08-10-2005, 05:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Conduits Updates Pocket Player, Pocket Artist
Conduits has updated not one, but two of their popular Pocket PC programs.- Pocket Player is now at version 2.6. New features include playback of DRM WMA files with WMP10, skinnable Today plugin, new plugins, and bugfixes.
- Pocket Artist 3.1 is primarily a collection of bugfixes, but has also added early JPEG2000 support.
Previous owners of Pocket Player 2.x and Pocket Artist 3.x can simply upgrade by downloading and installing the new version over the old one.
Update: Jason Patterson of Conduits writes in with the following news:
Quote: From now until September 21st, we are proudly having a Summer Sale! All Conduits products are 35% off - and we do mean ALL! Visit http://store.conduits.com/ to place your order, and please remember to use the "summersale2005" coupon code.
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08-10-2005, 06:42 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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I had the opportunity to beta test Pocket Player 2.6, and I was very impressed with its set of new features. For those of you after an alternative to Windows Media Player Mobile, in my opinion, Pocket Player is definitely worth a look.
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08-10-2005, 06:59 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Cool, so Janus DRM songs you download from Yahoo/Rhapsody/Napster and transfer to the PPC can now be played with Pocket Player in addition to Pocket WM10...
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08-10-2005, 07:48 AM
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Mystic
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Does this bring Janus to WMP 9 ppc's however?
Surur
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08-10-2005, 02:46 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Good combo for Podcast listening
My Setup:
1-On my PC: iPodder as Podcast aggregator: all Podcasts are stored under a main directory, each channel is stored under its subdirectory
2-On my PC: MobSync: to sync from that Podcast main directory to my PocketPC Storage card (the same directory structure is maintained) on my Storage card
3-On my PocketPC: Pocket Player. I can select the main directory and PPlayer automatically select also the subdirectory, a playlist is built. The best part is when listening, you can jump 10 sec (programmed with a h/w button) to skip. You can also jump from 1 Podcast to other and PPlayer bookmarks for you so when you come back you can resume where you left off. You can set turn off the screen during playback to conserve power, etc..
I know there are more ways to do this, but my setup seems to work seamlessly and automatically. In the morning, when I leave home, all the Podcasts are there on my PocketPC.... , The old ones remain on my storage card for 2 days and will be recycled automatically as well..
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08-10-2005, 03:54 PM
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Intellectual
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Janak, thanks for the news mention! Also our Notes From The Inside mentions:
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SALE! SALE! SALE! From now until September 21st, we are proudly having a Summer Sale! All Conduits products are 35% off - and we do mean ALL! Visit http://store.conduits.com/ to place your order, and please remember to use the "summersale2005" coupon code. Now that's hot!
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Just FYI.
To answer some questions:
Surur: Unfortunately, you need a WMP10 Mobile device for Pocket Player to play back DRM tracks. Also, if you do have WMP10 Mobile, you don't need to install the large WMA support package like other devices.
Dhpss: You might want to try our new dsp_stretch plugin, which can speed up playback of podcasts without altering the pitch of the voices. It's available from our Plugins page.
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08-10-2005, 04:05 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Jason Patterson
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Updated the frontpage post. 
--janak
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08-10-2005, 04:17 PM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by Jason Patterson
Janak, thanks for the news mention! Also our Notes From The Inside mentions:...
Dhpss: You might want to try our new dsp_stretch plugin, which can speed up playback of podcasts without altering the pitch of the voices. It's available from our Plugins page. |
I download the plugin and copy to Pocket Player directory, but when I go to Option-Plugins, it did not show up. Could you help, also, how to use this exactly?
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08-10-2005, 04:30 PM
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Intellectual
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DSP plugins show up in Options > DSP, where you configure them. Go there, and select the Stretch plugin, and you can increase or decrease the playback speed.
Also, note that in 2.6, if you hold down the Next button, it will fast-forward through the current track.
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08-10-2005, 05:02 PM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by Jason Patterson
DSP plugins show up in Options > DSP, where you configure them. Go there, and select the Stretch plugin, and you can increase or decrease the playback speed.
Also, note that in 2.6, if you hold down the Next button, it will fast-forward through the current track.
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Thank you Jason!, DSP works. (It would be nice to be able to map this to a hardware button, without going thru several taps :-)
The next button hold to fast forward does not seem to work for me. It jumps to next track as soon as I release.
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