I remember briefly there was a firmware (a few months back) where when you went into the music application, you could actually choose a folder that you wanted to play music from.
Does anyone know of a way to re-enable this? I'd love to be able to have separate podcasts and music folders.
le_lutin said:
I remember briefly there was a firmware (a few months back) where when you went into the music application, you could actually choose a folder that you wanted to play music from.
Does anyone know of a way to re-enable this? I'd love to be able to have separate podcasts and music folders.
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I don't know, but you can install Black Player for folder playback if I am not wrong.
Saratoga79 said:
I don't know, but you can install Black Player for folder playback if I am not wrong.
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Does this play while you are running?
le_lutin said:
Does this play while you are running?
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Yes, you can use a third party player during Sports activities: just start the player first then click the button to return to home screen and swipe right to sports.
Blackplayer works well:
https://blackplayer-music-player.en.uptodown.com/android
You can install with APKinstaller:
http://apkinstaller.com/
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Yes, you can use a third party player during Sports activities: just start the player first then click the button to return to home screen and swipe right to sports.
Blackplayer works well:
https://blackplayer-music-player.en.uptodown.com/android
You can install with APKinstaller:
http://apkinstaller.com/
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I installed this and another player called amazing player. Not sure which app is at fault, but one of them is absolutely hammering my battery (from 50% to dead in a couple of hours). That's while the application is not actually playing any music.
blackplayer is very hard to navigate as well. On the plus side, it does have a bass enhancer, which works well.
I don't have a problem with battery drain except when actually using the player to stream Bluetooth audio it will drop by 20% per hour. That's not really fault of player it's just energy used by CPU to decode and stream mp3.
Can u teach me how to change the default player to the system's one after installing the Blackplayer ?
Thanx.
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Yes, you can use a third party player during Sports activities: just start the player first then click the button to return to home screen and swipe right to sports.
Blackplayer works well:
https://blackplayer-music-player.en.uptodown.com/android
You can install with APKinstaller:
http://apkinstaller.com/
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s2k7 said:
Can u teach me how to change the default player to the system's one after installing the Blackplayer ?
Thanx.
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I wasn't able to do that, it doesn't actually associate mp3 files with a default player but will just play it from whatever program it's opened in (probably because it's a cut down Android system).
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Don't know if this already mentioned but my default car dock now shows Pandora rather than Tune In Radio. When the car dock starts, you can see that one widget change from TuneIn Radio to Pandora. I also just now noticed that if you flick the screen to the left 2 times, it should list your music players you have on your phone. Whatever from the list is the last one used, is the one that will come up in the car dock default widget.
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Don't know if this already mentioned but my default car dock now shows Pandora rather than Tune In Radio. When the car dock starts, you can see that one widget change from TuneIn Radio to Pandora. I also just now noticed that if you flick the screen to the left 2 times, it should list your music players you have on your phone. Whatever from the list is the last one used, is the one that will come up in the car dock default widget.
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Nice tip. Now I can use Pandora while on the car dock mode. :good:
In an interview about the phone before release the rep stated you would be able to make your own shortcuts to other apps (he expressly stated music and other), glad to see they didn't make him a liar like they have done to so many other reps
You rooted or stock? I went between stock car dock and another market one this passed weekend. Stock never changed or allowed me to put Pandora in.
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I forgot how to do it but its there, it should be an option when removing links
Would love to know how you did that, it doesnt show up for me.
Yup, I knew it'd be there when I saw the one x get it.
It replaces the music shortcut on the home page, with the last used music app.
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I'm rooted running Stock with Goodies with the latest OTA. All I did from the car dock home screen is scroll to the right til you see the music apps you have installed on your phone. You have to have more than just the built-in TuneIn Radio. Choose a music app and go back to the Car dock home screen and it should replace the default TuneIn radio shortcut with the music player you just chose.
How does it decide what a music app is? It doesn't look like its picking up Play Music or Dogcatcher, the two I would care about.
I'm using CarHome Ultra because it seems to have nice customization options.
One of them being it will start up when my bluetooth connects to my car. I also like the fact I can put shortcuts to facebook, Gmail, etc on one of the numerous screens.
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Don't know if this already mentioned but my default car dock now shows Pandora rather than Tune In Radio. When the car dock starts, you can see that one widget change from TuneIn Radio to Pandora. I also just now noticed that if you flick the screen to the left 2 times, it should list your music players you have on your phone. Whatever from the list is the last one used, is the one that will come up in the car dock default widget.
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I'd really like to know how you did that. I want to add either Pandora or Slacker in there. TuneIn isn't really useful to me.
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How does it decide what a music app is? It doesn't look like its picking up Play Music or Dogcatcher, the two I would care about.
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I second this question. When you swipe left twice, it actually just gives you the options for Internet radios (TuneIn, TuneIn Pro, SoundHound, and Pandora for me), but there's no option to change what music player is being used. The one used by default is HTC's Music player, which only plays music stored on the phone/sd card. Like maxpower, I'd like to use Play Music, as all my music is stored in Google's cloud.
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I second this question. When you swipe left twice, it actually just gives you the options for Internet radios (TuneIn, TuneIn Pro, SoundHound, and Pandora for me), but there's no option to change what music player is being used. The one used by default is HTC's Music player, which only plays music stored on the phone/sd card. Like maxpower, I'd like to use Play Music, as all my music is stored in Google's cloud.
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It has already been stated twice, the last music app that you used is what will show up in the tile on the car home screen. This is the only way you can change it. You can also add additional music apps by going to the HTC music app, then hitting menu, then add app shortcut. I added SiriusXM this way, now it shows on in the car music apps screen.
Wow.. Thanks.. It does work.. Went to the default music app.. Hit menu and added Google play music.. Went to car dock app.. Swiped left and tapped on the play music icon and now it's on the front of the dock app.. Thanks again..
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After all this time I never knew those options was there. Now I use the car mode a lot more.
Rooted EVO baby
This is cool but it doesn't recognize my Akimbo audiobook player as a media player :crying:
Johnday29 said:
This is cool but it doesn't recognize my Akimbo audiobook player as a media player :crying:
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Read 2 posts above yours on how to add it
Evo1979 said:
Wow.. Thanks.. It does work.. Went to the default music app.. Hit menu and added Google play music.. Went to car dock app.. Swiped left and tapped on the play music icon and now it's on the front of the dock app.. Thanks again..
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You sir are a genius.. its stupid you have to do this but awesome you found it
I don't get the track info in my car when I use poweramp through bluetooth, and I can't change the music from the car. I have to do it on the phone. Whenever I do try to change it from the car the music stops playing and I can't get it to play again unless I close it. The default music player works through bluetooth perfectly but I use poweramp because I like the shuffle on poweramp better and for the eq. I even have metachange on
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I don't get the track info in my car when I use poweramp through bluetooth, and I can't change the music from the car. I have to do it on the phone. Whenever I do try to change it from the car the music stops playing and I can't get it to play again unless I close it. The default music player works through bluetooth perfectly but I use poweramp because I like the shuffle on poweramp better and for the eq. I even have metachange on
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you might want to go on a poweramp forum and ask there?
cheers
mathsz said:
you might want to go on a poweramp forum and ask there?
cheers
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I can't post there. Account won't validate for some reason.
whatever125 said:
I can't post there. Account won't validate for some reason.
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what ROM are you on?
mathsz said:
what ROM are you on?
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Stock rom at 4.1.2
I recently started using the music player Shuttle because it has a very clean look, shows artist as a list, and fully supports the ability to use google now to play an artist/album (instead of just a song, like google music). The app is well rated and has a decent number of users. Any chance it will be supported by themer in the future?
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I recently started using the music player Shuttle because it has a very clean look, shows artist as a list, and fully supports the ability to use google now to play an artist/album (instead of just a song, like google music). The app is well rated and has a decent number of users. Any chance it will be supported by themer in the future?
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We'll add it to the list!
ThemerSupport said:
We'll add it to the list!
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Awesome, thanks!
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Awesome, thanks!
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It seems Shuttle has been added. Don't get confused that Shuttle isn't shown on the list of music players once you select "Music Source", these are simply suggestions in case you don't have any music players installed.
If you start playing music from Shuttle, does it not display anything in the music widget?
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It seems Shuttle has been added. Don't get confused that Shuttle isn't shown on the list of music players once you select "Music Source", these are simply suggestions in case you don't have any music players installed.
If you start playing music from Shuttle, does it not display anything in the music widget?
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Honestly, there was something I was trying to do in themer yesterday and it did not list themer among a list of supported music apps. I can't even remember what I was trying to do anymore, so I guess it's not a big deal.
Thanks.
id love it if they could do this
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
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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
TT_Vert said:
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 Folks,
This is really got me
I've come from a HTC M7 to a Oneplus 3. The in-browser video on the HTC M7 was great - you were able to control brightness, control the sound and search through the video all via screen gestures. Since moving to the OP3 it has a standard video player that has none of those features. You have to use the old school controls of the video menu bar - there's no gesture control.
I've downloaded MX and VLC but they're only good as standalone players - to play stored content.
It loads the same player on both browsers, Chrome and Dolphin... and it loads the same video player on the HTC :good: and the same player on the OP3
I've tried resetting default apps. I've looked in the App settings but I can't work what app it is that's streams within the browser? Is it part of the OS?
Thank you in advance!
The only thing I've found on this... If you're watching in Firefox, you can tap on the video and it gives you the option to watch it on MX Player... but there's no way to set this as a default?
mdb said:
The only thing I've found on this... If you're watching in Firefox, you can tap on the video and it gives you the option to watch it on MX Player... but there's no way to set this as a default?
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Try clearing the stock "Video Player" apps' defaults in its info page in settings>apps
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gabe.ulrickson said:
Try clearing the stock "Video Player" apps' defaults in its info page in settings>apps
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There's no stock video player listed under apps, well there is, but that's for stand alone saved videos. I got in touch with Oneplus today and they said there's no option to choose within the browser... The guy said that I should suggest it for an update, which I did.
Firefox does let you press on the video and choose to open it in MX, but there's no way to set that as a default... Has to be done each time - bit of a pain.
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There's no stock video player listed under apps, well there is, but that's for stand alone saved videos. I got in touch with Oneplus today and they said there's no option to choose within the browser... The guy said that I should suggest it for an update, which I did.
Firefox does let you press on the video and choose to open it in MX, but there's no way to set that as a default... Has to be done each time - bit of a pain.
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Hmm.. Maybe gallery as my phone has a separate app for the video player so you can open like gallery and only see videos... Try clearing gallery defaults
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gabe.ulrickson said:
Hmm.. Maybe gallery as my phone has a separate app for the video player so you can open like gallery and only see videos... Try clearing gallery defaults
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Tried that too and it didn't work. Thanks for your replies :good:
I'm going to try another ROM (Resurrection) for now anyway, hopefully there won't be an issue :good: