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[Android Apps and Games] Revontheus:
Thank you for the app, ever since the paid version came out I always made sure to purchase it on my devices. One thing I wish to be changed though is the search functionality. If you search for a general word such as "love", it says too many results, narrow down your search. I would have preferred if there was an option to see those results.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
There will be a bug fix for editing album artworks on Android 10 in version 1.9.6 soon. Hope it can fix the problem, please upgrade then.

If it still not fix the problem, please contact support@rhmsoft.com, I may need more information about your device and music files. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently the limit for results is 200 songs and 50 albums max. If the result exceeds this limit, it will display too many results.

I do not want to show a very long result list since then it is also hard to locate the result. Also the device may not able to handle so long a list.

But recently the device performance has improved a lot, I think I can increase the limit now.
[Android Apps and Games] Revontheus:
Thank you for responding! Keep up the great work :o
[Android Apps and Games] Kjoo1:
Hi can you include the separation of mulpitple artist in one song. So it can appear separately in the artist section
[Android Apps and Games] acedepe:
Hi. Can you include the option to order by year? All my library I have updated with the years of each song and it is very useful. I love Pulsar + but I use more Power Amp because I can order by year.

I hope my wish is taken into account. a greeting
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will consider it in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Currently songs cannot be sorted by release date but albums can.
[Android Apps and Games] samrattt:
Did anyone notice if a song is playing in FB apk it's sound better than playing anywhere else?could u tell me the reason why? anyone?I hop op could adopt from Facebook apks sound output equilzer presets ..
[Android Apps and Games] pinkbecca:
hi, when I go to folders, let's say there's an album with the title starts with dots (...) it won't show and it won't scan, but in Omnia its there, I'm specifically talking about Britney's album ''...Baby one more time'', as you see it starts with ''...'', so it's not showing up in Pulsar.
[Android Apps and Games] IzzatJaradat:
PULSAR Widget
[Android Apps and Games] Louis1977:
the best
[Android Apps and Games] Steezify:
Love this music player! I recently switched from WAV to AIFF for better id3 tags, but the tracks are not showing up in my library. Is there some weird permission issue I need to work around with aiff files?
[Android Apps and Games] hokyjack:
Hi, I love the app, I have Pulsar+.

I use it mainly to play songs for my sport dancing training. For this I heavily use the Genre option,

however, because I have tracks from many various interpreters, these Genres are sometimes misspelled,

written with uppercase, etc. even if its the same genre - e.g. Slow Fox, Slow Foxtrot, Slowfox, slowfox... (see screenshot)

[IMG="genres"]https://i.imgur.com/Rmn7VQH.jpg[/IMG]

This will cause me I cannot play all songs of these genres at once (I could make playlist but it would cause duplicities when adding new songs later).

I would love a feature, that would make possible to edit tag - Genre of all songs in this genre after clicking these 3 dots, in genre list,

allowing me to merge all these simillar genres in one. Please add this.

Big thanks, Jan
[Android Apps and Games] Mrob781:
The search function seems to only work for albums. Is this intentional? I have some large playlists and would like to search just within that playlist to delete certain songs. This doesn't seem possible. Can you modify the search feature so the user can choose to search within playlists, albums, or folders?
[Android Apps and Games] mingkee:
I have purchased version

How can I choose widget?

I just want a simple widget (album art, previous, play/pause, next buttons) across all devices

Moreover, can it have streaming audio support?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
1. Streaming audio is not supported, this is an offline music player. Sorry.

2. The widget can be resized to different sizes, you can long press the widget and try to resize it.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
It works for album, artist and songs.

You can try to search an album name.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I think maybe Android media scanner cannot support this tags well. Could you give FLAC format to have a try?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I have not tested this album but Pulsar is using Android media scanner, if the scanner has any bug, it cannot be fixed from application level.
[Android Apps and Games] wzlde:
I have the same issue in 2020. Wish there were a button to flush the internal metadata DB. Rescan library does not help.
[Android Apps and Games] Its6pri1:
Hi! I love your app, probably one of the best music player I've tested on Android, but sometimes there's a problem, the artists or albums are split even if the tracks have the same tags :

Is there a way to solve this problem?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] theguptaempire:
Hello,

I love the app the instance I opened it up. But after a few minutes of using it, I realized there is a large issue I'm having. I'm not sure if its a setting I'm missing or what.

After playing some music, I go to my recent apps list and swipe up to close the app and the music stops playing and the notification for the music controls go away. Before this app, I was using Google Play music and when closing the app from the recent apps menu, the music would continue to play.

I have tried going into battery settings and made sure to turn off battery optimizations. I have also tried a phone restart. But did not fix the issue.

After playing around for a bit, I have realized that if you close the app, then wait for the notification to open up as a persistent notification, then go to the recent app menu and close it, then the music will continue playing. However If you reopen the app and do not wait for the notification to go persistent, the music stops playing.

Also, a reinstall of the app did not fix it.

I am currently on a Pixel 4 XL and Android 10 build QQ2A.200501.001.B2
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The notification will be shown only if the player is running in background. There might be 1 second lag for the app to detect whether your app is running in background or not.
[Android Apps and Games] Futility's Forgotten Soldier:
hello i been a long time follower of the app but only problem I've ever had. i have a large library 11k songs and if pulsar ever needs to rescan or something it wipes out all my playlist. like the names still be there but all the songs i added be gone not even restoring backups helps me any
[Android Apps and Games] Rajan222:
The app does not show my new music anymore.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This problem is an Android 10 bug but Pulsar can solve it in next release soon.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
The restored playlist backup, are they made before the playlist record erased?
[Android Apps and Games] Futility's Forgotten Soldier:
yes before i lost one of my playlist had about 350 songs in it

when i backed it up last it was at 250

but after a SD card rescan the number is now 0
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you still have the backup file? You can open it using a text editor app, such as my QuickEdit text editor, to see if the content is still there?
[Android Apps and Games] MrIlikeit:
Last updated messed up the sorting AGAIN. Doesn't matter if I sort by track #, default or whatever, 09 comes before 01 for example... An no matter the album, which were perfectly sorted on the previous version.
[Android Apps and Games] AC130PL:
Hello ? quick question about this gray area... Why is it gray? I set everything to black
[Android Apps and Games] MrIlikeit:
I rolled back to 1.9.6 and everything is back to normal. So I'll stick to that version.
[Android Apps and Games] suran37:
m4a files are silent after a recent android update, not sure if it's the app or android itself that's broken. Still seem to work in VLC though so again, not sure where the issue lies.

Pixel 3 running Android 10, update was the June patch that was released 3 days ago. Running Pulsar 1.9.7
[Android Apps and Games] :
When MP3 files includes a large JPG cover Pulsar has issues displaying artist or album name.
[Android Apps and Games] :
I have 4203 mp3 files at my /sdcard/Music folder but Pulsar only displays 4202 (when I select all songs at the songs tab only 4202 are selected).

Is there a way to log into a file the Pulsar songs in order to find what is the phantom song?
[Android Apps and Games] nxsmotorsports:
Hi, I purchased this on the Amazon appstore but the downloaded version is 1.4.7. On Google Play, the version is 1.9.7.

I do enjoy the added features. How can I get the latest version on the Amazon version?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Thebear j koss:
Usually can't. That is the problem with Amazon app store, usually find apps on the cheap, but they are usually old or rarely get updates

Sent from my OnePlus 7T using Thebear Blue XDA Labs
[Android Apps and Games] yule dee:
playlist making and looking through files iv very similar to windows and that's is nice.The only thing i have to say that i dont like is that there aren't any accounts to make for a profile.
[Android Apps and Games] Digitalio:
Hi guys,

Could you add an option to make the "add to queue" action default instead of "play now", or at least make the "add to queue" button not as small as it currently is?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] mingkee:
There's a little trick to be used on playback regain

Set to either track or album, and set -0.5 on both

You will hear the difference

Suggestion on Pro: add an option to direct audio to USB C when digital headphones connected. I have this feature enabled on VLC and it sounds really good on digital headphones.
[Android Apps and Games] Dan33185:
I'm at a loss with playlists here. I'm trying to get Pulsar+ to recognize my imported playlists from my computer and I'm having no success. I've tried moving them to different folders (Music, Playlists, main SD card folder) and have had no luck. I'm rescanned the library multiple times, I've uninstalled and re-installed, downgraded to 1.9.6, anything I can think of, and nothing's worked. Any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] seboj:
I had the same issue. If I added the m3u into the Playlists folder on my phone, the playlist would appear in Pulsar, but show 0 songs.

After some internet research, it seems to be a bug or change in Android 10. When you create a m3u playlist, it often has a format similar to :

Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Disc-Track#> - <Title>

This used to work fine for me, but stopped working at some point (for reference, I'm on a OnePlus 6T with Android 10 and Pulsar Pro). If you adjust the playlist slashes, and expand to the full path, Pulsar will see the songs again. Like this:

/storage/emulated/0/Music/<Album Artist>/<Album>/<Disc-Track#> - <Title>
[Android Apps and Games] avr91:
Is it possible to use Google Assistant to play music? I also have YouTube Music on my phone, but I have no assigned preference in Assistant settings. I'm able to get Assistant to resume/pause/skip/backwards, but asking to play "X song by Y artist" only ever yields to YTM, no matter how I try telling it to play via Pulsar (pro, music player, plus, etc).
[Android Apps and Games] dvdram:
Every time I select an album, shuffle mode is activated. How can I change this and make continues mode the default mode?
[Android Apps and Games] Luminier:
Hello, could you add the feature to edit the composer in the song tags editor? I had to use a separate metadata app in order to get my album to be structured properly after I added a new song to it.
[Android Apps and Games] Sumfeget:
Hi Guys

Could you add the ability to set artwork for individual songs within albums instead of just album art?
[Android Apps and Games] pinkbecca:
developer gave us a great simple music app but doesn't seem to be passionate about it anymore, I wish there was more frequent updates for this and Omnia with our request features.
[Android Apps and Games] navigtoor:
When music is played through playlists, it does not display the cover, which it does when played from Folders or Artists.

Another thing, where the playlists are saved for backup.
[Android Apps and Games] #GATEofFATE16#:
Hey! Great app, but since my phone updated to EMUI 10 i cant find new downloaded tracks on Pulsar. I have the pro version also. Using a Huawei mate 20 lite
[Android Apps and Games] Tavo/028:
Solo tengo 10 minutos de aver descargado la app y me a gustado mucho, conocí esta app gracias a un canal de YouTube llamado (Topes de Game Plus) la explico muy bien, aunque seria genial que cuente con las letras de las canciones, pero aparte de eso no le veo ningún otro problema, tiene una interfaz muy bonita, es fácil de usar, en serio me gustó mucho esta app no se como no la pude ver antes.

Tavo...
[Android Apps and Games] Orb8:
Is there a way that album art can just be saved so that the albums page loads instantly, instead it seemingly slow due to album are being redownloaded and filled in every time I visit the albums page?

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] lokitooxd:
After the Sony player began to fail in Android 10, I was looking for some options and I keep this one, it has a similar interface and I like its ease of ordering everything, excellent app
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you upgrade to latest version to see if the problem is solved? If not, please contact support@rhmsoft.com.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sort by track # is reading track # info from song tagging. Where 09 or 01 in your scenario defined? Are they defined in song tags, or song names? Please contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
How do you know it is the JPG cover problem? How large is the JPG cover?

Have you found which song did not show? You can contact support@rhmsoft.com for that song and I can reproduce and find the reason why it is not supported.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Sorry I normally not maintain the version on Amazon store since there are very little downloads there...
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
What kind of profile do you mean?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean Pulsar does not work on digital headphone, or just auto start playback when you eject digital headphone?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please change the sort type to track# instead of default.

Please turn off shuffle mode in now playing page. And please click the 1st song in the album instead pressing the shuffle button, to start the playback.

If possible, please also turn off "Keep shuffle mode" in settings page, which will make sure when you clicking the 1st song of the album, it will play in sequence instead of shuffle.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please refer to the backup section:

http://rhmsoft.com/pulsar/help/playlists.html
[Android Apps and Games] mingkee:
It works 100% with digital headphones as I am playing right now
[Android Apps and Games] ai6908:
Thank you much for keeping this going. Been using pulsar+ for a while, and it's been very reliable and easy to use.

I just wish Google phones have external storage so that I can have all my songs in there, instead of turning to streaming player at times.

Please keep up the fantastic work.
[Android Apps and Games] possibly amazing:
Amazing app, the only thing I could suggest is allowing the option to only download artist pictures, when I let pulsar do it now it downloads covers too and usually gets certain ones wrong like sequential albums
[Android Apps and Games] pinkbecca:
small requests please:

-keep screen on option during playback

-option to auto clear Play Queue after completing selected playback
[Android Apps and Games] mbrown3:
The app can't find all of my music even though it's in a supported format and the library has been rescanned. All music shows up in other apps.
[Android Apps and Games] ozyk100:
I have a similar problem, if I download some music 90% of the time it will recognize some songs but not everything and for the life of me I can't figure out what's going on. I have been searching this thread but everything I found seems unrelated.

In downloaded folder out of 53 songs it recognizes just 13 or 16 or some other random number of songs. I have to clear data of media storage to trigger rescan and make all the songs appear, but then I have to set every notification sound and ringtone from scratch.

If I make a new folder and move the songs from downloaded folder to folder that I created everything is recognized immediately.

If someone can help that would be awesome

Oneplus 5t

Android 10 stock (Magisk 20.4 root)

Pulsar + (v1.9.8)
[Android Apps and Games] Federico de santis:
I can no longer find the music in your application that i downloaded. I went to check in the folders and the file is there. Can you help me?
[Android Apps and Games] franckgaga2:
Feature request : export all plusar settings in a single file.

I have some artists that does not appear in online database and I manually downloaded thumbnail for them. It's the 3rd time I factory reset my device and I had to re-download and re-tag these artists each time (since this info is not saved in mp3 file tag). A full export of pulsar settings including artist thumbnail would be a great time saver here!

Thanks !
[Android Apps and Games] jontis:
Great player!

I'm just wishing for one tiny option. I want the option for the grid to be made smaller when browsing artists with / without album art. Especially when I set it to not show album art, it could be minimized.

Thank :)
[Android Apps and Games] TechnoTew:
Feature Request/ Bug?

On Android 10 dark mode the notification is still white
[Android Apps and Games] dvdram:
rhmsoft:

I've made all these settings, but somehow the app won't keep them. Next time I start it and enter a folder, shuffle mode is active again. :(
[Android Apps and Games] lightstorm22:
Now Playing

Hello,

Brand new user here, have some feedback. I wanted to ask why cast/back/like/share (i.e. toolbar) are on top of the album art on the Now Playing screen. I can't post pictures yet, but let me know if that doesn't make sense. There seems to be enough unused real estate on the screen to be able to move the art and other buttons down a bit, or for cast/back/like/share to only show when you tap the art and disappear a few seconds later, something like that, so they're not on top of the art all the time. Yeah I'm a little OCD, but for some reason it drives me crazy lol.

Edit: I now realize with the art pushed to the top of the screen, the notification tray is on top of it too. Personally I think it would look perfect, to see the art with no obstructions, if there was an option to push the art and everything below down to start right under the toolbar, or alternatively push it down to start right under the notification tray, and that the toolbar would disappear after a few seconds and only show up if you tap the screen, something along those lines.

P.S. Would also be cool to have an option/setting to not show the album name on the Now Playing screen.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] lightstorm22:
Tool

I've noticed that Pulsar does not process the special character in the Tool album Ænima. I don't think I can post links yet, so just Google: android tool aenima cnima. There's a Reddit thread that explains it better than I can. Some tracks work, but the first couple tracks don't and say Cnima. It's weird, but most players do get this wrong. I don't know the coding reason behind it. A few that work are BlackPlayer, Poweramp, and GoneMAD.

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P.S. I also agree with other users that there should be separate settings to download album or artist art. I have all my album art embedded, but no artist art, so those are the only ones I would want downloaded. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bromden:
It would be a contender to the title of best simple Android audio player if it was able to properly find, add to its database and play music files that other players support. This one concern destroys an overall experience and makes the app unusable for me, sorry :(
[Android Apps and Games] tatotan:
Love the player, but Gapless Playback doesn't work for me when connected with bluetooth headphones or speakers. I'm using Android KitKat 4.4.

Thanks for your attention :)
[Android Apps and Games] Flets1972:
Oh, this sounds promising, I'd like to try that since that's a major problem for me, but could anyone tell me how to access this code and how to get to modify it? I can see the file in the folder on the SDcard, but when I get to the details, I can't modify the code. Moreover, the slashes appear to already be front slashes... TIA

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Oh, this sounds promising, I'd like to try that since that's a major problem for me, but could anyone tell me how to access this code and how to get to modify it? I can see the file in the folder on the SDcard, but when I get to the details, I can't modify the code. Moreover, the slashes appear to already be front slashes... TIA
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar is using Android media scanner to find your new music files, it depends on how you copy the music files to your device and whether it notifies Android system for the file change or not.

Normally, you can use "rescan library" from toolbar to find the new music.

If not work, you can rebuild your media store database to have a try, It won't break your music files, but just recreate the media store database.

Here is how:

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:
Thanks for your advice. I will consider this in future releases.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar is using Android native notification, it follows the system settings.

The problem is caused by the artwork image. The notification will use the artwork color as background color. You can change to a song with a different artwork image to see the difference.

If the notification bar color not change based on the artwork image, I think it is a device dependent issue.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
How to play songs in sequence instead of shuffle?

There is a big floating shuffle button in each detail page to play songs in shuffle mode. If you want to play the songs in sequence, just click the first song in the page, please turn off shuffle in playing page, or disable "keep shuffle mode" in settings page in this case.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
This is a design consideration. I prefer the artwork occupy the whole screen and the transparent effect when status bar and action toolbar floating on the artwork image.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If the music file format is not supported by Android system, then Pulsar cannot find them. You can try my another music player Omnia which supports more file formats such as ape. It has the similar UI as Pulsar.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.omnia
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
I will think about the artist image request in future releases since it is a common requirement.

Pulsar is using Android media scanner to scan your music files, which may not able to support some encoding well. But you can try my new music player Omnia which can specify encoding while scanning, should solve your problem. It has similar UI as Pulsar.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.omnia
[Android Apps and Games] bromden:
Hi Dev, thanks for your reply. Omnia indeed sees all my files. I was surprised because I store all my music in FLAC and Pulsar simply was not adding some of the files to the database while others were handled well.