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[Android Apps and Games] baumannboy:
Pulsar Widget Doesn't Allow Nav to Main Screen

When I open Pulsar using the widget there is no way to navigate to Pulsar's main screen. Pressing the back button brings you back to the widget.

I'm running the latest build of Pulsar, and it's on my Galaxy S22 w/ Android 15.

Would really appreciate even a temporary solution to this, as Pulsar is my default music listening app.
[Android Apps and Games] DinnerScraps:
Hi!

I just upgraded from the free version to pulsar plus (I've been using pulsar for years!).

I was hoping in the premium version I could set the default sort order for albums to track number instead of alphabetical.

The problem for me is, I use Google assistant to change albums when driving - this works fine, however the default play order is alphabetical and I would much prefer to have this set to track number.

Is there a setting I may have missed? Can this be patched into an update?

Just to clarify, I know I can manually change this in the app - however when using hands free google assistant to change albums, the default sorting is applied, not track number sorting.
[Android Apps and Games] xsolinsx:
Hello,

I have an issue when connecting the player to android auto, I usually listen to music using a folder on my phone with ~2000 .mp3 files.

The issue is that when I connect to Android auto I cannot see the play queue, it loads forever without ever displaying anything, probably because there are too many files. I tried with smaller folders and it works, also working when using the big folder and trying to open the play queue NOT IN android auto.

Is this something that can be resolved?
[Android Apps and Games] HoodCP:
I'm still on the free version of the app, considering getting the paid one, but have come across an issue and don't know if it's a bug (and would still be there with the paid version) or a deliberate feature of the free version. Almost all of my playlists are missing a few songs. I can't see any mention that this is deliberate and that along with access to the equaliser, etc, it gets sorted out with the paid version, but I also can't see any mention of it in this forum as a bug.
[Android Apps and Games] Rohitagar19:
Please solve the problem quickly........
[Android Apps and Games] kajacek:
How to set in Android 12 (Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G) this app as default for playing music? When I set it as default through the method provided on the net - then when I open a music file via the File Manager, the Music program continues to open, not Pulsar ... it does not help when I force stop the Music program ...
[Android Apps and Games] TheMystic:
This problem is not of Pulsar+ app. Your file manager uses the built-in music app by default. You can try 'Open with...' by right-clicking the music file. With this, you may also see the option to use another music app. If so, then choose your app of choice (e.g. Pulsar+) and set it as default by clicking on ALWAYS.
[Android Apps and Games] kajacek:
"Right-clicking" on the phone? How???
[Android Apps and Games] TheMystic:
I mean select the file using the file manager and look for 'Open with...' under options.
[Android Apps and Games] kajacek:
Ok - but when i use this function it still opens me the default "Music" app
[Android Apps and Games] TheMystic:
Not possible. Did you choose 'Open with...'? In open with, you'll always be able to choose another app of your choice, and usually you may also have the option to set that as default going forward. But it is possible that the stock file manager will always default to the stock player.

So even if you can't change the default player, 'Open with...' will ALWAYS open/ play/ run the file in the app you choose.
[Android Apps and Games] kajacek:
This option doesn't work with .FLAC files - it works with .MP3 files but I don't see the "ALWAYS" option - a bit strange...
[Android Apps and Games] TheMystic:
So your stock file manager doesn't support changing the default player.

If you use a 3rd party file manager, you'll be able to change the default player for that file manager app.
[Android Apps and Games] kajacek:
I will check thx
[Android Apps and Games] TheMystic:
Although this will work with all 3rd party file manager apps, I use this file manager app:

File Manager - Apps on Google Play

Fast, easy-to-use and full-featured file manager app with cloud integration.

play.google.com

It allows me to set the default app to use for all types of files.
[Android Apps and Games] kajacek:
I tried it and it works - thanks a lot 👋
[Android Apps and Games] jp2code:
118 pages of comments! WOW! No, I didn't read them all.

I used BlackPlayer EX for about 15 years. I keep an SD card on my phone with 5000 songs in 415 albums. Lately, BlackPlayer forgets where my folder is every time I open it, so I have to point it again and wait 10 to 20 minutes while it indexes all of my files again. Time for a new player.

I like everything about this player (version Pulsar 1.11.5) except that I don't see any way to shuffle play everything. I use this primarily at the gym, out for a ride on my motorcycle, or when I am mowing the yard. In no instance do I want to stop, pull up the player, and find the next album. I just want to shuffle through what I have for infinity.

Otherwise, this seems like a nice MP3 player!
[Android Apps and Games] ulxerker:
Recently I noticed that Pulsar isn't available in Android Auto anymore, is there a compatibility issues and what can we do?
[Android Apps and Games] Burn5:
I’m using the app with android auto, would like to ask for help with an issue.

When I get out of the car, the multimedia system get’s turned off.

When I turn the car on again, uppon starting the app, I need to tap the play button, because although the last played song’s position was correctly saved, I couldn’t find a way to configure auto play at app start.

Is this possible?

Another thing that need’s improvement for car use, is play next folder or next album, after the end of the last song of current folder or current album.

I’ll buy the premium version to suport the developers.
[Android Apps and Games] rhhd:
Great app, thanks a lot! I was a very happy Shuttle+ user until recently, but that app seems to be abandoned and is very buggy on recent Android versions, so I was looking for a replacement and Pulsar comes really close.

One bug I noticed: In the album list view Pulsar seems to randomly display one of the artist tags of one of the songs, instead of using the "album artist" tag.

A nonessential but neat feature that I am missing from Shuttle+: It can recolor its interface based on the album art of the currently playing track, using Google's color extraction API.
[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
Is development dead for this app? It hasn't been updated since November.
[Android Apps and Games] ukuleleChris:
Can I set a playlist to repeat when all songs have played?
[Android Apps and Games] aces2splash:
I noticed a chirping sound when plugged in to a wired headset on my Galaxy phone. It's very annoying.
[Android Apps and Games] ulxerker:
After the last update a few days ago the control panel inside the app disappears as soon as you stop music and switch to another app, also very annoying (paid version on Android 13, S23).
[Android Apps and Games] jardel2610:
Quando passa para a próxima música a capa não atualiza mostrando sempre a capa da música anterior.
[Android Apps and Games] San Diego:
I'll add a request: pitch or tempo control. Was a great feature of rocket player. Any chance this could be added?
[Android Apps and Games] mem32:
Bug report

Steps

New Playlist created/songs added.

List in alphabetical order.

Playlist set to Default order,

Manually arrange to be track order.

Sync Playlists

Backup Playlist to Documents folder

Now Playlist is in alphabetical order again. (sort order still on Default)
[Android Apps and Games] 3nd3rm4n:
PLEASE ADD MULTIPLE ARTISTS SUPPORT.

PLEASE ADD MULTIPLE ARTISTS SUPPORT.

The auto-download of Artists images is excellently accurate for me. All i want now is separate artists sharing one song.
[Android Apps and Games] KindlyCritical:
Great app. I've used it for years on my phone, but Kodi for my car. Now, I have a different car and use Pulsar on Android Auto. The car's music player sucks butt wind since it doesn't show cover art: thanks GM (yes, they are that stupid.).

When I use Pulsar, embedded cover art works fine; but requires a LOT more storage than using a separate file per (say) directory or album. folder.{jpg,jpeg,png,xpm...} is consistent with Windows. It would be nice to show these when browsing folders in Pulsar, too. fanart, folder, poster is consistent with Kodi. Fanart files are generally full screen, folder, poster files are thumbs. They are not usually the same image as both may appear depending on the skin/context.

Currently Pulsar generates backgrounds from covers, but fanart files would be better. Or go crazy: Artist slideshow is the coolest music thing Kodi ever got. It's rare in music players and worth considering. It's VERY compatible with Pulsar in landscape.
[Android Apps and Games] herlgl:
Pulsar Favorites when switching SD card

I put a new SD card in my phone and copied all the music onto it. I now realized that my favorites playlist points to the old SD location - understandable.

So I then wanted to just grab the sqlite database and edit it to point to the new location.

Problem: The "favorites" table in the database is now empty.

Please change Pulsar to not delete favorites from its DB just because they are no longer on the device. Mark them in a different color and ignore them for example.

It seems it's not even possible to backup the favorites without root? Like export to m3u or so?

Any way to get the favorites back?
[Android Apps and Games] Sage:
Wow what a great app! Thanks so much. Only issue I had was it didn't pickup any of my mp3s in the Audiobook folder. Moved them to a Music folder and it picked them up there all good though
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Make sure the audiobook folder does not contain a ".nomedia" file.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Which Android version are you using? If older Android version, you can reset the media store database to rescan your media files after SD card change. Pulsar relies on Android media scanner, if there is any file path error, it means the Android media database is corrupted. If the file no longer exist in the media database, it will not be shown in favorite list. From your problem, I think the media database still have your old song paths but they should not be there.

Here is how to rebuild the media store database, but for new Android versions this does not work:

Go to Settings > Apps > 3 dot menu > show system, find Media Storage, then clear data and reboot your device, wait a few minutes, the media storage will rebuild from scratch.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will think about it in future releases. In the meanwhile you can try my another music player Omnia which has its own media scanner and multi-artist support:

Omnia Music Player - Apps on Google Play

Omnia is powerful mp3 and audio player with hi-res output and 10-band equalizer.

play.google.com
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Can you reproduce this problem in latest version? If so, please contact support@rhmsoft.com and I am willing to reproduce this problem and fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] aces2splash:
Latest app has an issue displaying artist info across the dash on my RAM 2500. A song title will lock on the vehicle display however you can still change songs but the display is locked on the last artist. The previous app edition had no problems displaying information correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] aces2splash:
It appears as though you need internet access in order for the mp3 data (song titles) to be transferred to your auto system. It's working now that I ported to a new service provider.
[Android Apps and Games] iceorfire95:
That's probably it. I just converted it to mp3 and now it's fine. I don't know what was wrong with it. But stellio player could read the correct length of the song. I'll check if this happens with other m4a files.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is an encoding problem. You can manually update the artist name using tag editor.
[Android Apps and Games] vallerydelexy:
ive tried it, nah...

another copy of shuttle+ music player.

very few in-app effect compared to shuttle+

lack of auto-lyric function.

nah.. i aint going to use it
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
It says that my device is not supported when opening equalizer. Other music players with eq works fine. Using Stellio for now.
[Android Apps and Games] marko94:
Thanks [MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION] ..Works perfect for me.. Best player ,good job..any update or something new soon ? :D
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please send your android version and device type to support@rhmsoft.com, I would like to know what happens. Are you using 3rd party ROM? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
I am using Galaxy V SM-G313ZH or called Galaxy Ace NXT in some other places. Running Kitkat 4.4.2 stock Touchwiz ROM. I think I know what's causing it now. The sound mod that I flashed before. Can't remember what it is. Is it a bug in your app or a problwm in my phone? Because as I said, other music players works fine.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If other players works fine, then it should be my application bug.

It may because of the sound mode you flashed, I use standard Android API to operate equalizer related tasks, should work on common android devices.

If next time you can reproduce this problem, please tell me the name of sound mod. I need to reproduce this first.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Next release I plan to add Last.fm scrobbling support. Hope you like it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Last.fm scrobbling through official client or simple Last.fm scrobbler has been supported in latest release 1.3.3. Please upgrade and have a try. Any problem, please let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] vlevi:
I have found this app some days ago. It is very good!

I have one question. Can you show a hierarchical folder list?

I have may multi-disc albums, in disc1, disc2 folders. This flat folder list is not the best way to show them.

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[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Flat folder list not work well in your situation. I would like to consider this in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] vlevi:
Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] diablow:
Neat app, I've been searching for lite music player and this might be it. So far discovered only one issue: when I start playback by pressing "Play/pause" button on my wired headset, music starts playing, but notification with current track and controls does not appear in notifications list.
[Android Apps and Games] Romagnolo1973:
@ rhmsoft

can you change colors of shuffle ad repeat buttons, because now is hard to understand if they are active or not. They are white if active and gray if not, too much similar when you are outside. Probably orange like the pause color button when active is a better choice, or instead change icon ( as 2 parallel arrow for shuffle off that change to 2 crossed arrow when on or something like that).

Thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] Dennis@@:
tittle improvements

Hello,

I really like your app and I use it daily to listen to my music. I just have a small improvement for the width of the order artists, folder, genres etc. I personally like to have just artists and albums as my tabs but can you maybe make the size of these tabs even, so that both use 50 % of the whole width. And when you like to use three tabs (artists, album, genres) each tab use 33.3% of the whole width
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The notification will only be visible when playing in background. Are you playing music without Pulsar app visible? I will have a study on this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] RknDroidFreak:
I have a 3rd party play/pause musicc shortcut in homescreen. Playing music from that button plays the music but but doesn't show notification even in background unless I open up pulsar app once.

After that, everything will be alright.
[Android Apps and Games] diablow:
Pulsar is running in background "minimized", but song is paused. When I press "play" button on headet song continues playing, but Pulsar notification does not appear.

To get notification I need to open Pulsar, start playing song and press "home" button, to go back to main screen. That way Pulsar notification appears.
[Android Apps and Games] Schlengge:
Love the app.

One great issue for me though:

Albums with songs from different artists get splitted up. So I see for every artist an own entry in the albums grid even though they share the same album title.

Would be nice if the app could ignore the artist there and only look at the album name.
[Android Apps and Games] Escadias:
Hello, awesome app.

Is there a way to create / edit .m3u playlists found on the external SD card?
[Android Apps and Games] coderzalmy87:
When I try to change the speed to anything higher than 2.05 I get this error.

Operation failed.

=== Description ===

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException​
[Android Apps and Games] Samsung S9+ User:
Looking for some help with Artist Tags... using the Tag Editor in Pulsar it keeps adding a bunch of spaces in Album Artist. Does not go away after I edit them out.

This causes the display to be in the wrong position on the lock screen and on Bluetooth devices.

Pictures attached... please help🤞🏻

Samsung Galaxy S9+ / Pulsar 1.12.1
[Android Apps and Games] Honeytea:
Yes, its easy. You can do this with any editor app.
[Android Apps and Games] Escadias:
Yes I know this is a text file.

I mean editing within Pulsar. It seems to work for m3u files on the internal storage, but not on the external SD card
[Android Apps and Games] updroid:
Can you make it show .opus files?
[Android Apps and Games] Jason 866:
hi, can you tell me why some of my albums are being split up, thanks Jason
[Android Apps and Games] ib_:
Best player I've seen. I love it!

There is only one thing missing for me, fastforward and backward in the song bar (something like 10 seconds)
[Android Apps and Games] dominusdemonum:
As of last night, the widget has disappeared. Android version 14, One UI version 6. It was very useful and I used it a lot. Will it be restored?
[Android Apps and Games] Condor70:
I'm experiencing a bug with flac playback.

If a certain song (in flac format) is in my playlist it will play that song and then skip every following song after about a second (without playing it).

It behaves as if every following song is invalid (which they aren't - it will play them when selected). This specific song somehow leaves Pulsar in an invalid state.

Is there any debug information I can provide to assist in locating this bug?
[Android Apps and Games] leo989:
Hi, I am using Pulsar in my phone perfectly and love it, but in my car (android 10 headunit) there is a problem: I have a USB with mp3 songs in many folder, Pulsar can scan and see album cover and show number of songs inside. But Pulsar can't not list the song and play.

Others music players have the same problem, but also some music players work normally (Blackplayer, stock player...).

Hope to have a guide through it.

Have a nice day.
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hi there, I've been using Pulsar now for a few years and never really had problem with it. It is the best Music App I've ever had and I'd like to keep using it. So I got a new phone recently (Samsung Galaxy A54 G5) and installed the app. It scanned my music and I can listen to everything, no problem there. But then I wanted to edit the Name and Artist Tags and it did not work. The title didn't change after the editing of the title. It asked permission to edit the audio file and I confirmed (even though it is kind of annoying that i have to confirm it for every single change at every file), but it still did not change. I don't have a SD Card in my phone, so I couldn't find any advice that helped. I've tried to rescan the library, nothing changed. Just when I restarted my phone, one of the three changed titles finally changed. Then I could edit another one and it changed immediately, but then the same problem appeared. I could edit and edit and edit them again and again, nothing changed. Does anyone have any advice?
[Android Apps and Games] Flat4Scooby:
Hi, is there any way a setting could be added to keep the screen awake while using the app? Many thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] LaurF:
Hello.

Thank you for this app, it's really nice to have control over my local playlist.

I have one suggestion, if worth only implementing. I would love to see the file bitrate alongside the sample rate while it's being played. Is this something that can be done in future versions?

Thanks again for the time and for this amazing app 🙏
[Android Apps and Games] sharkie405:
You can do this with Tasker. See screenshots.
[Android Apps and Games] Urbop:
Where do you set the page that Pulsar opens when you click on the widget?

On phone 1, clicking on the widget leads to the folders list (which is what I prefer). But on phone 2, it opens the current track (the page with the track and the big picture). At the same time, on phone 2, if you click on the actual pulsar icon, it opens the folders list.
[Android Apps and Games] AzureStriker14:
I've been having a problem with my playlists. When restoring my playlists, two of them load like normal. However, the app only loads a random playlist from among the others I selected. Is there something wrong with the playlist file?

Also, I was wondering what the numbers at the end of the playlist file name meant (Ex: My Mix_818931).
[Android Apps and Games] AzureStriker14:
I fixed the playlist issue by converting the .txt files into .m3u and deleting all of the old playlist files. Is there a setting I can change to view the whole album art? I have some rectangular images set as covers, but the app only shows the middle of the picture.
[Android Apps and Games] snehne:
Would it be possible to have thumbnail displayed in folders view (with a similar look to albums view)? Simply loading a thumbnail file from the folder would be greatly useful; automatic extraction from media files would be even better. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You can long press the next/previous button for fast forward/backward.

Please have a look at fast forward/backward section in following help topic:

Now Playing Page

rhmsoft.com
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It mostly will switch back to the app. If the app has not been launched, it will go to the main page, otherwise it will go to the last page when the app runs in foreground.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Can you add the widget back?

Maybe it is related to the launcher app.
[Android Apps and Games] ib_:
Thanks! I will use it
[Android Apps and Games] Samsung S9+ User:
Adding more info since I see Rhmsoft back in the thread.

I used Audacity to clear out all existing metadata tags and re-add the correct info. I then deleted the existing audio files and replaced them with the correct tagged files.

Still the same issue is showing. This must be some type of cache storage issue right? Well I cleared the cache and uninstalled Pulsar, still seeing the same problem.

Is there a way to fully reset the cache short of resetting my phone? I know that's extreme but I really want this issue fixed.

Or are there any other suggestions from other users?
[Android Apps and Games] peterfarge:
Hello,

I use the Pulsar player with Android 13 to play podcasts through a wired headphone.

If the headphone wobbles in the socket, the player jumps to the next podcast.

Can I turn off this behavior in Pulsar or Android?

Thanks

Peter
[Android Apps and Games] deejaylaz:
Hello everyone thanks for the good player you made

I have a request any chance to have the possibility to add songs on the favourite from the lock screen ?

Thanks in advance