It's an MP3/Ogg player which is optimized for the needs on a Pocket PC. That's (among others) big screen buttons, simple playlist update from the contents of certain directories, and support of hardware buttons. Included features:
All basic functions (Play, pause, skip track, spooling, ...)
Supports:
MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV (thanks to MAD, libovd, and Green Software...)
GSPlayer plug-ins (e.g. for MIDI files)
Playback of files on the net
Shoutcast and IceCast streams
PodCasts and online playlistst
WinAmp and MediaPlayer playlists (M3U, PLS, ASX, WMP, read only)
Native playlists (MPL, read and write)
Equalizer (only MP3), sound effects
Bookmarks (memorize positions in songs or audio books)
Auto continue from position and/or start playback after restart
Big screen buttons, easy to tap with your finger (at least in most Skins)
Assignable hardware buttons (all buttons, almost every function)
Screen saver (switch off display after some time or on button press) with optional button lock
Fall asleep timer
Alarm clock
different wake times for each day of the week and a one time alert
the player doesn't need to be running
play a special file and/or continue current playlist
Optional volume change on start, exit, and alarm clock
Automatically pauses when doing a call (Phone Edition)
Display of ID3 (V1.0-V2.3) and Ogg tag informations (track name, artist, album, year, track no., cover), as well as external cover images per track or path
Add your favorite folders and playlist to Favorites. This enables you to choose them easily from a list in Open dialog or skip between them with the press of a button. You can even automatically include all subfolders. I.e., skip easily between all folders of StorageMy music or wherever you put your audio files.
Changer Mode: Automatically skip to the the next path or directory of your favorites when one is finished. Or shuffle between all directories.
Simple file selection when adding new files
Skins and Screens
Full Skin support, you can decide for all elements if, where and how you want to show them! (sorry, own format only...)
Multiple Screens (Easily switchable displays contained in one Skin)
Extended screen switching support: Switch easily between a selection of Screens from multiple Skins
Fullscreen support for Skins (no title and/or menu bar, e.g. for a car screen)
"Always on top" option for small windows, thus allowing a small track display or similar on top of your navigation program
You can turn off images to save memory and CPU
User defined Playlist Font (or Skin default)
File associations (start with double click on e.g. an MP3 file)
User defined startup action (Changer Mode, recent playlist, update playlist, continue last track, ...), repeat and shuffle mode
Write informations about the currently played track in a file or append it to a logfile
And many more settings
For more info, read the manual or look at the screenshots.
There are some Skins and a manual how to create your own on this page.
A plug in for your Today screen is to be found here. Update Description:
v3.3:
- Improved alarm clock (up to 8 different times: one for each day of the week and an "one time" alert, optional fixed alarm sound, works without player running).
- Support of GSPlayer plug-ins (note you might have to configure them in "Playback" settings, the MIDI plug-in requires the instruments from here).
- Selectable paths for skins, favorites, plug-ins, ... ("Paths" settings).
- Write of track informations into file (e.g. logfile or mail signature, see "Logfile" settings).
- Tried to speed up several situations.
- Easier skin selection.
- Proxy for streaming.
- Screensaver can be disabled with every button.
- Files can be deleted from player ("Playlist"->"Delete file" in menu, or add a "DeleteFile" button to your skin).
- Several bugfixes and "other" images support (for covers) for ID3 Tags.
- Should work fine with WM5 VGA devices now.
- New actions for buttons: Choose Skin, switch Skin (requires prepared Skins, see LoadSkin in "For Skins" below), Exit, into background (minimize).
- Scrolling by "page" for multiline labels.
- System's close command (e.g. when memory runs low) can be ignored.
- Directory selection dialog shows Explorer's MRU list of net connections. For Skins:
- LabelBorder supported.
- New buttons: ChooseSkin (opens skin selection dialog), LoadSkin (switches to skin/screen told in "LoadSkinName" and "LoadSkinScreen"), DeleteFile (deletes currently selected file - really, not only from playlist!).
- With "NextScreen=index" and "PrevScreen=index" you can set the screen to switch to. Only used if enhanced screen switching is not used and no selection box is opened (see "Handling" options). v3.2:
New features:
- Preamp and volume sliders can be swapped (i.e. preamp can be modified with the volume slider - or vice versa, if the skin contains a preamp slider).
- Preamp and rotation (only WM2003 SE) by hardware buttons.
- Album covers from ID3 tags, trackname.jpg/.png or path.jpg/.png (see also manual).
- Track titles contained in M3U/PLS playlists will be shown in the playlist.
- Better stream handling, allows switching the stations with prev./next track buttons and playlists with tracks on http servers (e.g. http://myserver.com/track.mp3).
- After selecting a bookmark, the folder/playlist that was opened when it was set is opened, even if it's not in the favorites. This way, audio books can be continued even better.
- Scrolling of track infos is optional.
- Screensaver isn't activated after timeout if there's an external power supply.
- Doze timer can be set to any value between 0 and 120 minutes.
- Alarm clock button is labelled with alarm clock and power off countdown (if it's in the skin...).
- Added possibility of a "snooze" button (switches off device and alerts after a selectable timespan).
- A special screen can be activated if the alarm clock is "ringing" (depends on the Skin, thus currently only in the new Night Skin).
- Volume can be changed if the alarm clock is activated. Bugfixes:
- Random generator is "more random"
- Adding single files to playlist didn't work in any case.
- With "Shuffle all" sometimes "Play" didn't start the selected track.
- Fixed some problems with shuffle order if track was started from playlist.
- Reading directory contents/-structures is faster.
- ID3 tags: Corrections at tags with unicode and better error tolerance for invalid tags.
- Small error at setting bookmarks removed.
- Stream name will still be shown after stop and switching screen.
- Filename dialog (for new favorite lists or saving playlists) didn't work in German version.
- Slightly better handling at power on (shouldn't be noticeable on most devices).
- Entries to open a folder with subfolders weren't displayed correctly.
- Uses less system resources.
- Some other minor bugfixes... Optics/handling:
- Better interface for the alarm clock.
- Bigger buttons when setting bookmarks.
- New Night Skin (new colors, display of battery level, phone signal strength, clock, and cover image in Car Screen). Skin features:
- New slider "PhoneSignal" for signal strength of PE devices. "Common" devices (without PE) will not show this element.
- New slider "Preamp".
- New section "Alarm" (_LS/_VGA/_LS_VGA), will (if it exists) be shown if the alarm clock is "ringing".
- New button "Snooze".
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Supported operating systems:
Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0
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