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[Q] TouchFlo music by album

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?

Don. said:
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?

Chris Cross said:
what music player are you talking about? TouchFLO or S2P?
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Im using Touch FLO.

Don. said:
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?

Chris Cross said:
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.

Don. said:
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?

Chris Cross said:
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.

Don. said:
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.

Chris Cross said:
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.

[Q] Disappointed with music and video playback, any workaround?

Any eeepad user here notice, whenever I listen to music with my eeepad connected to the keyboard dock, if I close the lid it won't continue play the next song in the album.....
Sometimes even not connected to the keyboard dock, after it played 3-4 songs in the album it stopped, it only resume playing once I click the on/off button.
I also loaded 100+ music videos in the tablet, how do I create video playlist for it? In iPad I can sort those videos as music video in iTunes.
I created a m3u playlist for video and open with moboplayer, it doesn't play the next video in the playlist too.
iPad probably a better media player I guess....

try another music player. I really liked winamp before I started streaming everything via subsonic. I know winamp lets you sync via wifi

nles said:
I created a m3u playlist for video and open with moboplayer, it doesn't play the next video in the playlist too.
iPad probably a better media player I guess....
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Open Moboplayer -> settings -> Play next automatic.
the iPad isn't better, it just assume that people are idiots and turn on all the options by default
And for the closed dock problem, I think that going into settings -> display and turning down the dock energy save profile will solve it

Azhad said:
Open Moboplayer -> settings -> Play next automatic.
the iPad isn't better, it just assume that people are idiots and turn on all the options by default
And for the closed dock problem, I think that going into settings -> display and turning down the dock energy save profile will solve it
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yep..try turn off the dock energy save feature and then redock/reboot
both winamp and ubermusic (from the deveoper of launcher pro, http://www.ubermusic.com/ ,in beta but fully working) are better choices than the stock one..

So I unticked the MobileDock battery saving mode, now it plays the next song just that it wont repeat the album after the last song.
Moboplayer: play next song already ticked but still after it finish the video it bounce back to the playlist.
Also how to make it default hardware encoding? I copy all my music videos from ipad, some are from youtube 720p mp4. If soft encode it will lag. In the moboplayer settings, If I untick default soft encode, when I click the video it lags, if I hold the video it only let me select soft-encode.
If I tick default soft encode, then it let me select hard-encoding when I hold the video.

iPad probably a better media player I guess....
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Yeah it probably is.
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I mean how is someone supposed to respond to that? Are you just trying to provoke people or what?

nles said:
So I unticked the MobileDock battery saving mode, now it plays the next song just that it wont repeat the album after the last song.
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I suppose you need to turn on a 'repeat' option or whatever sounds close to that.. if that doesn't work..try a different music player...
Moboplayer: play next song already ticked but still after it finish the video it bounce back to the playlist.
Also how to make it default hardware encoding? I copy all my music videos from ipad, some are from youtube 720p mp4. If soft encode it will lag. In the moboplayer settings, If I untick default soft encode, when I click the video it lags, if I hold the video it only let me select soft-encode.
If I tick default soft encode, then it let me select hard-encoding when I hold the video.
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in moboplayer, just 'click the video' means the opposite of 'hold the video and select an option'....hard-encode or soft-encode..
you can also use the stock player for hardware encoding playback..

magicpork said:
I suppose you need to turn on a 'repeat' option or whatever sounds close to that.. if that doesn't work..try a different music player...
in moboplayer, just 'click the video' means the opposite of 'hold the video and select an option'....hard-encode or soft-encode..
you can also use the stock player for hardware encoding playback..
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My moboplayer doesn;'t do that, probably I should try reinstalling.
I must tick default sodft-coding then hold the video and select hard coding.
If I untick default soft-coding, I click the video and it lags, if I hold the video then only got option for soft-coding.
More importantly still couldn't create playlist for my videos.

HTC music player

Using htc music player how the heck do you get back to the all songs page after you select an album. I have done it but there is never any certain way that I do, nor do I remember what I did!
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I figured that this would be a much easier question than this to be answered?

on the play screen press the left hand button then from the next options choose the large note

Kid friendly movieplayer

Hi,
On longer trips I want to use my Xoom as a movieplayer in the car for the kids. I'm looking for a kidfriendly-way to display the movies (large icons or something like that) so they can easily navigate and start a movie. My oldest is 6 years.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance !

Moboplayer
I'm a big fan of mobo player. You can set it to check certain directories as default and it displays thumbnails to choose from. My just turned four year old can navigate it no problem. The other cool thing is that while a movie is playing you can hit the menu button and it will lock the screen until you hit menu again.
Best of all its free. Load up the app in the market and the first time you start it it will prompt you to download device specific files.
One more thing - if for some reason the hardware decoding isn't playing a file just hold down the file and it will give you a prompt to play it with software decoding. If it becomes a constant problem you can set software decoding as the default.

I use MovieBrowser HD as the front end, and Mobo player with its codecs (that it will download when you first launch it) to play the movies back. I have a 32gig uSD card loaded up with movies convered via DVD Catalyst 4.
My 3 year old can turn on my Xoom, unlock it, connect my Logitech BT stereo head set, find MovieBrowser HD app (no matter if I have an icon on the home screen, or he has to go to the app drawer), and launch whatever movie he's in the mood for. He even goes up to my room to grab it when he wants to watch a movie.
When I hang it over a "seat back protector/organizer" in the car it becomes my "rear seat entertainment center" for him. Glad I didn't spend the money on the rear seat DVD system option in my car (would have been an added $3000). He just reaches out and does what he needs to, and he's happy.
Unfortunately, I rarely get to use my Xoom now

I found it easier to use the stock video player. Spent $30 on any DVD converter for android it converts the files and optimizes for Xoom. Then I did not need to worry about codecs and why it won't play an MKV file today. Also found it kid friendly with big pictures from the beginning of the movie so most of the time they can identify what it is without having to read the title.

Mizuu?
/10 char

MX Player !!!
Just yesterday I installed the newest MX Player again to see what kind of feature set it has. And I don't even know how new it is but it actually has two separate "Kid Lock" modes.
So, in the Settings->Player->Touch Controls->Lock Mode
There are two options:
1) Kids Lock - locks out the screen and buttons (except for power and volume at least on my Galaxy Nexus)
2) Kids Lock (+ Touch Effects) - Same as kids lock, except it adds ToddlerLock style screen effects.
I hope this helps!

piotrusc said:
Hi,
On longer trips I want to use my Xoom as a movieplayer in the car for the kids. I'm looking for a kidfriendly-way to display the movies (large icons or something like that) so they can easily navigate and start a movie. My oldest is 6 years.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks in advance !
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1. Go to the screen where you want to place the movie shortcut.
2. Find your ES File Explorer App. And open it.
3. Find your folder that has your digital movies and open it.
4. Find the movie you want to create a shortcut with and long press it.
5. Next you will see different options, chose the one that says “Shortcut” it will automatically place it on the screen.
6. Now back all the way out of ES File Explorer until you get to the desktop.
7. Long press the shortcut you just made, and choose edit.
8. You will see a box pop up along with the keyboard. Type the name you want to call it or just delete the file extension example (mp4, etc)
9. Next tap the big icon to change it and choose select picture, then Gallery, then you should see the movie Icon you have downloaded select it then hit OK.
To find the movie icons just do a Google search for the movie (Example: Fast and the Furious 2 icons)
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-fast-and-the-furious-movies/images
I always use Fanpop.com and once you get on the movie page there is usually a movie banner at the top of the page and to the left of the banner there is a picture of the movie. Just long press and chose view image, it will open up to a small picture in the upper left hand corner. Long press and choose “Save Image”. It should place it your gallery folder. You should probably do this first before you create shortcuts for your movies.

play music "listen now" playlist not downloading

Like the title says, I have a paid google play music account. but when i click the downlooad button, there's like a 1/10 chance the playlist will actually download.
Most of the time nothing happens and I just click click away. I've tried reinstalling, clearing cache and i haven't revoked any app permissions. Lastly Im using a nexus 6p and the issue has exist on 6.0.1 as well no matter if I'm on work or home WiFi. could someone please help me tackle this? Thanks!

Click Play, and in the play window, click Save Queue. Download the queue once saved.
It should download the first 25 this way, however if you view the song playlist and scroll down a few times, you'll get all the songs (eventually).

Wiltron said:
Click Play, and in the play window, click Save Queue. Download the queue once saved.
It should download the first 25 this way, however if you view the song playlist and scroll down a few times, you'll get all the songs (eventually).
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Thanks wiltron, I will try this out. But still would love to know why I can't just click download since your fix may take more time.

Wiltron said:
Click Play, and in the play window, click Save Queue. Download the queue once saved.
It should download the first 25 this way, however if you view the song playlist and scroll down a few times, you'll get all the songs (eventually).
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So yes this works, but I would rather not have to play a playlist, therefore interrupting my current song to download music. Anyone else experiencing this?

try going into settings and click on "refresh"

spookytay said:
try going into settings and click on "refresh"
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gonna try this out and report back.