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[Android Apps and Games] rjgrayson:
First off, thank you so much for creating Pulsar Music player, it's the best music player I've found to fit my needs! But I do have just one request:

When the "Albums" tab is sorted by artist, I think it would be helpful for the alphabetical indicator on the scroll bar to reflect the first letter of the artist's name. As it is now, it still shows the first letter of the album. So as you scroll down, it's jumping all over the alphabet, which makes things a bit confusing when trying to quickly navigate to a particular album. If that were changed, it would be perfect. Thank you again.
[Android Apps and Games] stavros:
There's a small issue with the home screen widget: The buttons are small. Since the intent of the user when pressing a button is to press a button, there should be no empty horizontal space between buttons. The player should only be launched when pressing the album art or the title. Every other space on the widget should be taken up by buttons, so they are easier to press.
[Android Apps and Games] giratus:
The same for me, I also have hundreds of artists' images and everytime I reset the phone I have to manually add them again. Player like PlayerPro has backup data so I hope Pulsar will have this in the future

For playlist, you can make .pla or .m3u playlist on computer and then add them to Pulsar
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
In the next release I would like to focus on how to improve the album image recognition. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Romagnolo1973:
your EQ is simple and good but there is only one user eq setting editable, can you add a way to edit the user name and save it so if we use 2 or more earphone we can choose for ex sony, philips ... on the go without remember the good eq setting for every pair of earphones? thanks
[Android Apps and Games] NotDeveloperGuy:
Dumb question

Is it still possible to see embedded lyrics?. I can't seem to figure it out.
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
Hello guys! Thanks for Pulsar, enjoying it (I bought Pulsar+). I have a suggestion (or maybe I just didn't find the right setting?): is it possible to make in the ARTIST tab to be seen 10 artists on one screen, instead of 5? I mean to remove the "head-pictures" to the left from every artist. I don't have these and I don't need these. So I'd like to see such option to make a list more compact without these pictures. I have loads of music and it takes forever to scroll.

Thank you :)
[Android Apps and Games] ipred:
I made in Photoshop an example of what i am suggesting to the developer concerning the font and the path row. In the photoshop example i removed the path line and i made the font bigger and lighter ( Roboto light font ) :
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If there is embedded lyrics in your song, you can click/double click the album cover to show it in now playing page.
[Android Apps and Games] goldenguy43:
What does the pro version feature?
[Android Apps and Games] andsi:
Hey! First of all, great work on the app.

I would like to know what are your thoughts on upgrading the folder view: I use a lot folders when deciding either or not adding some songs to my collection, so not mixing some artist on the same page is important, the folder view and the artist view could be joined, so that if certain folder selected all artist cards of that folder would be displayed as in artist view.

Also, my feedback on tag editor, It's not a common feature, so a plus one on that, even though I usually prefer to have all tag options available when editing a single mp3 file, on the app, we can only edit the album art in the album view. Also missing Lyrics tag.

Now a question about this last paragraph issue, when we add an artist picture, it is actually being saved to all mp3 tags or is just saved in the app database and will not be displayed ever without the app?

That's all, thanks for reading.

Regards,

Andre S.
[Android Apps and Games] tylerdurden83:
Does it have a tablet optimized ui that isnt' just a wider phone one?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Equalizer, more themes, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There is no tablet version. Currently version will resize UI elements to fit tablet screen size and layout but it is not designed on tablet.
[Android Apps and Games] priyank_gala:
Hi !Thanks for making a great app!! Could we include Bookmark functionality which will enable the song to be played from where it was last paused?Will be useful for lengthy tracks.

Also if we could include sorting of songs at folder level based on play count, it will be wonderful!
[Android Apps and Games] littlebro:
The Pulsar is overall good but lacks embedded cue support, a deal breaker for me. I saw a post in this thread requesting the feature a year ago and don't see it happening yet, wondering if it would ever get implemented.
[Android Apps and Games] andsi:
I already asked, but now I found this I decided to quote and ask again. So all artist pictures and album art download or tagged within the app stay in the app (in some database or something alike) or is it really saved to the mp3 ID3 artist and album tag?
[Android Apps and Games] pyro224:
When I'm using pulsar with my car via Bluetooth, disconnect, and then reconnect next time - pulsar starts playing music starting from the beginning of the Playlist / queue instead of where it left off. Any idea why?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Album art are saved into Android media store database. Artist art are saved in the app. The artworks won't be saved into mp3 file as tag.
[Android Apps and Games] smaberg:
I'm on pro, running on my S7 edge, but songs won't play at all even when switching songs. But if I tap the timeline a few seconds in it starts, but then when I manually change tracks it stops again.
[Android Apps and Games] Colday96:
Does anions else get a bit of lag when changing tabs ?

Is there a fix for it ?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? This may related to the file format but I need more information. I have an S7 testing device which can reproduce this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
How many songs do you have? Which device are you using?

All long term operations should be executed in background thread, but if there are too many songs (10000+) or the device is too old, there may be some lagging.
[Android Apps and Games] Colday96:
I have the app on my s7 (exynos) running the aosp extended rom. I have around 900 songs
[Android Apps and Games] vicpierce:
transient playlists

I have Pulsar music player 1.4.5 on a Verizon Ellipsis 8 with Android 5.1.1.

The content of playlists I created disappear whenever restarting the Ellipsis.

The songs still show in the songs window but the created playlists no longer contain songs after restart.

I have reproduced this behavior many times.

Can you fix this please?

Is there a way to back up and restore my songs and playlists?

A volume slider appears when the volume button on the side of the tablet is pressed. It would be convenient if the volume slider is persistent in the song window to be used to adjust volume while the song is playing.

It would be very useful if a user manual was available for Pulsar. Perhaps a FAQ page on your website could be a start, populated with solutions revealed in this forum - e.g.

How do I arrange the order of songs in my playlist?

Answer: To move a song in the playlist, press and hold the cross button in the song, and drag to a new position in the playlist.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] vicpierce:
Restoring Playlists

I have found a way to backup and restore playlists. Pulsar saves it's playlists to Android System playlists. I use "Playlist Backup" (free from google play) to back up my playlist from Android system playlists to my sd card. When I restart my ellipsis, my playlist is empty but "Playlist Backup" will restore it to Android system playlists.
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
Still hoping you make a compact list view for artist tab. To be precise, it would be much better to see 8 lines in Artist tab (like songs) instead of 5.

I currently have around 4000 songs and my 128Gb card is not even half-full. I plan to upload more and it takes a bit long to scroll through the artists.

I made a post before: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71693683&postcount=746

I came with another suggestion though. 'Play next' feature. It's surely a lovely one, but it should be applied not to songs only, but for example artists and albums. How I imagine it would work: I'm shuffling various music, then go to another artist, press "play next" and then app erases the current playlist, and after the current song is finished playing, app shuffles and plays the artist I selected. Same for albums, of course.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If you use grid view mode, then you may have 9 artists in single page. I think maybe you do not like the artist image feature. I will consider to support more view modes if they are common requirements. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
What kind of lagging do you have? If you are using Galaxy S7, then the performance should not be any problem. Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for further investigation. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There are many users who reported this feature. I think this is not related to Pulsar but it might be a system problem. Since Pulsar is just saving to/loading from playlists in Android system database.

If you search this problem in Google, there are many complains on this problem, but I do not know the exact reason why this happens. Sorry.

https://www.google.com/?q=android+playlist+disappeared+after+reboot

I would like to make an app which is user friendly and do not need user manual. But FAQ is a good idea. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for your solution, this works!
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
Thank you, I hope you will! I don't like the grid mode, and yes, images are useless to me because I don't have any. So all I can see are 'heads' all the way through the artists. 8 lines without images could be as an optional mode too, along with 'line' and 'grid' :)
[Android Apps and Games] j-a-n:
Plusar & OK Google

can you give more information? when im saying "play michael jackson" always google play music is started.
[Android Apps and Games] shaz_dut:
Reduce the price

Please give a discount, it's too costly, price below a dollar, RS. 30-60 would be fine.:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think you need to reset the default music player, you can temporarily disable google play music and use Pulsar as default, and then enable google play music if you need in future.

Here is a thread on how to change default voice command apps, which may help:

https://androidforums.com/threads/how-do-i-change-the-default-voice-command-app.868769/
[Android Apps and Games] Rii123:
1.Would be great to be able to set this to just scan one folder and ignore* all others.

I just spent half an hour removing ring tones and audio recordings.

2.Also not much help when it doesn't find artwork even after checking tags. This could be improved.

3. Also a setting similar to my first point, when the player takes the order from said music folder.

I have an artist who is a dj, and, the album is listed as about 16 different albums with one song in each.
[Android Apps and Games] goodsignal:
Pulsar really really needs an option to INCLUDE a specific folder. It refuses to recognize the folder with all my music, which sucks!
[Android Apps and Games] digitalfree:
Player pro doesn't work anymore on LG g4 Android 6.

Java.lang illigalStateException: Songs can not be played.

Hopefully you can fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean that before update the Player can play the songs you mentioned? This error happens if the song format can not be well supported. Are you playing mp3 files or other file formats?
[Android Apps and Games] vicpierce:
Here is how to avoid the restore step:

I save my playlists in m3u format to a folder on my sd card. Playlist Backup allows setting preferred backup format.

When Android restarts it scans storage, finds the m3u files and installs the playlists. So once the playlists are backed up, Playlist Backup is only used when a new playlist is created or an existing one is modified.

Vicpierce
[Android Apps and Games] digitalfree:
Sorry, I accidentally deleted my mp3 files and didn't notice that.

But now I discovered some other issues: after adding mp3 files back to SD card not all covers are shown in the album tab. (covers are shown in "play mode")

If I switch off download images, no covers are shown (even the ones that were shown nefore)

I am not sure if this caused the issue but I changed the design while the player was updating the images.

LG G4, Android 6

Thanks a lot for answering!
[Android Apps and Games] priyank_gala:
Since the last update, it seems we have lost the hierarchial folder functionality.Also some issue has arisen,w.r.t the track being played and the song title being displayed.

Could we check these please?

Also if we could include sort ability at folder level based on play count of songs and ability to bookmark long tracks.......!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] BraianV:
Very nice, smart and clean app. Still i prefer musixmatch because of its lyrics inbuilt and chromecast support.

Keep inpproving your app man!

Congratulations
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Not supported yet. I need to buy a smart watch first...

Please install Pulsar and have a try. It has native support for sending play status using bluetooth, etc. Since Pebble is not running Android wear, I suppose.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I am displaying the album cover from Android media store, it should scan your music file and find out the embedded album art. Maybe it is not work as expected. I tried my mp3 files and they work well with built-in album arts. Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com to address this problem further? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Carlos Arriaga:
Thanks bro
[Android Apps and Games] kamikaze702k:
Please add option to remove album artwork covers. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] VictorVBrown:
Earphone controls

I've been searching for music players for a long time and I can say that is THE best player available in the playstore even though it is paid. I thought it would be great if you developers could add a "double click = next" or something for go to previous in the earphoe controls. That would save the time of unlocking the phone.

And sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker.
[Android Apps and Games] dirty.redz:
Great app, but would like to see the ability to exclude folders from scan
[Android Apps and Games] franlimon6:
Great app, but you can add waveform progress bar please?

Enviado desde mi XT1068 mediante Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Xetro84:
Awesome app! I really like it. It's lightweight, nice style, simple. Didn't see any bugs yet (in use since 2 days).

Thank you for your work. Ill add some requests in the request section.

Greetz Xetro
[Android Apps and Games] DaveX2012:
Possible to add duplicate song detect feature?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Hello, do you mean you do not want to see any album artwork in Pulsar, or you want to edit the music file to remove/change album artwork?
[Android Apps and Games] kamikaze702k:
I don't want to see any artwork at all. No images of music albums artists artwork. Just music. Simple and sleek
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This will be supported in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Got it. I will think about it in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for your request.

You said when you resize the 4*1 widget, the widget become unreadable.

Firstly, current widget is unresizable, how can you resize it? Which launcher or android ROM are you using?

Secondly, which size widget do you want? 4*2?
[Android Apps and Games] kamikaze702k:
Thanks. Please do, just add an option for people like me who prefer not to see embedded artwork on albums, example, just to have an option saying "don't show any artwork images"
[Android Apps and Games] DaveX2012:
No just the songs itself. Let's say I've (abc) song and next time If i added exact same song as before (abc) it's will tell me that the songs is already added.

---------- Post added at 10:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:27 AM ----------

I really need albums and artwork.
[Android Apps and Games] Xetro84:
i am using nova launcher. got used to it so much that sometimes i forget, not all features are standard everywhere :)

a 4*2 widget would be awesome. thank you for taking it in consideration!

greetings

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[Android Apps and Games] Sttwka:
Can you please add compatibility to opus format?
[Android Apps and Games] Joel Chan:
A beautiful music app! Would be great if album artwork could be replaced or removed.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The hierarchy folder mode has not been changed. Please go to Folder fragment, and change view mode to have a try.

If it not work, please send mail to support@rhmsoft.com, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] ubisergei:
Can you hide category tabs completely when only one tab is enabled (e.g. Folders)? Feels like a waste of space.

And there is another tiny nitpick. When the category list is empty, instead of lengthy messages, why not simply say 'EMPTY'? Currently it shows stuff like 'No folders detected, copy some songs to your device' or 'No playing history, play some music first'.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
1. You can configure which tabs you want to show in settings page, change tab menu item. You need one tab at least.

2. The message is for new users who do not know what happened.
[Android Apps and Games] Rosetti:
Today I have big issues with fast forwarding or skipping in a MP3.

I am swiping to 1:23mins for example but then it jumps to 1:05. And also when I hold fast forward then it jumps back in 20mins steps.

Closing App didnt help.

Can you fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] lustforlife:
Suggestions!!

Hi! I've been using your pulsar music player for quite a year and I love the app. It is the best music player I can find in Google play store. I have found some bugs and I think of some suggestions for your app. So here's what I suggest,

1. When playing songs in shuffle mode, after swapping orders of tracks in play queue, the album covers of songs will also be swapped, resulting wrong album cover. (Although this could be solved be restarting the app)

2 There should be an option to edit the tags of songs in search result

3. I think it's quite useless to have a play button next to every song in an album, because it's quite obvious that touching the track = playing that song. Everybody knows that. I suggest deleting play button for more spaces for song titles or replace the play button with the track number of the track.

Quite Useless play buttons next to every tracks

5. I suggest a function to save users settings (e.g. user-set artist pic, tab orders, theme select by the users) in SD card ( or by Facebook or Google apps?) <--is this possible?? This is useful when user change their phone but want a familiar experience for the Pulsar app

6. I suggest adding a function for users to create their personal theme for the app, specifically what colour they want for the tabs, colour for the volume slider

9. In album page, there's actually quite lots of space to accommodate a long album title, but seems the word limit is too less, so I suggest the developers increase the word limits

Why not adding 2 more lines for album titles when there's so much space??

10. Same as above in album list page.

Why not adding one more line for album titles or put "number of songs next to artist (e.g. "Banks · 1 song") to accommodate long album titles?

11. Does the artist picture update by itself automatically? If not, I suggest adding a function called "Update artist pic overtime?" in settings, users can choose the update frequency (update once a month / once every three months, etc.) and add a function called 'ask when there is new artist pic" (because some of the artist pic is either outdated or ugly)

12. Please add a function to crop when users try to choose a gallery pic for the artist pic

13. Please add support for Explicit/Clean tags in songs. I only saw this function in Spotify, Tidal and music player in iOS. It's quite rare in music players in Android. I really hope Pulsar can be the pioneer to get this function. Usually explicit songs got an id3 tag/metadata of "itunesadvisory" with value 1, clean songs got value 2, regular songs got value 0.

14. I suggest popping up a window showing What's New in the latest version only when users open the app 1st time after updating the app.

15. I think after adding a to a song, the heart logo should appear next to the song in album/song list to indicated this song was added to the favourites

16. How to select few songs at once for deletion??

Thank you so much for the hard work!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
1:23mins, do you mean 1 hour 23 minutes or 1 minute 23 seconds?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for your detailed suggestions! It is very helpful and I will consider them in future releases.

One comment for artist image, it is downloaded automatically.
[Android Apps and Games] Rosetti:
1 hour 23 mins
[Android Apps and Games] mbcheung:
Since last update it has lost my entire library. Had been working fine before this. Rescan library doesn't do anything. I can play the songs if I open them from my file browser and choose Pulsar to play them, but that's just one song at a time and even after that it doesn't add that song to the library. My music is in a folder called Music on my SD card.

Moto Z Force (Droid)
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? If possible, could you also include a music file for me to have a test? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Lootable:
Hi, been using the app for about a year and thus far very satisfied about its functionality. One feature I loved was the option to hold my volume button to skip to the next song in queue. Since last update it was removed from the settings. Please add it back in. It allows me to not have to look at my phone/turn on the screen/take it out of my pocket.
[Android Apps and Games] Ilinoah:
Hi!

I really like pulsar! But the chromecast icon is missing?! It doesn't look like in the screenshots!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean the button in earphone remote control? I have never added this feature before.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
1. Chromecast icon will be shown when there is available Chromecast nearby.

2. Please make sure your device and Chromecast are under the same WIFI. Guest mode is not supported.
[Android Apps and Games] Lootable:
No I'm talking about the volume button on the side of my phone. There used to be a check/uncheck settings option to allow holding the vol+ button to skip fo the next track and holding the vol- button to go back to the start of the track or twice repeatedly to go back one track. It only worked when the screen was turned off.
[Android Apps and Games] xjjjay:
Hello! Thank you for your excellent app - I've purchased the pro version.

I do miss a few features from similar music players, however. Here they are in order of importance to me:

I often swipe up from the bottom "now playing" bar and hope that it will bring up the full now playing screen, as it does in many other music players. Currently pulsar requires a tap. For continuity, I believe that swiping down on the album art from the now playing screen should minimize it and return you to navigation.

From the now playing screen, I wish I could tap the artist name or album name to navigate directly to the artist or album.

I'd like to see maybe a blurred/dimmed album artwork comprise the background of the now playing screen (behind the text and buttons).

More precise color customization options, in addition to the pre-set themes. Right now the only theme I use is the one black theme, as I have an oled screen and like 000000 black backgrounds.

Thank you for reading my suggestions! This is still a 5* app in my books, but if you consider these suggestions I think it can be even better!