tigerhawk

I've been looking at all the old posts regarding media players - I tried TCPMP but only found out after the fact that it does NOT support protected WMA files. After hours of research. it looks like the only media player other than WMP 10 (which I currently have) that supports these protected files is the $20 PocketMusic bundle. Since I download audiobooks from NetLibrary and they are all protected to limit checkout time - this is the most important feature I need.

Anybody else using this paid version and what do you like/dislike about it - I'm fairly new at this but know that the biggest weakness of WMP 10 for me is the inability to bookmark your place in these large (8-10 hour runtime) audiobook files. I don't care much about skins, don't play videos, just want to listen to my books and music easily.

allankam

I have the paid bundle. Nice interface but on my X51v, it is very buggy. Essentially unusable. I've reported all bugs to developer (in Moscow, I believe), but nothing's been fixed so far.

Won't play aac very long before aborting. Doesn't play aac streams (currently unsupported). I've switched to TCPMP, which works very reliably.

I don't play DRM protected software. I'm told that tunebite strips DRM using a legal technique, or so the publisher claims.

colorebel

I bought the PM bundle as well but don't use it as much anymore. I found that it did function well as a player for me on my x51v, I just had two gripes:

- The button mapping for the program didn't seem to work very well in conjunction with PocketBreeze, namely when having PM in the background and my today screen visible with PB, I couldn't get the directional pad to tab through today screen plugins when PM is one of those plugins. Even though PM wouldn't have the buttons mapped to work in background mode, I couldn't tab through.

- PM doesn't display album art.

I've heard that newer versions of PM have been released that I want to try to see if improvements have been made but the website still lists the last version I've been using.

NoWire

I have the same situation about the playing WMA files when I came across pocketmusic. I tried it and bought it in a minute. I really like it, does what it say it does, and if you like play around with skins this one have lots (winamp). Although, not much for pocketmusic skin...

Here it is in action:

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