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[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Some bugfixes, some minor layout changes, and a new layout...
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Wow Mort. Thx a lot.

Will try it as soon as possible!

You can download "Car Mode Control" from market. When you run it, it will start Car Mode. Run it once again to Exit Car Mode.

Thx

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
A quick result: The seperate layouts in car mode (main player) works. I have configured mort player in car mode to use the dock layout and in normal mode the default layout.

If ill enter carmode (with car mode control) mort player regonize this and use the other layout.

But if ill exit car mode (with car mode control) and mort player running (in background) it will not exit on leaving the car mode.

Will try it as soon as possible if mort player main window is on top.

This ill must test in my car.

Will report back

Thx

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hey Mort.

No difference if main window is on top. Mort Player doesnt exit on leaving car mode.

As i said, mort player regonizes car mode, it switch to the configured layout.

Maybe you couls look into it with the app "car mode control".

Thx

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Strange... Did it change the layout when you removed the phone from dock?

Won't help much. The configuration change (which causes the layout change and main screen exit) would happen outside of the player (app must be launched). As said, the player can't receive this in background, so it would be the same as "started player in car dock - changed to any other app - started player again outside of dock". The broadcast, which would also work while the player's in background, can't be emulated by any app, it's restricted by the system.
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hey Mort.

Yesterday i have updated to Gingerbread 2.3.4 (from 2.3.3).

Now the Main Player always exits (hide window) on leaving car mode but services is still playing in background and shows notification. It makes no difference if the option 'exit onleaving car mode in mort player' is checked or not. Dont know it had something todo with System update?

Yes this app can emulate car dock!!! Have this used also in other roms. It really triggers system to enter car dock mode, like you put the device in a dock and the kernel triggers this mode.

Please try it, maybe you could debug your application easier ;-)

Thx

Popy

PS: could ill donate twice :-)
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
PSPS: My profile app "settingsprofiles" has no windows on top running and also regonizes car dock state change. Maybe there is a other way to get the dock state?
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Next try...
[Android Apps and Games] RealMayo:
Hi mort, can you make the Mortplayer Audiobooks version have "default cover" be small icon, just like in regular Mortplayer? Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] persevest:
Hey Mort. I like the swipe gestures feature but I would like to have an option to Fast Forward/Backward using the swipe gesture. Unfortunatelly there is currently no such option.

That I would appreciate in Mortplayer AudioBook.

:)
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Sure. It will get most of the new features of the current Music version, though I'm still pondering whether playlists really do make sense there. Usually, audio books are listened completely and in the default chapter order...

The update of the audio book version is just delayed because some of the changes in the recent music updates caused problems, so the focus was on fixing them, and while being at it, adding some smaller features. Which happended similar the other way around as well.

The current test version seems quite promising, so I hope I can dedicate some time to the audio book version pretty soon.

Oh, I've thought it existed already... Will add it when I get back to the audio book version.
[Android Apps and Games] Hampa_D:
i just wanted to say thanks for in my oppinion the best audiobook player i have used and i think i have tried them all by now but i have always returned to Mort
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Yess Mort :D

It works if main window is on top or not, as it should be!!

One Little thing: I am german (ill think you too?) and in the german language the option spells:

Auto: Bei Entfernen Player beenden

(Nur in Hauptanzeige)

Now this is incorrect :p it exits always leaving car dock mode, not depending if the main window is on top. Just a spell error.

Thanks a lot for your great support!! This piece of software getting better and better every day :)

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] ftc_osiris:
I want to say that I love the work you have done on this Mort

THANK YOU
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
New update is in Market... The dock layouts now also show the upcoming alarm, and the now unnecessary "only in main screen" has been removed.
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Just updated and will try it in a few days.

Thx Mort!
[Android Apps and Games] grudas:
mind making a full screen widget? :)
[Android Apps and Games] kabukistyle:
I noticed that MortPlayer doesn't scrobble anymore. Usually use last.fm, also tried ScrobbleDroid yesterday. Preinstalled music app still scrobbles.

Can anyone else confirm this?
[Android Apps and Games] churapa:
Hi, thanks for such a great music player, my question deals with the chance of having a 4x1 widget with no album art at all (some people love minimal settings), same thing for main app?. Again, thanks for your hard work delivering this app.
[Android Apps and Games] max1919:
Mort, thank you soooo much for this player. it is best player on android I have every used (and believe me I tried almost every one).

Thank you once again...
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hey Mort.

Car Dock Feature is amazing :D thank you so much for this!

Once more a "car" related feature request.

Is it possible to change the car layout a bit?

I am using Mort Player very often in my car and its hard to read the title because the fontsize is very small.

Here are my ideas for the verikal car holder layout:

the first line with the folder name could go in the space between play/stop buttons and cover

repeat button could go between stop & next folder button (or maybe it could be disabled in options?)

share the artist & album text field, showing every 10 seconds artist with people icon and then album with cd icon .... and so on (text should scroll)

now there is much space for bigger font sizes for artist/title

the song length time could go on the rigth, with no "/"

a cool idea is to put a big progressbar in the background so you could quickly set the song position

These are just ideas...

Ill think the best was to go ist to implement a skin engine ;)

So other users can make skins and you have not so much work with new layouts/skins.

Just if you have enougth time :p

Let me know your thinkings

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
This would only move the folder name above the cover, I don't see any advantage there.

IMHO, this would look pretty ugly, because it spoils symmetry. Additionally, I prefer to keep related things together, and the repeat button doesn't quite fit in the "folder related" area... (Yes, I know, I'm not really consequent there...)

I really don't like constant animation on the screen, and esp. in the car screen I don't think unnecessary distracting movements are a good idea.

You mean current position above length, where the repeat button is located currently?

I'm not sure whether Android would support taps on an element in background. And there might be confusion with the overlaid elements anyway - even the tag data opens the track list...

If there was an easy and flexible way to implement skins that work on every screen size, and are compatible to any changes (like replacing the two big play mode buttons with a small repeat button) I'd do it... ;)
[Android Apps and Games] altgrr:
I'm suffering a strange issue which ends up in force close issues: when playing some of my MP3 files, they go silent half-way through, but MortPlayer's track time keeps ticking. At that point, the controls within MortPlayer don't respond. Eventually, it force closes - but MortPlayer hangs on "Reloading folder data" when I try to restart it. I have a couple of MortPlayer widgets but no idea if that's relevant. It's probably some corruption inside the files themselves but it ought not to crash when it encounters bad data.

Also, I've noticed that two other music apps (Connected Music Player and the leaked Android 3.0 Music) are able to send track titles to Bluetooth headsets. What do you think the chances are of being able to do that?

(Aside from that, it's perfect. And I still use MortPlayer every day despite the force-close issue.)
[Android Apps and Games] PSeeCO:
it works for me using simple last.fm scrobbler
[Android Apps and Games] kabukistyle:
Just tried and that works for me also. Maybe because I wiped and reinstalled another Rom since I last tried.

But thanks for letting me know!
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
It should indeed, but I can't do anything if some system routine hangs. If it was anything that was reported to the player by the system, you'd either get an Force Close or it would continue with the next track.

From my side, none at all. If Android would support AVRCP 1.4, it could send the tag data itself, since I just use the system's playback routines. Though it would be the data from Android's media database, so some "bad ID3 spec workarounds" and selectable encoding wouldn't be considered... Or there'd be an interface for me to use. But doing low level BT stack handling myself is way too complicated to be worth the efford...

And now for something completely different - the audio book player.

I've attached a new test version. It features the new features of the music player (playlist, new layouts, dock support, ...), faster scrolling in folder list, "system" menu style (optionally), an "auto rewind only from latest position" option, and a slightly modified last position saving (saves position after skips only if you listened for the auto bookmark interval, which defaults to 10s). But it might also feature some new bugs...

Happy testing.
[Android Apps and Games] s44:
Is there some setting that changes the notification text color from the default dark grey? I can't see it on my dark-background theme. It may be a theme issue, but other app notifications don't seem to have a problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Yes, it's in the "Notification" section of the preferences.

It only affects apps with own notifications, like the MortPlayer does to be able to display the cover. With Android 2.3 or higher the text color can be themed as well, but for older systems I can only set fixed colors - and the default is grey text on white...
[Android Apps and Games] s44:
Ah there it is! But I can't see how I can pick white on the circle.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Yes, Google's color picker is a bit very, erm, "basic"... I'm using another one in the new update.
[Android Apps and Games] max1919:
Hey Mort!

I'm using your player for a long time, but now I have a problem. I have AOSP 2.3 system and EQ is not working on it, can you tell me what system files do I have to activate EQ... (or do you have any other idea why EQ is not working on 2.3...)

please help cause I realy need this.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
I didn't ROM development so far, so I don't know much about the system core...

The player doesn't show the equalizer entry if the system delivers some kind of "service not available" to all required audio filters or delivers an error when the necessary functions are invoked.

From what I understand of the error logs, it seems like there are three levels of implementation: A Java wrapper for the official API (which the player uses), a native interface part (probably some .so), and modifications to the kernel (or driver - it's tightly linked in Linux...). Most errors I got before the player handled them indicade that the kernel is missing the required modifications.
[Android Apps and Games] PSeeCO:
There are two covers that are showing in the grid list but not in the playing screen, any idea?
[Android Apps and Games] s44:
Thanks for the new color picker... Is there also a way to change the widget text color?
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hello Mort Thx for your answer and the cleaned car layout :-)

so the title is little bit bigger as before.

It will be really helpfull if you find some space to make the artistname a little bit bigger (maybe you can make an option to hide album name?)

thy a lot for your amazing work

popy
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
This usually happens if there's a file cover (tags or <filename>.jpg/png) that can't be displayed or the cover in the folder list/grid is still cached from an already deleted file.

Not so far. I still have to find out how to do that, "remote views" (the Widget is part of the Home app which is "remote controlled") are a bit complicated sometimes in Android...

Maybe... Trouble is, I can't assign styles dynamically. If you know HTML and CSS, "styles" are a bit like like CSS classes. I say this is "big info text", and depending on the theme it looks different. Now if I'd like to do something optionally, I'd have to assign the properties each for its own, depending on the current theme. This is something I'd like to avoid...

There's also a new test version for the audio book player. Except for the export/import menu entries in the bookmark list, most features should work.

I'm thinking about to change the track/folder list to a similar handling like the updated bookmark list, i.e. tapping the "main area" does the default action and there's a button for the context menu. What do you think? (Long press works too, but Android has a real drawback when it comes to determining if long presses or the menu button will have an effect or not... I'm afraid several apps have unknown features hidden there...)
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hey mort.

thx for answer.

And why add a feature to load an custom css from sdcard?

This would be the absolute killer player if it has skin or theme support.

cu

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] scrambler3:
MortPlayer AudioBook suggestion/question

I was looking for a generic AudioBook player, and found yours. Congratulation on a very efficient App !!

I have one question / suggestion. Most of the AudioBooks I used come from CDs. As a result the folder structure is the following

Book Title

----CD1

-------track1

-------track2

----CD2

-------track1

...

If I place an AlbumArt file in the Book Title directory, I can see the image in the select folder section of the MortPlayer, but when I select a track to play, in the Main interface because the top level is the CDx folder, I only get the Question mark, as there are no images inside the CDx subfolders.

It would be nice to have a way to see the Book Cover there instead of the big question mark. May be if there are no album art in a folder we could have the option to show the one from the Top folder.

Not a huge deal, but it would allow to better see which book is open when using this folder structure.

Keep up the great work
[Android Apps and Games] scrambler3:
Just saw that you have implemented the feature in the new version.

Amazing support!

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hello Mort.

I have switched to SGS II and havent used Dock feature a while (because i had no car holder). No i have one.

On leaving Car Dock Mode MortPlayer stops playing audio (have set it to do so).

But the icon in the notification area still persists?

Shouldnt the notification icon go away on leaving car mode?

thx

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] meukbox:
Just a thumbs up for this great player!

I finally found one that does what I want it to do!
[Android Apps and Games] flipper44:
Troubles With play Button on Bluetooth

I use MortPlayer Audiobooks on my OG Droid with a Jabra Cruiser FM transmitter All works fine.

I have since picked up a Toshiba THRiVE tablet...Love it...Installed the same version of MortPlayer for Audiobooks....I have set all of the settings EXACTLY The same as my OG Droid...

The Play Button Does nothing now All the other buttos work..ONLY Long Press Play works, which STOPS no matter what I assign...I tried assigning other functions to that button and NO LUCK.

The Play button works on Google Music, Toshiba Media Center, Etc...So it doesn't seem to be a bluetooth profile...Any Ideas
[Android Apps and Games] rammkp:
Issue with Resume playback in SGS II

I am using SGS II and using stock headset.

If playback is on and screen display is off, pressing headset button stops playback. And playback stops/resumes if the screen display is on or lockscreen is on.

But when playback is paused and screen display is off, pressing headset button does not resume playback. But if I switch on the display and MortPlayer Lockscreen is displayed, pressing headset button resumes playback. Is it a problem with SGS II?

I didn't have this issue in SGS I.
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsuya79:
I'm using your music player on SGS1, thanks a lot, it's really great.

An annoying issue though, sound is skipping a bit, like 1 time every 15mn. Is there any buffer value I can change somewhere, be it in a config file? I'm on GB 2.3.4 if that can be of any help.

Customization is fantastic, the only thing I wanted to change that is missing would be an option to show track tittle in notification (flash on track skipping) instead of album name.
[Android Apps and Games] bogdank:
Android Icon

I've sent this to your site. Any chance for color in icon.

Just wondering.

thank you for the app, big thank you
[Android Apps and Games] flipper44:
Update Crashes on tablet Menu>Configure>Preferences *CRASH*

The Newest Mort Player for Audio Books Update Crashes on My Toshiba THRiVE Tablet when I go to Menu > Configure > Preferences *CRASH*

I have sent Five error reports...So it renders it useless for me right now unless I want to Transfer My books to Internal memory, since I can't browse to my mounted SDCARD, USB Drive, or USB Hard Drive.

Bad News I am on a major Driving roadtrip the next 10 days...And it still doesn't see my artwork, where Google Music and Player Pro both do.

Now for the Good news and Kudos...

1. I have plenty of room on internal storage.

2. You fixed the Bluetooth Issues I was having with the play button on My handsfree Jabra Cruiser

3. The New Interface Is Much freindlier, especially on a tablet and while Driving....NICE big buttons

4. Awesome work
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Sadly, there's nothing to configure. The player just uses the routines of the device, and Android's got no interface for settings like that. (Hell, it took until 2.3 until there finally was an interface for an equalizer...)

It seems like Samsung has "optimized" the "half-standby" (i.e., screen's off, but something's still working) mode a bit too much: the reduced CPU performance doesn't seem to be fast enough for music playback, esp. when the equalizer's enabled. This could only be fixed with an update from Samsung or a custom ROM.

Actually, it should've been that way, I just accidently messed it up and didn't even notice... :o

Will be fixed in the upcoming update (I hope to get it ready this week).

There already is a bit, if you look closely. ;)

I don't think I'll add much more. Firstly, the icon appears "goofy" to some users as is - it probably be worse with more color. I also like to keep at least some of the simple style of the b/w drawing it origins from. (If you've bought the donate app and press "thank you" in the info dialog, you'll see it...)

Strange, I can't reproduce this on any of my devices... Which Android version's on that tablet?

Crash reports are sometimes a bit troublesome, some of them basicly cook down to "something went wrong in Android", not giving even the slightest clue what has caused which problem.

Hard to tell what's wrong... Usually, it's one of those:

- the artwork's in an invalid format that somehow works anyway with Android's media scanner (e.g. it handles "synchronized" ID3 tags wrong - but so do some taggers...)

- the artwork's been saved directly to Android's media library (some cover download tools do this). In theory, I could let the player search for it there as well, but since I don't use the library otherwise and there's no better interface, I'd have to iterate through all files in the media library until the current one's found - this sometimes takes ages...

- the artwork's too big. Currently, there's a 512kB limit to avoid memory troubles resp. a 128kB limit for the (luckily pretty rare) "synchronized" ID3 tag format, because it's painfully slow to parse.
[Android Apps and Games] Gnaver:
Any chance that you'll improve the player ui so it'll be more polished and better looking? Also redone the widgets to not to be so boring. Apart from this its awesome player :-)

Slide(it)d from my crappy galaxy mini
[Android Apps and Games] Nephisto89:
Is there some way to make the progress bar display the total time of the book instead of just the current mp3 file?
[Android Apps and Games] marahadje:
Dear Mort, I just saw this thread and just want to thank you for the excellent player you've made! I've been using it for a year now and haven't changed to another since because this one has all I need.

On Gingerbread it occasionally 'skipped' when using the equalizer but I run Team ICSSGS now and it works perfect. Thumbs up for you!

I'll move along now..
[Android Apps and Games] Olioaglio:
+1 for the best player out there. Indeed.

Cheers, Olioaglio

Sent via HTC HD2 with XDA Premium
[Android Apps and Games] RaMPaG3:
Working great @ Nexus S ICS
[Android Apps and Games] cornelha:
Mort dude I loved this on windows mobile, awesome news to see it coming to android. Brilliant stuff man!
[Android Apps and Games] nutterbg:
Hands down the best music player out there. Thank you. :)
[Android Apps and Games] cobraplayer:
Cheers for designing an excellent media & audiobooks player. I've one feature request.

My sd card contains a large amount of data, most of which isn't audio files. So, reloading the folder data takes a very long time, searching uselessly for audio files where there aren't any. I propose to implement a functionality similar to android's .nomedia. You could introduce something like .noaudio which will skip searching in a user specified folder (and its subfolders). Then the user would be able to exclude specific folders and speed up the 'reload folder data' operation.

Hope you will consider.
[Android Apps and Games] st@r$k!:
Very good!

Hi Mort,

first off - thanks for the app!

It works pretty nice, but what I would like to know - is there any way to queue a few folders (and then sort them the way I want, or at least queue them in an order in which they'd play).

And second thing - is it possible to add menu option for more "main folders"? I've got one music folder on my internal sd and second on my external sd, when I give it the whole SD, it considers also my ringtones etc. which is confusing :)

Thanks!:D
[Android Apps and Games] kadolf:
Hi Mort,

first of all congratulations to the nice player. I really like the simple user interface.

I used Mort Player on WM long time ago and just found the Android version a few weeks ago.

I'm currently developing a Android app which acts as an interface between my cars data bus (connect to e.g. head unit and CD changer) and my phone. This application was intented to run as a background service, just doing the communication work. I enabled my app to emulate the CD changer.

As I'm not interested to reinvent the wheel, I wan't my app just to control an existing player (which would be in screen focus) on my phone. I found your app and it's folder based navigation concept to be ideal for my project.

Here is my request: Is it somehow possible to control your app from "outside"?

I would need to control the basic functions like start/stop/pause, skipping tracks/folders, scaning through a song, enable random playback from my app and a method to get the metadata back from the player. Is this possible with your excellent player?

Greetings,

kadolf