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[Android Apps and Games] Batryoperatedboy:
Almost perfect! I would just like to view albums by release date without messing up the song play queue. (Unless I'm doing it wrong)
[Android Apps and Games] Điệp Khối:
Can I make an folder to "default" folder?
[Android Apps and Games] MirroredReality:
Compliation support

+1 for a fix for this! I have a couple compliation albums like the Hamilton album but only one of the artists show up for the whole thing. Please add an option to display "Various Artists" or allow us to specify which albums are compilations so it'll display the value in the "Album Artist" field rather than the "Artist" field.
[Android Apps and Games] numanoid50:
Great app I use blackplayey ex as my mine player on Android but pulsar is a very close 2nd I like the look and the feel of it. Just one thing I like in a player is to see what is playing at all times so if you could consider putting a leave screen on option in the settings would be great.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] LostFuzz:
I have a question, is there a way to sort by "Album Artist" instead of "Artist" that I may have overlooked?; If sorting by Album Artist doesn't currently exist in pulsar would it be possible to add it in a future version?
[Android Apps and Games] H1313303:
Can you please add a swipe up/down for the playing bar? A lot of music players have it and it is really nice
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
I think this wasn't requested yet, but is it possible to implement a "Queue, Shuffle and Play" button? It would queue all music in the library and put shuffle mode on. Could be placed under the Overflow menu in the main activity and user would be asked when clicking it since it would clear the existing queue.

The reason for it is for having a quick way to start listening to music, f.e. when you don't want to carefully queue the music, you just want continuous playback and be surprised by song selection. I use the player a lot while exercising and planning the music to listen to before is tedious, so with this "magical" function one could click and be ready to go.
[Android Apps and Games] aritsune1917:
Hi, there seems to be a bug with grouping by album artist in the Artists screen, it takes the artist of the last track as the album artist rather than the actual album artist.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar use Android native media store database, user by default do not need to scan any folder, the music files are found by Android system already.

If other player does not rely on Android native media database, they may need to manually scan the folders user selected, then user need to specify which folder need to be scanned.
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
Pardon me and correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding this person is only suggesting a whitelist instead of a blacklist.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently I do not want to maintain playlists by Pulsar since Android already has this feature, if Pulsar has this feature in future, it may also consider the consistent with Android playlists.
[Android Apps and Games] Dajaganz:
Yes, and that is more effective and efficient than telling you NOT to scan every damn folder. Your idea is good in principle, but in practice is impractical.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I understand the suggestion clearly. I just introduce the logic in background why there is such difference and why whitelist is not supported.
[Android Apps and Games] Mezzias:
Why is not able to find my mp3 files in the SD Card of my smartphone? Only it finds some playlists, but not albums, not songs, not artists.... like if there was not any.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will check the genre problem and hope to fix it in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Why do you want the screen always on? It consumes battery for nothing?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Speed feature, do you mean to play music in 1.5x, 2x, speed? In latest android versions this can be implemented.

What do you mean by pitch feature?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently swipe up the playing bar can extend to playing page, swipe down is not supported.
[Android Apps and Games] smaug117:
great design
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
Yes by speed that's the one. Maybe you can add fine tuning in more precise values like 1.10x etc. Pitch is where you can adjust, well, the pitch of the song. Highes pitch will make the song sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. :laugh: While lowest will sound like being goddamn possessed. Checkout JetAudio. This player both have that feature.
[Android Apps and Games] H1313303:
I understand. I really admire your work but swipe up doesn't have an animation which is a bit confusing and I hope that you plan on adding the swipe down gesture.

Thank you for taking the time to reply.
[Android Apps and Games] Dajaganz:
Yes the explanation is appreciated but the rationale falls down when by relying on an external source tge net effect is that doing so makes your player cumbersome and fiddly to use. I'd really like to test ot out thoroughly but there's no way I'm unticking every single folder in my storage just because your app thinks android thinks its a media folder. Not to mention you don't remember subfolder deselection.

I can't believe I'm the only one to raise this usability issue? So white list isn't supported it seems because its work you don't want to do? Your conclusions about white listing are reasons for it not against it.
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
I'm for your solution, but don't know if that's possible when using the Android media store vs. scanning specific picked folders and if that's the reason developer made the blacklist variant.

Although not many apps place their media files in such way there's a need to blacklist, I think I've added about 4 folders, mainly ones in internal storage root.
[Android Apps and Games] foxity:
+1 It is the function that more I hope it is implemented or repaired in this player.
[Android Apps and Games] mr.b4rt:
ay very nice player

keep up the good work

thx
[Android Apps and Games] Clinte2010:
Name

If you don't mind me asking how did you come up with the name?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Which name?
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
Of the app.
[Android Apps and Games] numanoid50:
Sorry should have made myself more clear.

I like the Screen on while I'm driving so if I want to change a music track I can without having to swipe my screen to open then press next track. If there was an option to leave screen on I'd just press the forward or back button without the fuss while driving.
[Android Apps and Games] ajamils:
I raised the same issue long time ago but didn't find a solution so just stopped complaining about it. Though it's annoying as hell.
[Android Apps and Games] rederikus:
Thanks for your answer. The way Android handles Playlists is quite elegant. It integrates playlists from multiple sources and allows any player to use them. The problem with it that most players need to re-read the entire database each time the app is started. I now have my entire CD collection on a 25GB SSD in my car. This is great for long journeys but I have usually arrived by the time Pulsar (or any other player) has presented the playlists when in short journeys.

I was wondering therefore if you could not use good old .m3u files which I keep one per folder and in a separate folder called !Playlists. Any chance of that?
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
You could probably use an automation app such as Tasker or Macrodroid to do this. Have it so that when you launch Pulsar it sets the system screen timeout to never, then when you exit Pulsar it resets the screen timeout
[Android Apps and Games] numanoid50:
Will try that . Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] garycawthorne@gmail.com:
Embedded album art does not always show

I just purchase pulsar+

Love it, nice and clean.

I am having a problem though. Not all embedded album art shows in the album view on my Samsung tab s2.

The same albums do show on my zenfone.

Any help would be appreciated

Gary
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
To the creator of this app:

Sometimes it doesn't start and play upon Bluetooth connection to the car.

Can you please fix this?

Maybe this could help to have this trigger working properly :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/24888208/878126
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
I love this player a lot! I have some problems/suggestions though.

There are certain folders (artists) that are not showing up. When I pick a song like that from a file manager, it plays but the title and all remains the song played before.

And some special Hungarian characters such as "ő" are sometimes displayed incorrectly in the titles. Always good when editing metadata though.

Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] Patrick9801:
Is it possible to make the color chooser more accurate? For example I want to change the color of the header, the background, the text or the progress bar from the player
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
WHERE IS THE SHUFFLE ALL BUTTON?

Seriously, with 19 GBs of music I have to put all playlists into queue (then watch toasts for a minute), play then enable shuffle. Pretty ridiculous.
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
Go into settings and turn on "Keep Shuffle Mode", then simply select a soundtrack from the "Songs" tab and you'll see it'll shuffle your songs (if you enabled shuffle mode, that is).
[Android Apps and Games] Akanai:
Hey, my created playlists keep disappearing after some time, its so annoying. Also, it would be nice if you can add the song duration bar (idk the name of it. Like to skip a part of the song. Ex: skip 0:00 to 1:30) on the locked screen like the bar that already exists inside the app. Sorry for my bad English. Your music player is incredible btw, I love the lyrics support. =)
[Android Apps and Games] Reelo:
I looove Pulsar, but can we please get an icon that conforms to the new "adaptive icon" guidelines for Android Oreo? I have Pulsar in my dock and it sticks out because it's round, as opposed to the new rounded-square Oreo ones. (Nexus 6P user)
[Android Apps and Games] EmbersArc:
Album Art Issue

Love this app and bought the plus version in no time.

However I've been having the same issue with album covers that others have been reporting before.

All the thumbnails have disappeared from the album view of the player.

Is there a solution for this? I haven't looked through all previous posts yet.

Here's some more info:

Rooted Samsung Galaxy S8

All songs are on the SD card

Artwork is embedded in the files

Mix of mp3 and flac files

Completely wiping the SD card and adding the files again fixes most of the covers temporarily

All thumbnails disappeared after booting into safe mode (and for some other reason at a previous point)

Artwork in the play view works fine

Reinstalling Pulsar does not fix it

Let me know if there's any more information I can provide.

This issue has made using the app much more cumbersome and hopefully there's a solution.
[Android Apps and Games] alistair.cunningham:
Option to show total time

May we please have an option in the pro version to show the total time of all the songs in an album on the album page, and the total play time remaining in the play queue on the queue page? This would be useful when driving and trying to decide whether there's enough time for one more album before reaching the destination.
[Android Apps and Games] Abnova:
There is a weird bug with the notification for the music where if you pause it from the app, the notification music time keeps going on and doesn't dismiss like other music player .This results in it showing that your song has been playing for an hour somehow.
[Android Apps and Games] talapus:
Just stumbled across pulsar, amazing, great job. So glad you took the time to make this great app. If I may, would like to have a lyrics option and playing and downloading over a lan from a nas or dlna, samba etc. would be great addition!

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] digitalfree:
I have got a wrong artist picture that is always wrong. If I replace it manually, the wrong Pic is back after a while. Maybe caused by a cleaning with SD Maid Products..... Don't know. But the basic issue is caused by the app looking for the wrong Pic. In this case, I tagged the artist "Die Drei Fragezeichen" as DDF to keep things short. Know I get an image for DDF Boyz.
[Android Apps and Games] Pkchase:
Are wma files no longer supported? I had to replace my phone and since adding back my music none of those songs will scan in.
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
Use the correct tags and you won't run into any problem whatsoever... You can always make a playlist and name it whatever you want, but be sure to keep the songs' tags correct ;)
[Android Apps and Games] irmageddon:
@rhmsoft Apologies for suspecting Pulsar to have swallowed the notification bar player (somewhere back in July/August). I've just found out it has been hidden for my choice of not displaying notifications at all on the lockscreen. Just so you know, in case anything similar is posted here :)
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
How to know that sleep timer is running?

Using Pulsar 1.56 on Android 6.01.

After I set the sleep timer, the now playing screen remains unchanged. It would be more informative to have a count down clock on overlay so that we know sleep time is active. Example of implementation Voice Audiobook Player
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Feature requests

Hi,

This player is plentiful enough for me. There are a few minor features I miss from other players. If they are implemented I will switch to Pulsar Pro for good.

Gesture control configuration. For example: I would like to disable the swipe left/right to change track. Accidental swipe happens. When it does, going back to previous track, Pulsar forgets where it was in the track. This is why I prefer to disable this left/right gesture. However, I would like to configure swipe up/down for volume control

Tap on title opens "Play Queue". I know there is a button in the lower right of the cover for this. But somehow, this is the behavior I have seen in almost all players I have used so far.

Tap (ou double tap) on cover to play/pause

Is it OK to allow a configurable play control buttons in the bottom of the playing screen? Personally, I very rarely use the Repeat/Shuffle buttons. I would prefer to move them into the 3 dots menu. In exchange for 3 BIG BUTTONS (Prev, Play/Pause, Next)
[Android Apps and Games] Li.marandu:
Editar etiquetas

Por alguna razon no he podido editar las etiquetas de algunas canciones, me podrian ayudar con eso. Gracias.
[Android Apps and Games] SH3L0B:
Uprated Pulsar+ recently and now the play button doesn't work sometimes while viewing the song. This tends to happen after I've pressed pause and my phone display has timed out. I have to go back to the playlist or album view in order to press play from the little bar at the bottom or I have to press play from the notification bar.
[Android Apps and Games] SureshVenkata:
Please Update to "Artists" option

Pulser+ app is pretty good. But i am confused with "Artists".

In Artists .. it is showing Song artists... not Album artists.

In Google Play music and Microsoft Groove etc.. it shows Artists means album artists.

Not Song Artists.

.

So please update this.. or give an option to choose whether "Album artist" or "song artist" .
[Android Apps and Games] Larry2635:
Wrong artist when casting.

Don't know if already posted, but I'm not reading 106 pages and there is not app bug report so...

When I am in folder mode, and there are lots of different songs with different artists, the first song displays song and artist correct on cast to TV screen. Subsequent songs show correct song, but continue showing first song artist. Shows correctly on my phone, just wrong on TV screen. Don't know if this is app issue or chromecast issue. Have screen print and photo if desired. App Version 1.5.6
[Android Apps and Games] sjamie:
This is a great little app but I can't use it as my main music player without crossfading support. Keep up the great work!
[Android Apps and Games] Robustez:
Do you have plans to add support of ALAC?? I have bought Pulsar and I'm waiting for it so much!

If I try to play ALAC track, Pulsar just skip it. ((
[Android Apps and Games] enotar:
It is nice but where is external sd card? If it has access it should be out of the box...

Cannot use it without access
[Android Apps and Games] mahdi128:
undetectable

hi bro i have folder with Javad name, in poweramp it shows all the music on that folder but in pulsar i can see some of them... please please fix it, i love your player but because of that i installed poweramp too, tnx
[Android Apps and Games] Fahd Owdli:
Hello Dear

There is a problem with the Pulsar+ app regarding search results

For an example

When I search for the song "beggin" appeared in the search results as I expected, But when I searched for the singer who sings "Beggin" did not appear in the search results

I hope to solve the problem

Your app "Pulsar+" has been the best music player I've ever tried on play store

My regards.
[Android Apps and Games] BraianV:
Hi. Great and beatiful app.

Can i ask for quick actions when long pressing the app in app drawer and desktop?

Thanks if u add this nice addition
[Android Apps and Games] Daniel Johnson 899:
This is a great music player and I only have one problem. When I want to edit tags on my music, the words change into a different language which I cannot read 😂😂 please fix.
[Android Apps and Games] pixel_jason:
Reverse Sort Order

Is it possible to add the ability to reverse the sort order? This would especially be handy in Album view/ Recently added. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] chrisnkrueger:
Great workl! I am really thankful for the folder browser. The most good looking players haven't one! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] FloatingPoint:
Sometimes when I press Play on the widget, the sound stops after a few seconds, but the time counter moves on.
[Android Apps and Games] SH3L0B:
Widget without album art

When can we get a widget without album art?

I don't have artwork showing ever, but I still have to look at the picture of a record on my widget. I want a 1x1 or 2x1 widget, please!
[Android Apps and Games] qGold:
Suggestion to add option

First of all I'd like to say your app is great. Nice interface and cool options.

As I've got tons of music and some audio books on my phone I especially like the option to exclude some folders from the library shown, which makes it easy to skip all the audio book folders and just let the music play.

You could add an option to toggle between an audiobook mode and a music mode.

This could be done by adding an option with "profiles" for (excluded) folders, in which you could either just include specific folders or exclude some folders (as now).

Just include some folders seems to make no sense as there are playlists, but you could do it anyway, because sometimes folder content may change*, but the desired folder with new content* should stay in a "playlist" (aka folder profile)

As a user I could run two installations of the app, with different excluded folders, but it would be nice, if the player itself would provide an option for this.

*This could be a file with bad quality replaced through a new one with better quality, which wouldn't show up in a regular playlist.
[Android Apps and Games] itisiryan:
[MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION], please include cue support for flac in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] MirroredReality:
Suggestion

Please add an option to have the music fade out when paused rather than a hard cut.
[Android Apps and Games] Laskr1999:
Hello,

I have a bug on Oneplus 3T. When I unplug headphones or just sometimes it starts playing music and without any sound. So it maybe say it is playing but not. Can you olease fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] r47z:
The oneplus 3 just got the Oreo update, but the app is not updated to support it yet. Will you be updating it?
[Android Apps and Games] grepp0r:
I have the same problem as other poster "enotar" here. I'm running resurrection remix athene rom (Nougat). No access to external sd card. Other players like Go Music access it fine so I don't think it is a rom problem (?) Unfortunately all my music is on the SD card.

I love the app though, great work!

Cheers,

Robert

Update:

I got access again to my external sd card by renaming the music directory and creating a new one with LOS file manager and moving the files back there. Possible it was a security context issue, as the unix permissions were all the same (ext4 FS). Android can be frustrating wrt sd cards!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I have tested Pulsar on Nexus 5X Oreo with no problem. What kind of error do you have on one plus 3?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I have a Oneplus 3T testing device. Could you find the way to reproduce this problem step by step? I can fix this problem when I can reproduce it. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] snehne:
cover art not working

The artwork/cover-art function is broken ...

In any case the app seems always try to download artwork even if the music has embedded artwork. Could you change it to, or add an option for, using embedded artwork first?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Embedded artwork will go first, but there might be some problem that the embedded artwork in song file is not treated as album artwork.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There might be some files which Pulsar does not support the music format. Pulsar does not have extra decoders.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It is using text searching. You can try to search singer's name instead of his/her song name.
[Android Apps and Games] mahdi128:
It's surprising, because that files completely shows on my brother's phone with pulsar (Z2 android 6)

but for me no :( (Xa1-ultra android 7.0)
[Android Apps and Games] snehne:
Sorry I should be more specific -- artwork/cover worked fine before. I had 1.4.5 for a while, and all the embedded covers worked well. However I updated to 1.5.6 last week and saw the artwork support broken. Specifically,

* on Album screen, some just show the default grey disc image, even though they have embedded artwork that were recognized by Pulsar before, and I have wifi connection for download. This includes pretty common discs that I could locate artwork easily with a google search.

* some of the above would have embedded artwork display when playing a song from the album, while others also show the grey disc image even during play.

* among the ones that do display artwork, some are clearly downloaded (because they are incorrect); I think some others may actually be embedded (but cannot be 100% sure).

I had a Titanium backup of the old version and restored it, and everything works well again. So the change happened between 1.4.5 and 1.5.6. Sorry could not be more specific.

My suspicion is that the newer version parses the ID3 tags differently and that causes (1) not seeing embedded artwork it previously could see; and (2) collecting the other fields in a somewhat off way, thus failing in search. The music files were old CD rips that had been played on many mp3players/computers/phones and never had problem; the cover artwork was also properly recognized by other music apps that I tried.
[Android Apps and Games] AkraticCritic:
Hi, I've noticed that my playlists are being deleted whenever the app updates. Do you know why this would be happening?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] SteevoM:
First of all I have to say that this is a great music player with clean UI and convenient features, and even Korean language support. Only problem I have is I can't search for a song if the file name is in Korean. I'm still gonna use this app regardless of the problem, but hope it can be fixed some day (because the app itself supported Korean perfectly, I thought fixing this problem wouldn't be that hard.)

Anyways, thanks for making such a wonderful app.