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How to play a YouTube clip in background/minimised?
The stock YouTube app (here on 2.1-eclair, but applies to all android versions) stops playing when I minimised, switched to another application or even when I lock the phone. And when I resume it ...
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Is there an Android media payer that allows you to speed up an mp3?
Is there a media player for android that can play an mp3 10% faster or slower if the user wants to?
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Is there a music player that supports play counts and smart playlists?
I'm looking for a music player for Android that supports smart playlists and play count metadata like the iPod and iTunes. Ideally I'd like something that:
Keeps track of statistics like last ...
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Unsupported File Type: Why did my Samsung Galaxy S suddenly stop supporting MP3s?
All of a sudden my Samsung Galaxy S claims to not support mp3 files (the phone has been idle for a few hours, I did not touch anything). Ogg files however still play without problems. When this ...
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Floating controls for audio player
Is there any way, or any audio player software that has the feature, to play/pause an audio file without opening the player app, e.g. via a floating button (like softkey) or a hard button? I am ...
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How to exclude certain folders from getting scanned by music player?
I have some audiobooks on my phone, but I don't want to hear these when I play "All music". Is it possible to exclude some folders from getting added to the library? What are the file types that ...
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Is it possible to exclude some folders on the sd card from being added to my playlist in the standard android player?
I use the android media player to listen to music. Last week I installed an app that brings a lot of sounds with it in mp3 format and saves them on the SD Card to prevent the app from cluttering my ...
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audio player ala winamp on android?
is there any audio player that works similar to winamp? so it can play
most importantly files from within a folder (whole folder or one file)
playlists
streams
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Video player to play all files?
As VLC is not available for android, which Android player supports most video formats (and faster and lighter if possible)?
For example currently i use kascend media player, it can also play flv files ...
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Can .nomedia exclude file type?
In my Music folder, I have many subfolders for albums and they each have their album art in .jpg or .png format. I want the media scanner to not pick up these files however if I do that, then the ...
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Why are playlists breeding like rabbits on my device?
I use Banshee 2.2 to synchronize music and podcasts to my Android 2.3 device. On the device, I'm using PowerAMP to play music.
When I open PowerAMP and look at the playlists, each one is repeated a ...
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Is there something in the Android architecture that prevents people from creating MP3 players that read embedded lyrics?
When I play certain MP3 files (such as lessons from JapanesePod101.com) on my iPod Touch, lyrics or transcripts that are embedded in the MP3 files are displayed in the media player.
I find this to be ...
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Prevent phone from automatically lowering media volume
I have a Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket. Everytime I unplug my headphones/auxiliary cord from my phone and plug it back in, the media volume gets lowered to about 60%, system-wide, regardless of media ...
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How can I play .DAT files (VideoCD format) in Android?
Is there anyway to play .DAT files (from the MPEGAV folder of a VideoCD)?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-i9100).
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Video Player App for MKV?
Having trouble finding an app that will smoothly play .MKV (matroska video) files. (For those unfamiliar with the format, MKV is commonly used for HD video.)
The popular QQ, Mobo, Mvideo, and MX ...
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Pressing volume keys causes songs to skip
Device: Motorola Defy (MB525), running Android ICS (4.0.4), CyanogenMod 9-20121116-NIGHTLY-jordan
Issue: Whenever I'm listening to songs on any song app, If I press either volume up or down keys when ...
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Music players that can import M3U playlists?
OK, so it seems that (unbelievably) Winamp for Android is so extremely stupidly designed that it can't import M3U playlists.
So, I want a player that can import M3U playlists. I'm running ...
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Force Media Update?
Sometimes I download songs from various sources, and they aren't put in the requisite media folder on external storage. The media scanner can still find them, but the only way I have found to do this ...
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Is it possible to extend/upgrade media decoders?
As I am very happy with the internal player for music I would like to keep it. Unfortunately it does not support a certain codec: flac. Is it possible to upgrade the player so it can decode flac?, or ...
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Unable to view videos - Message: “sorry, video cannot be played”
I have a strange issue. I have downloaded some WMV files on my Android to watch them while offline. I watched some of them and now all of a sudden I see "sorry, video cannot be played". None of the ...
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Motorola Triumph changes Volume between Songs or with Notifications
I have a VirginMobile Motorola Triumph, stock but rooted.
I listen to music with both Pandora and Google's Play Music app.
When listening to music, the volume has two modes, 'soft', in which all the ...
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How to play already transfered music with 'Music' app?
I just bought Galaxy S2. Its really cool, but I have one serious problem! I transfered few MP3 files using USB and copied those files to usbStorage/. When I open 'My files' app on S2, it does show ...
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VLC speed play in Android app
In VLC player there is a "faster" and "slower" button that makes the video go faster or slower so that if you need to learn something (for example a guitar solo) you can slow it down a bit or if ...
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Is there any way to control the stereo balance of the audio playback
I cant find any controls/settings that allow this...not all of us have perfectly balanced ears
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How can I play an .flv file on Android 2.1?
I would like to play an .flv movie file on Android 2.1. How can I do this?
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Is there a media player which doesn't lose current track when mounting/unmounting the SD card?
I've got an Xperia X10.
I listen to audio books, so I'd like to keep my position in the playlist.
Whenever I mount the SD card using USB, the standard media player, Mediascape, lose both the ...
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What's a good app for managing media files?
I prefer to manually organize my media (music, podcasts, video) on my SD card using a file manager (as opposed to letting the media player organize it all by tags, because it mixes music with podcasts ...
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Not all media files discovered by media apps
I have folder on my sd card called podcasts. It contains subfolders of podcasts. My problem is the media players I have tried only display some of the podcast files as being available to play.
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Is there any documentation on the correct/expected directory structure of the external memory card?
There's a couple of issues that i have with the way Android sees my card...
The Gallery App shows CD artwork as a separate photo album.
I want to exclude some things from shuffle playback by the ...
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System audio files appearing in playlist
I wasn't satisfied with the selection of sounds the phone was giving me for the alarm, so I installed ES File Explorer and picked out some ringtone sounds from the phone's system/media/audio folder. ...
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How to properly play 720p/1080p media with subtitles through MHL (HDMI out)?
I own a Galaxy Note and got a MHL cable for watching movies on my Sony Bravia.
I'm having some problems for playing it nicelly.
With hardware decoding:
Only the stock samsung "Video Player" is able ...
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Is there an alternative DLNA player for Logitech Revue under Google-TV?
The Logitech Media Player included with the Logitech review is problematic - occasionally pausing causes it to stop or jump from video playback to music, etc. I am not seeing any alternative DLNA ...
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Media Player starts playing when I unplug headphones
The stock media player on my phone has an annoying behaviour. Whenever I unplug the headphones, if the media player is paused or not running, it immediately starts running and playing my playlist. ...
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How to modify functionality (skip song, play, pause) with side phone volume keys?
This is a really requested feature in a lot of forum, but I haven't found any convincing solution.
I'd like that my volume keys:
If simple (short) press both together, pause/play.
If simple (short) ...
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How can I install additional audio/video codecs on Android?
Does android separate the module between video player and video codec? If so, how do we install more codec to the system?
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Play DVDs on an android device (preferably Google TV) AS DVDs (no conversions, please)
I saw these two questions:
Can android phones play DVD-format movies over WIFI?
And
how to watch DVDs on my Captivate
However, neither of these questions address what I would like to do. I have a ...
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The video file cannot be played (on Galaxy S)
Last few days my video files cannot be played on my Samsung Galaxy S and I do not know why.
I select a video and I choce to wath it with the android's video player and I have the message below :
"The ...
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Video player which has automatic resume start at launch?
I am looking for a video player app where I can create a bookmark. Then the next time I launch the app it automatically resumes without any user input prompts.
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Is there a media center extender app for Android?
Is there an app that will work as a Windows or Linux media center extender?
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Are there any video players with commercial skip for Android?
I have a TiVo Series 3 and the TiVo Desktop Plus software, which I use to convert shows for playback on my iPod Touch. I'd love to find a video player that would have 30 second/commercial skip for an ...
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Why won't my android video player display media in the correct aspect ratio
I'm using a Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) and when I play M4V video files, ostensibly formatted for IPhone, the device stretches the image to fit the screen rather than letterboxing. I can't find any ...
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Syncing between Windows 7 and Android Jellybean with Winamp
I want to sync my Samsung Galaxy S3 4G to my Windows 7 PC with Winamp so I can easily sync playlists to and from my phone and computer. So I followed the instructions in Winamp's official blog: ...
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How to make Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 play AC3?
I have a film in the .AVI format, with an SRT subtitle file, and an AC3 audio track.
I used the S/W decoder function.
The film can be played with/without the subtitles, and the AC3 file itself can ...
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Optimum video codec for low end Android phones?
While I know Android phones play mp4 the best, I wanted to know what other specification in this container is the best for playback, (the bitrate, resolution, fps etc). Or perhaps some other ...
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How to auto-restart media playback when connecting the headphones
I am looking for a way to restart media playback where it was stopped as soon as I reconnect the headphones. I know there was a media player with this feature (I cannot remember which one), but I did ...
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android device as Digital Media Renderer (the DMR of DLNA)?
So I have this cheap MK802 android devince connected to my old TV, I want MK802 to be as a digital TV box, which could receive pushed media content from DLNA sources.
Are there any good DMR app for ...
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Removing Gmail app for guest device in my home
I recently picked up an HTC One V phone for practically free. I want to use it as a "media device" in my home. I have it hooked up to a dock and would like to have Netflix/Pandora/Play Music (linked ...
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Videos working on my website do not work when viewed from Android browser
My website has videos which are in MP4 format and work well when viewed from a Google Chrome browser. But when I try to load my website from the browser of an Android OS, the video doesn't show up. Is ...
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Path of music player playlist file?
Can any one explain me where save android's music player playlist files?
actually, I got problem when i format my SD Card after that no playlist in music player.
I am using samsung galaxy 551 with ...
