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[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
I'm struggling with Replay Gain, it doesn't seem to be very effective. I have processed all my files using the Replay Gain program on Windows, but when I play them on Pulsar it doesn't seem to have any effect on them. Here are my settings, is there something I need to change?
[Android Apps and Games] Nozik:
The app is incredibly good. Has the function to edit songs and albums, add beautiful photos. I can also set a timer, I create a playlist full of easy-to-sleep music and then make an appointment about 20 minutes before going to bed to listen to super like.
[Android Apps and Games] TheHatterOfMad:
I'm shopping around for a new music player and I just gave this app a try, and found some unexpected behaviour.

Specifically, for albums with many (in my case, ~200) tracks all from different artists, the app displays the artist of the first track as the artist of the album, rather than the 'album artist'.

E.g., if I have a collaboration album by 'GiIvaSunner' (who does not appear as the artist of any particular track, but is correctly tagged as the 'album artist'), the app will display the artist of track #1 as the artist of the whole album in the albums tab, rather than GilvaSunner.

Changing the 'artist' of the album to match the 'album artist' with the edit tags function fixes this issue, but doing so also replaces the artist of each track in the album - not desirable behaviour!

I admit that my situation might be a bit of an edge case, but I'm a little annoyed (at myself) that I now have to reimport a few dozen of those collaboration albums to my phone to recover the artists for each track.
[Android Apps and Games] kayteck1:
are there any plans to add acceess to dlna servers or samba locations? or maybe even plex server on wan?
[Android Apps and Games] Abbott1:
Good experience.no uploding data wastage.small bug fixation is need.
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
Dear developer, I beg you - please make an option to disable sorting ignoring articles. I'm still stuck on the version 1.4.7 because of this. I'm a pro user and I've been using this player for years now and don't want to go elsewhere. But when you decided to implement the articles' ignoring I downgraded back and been on 1.4.7 ever since. I really want to experience new features but I can't stand the current sorting.

The other reason I've been staying on 1.4.7 - this version has static top bar (artists, albums, etc. - this one). It doesn't move when I scroll and I really like it this way.

Maybe you could also add the compact list view of the artists. I have lots of them and it takes some time to scroll.

I know about other player Omnia, but I prefer this one, it has better sound for me and I got used to the interface very much.

Please consider these small suggestions from me, thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] alexame:
Combining multi-CDs into single album

Many years ago I switched to this app as it does all you need in a simple and logical manner. Recently I've noticed that the app started showing multi-CDs as different albums, under the artist. Although the tags are properly written (i.e. the album has the same title, cds' numbers are present). I'm sure that before the app used to combine tracks with the same album title into single album which is more logical and convenient for me. (Though I remember there were troubles with proper track sorting within such albums).

Would you please advise how is possible to get the feature of showing multi-CDs as a single album back?
[Android Apps and Games] Rockwig:
I'm seeing an issue that when two different artists have an album named the same (released in different years), the two albums are combined into one. Is there a why around this, besides renaming one of the albums?
[Android Apps and Games] jeffm999:
Equaliser Loudness Function

Thanks for a great app.

I have a question with respect to the 'Loudness' slider in the Equalizer.

I am familiar with loudness functions in hifi amps and also that there is no particular standard for how it is applied.

Can you describe how the loudness function is implemented in Pulsar?

Do you amplify high and low frequencies by x dBs, equally or separately, or just simply boost the volume?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] :
Thanks for this excellent app. Been using it as a pro user for a few years and quite enjoy it.

This is a pretty minor annoyance, but thought it might be worth mentioning anyway: on ChromeOS, the lock screen widget has a progress bar, but it always shows 00:00/XX:XX rather than actually tracking playtime.
[Android Apps and Games] pik256:
Problem with asigning cover to ogg files

I have used Pulsar app for a few days so I am probably unexperienced but have a problem with assigning covers to albums. No problem when album contains mp3 files. However, I cannot assign the cover when there are ogg files in album, neither to the whole album nor to even a single file. I get java.io.IOException after pressing a "save" icon (on a single file; on album it appears a list of similar exceptions, one for each file). I tried jpg, png, bigger ones, smaller, perfectly square... no success.

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Do you store both albums in the same folder? Because I have two albums, named exactly the same (in ID3 tags), but stored in different folders. I see them as two albums and app has found proper covers for them automatically.
[Android Apps and Games] Basic-Master:
Automatically resume playback after phone call

I've been using the pro app for years and I really like it! But there is one issue I'd love to see resolved: I use an AUX cable to listen to music and Bluetooth hands-free for calls. Whenever a phone call ends, the last track isn't automatically resumed and I always have to unlock my phone and press play again. I get the same behavior on my Huawei Nova and on my Pixel 4a. Is there any chance this could be fixed?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It depends on whether your song files contain replay gain tags for track or album.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently when delete multiple songs there will be a confirmation dialog, for single song there is not.
[Android Apps and Games] TheAstriX:
Thanks

Good Music Player :)
[Android Apps and Games] Mayr Technologies:
Superb Music Player !
[Android Apps and Games] secun:
Hi!

Congrats for your app. I really like it, but It has -in my opinion- some flaws that you may want to look at:

- Media library folder config: You have implemented an "exclude folder". Wouldn't it be easier to have an "include folder" instead?. I mean, I have all my music in a folder called, well, "music" and I had to exclude every other folder. I think is way more user friendly to include one, two or three folders than to exclude almost twenty.

- The exclusion of folders seems not to work well. In the initial setup all audio files were include in the media library (including a couple of files in the whatsapp folder). As I've said, I excluded every folder in /storage/emulated/0 except "Music", where I store my mp3 music files. Then I selected "Explore media library again", but the whatsapp audio files are still present. I just can't get rid of them.

- The album artist tag issue: For me this is not a missing feature, it's just a bug because it breaks the media library organization (It's a common failure across media player apps. I just can't understand why almost any developer doesn't want to address this issue. Maybe more difficult than I think? I don't know).

In the pulsar particular case there are two different issues regarding this problem:

I have a compilation album whose album artist is "Various artists". The 50 tracks have 50 different artists. You seem to be gathering the album artist by getting the artist of first track, I guess.

First issue: In the album view, The name of album is displayed correctly. The tracks are 50, which is fine, but the album artist appears to be the first track album (AronChupa in my case) what is simply wrong.

Second issue: In the artist view, the album artist "Various artists" is not present, of course. Other players with this issue, just show the 50 different artists with 50 albums with just one song in it (a real mess imho). In pulsar is even worse: Only appears the first track artist (AronChupa). The 49 others just have vanished.

The rest of features (animations, ui, chromecast support, etc. are awesome. Good work.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Dell Schulz:
Nice!

This is beatiful!!	:good:
[Android Apps and Games] Immanuelwijaya:
Very nice UI

great app. a bit of advice would be great if it could find and display the lyrics automatically
[Android Apps and Games] ||BeTo||:
Great player :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Romagnolo1973:
Qualcomm give us a e new app to check cpu & gpu consuption in just a minute.

I think any Dev must use it.

Qualcomm App Tune-Up Kit

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quicinc.tuneupkit&hl

I compared Pulsar with Omich Player (that is an old and abandoned app but it still the more efficient player in terms of cpu usage) using the same song and the same on\off screen time.

Omich and Pulsar offers almost the same resuts so kudos to the dev for this great app.

Everyone can use this tool to easy compare Pulsar to other player and see how godd it is or not.
[Android Apps and Games] iamelton:
i have been a long time omich user before pulsar, and tried quite a few music apps in the past.. none of them persuaded me to switch, until i tried pulsar.. i didnt do a scientific comparison for those apps, however from a users pov, pulsar is indeed a very good player..
[Android Apps and Games] gondolas:
Hi

I tried your app on my phone, lenovo a6000+

Great music player, clean, easy to use and does not use too much ram (compared to other player).

Regarding double tap on exit, maybe you should add an option to disable that, some people might be not familiar with that (including me :D)

Well, definitely keep this player as replacement to stock music player.

Thanks

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] dbx4:
Pulsar does not seem to be registered to listen to the headphone plugged in event for me (OnePlus One, CM12.1). It is not in the app chooser list when I plug in my headphones.

Thanks for the otherwise awesome player!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The include folder feature is interesting. I do not want to make the app complex. Currently in folders view you can directly exclude it from popup menu.

In latest 1.3.2, the whatsapp music should not be shown if you exclude them. If it does not work, please contact support@rhmsoft.com.

I will have a study on media library organization problem.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently Pulsar will only take over the headphone when you start playing music using Pulsar. I will think about the plugin event in future.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is already supported in version 1.3.2, please upgrade and have a try.
[Android Apps and Games] Tomjodh:
Epic app! Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Artleem:
Great app!

In the past I bought 2 players, now I'm thinking to buy this like my default player app, but I would like suggest some cloud support, e.g. Google Drive. Until now, current features are really cool. Thanks!

(BTW, if you need some spanish translation or some help with graphics I'm able to help)
[Android Apps and Games] iceorfire95:
Hi! I usually listen to only mp3 files since they're the most common format for music. But I had one m4a file that I wanted to listen to but even though Pulsar played the file, there was this weird problem. The file was about 3 minutes long, but the Now Playing screen on Pulsar said it only 5 seconds long. Also, the artist tag was not recognised properly for the m4a file. Here is a screenshot:
[Android Apps and Games] wickedmx:
Great app and one of the nicest I've used lately, however, I also have a few comments.

1) I love the artist picture function, however the option to manually search Google for a more appropriate image is not functioning. I can get to Google and see search results, but there is no way to apply the picture. A long press on an image does nothing so there is no way to even save it to a folder.

2) the standard protocol to follow when sorting band names is to ignore "the" from the sort criteria if that is the first word in the name. This is the standard across every streaming service or online/offline retailer I've ever used. I think this should be implemented by default or there should be an option to select to enable this sort filter.

Keep up the great work, it's refreshing to see a player making some real headway way in keeping things simple but maintaining functionality.
[Android Apps and Games] Nsouls Games:
Looks great, Maybe I will try it alongside usual Power Amp.
[Android Apps and Games] wickedmx:
That sounds like it may be an issue with the actual file or possibly the tag metadata. My entire library of 7000+ tracks is m4a, and from what I can see, all tags and song lengths are displayed correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar is using Android media scanner as the song files parser. You can have a try my another music player Omnia which use its own music scanner:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.omnia
[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
I have it tagged as track gain
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
No such plan yet. Sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Which file format are they? Please send me a test file to support@rhmsoft.com for me to have a test. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
They are MP3...e-mail will be on it's way
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean sorting when ignore "a", "an" and "the"?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar is using Android media scanner as the song files parser. You can have a try my another music player Omnia which use its own music scanner:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....rhmsoft.omnia
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If the call is not long, will this problem happen? I think the app is kept in background for long time and been killed by the system to save battery usage.
[Android Apps and Games] Aynekko:
Exactly. Pulsar doesn't have this option. I think it should be there totally!
[Android Apps and Games] Basic-Master:
I think I've seen Pulsar resume playback after really short calls on at least my older phone. Either way I've upgraded to Omnia (didn't know you had a new app for Android 5+) so I'll report back on the corresponding thread in case I notice the same issue there. Thanks again for these awesome apps and for your response!
[Android Apps and Games] Alphonse.:
I've been using this app for 2-3 years now, but today i noticed a major bug and i want to report it. I'm using a Huawei 20. The music stops but the player is like back at the beginning of the song and sometimes it's not even the right song and i'm really confused because it seems the app switch songs in the middle of other songs an it's getting really annoying...
[Android Apps and Games] :
Tracks sorted in alphabetic order do not skip articles at the start of track titles but albums do. Can you enable tracks sorting to skip articles as well? I do not want all tracks starting with A to be sorted together or all tracks starting with The to be sorted together. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Justaguywholikesmusic:
Is there a way to change the storage for where my audio files go? I want to save songs I download to my SD card so I'm not using my phone's internal memory, but I just went through the settings and I don't see a way to change default storage to SD card.
[Android Apps and Games] edlaurens:
I've been using this player for some time, is one of the best players I installed
[Android Apps and Games] bluefender:
volume leveling

request volume leveling, i have folder of various mp3's that i have added over the years, volumes are all over the place..

i magine in the evening in a room where one song is quiet next one could remove wallpaper, rinse repeat..

so if volume leveling could be implemented it would be brilliant.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you uninstall and reinstall this app to have a try?
[Android Apps and Games] vfom00@gmail.com:
Hi.

I'm having problems with the transmission to the chromecast audio.

Once i connect 2 or 3 musics are played and then it stops (it seems that the connection is lost). I'm not having this problem with other apps.

Can you help?

Thanks,

Vitor
[Android Apps and Games] LittleMat:
Hi,

The app is awasome, especialy the sync of playlists (which does not exist in a lot of apps...). The only problem I have is when I have an album with several artists, and when I go in the artist view obly the first artist has the album but not the other ones, is it normal ? (It does not do it in Omnia, but Omnia lacks the playlist sync capability)
[Android Apps and Games] Rushikesh787:
Great alternative to Google Play Music. Immediate sync to my music, sounds great, and no ads. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] EGeorgiev:
Browsable Player via AVRCP?

Hello,

Really good player. Indeed great alternative to Google Play Music, but when I use it in my card I cannot see list of tracks. I did not find any other player than Google Play Music to support this.

Maybe it is worth adding MediaBrowserService in order to make Pulsar really an alternative to Google Play Music?

Snooped in HCI log and I see that Pulsar player does not support browsing:

28560	2020-11-13 10:54:15.431223	AlpsElec_99:10:9d (VW BT 0610)	SamsungE_65:21:b3 (Galaxy J5)	AVRCP	29	Rcvd Browsing: Command - GetFolderItems - Scope: MediaPlayerList, StartItem: 0x0000, EndItem: 0x0000

0000 02 0b 20 18 00 14 00 4e 00 00 00 00 11 0e 71 00 .. ....N......q.

0010 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 71 b5 ...........q.

28562	2020-11-13 10:54:15.432244	SamsungE_65:21:b3 (Galaxy J5)	AlpsElec_99:10:9d (VW BT 0610)	AVRCP	67	Sent Browsing: OK - GetFolderItems - UidCounter: 0x0000, NumberOfItems: 1

0000 02 0b 20 3e 00 3a 00 5a 00 00 01 02 11 0e 71 00 .. >.:.Z......q.

0010 30 04 00 00 00 01 01 00 28 00 0a 01 00 00 00 01 0.......(....... //0x1A = 0a = Player ID 10

0020 02 00 00 00 00 00 b7 01 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ //0x28 = 04 = .... 0... = Browsing: 0x0

0030 00 00 6a 00 0c 4d 65 64 69 61 20 50 6c 61 79 65 ..j..Media Playe

0040 72 45 a4 rE.

Best Regards,
[Android Apps and Games] Colossus96:
Hi, can you add video library play as well.
[Android Apps and Games] yourrealking:
How about adding a visual volume bar? Am I the only one who often get startled by a loud music volume right after clicking the play button having forgotten that I had raised the volume to watch a low-volume YouTube video?
[Android Apps and Games] Mary985:
Great app

This is a great app with +5 m downloads! I like it :o
[Android Apps and Games] Raj_wisdom:
love the app but it can be lot more better.

1: there are two artists, album artist and song artist. When it tries to fetch album art from last.fm, it actually tries to match song artist and album but it should be album artist and album. Ex. Album is Listen by David Guetta (album artist) Singer is Skyler Gray (song artist) When app is trying to fetch an album art, it will match the section and hence will try to match Listen and Skyler instead of listen and David. Hope you'll tweak the code.

2: If song has more than one song artist, it creates new artist combining the name of all of the artist separated by ';' or '/'. It would be good if same song is displayed in each artists list. Ex. Song is Hymn for the weekend sung by Beyonce and Coldplay. This app will make new artist with name Beyonce/Coldplay. It would be great if it gets displayed under the name of Beyonce and Coldplay seperately instead of creating whole new artist.

3: You can add feature to give user an option to what happens if you click the song. Like whether it should play that song or add to your playing queue.

I hope you will bring these features in coming updates.
[Android Apps and Games] Yamaha4:
This is an excellent music player, except for for one major issue. I think this issue is a deal breaker. I've spent a lot of time going through my large music collection stored on my phone to create a number of different playlists. Unfortunately, any time I power off, or restart my phone, all the playlists I've created are empty. I have to start from scratch to recreate them, and can take hours (literally). I'm not going to do that every time I have to restart my phone. It's a deal breaker. Unless this can be fixed. I've used this app several on different occasions in the past, but have always ended up switching back to something different because of this problem. Other than this, it's excellent, exactly what I'm looking for.
[Android Apps and Games] museyib.elekber:
I have also noticed this issue recent times. Have you received any response about this?
[Android Apps and Games] ulxerker:
[MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION]

I'm using the paid version for a long time now.

Recently I upgraded to Android 11 and there is a problem with the audio controls at the notifications and lockscreen as they keep disappearing.

Your Omnia music player seems to not have that issue ...
[Android Apps and Games] kriffycat:
Crossfade

Hi! Really loving the simplicity and design of this app. I was wondering for a future improvement if it would be possible to make toggling of crossfade more accessible? I switch a lot between shuffled playlists (where I prefer crossfade) and albums (where I want gapless) and it would be a much smoother experience if you wouldn't have to go to settings to change this every time. Another app I've used made this possible by long-pressing the play button which worked very nicely. A more advanced feature would be to make it possible to automatically disable crossfade when playing songs from the same album.

Thanks for the work you've done with pulsar!
[Android Apps and Games] jeffm999:
Loudness function

ref my post #2176

I'd really like to understand how the loudness control works - volume boost? or something more complex?

great app

thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] JerØcity:
Suggestions

Hi, neat app. Clean and packed with just the right featues. The best thing for me is the folders tab that many music players just don't bother to have. I just wanted to add two things that has been bothering me everytime I switch between my music streaming app, YT music and offline player, this one.

-No Swipe up at the bottom panel to bring up now playing. I realised that Omnia had this only after I bought Pulsar. I figure this is a design choice, but a option to bring up now playing with either tap or swipe up would be excellent.

-Lack of "play next" option for one (or even more) selected songs within the queue. I always have about >500 songs on queue each time and reordering them to play next by dragging is painful.
[Android Apps and Games] udi9:
LOVE this app!

Been using the payed version for a few years now.

It would be nice if you could add Year to the album info when viewing an album.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Issues with Poco X3 NFC

Hello,

Recently I've buy a Poco X3 NFC, powered by MIUI 12 and Android 10 and I'm suffering some issues with Pulsar+.

Basically the error is that, after half an hour of playback, the app dies and I have to restart it.

I do not know if is a app related issue or is due to MIUI kills the app, but I have tried to set "autostart" flag to on and also set battery management to "do not manage this app" to prevent the system killing the app but no luck
[Android Apps and Games] Raj_wisdom:
Let us make it better

1. Add an option to trim the song before setting a ringtone or alarm tone.

2 Add more visualizers to the app
[Android Apps and Games] loopypalm:
the size is 5.3mb and not 2.5mb
[Android Apps and Games] jpage4500:
I discovered Pulsar music player when looking for Google Play Music alternatives.. so far I'm loving it!

I found this forum and haven't read through all 111 pages.. are the developers involved with this thread? I did send some feedback to the support email but never got a reply so I was just curious how involved the devs are and if they're updating the app often