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[Android Apps and Games] Jameson5506:
Playlist sync issue

Pulsar+ isn't syncing my playlists like it use to.

It used to be I would add music and playlists to my phone by plugging it into my computer and using musicbee to sync the songs to my phone. Pulsar would find the songs and the playlists I synced and I would just select sync playlists within pulsar to update my playlists whenever I added music to them. Lately, I've been having issues where the playlists simply don't update. The added songs are all in the songs section of pulsar, so the app can find them, but for whatever reasons it won't grab the updated playlist files (which are also synced when I sync with musicbee).

It used to work great but now it doesn't, which is strange because I'm literally doing nothing different. I would like to do a fresh install of the app to see if this fixes it, but I can't for the life of me figure that out either. I follow steps on how you are supposed to fully uninstall an app by clearing the cache and data before uninstalling, but whenever I reinstall pulsar, my playlists (with the wrong song count) are already there, as if it remembers the data from the previous install, despite me taking steps to try and prevent that.

I haven't fiddled with any of the sync settings in my phone, pulsar, or music bee. The songs and playlists go to the default locations and I don't change anything once the sync is complete.
[Android Apps and Games] Mad Mountains:
Shuffle button on Artists tab and 10 band equalizer

Hello, I just created this account so I can chime in on Pulsar. I've been a long time Poweramp user but the new UI just isn't doing it for me. I downloaded Player Pro, but the interface isn't very good, even though I do love the audio quality. I decided to give Pulsar+ a try, and I do like it, however, I would love it if you included a "shuffle all" button when in the Artists tab. So far, I found that if I go to the Songs tab, then the shuffle button pops up. Also, the equalizer compresses the audio volume, and when I turn up loudness, it distorts, so I have to keep it low. Other than that, great job, Dev.
[Android Apps and Games] SirUnreal:
How can I play m3u playlists?
[Android Apps and Games] SirUnreal:
Problem solved by scanning, restarting, scanning, restarting, restarting, scanning, whatever, don't know. Now it found my m3u. But I had to remove special characters as ")" and "(" in the m3u file name.
[Android Apps and Games] sooperior:
Yes, this player has a problem with special characters, like ) or ] or spanish ñ
[Android Apps and Games] lilbud2:
Music progress not saving after restart.

I've been using Pulsar on and off over the last few years, but recently I've been running into an issue.

When I turn my phone off and back on, the music progress doesn't save. So when my phone turns back on, the song that was playing is no longer queued up. I don't have this problem with other players, this doesn't occur with Omnia (the new player released in beta a few days ago).

I have a Moto G5 Plus running Android Pi 9.0.1
[Android Apps and Games] Curious Audiophile:
Is player limited in the number of tracks it can diplay? Samsung music app is limited to 10k tracks so I'm looking for a new player. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
There's a free version that you can try :eek:
[Android Apps and Games] Curious Audiophile:
Yes sir, there is, but if it does not support over 10k tracks then it's pointless to try. Thanks anyway though.
[Android Apps and Games] VicVicVicx:
Hello. I'm new to Pulsar. I installed the app and noticed that all my playlists are empty. The playlist names do show up, but there aren't any songs in them. My playlists are mostly managed in PC iTunes, and I use iSyncr to sync songs from PC iTunes to my Android phone, a Samsung Galaxy S9. I tried running "Rescan library," but the playlists remain empty. Any help would be appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] AC130PL:
Hello. I'm facing a weird bug last time. I can't play any music, because the player skips all of them. I don't know, how I can show you, what is happening. Maybe a log, screenrecord? After rebooting my phone everything is working okey, after 1 day it is just fuc*** up ? I tried installing Omnia, I don't have any problems. I'm using LOS 16 on Xiaomi Mi5, no ViperFx etc. installed

Nevermind, it must be relayed with the ROM, I can't even play voice messages from other people, after reboot it's working great
[Android Apps and Games] Lavman72:
new Pulsar user here. Just downloaded the app. Any ideas as to why newly downloaded music from Google's Music Play app are not appearing in Pulsar? I've downloaded a couple of new songs today (Galaxy S10+) and they aren't appearing after I rescan for new music. TIA
[Android Apps and Games] BraianV:
If you download music from Spotify, deezer and etc you will only find it withiin those apps because the songs arent yours, but they are "shared" with you as long as you pay for the service the app provides
[Android Apps and Games] Lavman72:
these are songs that I purchased through Google play music. So I would think I do own them.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Where are the songs stored? My guess is that they're in Play Musics folders within /data/data/. If that's so then Pulsar can't see them. Nobody can other than Play Music (and possibly YouTube Music)

If they're somewhere in /sdcard/ with standard extensions then you should be able to find them.
[Android Apps and Games] bndki:
I'm a big fan of your music app; the app is amazing! One minor thing though: even if I exclude a folder in the settings menu, these "supposed to be" excluded songs appear on newly added playlist. I have a pro-version and I cannot use that functionality because of this reason. Sometimes I want to only listen to newly added songs but other ringtones and notification sounds appear within that playlist.. Will you possibly look into this? Thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] Jolt151:
Can you add a queue next option in addition to play next and add to queue? Currently, if I play a song from let's say the songs tab, every song is queued up so if I want to play a series of songs in order from there queue next doesn't work and play next would put everything in backwards order (meaning if I want to play songs A, B, and C and press play next on all of them, my order will be C, B, A).

Queue next should act like play next for the first song and then add songs after that song but before the rest of the queue.
[Android Apps and Games] lgh0428:
Fix Quick Scroll: It's very narrow, so very weird.

I beg a pardon this thread because of too aggressive and full of unfluency word of mine and maybe this feedback is not suite at this thread: but I have to speak about this app has too awful quick scroll to use take a ease.

Fix it like a Google Play Music App: has more wide quick scroll compare this awful app to navigate music.

It is very awful and hard-to-use at big-displayed phone; example like Xiaomi Redmi note 5 AI.
[Android Apps and Games] AlexECX:
I was surprised by how difficult it is on Android to download a music from a big MusicStore directly on my phone and play it with the player of my choice. I still haven't found a way, I have to download them from Google music on my laptop and transfer via USB.
[Android Apps and Games] lagvoid:
My pulsar player is Auto playing when it connects to Bluetooth in my car even after I toggle the option to disable it in settings. Anyone know a solution?

Verizon Galaxy s10 plus
[Android Apps and Games] Animatorium:
Please update this marvelous app's manifest for Android 9 as to the navbar's color.

Edit: <item name="navigationBarColor">color</item> (?)
[Android Apps and Games] chellyx:
Love the app! Thanks for developing it.

- The behavior of the notification bar is inconsistent. If I pause the music from within the notification bar, the notification remains (which is very nice because this means I can resume the song from anywhere on my phone). If I pause the song from within the app, the notification bar disappears. Similarly, the notification bar disappears when the app is open. It would be nice to have the notification bar stay, regardless of where the song was paused, or whether the app was open or not.

- I've had a few issues with the app automatically setting media volume to 50%. I wasn't able to reproduce it though, so it might've been some isolated error. I have only encountered this twice.
[Android Apps and Games] teco10:
Hello!

I love this app, I only have one suggestion for Dev. [MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION] Add the mirroring of the audio to tv, type similar happens on youtube if possible, in the rest, with absolute certainty, is the best music player that has today, without doubts.

Hugs.
[Android Apps and Games] NY Yankee Pride:
I'm enjoying the Pulsar app but there is one annoyance. I mostly use the "Artist" tab to sort my music. When tapping on a particular artist in the “Artist” tab, the albums for that artist are then listed in a Grid view with 3 across. Is there a setting where I can instead change this to a list view so it's condensed in a vertical view? Basically I want to make it look like if you tap the "Albums" tab & choose "List View " from the option menu on that page. It's much cleaner look.

Also one other thing I really wish I could change is after tapping on an Album there are no numbers next to the track numbers. I know it sounds silly but some of the Albums in library have over 20 tracks & it’s easier when track numbers are also listed. This is the only music app I’ve tried that doesn’t list track numbers next to each track. Is that a feature that can be added?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You can use Chromecast to play music on TV.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sorry, currently there is no such settings for this. I do not want to make the app too complex that it does not have so many places to customize.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Navigation color now will align with theme in latest release.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar did not have logic to set volume to 50%.

Pulsar will only display notification when necessary, it won't put notification always to bother you.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There is no limitation. But I have never tested 10k tracks, I only tested around 4k at most. If you have any issue, please let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You can try to move the music files to another folder such as Music. In Google Play music folder it contains a ".nomedia" file to avoid media scanner searching it.

Or you can try my new player: Omnia Music Player which should find Google Play music files since it is scanning by itself.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.omnia
[Android Apps and Games] LonglongSword:
Hi. Pulsar used to ignore the articles ('a', 'the') in the beginning of song names when sorted alphabetically. It seems like it is no longer the case (I assume since the last update? I've only just noticed). Was this something you changed on purpose or is this some sort of a bug? I find it really inconvenient to find songs right now.

I've also tried your new music player, Omnia, which has an option to ignore the articles in album and artist names but not in song names - maybe this could also be an added feature?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] LauXjpn:
Settings/Exclude folder are being ignored

Hi, I have been using Pulsar happily for many years now for all my music.

With the current version though, it seems that all my excluded folders are being ignored. I have removed and added them again, but all media files in them got added to the library anyway.

Motorolla Moto G 2014 (Titan)

Android 7.1.2 (LineageOS 14.1)

Pulsar 1.9.0
[Android Apps and Games] chumeo_di_hia:
Thank you so much for your good player app.

Please add "Sleep Timer" into Playlist? So I can take a time to sleep after choose a song to play. This will help save my time. :)

And please add option to hide Smart Playlist (like Pulsar+ app).
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this issue, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rx-49:
hello, pulsar keep adding 'folder name' into album tag (if album tag is empty)
[Android Apps and Games] christ59520:
Hello.

Would it be possible to add a confirmation for the deletion of a music?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Rosetti:
[MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION]

How can I backup my Artists images which I added manually?
[Android Apps and Games] mareki81:
I just bought Oneplus 7 Pro and pulsar just stop playing a songs after a while (in about 2-3 minutes) . I was using oneplus 6 before with no issues at all.
[Android Apps and Games] palette64:
I have an issue when changing an album's artist name. Ex: renaming an album's artist from "Red Velvet (레드벨벳)" to "Red Velvet" will change the album's artist to "Red Velvet ("

I tried removing the parenthesis and spaces but it won't work, it's stuck like that until I add something to it.
[Android Apps and Games] TMoane:
I really like this app. My only feedback is that it would be nice if there was an "art only" mode for Grid view (I don't care about the provided information and a long-press replicates the functionality of the 3 dots icon) and for album art to be used in the Song list. I just tried out the Omnia app and noticed that it has the latter, but I'd like to stay with Pulsar because it has a nice "soft" look (I also like how there's no margin between album/artist art on the lists, and how there's no animation when switching between tabs - some other apps that have this functionality include an option to turn it off).
[Android Apps and Games] andwan0:
Awesome player.

Please keep lyrics displayed when song goes to next track.
[Android Apps and Games] rsanchis:
Why can't I donwload de Artist Artwork.
[Android Apps and Games] Sansibleny:
Pulsar keeps pausing my songs randomly. It's gotten worse and worse. Unfortunately it's got to the point where the app is useless as it can't make it through a single song without pausing every 15 seconds. When paused pressing play on headphones does not continue the music, so you have to unlock your phone and press play in app. To make matters worse, when it pauses and you unpause it, it will pause itself again 2 seconds later. Only after unpausing twice will it play for another handful of seconds before pausing again. Sad. I've used this app for years. On the plus version.
[Android Apps and Games] dynamicity:
I'm enjoying this app so far but there are a couple of problems that have been irritating me a bit.

The first is that sometimes certain songs just don't play - the app looks like it's playing them for about 5 seconds but no sound comes out and it abruptly skips to the next song. I've checked and the file format is supported and there's no DRM or anything that should cause this issue.

The second is that I've been unable to transfer my existing playlists from iTunes - I've put them in the appropriate folder with every kind of file format possible and they still never show up in the app.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There is delete confirmation dialog while deleting music in main scenarios. Could you tell me which scenario that deletion dialog is missing?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Is there any battery settings which automatically shutdown Pulsar? Have you disabled the notification for Pulsar?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sorry, currently there is no backup feature for artist images.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Only synchronized lyrics will automatically start.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Are you using the correct artist name?
[Android Apps and Games] christ59520:
It works now. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem, this is not common. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please send the music which cannot played to support@rhmsoft.com for me to have a test.

Which playlist format are they?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] mareki81:
problem solved via phone software update
[Android Apps and Games] spajak:
Album artist tag again

Please fix handling of Album Artist / Various Artist TAG. When I choose album artist view the app shows first artist insted of album artist, and shows only one track in the album. I have perfectly tagged music collection with foobar2000 with Id3v2.3. No chance to have invalid tags. Beside this the app is no. 1
[Android Apps and Games] 1pesh:
I totally agree, same issues here, which is really oftenly encounter in apps unless foobar for android. But pulsar is still the best in the game.
[Android Apps and Games] icon_iop:
Perhaps you could design the UI Elements for the eqalizer in material design, too. At the moment they dont completly fit to the rest of the design.
[Android Apps and Games] Hammerhand.17:
I am trying to interact with tasker and Pulsar, and didn't find a response for this question. What intent should tasker send to make music start playing?
[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
I'm having an issue with the shuffle function. I can reproduce this every time I use the app, on 2 different phones. I go to the "songs" tab, hit the "shuffle" button and let it start playing. Swiping right to go the next song works as expected. When I go to the queue and select a song manually, it will start playing as expected, but, the problem starts once I go back to the now playing screen. Swiping right after that causes Pulsar to go to the last song in the playlist instead of the next song, and swiping right again start the playlist at song 1 again. This happens with "keep shuffle mode" checked, or unchecked, I tried both. I have attached a link of a video of this happening.

https://youtu.be/STTle33hOIY
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for the video. The problem can be reproduced and will be fixed in next release. If you contact support@rhmsoft.com, I can send you a temp build for you to have a test.
[Android Apps and Games] king4ng:
Please add the option to edit album art in edit tag. Thanks, i love your app!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You can edit album art while editing album tags, instead of song tags.

http://rhmsoft.com/pulsar/help/albumtag.html
[Android Apps and Games] bluefender:
using this on an android tv box, connected to tv hdmi, works great.. but one little problem i have, in album view when i scroll around albums to make a selection, the album covers are do not highlight enough, its like im not sure what album on before i enter

to tracks, is there anyway of making it so the album covers highlight more, so as to stand out more, when i scroll around album covers id like them to sort of zing out at me, so i know what album im on, the highlight seems to muted.
[Android Apps and Games] Aknez:
Hello. Could you please add a permanent playlist option? Right now, if you search for a song, your play queue gets deleted and then only plays the searched artist/album. Instead, I would like to listen to the searched song, but then continue with my original playlist.
[Android Apps and Games] AndrewLMacaulay:
Having a number of issues with current version of Pulsar.

1. Playlists not refreshing - have deleted the app data but still not refreshing (had duplicates, deleted some, now no longer syncing with mu3 files which I share across devices!

2. Some (but not all) Various Artists being shown independently on "Album Artists" artists screen - i.e. has Album Artist = "Various Artists" and Artist for the artist name of track (e.g. deadmau5"). Listed as separate Album Artist deadmau5! But some other Various Artists tracks/albums are correctly shown under the Various Artists area.

Have been loving the app until now, when it has become unusable for the playlists, and frustrating for the artists page.

Interestingly, the new beta of Omnia (which looks like it shares a fair bit of code with Pulsar), does not have THESE specific issues - but has an even bigger issue of assuming that "and", "&", and some other separators mean that the artists name should be split into multiple artists, even on Album Artists - and when it is a band with the name "and" in it, it makes it pretty much unusable.

As a reference, have used other music apps and they don't suffer from any of these issues. For example, doubleTwist (which seems to pick up the m3u playlists just fine, which many of the other players don't) does not have any of the above issues.

Are these issues going to be fixed soon?
[Android Apps and Games] Atorsana:
Artist tag problem

Hi, I have a problem with artist tags, which only comes up with one artist name that is 'Drottnar'. The problem is that when I started Pulsar, it changed the artist tag to 'Drottnar.' - an added dot at the end. I checked my tags and they were correct. I tried with different tag versions, deleting other than still the same. I tried rebooting my phone, scanning the library, editing the tags within Pulsar, and always the same: an added dot at the end of Drottnar. When I changed the artist tag to 'Drottna', it did change. When I tried it with different caps like 'DROTTNAR' or 'DroTTnar', it always transformed to 'Drottnar.' This wouldn't be anything but a visual problem, but the Last.FM scrobbler identifies it as 'Drottnar.' instead of 'Drottnar'. Problem was noticed in version 1.9.0 and continued in 1.9.1.

If there's anything more I can tell you to solve this issue please let me know.

Best regards,

Samuel
[Android Apps and Games] octobers-advent:
I just discovered this player and it would be perfect except for one thing. Please put in a shuffle by album feature. I like to create playlist of albums and listen to the full albums in random order. I don't want to have to pick the order the albums play. The only shuffle option is to shuffle by songs. I would buy the pro version immediately if this was put in.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] gl000008:
This problem still happens in version 1.9.1

Very good app!!!
[Android Apps and Games] spajak:
// TODO: Fix ALBUM ARTIST tag handling, to please music fans

Album artist issue seems to have lower priority than fancy icon shadow at midnight. Please, dear dev at least respond to my petition. I value Pulsar and I wish It a lot of new, yet undecided, Foobar2000 fans :)
[Android Apps and Games] ears1991:
Liking the app, a couple of suggetsions:

The scrollbar behaviour, the behaviour in google contacts and play music (e.g. artists/album list) give a much better UX for me, I can bring the letter picker thing up with a single touch/gesture every time, whereas in pulsar it feels like there is an extremely narrow area i have to touch to do this, so to reliably "grab" the letter picker, you need to first scroll by swiping anywhere on the screen to bring the scrollbar up, and at that point it is easy to grab (2 touches/gestures though vs one in GPM)

if you bring up the full screen player, there is no way of going back without using the back button, I think it would be nice to be able to swipe it down like in GPM.

Cheers

Edit: Can you explain the "default order" for sorting tracks in an album, it seems very bizzare. Not sure why you would want anything different to sorting by disc/track as the default.
[Android Apps and Games] bomdia:
Not sure if the correct place I've your app and a Bluetooth speaker and I want that the music that I listening don't stop when other source of audio start on device or when your app is in background after 2 3 hours of time I'm using a xiaomi mi mix 3 Italy version