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[Android Apps and Games] FerociousAndroid:
Hello everyone,

What is the minimum Android version for Pluse MP to work and any limitations on older versions of Android?

I checked the description on here and the PLAY store but not listed. Unless [4.0+] in the title means ICS?

I want to recycle an older phone as a music player only.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Lakvatus:
Thanks for the reply!

1. In my case, all of the covers are stored in the files themselves, so no internet connection issues should be involved.

2. Just a thought: image gallery apps usually create thumbnails of the photos in order to load them instantly. How about creating thumbnails of the albums in the app, so that they can be loaded immediately once you open the "Album" tab in the app?
[Android Apps and Games] Thebear j koss:
Yes. ICS and above.

—————Who am I doing this for, hey me or you? ————
[Android Apps and Games] wimstefan:
As a DJ I tag my music using the "Comment/s" fields in the metadata. Would it be possible to make those fields searchable? That would be a tremendous help!
[Android Apps and Games] hexise:
The minimum android version is 4.0.x.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for your suggestion. I will consider to improve cover loading in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
Accent color in notification not applied in 4.x and 5.x?
[Android Apps and Games] rjm831:
Feature Request:

Any future plans for a preamp? It's a feature I truly use.

Thanks for continuing development of the app. Nice job!
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
That's in O.
[Android Apps and Games] dechcz:
show lyrics by default

Hi, could it be possible to implement such function as: show lyrics by default? It is annoyng to click on each song to show lyrics....apology for my laziness. thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Just clarify current behavior. The images are already stored locally as thumbnails. The cache size in total is 50MB at most.

Even loading from local file is not immediately, it need a little time and can not be run in main thread to avoid lagging.
[Android Apps and Games] GR33NBEARD:
Custom themes?

Hey! Just wanted to say I am really digging your music player. I just discovered it today, and so far I'd have to say it is one of the best I have used! I used poweramp for years. I switched to Pi Music Player about 3 months ago, and now I am using Pulsar+.

The one thing I think would be awesome is the ability to customize our themes instead of having to pick from the presets.

Anyways, keep on rocking!
[Android Apps and Games] jtaylor991:
Feedback

Looks great! Two complaints I have (sorry if there is but I didn't see a "current requests in the works" list, hopefully these aren't redundant):

1) Why can't I have all the options on the library screen for a given album when I'm viewing a specific album? Here's what I mean:

When I have a spread of all my albums, I can hit the 3 dots menu and get Play, Add to Queue, Go To Artist, etc. When I'm on the album screen itself viewing its track list, I have none of those options, only Shuffle, and then Artist and Edit Tags and sort order in that 3 dots menu. Why can't I just choose to play an album when viewing said album? Well, I can by playing the first track apparently, which is fine, but I use Add to Queue a lot (playing the first track overwrites my queue) and it feels weird to have to go back a step to do that, I guess is all I'm saying.

2) The "handle" to drag and drop change the order on the play queue behaves kinda oddly for me. Every other try or so, it scrolls instead of grabbing the song in the list and dragging it. I've noticed that I have the best luck when dragging upwards vs downwards. Android 7 on Moto Z Force.

Just a wish, I know it may well take a lot to implement: can we get a "Play Next" option for songs and albums?

Even bigger wish: Besides general stability issues, the one thing I would have loved from Google Play Music would be to extend that and have an option to Play Next Shuffle. Like, when you hit shuffle, it replaces your queue with that shuffled playlist/album/etc, but it'd be awesome if that shuffled list could be appended to the existing queue instead of overwriting it, and even better would be adding as Play Next instead of at the end of the queue. I may be weird but I have lots of moments where I have my queue of ~10 songs set up, and then I think "After this, I wanna play this set of songs in a shuffled order" but I either have to wait (which sucks when driving) or rebuild my current queue at the beginning of the shuffled queue by adding the existing songs over again manually and dragging them into place.

Thanks for the development, really! If I use this for a while and like it I'll buy the Pro version to support the development.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Seems it still stays:

I start the car, the app starts on its own and starts to play (which is great), then I turn off the car, and the music pauses, yet the notification seems to stay forever after that, unless I remove it.

I don't think it continues to play,though. The notification keeps showing as if it plays, with a pause button, and the time continues there, but there is no sound.

Could it be that it tries to continue playing on the car, even though it was disconnected?

Attached image to show issue (the song I played isn't that long...).

App tested on Nexus 5x with Android 7.1, BTW.
[Android Apps and Games] SePac:
Bugs for my phone

When I pause the song's playing, it sometimes plays the song automatically. And I can't search songs in Korean. T.T

please fix this...

I am using Redmi 4 Prime, 7.1.2 RR Rom.

Except these problems, I am really satisfied with thims music app.
[Android Apps and Games] Aqoa:
Can you please add "File name" view in Sort order, that uses the Music File name (not music name that is in music file) to sort them?

Also in this sorting order player display file name of songs.

Also there is a bug that start to happen after recent update: Sometimes when I press on Music (in app) to start playing, it just plays a instant small noise and skip to next song, and when I tap the song again it start playing the song properly.

And im not sure but it seems in one or two last updates, sound quality decreased a bit.
[Android Apps and Games] HeyMrRager:
I'm having problems on my Huawei P9. Whenever I'm playing music with the screen off, the app will force close and the music will stop with no history of what song I was on etc. This has started happening quite often as of late - around 2/3 times out of 10 this will occur.
[Android Apps and Games] hensonlf:
Excellent app! Even purchased the premium version!
[Android Apps and Games] spatula75:
1.5.1 stops every 5-10s

Just started noticing this problem tonight. Recent changes on my Pixel include both the app updating to 1.5.1 and the phone updating to Android 7.1.2.

The symptom is that playback begins and runs anywhere from 1-11 seconds and then stops. After resuming, it plays for another 1-11s and stops again.

I of course checked other music players and found they were not exhibiting the same behaviour.

Is there anything I can do to help gather more debugging information to be of better help?
[Android Apps and Games] coppertop24:
I absolutely love the look and feel of this player! Probably the most visually pleasing one Ive seen thus far! Unfortunately, until I convert half of my music collection to something other than WMA, I have to go back to Power Amp. :(
[Android Apps and Games] Bruder Tack:
How to clear the library?

Hi,

I really love the design and performance of Pulsar!

There is only one thing, I don't like. When I remove some Music from the phone, Artist and Album are still shown in the menu, also a number of songs, also if there are no songs of the Artist and Album left. Is it possible to clean the library? To rescan the library doesn't help, also if I remove Cache and Data of the app, they are still present.

Sorry, if I'm not the first one posting this question, I couldn't find it by searching the thread and it's already to long to read all.

I would be very happy, if anybody could help!

Thanks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It seems the notification does not update when music is paused. I will have a check.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you send the device log after app force close, to support@rhmsoft.com? Thanks!

If you do not know how to catch device log, please contact support@rhmsoft.com directly. I would like to fix this problem. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? I would like to fix it as soon as possible. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The multiple selection for songs has been added in latest release 1.5.2, please upgrade and have a try. Any problem, please leave comment here or send to support@rhmsoft.com, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] TheCodemastr:
I found a fix for those who has issues about artwork and tags not properly updated.

Go to Settings>Apps and click on the gear on the top of the screen and click Show system.

After that, search for Media Storage. Force Stop it then click Storage and click on both Clear Data and Clear Cache. Reboot the device afterwards.

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[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I think this occurs even without a car.
[Android Apps and Games] Mohamad.T:
https://androidina.net/48847/pulsar-music-player/

is pro version is true?
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
REMOVE THIS! Piracy is prohibited here!
[Android Apps and Games] robdean:
I have Pro. Much is good! I do wish though :

1. I wish I could click directly from the 'Now Playing/Album Art' screen to the EQ

2. I use folder browsing. I wish I could set a default folder to start in (on my SD card. Android 7)

Thank you ,

Rob
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
At any page, you can swipe from left to right to open navigation drawer, and access equalizer there.
[Android Apps and Games] manstein:
cue support

A very good and lightweight player, but the lack of cue support for flac files refrain me from using it (I use Stellio for that). I wish the develpper would add it soon to make the perfect audio player.
[Android Apps and Games] Rickyzx:
You app look nice. I love the interface of your app.

I couldn't found download feature in your app. I am a music lover and love to listen music. I use apps to download music. So, if you can add this feature it will be great. I have used few free music downloading apps which provide the option to download music too.
[Android Apps and Games] macymagiska:
Loving this music player so far. I just have one feature request.

I'd love to see a whitelist option. Instead of having to manually select every folder but my music folders. Everytime i flash a new rom I have to clean up my library and exclude folders for about 5 minutes. The ability to exclude whole albums would be handy too. I just want to get rid of the unknown artist thing.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There won't be download feature in this app, at least in near future. It is related to copyright issues.
[Android Apps and Games] whitesnakeftw:
Album artist not overriding artist

Hi, I'm a recent user of Pulsar. It's my player of choice for one simple reason: it displays the embedded cover art (if there is one) over the cover art of the album. It's weird, but the most known music players simply don't do this, so Pulsar became the only reasonable choice for me.

So I recently added some music to my phone and noticed that whenever an album has multiple artists, that album is "assigned" to the artist of the number 1 track, which would be a reasonable choice unless all of the album tracks also had their "album artist" field filled (which is my case).

To do a practical example, when I go to the ARTISTS tab and tap on Eminem, I don't see The Slim Shady LP and Relapse: Refill among his albums because the first tracks of those albums are credited to "Eminem feat. Jeff Bass" and "Eminem feat. Drake, Kanye West & Lil Wayne" respectively.

I believe in these cases the "album artist" field should override the "artist" field, so that all albums from one artist are shown on the artist page. This would also prevent having a bunch of unwanted "Eminem feat. *insert_name_here*" on the ARTISTS tab.

One more thing I noticed (I'm going to take Eminem as an example again) is that when I'm on the artist page and change the sort order to "Release date" all the tracks are correctly ordered by their release date, but the albums above seem to have a random order (not by release date, nor alphabetical).

Thanks for your kind attention.
[Android Apps and Games] jerethi:
Great app! Very elegant and functional.

Any plans to add media server or SMB support?
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
I hope not, there's plenty of bloated players out there already.
[Android Apps and Games] xelato:
Is there anyway to quickly scroll through larger playlists? Let's say there's a playlist with 300+ songs or something and you want to use the slider like under the "Songs" tab, is there anyway to do this?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Current no. I will consider this in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] Brainstatic:
I found a bug! If the embedded album artwork is more than 1000 KB (or maybe 1024 KB?) in size, the track will not display in the songs tab, folders tab, etc. If an album is comprised only of tracks that exceed this value, the album will appear as empty.

Other than that, I am loving this app! And that's saying a lot because I am very picky about my apps.
[Android Apps and Games] TheCodemastr:
Using dbPoweramp ID TAG editor plugin you can resize all your existing tags.

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Yes, I had some issues with big pics embedded in tags, but I had so many of these problems in other devices too so I found this solution.

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[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Found another bug:

I had 2 folders of music files:

"/storage/emulated/0/Music" and another within it.

I deleted the subfolder, and the app thinks it still exists. Choosing to refresh the library or even resetting the app doesn't get the new state. In fact it thinks the subfolder is the only folder that has songs in it.

Trying to play any of the songs listed doesn't work, of course, and this includes playing from all tabs and from widget.

Attached video to show issue.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This depends on how you delete the files. For a good implementation of file management app, when deleting the files, it should also notify Android system for this change to update the media store database.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Deleted using a file manager called "Total Commander".

Is there any workaround?
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Settings|Apps|3 dot menu|show system

Media Storage, delete data, reboot

There are also apps that will force a media rescan
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
No need to reboot (worked without it), but I now wonder: how will apps achieve this without root?

And, if it is possible without root, can Pulsar also have this option? Especially if it recognizes that files don't exist anymore?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Media storage is a series of database which stored your media files information. I suggest you manually clear the data following [MENTION=4487388]jcmm11[/MENTION] guide, then it can be rebuilt from scratch.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
Already wrote that it worked without rebooting, so clearing data is what i've done and it was fine.

What I wrote is that I wonder how apps do it on their own, and whether Pulsar can do it as well.
[Android Apps and Games] Lakvatus:
I've opened the player today and the covers are loading while I'm scrolling - thank you very much for updating the player!
[Android Apps and Games] birgami:
Thank you, its work fine now
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Cached files now will continue to load when scrolling. There might be some lagging in low performance devices, I will distinguish them in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] iceorfire95:
Hello,

Just wanted to report that the latest update has a small glitch. When I tap on the album cover part of the widget, it doesn't open the now playing window of the app anymore, like it used to. The screen just flickers and nothing happens.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please upgrade to latest release 1.5.3 or 1.5.4, this problem should be solved.
[Android Apps and Games] cRaWnEr:
Bug with BT Smartband

Hi [MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION]

I think latest version has a little bug with BT devices. I'm experiencing some random pauses with music playing. After testing some cases, I think it is considering that my BT smartband is a BT headset and every time I'm away from the phone while is playing music (and smartband unsyncs from phone), music autmatically stops. I can't tell if it a latest version app bug or an issue with Nougat, I recently updated my phone to 7.1.1.

For more information I'm using the smartband to sync notifications and as Smart lock trusted device. Could you please confirm if it's what I say?

Thanks for your work. I love this player.
[Android Apps and Games] Rayden21:
Hello, I have the latest update 1. 5.4 end the widget bug (tap on the screen and it is just flickering) is still there and it is a quite serious one. Please check it again!

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I have the 1.5.4 and this bug still exists.
[Android Apps and Games] spaziomilano:
Just buy your application and really happy, now please add more black theme, I use the Swift black substratum theme and I would like to match with all my configuration. Really good work thanks?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please upgrade to latest version 1.5.4, this problem should be solved. If not, please let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] nolifedie:
Same problem with widget here. And I am on 1.5.4
[Android Apps and Games] cRaWnEr:
I tested a little and seems to be solved. Thank you very much
[Android Apps and Games] ankushkushal:
Thanxxx bro. That's so kind of you that you actually acknowledged my request and added this feature in the latest update. A big ? [MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION]
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for the advice to this player:highfive:
[Android Apps and Games] Thesluce:
I love the look and feel of the player. Oh, it sounds great too!
[Android Apps and Games] mangeshsingh:
equaliser is not very effective
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
I've been using Pulsar for a couple of months now and I absolutely love it. There is however a downside... I have a few big playlists (generally 250+ songs and one of them even consists of just a little shy of 600 songs) and navigating these is an immense pain in the a$$. So, could you please add an easy way to navigate through playlists? Also, could you add a way to customize themes - for example being able to change the default theme colours? Or could you please add a few more nice dark themes and/or a stock Android inspired theme?

Thank you in advance and keep up the great work!
[Android Apps and Games] TechnoSparks:
Went to have a spin with the app. To my delight, the design is beautiful and the UX is very good.

However, ViPER4Android doesn't work with it, and I have tried everything I could. It seems the player doesn't want to use the system's equaliser.

Is this a feature or a bug?

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] iceorfire95:
I'm actually using v4a with Pulsar. If you're using the paid version, you might have to turn off the equaliser that comes with the app.
[Android Apps and Games] tedkunich:
What is the trick to get this app to shut up and not play whenever I connect to my Audi Bluetooth. The option is selected in settings, yet it still launches the program and plays music every time it connects. I've force closed the app, and the same behavior exists. Running on a stock Pixel XL.

Thanks, T.
[Android Apps and Games] x348tu@gmail.com:
тоже хочу
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem. I need more information about your car.
[Android Apps and Games] irmageddon:
Cover art and play lists have vanished

Since some hours now, my album covers are disappearing. I've around 10% of them left ATM. I've added them manually from inside iTunes, in case that makes a difference. The mini player bar of Pulsar (footer) still shows some of them, the main fields, however, lack their cover images (artists' images are intact).

I know I could turn on the network connection switch and download those. But I've bought Pulsar for it's privacy respecting approach, amongst other things. Plus some of the images aren't their generic cover images but my own graphics.

I already tried redrawing the screen by tilting the device 90°, changed the design theme, turned off and back on image display, restarted Pulsar and finally the phone. What can I do to fix this on my own, or, how could I help you diagnose?

EDIT: Just updated to 1.5.4 and remarked that all my playlists (term is translated back) are emptied, too.

[Android 6.0.1, Moto G4, Pulsar+ 1.5.3]

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] bisherbas:
Next song shuffle mode is persistent even after you switch to another album. There's no way to play songs in regular order if this option is enabled. I thought the purpose of this option to keep the shuffle mode when switching to next song manually after you explicitly start playing an album in shuffle mode.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please turn off "keep shuffle mode" in settings page.
[Android Apps and Games] Robustez:
Dear author, do you have plans to fix this bug? I am unable to listen my ALACs library with Pulsar and unfortunately I should use another player (Stellio) which completely compatible with ALACs in playlists.
[Android Apps and Games] akiismo:
Genre bug

Hello!I uploaded to phone new music with genre "for trying", something i deleted, other i retagged to other genre.But player still showing genre "for trying" and some tracks in this genre.Why?Now I'm not have tracks with this genre tag.I tried rescan, but it didn't help.
[Android Apps and Games] WakaP:
Hello, I've encountered an error that has been mentioned in the last page. Twice, have my playlists been erased from the device, and I can't tell what's the trigger for it (if updating or after turning off my phone). Aside from that I have the latest update and I've seen the widget bug and even though it's manageable it can be a bit annoying at times.

Either way, this is an awesome app, and I'm glad to find you take the time to reply to this things.
[Android Apps and Games] note crazy:
Hello might be off subject but does anyone know of a good music downloader app so i can search and download. ..everyone i try does not work ...pm me if you do please
[Android Apps and Games] ChrisWx3:
First, I'd like to say Pulsar is by far my fav. music player for android.

This said, I want to ask a this [probably silly] question:

How do I add lyrics to the songs? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
Hi there,

I really like Pulsar and would like to offer a few suggestions for new features:

1. When in main player view showing the artwork, swipe down to minimise the player (much faster/easier than having to press the "back" arrow)

2a. Show Play Queue in the Playlists section (along with recently played, most played etc)

And/or

2b. Show Play Queue as one of the optional Tab Items (with Artists, Albums, Songs etc)

3. When opening the search box but before typing, use the blank space below to show the recent search terms history.

4. "Play next" option for albums or multiple track selections, so far it is only an option for one track at a time

6. Remove songs from Play Queue by swiping them away

7. Disable auto-rotate/landscape mode

Thank you for the great app! I hope you find some of these suggestions helpful.