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[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
If it would be possible to fix those issues easily, I'd probably do a final release update. But most of the problems are caused by either the system or - more often - the extreme low-level incompatibility of manufacturer extentions, where a solution either isn't possible at all or would require several days work...

"Some sort of work around", yes. But it's using undocumented functions, so first off it's pretty hard to get any informations about them, and then there are devices where using them causes complications. Not to mention an Android update might break compatibility as well. So I prefer not to use them until there's a public interface (I hope it'll come with Gingerbread).

Hi! Hope you're well with all that fire smog in Moscow currently...

So far I didn't get an idea how to do that without getting troubles. A skin style like the one of the WM player wouldn't fit Android's requirement (like autoscaling to different screen sizes), loading external Android layout XMLs might cause parse exceptions or missing elements, it's hard to support useful resource features like support of different resolutions or 9-patch drawables with external images, it's hard to support separated themes (colors, button images, ...) and layouts, and so on...

I'm afraid there's not much I can do about that, Android is a bit troublesome in that regard...

Which Android version is on the device?
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Android can be modified to utter incompatibility - it's Open Source. But there are some conditions to use the trademark "Android" (mostly to ensure compatibility), and there are some more to get access to Android Market (mostly so the apps there won't miss required hardware).

There are several limitations to a unrooted common device, but not many that really matter. The notification bar is great, the home screen can be replaced, ... Only thing I miss somewhat is some support for own themes.

Generally, most of the "limitations" are a good idea imho, because most of the troubles I had with WM were caused by manufacturer extentions or troublesome 3rd party system tools. Sure, there are some troubles with Android extentions as well (like the theme of SE X10), but so far they've never been as bad as those of WM.

IMHO, WM didn't work well, it just offered more than others at that time, and you could somewhat cope with its troubles. But why stay when there's better? ;)

Well, most of the troubles probably would remain, and I don't think it'd be that much a difference if the biggest change of the release version is a different version number...

The latter betas all were multi language. So except for a few missing translations (which are displayed in English) it's even Russian, Italian, ... as well.

(btw, some more translations for the Android version would be nice, too... If anyone wan't to do one, send a PM, and I'll send you the XML files to translate.)
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm:
Hello,

Personally I have two Windows Mobile devices, and while I'm not going to work to change the operating system. In addition to the devices that cost money, except for some freeware programs that I have, I have bought many ... money is an investment that brings to mind long before the operating system change ... in addition, the Windows Mobile I like a lot and I work very well in general.

Do I have the settings I can keep them for v3.31b77 v3.31b78?. How to do it without losing any given setting?. What are the differences between the v3.31b77 and v3.31b78?. It was hard work to make it adjusted to my liking this program and would like not to lose the settings I have in following the v3.3177b versions is the one I have installed.

If would be nice if you could bring a final version of MortPlayer ... yours farewell to Windows Mobile, and your faithful followers of this excellent program.

If you send me the file in English, could try to translate it into Spanish ... I think many of us who use MortPlayer Spanish.

Sincerely,
[Android Apps and Games] skreeg:
Why do Mort Players need permission to access Phone state? I verge on the paranoid and check every app I install and can't see any reason for this.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Because otherwise you'd hear music during the call on some phones and on the majority of phones you'd come back after your call to see you missed 2 albums or half an audio book without hearing anything.
[Android Apps and Games] DuncUK:
Thanks Mort for developing this player... I used to use the WinMo version of this and have since paid for the ad-free version via the Android marketplace. Great work!

Once feature that I think would set Mortplayer apart from the other players - and one that I believe is consistent with the "browse by folder" approach MortPlayer takes - would be to implement gapless support via ".CUE" files and large mp3s.

It ought to be possible to parse the CUE file and then display / scrobble track & artist info based on the contents of that file, syncing display with what the OS reports about the current track position. Gapless playback is sorely missing in Android and given the slow way new features trickle down into the OS it will be a long time coming. :(

I would seriously urge you to consider implementing this, I think you will be suprised by the number of people that defect to using Mortplayer as a consequence. You'd be a hero! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Here are test versions of the upcoming update. You might like some new features (hint: check "Energy saving" in the preferences. I'm not sure whether to rename this entry or add a new one for the new options...)

For the music version, I need some inspiration. You can now limit playback to a tree (option after long tap on folder with subfolders containing music), but so far, there's no optical feedback and the only way to get back to other folders is by selecting a folder outside of the selected tree in folder selection. I plan some marker for the selected folders in the folder selection, but that won't be much help on main screen. Trouble is, the main screen already is pretty crowded, esp. in landscape mode, so I wouldn't like to add a big new button "Playback limited to tree, press to remove limitation". Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] Kwokinator:
Just downloaded this from the Market after searching on Google for different music players. After trying, this one suited my needs exactly.

I'm one of those people who organizes music by folders, so this is great for me. I've tried the default music player, Meridian, MixZing, MortPlayer is the only one that will automatically move on to the next folder after finishing playing the current one, which is perfect for me since if I play music from my phone it's when I didn't bring my mp3 player and is streaming it to my car over bluetooth, so being able to continue to the next folder is perfect, everything else lacks that option and just stops after the folder is done.

It's been working great for me, no issues that I've found.

Thanks for the app! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Here's an updated test version of the music player. It fixes some troubles with the lock screen on 1.x devices and instant stops (or rather pauses) on some devices.

For those who experienced premature stops with the audio book update, there's a fix in the market.
[Android Apps and Games] elewton:
Good day, Mort!

I thank you for all the effort you've invested so far. Unfortunately, I have a similar problem with the podcast/audiobook switching.

For podcasts, it is necessary to select individual files, and this causes me to loose my file selection in my audiobooks. I then have to flip through the files until I find the file I was on.

Is there any way around this? Can Mortplayer perhaps log file position when using file view to switch directories? Then one could use directory change to get back to the Audiobook.

Thanks again for all your work.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
I don't quite get what you want different to the current state. The player currently remembers and restores the recently played file of each directory and the position in every file until the file's played completely.
[Android Apps and Games] bjrmd:
Hi

Does the player have trouble reading the m4a album art tags?

It does not seem to get them on my Evo.
[Android Apps and Games] psych2l:
Does this player have a 4x1 widget? The app is great but I would like some control options without having to go into the notification area
[Android Apps and Games] Upquark:
Mort,

first of all: thank you for the best player on the Android platform! I'm using it about every day and I just adore its effective interface. It totally rocks!

Now, I have this small issue of which I'd appreciate if you could look into it: could you make it so (perhaps by an option named 'Sort numerically' or something) that the following files:

Psalm 1.mp3

Psalm 10.mp3

Psalm 2.mp3

would, instead of above, be sorted as such:

Psalm 1.mp3

Psalm 2.mp3

Psalm 10.mp3

I often listen to folders full of songs with file names like that, and, of course, sorting alphabetically doesn't quite work that well.

Thanks for your time!

Btw, I've sent you some €€€ just out of thankfulness. Have one on me!
[Android Apps and Games] Cholera:
Mort Audio books

Hi Mort,

I am using your Audio-book App for some time now.

In the last time i had some strage behaviour:

When I unplug my headset the App stops playing (all right so far), but my music player (standard one) starts playing in the background.

Am I the only one with this problem?

I am using a G1 with SuperE Rom

Cheers,

Cholera
[Android Apps and Games] ArMikael:
I really liked the Mort Music player, the only thing really missing is the file association with this player. To make it self-starts when launching mp3-files. I saw in your To-do list line of "Support for file associations" -so very wait for this feature.
[Android Apps and Games] RealMayo:
Hello Mort,

Thank you very much for making MortPlayer for Android.

I am a former Palm Pre homebrew developer who has now moved to Android instead. I built an app for Palm Pre (called FFplayer) that was a little bit similar to your app in that it played music from a file/folder structure. I'll gladly admit that your app MortPlayer is way better than my Palm app.

Before I decided to ditch my Palm Pre and buy an Evo, I made sure that there existed some type of app that played music from a file/folder structure since that is the only way I want to listen to my music. If it wasn't for the existence of your amazing app, I probably would have had a hard time deciding to move to Android.

Man, Android is amazing and your app is amazing, I should have left Palm a long time ago!

Thanks again, and a generous donation is on its way!
[Android Apps and Games] RealMayo:
A few questions...

1) Why is it that the last time Mort posted here was August 2010 ?

2) Is there some other forum somewhere that I should go to, in order to follow the latest news on MortPlayer development?

3) I can't figure out how to get MortPlayer to remember the last played song in EACH folder. Can anybody give me any tips on how to do that?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] vivekiny2k:
here

http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/index.php?topic=1197.0

I found scripts that can control mortplayer. I like play and pause, but I could not find fwd/rewind. Is there a place where I can find all these codes that can be sent to mort player? (Specifically looking for WFD/rewind)
[Android Apps and Games] ArMikael:
Mort, thanks a lot for support of audio file-association in your products. Now it's even better than before.

But I encounter some problems after the last update. First, the problems with the Cyrillic characters. Before the update everything was fine, all the tags are displayed as expected, but now there is a problem. Secondly, sometimes the bookmark (Mort Player Audio Book) disappear after you close the program. In addition it seems that Mort Player has to consume more battery if leave it open than before.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
I only check every now and then into this thread, because there aren't many updates and the mail notification doesn't work reliable (might be my spam filter as well).

No english one currently. For my own forum on sto-helit.de the same problem occurs - just not enough going on, so I only check it every now and then...

For Germans, there's a pretty "alive" thread on android-hilfe.de.

It should do that automatically, but only in the audio books version. For music, this option doesn't exist because it's rarely required.

Those codes only exist for the WM version. AFAIR the parameters were "ffwd" and "rew" or "rewind".

Please ensure you use the latest update, there've been some buggy ones in-between. Then, check the encoding options in the preferences.

Older versions used the system's default encoding for ID3v1 tags. On some devices, this worked as intented, but an increasing amount of devices has UTF-8 as default encoding, which usually isn't the desired encoding.

Sadly, there's no way to get any "common codepage" for the current system locale, so I use "translation" default workaround for the existing translations. I.e. if you see the player in russian, Windows-1251 is used as default, but other languages using cyrillic will use the english default, i.e. ISO-8859-1.

Strange, nothing was modified in those areas since several updates.

Are manually set bookmarks removed as well, or only the "recent position" for the recent or all files?
[Android Apps and Games] vivekiny2k:
Thanks, I will try that. I meant for WM version but could not find a dedicated thread there.

Is this a list of the codes?

http://www.sto-helit.de/downloads/mortplayer/MortPlayer-Skins-b76.pdf
[Android Apps and Games] PSeeCO:
i'll try it, i don't like the playlist based players, thank you mort!
[Android Apps and Games] ArMikael:
Mort, Thanks a lot for your answer!

After a new update (0.9.4) I changed the encoding ID3v2 tags settings to Cyrillic (Windows 1251) and everything is fiine. Yeah, you right, I'm using English version of MortPlayer Audio Book so probably this was a reason for the wrong encoding of ID3 tags. Thank you for the option of selecting codepage, I think it's could be very useful. At least for me. ))

About the bookmarks... No, that wasn't recent position I added this bookmarks manually. They just disapeared. But anyway, during the last week I have not been faced with the problem.

Thank you again for updating your products.

I will continue to support and promote your Players in other communities, because I'm still finding it interesting and useful.
[Android Apps and Games] ArMikael:
Hi Mort!

After posting reply in thread about MortPlayer Audio Book in russian speakers community board they asked me about localization of the product. As I understand they are already have localized one of the old versions of your programm and asking if there any options to add support of other languages in official releases? Do you have any plans in future for supporting other languages. If it's interesting for you tell me how we can help you in this task? Maybe you need the text file with all buttons\options translation or one of existing files inside the non-official russian version of MortPlayer Audio Book?
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
If you want to add or fix a translation, you can do so at

http://www.getlocalization.com/MortPlayer_Music/

or

http://www.getlocalization.com/MortPlayer_AudioBooks/

(Widget will follow soon...)

The audio books site contains the translations of some older Music version, so there is some basic fundament, but several strings only added in recent versions are still missing...
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
No, that's for skinning the WM version.

I just checked the code. Available are "stop", "play", "prev", "next", "prevfav", "nextfav", "ffwd", "rewind", "volup", and "voldown". "prevfav" and "nextfav" are for prev./next "favorite", i.e. folder or playlist.

Oh, and please use Run( "\Windows\MortPlayer\mpnotify.exe", "play" ) or similar instead of the SendCommand codes.
[Android Apps and Games] s44:
Ah, a live xda thread for my favorite Android music app!

One question for Mort: could you make a blank/transparent image option for absent album covers? It would go well with the wallpaper main screen background option for those of us who don't rip or d/l album art.
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Technically, I could. But I think it'd look really ugly even with wallpapers, esp. if I'd keep an "empty" button to invoke the folder selection.

Maybe I'll add a "no cover" layout with the "folder selection" button now used in the track list...
[Android Apps and Games] vivekiny2k:
awsome, mortscript keeps hanging on me (responds after 10 mins). I can use these directly in .lnk file now.
[Android Apps and Games] esirad:
best player , tnx
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Here's a preview of the upcoming update.

I've reworked the play mode selection. Now there's only a simple "repeat track" button on the screen. All other modes are available in a dialog which can be invoked by the menu or long pressing the repeat button. This was done because the old buttons were pretty ugly and hard to use, and you usually don't modify the play mode all that often anyway - except if you'd like to hear a song again, but having to press a button, scroll up the list, and select the desired list entry was especially cumbersome for that...

I'm not quite happy with all updated layouts, esp. in landscape. If you've got an idea, just tell me. However, the folder skip buttons should stay close to the cover, and in the default landscape layout, the track data shouldn't be made much shorter, i.e. the cover shouldn't grow much.

Aditionally, the options for the main screen background were improved a bit. The image selection is only shown when "custom image" is selected, and now uses the gallery. Additionally, you can now choose a single color background.
[Android Apps and Games] Marc.:
Any screenshots?
[Android Apps and Games] karay2:
This new layout is awesome. :D

Now if only you could place somewhere a "jump to random folder" button...
[Android Apps and Games] max1919:
This player RULES!!! you are great! and thanke you sooo much for this player!
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Thanks for this great!!!!

But i have one feature request to the music version:

Please add Resuming at last song position

I am often using MortPlayer to stream MixCDs (~80min) to my car radio over BT. After a restart of MortPlayer it always began from the begining :(

I know there is a AudioBook App but why dont add this feature (maybe as option) to this great player?

Thanks

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
Main trouble is the different stop behaviour. Like most "real" music players (e.g. CD player), MortPlayer Music resets the position to start when stopped.

So, if I'd save the position when stopped, and restore it on next start, the player would actually show a different position after restart - because it was on the start of the track when left.

It would be a bit more consistent if the position was saved when the player is left with the "Exit" menu entry during pause, but this isn't really that intuitive...

With the audio book player, there's no such problem because it keeps the position after stop (and saves/restores the recent position of every file anyway).
[Android Apps and Games] bogdank:
Not sure what's going on - I have deleted folder, reloaded tags, reloaded mp3 files and the same thing happens. The player fixates itself on one album art and regardless of song it keeps that art - once in a while 5 out of 500 songs it shows correct cover.

Running on LG Optimus T Android 2.2

What setting am I missing?

All of the art is visible on my PC
[Android Apps and Games] Mort:
There's no setting. The player should simply overwrite the old cover (or rather delete the old file), but it seems like this doesn't work on some devices. Is it a Samsung device? There's a known bug causing the preferences aren't updated sometimes, maybe it's the same cause...
[Android Apps and Games] bogdank:
Thank you kindly for responding

- the phone is LG Optimus T (T-mobile version)

(It's a fairly basic phone but it does a good job overall)

When I deleted folder and reinstalled all the mp3 files on the microsd card,

the cover it showed was different from the one before reinstall.

It does not matter if I set Mort Player to read from sdcard or from a specific folder.

And it changes cover art to it's proper cover in some (5-6 in 200) but the next one is back to the cover it somehow found as its default. No idea why it chooses that cover.

On the PC all covers show up as proper - some were embedded using WMP - the ones that were ripped without proper covers.

Anyway - thanks again for your response
[Android Apps and Games] bogdank:
Mort - thank you for responding

I looked at my files again - this time with a program designed for reading tags with all the info. And it turns out that even though my Windows Media Player was showing album art the other program showed no art on 90 percent of the files. So somehow the files lost their art - or at least art that could not be seen by either the tag program or MortPlayer. Once album art was inserted it showed up on MortPlayer.

Thanks for a great program.
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
Hey Mort. First thanks for great support and your quick answers.

Sorry for my late answer.

Why dont save the position of the track when it currently playing and player will be closed with menu exit function? Maybe as option.

Another question: I am using settings profiles which detects car mode exit and do some tasks ... like closing mortplayer. In setting profiles i could select/run built in functions in some programs, also mortplayer give me some functions. If you could make an EXIT function (like in menu) it would be great ... combined with resume function this is the perfekt car multimediaplayer!

Let me know your thinkings

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] PSeeCO:
I've installed "simple lastfm scrobbler" but it doesn't detect mortplayer, maybe i need to activate something but i can't find what in the preferences, can you help?
[Android Apps and Games] RealMayo:
Patriot 32gb Class 10 card negatively affects music

Hello Mort,

I'm guessing theres probably nothing you can do about it, but I just wanted to mention that a Class 10 micro sd card causes the music to periodically freeze for a partial second, similar to listening to a skipping CD. This actually also happens in PowerAMP and in the stock music player as well. I wonder if this could be resolved programarically? Our I just need to buy a Class 4 card instead?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
All classes (up from 2) have enought read speed for mp3s. The class just says which is the minimum read/write speeds (in most cases :D ) = higher class -> better performance.

I am also have a class 10 in my desire without any problem.

Ill think just you class 10 card is damaged!

Go end get a new one (warranty)

cu

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] RealMayo:
Thanks! That is good to know that a class 10 is working for you! What brand is your card? I guess my Patriot brand sucks.
[Android Apps and Games] brantje:
Hello,

I just downloaded MortPlayer, there is only one thing i miss on mortplayer.

On the Desire HD, i can choose for the SRS chip, can you implement this?
[Android Apps and Games] popy2006:
I have a kingston card from amazon.

cu

pOpY
[Android Apps and Games] RealMayo:
Well I feel stupid. Once I rebooted the phone again, everything works great LOL!