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[Android Apps and Games] jack allen:
Yeah i have made my own playlists and a bout 7 in total and even though i did a fresh install on my device the playlists still have my saved playlist i love it its one oft the reasons i paid for the app its best music player by far even samsungs music player i loved i really did it looked good felt good and worked good but this is better still
[Android Apps and Games] Animouse31:
Wow! I'm truly impressed!

I think this is the best sound audio player so far. I think I'm going to replace my Black Player. Hahaha

I checked the setting, it doesn't have many option like Hi-Res audio nor OpenES.

I wonder if they are already supported?

But although without them, it's already sound very great! The mid and treble are very clear, and then added with booming, deep and round bass. Excellent!!!

BTW, you have a good ears and taste! Hahaha
[Android Apps and Games] tony_686:
WoW! Great design. i'm definitely gonna try it ?
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
The one feature that would make Pulsar much better for navigation would be to have the fast scroll bar always be visible so it can be grabbed and moved at any time. If you have a list of hundreds or thousands of items, scrolling manually is very inefficient and the best way is to use the alphabetical fast scroll bar, but it currently is only visible when scrolling. You should just make it visible all the time, or have an option so it's always visible, it will make navigation so much quicker. Also maybe make it slightly thicker so it can be grabbed easier.
[Android Apps and Games] herlgl:
Were there any changes regarding energy management?

On my Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X with Android 7 I have the music stopping every couple of minutes which was not the case some versions ago. I did not do any updates to the phone OS. Anyone experiencing similar?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Other options may be supported in future projects. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This seems to be a battery saving problem. Please remove pulsar from battery saving list, I think it will solve this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Animouse31:
It's going to be the best player out there. :svetius:
[Android Apps and Games] -moos-:
Thanks man for the use of the back button on hierarchy folder view! That with ReplayGain support and I now use your app as my main music player (ditched the powerfull PowerAmp).

Kudos dev! Once you'll make HD support, you may have the best Android music player available! ?
[Android Apps and Games] kingb71:
playlist title random characters

I like this app, is probably my favourite music player, but I've noticed if I sort by playlist, some playlist titles are replaced by random characters, this problem isn't replicated in other music players.

If I sort by folders or albums I don't have this problem.

Have uninstalled, reinstalled, upgraded to premium & problem still persists.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Isn't the first time that I report this issue, but no luck with it hasn't been solved...

All my music has set the artist, song artist, song name, album name and cover picture, but I don't know why your app is displaying "unknown artist" for some.
[Android Apps and Games] Skingolf100:
Amazon MP3 (Purchases) Library Missing

If I change the storage location on the Amazon app to internal storage, Pulsar finds the music and plays them perfectly. However, this is not ideal since internal storage is running low and it only helps with new downloads. The path is simply Internal Storage > Music. Surely there must be a way for Pulsar to index SD card > Android > data > com.amazon.mp3 > files > music > public. PowerAmp and Rocket Player find it fine.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
You realize that SD card and Internal Storage are one and the same (assuming you have anything close to a current phone)? So your space issues won't change with either location.

I suspect the reason it can't find it is that Android's built in media store doesn't look there (treats it as private app space). This is, however, a guess on my part. I do know that Pulsar uses the media store rather than doing its own scans.

What happens if you move the MP3 files from the Amazon location to Music?
[Android Apps and Games] Skingolf100:
Amazon MP3 (Purchases) Library Missing

Mine is a Samsung S7 with 32gb built in storage and a 64gb micro SD card in a slot. When I direct Amazon Music app to save downloads on the SD card, it uses a fairly circuitous path. On the internal storage, it is a very simple path. I'm not sure why the difference but Pulsar does not find the SD card location even though it finds about 42gb of other music files in SD Card > Music > Music Archives...
[Android Apps and Games] tulutoa:
Suggestion : in the player view, make the artist and album labels clickable links to the respective library sections.
[Android Apps and Games] jet_98:
Anyone knows if the songs and the albums of the screen shots are real and I looked for the artist ymer and the albums into paradise but I only get a tennis player so I guess either they are false or I'm not looking where I should be
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
I second everything related to android auto, i'm currently using another paid app but Pulsar seems better but android auto implementation is a show stopper for me (I almost use android music player only in android auto).

An android auto menu "Play everything randomly" would also be appreciated.

If I start listening to music and then use android auto player controls appears.. kind of unrealistic use case.
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
About ReplayGain: does pulsar simply apply gain (+ preamp value from settings) or also apply prevent clipping?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com and send me one test file which displayed as unknown artist for me to have a test. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently it uses the gain value from tags, together with preamp settings.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will have a check on the android auto issues. Some of the requirement may not be supported in future since you should not do many things on Android auto while driving, it is unsafe. For instance, favorite buttons.
[Android Apps and Games] :
I have tried another music player (phonograph) and is also displaying "unknown artist" for the same artists than Pulsar.

I have sent also the related mp3s to another phone and Pulsar (and also Phonograph) is displaying the correct artist.

The issue can be related to the Android Media library API or what?
[Android Apps and Games] ZTEMINI:
CloudPlayer includes the favorite button in the Android Auto now playing interface, next to the previous track button and I think it's ok there. Easy way to favorite a track that starts playing while you are driving, without distracting you.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think clicking on favorite button while driving is a dangerous behavior, isn't it?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Then I think the problem can be easily fixed by rebuild the media store database. Here is how:

Goto Settings->Apps

Select ALL apps tab

Scroll down "Media Storage" application

Select It

Stop the Service

Select Clear Data

Reboot your device and wait about 5 minutes
[Android Apps and Games] :
Nope, this doesn't solves the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
Maybe the tags are corrupted, you should try foobar2000 desktop and try repairing tool

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Some other media player have an option to also prevent clipping so: gain from volume informations and preamp are applied but finally reduced to prevent clipping. I understand that currently this is not implemented, correct?
[Android Apps and Games] Slash941210:
Hi,

I don't know if someone already made this suggestion, but when you browse the album tab, it would be nice to sort/group them regardless of the artist and the artist-album. If there is a featuring on the album, you end up with 2 different albums and you just can't play the whole album in one shot. As an example I just downloaded the last album for Eminem, I can't easily listen to it because it's seen as 5 different albums. The only solution right now would be to edit the tags and remove every extra artist names, but I lose the info...
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
In id3 tags there are "Artist" and "Album Artist": within the same album "Album artist" should be the same, in the Artist field there should be the list of artists for that specific song (eg: the main artist and "featuring" artist" or the same "Album Artist" value). I have the same situation for Queen's "Greatest Hits III" where songs feats other artists than queen: if I open "Queen" artist i see all albums with all songs, if I open a featured artist I see the queen album with only the featured artist. From what you described seems not all the songs from you Eminem album have the same "Album Artist" field (which should be "Album Artist" -> "Eminem"; "Artist" -> whatever it should be).
[Android Apps and Games] Slash941210:
That does the job, thanks ! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] SePac:
First, I wanna say thank you for this amazing music app.

I want to say that there's a small problem that it sometimes play music without my permission. I paused to the music but somtimes the music goes on by itself. And the music doesn't pause when I get calls(I'm using T telephone app which is for Korean SK Telecom user). I wish I can get the solution. Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] daktah:
Reporting that the u11 on 8.0 does not support gapless playback as well. Makes no sense since my v20 on marshmallow and Nexus 5x on Oreo had no problem with it. Is there any way around this because this is just dumb.
[Android Apps and Games] udi9:
Just came here to say thank you for this wonderful player!

I was looking for something like that for ages and Pular is just amazing!

After using the free version for a day, I immediately went out and bought the pro version :)

I'm really impressed.

I have a few suggestions for your consideration (absolutely not deal breakers, but can make Pulsar even better IMO)

1. Add a 'Skip When Shuffling' option to songs/albums/artists (a cool feature from iTunes).

2. Make the song, artist and album names font a little larger in the main player (under the album art) - it's the most important info after all... and maybe they can also be clickable and take you to the corresponding location.

3. Swipe down on the main player to minimize it (a-la GPM).

4. Better caching of artists' images, so when scrolling through the artist list you don't have to see the grey avatar while the image is loaded.

Thanks again,

And keep up the good job!

Udi
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com to discuss this requirement in more detail. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
They are treated as different albums in android media store. This is the way to distinguish albums with the same name. I will think about how to solve this kind of problems in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for your explanation!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Did you recall when the music goes on by itself?

Do you mean that every time pulsar is playing, and there is a call coming, the music does not pause? This is not working as designed, could you use another call app to have a try? I have never met this kind of problem before using Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Maybe you can turn on cross fade and use the smallest value as work around.
[Android Apps and Games] SePac:
For the first ting, if I pause the music and watch youtube and then erase youtube in recent apps, the music just plays.

and the second thing. If I use basic phone call app it is same. In the manner mode(vibration only mode), when the call comes, the music doesn't stop. Thus, if I am listening to music with earphones, I cannot notice the incoming call. Is my explanation clear?

Sorry for my bad English...

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] udi9:
Not sure if it's a bug or by design, but I noticed that if I choose Album under the 3 dots menu in the main player, the app obviously takes me to the album, but if then I maximize the player and tap back - the app won't go back to the album but to the previous main category I've been browsing (i.e. Songs, Artists, Album etc.).

Hope my explanation is clear...
[Android Apps and Games] laazaz:
if you could add the functionality to search music online, it would become literally the BEST music player!
[Android Apps and Games] daktah:
Tried, just made the gap a little shorter but still didn't work
[Android Apps and Games] htcnoob29:
Improvement/Feature Requests

First of all, excellent work on Pulsar Music Player. I have used over 10 music players on Android and nothing (maybe JetAudio is equally good in terms of sound quality) beats Pulsar when it comes to audio quality, UI, song management. I have been impressed enough to purchase the pro version. Excellent work, keep it up :highfive::D

That being said, there are still a couple of issues/improvements you should look into that most of other music players have and makes user experience convenient.

1) Ability to

auto play the last music when connected to bluetooth and/or headphone jack

. This feature can be turned on/off from settings. This way, as a user, every time I am connected to my car bluetooth player, I would not have to pick up my phone and reshuffle my playlist. (Check any top music players such as Poweramp, Black, Jet Audio, etc. > Settings > Bluetooth/Headphone Connection)

2) Ability to

remove duplicates in a playlist

. As a user, I download songs quite often and try to synchronize my folder to the existing playlist. When I do, it takes all the songs and I end up have a lot duplicates. Perhaps you can create an index/unique id for each song at each specific directory and allow us to remove duplicates (Check Poweramp Music Player > Playlist > Remove Duplicates)

3) Ability to

sort songs in playlists (Can be by tracks, folder, artist, etc.)

. As a user, when I create a playlist from multiple folders, I would like to view my songs in an overall alphabetic sorted order, rather than folder alphabetic sorted order (Check Poweramp Music Player > Playlist > Sort)

You might have see the email version of this at support@rhmsoft.com

Thought of sharing it here, if others could find it useful.
[Android Apps and Games] Ricyn:
Best music player ever. Never enjoyed my music liks this before.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you very much for your suggestions. I will consider them in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Finally I have solved the issue.

Seems than Android isn't supporting really long cover images (higher than 2-3 MB) inside the MP3.

I have replaced the cover images with a more small image and the issue was solved.

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MP3 tags contains 2 tags related to the artist: Album artist and Song artist.

You're using song artist to include a album into a artist discography. IMO you will use album artist instead and, in the album (or artist) songs enumeration use the song artist.

By example, If I have the next 3 songs:

"S1" played by "A1" in the "X1" album from "AA1"

"S2" played by "A1" in the "X1" album from "AA1"

"S2" played by "A2" in the "X1" album from "AA1"

I don't know why, you are displaying the entire "X1" album inside the discography of "A1" instead of enumerate into the discography from "AA1"

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] siddhid:
From the day of the beginning I have been facing all kind of problem with this Pulsar plus music player and now it is not showing any type of album art on album read please fix the issue. Screenshot attached.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There are other users reported this problem before, it seems they are using some cleaner app who deleted album thumbnails. Have you done this before?
[Android Apps and Games] siddhid:
No sir i dont use such cleaner app.. i am using lineage os on my mia1.
[Android Apps and Games] primalxconvoy:
Thanks for the reply. Currently, the app "Poweramp" has the ability to do this. I think they have a "Whitelist" function in that app. Could you implement that please?
[Android Apps and Games] Scarface57:
Looks like awesome. Thanks to who build this.
[Android Apps and Games] windows7:
thank for great app

i find apk

https://android-apk.org/com.rhmsoft.pulsar/
[Android Apps and Games] Viborg:
Is there a way to get the Sony Smart Connect to work with this app? It stops playback (as it should) when headphones are removed. However, when headphones are connected it doesn't start to play the song.

Sony Smart Connect seems to work with Samsung Music. I've, of course, uninstalled that app so it doesn't capture play event that Sony Smart Connect emits.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Have you enabled album artwork in settings page? If yes, could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? I can send you a temp build to locate the reason for this problem. Currently I can not reproduce this on my testing devices. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] richard.day:
Music folder name issue

Don't know whether this is the right place to report this so apologies if it is not.

Pulsar+ refuses to play audio from a folder with ':' in the path. For example 'Music/Slipknot/Vol. 3: Subliminal Verses'. Pulsar reports a Java exception and suggests it's a format problem but the issue happens with MP3 and ogg files. Removing the ':' from the folder name fixes the issue.

Samsung Music was able to play the files with the ':' in the folder name. Other music players show the same symptoms as Pulsar.

Thanks,

Richard.
[Android Apps and Games] dominusdemonum:
I read on Reddit threads that Pulsar allowed users to read from OTG flashdrives directly. On installing it, I didn't see that facility. I urgently need that feature on a music player because my phone is running out of space. I don't mind if it's a premium feature.
[Android Apps and Games] jerethi:
I've noticed when I use other music player apps (e.g., Google play music) to listen to music through my car stereo via Bluetooth, my car displays the entire track listing for the album in a playlist display window, and I can select music via that method instead of my phone. Is there a way to enable this feature on Pulsar too?
[Android Apps and Games] :
[MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION] when I start the app the current playing list as a order.

If I click the "play random songs" button at songs tab another current playing list is created.

If I pause the playback then exit the app and I enter the app again the "current playing list" is restored to the previous instead of continue with the current.

See the video: https://youtu.be/jTbyn-qLOLs

This also occurs when I playing a song and I pause the playback then resume after a while. The resumed song is not the previous playing song but a song played a few songs back....
[Android Apps and Games] kenny.lam:
Full screen on Nokia X6

Hello, The view screen is not optimized on Nokia X6, It doesn't show full screen height, please fix this asap, thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Thebear j koss:
Hello. Welcome to XDA. Demands are frowned upon here, even when followed by a thanks. Screenshots, device screen dimensions, android version, and any other useful info including mods, themes, and logs are always helpful with issues. Terms like fix this asap are not helpful and come across as demanding and make you sound entitled.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
At least he said please. It would have come across better without the asap added though. You are, of course, correct about additional information. More is always better.
[Android Apps and Games] -moos-:
Hello,

Pulsar doesn't recognise my music library anymore and it have storage permission.

I tried to clear the cache, to uninstall reinstall, but still nothing...

Any hint what the bug is?

It worked well until few days ago for no reason.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Guessing.

Go to Settings:Apps & notifications

See all apps

Turn on 'show system' app display via 3 dot menu in upper right

Go to Media Storage

Clear data

Reboot phone

See if that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This problem will be fixed in latest version 1.8.7.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The video is clear enough. Which Pulsar version are you using? Which device and android version are you using? Could you upgrade to latest version to have a try?

In the background logic, when the playback status is changed to paused or stopped, the playing state will be saved. I am not sure why yours were not saved.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This should be solved in latest version 1.8.7.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please use rescan library feature after you inject an OTG device.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently no. I did not tell the car so much information.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
All these 3 requests have been implemented in latest version 1.8.7. Have a try!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hello

I'm using a OnePlus 5 with latest oxygen beta version (beta19) but also occurs with beta 18.

The music player app version is 1.8.6.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] DataDyne:
Seems like Pulsar is now choosing the same picture for all songs in the same folder. I use only 1 folder and now all 3000 Songs have the same art cover :(
[Android Apps and Games] Yoshi_523:
Hi,

I found a bug!

Firstly to the dev. Many thanks for this awesome music player! I love the very slim, functional and sexy design! Yay for no bloatware! I had to look at 8-12 other music/DJ players before I found this one. So glad I found Pulsar! I love that I can just view by folders and file names and disable all the auto folders searching and even remove the albums, artists ect from the main window! Awesome! :) As a DJ I arrange all my collection by folders and by file name so I love that I do not have to see everything arranged by ID3 tags (Ablum/artist ect). Also love the easy customisable visual layout!

--> Bug in Pulsar version 1.8.7 using Samsung Galaxy S4 i9506 on custom Dehawk Slim Rom (based on latest official Samsung ROM Android 5.01).

I press the visualizer button & the nice coloured visualiser display comes on. When I then go to playlist (also album, artist ect) then press back to go back to the track the visualiser display is not working (black). Pressing the visualiser button on and off doesn't fix the visualiser. I have to either go to a new track or restart Pulsar to get it to display the working visualiser again.

If I was to suggest my most needed feature for the future it would be the ability to normalise (auto volume all tracks the same). I believe the current system is only able to normalise tracks volume after playing once and remembering the track is that correct? This is not really workable for me as a DJ I have a huge collection of music on my phone so many tracks will not get played until I need them. If the ability to normalise tracks requires a lot of processing (CPU) power and time then why not make an option under a playlist that you can select and choose normalise volume on all tracks. I would be happy to wait for however long it takes to process all tracks in playlist to do this. At least then I know if I set my phone up to play over speakers and walk away I will not have the odd track at too high or too low volume.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem. There is behavior change in artwork loading for albums.

If the folder contains artwork picture file, and if the 3000 songs are from the same album, then it will pick the picture file as the artwork.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The visualizer problem can not be reproduced on my testing devices. It maybe my app bug, or may related to your 3rd party ROM.

For normalise, please upgrade to latest version, and try replygain feature which is used to solve this. It does not need to play and remember, but use a tag to set the gain levels. You can use any mp3 tag app to set replaygain for your music files, and Pulsar will support them.