11-09-2006, 07:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Just Another Mobile Monday Reviews Conduits Pocket Player 3.0
"I have a confession to make. I was not enthusiastic about Conduit�s latest release of Pocket Player. To be honest, I had used previous versions of Pocket Player and they never seemed to work well for me. So, it was with little enthusiasm that I approached the new Pocket Player release. I expected more of the same; a program that would be deleted from my Pocket PC faster than a drive through a one stoplight town. Then, a funny thing happened. The more I used it, the more indispensable I found it. This is not the same Pocket Player I had tried and rejected before. This latest version, offers significant updates from Pocket Player 2.7, including new features, options, bug fixes, and most importantly, a considerably faster user interface. Additionally, unlike previous versions, Pocket Player 3 is now a true all-in-one media player. It can easily handle audio, video, podcasts, web radio, and playlists. It even offers a today screen plugin. Far from being rejected from my Pocket PC, Pocket Player has quickly become one of my most important programs."
Doug at Just Another Mobile Monday recently gave Pocket Player 3.0 a spin and liked what he saw. In my opinion, it is above and beyond Windows Media Player Mobile, so if you're a media junkie, you owe it to yourself to give the review a read to learn more about the new features, and to get yourself a trial version for a taste test.
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11-09-2006, 09:35 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 12
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Darius,
Just a quick note to thank you for posting the link to my review of Pocket Player.
Soon, I hope to post a head-to-head review of Pocket Player vs. CorePlayer. I'll let you know when that gets posted.
Doug
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11-09-2006, 09:40 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 37
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Hi Darius. Another quick thank you here, for linking to Doug's excellent review. All of us at Just Another Mobile Monday are long time, big fans of Pocket PC Thoughts, and of the great job you do on news articles - so this is one mention that means a lot to us as a real young site.
Sorry, that's borderline on being too soppy - but thank you ....
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11-09-2006, 10:25 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 350
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I really like Pocket Player. I went back & forth about keeping it once I got Coreplayer, since the latter does a lot more video formats. At the moment, CorePlayer is missing good playlist management and I like the ease of Pocket Player's equalizer settings (presets). At the moment, I'm using Pocket Player for audio, Coreplayer for video.
As these both evolve, I'll keep an eye on it.
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11-10-2006, 06:21 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 12
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BuckyG. I did the exact same thing. Since I had the opportunity to review both Pocket Player and CorePlayer, I have gone back and forth between them. They both have some pros and cons. Because of that, and because so many people have asked me which one I prefer (the answer depends on the day of the week, I think), I decided to do a head to head comparison and really see what is behind each of them.
Keep an eye out for that coming soon.
Doug
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11-10-2006, 02:25 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 350
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Dgoldring, looking forward to reading it. I love reading reviews like that. Many times, after reading them, I realize, "It can do that? How did I miss it? Cool!" I have to think that's true of both these pieces of software, lots of options/features with both.
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11-10-2006, 02:51 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 53
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One nice little tweak made in v3.01 is the today plug-in can be set to show only function buttons -- so now it only takes up half the real estate of the previous versions <3.01 -- conduits developers, nicely done and mahalo!
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11-10-2006, 04:28 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 238
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odeous license agreements
I just bought CorePlayer and found this in the license agreement.
"(VI) You may not publish or distribute in any form of
electronic or printed communication the materials within or
otherwise related to Licensed Works, including but not
limited to the object code, documentation, help files,
examples, and benchmarks."
So sue me!
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Zune Tag - therealstlbud
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