Pocket Player 2.7 for Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone and Pocket PC

**Frenchy** · 02-26-06, 12:43 AM

Conduits Technologies, Inc., announced today the release of Pocket Player 2.7, an alternative music player for Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC and Smartphone, supporting the latest media player standards and formats. Pocket Player aims to satisfy consumers who demand more from a media player on a mobile device. The new version introduces new platform compatibility, track metadata (tags) support, Podcasts, new audio format support and additional plugins. More...

**Rishad** · 02-26-06, 12:47 AM

Posted about this about 5 days ago.. no replies..
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=118093
..seems like not too many know/using this..

**Rishad** · 02-26-06, 12:49 AM

also, 2.71 is out now with some bug fixes.

sbddude · 02-26-06, 12:51 AM

How is this better than the other free players? i.e. mortplayer, tcpmp...

02-26-06, 01:00 AM

woo looks nice, but I like my gsplayer though. Its sems to have have everything GSplayer lacks (visualizations are cool) and would be better than WMP... okay anything is better than WMP. Maybe looks better than TCPMP but thats free.

**Frenchy** · 02-26-06, 01:04 AM

Sorry for being late on this one but when I got the news I was busy and cannot FTP the pics from work anymore

Thanks for the update Akheron

Lofty · 02-26-06, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by sbddude

How is this better than the other free players? i.e. mortplayer, tcpmp...

WMA playback including DRM, as well as FLAC, MP3 and OGG. Equilzer works with all types of media, can cache files into RAM (good for microdrives), gapless audio, crossfading audio, visualizations, skins, tonnes of other options, a good media library system with extensive search capability, make and save playlists, I like the way it controls better, the default skin is much nicer, when you hold left or right to rewind or fastforward you get an audio preview.

I know both TCPMP and Mortplayer do lots of those features, but neither of them do them all. If you dont look at cost its the best player, but it depends if its worth the price to you. It was for me.

Wollombi · 02-26-06, 02:49 AM

Seems to support everything but AAC. So much for playing my iTunes songs purchased with a gift certificate I got for Christmas....=(

If they would add this as well as keeping the other formats, I'd buy it in an instant.

02-26-06, 03:21 AM

Awesome. Keep em coming Frenchy. Thanks.

**Rishad** · 02-26-06, 04:18 AM

Long time user of Pocket Player here. I was very happy with 2.61.. 2.71 is good too but seems a little heavier.

Atticus · 02-26-06, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by sbddude

How is this better than the other free players? i.e. mortplayer, tcpmp...

Bottom line: It isn't.

There are some nice features that TCPMP doesn't have (yet). But TCPMP has lots of features that PocketPlayer lacks (MPEG4, DivX, cutting-edge hardware support... ).

When version 1.0 of TCPMP comes out it will blow all other players out of the water. It will bring all the missing features and more.

I used to be a PocketPlayer user too, but dropped it. Reasons were the lack of support (usually, a member of the support only drops into the forum once a month) and the lack of development. I assume that Conduits only has a small dev team. And they have a lot of products. Since the release of 2.5 they have been talking about a 3.0 release for years without delivering. They only managed to do some minor updates. That's because the other Conduits products had probably a higher priority. Now, finally, they decided to give PocketPlayer a major update. Sorry folks. It's a good player, but too little too late.

Atticus

Lofty · 02-26-06, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Atticus

Bottom line: It isn't.

There are some nice features that TCPMP doesn't have (yet). But TCPMP has lots of features that PocketPlayer lacks (MPEG4, DivX, cutting-edge hardware support... ).

When version 1.0 of TCPMP comes out it will blow all other players out of the water. It will bring all the missing features and more.

I used to be a PocketPlayer user too, but dropped it. Reasons were the lack of support (usually, a member of the support only drops into the forum once a month) and the lack of development. I assume that Conduits only has a small dev team. And they have a lot of products. Since the release of 2.5 they have been talking about a 3.0 release for years without delivering. They only managed to do some minor updates. That's because the other Conduits products had probably a higher priority. Now, finally, they decided to give PocketPlayer a major update. Sorry folks. It's a good player, but too little too late.

Atticus

Key word being when TCPMP 1.0 comes out. TCPMP makes a great video player, but its a sub par music player.

Conduits email support is great. When I first upgraded to WM5, version 2.61 had some issues. I emailed them and had a response in 24 hours with a download link to the beta of 2.7. Which solved all my issues. Also development seems decent. They released 2.7 not to long ago and then 2.71 just recently.

02-26-06, 06:26 PM

seems a little bugy. no AAC format, that hugs.

masadler · 02-26-06, 09:33 PM

I installed this on my Axim x51v and immediately had problems watching videos on WMP. In full screen mode WMP would go black and I had to soft reset to get PC back. I uninstalled Pocket Player 2.71 and my videos play again.

Just an FYI -- I also let Conduits Technologies, Inc. know about this.
Mark

benjesuit · 02-27-06, 08:04 AM

2.71 is great! Better sound quality than Mortplayer, IMO. Though I bet you can tweak mortplayer to get some good sound out of it. I fiddled with it for a while but it still sounded muffled in my Sony MDR-V6 headphones. With pocketplayer 2.71, bass was tight and highs were crisp while listening to mp3 @ 128 and 192k. The EQ only made things sweeter. It's definitely a quality player. Pricey though.

I give it 4.5 stars out of 5.