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[Android Apps and Games] virtualplanatoid:
Pulsar is an awesome app. I downloaded 15 popular different players and tested them for a day each, Pulsar was the best by far. Well worth the price.

I only have one issue currently with it, one of the latest updates has disabled .wma files from being recognised, although they still play. I can go to an artist and it tells me there is 15 tracks and 1 album, but when I click into it, there are no results.

If I browse directly to the files for that artist and open, then opens fine in Pulsar and plays perfectly, but does not add it to Pulsar for next time.

All of my .wma files behave the same now. Apologies if this has already been raised.
[Android Apps and Games] Depananiebal:
Feature request/Bug report (not sure):

I've been having a issue with Pulsar playing music after closing the YouTube app in the recent apps trey. Let me explain in steps:

Open Pulsar -> select a track -> open YT -> select a YT video (music will stop playing) -> exit YT (music not resuming) -> opening the recent app system trey -> close YT (Pulsar resumes to previously selected track). I find this quite annoying seeing as this also happens when headphones are removed. I've had my music blasting through my room all of the sudden because the Pulsar notification widget was still open and I had cleared all recent apps. Luckily it was just my room but if it was classroom it would've turned into a awkward situation.

I don't know if this is a bug or a feature so I was wondering if this can be disabled in the options. So if I start playing a YT video I myself first have to click play before any music starts playing again. If anything is unclear I'd happy to explain it again. Aside for this issue Pulsar is an amazing app, one of the best I've ever used.

EDIT:

Using Pulsar 1.4.7 from the Play Store.

Lineage OS LG G3 d855 official android 7.1.1
[Android Apps and Games] 10basetom:
This has probably been requested before, but basic radio streaming would be lovely ^^.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Feedback

There are some wrong sentences in the Hungarian translation
[Android Apps and Games] .iridescent.:
Good music player.

This is very beautiful and simple. I like it.

To add more features, which have never been in any other music player, I would like to take part in designing for this application.

Where can I contact you for the above reason?
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
I'd like to request something about this app.

Usually I use it to steam the music to the car I have, via Bluetooth.

But, when I disconnect from it (finished driving), it keeps staying, sometimes even continues playing.

Can you please add some way to prevent it? Maybe add an option to always stop playing when disconnected from Bluetooth, and have a short delay till being automatically closed if nothing is done after this happens?
[Android Apps and Games] rjm831:
Want to use your app, but my music files are on my sd card & Pulsar doesn't detect them - simply shows I've no music files at all. Using Gfive Logic X1 with 4.2.2 unrooted.

Any way to get around this? Have the same problem with all music players except Foobar.
[Android Apps and Games] Rosetti:
Sounds like a problem with file format. Maybe only foobar detects them because it supports a bunch of file formats.
[Android Apps and Games] rjm831:
Months ago I stupidly used OneTap to eliminate duplicate files, etc, & now even the stock music player won't detect sd card music files. I've done hard reset w/out sd card & then reinstalled it - still Pulsar doesn't detect my music. VLC (folder) & Foobar work, nothing else. Pulsar is the app I'd prefer if I could get around this. Don't think its a file format issue, though. Pulsar isn't seeing my sd card.

Any other suggestions? Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Rosetti:
Copy files to your PC, then format SD card and copy back but just the music files.

Or format SD card in your mobile phone then copy files back.

Nevertheless I would check file format to be sure.
[Android Apps and Games] RobertPirainoBR:
Is possible add a function to view the Back Cover picture has saved in the file tags? Or view the Composer (Compositor). Sorry for my bad english. :)
[Android Apps and Games] SassIncorporated:
I love this app so much. It's minimalistic and the interface is beautiful and easy to use. Been searching for a good music player app for so long and now I finally found one. Btw not all the artist and album artworks are the correct ones. What if the album artworks were found not only by the album title and corresponding artist's name but also the song title? Wouldn't it be more accurate? Oh and there are difficulties using the edit tags function in the artists tab and the album tab. Sometimes it won't save. For example: if you manually change the cover art of an album, it won't update from the old cover. but anyway great app! This is just my two cents. I think I'm finally going to get to stop searching for music player apps. Thanks :D
[Android Apps and Games] cheremenin:
The player itself is amazing, I've used HTC Sense Music for years and it hits really close to home in similarities. However I recently switched to a Chinese flagship, and I'm not seeing this player's notification in the status bar. Its widget is just not there, whether the player is in the foreground or background. Maybe it's due to something my ROM or phone-specific UI.

Also, gotta say this, this player looks GORGEOUS on an edgeless screen, especially the album covers

EDIT: Nevermind! My custom UI has a feature in which notifications from apps are disabled by default, fixed by enabling
[Android Apps and Games] Ramon2000:
Album cover issue

The last update seems to have caused an issue with the album covers for me, it dosen't show any of the local stored covers in the album view even though if i play the song it shows the cover normaly, also when i edit tags on the album and click on the blank cover it gives me the option to remove the cover.
[Android Apps and Games] flamingBurrito:
Any chance for android auto integration?
[Android Apps and Games] tds4u:
Is it possible to add an recursive playing option? Like in a car audio system?

So e.g. selecting an audio folder, all files including sub directories are played.
[Android Apps and Games] DoriroD:
Feedback

Thank you very much for creating this app and releasing it for free even! Excellent work, one of the best music apps for Android!

I have some suggestions for consideration:

How to switch shuffle on/off at the start when playing any collection (e.g. album)? More visible accessible shuffle button

Move three vertical dots away from scrollbar, easy to scroll when you're trying to select it

Ability to see information on files (e.g. bitrate)

Ability to remove from playlist all songs from same artist or from same album

Ability to favorite a song without playing it

re-arrange playlist by artist or album

Configurable action from shaking device (e.g. skip song)

Configurable action from waving hand on device (e.g. pause song)

Setting to not add song to playlist if it's already in there (alternatively remove duplicates option)

Add Most Skipped list (so you have potential cull list)

Make special lists (Favorites, Most played, etc) be actual playlists as there is no way to recover them after a crash

. Alternatively, autosave backups of them and offer to recover after a crash (when number of songs in playlists drops dramatically)

I've experienced stops of playing with Chromecast. Hitting play usually continues but sometimes have to disconnect and relaunch.
[Android Apps and Games] pcm2008:
For me, Pulsar shows wrong covers or the artist picture instead of the cover, even though the cover art is embedded in the FLAC's tags. This didn't happen with the previous version.

Manually setting every wrong or blank cover art and artist picture helps, but this is a PITA.

I'm also having sorting issues with the artist's albums.

When I set the sorting option to "Release date", it lists them as 2010-2015-2005-2011-2000-2003-2008, and that obviously isn't right.

I've checked the tags, all albums have the "Year" field filled correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] tds4u:
Today I met the bug which emptied my saved play list. Small list with ~10 songs - away.
[Android Apps and Games] skaluva:
i'm having issue with Asus Zenfone 5, using android version 5.0. In notification panel and lock screen, i'm not able use pause, next & prev buttons. Nothing is happening upon clicking these. Can anyone help?
[Android Apps and Games] araxhiel:
Hi! I've been using your app since early 2016 and it's simply awesome :D it has been my default player since day 1.

But, I've a doubt: There is a specification for the album art embed on the files (as metadata)? I ask this because I save that information on almost all my files, but somehow Pulsar only recognize some of them (right now ~25% are unrecognized) depending on how many songs I had on the device. And, also, it's kinda annoying that it doesn't download an album art on some of them (I guess that is because these aren't bands/artists highly mainstream and/or I tend to use the correct writing system for some of them — like Russian or Japanese).

So, there is a limitation regarding the format, or size (dimensions and/or file size of image), that could be causing such behavior?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.
[Android Apps and Games] TheCodemastr:
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The link with the printscreen I had to put spaces in between because I am only allowed after 10 posts... ugh..

I love the app, but lately I had a bug. The Album section with thunbnails and such only show one cover art for every album on my phone. When they are playing inside the "Now Playing" section, the cover art appears fine.
[Android Apps and Games] Thebear j koss:
Great app. Would love a default dark or black theme with blue accent instead of the gold or orange. Otherwise a perfect music app.
[Android Apps and Games] Lakvatus:
Hi, very nice player, I like the ability to create the playlist and then hide the folder with the files from view!

I have an issue with the albums view: album cover thumbnails are not remembered in the app, but rather load each time the app is opened. Given that they load only if the current view is static (i.e. thumbnails do not auto-load while scrolling, you have to stop scrolling for them to load), it is very hard to navigate albums by just looking at thumbnails, you have to either read the title or scroll a bit - stop - scroll a bit again - stop and so on.

Using the player on Galaxy S7. Any chance this can be fixed at some point?

Otherwise very nice app, thank you for the hard work! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Robustez:
Thanks a lot for the useful Player! IMHO it is the best in Google Play. I wrote according feedback in GPlay.

Please add one more feature - using default player notification layout. For example this feature has been added in last update of Podcast Addict. (as shown on the attached screenshot)

Thank you in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] ElderVl13:
Very good app! But I would love to change the design of the notification with the controls ... It looks bad, they should use the most current design for the latest versions of Android. (In the photo, comparison of the app with the design of Google Play Music)

Also as a suggestion they should leave static information and the cover that looks with chromecast. To one side for example.
[Android Apps and Games] ba1atu:
Is there a plan to add autoplay start when headphones get plugged in and next song button support? (these are the only reasons im still using the now ugly poweramp).
[Android Apps and Games] RealGalaxyLink:
Does this music player support viper4android?
[Android Apps and Games] stupidfellow1997:
yes,it does support v4a.
[Android Apps and Games] Oshuhso:
Pulsar often keeps playing when headphone is pulled what often leads to awkward situations with loudspeakers on full blast ... Is there a way of stopping playback when pulling the plug?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Swipe up gesture is support for playback bar now in latest 1.5.0 version.

Currently album image in now playing page has already occupy more than 50% space of the screen, I am not sure if blurring it again as background is necessary.

Album and artist name text in now playing page are small, there is no enough space for handling click action, user may click wrong label by mistake.

I will consider your suggestion in future releases, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Have you exclude the folder where store the wma files? Could you uninstall/reinstall Pulsar to see if the problem is solved or not?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
What is the difference between "exit YT" and "close YT"? I think this problem is caused by audio focus, the youtube app occupied the audio focus until you close it manually.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this translation problem. I will fixed soon. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sure. This is a problem that will be fixed in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I found the bug of album cover problem. I will fix it soon in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The new version of Pulsar 1.5.0 has been released with lots of enhancements:

✓ Added round icon for supported device such as Google Pixel.

✓ Supported new notification style on Android 7.0 and above.

✓ Action bar in main screen can now be hidden when scrolling.

✓ Added animation when changing between play and pause button.

✓ Swipe up gesture on playback bar can now lead to player page.

✓ Added a new icon for play queue to distinguish with playlist.

✓ Added Vietnamese translation.

✓ Minor bug fixes.

This version is targeting the latest Android SDK, and using the latest support library and new notification style. There might be new bugs in this release, please either leave your problem here or report to support@rhmsoft.com. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] xjjjay:
Excellent! I do still believe that finding a way to click to navigate artist/album name is an important feature. Otherwise, thank you for reading my suggestions and I will continue to use and recommend pulsar to others.
[Android Apps and Games] virtualplanatoid:
Hi, no folders are excluded. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled with no luck.

I have folders with a mix of MP3 and WMA files, the MP3 still show fine
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
WMA is Microsoft media format which may not be fully supported by Android.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats.html
[Android Apps and Games] gautierlepire:
Hello Rhmsoft

First, thank you for the last update, which is really cool (especially the new notification and the new gesture)

Here are two things I'd like to request :

When you sort albums by release date and then scroll with the scrollbar, the bubble displays letters instead of years.

Moreover, I'd like to sort them with the most recent on top.

Also, that may be more complicated, could you add new gestures? Like swipe down from Now Playing to go back to library, swipe up to go to Current Playlist.

Thank you in advance,

Gautier
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
[MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION], nice update! But I have a suggestion. The buttons and text in notifications stay red regardless of the theme applied. Can you make it follow the colors of the current theme? For example in my favorite theme Blacl Rock, make the text black amd the buttons blue?
[Android Apps and Games] Fyrecean:
Request for custom color schemes

I love this app, it's perfect in all ways but one. I want a specific color scheme, but it's not part of the presets.

My request is that users who have purchased the plus version would be able to set custom color schemes.
[Android Apps and Games] Robustez:
I sync Android (LineageOS 14.1) with Macbook iTunes via iSyncr. When I added ALAC files into iTunes library I noticed that Pulsar does not show ALAC tracks in playlist (which was synced together with ALACs). This playlist contains all tracks (AAC) that were added before and after ALACs but not ALACs.

But, these files were successfully synced onto Android and with file browser (Solid Explorer) I can open and play them via Pulsar.

For example, Rocket Player shows same playlist properly with all tracks including ALACs.
[Android Apps and Games] Xates:
Hello, can you add gestures swipe up and down to open/close the Now Playing screen (like in Shuttle)? Awesome app tho :)
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
"Action bar can now be hidden when scrolling"

Oh god why? :( First 9gag did that, now you. Is there any way to disable this? It's very annoying to scroll
[Android Apps and Games] Paresh18shah:
Sir is there any lyrics add or modify option..??
[Android Apps and Games] mvsalvino:
With the release of the BlackBerry PRIV and now KeyOne, many of us with hardware keyboard devices would appreciate a few keyboard specific features:

1. Type to search. Text input from main screen of app initiates search.

2. Not keyboard specific, but an old feature from BlackBerry OS - long pressing volume up/down key will change to next/previous track. No music player seems to have this feature on Android. Not sure if it's possible, but throwing it out there. Would be especially appreciated from the lock screen for use while driving or if device is in your pocket.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This can be done in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
Thanks man. I'm still hoping that you'll add full customizability of the colors.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This may because ALAC file tags are not be well recognized by Android system. I need to have a study on this.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This will leave more spaces for scrolling. Since the title bar only have application name and some menu items, which is not often used.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Lyrics which embedded in song file tags, can be supported. Online lyrics are not supported due to copyright issues.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I would not like to add so many settings and customization which may lead app complex. You can see that this app's settings are all necessary ones and the settings list is shorter compare to other players.

Each Pulsar theme contains 10+ different configurations, such as toolbar color, accent color, window color, primary text color, secondary text color, image background color, progress bar color, etc. That is why I just made some pre-built themes for user to easily choose. I can add more themes in future.
[Android Apps and Games] Robustez:
I've tested some players already:

- Rocket Player - properly;

- n7player - properly too;

- PowerAmp - properly;

- Builtin LineageOS Music - false.
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
I understand that but maybe make that optional? Or maybe make the bar to take less space, like in half?

Well, if not…maybe there is way to get back to an older version? :(
[Android Apps and Games] ajamils:
Just installed the app and really like it. Been using PlayerPro and Power Amp before and this app definitely looks/sounds just as good (if not better).

There are few suggestions that I would like to make

- Instead of having "exclude folder" option, change it to include folder that way we can just add one folder instead of having to exclude a bunch of folders that we don't want.

- Album art on the widget does not scale properly when enlarged (on S8+, see attached picture)

- When changing the album art / artist picture, have an option to select from multiple pictures from Google inside the app itself instead of going to Google. (See attachment from PlayerPro)

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Rosetti:
[MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION]

One big thing I want to mention:

I am tagging all my files with ARTIST and ALBUMARTIST which is most of the time the same.

But when I have a podcast with different artists I want that the ALBUMARTIST is ex. DHM Podcast but the ARTIST is the real artist. So far so good but when I click on the ALBUMARTIST it includes all the podcasts but they are shown with DHM Podcast instead of the artists names.

I think the problem is equal to compilation CDs isnt it? Can you fix that please or am I doing just something wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] Romagnolo1973:
Please revert back the X to close the player

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] dechcz:
Lyrics

Hi

It is great that your SW includes possibility of showing lyrics stored in the mp3 file itself!

Could you manage somehow add possibility to find lyrics also ONLINE? Not nescearilly in the UI....but perhaps based on artist and song name an google could open with phrase "lyrics...." and that is it!

...i know easy to say :)

Thanks for considering suggestion.

John
[Android Apps and Games] Depananiebal:
For convenience I made a 30 sec video illustrating the problem:

https://youtu.be/reRqXyxiW3Q

This problem also occurs when headphones are removed between YouTube interrupting the music playback and the killing of the YouTube app. Which can result in music blasting from the phone when killing all applications in the recent apps tab. Also note that in the video Pulsar 1.5.0 is being used.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for your feedback!

The widget album art problem, what is the correct behavior? Could you send me the album cover image (or music file which embed this cover image) to support@rhmsoft.com? I would like to have a test.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
On Android 7.0+, the notification can be closed by swiping from left to right, when the music is paused/stopped.
[Android Apps and Games] sepia66:
Anyone lost their playlists supposedly after adding more music?
[Android Apps and Games] ajamils:
The album art should scale when the widget is resized. Instead it enlarges from the center so the edges of the album art gets off.

See the attachment which shows how the album art looks like in player and in the widget.
[Android Apps and Games] xNS5:
Hi! I'm having an issue where I'm seeing "null" playlists on my playlist screen. Can't delete them. I tried digging around in the file system of my phone to find them and remove them, but I can't seem to find them anywhere.

On a ZTE axon 7 with Android 7.1.1. I'd attach a picture, but my XDA app isn't letting me for some reason. I'll see if I can upload one later when I get home.

Edit: I can't attach an image because I need to use my account more (smh), but here's an imgur link: http://imgur.com/DuzeZjn
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The notification has been changed to latest style in recent updates.

I do not understand your chromecast suggestion, could you introduce it more clear? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This has been done in version 1.5.1
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
1. the album is loaded each time if there is no album cover stored locally. then it will query from network to find the correct album cover. it only retrieve the correct image url, the image itself is already cached in device storage if the url is not changed. it query again in case the url is updated to newer cover images and old image is already invalid.

2. the album cover loading process is time and performance consuming. so currently I stop loading album cover when scrolling to reduce lagging and unnecessary resource consuming. it will resume loading when scrolling is about to stopped.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I did not see any problem on this widget. I will not resize the whole image to fit the widget size, suppose the album cover is a person image, then it will be squeezed and look ugly.
[Android Apps and Games] SH3L0B:
Can you please remove the X to close the controls while on the lock screen? I'm so tired of trying to change my song and accidentally closing the whole app.

Everything else is great!
[Android Apps and Games] tds4u:
Yes, here. And also sometimes when starting the app and e.g. the device where the music is located isn't ready.Tested with car audio system.

Maybe it's better to let the items there instead of removing them because there aren't accessible.