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[Android Apps and Games] Lancealot:
Very glad to see this on the Android market! Been testing out the MortPlayer on my Nexus One and so far so good. I'm digging the widgets and the quick pop-out feature is pretty slick. I'm sure you get loads of requests for features to be added on and while I don't have any suggestions at this time, I would like to say that I would hope that you keep the player fast and stable.

Oh and I hope that you might consider bringing MortScript to Android :D

Keep up the good work and Cheers!

Lancealot
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Added a variant for audio books to the market. Look for "MortPlayer Audio Books".

MortScript might follow one day, but first I want the MortPlayers to be good enough for "1.0" (guess it won't take much more than a month). And then I'll have to check what's possible at all with Android's scripting SDK. I'm afraid "remote controlling" is way less possible, Android has much better security limitations. (Um, "much better"? WM doesn't have any security at all...)
[Android Apps and Games] maestrocool:
Please add your Player to the HTC Tattoo,

i love your Player on my HTC HD 2 and use it every Day.

in my Privat Phone Tattoo, wants your realy good player and clockradios and Radiostreams.

The other Player, on Market, are Horrible with advertising and so

sry for my bad Englisch, ^^ im German

(mfg) Maestrocool :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] wm1:
Nice...

I love the Widget...I've been looking for one that has the album art on it. And this is the first player I've tried that uses the album art I already had instead of trying to find the album art that is in the file. Awesome! Some things I would like to see though...can the songs be played based on the track # and not name? I have musicals on there and they are just goofy if played out of order. This might already exist but, can I shuffle within a main folder; Rascal Flatts folder has multiple albums so it just shuffles those albums instead of the tracks inside one of those albums. Also, does it have to rescan the folder everytime that it starts after I kill it? It seems to take forever to start back up because it is rescanning the folder. Nothing has changed so it shouldn't need to scan again. Other than those things, I have just found my replacement music player. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] cyates:
I love mortplayer!

I've been a mortplayer user on WM for a very long time. One of my favorite features is a skip forward or skip backward by xx seconds. Any plans to add a skip button to the interface? It's really useful when playing audio books or downloaded podcasts.

Thanks for the Android version...it's great to see morty on my droid.
[Android Apps and Games] drosene:
New Samsung Moment and now my favorite Mortplayer!

I have used Mortplayer for literally years on my Axim x50V and couldn't be happier to see one of my two favorite apps now on Android. Now if only Iliumsoft will port ListPro I will be able to power down the Axim for the last time!

I love your comments about Winmo too. I honestly think there is room for multiple mobile OS platforms but if Microsoft can't get their act together soon they will be losing a lot more fans like me in the months to come.

Mort, I hope you plan on charging for this app once 1.0 is released. You deserve more than donations for your fine work.
[Android Apps and Games] xaueious:
Built in sleep? Pretty slick so far! Looking forward to updates!

Not too familar with the GUI though. Can use some a help screen on startup

During music play back, I pushed my keyboard out and it killed the app (force close). G1 running 1.6.
[Android Apps and Games] drosene:
Sleep Timer and Alarm

These were two of my favorite functions in the Winmo MortPlayer. I used the sleep timer last night and noticed that it requires me to set the Sleep Time rather than the Play Duration. Since I didn't see any place to adjust the default (15) minute duration, I think your users would appreciate a more standard interface for the Sleep Timer and Alarm functions where one would specify a duration for the Sleep Timer (possibly a Doze duration too) and a specific time for the Alarm. It's much easier to specify a duration, particularly if it frequently changes rather than trying to calculate in your mind what time you want it to shut off.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Not so easy... Android's "small screen" support was meant for mini touch screens like on eBook readers, they obviously didn't think somebody would release a cell phone with less than HVGA nowadays. In Android's eyes, you don't have an Android phone but some "special device with a small screen".

So if I'd do it properly, I should offer a version that would even work on a 160x50 display... And even if not, it'd take some adjustments to make it work on the small screen.

If there's ID3 cover art in the file, the player uses it. Folder.jpg etc. are just "fallbacks".

Currently not. But sorting options are planned for future versions. And file names like "01 - First track" aren't that uncommon. Opposed to track numbers in the tags, which way too often aren't available or all 0 or 1... ;)

Not necessarily, but otherwise it wouldn't recognize added or removed files.

But it keeps once read ID3 tags unless you do a manual update, so usually the updates don't take too much time.

Thought about it already. Just have to find a proper place for them... And I'm not sure whether I'll add them in the music version as well.

Main trouble with WM is, there's no visible stragety. If I'd add time to my native apps, would they even run in WM7? Nobody knows...

No, that's not planned. I thought about optional ad versions or donate apps, but don't have any fixed plans so far.

I just wish I could turn off the device instead of just stopping playback. But that would require a permission that's only available to Google signed apps.

There's a help item in the menu. But I thought about a quick help screen, too. Most is obvious, only folder and track selection are a bit hidden... And for the audio book version, the "track time setter" needs a better icon, it's too easy to mix up with the sleep timer...

Weird, that doesn't cause any problems on my Milestone.

Well, it was easier to do with Android's controls, and I think it has its advantages to see how late it will be then...

It's in the preferences, 2nd entry...

There is no alarm yet. Not sure whether this makes any sense in Android at all, since Android isn't as crappy as WM in that regard. The default alarm clock works fine, and there are several alternatives already.

I often had it the other way around. I wanted to sleep at a given time, and then had to calculate the minutes...

Well, or "just that song". An option for that is on my to do list...
[Android Apps and Games] rahul.pillai:
Mort, some of the Album art's not getting displayed on the main player but gets displayed on the widget?

Milestone 2.0.1 HK Version
[Android Apps and Games] maestrocool:
Thank you for your reply, the tattoo has a

2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch screen with QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixel) <---copy past direkt from HTC.com

and i think the touchscreen is very sensitive.

The sound is ok, for this small device.

a simple UI with album art background, and a simple play/stop/pause folder would be enough (and all of the rest config in a popupmenu)

I think that the processor power is large enough for the Morthplayerengine, in the background (Qualcomm ® Prozessor MSM7225 ™, 528 MHz)

hope all goes well, and thank you again

mfg Maestrocool :cool:

excuse me, I have used Google Translator to translate
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Weird. There are size limits for Widget data transfer (in Android, Widgets are part of the Home app, which are "remote controlled" by the app that offers them), but I don't know of any troubles with "local" image handling. Do you use very big images?

I know. I just tried to explain the Android perspective.

It seems like Google started thinking no device will ever use smaller resolutions than the iPhone (oh mighty de facto standard...). Who'd expect a development to worse quality?

Then some manufacturers got the idea to use Android on devices like eBook readers, with tiny touchscreens (and big slow eInk displays). So they allowed "small screen support".

Then HTC had the glorious idea to offer a phone with low resolution, which somehow works, but doesn't really fit one of the intended concepts.
[Android Apps and Games] adolfotregosa:
Hi! I tried your app today and really liked it. Good job but I already miss a standard feature that the android player on the milestone has.. a really simple one :) :D Pause the music when I disconnect a2dp. Really useful when getting out of the car. Can you implement it? Also, can you make it the default system music app? Like when you use the search widget for some music it opens the default player. Don't know if it's possible, just would be nice.

Well thank you for the player and your time.
[Android Apps and Games] guags99:
Just wanted to share some feedback on you latest beta...

My biggest issue is that somehow I have tracks names and descriptions showing up on the wrong album. Seems strange given how you use folders, but I have confirmed.

I also have found that the stop button just skips you back and starts playing again.

Otherwise great..keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
The newer versions pause when a headphone is removed, not sure whether that "indent" is sent for A2DP headsets as well. Which version do you use?

Technically, yes. But it wouldn't fit the concept. As long as the selected file is inside the selected music folder, all is well, I could just set it as start file. But what if it isn't?

Very weird indeed... Does it help to update the folders manually (menu entry)?

Huh? Never experienced that. Is that only for certain files or modes (e.g. only last file in folder, repeat track, or something like that)?

Last not least, here's a preview beta (lots of changes so maybe more stable, maybe less stable than the one in Market...). Most changes regard memory handling (e.g. complete shutdown when not playing and exiting with back button), but also some bugfixes and new options.
[Android Apps and Games] emomilk:
hello.. is there any way to get Mort Player to read album art from the device database? (\mnt\sdcart\albumthumbs)

I have used Cover Art Downloader to get covers for my music but Mort Player does not recognize them.. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] lowspeed:
Where can I download older versions of the app? It seems like the newer versions don't control the player well with headset or BT control.
[Android Apps and Games] papaschtroumpf:
Audiobook App user here, and I must say I just love it, I've tried other apps but keep coming back to Mort.

I would love an option to use the album art as the widget background picture. I use the 2x2 widget with 3 buttons and the album art is a bit tiny (looks better if you remove the buttons, but then you have to click extra to bring the player to rewind)
[Android Apps and Games] dicky_v:
Hi Mort,

Long time user of Mortplayer PPC, and I've now finally moved onto Android.

Still the best player out there, for the simple fact that it'll sort a folder intelligently by ID3 tag.

I am quite precise/OCD about correct tagging (thankgod for MP3Tag), then I dump all of my music into folders by genre.

Pick a mood, select a folder, press play. Good song, want to listen to the rest of its album, just turn shuffle off.

No other player that I've tried seems to be able to handle this.

Yet another feature request, if it's even possible... is there any chance of support for the old PPC skins?

Or the ability to swap around & hide certain items from the display?

I have run the player in the car for years, with a skin I made for myself (which can be found here: sto-helit.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5961 )

It's been downloaded 186 times, so I guess some other people liked it too :)

(Screenshots are attached below, running from Windows CE 6.0, on a no-name Chinese 5" GPS unit. Getting Mortplayer to work at all on that was an adventure in itself.)

Thus I am accustomed to the track title being at the top left of my screen, in big white bold text.

As the western world reads left-to-right, top-to-bottom, this is the first place the eye tracks to naturally, and that means the shortest amount of time possible that I have to take my eyes off the road while I'm driving.

I would love to be able to run that skin, or at least that layout, on my Android phone.

Big track title top-left - preferably bigger text than everything else - big album cover top-right, everything else sitting below that.

I haven't rooted the phone yet, but I suspect the DIY path might be the go. Any thoughts, fellow forum people?

I've had a bit of a look at dissecting an older version of the APK and XML layout files, but it seems far more complicated than the relative simplicity of making a PPC skin - MS Paint and Notepad, and defining X/Y/height/width values in a text file.

I guess it's likely that I'll have to learn XML.

I would gladly welcome any help on how I could achieve what I'm after.

Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] TiTAN-O-One:
Mort Script? Remember during the Windows Mobile days? Are you the creator of that? :D

From my Wonder, trying to PORT Sense to this device! :D

1/10 Done.
[Android Apps and Games] JesseFK:
Hey Mort

Love the music and audio book players. Donated and been using them for years.

I had one question/request (depending on the answer).

Is it possible to have the music player remember the selected folders after the player has been shut down?

I always thought this feature would be added over the years but it hasn't. Unless I'm completely missing the option in the settings. Though I have scoured the setting looking for it.

So if it is an option, could you let me know how to do it? If it's not, could that be a request?

If you need more info, let me know.

Thanks,

Jesse K.
[Android Apps and Games] blogid:
Still in beta version, but it has a nice features.

i'll be wait for the final version :D
[Android Apps and Games] Tatsuya79:
Thanks for the update!

Happy to see this player is still going on, I'm using it all the time since a bit more than 2 years ago.

Good work. :cyclops:
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
I've got some problems with that:

1. Some taggers don't use the proper date format as defined in the ID3 specification, but e.g. Unix timestamps (seconds since 1/1/70) or localized formats like "12/2012" or "21.12.2012".

2. The order number in the playlist doesn't need to be the same as the track number in the tags. The folder could contain multiple albums or be resorted to some other scheme.

3. The file or folder name might contain the data already, which would make it look a bit stupid. Like "2012 - Album (2012)" or "01. 01 - First track".

My experience was the opposite. But that might vary with the device or drivers...

I'm a bit afraid the different dates might confuse users, esp. in the Windows world, most don't even know there is a modification date.

Thought about that myself, but again I'm afraid this would become pretty confusing. And usually the content of most folders doesn't change that often, so the one time user sorting in the menu of the track list works as well.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Will think about that. It's mostly because it'd be a real PITA to change the volume with multiple clicks. Esp. if you've gone too far and then had to press even more. And for using "morse codes" (like short short long, no, damn, too long!), most headsets just aren't responsive/reliable enough. I don't want to blast somebodys ears just because the "key released" notification doesn't reach the player.

Not really. There's no reliable and fast API for that, esp. given that MortPlayer doesn't use the device database otherwise. Besides, that folder is just some cache or something similar from your download app, the database is an SQLite database in the internal storage.

A downgrade of the app wouldn't help you, it's the system that changed. The player itself rather supports more variants with updates.

No, there's just too much variation in screen sizes to do it the same way on Android. Also, skins like this make changes in future updates really hard.

For some, that's already possible in the settings.

Yes. However, I doubt I could integrate it well with Android, esp. since you can't register own MIME types and opening by file extention doesn't work reliable (tried for .m3u8 with MortPlayer, but failed...).

Technically, yes. But as it's now, this would be restored if if you didn't use the player for quite a while, and then you'd wonder why it only plays a couple of folders instead of all.

However, I'm thinking about some "playback selection mode" (all folders, chosen folders, all playlist files, chosen playlist files, new playlist) which would also be signalled in the main screen, which would also make this more transparent. Just not sure how to do that in detail... It'd also require some changes in the folder/playlist and track selection dialogs.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Some thoughts about future handling...

I'd like to offer some additional "what to play" modes:

- All folders: Like the current "folder" mode - plays all the folders with shuffle options, etc.

- Chosen folders: Like the current "folder" mode when folders are selected (tap cover in list or use menu entries - a bit hidden feature so far...)

- All playlists: Like the "folders", but with all the playlist files. The playlists can be modified similar to the folder contents now, just with add/remove. Changes will be saved immediately.

- Chosen playlists: Guess you get the idea by now... ;)

- New playlist: Single playlist which doesn't exist as file (so far, "save as" is possible of course). Mostly like the current playlist.

For the "Chosen ..." modes, I'd also like to offer a list of the chosen folders resp. playlists, a bit like a playlist.

I'd also like to integrate folder/playlists and track list. On tablets both should be visible at the same time, for Smartphones my current idea would be to offer swipeable pages like it's done with the different folders in the track list. However, this would disable exactly that folder swiping, since it'd be a pain to swipe through all the folders/playlists back to the folder/playlist selection. Any better idea?

For the "new playlist", there's no playlist selection, there's only the track list. Maybe on tables a placeholder will remain to unify looks.

When folder/playlist is tapped, the new default action would be to switch to the track list. To enable fast "entire folder/playlist" actions, a corresponding entry will be added to the top of the track list, offering a popup menu when tapped. Maybe also an "folder with subfolders" entry.

The new "what to play" mode would be in a dropdown above the folder/playlists/tracks lists, changing the content below accordingly (e.g. "chosen playlists" and "currentlist.m3u" pages for "chosen playlists" or "folders" and "current folder" for "all folders").

However, I'm not too sure when to apply that mode. It's a simple thing if an entry was chosen (like "play this track"), but what if not? Changing it always when returning to the main screen might interrupt the current playback, e.g. when a playlist was played, which wouldn't be accessible anymore for "all folders". Or when "chosen ..." was selected and the current folder/playlist isn't chosen. On the other hand some might say "hey, but I've selected that new mode, why isn't it applied" when it's not applied. Maybe "OK" and "Cancel" buttons (and "back"="cancel"?) resp. action bar entries? In any case I'd prefer to avoid a mode that would have to applied in the "play modes" dialog (where you can choose the repeat and shuffle modes) opposed to a "view mode" in the navigation dialog.

Oh, and being at the action bar - that's giving me some headaches as well. There is just one, for all contents, like "add playlist" (to chosen ones), "add track" (to current playlist), etc. Might become a bit crowded... Any ideas to avoid that?
[Android Apps and Games] mbc663:
is there anyay to have the player buttons show up in the notification dropdown when mort is running? Just shows track name and track info, no buttons.i have to click the notification to open the player, defeating the purpose kind of. awesome app by the way, the only way to listen to audiobooks on android :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Only with Android 3.0+, where the cover acts as play/pause button and there's an additional configurable button (next track by default). With Android 4.2 there's also a big notification with track/folder skip and stop buttons. Oder Android versions only allow a single "notification" action, which is why there's the remote control popup.

Update: Oh, sorry, the Audio Book version is a bit behind... I'm working on it, but there were a lot of changes to migrate from the Music version. The current development state only compiles fine, but still has lots of errors, esp. bookmarks are causing me some headaches...
[Android Apps and Games] mbc663:
Thank you for the reply and the continuation of the only player I've used for the past two years. Awesome work!
[Android Apps and Games] Olioaglio:
Compatibility with upcoming gmusicfs app

Hi Mort,

is MortPlayer fully compatible with GmusicFS?

Current version (1.2.5) reads albums and titles from gmusic fine, but gmusicfs synced playlists do not appear in MortPlayer :(

Another little problem I ran into is, that MortPlayer does a sort of quick scan everytime you start it or choose another folder to play or change a playlist and so an. As I have roundabout 10k+ songs in gmusic, this is unfortunately a VERY time consuming procedure before I can start listen to music (about 3-4 minutes everytime). Though I unticked every single rescan feature in Mortplayer settings and choose "never" in menu renew folder sctructure (initialize) it still does some time consuming sort of scan :confused: Could you give some hints here?

Thanks, Olioaglio
[Android Apps and Games] pamarakos:
Lockscreen widget

Hi all

I tried to search but no good results came out, is there a way to disable lockscreen widget since I can control the app from my headset or from the status bar, so I want to stick with the clock??

The widget option in the settings menu is not "pushable", so how can I do this??

Thanks a lot for your app, I use it since froyo days:)
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
No idea.

Which format are the playlists? I couldn't find any information about that.

This should only happen the first time the folder is accessed, it's necessary to sort the files correctly if e.g. the track number in the tags is required.

Reading the stored data might take a bit as well, but it shouldn't be more than some seconds. Can you send me the trace*.txt files in Android/data/de.stohelit.folderplayer? Mail's mort(at)sto-helit(dot)de.

That option should open either the play store entry for the Widgets app or open its settings, sadly the API to detect if an app's installed is very unreliable. For the lock screen there's a different entry. However, I guess you mean the system's lock screen widget, which can't be disabled.
[Android Apps and Games] h82or8:
Playback Speed?

Are you planning to add a playback speed option to the updated Audio Book version? Thanks much.
[Android Apps and Games] Olioaglio:
Hi Mort,

This is what the developer of gmusicfs writes about it. Maybe you both could help each other to get it sorted.

Cheers, Olioaglio