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is there any other Photo view and media player for the X10???(hate mediascap!!)

hi
i realy disappointed of the Mediascape on the X10 its realy slow and not responding to finger touch good enught + the photo viewer is pretty slow!
is there any other APPS i can download to use as viewer and they good and fast enguth??

amir84 said:
hi
i realy disappointed of the Mediascape on the X10 its realy slow and not responding to finger touch good enught + the photo viewer is pretty slow!
is there any other APPS i can download to use as viewer and they good and fast enguth??
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Search the Market, there's a lot of free apps there that you can choose from.

i allready did sch there
didn't find anything useful thats why i'm asking here maybe for some recomndetion

I'm using MixZing for playing music ...

funny these threads. listed as one of the main selling points of this device was mediascape. you must have read that but bought it anyway! did you not try the phone 1st? this is a prime example of why we all should! not having a go so dont start flaming! expressing my opinion. there is no app within the app store that will deliver anything near what mediascape does right now so for this phone its the best you gonna get! in time when custom roms are being made then we may see the likes of what htc have to offer. we are also currently lacking in apps that do offer more but hopefully corecodec will develop an app for android! until then and until custom roms are available i would just stick with mediascape. no matter how much you hate it, the alternatives are even worse!
edit:
some coredec images for the cp2.0 for android.
http://tweetphoto.com/10841643

cybapaddy said:
I'm using MixZing for playing music ...
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i like MixZing! thanks!!
is there any good app also for Photo Viewer ??

playlists
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.

Baggyb said:
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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Yeah... I don't think that's possible. Which kind of sucks but something I can live with. I mostly just use Spotify anyway.
And I also want to know about any good picture gallery. I had one but it wasn't really good at all.

Ah, fair enough. At least it's not me going daft. I was searching Google and the results were implying that you could generate lists but they must have meant that it could be done via media go software.
As far as media players go i would consider that to be a basic feature that is required (especially if you have a large library).
As for the gallery I can't say I'm too impressed with that either. However I did like the one previewed on the mini. Hopefully that will be included in future updates, if there are to be any.
Just typing this on the phone itself using the HTC keyboard. The only thing missing are the directional arrow keys, tapping the screen in the correct place is hit and miss for me.

You can generate Playlists with the Astro Filemanager, which you should have installed anyway...

Yeah I do have that instaled. I'll try that out. Cheers mate.

PiQture is pretty good photo viewer.

I found se's other music player in the phone but cant shortcut to it to use it easily.
Im using the file manager by nalic (green and blue pie chart icon). Navigate to system/media/audio/ringtones (ogg) and play one, a different player called music opens to play it, now leave the file playing and pull down the notification tray and touch the play icon then press the left menu key then library button and you are in.
Now this player will be listed in the recently used app list (hold middle button) unless it gets moved off the list by opening more than 6 more apps without opening it again to bring it to the front of the list.
I like this one better than mediascape as its less cluttered and straightforward and you can create playlists which are drag and drop editable and show up in mediascape.
It would be nice to get to it easier though.
There is also a video player and picture viewer but they are very simple with few options.

loggy said:
I found se's other music player in the phone but cant shortcut to it to use it easily.
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Hi
I found it too. I managed to create a shortcut on home with Tasker :
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Hope this helps.

One of my main reasons for wanting the X10 is mediascape. Since I've only seen videos, and you guys actually have the X10... I'm looking forward to hearing why Mediascape is a poor media player and gallery. It certainly looks more robust and feature filled than any of the current media players I've seen.

Baggyb said:
Sorry for hijacking this thread but my question is to do with mediascape.
Anyone figure out how to create playlists in mediascape yet?
The only thing I have found that comes close is starring tracks as favourites, but that only generates one list.
Am I missing something or is it not possible? Cheers.
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it is possible but via media go I think, I spent ages trying to work out how to get a playlist set up but I think you have to literally set up a play list on your pc, then transfer that playlist on to the phone (?) only reason I say this is because there is a playlist option in the library in media go. Unfortunately I'd already moved my music across before noticing this so didn't want to double it up or remove it and start again.
I found an app called mortplayer which is free and works a charm for music

brightonsblueeyedboy said:
it is possible but via media go I think, I spent ages trying to work out how to get a playlist set up but I think you have to literally set up a play list on your pc, then transfer that playlist on to the phone (?) only reason I say this is because there is a playlist option in the library in media go. Unfortunately I'd already moved my music across before noticing this so didn't want to double it up or remove it and start again.
I found an app called mortplayer which is free and works a charm for music
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Or get a file manager from the market and follow my instructions above, any playlists created will be automatically integrated into mediascape.
Its easy once you suss it. !

Hi,
Anyone know how to disable the mediascape from caching thumbnail for music file ? I think this would vastly improve the speed, as mediascape would only have to read the tagging info and not the image/albumart.
I tried to set the folder as read only, but it doesn't work, the phone still write to it

Hi all - I've sussed this out (alternate Music player and playlists)... download an app called "AnyCut" from the market... in here you can add all sorts of different things.. one of which is under the "activity" option.. called "Music" this is the stock android music app (mentioned by baggyb above).. this way you'll have a link to the music app on your home page which you can then use to create your playlists...

All these work arounds to create playlist are fine but the main PIA is when I want to add tracks to Current Play list while listening to music. Can't be done. I hope SE will soon release a upgrade to address some of these basic issues.
Also, when you try to add contact as Shortcut on Home Screen it brings up list of all contacts and there is no search or 'letter' list on side to select the names. You can to scroll all the way down to select names. I guess SE QA and design team tested the phone only with one track of music and one contact in address book.

Google Music Findings, Useful information

Been using Google Music for a little bit and thought I would share some findings and some tips.
1. Once uploaded Google Music only pays attention to the "ID" tags in the Music files to determine how to organize them. So if a lot of your music does not have these tags then all the music without tags gets dumped into a "Unknown album" "Unknown Artist" album. Your nicely ordered directory structure with artist names and album names are worthless to Google. So you better fix your ID tags on your music before you upload them or otherwise they may be very hard to find in the music app.
2. The best program I have found for automatically "fixing" your ID tags on music is MusicBrainZ which is actually free. Add your Directory of Music, Select all and pick "scan" once complete (takes about 2 seconds a song to identify) then Select everything on the Right that has been Identified and Pick Save. This will Fix the ID tags on your files for almost all of your music. (please donate to MusicBrainz as it's a open source user supported project)
3. If you fix the ID tags on existing music files after you have already uploaded them Google Music Manager does notice the changes and treats these modified song files as new songs. So then you have the old song (without the tags) and the new song (with the tags) in the cloud. Google Music manager is just for uploading it is not a "syncronizing" tool and I consider that an advantage, in my opinion that has always been a crutch of Apple devices in that they are Locked to syncing with one device. There is nothing that prevents you from loading Google Music manager on multiple computers and uploading from all of them to your cloud account.
4. Once you have fixed your tags on all your songs and got them all uploaded you can delete the "Unknown Artist" "Unknown album" from the cloud. By going into the Web interface music.google.com picking that album and then selecting the little drop down arrow next to the album and pick Delete Album.
If anyone else has any tips, I would be happy to add them and could start a Google Music FAQ out of this.

wow thanks for posting that app i am going to try it out tonight bro i just synced all my music last night and its a mess with the whole unknown album and and artist thing.... its weird that itunes works fine though....

Where do you get musicbrainz from? It doesn't show up in the market?
Sent from my HTC Evo

kkwus74 said:
Where do you get musicbrainz from? It doesn't show up in the market?
Sent from my HTC Evo
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Its a program for you computer. Google it.

I have a question for you. I did not point the music manager to my main music folder as it is way to big and honestly I do not want it all in the cloud. So instead I created a Google folder that I copy music into to sync. The issue is that now I have copies of my music. So long story short , if I delete files from my Google folder is it going to remove those from the cloud when I sync?

HuckFinn said:
I have a question for you. I did not point the music manager to my main music folder as it is way to big and honestly I do not want it all in the cloud. So instead I created a Google folder that I copy music into to sync. The issue is that now I have copies of my music. So long story short , if I delete files from my Google folder is it going to remove those from the cloud when I sync?
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I am sure it does not remove them from the cloud. Everything I have read says music manager is just for adding songs to the cloud. It. doesn't say anything about Syncing or removing. The other issue it would have if it deleted songs would be if you wanted to use Music manager on multiple computers but with the same Google account. I can tell it still leaves them in the cloud becuase after I had fixed the Tags on my songs all the songs without the tags were still in the cloud under the "Unknown Artist unknown Album" even though the ones with the correct tags were there also.

despich said:
Been using Google Music for a little bit and thought I would share some findings and some tips.
1. Once uploaded Google Music only pays attention to the "ID" tags in the Music files to determine how to organize them. So if a lot of your music does not have these tags then all the music without tags gets dumped into a "Unknown album" "Unknown Artist" album. Your nicely ordered directory structure with artist names and album names are worthless to Google. So you better fix your ID tags on your music before you upload them or otherwise they may be very hard to find in the music app.
2. The best program I have found for automatically "fixing" your ID tags on music is MusicBrainZ which is actually free. Add your Directory of Music, Select all and pick "scan" once complete (takes about 2 seconds a song to identify) then Select everything on the Right that has been Identified and Pick Save. This will Fix the ID tags on your files for almost all of your music. (please donate to MusicBrainz as it's a open source user supported project)
3. If you fix the ID tags on existing music files after you have already uploaded them Google Music Manager does notice the changes and treats these modified song files as new songs. So then you have the old song (without the tags) and the new song (with the tags) in the cloud. Google Music manager is just for uploading it is not a "syncronizing" tool and I consider that an advantage, in my opinion that has always been a crutch of Apple devices in that they are Locked to syncing with one device. There is nothing that prevents you from loading Google Music manager on multiple computers and uploading from all of them to your cloud account.
4. Once you have fixed your tags on all your songs and got them all uploaded you can delete the "Unknown Artist" "Unknown album" from the cloud. By going into the Web interface music.google.com picking that album and then selecting the little drop down arrow next to the album and pick Delete Album.
If anyone else has any tips, I would be happy to add them and could start a Google Music FAQ out of this.
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I experienced the same thing. I am using MediaMonkey to fix my tags and get album art but it is a pain. I have 1800 items that still need to be fixed. I will give MusicBrainZ a shot see if it is any better. I doubt it will work any better, a lot of my music is from the early napster days where ID3 Tags weren't used as and filenames sucked.
Good tip on the delete, I didn't notice a way to delete. I see that you can use that delete method per song as well. Awesome!

Ok. So when I accept my invite using my xoom I declined the install for the music manager. Now I am trying to find it for my PC. Any idea where I can get it from as Google points me to nowhere.
Nevermind.....
http://music.google.com/music/listen? #manager_pl

To despich,
Thank you!
I just googled "Google Music Unknown Artist" and saw your response which is quite appropriate to what I was looking for. I haven't tried anything yet, but I plan to tweak my Id Tags and resync to see what happens.
I hate modifying my MP3 files, but if that's what it takes to get Google Music to act right, so be it. I hope this properly classifies my files so I can better use them in the future.
- Art

Sorry to say we won't do that.
It's just not commercially viable for Google to allow you to retain your own personal folder structure. To be able to be commercially viable, offering the huge space and great services we give, we need to override your own personal structuring, you need to be flattened to one of our standard profiles. Otherwise our rather simple and greedy ad- and mining software just doesn't understand.
I apologise. Hope you understand. Computer says "No", for the moment.
We're working on it though!
Regards, Nick
P.s. I'm replying on behalf of the entire internet business community, I'm not affiliated with Google Inc. in any way. Well, that's a lie, I am a bit actually. I'm a paying slave -oops- customer.
despich said:
Been using Google Music for a little bit and thought I would share some findings and some tips.
1. Once uploaded Google Music only pays attention to the "ID" tags in the Music files to determine how to organize them. So if a lot of your music does not have these tags then all the music without tags gets dumped into a "Unknown album" "Unknown Artist" album. Your nicely ordered directory structure with artist names and album names are worthless to Google. So you better fix your ID tags on your music before you upload them or otherwise they may be very hard to find in the music app.
2. The best program I have found for automatically "fixing" your ID tags on music is MusicBrainZ which is actually free. Add your Directory of Music, Select all and pick "scan" once complete (takes about 2 seconds a song to identify) then Select everything on the Right that has been Identified and Pick Save. This will Fix the ID tags on your files for almost all of your music. (please donate to MusicBrainz as it's a open source user supported project)
3. If you fix the ID tags on existing music files after you have already uploaded them Google Music Manager does notice the changes and treats these modified song files as new songs. So then you have the old song (without the tags) and the new song (with the tags) in the cloud. Google Music manager is just for uploading it is not a "syncronizing" tool and I consider that an advantage, in my opinion that has always been a crutch of Apple devices in that they are Locked to syncing with one device. There is nothing that prevents you from loading Google Music manager on multiple computers and uploading from all of them to your cloud account.
4. Once you have fixed your tags on all your songs and got them all uploaded you can delete the "Unknown Artist" "Unknown album" from the cloud. By going into the Web interface music.google.com picking that album and then selecting the little drop down arrow next to the album and pick Delete Album.
If anyone else has any tips, I would be happy to add them and could start a Google Music FAQ out of this.
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navigation voice in music

The navigation voice is in music which is a pain. Is this where it should be? If so why? Or should be somewhere else?

You posted 2 topics about this.
Navigation voice for which application? Is it just speaking over the top of your music or are there actual voice files playing as music? More information required...
If you put a empty file just called .nomedia file in the folder the voice files are, the music indexer will ignore it in the future.

The navigation voice is for the pre installed app called navigation which gives voice instructions such as 'turn left', etc. It is not speaking over the top of the music. Its just in 'all' of the pre installed app music but not in 'artists', 'play lists, or 'albums', etc. So I suppose I can live with it.
Sorry about adding this question 2 or 3 times - just a beginner on this site and so still learning. And if anyone can delete the other threads that would be appreciated. Whilst here, is there a way of seeing or searching for your posts without having to run through the list of threads?

You can choose which folder you prefer To scan only in poweramp
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kelvin fong said:
You can choose which folder you prefer To scan only in poweramp
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Player Pro lets you set which folder your music is in too.
I'm sure a lot of other music players do too. I have many audio files that aren't music that I don't want included in my library, so I use Power Amp.
But I'll need to try out the .nomedia thing. Thanks for the heads up on that knightnz

[Q] Possible Bug with AOKP offline phone Search?

Hi all I notice this problem while using AOKP. I cant do offline phone search for any info that has anything to do with third party apps. But results for default Apps like contacts will not show up. For example, doing a search for Firefox bookmarks will show up with nothing. This is a problem since now when I search for music And want the music to show up under a third party app like playerpro it's won't show up. But if I search for the same song using the default music app, it'll show up. I hate and don't use the default google music apps and uninstalled it on AOKP so I want the search to work for playerpro. here are pictures to demonstrate this.
1) a offline search for a song will show up for the default google music app.
http://imgur.com/rf5B8zu
2) now making player pro searches available in the options stopped searches in google default music app
http://imgur.com/714Bfkj
3) i search for the name of a song and it won't automatically show up in player pro as result but for first party apps like google contact, you see that a number showed up under home.
http://imgur.com/fd0YmGA
4) now in order to get the results to show up, i have to search for something, then tap "Search phone" then search the item again. so hear i click "Search phone" then type home again and now the results show up. this is a bug, cause in stock android, the player pro results would show up on the first search without me making too many steps
http://imgur.com/2h3XJSv
As you can see, I've set up so it'll search using player pro but it's not working. But if I search for something else that would show up on default apps then click "search phone" then it'll work. Thats too many steps. On stock 4.2 , the offline search works perfectly for player pro. If i search for a song it'll show up first thing. I have tried clearing the media storage and deleting .nomedia files just to see of that would work even though I know that none of those are causing this problem. Anyone else having this problem? I think this is a bug on AOKP

Google Play Music update fixes Touchless Control

Short and sweet, but someone had mentioned a mix of 4.4.2 OTA and GPM's update fixed being able to play music via Touchless Control. I'm on 4.4 (not 4.4.2) VZW and can confirm that Touchless Control now will play any song in your phone. Give it a shot and let us here at XDA know if the same is present for you all cheers!

You can only play the songs if you bought them through Google play right? I never bought any songs from Google play, I just uploaded my collection into google music. Whenever I use touchless control to play music, Google search just takes me to google play, it never opens the music app

Nope, I have Ariana Grande's CD ripped myself and it's stored on my "sdcard" not the cloud.
EDIT: I do have music through GPM's store, and those worked fine pre-update, but now music that I've copied to the internal memory works, so it seems to have been fixed for all media that GPM sees.
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You can only play the songs if you bought them through Google play right? I never bought any songs from Google play, I just uploaded my collection into google music. Whenever I use touchless control to play music, Google search just takes me to google play, it never opens the music app
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balleron24z said:
Short and sweet, but someone had mentioned a mix of 4.4.2 OTA and GPM's update fixed being able to play music via Touchless Control. I'm on 4.4 (not 4.4.2) VZW and can confirm that Touchless Control now will play any song in your phone. Give it a shot and let us here at XDA know if the same is present for you all cheers!
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Don't know if you were referring to my post in the 4.4.2 thread, but I am experiencing the same with touchless controls playing music. Most of my music is ripped and stored on the phone as well, and it pretty much plays anything I say using the phrase, example "play The Beatles". Since you don't have 4.4.2 like I do I assume the update to GPM fixed it. Thanks for posting.

I think it only works in the US.
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When I say "Okay Google Now, play The Script" (or any music) it verifies it's going to play it, goes into the GPM and then it just pops up a keyboard and the song file, as if I had searched for it via GPM and not Google Now and doesn't start playing it automatically. I have Google Now set to start playing GPM as my player of choice, but it just acts like I was looking for it and doesn't actually play it.
Any thoughts? Thanks!

MnemonicSyntax said:
When I say "Okay Google Now, play The Script" (or any music) it verifies it's going to play it, goes into the GPM and then it just pops up a keyboard and the song file, as if I had searched for it via GPM and not Google Now and doesn't start playing it automatically. I have Google Now set to start playing GPM as my player of choice, but it just acts like I was looking for it and doesn't actually play it.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Mine does the same thing with the keyboard, (don't understand what the deal is with the keyboard) but it plays a song. Are you sure your not set to pause? Have you tried setting GPM as your default player again?

You know, it really depends on what mood my phone is in, I told it to play "What's My Name" by Rihanna and it played it, but if I tell it some songs, it will search it and say "Couldn't start instant mix" and won't play, despite it showing in the search results. I think it's still hit or miss, but saying an artist (providing Google can pick apart the artist's name) it will play them. Work in progress for Touchless Control (Actually this is a Google Now thing) but once they find more bugs, GPM will get updated and actually use the API's correctly. As far as I know, this is US only until they open it to more regions.
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Mine does the same thing with the keyboard, (don't understand what the deal is with the keyboard) but it plays a song. Are you sure your not set to pause? Have you tried setting GPM as your default player again?
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