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[Android Apps and Games] c627627:
Pro user here, I support your program. Two bug reports:

1. When I edit an existing music folder (which has a few subfolders), it is not being refreshed with a Rescan Library function, it only gets refreshed when I temporarily change the folder name, and only this triggers a true rescan and interestingly, it triggers a rescan for all other edited folders on the SD card.

So example: a folder named TEST has subfolders TEST1 and TEST2.

When I connect the Samsung Galaxy S8 phone with a cable to PC, delete folder TEST, then copy/paste a new edited folder TEST - only by renaming TEST to say, "TEST NEW", do I see the new contents in Pulsar on my phone. Rescan library does not do it, so whatever happens when the program sees that TEST has been renamed to TEST NEW, *that's* what should happen when you rescan library, or better yet, a stand alone menu button simply called "Refresh."

2. Separate issue: When you tap on TEST then on Play, the program should FIRST line up contents of subfolder TEST1, and only then, after them, line up contents of subfolder TEST2. Instead, it lines up

song 01 from subfolder TEST1 and after that

song 01 from subfolder TEST2 and after that

song 02 from subfolder TEST1 and after that

song 02 from subfolder TEST2.

PC music programs line up the ENTIRE TEST1 subfolder first (of course). Then entire TEST2 subfolder.

Pulsar should do so too.

Excellent program, keep up the good work.
[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
EDIT-Problem solved
[Android Apps and Games] Cisito:
Hi, will this app support cloud accounts?

I have all of my music in my onedrive and am looking for an app that really works with that feature. I am willing to pay! so far none of the apps that advertise this feature really deliver quality...
[Android Apps and Games] vegechuang:
Can you increase the function of adjusting the font size of lyrics？
[Android Apps and Games] Sjb98502:
The user interface in Android auto is difficult to use. Unless I had a track playing and have it set to auto restart playback, I have no idea how to resume or start playback in shuffle mode.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The option is added to latest version. Thanks for your comment.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Make WIFI stay awake during sleep

Go to Settings > WIFI > Advanced > Keep wifi on during sleep > Choose "Always".

Avoid Pulsar WIFI killed by system

Go to Settings > Battery > Battery optimization, find Pulsar Music Player, select "Don't optimize".

If the problem still has not been fixed, please keep the screen on while casting.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is the difference between Omnia and Pulsar. Pulsar is using Android media scanner and the album is tagged to belong to the only artist.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar has MediaBrowserService. This might be other reasons. Where are your music files store and what format are they?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
No. This is out of audio player scope. Sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There is a volume button in equalizer page toolbar, there is no good place currently to place such a volume bar in now playing page.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It was 2.5mb when it was released. Most of the increased size is from Android support library and Google Play services library. But currently the new device has more memory and storage so this is still a tiny foot print app.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Hello,

Nice findings. problem 1 and 2 are caused by Android media scanner. My another music player Omnia is using its own media scanner which can solve problem 1 and 2:

Omnia Music Player - Apps on Google Play

Omnia is powerful mp3 and audio player with hi-res output and 10-band equalizer.

play.google.com
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Are you using the latest version of Pulsar? Pulsar now can store its playlists in its own database and the playlist won't be lost anymore. May I know which device are you using? The only guess I can imagine is that when your device power off, the sd card was ejected and the songs become inaccessible. But only if you are using any buggy 3rd party rom or very old Android version. You can contact support@rhmsoft.com with more information.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The albums are sorting by release date of the last released song.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You can uninstall and reinstall the app, this may work.

I think maybe you disabled Pulsar notification by mistake. You can re-enable it in the app settings page.

I have a Pixel device with Android 11 and the notification won't disappear.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
When do you want cross fade and when do you want to use it? In Pulsar normally I do not want to add complexity to the playing page(now there are already too many icons and menu items).
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Hello,

In the folder fragment, you can change view mode from toolbar, change from standard to hierarchy. It will distinguish folders from TEST1 and TEST2.

For the 1st problem, I do not know why the media scanner was not triggered automatically for your new folder. The scanner may take some time to scan the newly added/changed folders, or maybe after a reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
No, this app is only a local offline music player.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I may not able to reply every mail in the support account, there are too many. I mostly focus on the produce defect/feature related mails if I can not reply each one of them.

I will try to reply every thread here. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It will use the mode that your Android phone is using. If your android phone is using shuffle mode, then when you play songs from Android Auto, it will continue to use shuffle mode, too.
[Android Apps and Games] ulxerker:
Yeah, since the last app-update the notifications are working, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] nathanadams4429:
Great alternative to Google play music..loved it!
[Android Apps and Games] Abel Xö:
Could u add a lock-screen feature for it? And I prefer the album arts in place of the pause/play button on the left-side of the tracks (except the currently playing one).

And on the currently playing song, just under the track's name, it shows the artist's name, then the album. So what if u made them "selectable" (for lack of a better word 😅) and they could take us to the artist, and the album, respectively?

Arigatou!
[Android Apps and Games] echo98:
Don't know if I'm having same issue as other user, but on my new phone with android 10, avrcp browsing works from Google play music but not pulsar. Music stored on internal flash

On my old phone running Android 8, avrcp browsing worked on pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] remez:
Hi,

I have installed the latest version of Pulsar+ v. 1.10.4

I have a directory structure like:

artist X + artist.jpg
|
+ "album title" + cover.jpg
|
+ "artist - album title.m3u"
|
+ "0X - song title.mp3"

Is it possible for artists to display the image stored in "artist.jpg" instead of downloading it from the internet?

In "Android Auto", in the "Albums" section, not all albums are displayed but only some "random" ones.

I don't understand how the albums are selected to be displayed.

Also in "Android Auto", is it possible to have a "Artists/Albums" display (possibly in grid mode) like in the App?

That is, by selecting "Artists" the albums of that artist are displayed (possibly in grid mode) and then from there you can choose which one to listen to?

Also in "Android Auto" the album name is not displayed on the playback screen, only the artist name and song title.

Same things happen in Omnia 1.4.4 too

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] prosto:
A question/request for developer:

Could you please add a setting to display albums instead of songs after selecting an artist in the Android Auto version of the app?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] floyyt:
There is a problem with the player. It doesn't see all music files present on SD card, aimp on the other hand does. To bad i paid for this player.
[Android Apps and Games] tremalnaik:
I have it installed and it sees all the music on the SD card. It would be helpful, both to other users and the developer, to know which version of Android are you using it, as permissions to access the sd card become trickier and trickier with any Android release.
[Android Apps and Games] floyyt:
It's Android 10 on redmi 7A. All necessary permissions were granted.

Aimp sees 1917 files, pulsar 1896. It is even better since some files were reencoded, before over 200 were invisible for some reason.
[Android Apps and Games] tremalnaik:
Are those missing files encoded all in a specific format?
[Android Apps and Games] floyyt:
No. I don't see any pattern. I have mp3, m4a, acc, and ogg files only and those are supported as far as i know. 200 missing files before were mp3 do it's strange behavior from player.
[Android Apps and Games] playgeek:
cool i like it :D
[Android Apps and Games] gquiring:
Have there been any issues with Pulsar preventing the lock screen from turning off? I have a Pixel 4a, Android 11 and ever since installing this app my lock screen will not turn off all the time.
[Android Apps and Games] Stavinair Bluewing:
Been having this issue for some time whenever I try to adjust playspeed/pitch. Does nothing and throws me this error. Running on android 6.0, LG G4.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hello

When I check to automatic playback on Bluetooth connection the checkbox to do not automatic playback when connected to a car becomes disabled.

This checkbox only becomes enabled when automatic reproduction on Bluetooth connection is disabled.

I think this is a error.
[Android Apps and Games] geertbro:
hi, using Pulsar+ Pro 1.10.5 (Samsung S10 with new UI 3.0),

and 'suddenly' I cannot exclude folders anymore on my SDcard. It's not even visible to select in "Exclude folder", it used to be. SDcard is still accessible, but all other apps.

Tried re-install, clear data : no joy. help is much appreciated :)
[Android Apps and Games] :
Would be great to have forced file name list mode. That seems not to work all the time. Pulsar + is listing the mp3 tag entry instead.

BR Phlogotheel
[Android Apps and Games] :
Beeing more precisely: forced listing of the real filename of the mp3s. Pulsar is showing the name from the mp3 tag if one exists if you select listing by filename. So it lists by filename but does not show the real naming. BR
[Android Apps and Games] :
Found the play length of the mp3 files are not right. I learned the length is calculated from files size and bit rate and for this with vbr never very accurate. How much effort would it mean to add a kind of pre scanning or pre calculation of the actual play length of the files in pulsar + and put them into a DB later?

I am listening often to audio books (vbr encoded) rather than music. Right now it is completely by chance to hop to a certain position in a chapter. And I have no feeling when a chapter is over. Also if I want to repeat a passage it is pure guess work. Thank you for help here

BR
[Android Apps and Games] Brad-M:
I just switched to a new phone (S21) and suddenly Pulsar is loading on each boot and for the life of me I can't figure out why it's doing this or how to stop it. Below is a screenshot right after it starts up when I pull down the notifications.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] minimaster4734:
Not sure if I need to post anything with this, but I have a bug to report. It's not hard to reproduce. Whenever a track has the year 0, 00, 000, 0000, etc. on it's id3 tag, it doesn't show on the playlist anymore. Changing the year back to another year, makes it show up and play normally. I don't know if it's a known bug, but I hope it can be fixed.
[Android Apps and Games] jpage4500:
Can someone let me know how to use Google Assistant (voice) with Pulsar? I've tried everything I can think of.. "OK Google, play prince on pulsar".. "OK Google, tell Pulsar to play prince", etc.. nothing works. They all open YT Music. So, I uninstalled YT Music and now these commands open up the YT app... argh.. I am not able to uninstall YT app on my S20 device (preinstalled).

I really like Pulsar.. I've been searching for a better app after losing Google Play Music and the #1 thing right now I want is to play a playlist via voice.. I'm in the car so voice playback is almost necessary to me.

If there's a work-around or a hack (Tasker) please let me know!

thanks

joe
[Android Apps and Games] jpage4500:
Right after I posted this I disabled the Youtube app on my device and tried again.. this time Google prompted me which music app to use.. voila! What a major PITA but I'm happy voice commands are now being sent to Pulsar and hope this post can help anyone else who's in a similar state.

I do have a question/note -- trying to play a playlist by voice only seems to work if there's not a song that has the same name.. for example I have a "Kids" playlist and everytime I try to "play kids playlist" I get a song called "Kids <something" and not the playlist. I'll try renaming the playlist but it'd be awesome if including "playlist" in the voice search would be picked up somehow.. oh well, happy to at least remove YT app from voice control
[Android Apps and Games] antennakid:
Hi!

The pulsar+ app isn't working after the android 11 update. What should I do?
[Android Apps and Games] ulxerker:
Oh, its working fine here. Try to clear cache and data of the app or re-install it.
[Android Apps and Games] mgbranton:
i have this same problem with pulsar not seeing all the files on an sdcard. i'm running it on the atoto S8 headunit, which uses android 8. for example, it sees only 9 of 12 flac files in that are in a particular album.
[Android Apps and Games] floyyt:
Use Aimp. Way better in any possible way. Regret to buy this crap now.
[Android Apps and Games] Nevaran:
Suggestion: Have an option for the volume buttons to "hold for next/previous track"
[Android Apps and Games] siiiiiiiiiiam:
first. i wanna say thanks about this amazing and looking nice app. but i got a little problem since i changed my phone. my phone's model is 'LG Velvet', this application can't arrange album properly in this model, i want to sort album as 'release date' but now this app sort just random even i set the order to 'release date'. i know you are busy, but i wish your feedback
[Android Apps and Games] Alexanaxela:
I've really enjoyed using Pulsar for the last year or so. No real complains but i do have a suggestion that i think would be pretty useful that you can't really find in other music players: the ability to play/select music by year. Like the ability to select a genre and then select a specific year within that genre to play
[Android Apps and Games] 22c:
Feature Suggestion

Please modify (enhance) the Exclude Folder setting to include both areas of Android external storage when the SD card is present. The two Android external storage areas are internal memory and the SD card. Also, for semantic reasons, please rename the setting to Exclude Folder List, which would be the set of folders (plural) to exclude. Thank you for your consideration and your development effort. The use of material design in your development show well.

Historically, I have used pi Music Player for a few years but I never felt it was progressing in the right direction. I discovered your app a few days ago. it is now my music player of choice for a library of 25,000+ mp3 tracks, which reside on a 200GB SD card.

One final note, I use Android Studio (Java) for a mobile app called Day Shifter (non-published) that I developed. I know that I am 'arriving late to the party' but should you need an additional volunteer for testing purposes, I wish to be considered.

Thanks,

Lawrence
[Android Apps and Games] Takumori:
Purchased Pulsar+ recently, really liking it so far. Most of the app is amazing! However I have a few small complaints and suggestions. First of which is a nitpick, the customiser for the theme is almost perfect; except it doesn't allow me to edit the highlighting colour when copying text and it stays the same as the default colours in the theme. Again that is only a small complaint.

Here is one of my main suggestions though, unlike other music apps, such as Musicolet. Pulsar+ has subpar widgets and notification bar widgets. I feel using the same widget for the notification bar, home screen and lockscreens is a wasted opportunity. The widget also lacks the 'favourite/heart' button or the option to add such a button to the widget. So for example I have to unlock for my phone and go into the app to favourite a currently playing song. Whilst if you added a favourite button on the widget or gave us the option, it would be much quicker. Especially doing so from the lockscreen!

Another suggestion is to provide us more than one type of widget perhaps you could also have the widget you currently have. Then also a widget that also shows the next 4-5 songs upcoming in the queue. And also perhaps this could be on the lockscreen and also with an option to add on the home screen. I feel the notification bar widget is fine but with the addition of a favourite button of course!

Anyways thank you for reading my feedback I hope it inspires you in someway! Like I said in the beginning I really love this app and you deserve every penny I gave you. Thanks for making a great product and I hope to see it constantly improving as it has been.
[Android Apps and Games] Mega_Absol_359:
I have Pulsar+ on my Xiaomi Mi 11 and when I'm not in the app and have it running in the background, the notification panel control doesn't work. On the lock screen or from swipe down doesn't have to option to switch between songs or pause and play. I cleared the app data once to see if it fixed it an it did, but went back to that issue a few hours later.

I'm also running xiaomi.eu 12.5.1 if that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] calli:
Congratulations on a brilliant app which I’ve been using for three years now.

So impressed with it, that I now have my whole family hooked onto it.

Pulsar is set as our default app on our OnePlus 6 Android and Samsung phones.

Is there perhaps a way to set Pulsar to also be the default music player for OneDrive on Android?

I noticed that playing any item in OneDrive automatically uses Google Music – now YouTube Music which I would prefer not to use at all.

I would have thought that setting Pulsar to be the default music player would cover OneDrive on the Phone as well.

Maybe I’m not seeing a setting?

Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Keep up the good work.
[Android Apps and Games] c627627:
Purchased Pulsar+, still the best music player on Android.

The program may need a better way to scan for changed content inside a music folder. This bug is hard to replicate but I paused a song, then cable connected Android phone to PC then made slight changes to contents of the folder currently paused, and this really confused it as far as, what the contents of the folder really are currently. So some sort of a better REFRESH feature is needed, to scan for changes of folder content since existing feature to 'Rescan Library' does not accomplish this.

Also a new feature request, if it is realistic:

Crossover feature is wonderful, but some songs are not meant to be crossed into, is there any way to have a feature to disable crossing over into *individual* songs, so the program still does cross over *except* for flagged files which would not cross over after the end of a previous song?
[Android Apps and Games] lefantome:
Hi, the app is great and I bought the Plus version, just one thing missing: a button to immediately resume playing the current queue when resuming the app.

Keep the audio controls at the bottom all the times please.
[Android Apps and Games] longhair_music:
Hallo, I'm new to the forum and this is my first post!

I just started using the app a couple of days ago. It has many nice features and the small file size of the app is an appealing aspect.

I like the tag support in Pulsar as I have a large collection of flac files with tags. Would it be possible to add support for the "conductor" tag as well? This is very useful for some classical music, choral music, and some jazz such as jazz orchestras and Big Bands. For mp3 files this might be not very well supported, but for flac and other formats it's just a simple metadata text pair like all the other tags. For example, "CONDUCTOR=Lenny Bernstein" (or whatever!).

A useful and fairly well-known guide for flac & co. tags can be found here:

https://www.legroom.net/2009/05/09/ogg-vorbis-and-flac-comment-field-recommendations
[Android Apps and Games] c627627:
I don't think this resolves the problem and it can be replicated.

This is what Pulsar does *after* you change view mode from toolbar from standard to hierarchy:

It lines up:

song 01 from subfolder TEST1 and after that

song 01 from subfolder TEST2

It should not do that. It should line up ALL the songs from subfolder TEST1 first.

In other words, when you play a TEST folder which has two subfolders TEST1 and TEST2, then ALL the songs from subfolder TEST1 should play first, and only then all the songs from subfolder TEST2 second.

More of the same explanation for test purposes, because this is a big deal:

1. Folder TEST has subfolders, let's call them TEST1 and TEST2 and TEST3

2. NOW play folder TEST, or add folder TEST to que, what happens?

You will see that Pulsar did not add ALL contents of subfolder TEST1 first. It should. Hierarchy setting does not address this. Please fix.
[Android Apps and Games] whipping:
Hello, I would like to use this app, but there is one problem that keeps me from using it.

In android auto, when I select the artist, it goes to the songs menu, not to the albums menu.

I have artists with hundreds of songs and I would like to listen only to one album.

Can you please fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] Chmis:
After I removed last song on playlist, that playlist disappeared. Now when I try to create a new playlist with same name, an error appears: "Playlist creation failed. Try another name.". It looks like the playlist without songs still exists somewhere, just cannot be accessed.
[Android Apps and Games] helgekra:
Thank you so much for this great piece of software! Especially the crossfade feature is just outstanding and I love the global shuffle feature also very much, especially during Android Auto usage.

One feature I'm still missing is enhanced playback control for the forward/backward buttons when I use Android Auto. Fermata has this included that I can do fast forward and backward by holding the forward or backward button. Unfortunately Fermata misses other features I love in Pulsar and also it's unstable when I use it with Android Auto.

Thanks!

Helge
[Android Apps and Games] mach07:
I've bought the premium version, and many files can't be played (they don't even show up) . When I try to open them from an external file manager I get this:

The media is this:
[Android Apps and Games] mach07:
I am sorry to say, I'll be leaving as well. Not gonna bite the hand that feed me, but this is an app issue. Maybe the dev is busy, sick or something else. But audio is part of my life and I can't wait.

Aimp sounds like a decent alternative. Installed and I am happy and satisfied with it.

Thank you rhmsoft for the songs played, but it is time to say goodbye.
[Android Apps and Games] ITawate:
It is a good music player. But i would like to recommend you need to change screenshots of the app as it looks old.
[Android Apps and Games] IanHodgson:
Having trouble with pulsar+ at the moment. I have an album with 2 discs. The id3 tags therefore show the save album title but also have info for disc 1 and disc 2. However, pulsar can't read this part of the tag and there is no way to add disc number with the edit tag function. I could rename the albums as Title Disc 1 and Title Disc 2 but I synchronise my music collection with that on my pc, and Rhythm Box can read the whole tag no problem. So I'd rather leave as it is because it's more accurate, unless of course there's no other way. Is there a development point to add this functionality to pulsar tag editor (add disc number to tags)?