MortPlayer v3.2 (update)

Hendrixus · 02-15-05, 07:23 AM

In general:

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.

In general:

Features
The target was originally to create a simple player, which "simply plays the music" and doesn't nag me every time I add or remove some songs (playlist management).
But since back then, the player growed a lot, and by now does almost everything you'd wish from an music player...

Included features

All basic functions

Support of MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV (thanks to MAD, libOvd, and Green Software...)

Streaming support (Shoutcast and http)

Equalizer (only MP3), sound effects

Bookmarks (memorize positions in songs or audio books)

Big screen buttons, easy to tap with your finger

Assignable hardware buttons (all buttons, almost every function)

Screen saver (switch off display after some time or on button press)

Fall asleep timer and alarm clock

Optional volume change after 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

"Favorites". That means, first you choose the directories or playlist files, where you keep your songs (usually done only once).
In the open dialog, or by prev./next list buttons, you can easily select one of this paths/playlists, and all the contained songs there are played. In the open dialog, you can also select single files or a whole tree.

Support of WinAmp and MediaPlayer playlists (M3U, PLS, ASX, read only)

Native playlists (MPL, read and write)

Simple file selection when adding new files

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)

You can turn off images to save memory and CPU

Selectable Playlist Font

File assosations (start with double click on e.g. an MP3 file in explorer)

Selectable startup action (Changer Mode, recent playlist, update playlist, continue last track from position, ...), repeat and shuffle mode

And many more settings

This player (currently?) CAN'T/HASN'T:

Visualizer

Gapless playback (sorry, not possible...)

The MortPlayer is freeware,

History
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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Hendrixus