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)
I am finishing a car project and i cant find a tutorial to activate gesture control for changing songs skipping and pausing songs in google music. i know of the pop gesture apps but i cant find an option for the music control in GOOGLE MUSIC.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
I have a Martian Notifier and it has a button that opens up google voice search when pressed. Is that a way in which I can remap it to do certain actions such as skip a track on Spotify?
There is a way & i am working on it . Lets wait and see if it is going to work or not. @1188low
Been searching for days but have had no luck. I'm trying to find a widget to control my music on my phone and possibly display track info as well. My steering wheel doesn't have pause or a way to active media on my phone when it first connects. Only media controls that seem to work are the one in the Bluetooth app. Looking to similar controls as Android wear's controls but in widget form. Thanks in advance.
Just installed a Joying JY-ULS01N2 in my Jeep. Loving it so far, even though it's only been in a day. I just got the steering wheel controls hooked up and was wondering if there's some way to map a steering wheel button to an app. Specifically, I'd love it if I could open Google voice search without having to use the touch screen.
I know there is not button map option for an app, but maybe someone has used Tasker or some other app to do this?
Related question re: the "Source" button mapping. This appears to only toggle through the Joying-installed source apps (radio, BT, phone, aux, video). Can these apps be changed? I'd love to be able to toggle through Spotify, SiriusXM, PowerAmp, etc., since those are my go-to media apps.
Welp, I just checked to see if there were any replies and instead saw this post directly below mine: https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...-units/joying-2gb-steering-wheel-key-t3543390. Think I'll give gustden's script a try and see what happens.