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[Android Apps and Games] drjoe1:
I got a new tablet for Christmas. I'm going to be moving my music library from the SD card on the old tablet to the prinary storage on the new tablet. I've spent hours assigning albumn art, and don't want to lose track (pun intended) of the images when I migrate to the new tablet, is there any configuration file or index I can backup or copy to the new tablet?

Thanks,

Joe
[Android Apps and Games] Shuffle algorithm sucks:
The rest of the app is good, but the when i shuffle all songs in my library I keep getting two songs from the same artist played in a row or only spaced out by one other artists song. It happens with artists I have a lot of music from and artist I have a single album from or fewer songs. Seems like the player needs a more complex shuffle algorithm.
[Android Apps and Games] jack allen:
Im having some issue on on S9+ pie every now and again it skips pasts song and dont play certain random songs i have clear cash sync playlists reboot phone and do this a few times for it to play all songs on my phone. It worked flawlessly on oreo but not on pie i dont know why, anyone have an idea why or a solution please? Because this is the only music player i use and i dont want to have to use another one as i really like this one.
[Android Apps and Games] Buckle76:
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[Android Apps and Games] Rogae:
Hey

I would like to see an option to select all artists/songs in your search results. When you search form exameple "hello" all songs with "hello" are listed in the result. You can push one of them a few seconds and than you can add the song to queue. But you can't select all search results. And that is really annoying when you search form example "David Guetta". Than i get 24 different artists.

David Guetta, David Guetta/Afrojack, David Guetta/Akon, David Guetta/Anne-Marie...

All artists are David Guetta featuring another artist, the search options lists all artists including David Guetta. But because there is no button to select all search results, i need to open the first artist, than you see just 1 song and that song you can add to queue. Than you need to open second artist, than you can see 1 song and that song you can add to queue as well... But that's so annoying. When I want to listen David Guetta, i don't want to select all songs by opening the collaborationing artists one by one. For playing all David Guetta songs i need to open 24 artists one by one and than add song to queue. As there was an option to select all artists / songs in your search result, you just push that button and than push add tot queue and all 24 songs of David Guetta starts playing. But now you need to open and select first one, than next one.... That takes a long time.

I'm sorry for my bad English. Hopefully you understand what i mean. I tried to explain as long enough to you let understand.
[Android Apps and Games] wheelbot:
How do I select Individual songs in Android auto playlist mode?
[Android Apps and Games] DavidX7:
minor bugs in 1.8.10

Nice player, thanx… I use this as only-one music player (goodbye vlc)... But I found bugs (smile)…

First, if I search something and then go to artist or album list (slide from left and select), this list is empty. I must click on find icon and then on back icon, after that list of all items appears.

Second is visible triviality bug. I have phone with notch (Asus Zenfone 5z) and player page starts drawing album cover in notch which is hidden (black) by setting, and album cover is now cutted from its top.

Keep good work for us. Thx. D.
[Android Apps and Games] ibrokemypie:
any chance you could add an album artist tab? often the artist contains extra info like featured artists, making the sorting useless, but album artist stays the same across each song.

also would be great to have a theme editor, or at least more oled themes

---------- Post added at 03:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:01 PM ----------

thought it was just me but apparently not, i also get weird ahuffling, often playing two songs of the same artist back to back to the point it was noticable. would like an option to have a proper random shuffle as this should be very unlikely with a small artist in a huge library, but it happens many times in the same listen

[edit]

seems i was mistaken about the first two points, there is an album artist mode and you can customise themes
[Android Apps and Games] sooperior:
I'm also having issues with the artist listing: Most of the artists are not listed even if the song is correctly found (and its gender, title, etc is on the player).

I have tryed with other players using the mediastore backend and they do list all artists, so it seems that some special character (I frequently use $, [ and ] ) breaks pulsar listing.

Hope it is fixed soon ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Bruno666:
This player is perfect i Just bought the pro version to support you. BUT i 'M looking for à feature that would be perfect it is the ability to encode à Nfc tag that will play an album.... Then it will be the ultimate payer !
[Android Apps and Games] Zebaahx:
I love Pulsar. Ever since finding it I've been using it and immediately bought the Pro Version to further support it. But there's two things that kinda bother me: first is the lack of a pitch changer, I know there's a tempo modifier but the lack of a pitch one is noticeable when it has been requested several times and other players have it. And second is the fact that in smartphones with a notch, the album art gets covered by it instead of hiding it when using the app as other apps do. Hope those two things gets solved in the future :D
[Android Apps and Games] Gubble Bum:
Hello, as of now, I have two problems with the app.

First the lockscreen widget has disappeared for me, and second, an alphabet instead of or together with the slider on the right side would be an innovative and handy feature that would make the work quicker when searching for artists.
[Android Apps and Games] cruel91:
Can you make the menu in Android Auto consistent with "change tab items" settings? I would love to have a simple menu in Android auto. Otherwise, it is perfect. Thank you for making this great music player
[Android Apps and Games] Dr. Claw:
Does this app support the Google Assistant fast forward and rewind commands? I keep trying for it in Android Auto and it doesn't work.

Also, in AA, this app tends to spin endlessly on longer lists (i.e. Artist)
[Android Apps and Games] DaveReast:
The app has no support for 19:9 aspect ratio displays with notch, because the covers for example are cut with the notch
[Android Apps and Games] 20degrees:
I wish this had a full lock screen like Poweramp. Also wish the heart/like was lower and easily accessible.
[Android Apps and Games] Yoshi_523:
To the Dev,

PLEASE CAN YOU ADD THIS FEATURE? NEED FAST FORWARD & REWIND FOR HARDWARE BUTTONS (MEDIA GAMEPADS & KEYBOARDS)

Currently Pulsar does not do anything when pressing "Fast Forward" and "Rewind" on a bluetooth media gamepad or keyboard. The same hardware buttons for fast forward and rewind work fine on other media players such as MX Player. Pulsar works with hardware media buttons "Play / Pause", "Next Track", "Previous Track", "Volume Up" & "Volume Down". Just need to implement fast forward & rewind. If you do add this feature, please can you make it so that if the track is playing then fast forward and rewind will go at slow speed and if you pause the track and press fast forward or rewind it will go at high speed?

I checked the default Android keyboard mapping and the command for fast forward is : MEDIA_FAST_FORWARD

The keyboard mapping command for rewind is: MEDIA_REWIND

You can find this in the default Android keyboard mapping file under: system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl

Just open it in a text editor.

You will see:

key 168 MEDIA_REWIND

key 208 MEDIA_FAST_FORWARD

I have used the app KeyNumberTracker and when I press the fast forward button on my bluetooth media gamepad, it does in fact show up as key 208 and rewind button is showing up as the correct key 168.
[Android Apps and Games] Mumpay:
I have pulsar+, it used to work great on my oneplus one, on my new oneplus 6 i transferred all my songs to the music folder but it can't find them. Keeps saying no folders found when i rescan. There's no .nomedia files anywhere, no exclude folders in settings. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, restarted, cleared cache and storage in the app manager. I can open an mp3 from the music folder in pulsar and it'll play it no problem, and keep that single song in it's various tabs, but it refuses to see them all.

Anyone have this issue? Any solutions?
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
That's really odd because on my OnePlus 6 it works without a single problem. Are you sure you gave Pulsar the correct permissions (storage!)? You can change these settings after long pressing the Pulsar icon, tapping "Info" -> "Permissions" and enabling "Storage".
[Android Apps and Games] Mumpay:
Just checked, yup storage is checked on (unchecked and rechecked just in case too). Microphone is off, those are the only 2 options.

Willing to entertain all ideas, keep em coming! I really miss this app!
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Try deleting data and cache for Media Storage (settings|apps|show system apps) then rebooting.
[Android Apps and Games] Mumpay:
That did it!! cache and storage cleared, restart, open pulsar+and rescanned, all my folders finally came up, all music showing up!! Thank you so so much!!
[Android Apps and Games] 20degrees:
I tried this app. A few things - the like button I feel should be at the bottom. It's easier to access at the bottom. The other - lock screen music player. I wish this had a dedicated screen like Poweramp.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Please,

Can you use a cache to cache the artists photos?
[Android Apps and Games] AlexECX:
When asking Google assistant to play a song using pulsar, play song with pulsar, it prompts me to install the free version of pulsar. If I correct the command by typing play song with pulsar+ it will work, but it's not very practical. I tried play song with pulsar plus and play song with pulsar pro but no luck.

Using a Xiaomi mia1 on Android 9, January 5 2019 patch.
[Android Apps and Games] zo10000:
Hi. Could you add a "play next" option in the play queue menu? Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] DarrenNewsgroup:
I am trying to find a music player that meets all my needs and this is so close, it is just missing the following...

When I press the button on my wired headset the track will pause/play.

I would like to be able to assign different events to multiple headset button presses, namely

1 = pause/play

2 = fast forward 60 seconds

3 = rewind 15 seconds

4 = next track

5 = next folder

I have tried to use the app Headset Button Controller but the fast forward and rewind don't work at all (let alone skipping by different lengths of time).

Could this feature be added?

I realise that you can long press the next/previous track buttons on screen to fast forward/rewind but I need to use headset buttons.

Thanks

Darren
[Android Apps and Games] Huskyrescue:
Hi All,

I've tried many apps for playing music on my phone. I was using DAP's since circa 2000, but I cannot find anymore simple devices with hardware control buttons, good battery life, seamless user interface and honest audio quality ( I cannot consider myself as an audiophile... ). And Pulsar has become my "perfect" player recently; clean interface, quick and responsive, not too battery hungry... One can easily switch between folder navigation and a nice and sleek "play now" screen. It can handle the buttons of my wired phones, as well as those from my Bluetooth over-ear headphones. This is sufficient for "tactile" control to me...

Not to mention the icing on the cake; support of the Chromecast Audio I just bought for my home Hi-Fi that works like a charm with it !

I'm going buy the pro version, not for the extra features I don't need, but just to support and highlight the good work !

I just have two "basic" feature requests. First, it would be great that when you switch from play now to folder view, the actual track is highlighted and centered on the screen. Quite often I have to scroll down to go back to the right position... Same for the actual folder including this track and so on... Then it would also be great if there was the option to start playing the last track/last position straight away when you open the app, a kind of real "resume" function.

But as I said before event "as is", it is already a very nice app !
[Android Apps and Games] Jolt151:
Hey, just wanna say this has been my favorite music app for the last few years and the one I recommend to people when they ask which one they did use. Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] mesery:
The most comprehensive music player.. Just one thing one litlle thing and this will be perfect

When a track or.a playlist ends the app totally stops and its gone from the system tray after 1 min. And if i press play on my home screen widget it hangs i used to press play after the end and the song plays again or the playlist plays from first track on any music player.. Also the player in the tray should stay there even i stopped the music untill i remove it myself.. Fix these things pls cuz this app can be perfect
[Android Apps and Games] screamingoutlet:
Any plans to allow users to disable time-stretching audio (i.e. disable pitch correction when playback speed is adjusted)?
[Android Apps and Games] arturiu:
+1

All downloaded Artist media should be cached for a reasonable period of time. It doesn't change that often.

Anyway, the best player out there. That's why I payed for the Pro version.
[Android Apps and Games] faben70:
Multiple entries in Playlists

Hi, I just discovered the app and love it. Here's a small issue that I find with my use:

I make playlists with multiple repeats of the same songs; when I want to remove an entry from a playlist, if it's a song that appears multiple times in the playlist then *all* the occurences of the song are removed.

Since there is a "remove duplicates" function, removing only a single entry would make more sense to me...

While we are at it, I'd find it very useful if an ordinal number is shown, prepending each playlist entry.

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 02:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:57 PM ----------

My bad. I tried again and that's not happening: only the entry I selected is removed from the Playlist, any other occurences are not removed. Sorry for bothering! Anyway, the suggestion for prepending ordinal numbers to the entries in a Playlist still sounds good ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Leeuwenj:
Hi , since I updated my phone to the latest Android version ( version 9 on a Nokia TA 1012) the player fade-out/fade-in function acts weird. There are long silences between songs and replay of the next track starts somewhere at a random point in the track. Is this something I can fix?
[Android Apps and Games] Fernando12PR:
Changing colors with album art

I would be nice if the theme colors change with the colors of the albums, like other music players. Apart of this, it's the best music player of the Store in terms of interface and the just options of configurations. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] snoozer854:
Just started using Pulsar the free version and all I can say is Wow!

Have always just installed PowerAmp for years & I got me a Chromebook & was looking for a tag editor & came across your app. Kills 2 birds with one stone.

Am I correct in understanding that the Pro version will allow me to add cover art when editing tags?

If so you got a customer & supporter for life.

Thanks

Mark
[Android Apps and Games] razelfragel:
I copied the folder "albumthumbs" from my old phone's root storage to my new phone but the artist photos still aren't showing in my Pulsar library. How do I get Pulsar on my new phone to recognize these files?

I know this might seem like a minor issue but I really need your help. Having custom artist photos is the main reason I chose Pulsar over all the other music players and it took me a VERY long time to download an image for each artist in my library.
[Android Apps and Games] Jokkker.:
Some problems with tagging. Can't tag ReTo artist because it saves as Reto with no big T. Annoying thing :d
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Have you enabled storage permission for this app? Will your other player such as Google Music can see these music files?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sorry the artist cover paths won't be migrated to your new device. I suggest to rename all files under albumthumbs using png extension, and then you can view all of them from gallery app which is much easier for you to reassign images to artist, no need to download again.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Free version also support add cover art when editing tags. Currently you can assign cover art when editing tags for album or artist.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think there is some problem when tuning the volume while crossfading. Currently I can not reproduce this problem on my testing android 9.0 devices, but I will pay attention to this problem. I suggest you to disable crossfade in current release if it does not work temporarily.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this feature. I hope you can send me a sample music audio file.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There is a 50M cache, it is not a time specified cache, but a size specified cache.
[Android Apps and Games] logicaldays:
This is the music player I was looking for! No ads, very intuitive and really nice UI. What else could we ask for?

Great job! :)
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently double click play button will go to next song, triple click play button will go to previous song.

This behavior is not customizable.
[Android Apps and Games] DarrenNewsgroup:
I know, that's my problem. Will it ever be customizable, that's my real question.

Darren
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean that you want to use pitch changer to replace speed changer in some scenarios? Which scenarios? Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I can reproduce the 1st problem and it will be fixed in next release.

I hope you can attach a screenshot for the 2nd problem.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] -moos-:
Of course I have enabled permission for this apps.

And yes had to use back Poweramp since Pulsar doesn't work anymore for me.

My sd collection is recognised by Poweramp and by Musicolet.
[Android Apps and Games] snoozer854:
Just discovered that. Awesome.

Going to upgrade to Pro.

This app works great on Chromebook, sees external drives, reads a large library very quickly.

Once again Thanks, if any more questions I will be sure to ask.
[Android Apps and Games] DavidX7:
screenshot of notch display problem

Here you are... (I have not 10 posts so I cannot attach a screenshot or insert a link, please copy next url and delete added spaces. This is a link to my OneDrive directory with screenshots you wanted.)

https : // 1drv.ms / f / s!Av-PfdQ3yNLgrewSLp3M34ZLFEZNOQ

First shot is with Notch Hide ON (whole notch is filled with black), second is with OFF.

I hope this will be helpfull to show where is the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] j13smiley:
Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] arturiu:
Thanks for pinging back.

Humm, then this 50m cache doesn't work that well for a "big" music library: ~220 different artists.

It tries to refresh content as I scroll down in the Artists list. Every time...

Do you cache it as file storage, or do you keep it as volatile memory/ram ?

In your estimation, how many Artists should fit in the 50m cache ?

If it was a file cache, it could grow over 50m for bigger libraries.

But maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture...

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] Zebaahx:
Nope, both options should be available at the same time (take for example the Backtrackit player app. it has a tempo/speed changer to make a Song faster/slower and a key/pitch changer to change a song's note/tone to make it sound higher or lower [not on volume but on pitch like a deep voice or a chipmunk style]) and it's not a problem but a feature request
[Android Apps and Games] Leeuwenj:
Thanks for update!

Just installed the update and crossfade is working fine again! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] JavierAlonso:
REQUEST: Image Display

I would love the song image to be displayed in the "Songs" main list.
[Android Apps and Games] KyleK87:
Playlist Issues

Ok so I have been using Pulsar for YEARS. love it. no complaints. however yesterday i upgraded from the s7 edge to the note 9 and my personal playlist was gone :confused: every m3u file was showing up as a playlist. I sat there for hours last night making a new one. got up to about 450 songs before I went to bed and there was an update which was set to install overnight. Now not only is my personal playlist gone but every other playlist which are m3u files are all saying 0 files under playlists. I have no idea what could be causing this. I even tried opening an m3u file using pulsar as the program in astro file manager and nothing. All the music and playlists are still there this is just a very odd and VERY frustrating problem. I don't want to have to switch music players and I would like to know where my playlist went when my phone updated to android 9. Any help on this would be appreciated!
[Android Apps and Games] Thebear j koss:
Did you wipe your device when updating, if so, bye bye music. Music apps don't store or save things, the actual music files need to be on the device. If the music is stored on an external SD card, may be a permissions issue of reading storage or the SD card is not formatted correctly.

Sent from my PH-1 using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Android Apps and Games] KyleK87:
No all of my music was physically transferred over with my sd card. All the music is still there. I just don't want to have to spend another 5 hours making a playlist. I created a new one though and it works I just wanna get the one I just made back. Also like I said all m3u files pulsar is not reading. It has access to the sd card of course that's where the music is
[Android Apps and Games] bbbrk:
Great player

Pulsar is one of the bests player I have tried, and I have tried a lot of them

There is ONE feature that is really missing in my opinion :

I would love to see the track illustrations on the left side when scrolling through tracks or through my current playlist.

It's a lot easier to identify tracks when there are a lot of them.

Is this feature in your roadmap?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] faben70:
Opus files

Opus files

are

played by Pulsar. They just don't show up in the Folders view, but if I send a .opus file to Pulsar via the files manager, it plays. Editing tags for opus files causes a Java exception, gracefully handled by a pop-up window. (are tags supported in Opus files BTW?)
[Android Apps and Games] faben70:
Shuffle & Repeat

Hi, here's another suggestion:

The Shuffle and Repeat functions should both have an icon in Playlist view IMO. There is the big green round "crossed arrows" button that enables shuffle but it's not an indicator of whether Shuffle is enabled or not, and you cannot turn it off from there. Ditto for Repeat.

It's awesome, so make it perfect! :)

Regards

Fabrizio

---------- Post added at 03:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:58 PM ----------

Also, the global "Keep shuffle mode" option should be extended to repeat: when disabled, tapping a song should exit from shuffle and also from repeat... It could also be renamed as "Keep shuffle and repeat mode", or it could even be negated and read something like "Restore play order when switching songs". What do you think about it? :)
[Android Apps and Games] execb5:
Hello, I've been using pulsar player for almost 5 years now (I think) and I love it. I usually don't use the tag editor but I find it really helpful when I need it. I've always had some songs in flac format and the player could edit the tags perfectly in them, but recently I've noticed that I can't anymore. It throws an illegal state exception. I don't know if this is the correct place to report that. I'm using pulsar+ on a motor g 6 play with Android 9.