Yup. If you want an MP3 player, go for something else - even free solutions may be better than CP (not taking the CPU usage into account, of course, in which CP is unbeatable, not counting in iPlay and Resco Audio Recorder). If you want the BEST, most effective video player (particulrly if you want to plkay back the most advanced and up-to-date h.264 videos), get CorePlayer.
So let me see, I have been on 1.04 since like mid 2005 and you feel this is acceptable. Do you work for Microsoft?
Sorry, but we were promised fixes for this product over a year ago. It was next month, then next month then they just quit responding and we all just went back to our other software. I just wanted the basic features that were already in TCPMP to work. I would have been happy with that. BUT, that was tooooo much to ask. So sorry, but as far as I am concerned the update is vaporware till it is released. This is an insane amount of time to wait for basic bug fixes.
Well, actually, CP 1.0 was released last Autumn - and 1.0.4 even later ;)
Why use Coreplayer or TCPMP as an MP3 player? Two words: CPU Usage.
Coreplayer is one of the lowest cpu usage players out there and if you want longest runtime from your battery you want a cpu efficient player. With Coreplayer 99% of the time my cpu is at 104MHz, with GSPlayer it fluctuates between 208-312, same with Mortplayer, others have only been worse. Just look as Menneisyys' guide to audio player cpu usage. Sure I could put my Axim into powersave but that is just offsetting the problem as it will use a higher cpu load on a lower setting.
Or you could use the dedicated iPlay mp3 player, if you don't mind being constantly harassed by an insane author who has severe interpersonal problems.
When I bought Coreplayer it was in the knowledge that it has some issues, but that it had playlist support, in a similar manner to TCPMP which suited me fine as I happen to like that method of file management, and that the major updates really related to codec optimisations. I also bought it as a thank-you for TCPMP which I used regularly, they give me software I like and I pay them for it... simple as.
Admittedly the updates have been a bit sparse for Coreplayer, and it is missing some nice features which should be rolled back in some semi-infinite timeframe, but TCPMP is still available, and as Haesslich stated, there have been a number of threads and reviews on this site that should have told you where you stood with Coreplayer. People have said again and again that there is absolutely no internet/network abilities, that AVRCP may or may not work on any given device and that updates are few and far between. Heck, they even say the same on the Corecodec forums...
I paid for Coreplayer, and I'm happy with my purchase. It looks better than TCPMP, has lower cpu usage and I have peace of mind in that I have given back something to the people who gave me TCPMP and then Coreplayer. I waited to see what the state of play was with Coreplayer and only bought it after I found out what it should do. I am happy with my purchase, it does exactly what I need and should (in the future) do a lot more.
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I paid for Coreplayer, and I'm happy with my purchase. It looks better than TCPMP, has lower cpu usage and I have peace of mind in that I have given back something to the people who gave me TCPMP and then Coreplayer. I waited to see what the state of play was with Coreplayer and only bought it after I found out what it should do. I am happy with my purchase, it does exactly what I need and should (in the future) do a lot more.
I am confused now, I downloaded a free version of The Core Media Player to my laptop since I loved TCPMP so much for my Axim. Now you mention Coreplayer for the Axim?? How is this different from TCPMP or the Core Media Player I have on my laptop? Are they the same company? I love this Core media player on my laptop so much more than Windows Media Player. It has the best resizeable playback screen, which you just grab a corner and drag it out to as big as you want, with no extraneous garbage around like WMP.
Here is the one I downloaded for my laptop: http://www.corecoded.com/ ; is this the same one you're talking about?
Are you speaking from experience? I doubt it. You're basing that on what you read here? These aren't my customers - I don't count warez jockies as customers. Yes, the guy from Bulgaria I'm sure isn't (of course not) but you know anyone from Miami is. Or, let me put it to you this way -- would you sell and ship your PDA to, say, the guy from Bulgaria? Huh? Huh? I didn't think so. As for Menn. Like I've said a few times now, I've never gotten an email from him. Not once. Frankly, I don't want one from him. So, he doesn't want to write one (he does like to complain as if he has/does -- he hasn't/doesn't), and I don't want to get one (excellent, we both win). Now, why not go sell some stuff to your Romanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, and Russian "customers". Good luck collecting (yup, that's who these are). Now, guy -- forget your name -- if you have a problem with my "customer service", why not say what it is instead of your back stabbing. (well, that's how I consider it, and like Menn. you do it about every time you have anything to say about me).
Gosh Mr. 40th Foor. That was awful. I don't care how good your thingo is, I'm definitelly not getting it. You had the honour of having your product praised for one of the best known gurus of the Mobile scene and yet you treat him like that? I don't understand at all .
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