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[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Could you contact support@rhmsoft.com for this problem? I can send you a temp build which can track the logs, I want to know what happens on your device. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Temp build already sent. Please install it, reproduce the problem and send me the device log. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] mikhm:
Bought the pro version 2 Werks ago & have to give a HUGE thumbs Up 4 this awesome Android music Player!!!

Have just one Feature request / improvement: the random/shuffle Feature is Not random enough, i Always listen to my music library 1000+ mp3s on my OnePlus-Phone using shuffle mode, and always Encounter huge chunks of repetitive Clusters of Songs. It makes No difference If i let the Songs Play Out or jump to the next one, my GF and I already have a running Joke to guess which Song will be the next and we're right Most of the time... So a better/more random shuffle function would bei awesome! Thanks in advance ;)
[Android Apps and Games] kingbenzima:
Can't play flac files
[Android Apps and Games] AC130PL:
I have nearly a half of my music in this format and everything work greaf :P
[Android Apps and Games] seobel:
the same works.

Can the problem in the firmware of your phone? :rolleyes:
[Android Apps and Games] kingbenzima:
I know that it's Pulsar because AIMP Player plays the files
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Which device and android version are you using? Are you using any 3rd party roms?

Pulsar is using Android native decoders, it support file formats which android supports, flac is in the list, as following:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats

AIMP has its own decoders, so it is another story.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
When you shuffle 1000 songs, it won't play the same song again after 1000 songs finished. What do you mean by repetitive Clusters of Songs? Are they played multiple times in the same queue?
[Android Apps and Games] teco10:
Hello!

Guys I've always used this app, I think it's the best of them all.

I recently upgraded my Titan to Lineage 16, (android 9, pie), and it did not work right, it gave a lot of bug in the sense of playing 1.10 seconds or so and simply to not play anything else, even changing the track, happens again.

Is it not optimized for android 9?

More of the same way, congratulations, because surely is the best player I've ever used, no doubt.

Hugs.
[Android Apps and Games] kingbenzima:
Yes I'm using DU nougat on a xiaomi redmk note 4, any chance of a test build with Pulsar decoder and not native?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar currently does not have its own decoders. I will consider this in future releases. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Do you mean that every song will pause playback at around 1 minutes and 10 seconds? Have you tried other players? Such as Google Play Music? Did they have problems?

Pulsar support Android 9 for sure. There are lots of Android 9 users.
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
I've updated my OnePlus 6 to Android 9.0 Pie a while ago and ever since then I'm having problems with the crossfading of songs: Pulsar basically tries to crossfade the songs at the requested time, but instead of succeeding, it actually stops the music at that requested time and continues with the next song at that time as well. So for example, it'll stop 5 seconds before the end of a song and continue playing the next song starting from the 5 second mark.

I can try filming it or creating some logs for you, if you'd like that.

Edit: seems like this is a ROM issue since the exact same issue also occurs using other music applications (such as Spotify) when crossfading is enabled.
[Android Apps and Games] teco10:
Hello!

Ow, I had not noticed that the app was out of date, lol.

I updated and it is really working well on android 9.

Thank you again for the beautiful work.

Hug.
[Android Apps and Games] Vortell:
I can't find dac on the thread. Will this use the dac on an LG v20 without down sampling first?
[Android Apps and Games] vertigo_2_20:
Feedback

Here's some feedback based on my initial experience with this app:

Had some bugginess at first, but seems to have gone away. Hopefully just a fluke or some issues while the app was initializing.

When viewing as hierarchy, can't set multiple source folders and can't set back button to go up a level instead of exiting app. Would also prefer to set default folder(s) in settings and not always have the ".. SET DEFAULT" line visible, taking up valuable space.

Can't change order of display categories (albums, artists, etc) or set default one.

Needs button to temporarily hide most if not all elements (would be nice if user could select which ones in options) except browsing section (list of folders/files/artists/etc) to make browsing easier, especially when using in landscape, where I can currently see between 2-3 items only, depending on which direction I'm scrolling (scrolling up/swiping down pulls down title bar). And they could be shown if needed by swiping from the top/bottom and then hid again by swiping them back off the screen. An option to hide the top bar, or both bars, when viewing the queue would be nice, too. Again, they could just be swiped in and out of the way. The back arrow is redundant (can hit back button), the cast button can be accessed on the other screens, and the menu button can be placed in the bottom-right next to the next track button, and it would free up valuable screen space.

When going to previous folder or going back to folder from playing screen, it should go to position it was at before (position of currently playing song or folder you just came back from) instead of going back to the top of the folder. Also, every time the screen is turned off or the app is switched between split screen and full screen mode, the position resets to the default folder.

There should be an option to just show no background (color of theme only) if the option to display album art is disabled.

The popups for shuffle and repeat are very slow and wait until the previous one disappears before showing, so if the buttons are hit multiple times it will take several seconds for it to cycle through showing the popups for each press.
[Android Apps and Games] HgtDave:
Closing the app£

Hi Guys,

This is the best simply layout app for offline music, it rocks. I use it on my Galaxy S7, perfect and now on my In car head unit which is a Dasaita PX5 MTCE running Oreo which I have a slight problem with.

The only issue is I can’t close the app, double click the back button leaves the app playing in the background when I want it to stop playing and exit the app.
[Android Apps and Games] MaggieMay1:
Purchased upgrade, got nothing. Wth?
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Pulsar paid version is an independent app, you can find it from app drawer with name Pulsar+. Please use it instead of the free version.

After you launch Pulsar+ once, it will migrate all data from Pulsar free version, then you can uninstall free version and only keep Pulsar+.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
If you can not access the notification from your car, please stop the playback before press back button.
[Android Apps and Games] HgtDave:
I can access the notification bar on the car HU, when I press the back button (on the notification bar) the massage ‘press the back button again to close’ appears but pressing again does nothing.

I have to Stop the playing then return to home page or press all current apps icon then press X to close the Pulsar app. It’s not a friendly way to Close the app when driving.
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please upgrade to latest release, many of these problems have been fixed, including back key support in hierarchy mode and toast of shuffle/repeat.

In settings page there is an option to adjust tabs, which can hide or reorder albums/artists/etc pages.
[Android Apps and Games] dominusdemonum:
I bought the premium version but it still doesn't show my connected OTG drive on folder search. What do you think is wrong?

Google Pixel XL, not rooted

Android P
[Android Apps and Games] nextappsgen:
It would be cool if there was a rewind time setting somewhere. For example, the default is 10 seconds and I want to put 30 seconds.
[Android Apps and Games] deadly-x:
Well everytime i pause the music it stop completly like if you close it, and when a open again the app the song i was listening isn't the one playing, it always goes like to a certain song, for example i was listening to a korn's song, then i listen 3 more and i have to pause it for any reason, then it disappear i push Play and starts again that korn song, i listen to 20 songs, pause it, open app again and it's that korn song again and it's starting to be annoying...

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I have this issue that when i pause the music after a few seconds it close itself and when i open the app again the song i was listening isn't playing, it starts to a song i listened like 5 songs before and it doesn't matter how many songs i listen to, when i pause it, and have to reopen the app again it's the same song... i don't know if i could explain myself correctly
[Android Apps and Games] :
I have exactly the same issue and I use oxygenos by OnePlus.

The issue was due to this ROM, that is killing the apps on background.

Just clicking the padlock on the running apps list to avoid oxygen to close this app and also setting this app to be not battery optimized at battery settings has solved the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] pbenedictxda:
Pulsar 1.8.8: bug with Genres playlist

I using Pulsar 1.8.8 and have a problem with the Genres playlist. Quick overview:

Listed is an "Alternative Rock" genre, which contains one album, which contains one song.

The album's genre is "Soundtracks".

The single song's genre is "Soundtracks".

As a remedy, I have edited the tags of both the album (applied to all songs) and the single song. Problem remains.

As a remedy, I have re-scanned my library several times. Problem remains.

So I have a genre that I cannot get rid of, and the album/music tag clearly doesn't match. What can I do? Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] HubbeKing:
For some reason, sorting by Release date does not work properly on my Nokia 7 plus

What tag(s) does Pulsar use for this sorting? I've got simple year-only dates in the tags for my music, but it's sorting my albums in the order 2004, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2017 rather than the expected sequential one. (2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017)
[Android Apps and Games] rhmsoft:
Please click rescan library after you mount your OTG device. Unfortunately you need to do this again if you reject and inject the OTG device again.
[Android Apps and Games] Tomatot-:
I have the same issue. Once I modify the genre of a song/album, the tag is updated but the old one remains in the genre list.

I've tried to even delete the album but still, the genre persists with 0 song in it.

So basically my album was in the genre "Hip-hop"

I switched it to "Hip-Hop"

the "Hip-hop" genre persisted so I tried to not only change the capital but add another letter:

I changed the tag of the song to "Hip-Hop1"

Pulsar displays a new genre "Hip-Hop1" like expected.

However, back to the tag "Hip-Hop", I have now 3 genres displayed for a same song: Hip-hop, Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop1.

I tried to delete data from the app, force close it, rescan the library, rebooting the phone. Nothing works. Any fix possible [MENTION=6073508]rhmsoft[/MENTION]

Otherwise the app is great. Thank you for your work. :)
[Android Apps and Games] vertigo_2_20:
Thanks. Yes, some of these are no longer applicable, but some still are.

I'd still like an option to open the app to the same tab and location within that tab when opening the app, instead of always just opening to the top of the main folder/list on the first tab. For example, if I'm in folder Music/Genre/Artist_Name, it should open back to that, not to the main Music folder. And if I was last on another tab, regardless of whether that tab is first, it should open back to that tab (e.g. Artists tab - Artist_Name).

And everything in my fourth point regarding maximizing the use of screen real estate to make it easier to navigate, especially when using in landscape mode, still applies. There's currently just far too much screen space used to display unnecessary elements, crowding the screen so the list only shows a few items at a time, when it could easily show a couple more.

Another couple things I would like are tapping on the path in folder view to jump to whatever directory is tapped (ideally the path font size could be changed, too, to make this easier) and a way to directly play or add a folder to the queue, perhaps by making an option to play when tapping on the folder icon (could replace it with a folder with a play icon on it when the option is enabled) and add to queue when tapping the "xx songs" text. And for songs, tapping the song length could add it to the queue.

The fifth point has only been halfway fixed. While it does go back to the position in the folder you were at when pressing back from the now playing screen, it still goes back to the top of the previous folder when going back a folder, e.g. if I scroll down to a folder in "Music" and enter that folder, then press back, I'll be at the top of the "Music" folder, not at the folder I just came back from. And it still resets back to the original/default folder whenever the screen is turned off or rotated or when the app is switched to split-screen (basically, any time its interface is reloaded).

The sixth point is also still valid. If I disable album art, I'd prefer that instead of showing a grey background image that takes up space, the song info would just be larger and use that space, making it easier to see while driving.

Many of these requests, such as maximizing screen use and making direct ways to play a folder or add it to the queue are to make the app easier to use when driving. Considering you want to be interacting with it as little as possible while driving, these steps would help make it easier and faster to use, especially considering many people, myself included, have their phones in landscape mode in the car, which really limits how much space is available. And on top of that, I often like to run a music player side-by-side with Waze, which means it only has half the screen to use. So making these changes would go a long way in making it more car-friendly.
[Android Apps and Games] HubbeKing:
The app can't seem to play some of my music - I think I've managed to narrow it down to albums whose name contains a colon character (for example: "History Repeating: Blue").

Android itself seems to understand the files, as they appear in all music apps I've tried and play normally in Google Play Music, but Pulsar throws the following error:

> Operation Failed.

>

> java.lang.IllegalStateException: songs cannot play, the media format may not be supported.

Are there further steps I could try to further narrow things down to try and figure out why Pulsar doesn't want to play certain albums?
[Android Apps and Games] HubbeKing:
Seems like it's having issues with any file whose path contains a :

Android itself can play them just fine, so it might be something odd about how Pulsar itself opens a file for playback.

Making sure all folders and files don't contain any colons before moving files to my phone is a reasonably straight-forward matter, but given how Pulsar behaves differently from Android itself in this matter I figured I might aswell let you know about it.
[Android Apps and Games] Developer23:
Nice!

Beautiful and convenient music player! It is seen. that the developers have invested much effort!:)
[Android Apps and Games] bryxer:
Great music player. I've tried a bunch for my in-dash car unit and this one really looks and feels great. Not sure if this is the right place for feature requests or "bugs" that may not be entirely the player's fault but here it goes ;)

1. If I turn off the car while playing music, when I turn it back on the player doesn't remember the position where it was. I have the impression that this is related to the unit killing the app somehow. If I press "pause" before turning the car off, when I turn it back on and open Pulsar again then it does remember. It would be great if it could save the position without having to play pause (maybe every X seconds or so) so as to resist this shutdown, and also remember the fact that it was playing. Ideally when I turn the car on Pulsar should restart automatically and continue playing from where it left off. At least it would be nice if it could do that when I open the app if auto-starting is a stretch.

2. As I use it in the car, every touch matters. I think it would be great if we could have a longpress in an item automatically play instead of bringing up the context menu. This menu would still be available on the "3 dots" or "hamburger" icon.

3. On that same spirit, it would be nice if when starting to play something, the player could automatically go to the main playback window (instead of keeping the item list and showing the mini controls on the bottom).

Anyway, I hope these things help you make it even better, and not annoy you as silly random requests ;) Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Hippie459MN:
I too have this same issue and it drives me crazy. If I don't press pause before turning off my truck, it will not remember what song it was playing when I turned my truck off but rather the song that i last song I pressed pause on. It is very annoying.

This is also another slight annoyance for me in my vehicle. Seeing that I use this in my vehicle, the less I have to touch the screen the better so it would be nice if it went right to the expanded play back window when I press a song track to play and not just keep the track listing displayed with the mini controls on the bottom.

All in all, even with a few things that I would personally tweak like the things mentioned above, I have tried a lot of music players and this is by far still my favorite!
[Android Apps and Games] drjoe1:
I don't know if it was a recent update or what, but 90% of my music library disappeared. The artists and albums show in the library, but only a few of the songs. I tried rescanning the library, force stopping the app, clearing the cache, clearing the data, rebooting the tablet and rescanning the library multiple times. No luck. I can navigate to the folders in ES File Explorer, and the songs are still there. From ES File Explorer, I can manually play the missing songs in Pulsar, but they still don't show in the library. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 running Nougat, with my library on a 400gb expansion card. The music library is large, but had been working fine. The card has ~ 20gb free.

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe
[Android Apps and Games] sooperior:
Have you recently updated your library? (e.g. with a sync app). Sometimes songs not found are due to the media storage subsystem of android, not to the player itself.

Try with another player (not vlc-has its own media scanner) and if you miss the same songs, go to apps > show system apps, look for something like media storage and stop, clear data & cache.

You can also eject sd, rescan, re insert sd to force a rescan, but sometimes it "remembers" previous state.
[Android Apps and Games] drjoe1:
I don't sync anything, so I'm not sure what would have changed there. The only media apps I have installed besides pulsar+ are mx video pro (which doesn't do audio, AFAIK), and vlc player, which has the music folders excluded from the library. Do you have a suggestion for a music app to install and do a library scan with?

If there is a particular system app I could flush the cache of, let me know and I'll try.

I hesitate to eject the card. I have lots of apps installed on it or with their storage locations moved to it. Can I break something if I eject it and start up without it?

What about uninstalling/reinstalling pulsar+? The thing I worry about there is I spent hours updating the thumbnails for the artist and album artwork, and I don't want to lose it. It is unusable now, but I don't know I want to go through that again.

Thanks for your help, I've been impressed by how quickly folks reply to questions and bugs on this forum.

Joe
[Android Apps and Games] sooperior:
Try Jockey https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marverenic.music for instance, they share the scan engine (use android media storage). If you see the same mistakes, then it's not due to pulsar

Look for a system app called media storage (or something similar, name can vary)

It is possible, so don't do it. At least unless you have tried everything before.

I don't think it will solve it. Maybe you can force rescan by copying your files again (overwrite) to their location. I mean, if you have a file called song.mp3 which is not found on your sd card, copy it to your computer and then back to sd card overwriting original. Wait for some time (media storage works in the background, is not a real time update) update library on pulsar and check if it is found now.
[Android Apps and Games] Hippie459MN:
I dont know if this will help any. I made some changed to the meta data and removed some albums on mine once and the re-scan library wouldnt change a damn thing. Seems that will only work if you add new files only so if anything else gets changed, it wont do anything. So this is the only way to get it to update the whole library again and update any files. Why this doesnt happen in the app or is an option in the app is beyond me. If I delete files or make changes to meta data or file names, the app should automatically update that and not have to go through some dumb process.

Here is the link from the dev - https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=77506734&postcount=1628

That worked for me a time or two when my library got all messed up. Granted you will have to let the whole library update again but its a lot easier than uninstalling and reinstalling the whole app.
[Android Apps and Games] drjoe1:
Thanks again for the replies. I installed Shuttle+ and it came up with the exact same song list with same missing songs as Pulsar+. How do I find the media system app? I don't see anything with "media" in the title in my app list. My tablet is not rooted.

Added....

OK, I figured how to see system apps - there's a menu item at the top of the settings / apps window where you have to check "show system apps". Then the media storage app appears in the list. Very intuitive - NOT! I've force stop / cleared it, and will wait 1/2 an hour to see if my songs reappear.

I'll post an update shortly.

Just an aside, I can see how technology frustrates people. These things should _work_. I have a PhD in physics and work as an engineer in semiconductor manufacturing, and I don't have a clue when something like this goes wrong. How the heck do "normal" people like my parents deal with it?

*fingers crossed*

Joe
[Android Apps and Games] Hippie459MN:
Glad you got the "show system apps" thing figured out.
[Android Apps and Games] drjoe1:
So still no joy. There are actually fewer songs in the library, some artists missing, only one or two songs in each of the albumns that are "seen".

Is it worth copying the music folders to a hard drive, deleting them all from the SD card, scanning, and recopying? Or something else to try first?

Thanks,

Joe

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So now a couple more hours & the songs are back. About a third of the albumns covers are still gone, but having the music is 90% of the Battle.

I still wish I understood what happened and why, but thanks for getting me back!

Take care,

Joe
[Android Apps and Games] sooperior:
Yes, it takes a while for the full scan, depending on how much songs you have.

It's something strange with android media provider, nothing to blame on pulsar. It happened to me also some times before
[Android Apps and Games] -moos-:
I gave up. All my music is on my SD card, and pulsar don't recognise them where PowerAmp and Musicolet does.

So there is some bug there that need to be addressed.