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how to shut screen without music stoping

hi wondering if you guys could help please. im trying to use windows media player with the screen turned off but when i play my music and then use the power button to turn the screen off my music stops. im using the power button because i have not got the key board on. thanks in advance

try a freeware called screenOff it's turn screen Off but all other things are still working

thanks works great

you could also just go into the buttons tab under options in media player and set a button for toggle screen right at the bottom

inspectorgadjet said:
you could also just go into the buttons tab under options in media player and set a button for toggle screen right at the bottom
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Exactly...most media players have this function built in. If yours doesn't give MortPlayer a try. It's nice and has this feature built in. I don't like the default theme with MortPlayer as it's ugly so I just installed the MyPod theme and it looks great.
Just download the app here
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&entry=mp_program&action=list
You can get the skins from the zip archive here (go to the Old Skins link at the top)
http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?module=download&entry=mp_skins&action=list

hi Moh
if i use the power button to turn off the light when media player is running i find that the machine locks, requiring a reboot.
does anyone else have this problem? it has done it from day one.
to be frank i only use the ms media player because my sony bt headset slider buttons cannot control any of the other players that i have tried.

imaginarynumber said:
hi Moh
if i use the power button to turn off the light when media player is running i find that the machine locks, requiring a reboot.
does anyone else have this problem? it has done it from day one.
to be frank i only use the ms media player because my sony bt headset slider buttons cannot control any of the other players that i have tried.
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I have this issue also. Have to soft reset if I try to power off the device while a media player is running.

not had no problems with it failing to start up again once powerd off just use to turn me music off. not had that problem since i installed screenoff as above

just put the cover on the screen. I think that works

i have installed mortplayer 3.61-RC7 on my athena, but it updates my
screen to portrait mode when it starts...
this is normal ?
any chance to update the settings to forze landscape mode ?
thank's

WMP and the attempt to lock buttons and save power.

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)

[Q] turning off screen during mp3 playback

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

My 2 cents
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.

changing the button behavior of the in-line remote

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....

Music Volume

Hi folks
in the iphone, when i had the headphones plugged in, i use the volume buttons to control the music sound level. This thing works in every app where i was, just as long i listen to music at the same time. for example, i´m writing some emails and listining music at same time. If i choose to increase the sound level of the music, i just touch the up volume button.
But in hd2, i´m only capable of control the music sound level in the "music tab" of the sense UI.
Is there any tweak the i can control the music level when i´m in another app instead of "music tab"?
thanks a lot for your help
best regards

Your HD2 should do this already,adjust volume no matter what
program/app you are using ??

Yes it does. But on music tab, only appears a green bar of the volume control.
If i´m stay on another app, appears that horrible grey screen of sound control with that horrible "beeps" each time i press up or down.
What i want is the same situation like on the "music tab" (that green bar of the sound). You know what i´m trying to say?

taita said:
Yes it does. But on music tab, only appears a green bar of the volume control.
If i´m stay on another app, appears that horrible grey screen of sound control with that horrible "beeps" each time i press up or down.
What i want is the same situation like on the "music tab" (that green bar of the sound). You know what i´m trying to say?
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Ah,yes now I understand....
There are various cabs to skin both of the volume controls and to remove the beeps,but I haven't seen one that replaces the standard volume for the
Sense music tab volume whilst in another program...
You can of course install Co0kies Home tab and put the music player right on your
one of your home screens in 3 different sizes...

With "touch tools" theres a tool to add the green sense volume overlay to other apps, you just run the app, shake your phone then whenever you use the volume keys in that app you'll get the nice volume meter.........
I dont know if its possible to get that to work on the home screen though..........
Just tried it, cant get it to work on ther manila tabs.
Its still quite handy though for things like opera and ereaders etc........

hello
thanks for your help.
where can i get that app?
thanks a lot

I found it in the search box but you can find it here..............
Once its installed its the "slim volume" your after........
Theres a few other nice little features in touch tools too, its a handy thing to have......

thanks a lot.
i´ll try that
cheers