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[Android Apps and Games] ubisergei:
Some suggestions as well:

1. While swiping songs, don't wait for cover art animation to finish and play the next song instantly instead. Reduces sluggishness during sequential swiping. The animation can use a little speedup as well.

2. Show all categories in the drawer, even if their respective tabs are hidden.

3. Don't show tabs bar when there is only one tab enabled. (You've previously stated that at least one tab is needed, how hard is to bypass this restriction?)

4. On the Settings page there are categories with only one option within. E.g., 'General Settings' has only 'Exclude Folder', 'View Settings' -- only 'Change Tab Items'. Why not gather all loners and place them together under 'General'?

5. Disable the play/pause animation. Or at least add the option. There are no animations for the adjacent buttons. That animation only adds to perceived sluggishness.

6. Spam shuffle/repeat/favorite button. Notifications will show up for eternity.

7. IMO, old playlist button was nicer.

8. Sharing popup list doesn't allow more than 4 elements without offering to 'See all >'. Neighboring Action popup list has 6 items (Artist, Album, Add to playlist, Edit tags, Set as, Delete) just fine. Thus, Sharing list should allow 6 items to be shown, or show 5 elements + 'see all' if there are >6 items.

9. Shorter names for Playlist groups to reduce unnecessary horizontal scrolling: MY PICKS (MY PLAYLISTS), FAVORITE (FAVORITES), POPULAR (MOST PLAYED), RECENT (RECENT PLAYED), NEW (NEWLY ADDED).

10. Add an option to disable or straight remove the drawer header. I fail to see which function does it serve, the song's title and cover are already displayed in the browsing menu and the main playing window.

11. In the playing window, if the song title is longer than the window width, don't let run it by but allow the user to drag it right and left.

12. If both title and artist tags are empty, assume that they are separated by the hyphen (-) in the filename and parse them. An example, 'Darude - Sandstorm.mp3' with no ID tags should display 'Sandstorm' as the title and 'Darude' as the artist name.
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
I agree with this one also, very good idea
[Android Apps and Games] Gamerock01:
Can I have promo code plz
[Android Apps and Games] irmageddon:
In the meantime, the lock screen cover art doesn't work any more, even for songs that still contain a cover.

It turns out that Pulsar seems to rely on the presence/activation state of Googles Play Music (app name translated back to English). As soon as I re-activated Googles player the album covers re-appeared. That's not too advantageous when Pulsar is needing a second app.

The lock screen covers and my playlists, though, did not re-appear. Please, rhmsoft, is there something I could try to get those back? Re-starting the phone didn't work, as I hoped.
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
Eh? I never have Google Play Music crap installed and covers load fine, they're embedded in the songs.
[Android Apps and Games] TechnoSparks:
I am using the free version, thus the Equaliser is disabled to begin with.

I am using ViPER4Android with Compatible mode. Almost any other music players (that I have tested) are able to use ViPER4Android. One or two exceptions other than Pulsar also exists however I do not remember their names anymore and are not well known like Pulsar.

I guess there is something to do with the ROM presumably..
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
I'm using latest A.R.I.S.E (installed Viper+ice+Atmos) and it works fine with free version of Pulsar. I am using normal mode (also deep buffer removal, enforcing kernel)
[Android Apps and Games] TechnoSparks:
That explains everything.

Using normal mode will of course work with everything in regards to audio output.

But since my setup is exclusively for music, I prefer it to be in Compatible mode. And as Pulsar do not support third party equalisers, then I am not able to experience my music to their fullest with Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] Thom335:
I like your player very much but when I move songs in a playlist, they don't stay there. Is this a bug?

Anyway thanks for the player.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
1. playlist disappearing problem might be a android system problem, there is no certain steps to reproduce this problem using Pulsar, the playlist disappear occasionally and suddenly.

2. the widget bug should be fixed in latest version 1.5.4 or 1.5.5. If it still exist, please contact support@rhmsoft.com for the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
You need to use some mp3 tag editing apps to edit lyrics tag, such as mp3tag.

It is not convenient to edit lyrics from Pulsar since the screen is too small. I will consider this in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you! I will consider these in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for your advice! I will consider them in future releases!
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If you click the menu item "artist", but "artist" tab is not visible, then what should happen?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar does not depend on Google Play Music. The lock screen problem might be caused by other issues.

I need more information about your device, please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I did not know how to reproduce this problem. Could you tell me the android version and device name?

Anyway, in latest version 1.5.5(coming soon), the drag and drop implementation will be changed, you can try it to see if it solves your problem or not.
[Android Apps and Games] Smhan:
Team, i am unable to edit tag of song. The path shown in screenshot is also not available in application. Kindly check.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
What is the path to the song? What is the file format?
[Android Apps and Games] geertbro:
Request for small feature

Helllo dev of superApp music player,

I also really like Pulsar Pro and would like to request a small new feature:

- more coloured themes (missing some black or dark ones) ,

or even the possibility to design/compose your own theme in the player :)

Thanks, keep up the great work !!
[Android Apps and Games] deathhyver:
New UI Design for Pulsar+

Pulsar is one of my favorite Music player for my android. Everything is good. But, it would be perfect if you update some of the UI design and arrangement, please see attached images.

*Now playing is arranged center

*Ability to have custom playlist cover art

*Album arts shows in song lists

*playing at the buttom also change

Everything looks professional and clean.

Share this post if you agree.

https://www.facebook.com/HyveronGraphics
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you very much! The new design looks nice!

There are some considerations for current design, but I will consider these improvements in future releases if possible.

- Now playing page, if everything is arranged in center, then when the song title is long, it will be covered by the floating button, also there is no place for the playing index text, such as 5/125?

- I did not use album cover for each song, because of the performance consideration, but this is a technical issue which should not impact the design.

BTW, which Pulsar theme is it? Orange? Or is it a new theme?
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
In my opinion, I think the design is best as it is, and hope it isn't changed to be centered on Now Playing. All other text in the app is left-justified, all lists of songs, playlists, albums, tabs, even the drawer and settings, and it being centred on the player screen is inconsistent design. Even in your own re-designs, the text of the mini-player at the bottom is left-justified. Centering it adds nothing to usability or legibility, and as Rhmsoft says, it would clash with the floating button.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for your advice!
[Android Apps and Games] three88bu:
First of all: Fantastic music player! It is by far my favorite for Android.

The only thing missing for me is support for .m3u playlists. I dont care about the streaming aspect, local file only support would be fine. I have all my music on my PC along with several .m3u's (one which has 1000 songs in it) that i keep synced to my phone. There is no way I want to try to re-build that paylist using my phone.

Please add that functionality. With it, Pulsar would be perfect. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
Are you joking?
[Android Apps and Games] three88bu:
Uhhh about what? The size of my playlist? No I am not. I think it's a very reasonable request to support m3u regardless of playlist size.
[Android Apps and Games] madd0g:
I have 17 gigs of music in 20 m3u playlists synced with Isyncr and they all work fine.
[Android Apps and Games] three88bu:
Oh. Well for whatever reason my m3u playlists don't show up. Sorry, I saw no mention of m3u support on the site or in the store so I assumed they just weren't supported yet. I'll try reinstalling. I've already tried rescanning the library.

---------- Post added at 02:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 AM ----------

Still having issues getting my m3u's to show up. I am currently only focusing on 1 playlist called Favorites.m3u. I temporarily renamed it to stuff.m3u thinking maybe the name was conflicting with the built in Favorites playlist. I've re-installed the app a few times. Rescanned the library anytime I made a change.

My m3u is literally just file paths on each line. It was generated by iTunes originally. I tried adding #EXTM3U to the top of the file but that didnt help.

Any other troubleshooting ideas? m3u support isnt a paid thing is it? Im still using the free version for now.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] dinhhuongspa:
Error

Does anyone know how to get to the site when blocked IP address?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
:confused::confused::confused:

VPN?
[Android Apps and Games] dragontology:
Good looking app. Couple suggestions:

1. Folder mode doesn't work very well. It lists all folders with media it can play, sure, but I like how Poweramp does it (which is what I use as my main player). I point it to my music folder, and then from there it lists all folders in there, and then I can browse those folders.

What I do is make a folder for each artist, but some folders are misc bins, like misc rock, misc pop, misc country, misc rap+R&B, misc Japanese, and one called Rockband Radio — basically my favorite songs from the rhythm game.

2. Animations take too much time, and they seem to want to wait a second before executing. The app is beautiful and so are the animations, but if they get between me and my music, I will stop liking them.

3. Deceptive Pro version. This is sneaky. The OP doesn't say the app isn't free. Nobody else is bringing this up, but for me personally, I like to know up-front if I'm using a free app, or a free app with IAPs, or a free app with a pro version available. And I've bought a lot of apps, including both Poweramp and PlayerPro. So maybe in the OP, features that require the pro version can be moved down and shown, "This is what you get if you pay USD $2.99" or something (which by the way is a fair price, the two music players I bought were each $4).

4. The artist art is often wrong. Bush is a band, not a woman with, I don't know what that fluffy thing around the neck is called, Shakespeare is often depicted with one. And if it's indiscriminately downloading pictures over the mobile network, I can't stand for that. I have a low data cap and I like to stay under it. Though the pictures appear small. I guess it's just downloading the first picture it finds on a basic search.

A bit of criticism, but I wouldn't have taken the time if I didn't think this app had potential. Keep up the good work.
[Android Apps and Games] machhho:
@ rhmsoft

Thanks alot for this amazing app but to me it misses the set as a ringtone and the share option when you long press any audio file for the menu , please add these 2 features in your next release .
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
What do you mean by removed? To edit the music file embedded artwork and remove it, or just not show any artwork?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for your detailed suggestion. I will consider them in future releases.

Yes, currently the artist is searched by keyword currently, if the artist has a short name, it is hard to distinguish which one is correct so the first one will be used.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
They will be added in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] M3tthew:
Love the material design style, how it works with audio books? does it support m4b?
[Android Apps and Games] dadykhoff:
Definitely needs some work for song detection. It quadrupled every song in my library, basically making the app unusable.

A couple other things I noticed: launching the app takes a long time (is it rescanning my entire phone for audio files?), and without a splash page or loading screen, I thought my phone had frozen. Please consider options surrounding library scanning (folders included/excluded, file types included/excluded, scan on start up, background scan by default, etc.).

How is album artwork discovered? Are you downloading it dynamically? If so. You definitely need an option to disable that when not on WiFi.

Apart from this stuff, its a great app as far as I can see! Oh and, last.fm support please?? :D
[Android Apps and Games] Joel Chan:
Yeah, I meant editing the embedded artwork in the music file.
[Android Apps and Games] spacedyed:
The app looks beautiful, but why is every album listing songs in reverse order (all looks as it should on other apps)? Am I missing a setting somewhere? I listen mostly to full albums (in order), not playlists or shuffle mode, and this would be a deal breaker for me.
[Android Apps and Games] iceorfire95:
After installing and uninstalling at least 10 music players this month, finally, I've found something I like using. I have a few requests though.

1. A Sort By option in the Albums tab. I generally like to sort albums by artists. I feel like this makes more sense organisation-wise.

2. For the artist images, could you please add an option to add from gallery?

I really hope the app stays light.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
More sorting methods within album will be supported in next release.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sort albums by artist will be supported in next release. Change artist image manually may not be supported in near future. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] iceorfire95:
Could we have both next and previous buttons in the lockscreen notification? And the general headset controls don't work (2 presses mean next, 3 presses mean previous). When I press the button twice, the song playing just pauses and plays. It works fine with other music players. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] TwoMountains:
cool!
[Android Apps and Games] shady5683:
any chance of android auto support?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will have a look at headset control problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sorry, I do not have a car with Android auto inside, so I can not develop and test this feature recently.
[Android Apps and Games] shady5683:
You can use the Android Auto Desktop Head Unit emulator in the Android SDK...

https://developer.android.com/training/auto/start/index.html#test-it-dhu
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thanks for your information:good:
[Android Apps and Games] BuffMcBigHuge:
Hey rhmsoft! Loving pulsar, I use it on my devices and in my car with my Android head unit.

My feature request is to add a sort option for recently added. Its the one sorting mechanic I use. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Santoshkiyer:
This is a great music player. it would be great if the sound goes on mute or the music pauses when the headphone is removed from the phone. Right now, when I remove the headphone the sound plays in speaker. This may cause embarrassment sometimes.
[Android Apps and Games] hauhauhau7:
Please add a black theme for AMOLED display's and the possibility to select a directory as the default path when using the "folders" feature, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] three88bu:
My playlist finally showed up. It took a reboot of the phone and a re-scan again of the library. Something seems a little buggy with scanning for m3u files...
[Android Apps and Games] ankushkushal:
Error I am facing when trying to play directly through file manager doesn't matter which one. Plays fine when using player only. Also files inside folders are not shown My guess library scanning is bit buggy.
[Android Apps and Games] dandrake47:
Thanks for this app :)
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Both of those things work just fine here. Something on your end, for the first I would say ROM or file manager. The second is most likely the ROM.

I'm using Pure Nexus, July update. File manager is x-plore.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There is a nero black theme in pro version, the last theme whose main color is pure black, please have a try.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think this is a codec problem. Android system does not support this codec. Even the file is ends with mp3, it may use different/unusual codec.
[Android Apps and Games] franzisms:
How I can change de grid size in albums tab?

I want to resize, which comes by default from 4, change it to 2

I can not find the option.
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
I have a feature suggestion which is a very simple change, but will make a huge difference to the speed and ease of navigating the app.

By far the quickest way to scroll through a list of hundreds or thousands of albums/songs is to use the "Fast Scroll" feature (by which I mean grabbing the scroll position marker on the right hand side which brings up the alphabetical popup, and manually moving the page to the position you want). The alternative of course is to repeatedly swipe to move the page down, which isn't very good if you're going to the bottom of a list of 3000 songs.

The problem with Fast Scroll currently is that it isn't very easy to activate. Fast Scroll cannot be directly activated as the scroll position marker is not normally visible, and only becomes visible when the user manually scrolls the page by swiping it. Then the scroll position marker is only visible for about one second. When near the bottom, it is even possible for the scroll position marker to be hidden behind the minimised Now Playing box. Even when it is visible, it is a very small target to tap and drag with the finger.

It would be far faster and easier if the Fast Scroll mode was automatically activated when swiping down from the top section of the screen. The user would be able to get to any position of a long list by a single swipe very quickly. It would be much better than having to swipe the list so that the scroll position marker appears for a second, then grabbing it and moving to the position you want. Please see the attached image for a clearer idea of what I mean.

This wouldn't obstruct any other features or require any design changes. Alternatively, a simpler change would be to make it so the scroll position marker is always visible and doesn't keep disappearing, so it can always be grabbed. There is no real benefit from it being invisible. (Preferably also make it slightly fatter so it is easier to hit, I have large fingers so it can be difficult to hit such a tiny target)

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] vipfreak:
This is no question by far the best f*cking amazing music player I've ever used. It's like you read my f*cking mind on what I wanted out of a music player. Everything makes sense and is easy to use! The pro version was an absolute no brainer! Thank you very much for the f*cking awesome amazing music player!
[Android Apps and Games] tmh22:
Amazing music player. Just a couple of small suggestions:

1) On an artists page when looking at their tracks and albums you have to scroll down through all of the albums to reach the tracks section. I think it would make much more sense to have a single row of albums with horizontal scrolling instead of the current vertical scrolling which is time consuming.

2) On the now playing screen, if a song title is long the end of it can be covered a little by the play queue icon, maybe the icon could be smaller or the song title moved down a tiny bit.

3) I'd like to be able to swipe down on the now playing screen to close it instead of having to press the back button.

Great job!
[Android Apps and Games] Wizballs:
Hi rhmsoft,

Awesome music player thanks. I've only just discovered it and now use everyday now!

I use it at work to shuffle all songs, and repeat continuously. So one feature request please: is it possible to 'reshuffle' after all songs have played? A continuous loop but songs would play in a different order each time.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] theMather:
I think this might be an issue from your device, because it does stop the music on mine.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Thank you for your advice. Do you know any app which has this scroll behavior? I would like to have a try first.
[Android Apps and Games] granaryloaf:
I don't know of any other app that scrolls like this, I thought of this method myself while using Pulsar. If you do it, I'm sure you'll find it is very fast and intuitive to use.

I was hoping you could start the trend! :D
[Android Apps and Games] Dajaganz:
Bizarre folder selection logic

Looks really nice, really would like to try it after one too many frustrations with PowerAmp... but do you seriously expect users to select every folder they DON'T want to scan? Have you LOOKED at an Android drive recently? What's the rationale for inverting a common practice of inclusive selection rather than exclusive? PLease give us the standard option. Or am I missing some eloquent way of achieving my end without having to click a whole bunch of pointless checkboxes?
[Android Apps and Games] BeautyRose:
good

good:):):):):):):):)
[Android Apps and Games] Lejeprince1:
The player UI is the best ever + the size. Your app is simply the best. Nice work bro
[Android Apps and Games] rederikus:
I too have this problem. I have tried using three different USB sticks (16, 32 & 256GB). All three show the same problem. I am using Timur's kernel and my Nexus 7 2013 (6.0.1) is car mounted. Playlists vanish and then return seemingly randomly. This is not so bad with a 16Gb USB stick but it is a real pita with the 256GB (213GB MP3s). I have tried creating the m3u files externally and have tried other players. All efforts fail. Pulsar seems to better at keeping playlists than some other player.

A feature to incorporate in the future might be to give Pulsar the ability to generate and manage playlists itself. I am pretty sure this is an Android anomaly. So if you had a directory name Playlists and Pulsar went through each path/music directory and built its own list of playlists, this might go some way to keeping playlists straight. This all could even be implemented as a separate app. Obviously this is not a trivial undertaking but it would make Pulsar even better than it is right now.

P.S. Thanks for your earlier email support.
[Android Apps and Games] Markrdsn:
Tags

Hi. Fantastic player. A couple of glitches I've spotted on my phone (Pulsar+ on a Sony xp android phone with music all on the sd card).

1. I can edit genre tags on tracks and albums but this change doesn't show up on the full genre list.

2. In 'album artist' view option for artists, compilation albums are not listing as 'various' (as they should) but as one of the individual artists.

Is this a known issue or new item. Is there a known work around?

Love the player otherwise. You've done a great job!

Thanks, Mark
[Android Apps and Games] douglasfelix:
Problema with genre tab.

Hello,

Congratulations for this terrific software.

I'd like to report that the genre tab is not updating it's data. I tryed to update tag information of a song, but the update was not reflected to genre tab. Even when we delete the last album in some genre, the genre itself is not deleted.

This may be a simple errors, but have disturbed me.

Thanks for your attention!

Att,

Douglas.
[Android Apps and Games] eksasol:
Is there ever a plan to add the speed and pitch feature, similar to the Maple JB app?
[Android Apps and Games] adriansticoid:
+1 to this.