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PocketMusic Bundle: A Powerful Package
By Tom Hastings on Monday, November 15, 2004

Introduction
You don’t need any fancy MP3 playing hardware if you’ve got PocketMind’s PocketMusic Player Bundle on your Pocket PC. This award-winning software will turn your Pocket PC into a serious music-playing machine, capable of playing MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis, Audible Books, and HTTP streaming audio. Don’t take my word for it though, let’s look at the features!

The Interface
The first thing you’ll see when you fire up PocketMusic is the wonderful, candy-like screen. The buttons are logically arranged and sized to enable finger operation. Other applications have large buttons, but this is the first one I’ve seen that allows me to fast forward, rewind and adjust the volume with the tip of my finger.

On each side of the “function cluster” are buttons that will enhance the listening experience. On the left is the X-Bass, Repeat and Lock buttons. X-Bass really adds a punch to your music, Repeat will loop a single song or a playlist, and Lock will disable the hardware buttons. The set of buttons on the right are EQ, Shuffle and Mode. EQ toggles on the Equalizer (which can be set via the options button), Shuffle will play a random selection of songs from your playlist, and Mode will switch to landscape mode.

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note: found this over on pocket pc thoughts as a paid article placement, but pocket music is a pretty good player so i thought i would pass along.

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Cheryl

This looks really great. Thanks :approve:

coder90806

I don't work for Pocket Mind and am not selling anything for them but I have used this thing for a long time now through the different versions and it is the BEST available. My WM2K3-SE device is my main MP3 player and the built in landscape function of this program works awesome for the treadmill at the gym. Best part is you dint need SE to use the landscape in this program.

KLappDOgg

I have had this program for a couple of years and the newest version is a cant live without product for me. PM and Betaplayer on my X5 makes it a portable multimedia machine. I love it.

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bacchus71

I like the today plugin feature and ability to use as alarm, I'm gonna have to try that out.

coreyc

Just installed the trial... it is shoutcast friendly! This is the only player other than Pocket Player that I have used that will automaticly open and start playing shoutcast playlists. If anybody knows of any others that will do this please reply, I'd like to try them out.

The winamp skins render better with PocketMusic... but maybe thats just me.

This is a keeper! After I milk my 15 day trial I'm buying :)

juttonn

I use this software and it is great. The only drawback is now with my new Axim x50v with se_vga Pocket Music only fills the top lefthand corner of the screen. Pocket Mind said in an email response to me that VGA support will come in a future version.

The player still works though and it is the best audio playback solution there is.

JFox

Originally Posted by coreyc

Just installed the trial... it is shoutcast friendly! This is the only player other than Pocket Player that I have used that will automaticly open and start playing shoutcast playlists. If anybody knows of any others that will do this please reply, I'd like to try them out. The winamp skins render better with PocketMusic... but maybe thats just me. This is a keeper! After I milk my 15 day trial I'm buying :)

GSPlayer will play Shoutcast streaming media, it doesn't show playlists atomatically, you have to pull them up from your files. But, it is free and works superbly.

bacchus71

Also does a great job playing from network share. I have access to all my music wirelessly, no issues at all with lag. Thanks for pointing me to this!

Cheryl

I tried the demo last night. It looks great but there is a delay starting the next track if I fast forward. In WMP, the next song begins right away if I fast forward. Is there a setting I need to change or is this just how this software works?

Rock25

After try a few others, I've been using PocketMusic for over a year now with no problems. I like the fact it "plays" well while running other programs.

sirbrolic

Is this player better than windows media player 10
because im having a hard time creatig playlist any
help will be welcomed .I have an x50v windows media player
9 was a much better program and much easier to create play list.

JoeQFlyer

I just downloaded it from Handango. It looks as advertised so far on my Axim 50v. Not bad for $19.99. And yes, with Betaplayer and WMP10, this PDA is one sweet machine.

Does anyone remember where that ipod skin is for this player. I thoughtI saw it once. Wouldn't that be cool.

Q

JoeQFlyer

Originally Posted by JoeQFlyer

I just downloaded it from Handango. It looks as advertised so far on my Axim 50v. Not bad for $19.99. And yes, with Betaplayer and WMP10, this PDA is one sweet machine. Does anyone remember where that ipod skin is for this player. I thoughtI saw it once. Wouldn't that be cool. Q

I found the ipod skin for winamp 2.x players (see below), but the included skin looks fantastic. I found no delay between tracks as one poster wrote. The Today screen mini player is just too cool. The Very best Pocket MP3 player out there.

Q

http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.as...SkinID=918&u=0

Don't Panic!

Cheryl-try unchecking the use crossfading effect and remove silence... boxes under player options > effects.

Don't Panic!
Bobby