I just downloaded ^3 Music Player at the suggestion of many, and it is an awesome player. I want to keep it as my main player because it just looks cool. And unlike the stock player on the Vibrant, the Album Art is crisp and clear. But I noticed this app does not show up in the Program Monitor widget to chose End All. So how do you turn it off. Currently Im going into Setting > Applications > Manage Applications > 3 > Force Stop. Is anyone else not seeing this program as running in the Program Monitor widget?
I see your new to android... the following link deals with your question in part... but mostly with android and memory management.. (I read you have a program/app/task manager ) ... basically apps made to follow android api's do not need a dedicated stop/exit button, for media players, pause and back button ends the app ... so please read the info found in the link... you don't have to install any app , that's up to you, I just want to help you understand Android...
http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/details
dan0zone said:
I see your new to android... the following link deals with your question in part... but mostly with android and memory management.. (I read you have a program/app/task manager ) ... basically apps made to follow android api's do not need a dedicated stop/exit button, for media players, pause and back button ends the app ... so please read the info found in the link... you don't have to install any app , that's up to you, I just want to help you understand Android...
http://andrs.w3pla.net/autokiller/details
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Thanks. But, didnt help me to understand why ^3 is not showing under the Program Monitor when it is running. When you play the stock MP3 player and when you hit back all the way to the home screen, the music is still playing. Same goes for the ^3 music player. The only difference is that the stock player will show as an active application under the Samsung Progarm Monitor. So all you do is just hit End Application and the app is no longer running and music stops. ^3 does not show as an active application in the Samsung Program Monitor as it is playing. Even if you hit pause on the stock MP3 player and then hit back until you get to the Home Screen, the stock player still shows as an Active Application. So when you say for media players pause or back ends the App, that doesn seem so since the stock mp3 player continues to show as an active application when it is paused.
In the end I installed Advanced Task Killer. When I run ^3, advanced task killer does show it is running when it is playing, so I just use the kill option on that for now.
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Hello,
While there are many MP3 players, most are lacking the basic features. Is there an MP3 Player that will auto shut off the screen after 1 or two minutes and continue to play? I do have the utility that turns off the screen and its fine, but it just so annoying. Anyone ?
Thanks
marek101 said:
Hello,
While there are many MP3 players, most are lacking the basic features. Is there an MP3 Player that will auto shut off the screen after 1 or two minutes and continue to play? I do have the utility that turns off the screen and its fine, but it just so annoying. Anyone ?
Thanks
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Yes there is, the best player for the device is Pocket Player. I say that because I'm bias'.
www.conduits.com and give it a try. The settings are a little to difficult to figure out at first, but once you play around and figure them out you can't beat it.
The latest GSPlayer is free and works well.
Hint: On any MP3 player this should work - Lock your PDA with the lock in settings or put it on your desktop, then hit the on/off button while listening to music via bluetooth. This will keep it playing with the screen off but you have to be disconnected from the USB cable.
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=701
In the menu settings inside GSPlayer there is an option to turn the display off.
vito sound recorder
Pocket Music from PocketMind is a good player. I use it for all my sound/music-playback. The full version has an option to automatically turn off the screen after a specified time (whilst continuing to play).
I can't say for shure about the free version as I haven't tried it.
www.pocketmind.com
Mortplayer does this as well, in case you need another option.
Does anyone know if there's a way to disable the autostart of the music player. I'm on Candy, but it's done this on every rom and any player.
I always freeze the stock launcher and install the Apollo apk. I listen to a lot of podcasts. Every time I start or restart my Jeep with Bluetooth, the music App Launches even if it isn't open and Pocketcast is. Sometimes it's more annoying than others.
I can't find a setting in Settings or the app.
Hi all,
I have an Android Headunit which is currently using the default music app. I'm looking for another one that has more functions.
When the unit starts up it will generally run the last running app which would normally be the music app. with the music app it will auto start playing again.
I'm basically looking for a decent music app that will auto start when opened. As well one that has album cover and has the random music function option.
I've played around with Tasker to play the music when the app runs but this won't work when the head unit auto starts the app.
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i think many music apps can do that, when you open the app the music starts, all you need is to set in the setting.
i search for you online, there's 10 best music apps, but i don't know whether i can put the link in the forum. try this：
www dot techsupportalert dot com/content/best-free-music-player-and-organizer-android dot htm
if not, please tell me i will delete it immediately!!
the players i've tried don't seem to have that setting. The last one was Poweramp which seems to only auto start if headphones are plugged in.
auto stop current music when choosing other music app & how start app in background
Question/problem1:
When i listen to MP3 using the music apk and i switch to radio the MP3 is stopped/paused and radio is started.
When i listen radio and switch back to music then radio is muted/stopped and MP3 starts to play, PERFECT, this is what i want
But....
When i use an other music app (for example vlc, internet streaming radio or ds-audio etc etc etc) and i start this, the currenct radio/music etc keeps playing on and i hear 2 music sources at the same time...
So i have to stop/end the current music before choosing an other music source.
How can i solve this so whenever i choose an other music source the currect music source is always muted first?!
A second question:
How can i start an app on boot which runs immiditaly in the background?
I use a app called 'flitsmeister' which is an app which warns me on spoeed traps, traffic controls, slow traffic etc
This app currently starts on boot, but i always have to push home button to force this app to the background, it pops-up when there is something to report, so there is no need to run it on the foreground.
So the question is: how to i start an app on boot and let it run immidiatly on the background so i get my dashboard on boot and not this app?
Sorry I don't have an answer to this but I am 100% with you on the functionality and have been looking into it for the last couple of days. I think it might have something to do with the built in apps using one audio stream and the 3rd party apps using another. I have to say I thought I was going mad that I couldn't seem to find any other posts relating to this anywhere else on the forum. As the source code for both the inbuilt apps like Radio and the external apps like Spotify is not available I would think the only solution would be an additional app to run in the background and monitor either the audio streams or the apps themselves being executed.
Maybe someone with some more experience can answer or even better point us in the direction of an app that will perform such a task.
How can i start an app on boot which runs immiditaly in the background?
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I'd like an answer to this also w/o having to wait for tasker to load.
Dave
Maybe you would find my app helpful. Search the forum for modeswitch. A new improved version is coming in a while. It works well with Spotify and allows the SWC to control Spotify. Now it adds voice call capabilities, but as now this is possible with dsa`s workaround, it will be removed in the new version to spped things up. Besides Spotify its possible to add until 2 custom apps. The app tries to respect the audio focus, so that only one app play audio
p_mike83 said:
Maybe you would find my app helpful. Search the forum for modeswitch. A new improved version is coming in a while. It works well with Spotify and allows the SWC to control Spotify. Now it adds voice call capabilities, but as now this is possible with dsa`s workaround, it will be removed in the new version to spped things up. Besides Spotify its possible to add until 2 custom apps. The app tries to respect the audio focus, so that only one app play audio
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To use your app you must cycle through them all though right? So you must cycle through radio, video and media player?
Dave
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To use your app you must cycle through them all though right? So you must cycle through radio, video and media player?
Dave
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The video player is not circled. The DVD and music player have option to opt-out from the circle. As well as Spotify and 2 custom apps..
In next versions maybe I will add the option to respect audio focus without. Using the circle, but maybe this will slow things down...
Great thanks.
Dave
I don't know if this helps but I have noticed through testing. The built in apps play sound while they have focus, either through the app or the widget. For example, if you open the radio app and click the home button it will continue to play. However if you click the radio app and click back it will stop playing. Obviously the 3rd party apps do not work like this and continue to play in the background regardless of how you exit them.
Hi all, I'm running a Huwawei P smart, and got fed up with the default player, so started using Musicolet (after trying several). I like the feature of being able to select a folder and play everything in that, rather than just an album, or artist, or playlist, or all music.
However the default action of the phone was to load the use the inbuilt player, even after I set my chosen one to be default. After locating a thread on here, I stopped the storage access for the default player, which is great. It no longer loads.
But I do not seem to be able to get musicolet to auto load and play when I press my headset play button. Once loaded all works fine, but if i pause music, after a few minutes my player unloads itself.
As I ride a motorbike, it's a pain to have to remove glove, unzip, get the phone out, load the player, the put everything back, all because I say stopped for fuel and paused the player.
Any idea's how to get a new player to auto load?
Thanks.