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[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is a problem. Currently the bubble always shows the first letter of the items in list view, such as Album name for album list. But it is true that it is better to show first character of artist name if sorted by artist.

I will have a look into this problem. I have no Pebble but I will try to reproduce this problem on my other devices.

Currently press the shuffle button will shuffle all songs in the list. If you want to play them in sequence, just click the first track in the list, it will add all tracks into playing queue in sequence.

Many users complain that there are duplicated album records even with same name and same artist. There is some problem that Android system treat them differently. I will try to fix this in future releases.

This will be supported in future releases.

Swipe left/right is a nice to have feature. Also I may replace the four way arrow if I found a better replacement.

It is true that it need more work than previous feature request. I will have a study when I have time.

Thanks for your detailed advice.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will consider this in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think this is related to multi-task(thread) handling when there are many pending image loading tasks. This has not been fixed yet but I will try to fix it in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think it just need some broadcast when music file is playing. Currently Pulsar did not send this kind of broadcast since it may be conflict with Last.fm scrobbling, I am afraid it will lead to duplicated track for each music played, but I am not sure. I will have a try when I have time. Please send me a mail to support@rhmsoft.com, then whenever I have a fix for this problem, I can send you the temp build for testing. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is a strange problem. The search should also include result for tracks. If it does not work for you, please send a mail to support@rhmsoft.com, I will have a study.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently Pulsar does not include built-in decoder, it relies on Android system decoder.

So it can support the format what your system support, as following:

https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
[Android Apps and Games] Fahd Owdli:
I already did... Thanks [emoji4]
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
Album Artist tag seems not working in album view and artist view (in album artist mode).
[Android Apps and Games] rbhatti530:
A lot of music is not playing in Pulsar+ but when I use Poweramp all my music plays perfectly. Some tracks don't even play on Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] da900:
Could you add some kind of this layout for tablets?

P.S. Does Pulsar+ support system EQs (for example, Sony's one, like in my case)?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently it is not using the album-artist tag to distinguish artists.

If an album's artist is named "artist A", "artist A" will be the album-artist, even some songs in the album are produced by "artist B", or "artist B & artist A", they are ignored.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Maybe the music formats you want to play are not supported by Pulsar. Currently Pulsar does not have built-in decoder, it depends on Android system to decode your music files.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
For layout, I will consider in future releases.

For EQ, currently it does not support it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
In latest version 1.3.9, I made some improvements on multi-thread image loading, please upgrade and have a try.
[Android Apps and Games] rbhatti530:
It used to work before but the only app that can read all my music properly is PowerAmp.
[Android Apps and Games] vivian&ondine:
Still slow. Maybe more cache for images?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
How many albums/artists do you have?
[Android Apps and Games] vivian&ondine:
80 artists and 168 albums.
[Android Apps and Games] Gfleming123:
Great app, easily the best Music Player on the Android store. Suggestion: be able to sort albums under each Artist by release year, which would also sort the individual songs in chronological order by album too. Would save on having to Playlist these!
[Android Apps and Games] mixchan:
in android 6.0.1. Although we can delete file in pulsar music player, but the file still exist inside the sdcard. Please fix the problem
[Android Apps and Games] Seosaidh:
Does this player support WMA?
[Android Apps and Games] kzhkr:
hi may i know when i sort my songs by date added, it doesn't show up correctly. is there a bug?
[Android Apps and Games] N3RO815:
Is Bluetooth support planned?
[Android Apps and Games] algoca99:
I have tried a lot of players but I can't find one that when I searched song is played, continues playing next songs. It just stop playing.

Could you add that feature? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Ragingwasabi:
Disconnect headphone auto pause music

Well built app! Best free one ive used so far. Thanks for developing it and making it free!

I just have 2 small suggestions:

App should automatically pause music playback when we disconnect any headset

For some people, including some folders for their media library is easier than excluding everything else. So you should add an Include Folder as well.
[Android Apps and Games] SilverJS:
Hi there,

Fantastic player! Love it. Clean, simple, fast, all that one should need. It also behaves like I'd want it to on Bluetooth, which is amazingly rare.

Not sure yet what the differences are with the pro version, but will likely buy it just to support your work.

I second the suggestion to have music automatically pause as headsets are removed. Could I also make a couple of requests?

1. Is there some way to enable some sort of "persistent" mode? By that, I mean that the all would always stay "on", or "on top" of the RAM queue. As it is, if I have music playing bits BT in my car on my morning commute, and then use the phone during the day, I find that I have to relaunch, or at least navigate back to, the app, to restart the music. In other words, simply pressing Play on my car deck one BT is connected doesn't start the music (did on my iPhone). To be fair, none of the music players I've tried so far do;

2. What is the reasoning behind needing to press Back twice before exiting? If anything, could that be made into a toggle in the settings (on/off)?

But hey - those are both very minor. Great job!
[Android Apps and Games] erojas388:
The shuffle button doesnt stay on if you exit the app or choose a new song.
[Android Apps and Games] digitalfree:
Doesn't delete tracks from SD card

Hey, I hope this is the right place for the following issue: The player does not delete files from my SD card even if it tells me so. Android 6.0, LG G4. I have the same problem with an other app, so it might be the phone or whatever.... And not the app. Thanks for help in advance. The player is nice and I will keep on testing it.... And probably going to buy it. Thanks for the great work.
[Android Apps and Games] soypoi:
Love the app and haven't had that many issues, but I would love crossfade implementation.. Nonetheless Great job!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Was there a dialog popup to grant Pulsar write permission to your SD card?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Here are the supported media formats, please refer to audio part:

https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently the date added is sorting by last modified date. What is the problem on your device?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
What kind of Bluetooth device do you have? Currently I have a Sony m505 Bluetooth player and JBL Go Bluetooth speaker, they work well with Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean you want to play all songs inside search result? The result contains the song that you want to search but also may contain unrelated songs.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
When disconnect headset, the playback will be paused. This is already supported.

If it does not work on your device, please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
When disconnect headset, the playback will be paused. This is already supported. If it does not work on your device, please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem.

Pulsar will take over the audio control when you start playing music using it. It will release the audio control when you stop playing music with it. After that, when you press media button, there is no respond from Pulsar. I do not want Pulsar always stay active when user already stopped it.

Press back twice to avoid touching by mistake.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Was there a dialog popup to grant Pulsar write permission to your SD card? SD card can be written on Android 5.0+.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Fade out for previous song and fade in for coming song? Is this the corssfade that you mentioned?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
When you choose a song, it will play all songs in the page in sequence. If you want to shuffle the songs in that page, please click shuffle button.

The shuffle button should stay when exit and relaunch. If it does not work, it should be a bug. How did you exit the app?
[Android Apps and Games] erojas388:
The shuffle button should stay on as long as its pressed just like the repeat button. Every other music app leaves the shuffle button on as long as you press it no matter if you choose a new song.
[Android Apps and Games] kzhkr:
the player ain't showing the correct last modified date song. it just showing the latest added song randomly as per installation, rather than the latest song i've added into my sd card.
[Android Apps and Games] soypoi:
Yes it is. It should have no silent space before the next track.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] digitalfree:
No, there wasn't. I also reinstalled the app, but all that was pooping up was a question if I am sure that I really want to delete the file.

I confirmed this dialog, but the track was still on the SD-Card.

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No, there wasn't. I also reinstalled the app, but all that was pooping up was a question if I am sure that I really want to delete the file.

I confirmed this dialog, but the track was still on the SD-Card.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks. I will look into this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Which shuffle button did you mention? There are multiple shuffle buttons in this app and could you tell me which one you mentioned to avoid misunderstanding?

If there are 30 songs in playing queue when shuffle is pressed, and then you click other song/songs which are not included in the 30 songs, should the play queue be changed to the new ones?

Currently if you want to change to specified song in playing queue, you can go to playing queue page and click any song you want, the shuffle will not be changed. If you go to other places to click other songs, they will replace current playing queue.
[Android Apps and Games] erojas388:
I play music through all of my songs and leave it on shuffle for all of them. The shuffle turns off even if i choose a song that is in the same queue. It would just be better if the shuffle button stays on regardless once it is turned on. Basically the same as the repeat button as that button doesnt turn off once it is pressed.
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
lyrics format

i am using moto x pure edition. i love the app so far. when i show lyrics they are not formated. just one big block. is there something i can do to change that? html tags? i have been looking for a player to display lyrics and i like i only have to hit one button and they show.
[Android Apps and Games] priyank_gala:
App is good..Can improve though

Hi,

Can we possibly have the option of sub directories/ folders within a folder being automatically detected? The app cannot play songs of a sub folder..

Also can there be an option to edit tags at album or folder level and include tags such as composer, lyricist? One can also search on the basis of these tags too!

It would be really great to have these features

:)
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please go to playing queue page to change the playing song, instead of the source where you play the songs.

You can click queue(floating action button) button in now playing page to jump to playing queue page.

If you go to other places to click other songs, they will replace current playing queue.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you send a snapshot for lyrics page? Currently the lyrics are retrieved from audio file tags, and it may be plain text content.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently the folder explorer is flat, there is no sub folder in it. All folders with music files will be listed there.

Currently you can edit tags for album and artist. Currently there is no place to edit composer and lyricist. These two fields won't be displayed in Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
see newest post about lyrics layout

i have reposted my answer.
[Android Apps and Games] erojas388:
I give up. It seems like you only want to give a work around to the issue instead of trying to fix it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
In latest version 1.3.10, Pulsar fixed the problem when delete songs from external SD card on Android 6.0 and above.

Please grant Pulsar write permission when delete song files from external SD card, then the files can be deleted. You just need to grant write permission once, and in future Pulsar will have the permission to delete your SD card files.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I do not want to modify current playing queue management since from my perspective, it is working as designed. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
lyrics layout

my last player was n7 so i have html tags.

also when the player is not playing it still shows on lock screen.
[Android Apps and Games] sd9621:
I, too, wish the shuffle to remain on regardless once turned on until you turn it off. If I choose a different song manually, the shuffle setting will turn off.

Also it would be nice if we could swipe away the player in the notification areas instead of tapping the small 'x' to close.

I just hope the annoying shuffle issue can be resolved as I only use this app for my music. :)
[Android Apps and Games] SandalLive:
I liked it very much. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will add html tag support for lyrics. Could you send me this mp3 file for a test? Please send it to support@rhmsoft.com. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
sent just now
[Android Apps and Games] sd9621:
Could you at least add an option in the settings where we can change it to our liking? (i.e. shuffle remains on regardless and won't turn off if we manually select a song) I thought this was common across all music players.
[Android Apps and Games] digitalfree:
Works fine now thank you. Is it possible to add the "Delete" option also to the context menu like "edit tracks"?

Would be cool to delete songs this way, because I often put new albums on the phone and then start to delete and edit tags of the ones I like less. This can make the player very comfortable because one can edit and delete in the bus or train and there is no need to do it at home.
[Android Apps and Games] SilverJS:
Agreed on persistent shuffle.
[Android Apps and Games] Kodiguy:
Excellent app. I have recommended this player to my friends as well.

Two more features as requested below and I should be able to delete Poweramp from my phone.

1. Please add support to list folder structure (folders...subfolders and so on) than a flat structure as you have now.

The eastern parts of the world rely heavily on folder structures than artist/albums/songs. Someone might have 200 music folders on their phone neatly arranged and categorised in a directory structure. Flattening those directories wrecks havoc.

This fact often gets overlooked by the western app developers, hence really nice music players find low adoption rates in the east.

2. Please add support to enable selection of multiple songs in a folder so that they may be added to a playlist, something on the lines of a long-press and then a checkbox appearing against each song to be selected.​

I hope that you will adapt and prosper.

All the best.
[Android Apps and Games] xflowy:
just discovered this player. looks good. will follow the process from now on :)
[Android Apps and Games] ccheng16:
Nice and simple, so i set this as my default music player. But just other says, i hope the shuffle stays on even if i manually choose a son and also can you fix the format of the lyrics? Looking forward for future updates. ??
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
lyrics format is being addressed presently. if you look back a little further in the thread you will see the discussion. :)
[Android Apps and Games] ccheng16:
That's good. Thanks ?
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
+1 with the shuffle button getting turned off. I launch the player, turn shuffle on, exit, launch it again and it's off. Not supposed to be that way.
[Android Apps and Games] RegistrujuSeNaZachode:
Looking good. I've been using Shuffle player so far, but I'll give this one a go... ;)
[Android Apps and Games] eddict.nl:
just bought the + version, very nice!
[Android Apps and Games] NekroseDEV:
"Stolen" Tag Line.

I would like to address a concern from a developer known as Tim Malseed, creator of "Shuttle music player."

The following phrase, "is an intuitive, lightweight and powerful music player" was the originally written phrase which appears to be eerily similar to yours and I would like to ask if you could change it/ Tweak it. Thank you, ~Nekrose.
[Android Apps and Games] hollibs:
I use the paid version and really like it. Is there a way that in the artist view the pictures are Not shown? I just want to read the name of the artist. In The album view i want to see the album Art...
[Android Apps and Games] mjheid.muc:
I really like this player, buuuut the playlists: If I add the playlists to the tabs, no standard playlist shows up (e.g. recently added)

That should be changed :)
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
hi, a quick question. what tags do i need to check to get songs from one album to show up together. i have checked "edit tags" but the info seem the same. i have a screenshot.

also gapless playback doesn't seem to be working.

do you need audio example?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I received many complains on the shuffle issue, I will re-consider this and hope can solve it in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
So you just want to disable artist image but keep album image?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
No problem. I will change the word and sequence. If you have any better word that can describe this app, please also tell me:D
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
These recent added playlist, most played playlist, etc, are not included in Android playlist database, they are generated by Pulsar. But it is OK to add them to the playlist page as dummy playlist in future releases. I will think about this. Good idea:good:
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is the Android system processing problem. I have not dig into it yet. From my current understanding, if the album and artist name are the same, they should belong to the same album. If you modify to different artist, it may separate it out to another album, because two artist can have the album with the same name.
[Android Apps and Games] ccheng16:
Is it possible to have a feature where we can add lyrics to the song?

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Try editing the tags on itunes, that works for me although you need to download itunes
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You need to edit the tag and insert lyrics blocks. Currently lyrics tag is not editable in Pulsar since this is not a common feature to type lyrics in phone device.
[Android Apps and Games] ccheng16:
I see. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
i used itunes to format for lyrics, album cover and album/artist info.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I had a study on common players. For this shuffle behavior, there are two different ways to handle it:

Google Play Music: When shuffle is on, if you switch to other songs, the shuffle mode will be kept, and the new songs which you selected will be shuffled.

Sony Music: When shuffle is on, if you switch to other songs, the shuffle mode will be turn off, and newly chosen songs will be played in sequence, only if you manually click the shuffle button in the songs page. This is the same behavior as current Pulsar does.

Maybe I need to add an option in settings for this. Could you also share with me the behavior in your other favorite players? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
Of all the music players I used; PlayerPro, Poweramp, JetAudio, Stellio, their shuffle behaviour goes the Google Play Music way.

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I have one question a bit unrelated to the topic: Some music players don't display my songs in alphabetical way. Even though I sorted them alphabetical. Some songs go out of place. Like 70% are placed correctly while the remaining 30% is scrambled. While some players, including Pulsar, show my songs 100% correct. I tried editing the tags several times but same result. What causes this problem? This is bugging me all the way back from Gingerbread days. I have searched and searched but have not found any answers.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Are the song titles all English or other native languages? Here is some possible reason I guess:

1. Some player may rely on the sorting in database using SQL query, which may not work accurate.

2. Some player may rely on text compare which ignored other native languages. Pulsar will sort song titles well for all languages.
[Android Apps and Games] ccheng16:
I noticed it too.. especially when the title of the song starts with "the". It is supposed to be in letter t
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
Most of my songs are English. I have 768 songs in my library and about 500 of them are english. I sent mails to PlayerPro devs but sadly they didn't respond.

Yes. Glad I'm not the only one. I have so may songs that start with "The" and letter T all scattered up. Also with C and A.
[Android Apps and Games] ccheng16:
Even if you edit its tag, nothing happens. Sometimes the file doesn't allow modifications, so it will stays the same. Converting them to another format works sometimes.
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
I'm sick of it. Haha. I'm gonna use music players that display the correctly instead. Like Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] mogsaw:
widget bar in the notification bar does not appear, please fix..
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The widget in notification bar will be shown only if the Pulsar app is running in background. Could you have a check?
[Android Apps and Games] Rosa Elefant:
I must admit that this app looks sweet. I, somehow, consider to play with it even though I paid horrendous money :) for PowerAMP. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] hippocleides:
Someone already brought this up; the gapless playback feature is not working for me. It decreases the length of the gap, but it does not completely remove it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is device dependent. Currently I have a galaxy S7 which can not support gapless playback well, I am studying on this problem, but I am not sure if it can be fixed in application level or not.
[Android Apps and Games] mrshyde:
waow

Good app!
[Android Apps and Games] hollibs:
Yes, would be great...
[Android Apps and Games] shadowchild200:
hi. just a few things.

gapless playback works with other players on my phone.

i am including screen shots of how other players handle albums and shuffle.

the apps are n7player and rocket music player.
[Android Apps and Games] hollibs:
Bigger widget would be great...
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The widget can be resized, it can extend to 4*3, or even bigger.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The new keep shuffle mode is enabled in latest version 1.4.0. Please upgrade and have a try. If there is any problem, please leave your comments here. Thanks.