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[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Rocket Player 2.0 Beta: Themes, Gestures and more

As the developer of the iTunes to Android syncing application iSyncr as well as Android Music Player, I’m proud to bring the newest version of Rocket Player 2.0, my latest free Android music player, to XDA for beta testing! Version 2.0 is going to be exclusively beta tested on XDA because XDA users are passionate about great apps and making them better. I welcome constructive criticism and feedback to make Rocket Player what you want it to be.

New Features

Personalize Rocket Player with purple and blue downloadable themes

Flip through your tracks faster than ever with new album art gesture support

Shuffle smarter with a new algorithm

Add a playlist to another playlist to save time

Save the “Now Playing” playlist as a new playlist to keep permanently

Customize your lockscreen with the new lockscreen widget (4.2+)

Bug Fixes

Performance improvements

Fixed disc number tag editing issue

Folder back button is always visible now

Better bluetooth detection for a smoother auto start when auto starting with bluetooth connections

Fixed issues with playing songs from a file browser app

I am relying on the XDA community to help me out with this release to test these new features and give me the feedback I need to make this a badass release. (If you are new to Rocket Player, check out the existing features)

-Justin

Updated 5/3/2013

Rocket Player 2.0 is now available for free in the Play Store

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[Android Apps and Games] Sleepy!:
Hi. I use the current stable Rocket player release... its good.

Great work.... :thumbup:

:)

Can you make the Play, FF and Reverse buttons flatter and more Holo-esque?

And a bit smaller too?
[Android Apps and Games] miccar7:
i LOVE that it's themeable!! this player rocks.
[Android Apps and Games] eulerepi:
Better than the 1.x series!

Cool, and I like the Chrome theme. One issue however, which was in the 1.7.2 release also. If I give a track a rating, like five stars, it throws it to the bottom of the track list. The only way I've succeeded in correcting this issue is to unrate the track, then I have to rename the folder and rescan my library.

In all other aspects, it's my favorite player on android.

Thanks,

David

:good:
[Android Apps and Games] csos95:
Great update!

I would like to request a new feature. In my iTunes library I have about 6,000 songs in 143 playlists and I use playlist folders to keep track of them all.

When I sync my playlists the folder its self syncs as a whole new playlist with all of the songs from the other playlists in it instead of just being a folder for the other playlists.

This makes it much harder for when I want to find a certain playlist because I have to scroll through a huge list of them instead of selecting from a few folders.

tl;dr add playlist folder support please :P
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Yikes! This is the first I've heard of this rating issue. Can you tell me what Android device you are testing the beta on?

I'll try and reproduce our issue on the exact device or a similar device.
[Android Apps and Games] eulerepi:
Followup to rating issue

Yes indeed. I should have included that in my original post. I have a Google Nexus 10, with all updates, running the stock 4.2.2 release, not rooted or anything like that.

Thank you very much!

David
[Android Apps and Games] eulerepi:
Followup to rating issue

Here are screenshots of before and after I rated the song Two Way Street.
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
We have considered implementing more themes.

It's great to know that you'd like to see this in a future build of Rocket Player.

Thank you for your support!
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Glad to hear that you like it!

Thank you for your support.
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Thank you for your request - I am afraid that I don't fully understand what you'd like to see out of iSyncr & Rocket Player.

Can you tell me in a little more detail what you'd like to see in an email to MusicPlayer@JRTStudio.com?
[Android Apps and Games] csos95:
Sorry, i'm not very good at explaining things in text only. I'll make a video explaining better and email/post it here. :)

Edit: here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBoMElXJrIE
[Android Apps and Games] jnewberry1:
I take it this doesn't work with the unlocker? I have it and it still says I need it to adjust the equalizer settings.
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
This beta should work with your unlocker if the unlocker is from the Play Store. However, the beta won't work with the Amazon Appstore unlocker. Could that be the issue?
[Android Apps and Games] rousseauo:
App Crash

Hello everyone,

My app crashes randomly... I had this problem with previous version too. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3.

When i listen music, sometimes it stops for no reason (it can happens even if i don't touch my phone), then the app seems to close and open again with the song i've listen sometimes ago as currently playing song.

Am i the only one? Any idea where my problem can came from ?

Thanks

Regards,

Olivier
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Hi Olivier,

I think I just emailed you about this issue. Unless this is a different Olivier with an S3 and the same issue. ;)

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For anyone else seeing this issue in the future, the best way for me to figure out the issue is to send in a log file (Help->Support with Log) with a note of the issue right after this happens. If you keep using Rocket Player, I won't be able to tell what happened.
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Thank you for this request video! I understand perfectly now.
[Android Apps and Games] miccar7:
two questions

two questions:

1. in folders the songs are listed in alphabetical order. they should be listed in TRACK order. how can i change this?

2. when are you giving away more unlock codes?
[Android Apps and Games] Focal86:
Hi there.

It would be nice to see cue sheets support in future releases.

I have digitally backed up all my cd's into flac image + cue sheets and would like to be able to play it on my tablet for home listening.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
1.) Hmm. I don't think we can say they should be in track order. What if you have two albums in the same folder? Wouldn't it be weird to have the songs go 1-1-2-2-3-3, etc? If you want the songs in track order, you could use search or the album view.

2.) Keep an eye on our Twitter, Google+ and Facebook pages for more unlock codes. :)
[Android Apps and Games] tomX2:
feature requests

I love your player and would be happy to give your beta a go.

I have two requests, that i personally, would love to see with the player.

First any chance of losing the gradient circle in the background? I would prefer just a black background, no image. Second, and more importantly, would love for the tag section to allow for the viewing of my track comments tag. I use the tagger often, not for tagging, but as instant access to information about the current song. Would be great to access information on the fly to answer questions like, what year did this song come out? who is the guitarist on this track? & what number is this song on rolling stones' top 500 songs of all time?... all information contained in my tags. I currently have to exit the player and open another app to access this info, by which time often the song in question has finished playing and is on to the next.

Even better would be if i choose a specific tag in the tagger it would open to a full screen to make reading much easier (some of my comments are rather large in size, especially classic rock tunes with a lot of history). I guess that might interfere with the tagging feature, but if somehow you could allow for ease of accessing the tags (including track comments) without actually changing them that is what i would really like. Anyway that last part might be a bit of work, but simply adding the additional track comments tag might be easier (no full screen) and still quite a positive addition to your app.

Thanks for a great product,

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] CZ Eddie:
I keep track of all my "genre's" by keeping them in folders named "rock", "dubstep", "jazz", etc.

These are all in /storage/sdcard1/music/ and then the music genre folders are the subdirectories.

Phone is Galaxy S3 d2att on LiquidRom 4.2.2 AOSP.

Old Rocket 1.0 worked fine. But Rocket 2.0 does not see the folders that I have checkmarked, unless I also checkmark some random folder at the root of sdcard1.
[Android Apps and Games] jlee08517:
I've been noticing this for a while but whenever the player is updated I lose all my playlists even tho they are clearly in the syncr folder. rescan in setting won't bring them back. the only way is to re sync with the laptop. can you take a look at this issue?
[Android Apps and Games] hrrrbrwl:
This is happening to me as well.

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When I'm listneing to audiobooks I would like to be able to carry on listening form where I left off, exactly how the podcast bookmarks feature works. It works perfectly when I'm listening to podcasts downloded in itunes and synched via iSyncr but when I tick the "remember playback position" option under the files properties in itunes it doesn't remember the playback position in Rocket Player.
[Android Apps and Games] dlt1967:
Olivier,

I have seen the same issue on my S3. It tends to show up when I start watching videos. It does not crash the app though, it reboots the device..

david
[Android Apps and Games] *KiD CuDi*:
The animation when swiping album art to go to next song looks really good
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Good suggestion. Personally, I think the gradient circle works great with the default black theme. However, I think another theme or two with these sorts of options would be great.

Yeah. Adding comment support would be great. I hadn't really thought much about full screen viewing of the comment field, but I"ll keep that in mind.
[Android Apps and Games] ddiehl:
How about a large text only theme for use in the car? I use this over bluetooth in the car a lot and a car mode would be awesome..
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Do you have this problem on the internal memory too? Or just the SD card?

Can you email me at justin@jrtstudio.com? I'll need to do some advanced debugging, as this works fine on my GS3. I'd rather not clutter the forum with log files. :)
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
I'm kinda surprised there hasn't been any requests for other colors. Just sayin'.
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
Would the idea be to remove the album art and only show text?

Do you drive with the phone in portrait or horizontal mode?

Personally, I think I recognize album art faster than reading text, and with the new gesture, you can swipe to the next song without finding a button.
[Android Apps and Games] jlee08517:
just flat black and white like other inverted ones would be the best for me!

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bump
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
jlee08517.... thanks for the skin feedback.

I'd love to figure out what we are seeing here. First off, Rocket Player doesn't save the playlists itself. They are stored with the system, so that they'll be visible in other music players. Updating Rocket Player shouldn't be deleting all of the playlists in the system. Most likely, Rocket Player isn't able to read them, for some unknown reason.

Let's try a test. What happens if you download my "Android Music Player"? Do the playlists inside Android Music Player app also disappear when Rocket Player updates?

Can you reproduce this consistently by uninstalling Rocket Player, then installing the Play Store version, then installing the latest beta version?
[Android Apps and Games] jlee08517:
I believe google music app still read all my playlists and played fine. just not on rocket player. I'll try playing around with that music player.
[Android Apps and Games] csos95:
I'm having a similar problem. When I sync playlists they don't seem to update in rocket player.

EX: I have a playlist that has singles downloaded from youtube and when I add songs to it I like to go to the bottom of the playlist where the new songs are and just play those. But when I go into rocket player the playlist isn't updated so I have to go to the album version of the playlist, that has the songs showing up in alphabetical order for some reason, and play them one by one.

I downloaded the android music app and the playlist updates show up fine in it.

Another bug that i've noticed since the beta4 is that when i'm listening to a song and I click on the "now playing" icon it doesn't do anything but highlight for a few seconds. When I go into the playlists tab and select the now playing playlist it does show up.
[Android Apps and Games] ddiehl:
Yes.. Exactly.

In place of album art would be:

Track

Artist

Album

In larger text while keeping the swipe feature..

Maybe include larger text when browsing..

Oh, yeah... I have the phone mounted in the portrait position.
[Android Apps and Games] csos95:
The latest update fixed the now playing bug and I fixed playlist by deleting cache and giving it about 40 minutes to rebuild(ended up being 80mb)

If you're still using this as a beta update thread I have feature request lyrics support on the now playing screen.
[Android Apps and Games] JRT Studio:
I'm hoping to have lyrics support done sometime this month. Keep an eye out for updates from the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] godsponge:
Synced lyrics

I'd love to have lyrics displayed over the album art. Any chance you'd implement synchronized lyrics? I have synced lyrics embedded in my mp3s along with plain text (for itunes compatibility), but of course I'd rather use the synced ones.
[Android Apps and Games] BossMAFIA:
Artwork display

Hi,

I am using galaxy note II N7105T and I am faced with the following problems:

Rocket player struggles to display artwork especially 500 pixels (inclusive) and above.

When playing an album the artwork will be displayed say for example the first track.

The next track will play with no artwork and this by the way is very random. Sometimes when I restart the app, the last artwork that failed to show prior to restart will be displayed but after the next two or three tracks, artwork display will fail again with just a black screen instead of album art (no error msgs). Occassionally, rocket player crashes after using the 'search function' too many times but so far after the latest official build update, stability seemed to be have been drastically improved with Zero crashes so far which I am greatly impressed with.

I am kindly requesting if you could look into the problem and fix it in your next update as Rocket player is my primary music player and still the best player out there even with those few glitches.
[Android Apps and Games] viki412ag:
How can I backup a playlist from Rocket Player

Hi Everyone - My phone is badly in need or a factory reset and I don't want to lose the Playlists I've built up using Rocket Player. Any advice how I can back these up before I wipe the phone? I've tried an app called 'Playlist Backup' but it doesn't see my Rocket Player playlists, only system playlists, google play, and poweramp lists. For reference I'm using a stock Moto Razr Maxx HD (no root) and latest Rocket Player 2.4.0. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. :confused: Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ken2802:
backup the app with helium or titanium backup, root is need trough i think.

other wise you could make a non root backup via adb backup –all –f c:\backup.ab
[Android Apps and Games] viki412ag:
I wanted to root but due to the fact that I've accepted all the latest ota updates, the motochopper root method doesn't work for me anymore. My plan is to flash a slightly older stock ICS onto it once things are backup up, then root it and have my fun with it. But before I go there, I really need to my playlists backed up.

I've used adb for a few other things but I'm not familiar with many of the commands. Does "backup –all –f c:\backup.ab" backup the entire image of the phone or can I somehow specify what directory of file to backup, b/c i really only need those playlists. Also, I'm on Linux, not windows, but I'm sure I can figure out the slight differences in the command...

Thanks for your help! :)

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Ok, I found this reference for adb backup to just do a file or such... but where is the Rocket Player directory/files that store the playlists?

adb backup [-f <file>] [-apk|-noapk] [-shared|-noshared] [-all] [-system|nosystem] [<packages...>]

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ken2802:
maybe /data/data/com.rockplayer

on antoher note there is a folder called rockplayer on my sd card in there is another folder called playlist, maybe its inthere?
[Android Apps and Games] almizilero:
After trying many music players rocket has become my favorite, so thanks for this great player!

But I have one minor problem with it. I have several albums with multiple artist on them. To all of these I have assigned an album artist. When I look at my album listing, the albums are sorted by the album artist, which is great.

But in the artist listing, each artist appears on its own. I see the value of this for some people, but I would very much prefer if only the album artist would be listed in the Artist tab.

Is this already possible and I just didn't find the option or would it be possible to include this in a future release?
[Android Apps and Games] bman3k:
I have a fairly silly question, but I just can't seem to figure it out on my own.

How do I scroll through my songs by the letter? Scrolling normally just goes through them one by one, but if I have a couple hundred songs this can take a while. The music players I've used before always let me scroll by letters if I just made one long continuous motion to scroll.

I've done this a couple times in rocket player by accident, but I cannot figure out how to do it at will (I've tried googling and looking through its settings).
[Android Apps and Games] ddiehl:
I'm having this exact same issue..
[Android Apps and Games] bman3k:
*Bump* still having this issue :(
[Android Apps and Games] Nazgul1987:
Loops after last song in the folder

Hi,

When the last song of the folders finishes, the first song in the list starts again. I am using the basic version.

Is this a settings issue? If so what is the solution.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] wisnia99:
Is there a way too make the widget transparent?
[Android Apps and Games] luka_luka:
upp
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] greatg:
Hi,

My S-pen does not seem to work with XBMC (Frodo). Does anyone know if there is a fix?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] hydrouk:
None of the devs own an Note so they are not adding support, maybe somebody will soon. I myself would much prefer S Pen support
[One (M7) General] townay:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/22/nokia-preliminary-injunction-against-htc-one-mic/
[One (M7) General] Red5:
Wow, you started a thread just to post a link? Nice.
[One (M7) General] townay:
Dev sec? Pretty sure I posted in general.

Had your medication yet?
[One (M7) General] hamdir:
the ban is only in the Netherlands for now, meanwhile HTC will seek another supplier

but yes those mics are gold
[One (M7) General] angel.mariano:
there is lots of people here who think they are the owners of the website... is becoming really annoying ..... you can open as much threads as you want to, if he doesnt like it,he doesnt have to comment or reply ...... Thanks for the info btw
[One (M7) General] pwr2wh8:
bummer about the mic situation. all i have to say is the current mic records audio quite well. i put it to the test to record some video footage with high spl levels at a race over the weekend and it did very well. zero distortion/clipping with good range. hopefully if a replacement is needed, it's at least as good as the existing mic.
[One (M7) General] townay:
Exactly. HTC did a better job with these drivers than nokia did. Nokias recordings were too soft, as though its been through too much compression
[One (M7) General] Shasarak:
Apologies for the cross-post, but I can't bear to let inaccurate information stand. :)

If you check the original post on Reuters (which I think may have been updated recently) you'll find this ban is global, it's not restricted to the Netherlands.

link
[One (M7) General] TRiBaL1981:
This is so sad for us who haven't ordered our phones yet...:crying:
[One (M7) General] hamdir:
its ban on supplies so it will affect the One stocks, but its not golbal ban on the units already made

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check this...

Nokia's co-developed high-amplitude mics retain 10-month exclusivity, HTC has to look elsewhere

here is HTC response from this article (translated)
[One (M7) General] Absolut`:
Hah! Early early adopters FTW. :good:
[One (M7) General] desiregeek:
They usually order in big numbers well in advance. The question now is how many they got in advance to be able to supply current HTC ONE orders... If they already received 500K of them or so we should still be good for now.
[One (M7) General] MojoPin:
Grrr, dammit. Still waiting on my order from 9th April...pleeeeeeeease please please let it be an unmodified model, as HTC intended...

Feel bad for HTC, they just keep taking hits when they should be able to just enjoy the success of designing a really great Android phone. Here's hoping it doesn't affect them too adversely - it would be such a shame to have one less competitor in the smartphone race.
[One (M7) General] stevedebi:
It is more than that. Now that they know the chip is the intellectual property of Nokia, I think they may be legally liable if they continue to manufacture the One with that chip. They can ship what they have, but I think they will have to replace that chip before they manufacture any more of them - anywhere, for any market. For them to use the chip in new construction, I think they are opening themselves to lawsuits from Nokia.

I'm not a lawyer, much less an international lawyer, but this makes sense to me. They will ship what they have, but will need to change the design before they build more.
[One (M7) General] dobknobby:
If you read into the story quite deeply, ban is in Netherlands at the moment, will not go further, It will eventually be allowed in Netherlands again, HTC Is not at fault here, They do not have to find a new supplier, the supplier has to change the part slightly, Nokia went a little over the top to be hinest, Its a MIC! Not like they copied the Whole design of the Lumia and software now is it!
[One (M7) General] BarryH_GEG:
The court's decision prevents the microphone from being sold to anyone else other than Nokia, he said. "This has immediate effect and is global in scope, not just in the Netherlands," Young said via email. STMicroelectronics is headquartered in Geneva, but its holding company is registered in Amsterdam.​

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...phones_for_HTC_One?taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1

Nokia does hold a U.S. patent on the microphone which the Netherlands court said doesn't apply in the EU. So expect Nokia to seek an immediate injunction against the sale of the One (because it houses a patent offending component) in the U.S. shortly.

A claim for 'recall' of microphones already delivered however rejected because Nokia itself (in Europe) can not rely on a patent, which is currently only granted in the United States.​
[One (M7) General] stevedebi:
Thanks, that is my reading as well. I really do think they are going to have to halt production until the new part is supplied.
[One (M7) General] Riyal:
I'd be more than willing to compensate the lose of dual membrane mic for a 6Ultrapixel camera :) Or a microsd slot :p