powerful player control with hardware buttons (Map any action to any hardware button).- Function of mapping +-10 sec rewind action to hardware buttons.
- Optional screen AUTO-TURN OFF fea ture to automatically turn off the screen while music is playing (timer from 5 seconds to 3 minutes). Ability to automatically block hardware buttons when the screen is off.- Ability to block hardware buttons from main menu or even assign one hardware button to lock other keys.
- Feature of scanning all folders (local content) or selected folder on device to find all supported media files and add them to playlist.
- ... other.
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hope its of some use!
mortplayer does all that for free
zephus said:
When using Windows Media Player, the closest solution I found to saving power on my phone and still have music play is to use the toggle screen function, which turns off the screen but doesn't lock the buttons. I found that annoying when I see my IE open up in my pocket while I try to change songs unnoticing. The more closer solution is to use BT headphones and standby the device, in which the music still plays.
What would be awesome would be (when not using headphones) is to have the device lock with the screen off and have the media player continue to function. Best way was either with the BT headphones, or use "Device Lock" on the today screen. But that just sucks when you have to minimize WMP to do that, and when you have to change songs, you have to unlock it and go through the whole process with a stylus. Redundant and time-wasting.
How does one go about at least locking all the buttons except the directional buttons?
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If WMP is the only player you want to listen to music on, then there's an app called delta lock that will lock all buttons and turn off the display while your music is still playing. I use this app all the time and not only to listen to music. 2 softkey buttons have to be pushed at the same time to get back to the today screen. You can have it set up using WM5NewMenu, where you can rename the "calendar" button to "Menu" for ex., add delta lock to the list of items, place delta lock(can be renamed to device lock, etc.)at the top of the list, hit the action button(center button in 4way navigation), device locks. Or you can just remap any hardware button to delta lock if you don't want the items in the WM5NewMenu app. There's several ways to do this according to your preferrences, for ex. it can be placed in the start menu, where the lock can be activated no matter where you are on the device.
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hotdog53 said:
If WMP is the only player you want to listen to music on, then there's an app called delta lock that will lock all buttons and turn off the display while your music is still playing. I use this app all the time and not only to listen to music. 2 softkey buttons have to be pushed at the same time to get back to the today screen. You can have it set up using WM5NewMenu, where you can rename the "calendar" button to "Menu" for ex., add delta lock to the list of items, place delta lock(can be renamed to device lock, etc.)at the top of the list, hit the action button(center button in 4way navigation), device locks. Or you can just remap any hardware button to delta lock if you don't want the items in the WM5NewMenu app. There's several ways to do this according to your preferrences, for ex. it can be placed in the start menu, where the lock can be activated no matter where you are on the device.
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This actually looks promising. Thanks a lot, I'll look into it.
zecoj said:
mortplayer does all that for free
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just installed mortplayer, so much faster than anything else ive tried and does everything i need thanks.
I have noticed that certain roms i try like the TNT 1933 has the out of box ability to put phone in standby and music will keep playing I however have not been able to find out what they did to achieve this and i have not gotten responses on this subject yet but its there for u to look into as well...
I must also recommend the Mortplayer (links to d/l page). I've used it almost from the beginning of my Wizard adventures. It has all of the features a modder could want:
totally FREE
playlist management
skinnability
album art display
optional landscape mode capable
built in equalization
bass boosting
d-pad function mapping (pause/play, ff, rew, vol up, vol down)
disables screen and all others except power to restore
plays many other music formats besides mp3 and wma
there's even a today plugin available (links to .cab directly)
How do i do this? i cant assign a button for it, i tried searching but those threads were recommending something called pocket shield, but isnt there a way to use the windows media player toggle screen function?
thanks
Use CorePlayer or Pocket Music...they both have features to switch off the screen.
Using Windows Media player you simply power off with the switch on top and the player continues.
take a look here for Windows Media and Core: http://www.ppcmobility.com/forums/showthread.php?t=603
Possible that there's a setting I wasn't aware of in WMP but - I found that when I used WMP for music and hit the sleep button at the top, the music stopped playing - although when I use the music player tab in the TouchFlo3D, it carries on uninterrupted when hitting the sleep button
i dont like the HTC media player, its much easier to search using windows media player.
i used to assign a key to toggle screen when i had my touch dual, but on the HD i cant assign any keys.
any help? if possible i dont want to download a third party media player.
at the moment im just letting the screen turn itself off, but doing so risks my pocket touching the screen and doing stuff
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well I use TF3D for my music needs (it's enough for me) and my solution to turning the screen off (without headphones in, since with them it's not an issue) is with Gyrator which I have set to turn the screen off when I turn the HD upside down.
Just switch off the screen with your power button. It works regardless of whether you're using Coreplayer or native TF3D music player or FM radio. But the wired headset must be plug in for it to work.
An additional tip:
Since the screen is blanked out, how do you change volume and switch channel/song?
My way of doing this is to install AEBplus, and make single press of volume buttons Up and Down arrow key, and double press (you can use long press too, if you so prefer) as volume up and down. In this way, you need not get out of blank screen in order to skip or repeat songs, or to change channel.
Is there anyway of doing this via the htc player from the today screen?
I like the convenience of playing music from this screen. Just need the display to switch off.
Prefer not to install another player then have to search for it to play a bit of music.
Hi guys, i've received my Xperia a couple of days ago, installed TomTom 7, Palringo Messenger and zsIRC.
I love it, i simply love it. But i have some problems with the usability which i believe you guys can help me iron out:
- If the Phone is put in Silentmode, the mp3 Players won't work, whether it is the Xperia Player Panel or MortPlayer... is there a workaround for this, or if not, is there a way to put silentmode on a hotkey, because it takes long to flip to the "Today" Page to put silentmode off...
- I tried MortPlayer because i found it hard to control the Xperia Panel Player with my finger while driving, but MortPlayer was kind of buggy, it changed the size to quater screen whenever i opened the keyboard and even without that bug i found it still too small since it didn't use the full resolution.
- Is there some kind kind of Alt+Tab like feature? I'd like to switch between tomtom and the mp3 player while driving and that would need some kind of quick window change button, is there a way of achieving that?
I don't have installed the original wm6.1 volume controle, but i think there are 2 bars and one of them for the system volume. I think it was the left one. Put the volume up and you should be able to hear sth. with the player.
EDIT: The Volume controle pops up when you press the volume down or up button
You can easily adjust volume and between modes normal, vibrate and silent with the volume up/down keys. Keep pushing vol down and you'll get to silent mode. Push vol up and you'll get back to normal mode through vibrate mode.
well, thats solved, but i still need something to change the programs while i'm driving, like a possibility to lay something like alt+tab on the ok button, for example.
Try AE Button Plus. You can set a button (single, double, triple or long press) for i.e. task manager (pretty neat aebp's own), alt+tab or switch to next application.
Hi,
Apologies if this has already been covered - it's not in the wiki and search comes up with nothing.
I've noticed that HTC have made the volume control different depending on which application is active. If I'm watching a youtube video and use the volume side buttons, the volume slider is a nice little side pop-in. Likewise with Windows Media Player. But everywhere else (CorePlayer for example), the regular volume control screen comes up.
I guess there must be somewhere in the registry to add applications where the sidebar volume control appears rather than the standard one.
Does anyone know where?
Solution..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5343338&postcount=1
Its quite easy just a few steps and off you go!
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?