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[Android Apps and Games] beayon:
Hello there.

I've been using Pulsar Player for three months and it worked well.

But I have a problem with the "Lyrics Display" feature.

It works very well with unsynced lyrics but with synced lyrics, it delays about 1sec.

I use .lrc files to specify lyrics. but the same problem happens if I embed lyrics in the file.

Lyrics are okay because they work well in other players I use such as MusicBee.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Postal Psycho:
Hi. Would it be possible to have casting respect the repeat track setting? I'm trying to listen to a track and have it loop forever but it stops after the first play.
[Android Apps and Games] sleeptab:
Hey, I've been watching the app for a few years now to finally retire DoubleTwist as my everyday music player. However there 's a bug that prevents me from switching: Pulsar offers two options to list artists: Artist-Tag or Album-Artist-Tag. I prefer the latter to group more albums and collaborations in my library. However, Album-Artist only puts single songs with tag-differences (e.g. feat.) back to it's album. But when a whole album uses a different Album-Artist tag (e.g. for collaboration of two artists; artist-Tag is A&B and Album-Artist just A), it does not group the album within the Albums of A but still as a seperate category A&B (despite I choose A as Album-Artist). I'm really looking forward to get this finally fixed.

Thanks for your work:)
[Android Apps and Games] Thebear j koss:
That all depends on how metadata is entered. Music player can only read and group how the metadata is provided, if there is any variation in that metadata it will be reflected in how it is grouped in player. Not a player bug, limitation of media scanner. Best option is to manually change metadata if possible
[Android Apps and Games] sleeptab:
It should, but it does not. Other apps do it right.

I created a sample media folder and as you can see, group works with different artist-tag within an album, but not when the album-artist differs from the artist-tag for the whole album.
[Android Apps and Games] Aron1000:
Hello, the app closes by itself, when interrupted.

Setup:

OnePlus 9

Android 14.0.0.600

Pulsar+ v238

I tried with permissions, notifications, battery options...etc no luck.

How to reproduce:

Play any track, let it reproducing.

Set a timer to interrupt while playing

Block the phone

Result:

When timer rings, it pauses the reproduction. When you stop the timer from ringing, reproduction continues. But after some time the app closes.
[Android Apps and Games] bluedaykbstyle:
I use Pulser with Android Auto. I have three requests.

- I want to change the order of the Pulser's menus on Android Auto. (I want to appear at a top "Playlist".)

- ReplayGain setting is work at a moment of set and touch OK, but not work at next time to use. Please fix.

- Whenever I select a playlist, it starts playing from the first file in the selected list. I want to choose which file to play.

Please consider.
[Android Apps and Games] bluedaykbstyle:
I had misunderstood about app's behavior.

I change ReplayGain setting during play music and move next or previous file, then sound gain setting is not working.

This is not normal operation.

When I changed the ReplayGain settings while not music playing, exited the app, and launched again, ReplayGain setting worked fine.
[Android Apps and Games] dannydet1962:
Have you tried contacting the developer?
[Android Apps and Games] dharani1028hsr:
Good music player but one issue iam facing is automatically music stops while playing
[Android Apps and Games] dfkt_:
I face the same issue. Pulsar+ just abruptly stops once in a while, disappears from phone memory, and needs to be restarted (and it loses its place in the previously playing track, when the "remember" setting is turned off).

Poco X3, MIUI 14, Android 12, latest Pulsar+
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for detailed introduction. I will look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Nice advice, but there may be different albums with the same name?
[Android Apps and Games] fernan13malaga:
Hi,

First of all, thanks for the app, it works great but is not recognised as music player in Google now voice commands. So, when I say "ok Google play some music" or "listen Michael Jackson" I can only use play music and pulsar is not a choice.

Can you fix it please? Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This will be fixed in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] nibaroga:
Its cute!:o
[Android Apps and Games] kamikaze702k:
The best player, esp on marshmallow
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The new icon is applied in latest version 1.3.4, hope you like it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This bug should be fixed in latest release, please upgrade and have a try.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Google Now voice commands is supported in latest version 1.3.4, please upgrade and have a try.
[Android Apps and Games] V4lve:
I do like it. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] dorqus:
Any way to have music pause when headphones are unplugged? This evening my whole train car heard my music when I took out my headphones before my stop ,:)
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Actually this feature is already included in the app and it should work.

Can you reproduce this problem every time? May I know your device type and Android version? I would like to reproduce this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] dorqus:
I'll try again in the morning.

Nexus 5X, marshmallow 6.0.1, dirty unicorns ROM.

EDIT - tested again w/a fresh copy downloaded from the Play Store and when I remove the headphones, the music does indeed stop - sorry for the fire drill! I like the look of this mp3 player!
[Android Apps and Games] Ad+1:
Looks great! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
In Sony Xperia VL, no artwork shown in lock screen even if artwork on lock screen enabled.

But, I think it cannot be fixed due to the device's limitation. (Xperia has non-AOSP lock screen by Sony)
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
Bro. There are two 3-dot menus on the right. One is for the actual menu and one is for share function. Could you change the icon for share in the next release?
[Android Apps and Games] :
I wonder if is possible to get support for editing tags ?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Tag editing is already supported in recent releases. Are you using an old version?
[Android Apps and Games] :
you're right , I did not notice this feature . I apologize
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is a bug. I will fix it soon.

Sorry for this mistake.
[Android Apps and Games] chielmi:
I love the new icon ?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
:D
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
Some times (Edit: probably after the app was terminated by out of memory), equalizer setting cannot be opened and shows "unavailable on this device".

I had to reboot the device to get equalizer back.
[Android Apps and Games] remio94:
Hello. I really like this music player :D. Really beautiful. But I have some problems with the equaliser. Sometimes it just doesn't work and says that the eq. for my device are not available. This usually happens when I use my bluetooth headphone. I have to disconnect it from my phone, then restart the app to set the equalizer the way I want. When I connect the bluetooth headphone again, it says eq. not available, but this time the equaliser works (the sound changes like I want, even though I cannot enter the equaliser setting).

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This seems to be a common problem. I will try to reproduce it and hope it can be fixed in future releases. Thanks.

Could you send a mail to support@rhmsoft.com? If I made temp build for this problem, I would like to send to you to verify if the problem is solved.
[Android Apps and Games] fernan13malaga:
Thanks, it works with the new update but for me, "play some music" (Pon algo de música, in Spanish) is not working. Only works with the artist name. Not tested with English language, can anyone test if it's working in English?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
I tried "音楽を再生" ("Play a music" in Japanese), but only displayed Google Play Music app.

"(Album Title) を再生" ("Play (Album Title)")works, but a track with same title is preferred even if Google Now shows "Play an album".
[Android Apps and Games] SirZer0:
Artist List View

I don't know if the dev is taking suggestions for future features, but I would really like to have the option to display the Artist field as a list, rather than a grid. An option to turn off the artist photo would also be nice, it's something I see a lot of players using nowadays, but I'd rather just have a text list.

I love everything else about this player, so great job to the dev!
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
[MENTION=225651]op[/MENTION] I have a suggestion. Please add the feature that will enable the player to download song lyrics and embedd it within the mp3 tags. This would make the player stand out than others,
[Android Apps and Games] mjheid:
Hi, I can not find the playlists I have created. Where is that folder?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
From navigation drawer, there is a menu item named "Playlist", you can find your playlists there.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
English "play some music" won't work either, it will launch Google Play Music app.

Currently I guess this voice command has not been opened for 3rd party apps, since I registered voice command intent filter, but never receive any notification when I say "play some music".

Play music with song name, album name and artist name, even genre name or playlist name, should all work.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The album/artist photo can be disabled in settings page.

List view is not supported yet, I will consider this in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Lyrics has copyright issues. I can not support downloading lyrics from internet in future releases.

But I can support the lyrics which is already embedded in your song files. Maybe Pulsar also can co-work with other lyrics apps, such as Musixmatch, they have lyrics copyrights.

I will consider these in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
That's a bit sad. I have read in a G+ community that some music player is planning to add that feature. Aaaaand another suggestion. :) How about adding the feature to set our own theme? Letting the users set the primary and secondary colors of the player. That would be great as well.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
That is great but Pulsar theme is not that simple.

Each theme contains more than 10 colors, including the colors you mentioned, but also includes colors for text, buttons, bars, image/dialog/app backgrounds, etc.

So currently it just offers pre-defined themes, customizing Pulsar theme is a little complex.
[Android Apps and Games] mjheid:
Misunderstanding, I'm talking about the path on my SD drive for backup.
[Android Apps and Games] vdelao:
Version 1.3.5 has songs showing their original artwork instead of the one selected in the app. Other than that it's fantastic, keep up the good work! ????
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
This app has some minor problems.

1. App opens when click a gap between buttons in widget and notification.

2. Notification sometimes doesn't update when changed song. (timer increments)

BTW, any update for widget resize problem?

I sent a bug report 3 times.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The playlist is stored in database, there is no playlist file generated.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
In 1.3.5, it support loading embedded album artwork from song files. I need to think about the priority in future releases.

Maybe in future release the priority chain is: user selected album artwork > embedded song artwork > android standard album artwork > internet fetched album artwork.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
hanubeki, I received the bug report. Thanks.

It seems that the music service is crashed when you kill the app. I am not sure the reason now. I will reply your mail soon. I am just busy with publishing Pulsar 1.3.5 and QuickEdit 1.1.0 these days.

For following problem, yes, currently when you click the widget except the buttons, it will launch the app. Maybe you want to click the button but click the gap by mistake, I will think about how to handle this scenario in future releases.

1. App opens when click a gap between buttons in widget and notification.
[Android Apps and Games] vdelao:
What was the order before 1.3.5?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
before 1.3.5:

user selected album artwork > android standard album artwork > internet fetched album artwork.

1.3.5 support song embedded artwork, so current priority order is:

embedded song artwork > user selected album artwork > android standard album artwork > internet fetched album artwork.

since song is more specific than album, so I just want to consider the priority between "embedded song artwork" and "user selected album artwork" in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] vdelao:
So how do I force songs to use the artwork from their album instead of their embedded artwork?
[Android Apps and Games] vallerydelexy:
i vote for embedded song artwork.

i recently download and try your music player and its pretty awesome, if you listened to pulsar user, here is a list that i really wanted.

- pull-down now playing that ive seen in many music player including shuttle+, cm13 default music, apple music.

- dynamic colors to background, buttons, text based on current artwork colour.

- lyrics

- visualizer on now playing and lockscreen.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently there is no settings to force use artwork in album instead of embedded artwork. Since embedded artwork is just supported, I need to adjust the priority in future releases if necessary.

Only a few songs contains embedded artwork, since this will increase the music file size, and also it is not necessary to embedded duplicated album artworks in song files of same album. If the song file does not contain embedded artwork, it will use album artwork instead.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for your advice. I will consider them in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] mjheid:
Hm, kind of an backup feature would be nice. Maybe to Google Drive or so. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Aimbot91:
Is there any slight chance you can implement streaming in you app?l like app because its light and simple,but option to play online playlist's would be amazing.

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[Android Apps and Games] fernan13malaga:
I supposed that, but, it is possible to use commands for play a folder? Like" play various"

I used to create some folders with random songs I like. Sorry for my bad English...
[Android Apps and Games] inversechi:
Thanks for taking the time once again to make this player. Especially adding last.fm scrobbling so quickly. One thing that would be cool would be some form of smart sorting. E.g. recently added and such like.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently folder name is not supported by Voice command. Sorry for this.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Recent added, most played and favorites are already supported. Please click playlists menu item from navigation drawer.
[Android Apps and Games] inversechi:
I was more thinking of different sort ordering on the default album/artist/genre/song views. It's how I normally like to see my music :D I didn't know about these playlists views - thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Camulla Bunse:
gapless playback

Very nice app!

But I am afraid, gapless playback doesdoe not work on my s5 mini...

Can you fix it on free version?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] vlevi:
I don't know why, but in the artist view, the songs are sorted alphabetically, not by song order. It does not matter, if the artist has only one album, or more. In the album view, the same album is sorted perfectly.

Artist with multiple albums

Artist with one album only

The sam album in album view
[Android Apps and Games] GrizzlyBear45:
It would be possible to add lyric reading? I mean, I always write in the "lyric" tag on the audio file to add the song lyric(with a software called TagScanner) ; my stock music player(LG L9) read that lyric by touching the album cover!

It would be useful and great if I could read these lyrics on this app too :)
[Android Apps and Games] TheLMGN:
Didn't solve any of my problems with GPM

Doesn't group by album correctly and sometimes, the text will be the same color of the background.

Screenshot 1440x2160

[IMG="https://imgur.com/97gPMrw"]https://i.imgur.com/97gPMrw.png[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will add sort by album in artist page in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Embedded lyrics will be supported in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Since these albums have different artists, so they are treated as different albums. I will think about how to solve this in future releases.

The color problem is interesting, may I know which theme are you using? Amaranth? What do you mean by "GPM"? Which device and android version are you using?

Please advice, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] hanubeki:
I want to sort by primary: album, secondary: track number. (Edit: in artist and songs view)
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
"Sort by primary: album, secondary: track number" will be supported in next release, in artist view.
[Android Apps and Games] dkuk:
Perfect player.

But it useful to have a sort order by file date and file name inside folder to have ability fast access last added songs in added order!
[Android Apps and Games] wigginszeng:
Lockscreen images seem blurry, can't using the orginal image files to display?
[Android Apps and Games] greymatters:
Is it possible to cache or otherwise save album and artist artwork to improve load times?

I find as I scroll through looking for a particular album or artist, there is a pronounced delay in the artwork replacing the blank icons. This considerably reduces the value of the artwork for visually identifying what I'm looking for and detracts from the visual appeal.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I otherwise love the app!

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This problem may be solved in next release. I forgot to apply filter when scale the image.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently the image is already cached. I will improve the speed in future release, if feasible.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
From navigation drawer, please click "playlists" menu item, then you will find some smart playlists including "recent added", "most played", etc.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
In latest release 1.3.6 embedded lyrics is supported. In player page, there will be a new button in action bar, if the playing song contains embedded lyrics. Also you can double click the song artwork to open the lyrics if feasible. Currently it only support unsynchronized lyrics.
[Android Apps and Games] almizilero:
In the album tab, the background for each album resembles a color from the cover. Would it be possible to have this color as background in the now playing view as well instead of the standard theme color? Or have a theme where the color is picked automatically for each album?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
"Now playing view", do you mean the view in bottom, or the now playing full screen activity?
[Android Apps and Games] almizilero:
I was thinking full screen, but the small bottom player could be nice as well.

Sony uses custom colors in full screen in their music app and it looks really nice.

Another thing I noticed : album and artist cover download is great, but it seems to overwrite existing album covers as well.
[Android Apps and Games] b4rgh3st:
Hey, thanks for the nice player.

It would be nice if it was possible to add coustom folders.

Amazon Music downloads the files in m4a format on my SD-card under "Android/data/com.amazon.mp3/files/Music/<artist>/<album>"

So, I'd like to have these albums also in Pulsar to make use of its equalizer (Amazon Music doesn't have one).
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Your existing album covers has higher priority than downloaded ones. If the album already has cover, it will not download from network.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will have a study on this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Koko2017:
awesome app
[Android Apps and Games] flyinjoe13:
Love this player because of how simple it is, and I mean simple as a compliment. At $3, it is a bargain. Love that it is a material design style to match all the other base apps. And I really love that I can use the CM theme engine to modify the built in app themes to fit the overall themes I made for the ROM I use so that it all fits together looks wise.
[Android Apps and Games] jmeister203i94:
It would be great to be able to swipe down from the now playing full screen activity to reach the main screen with the songs/albums/artists tabs instead of having to click the back button
[Android Apps and Games] stupidfellow1997:
the app is so great...really appreciate it :)

i have a request, can you guys add the unicode options in the setting? cuz some of my songs showed strange words

sry for my bad english~hope you understand what i m trying to say.. :) thx
[Android Apps and Games] xdaaaapanda:
hi, this is a great app but it would be awesome if you could add an android widget that shows on the homescreen albums that were recently played (basically the google play music widget) to make it easier for us to go straight to an album in the home screen. THANKS!

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showing the album artwork beside the song name in a playlist would be a great since most of my songs are korean and its hard to choose a song in a playlist since all the characters look the same to me, it would be great if the album artwork can be shown next to the song. thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] JNTHNPMMR:
Can you make the player compatible with XMediaNotificationTrackSelector (xposed module)

Otherwise a very nice music player

I use it as my daily driver.

Hope you can add this feature

Jnthnpmmr
[Android Apps and Games] vvgames:
I've just downloaded it and looks cool!

I like the way it allows me to change the albums cover photo. I was not able to do that in my prev player
[Android Apps and Games] f2bacon:
Am I the only one who wants a volume slider? My volume buttons are on the back of the phone so when I'm biking I can't change the volume. Or maybe just a button to launch volume control

Also has anyone ever had the thought of having alarm functionality? My alarm app only lets me choose 1 song, wouldn't it be cool if I could set an alarm and it would start playing whatever I was last listening to?
[Android Apps and Games] hanaxxaru:
hi [MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION], i really like your pulsar apps and thanks for creating this beauty player.. i have suggestion though, is there any chance that you will change the equalizer design? maybe a little material design?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Yes, this is a encoding problem. The text in android media store is in wrong encoding, I think there is no smart encoding detection when scan the files.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I am not sure if it can be done on mine side, I will have a look.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You are not the only one who wants volume slider. I need to consider there to put it. Which device are you using? I have never seen a device whoso volume controls are in back.

I have no idea about the alarm problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is possible, until I met a good material designed equalizer. I am not good at design.
[Android Apps and Games] f2bacon:
A lot of LG phones have the volume buttons on the back. g2, g3, g4, v10.

The alarm thing isn't a problem, I just feel it's a shortcoming in most alarm apps. I'd consider it boring to wake up to the same song every day, or have to pick a song every day. With an ipod dock, the dock just triggers pressing play. Love your app!