Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Pocket Player version 4.0: Now supports AAC, M4A, More new plugins and skins

Pocket Player 4.0 is a fully featured audio player which allows you to play and enjoy music and video files on the PDA devices including Pocket PC and Smartphone devices. Through multiple media and playlist formats, Internet connectivity, plugin extensions, and an intuitive interface, Pocket Player means less taps, more music!

All features of Conduits Pocket Player

  • Full music and video support: MP3, WMA, WMV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV etc!
  • Protected WMA support, u-Law, A-Law, AU, and ADPCM WAV (used in Voicemail attachments) playback
  • Media Browser menu system, with touch scrolling and gesture support!
  • Media Library auto-imports 1000+ tracks with ease, with support for all common metadata tags for all media formats, including lyrics and ratings!
  • 10-band Equalizer and Preamp, with presets!
  • Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP): browse and play content from your desktop!
  • Internet radio streaming support for Shoutcast (MP3), Windows Media (MMS) stations
  • Web guide for Internet radio, MP3 blogs and podcasts, with pause, auto-resume and seek functionality!
  • Voicemail playback (WAV email attachments), integrates with your Inbox!
  • Visualizations and downloadable Album Art support
  • Full support for Windows Mobile 5 (Pocket PC and Smartphone), WM6 and Windows Mobile 6.1 compatibility!
  • Support for Bluetooth stereo headphones (A2DP), buttons (AVRCP), and mono headsets (Audio Gateway)!
  • Skinnable (Pocket Player, WMP, and WinAmp WSZ skins) for all device resolutions with color change ability
  • Themed and skinned Today plugin on touchscreen devices
  • Reads tags such as ID3 (v1/v1.1/v2), MPEG-4, APE and ASF; scans device in background
  • Gapless playback with adjustable crossfading
  • Playlist manager, auto-generating smart playlists!
  • DSP Plugin support, including time stretch and Bass Boost
  • User-managed Bookmarks support; jump to a file and time
  • For Podcasts and audio books: bookmarks, "Seek to last position", Auto-resume
  • Hardware button mapping, button locking, one-handed navigation, including support for scroll wheels
  • Adjustable sleep timer, automatic screen shutoff function

What's New in Conduits Pocket Player version 4.0?

  • Improved: Now it supports AAC and M4A file formats.
  • New: Podcast subscriptions auto-download new content to your device!
  • Improved: Now it supports Internet radio streaming for AAC (including aacPlus, HE-AAC v1, HE-AAC v2).

Conduits Pocket Player Downloads

PocketPlayerSetup.exe (2.3M) - Pocket Player 4.0 for Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PC or Smartphone, Standard and Professional devices) including WM5, WM6, WM6.1.

After downloading, be sure to try some these some plugins which extend Pocket Player's capabilities, such as plugins for audio stretching, Bluetooth buttons, FLAC, WMP ratings sync, and Universal Plug-and-Play support. Below is a list of available plugins for Pocket Player. Simply download and extract the plugin from the links below, and copy the plugin (DLL) to your Pocket Player install folder, via the Explore function in ActiveSync. The install folder is "\Program Files\Conduits\Pocket Player" by default.

To develop your own plugin, download the SDK for Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++. Also included in the SDK is a desktop skin utility that will assist in creating skins.




Pocket Player Decoder Plugins
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) Decoder 1.24 (Conduits)

This plugin enables the playback of audio files compressed with the FLAC codec, which is a lossless compression which retains all the audio quality of the original media.
MOD (Module) Decoder (Conduits/MikMod)
This plugin enables the playback of "module" audio files, auch as MOD, XM, IT, and S3M files, which are small audio files widely available. Source code is available in the SDK.
Bassmod Plugin (Keygenmusic )
Bassmod decoder to play tracker modules.
Monkey's Audio APE Decoder 1.1 (Conduits)
This plugin enables Pocket Player to play back Monkey's Audio (.APE) files. More information on these files is available at the Monkey's Audio website.
Musepack MPC Decoder 1.2 (Conduits)
This plugin enables Pocket Player to play back Musepack (.MPC) files. More information on these files is available at the Musepack website.
Conduits Image (Metadata Only) Decoder 1.0 (Conduits)
This plugin enables image files to be found by the media library. Images can then be served to other devices using the UPnP plugin. A future version of Pocket Player will have image viewing capabilities.



Pocket Player General Plugins
Conduits WMP Plugin Adapter 2.31 (Conduits)
This plugin enables Pocket Player to 'host' plugins that are originally designed for Windows Media Player 10 for Windows Mobile. Many plugins simply control playback, such as the Bluetooth A2DP/AVRCP plugin on WM5 devices. Other times, more features and controls are utilized, such as the plugin for Microsoft Voice Command. The plugin also synchronizes your ratings and play counts from Windows Media Player!
Conduits UPnP Plugin 3.01 (Conduits)
Conduits UPnP Plugin: adds networked media browsing and playback accessible from the Browser. Pocket Player acts as a UPnP AV Media Renderer, Server, and Controller all in one. Used to allow Pocket Player to stream content from UPnP servers such as Windows Media Connect. To serve images from your device, install the Image Decoder plugin.
"Now Playing" Plugin (Conduits)
Pops up an indicator when working in other applications as to the current song title, at the beginning of the song. Tap the left edge of the bar to go back; tap the right edge of the bar to advance.
A-B Repeat Plugin (Conduits)
This plugin adds items to the menu, whereby you can set 'A' and 'B' points in a track, and have Pocket Player repeat that section of a track over and over.
Two-Device BT Remote (Conduits)
This plugin allows you to use the Conduits BT Remote utility with Pocket Player -- allowing you to run Pocket Player on one Windows Mobile device, and use the Remote utility on another Windows Mobile device to control playback. Documentation is currently available at the Pocket Slides website.
T-Mobile SDA Button Launcher (Conduits)
For the T-Mobile SDA Smartphone only: this collection of files should be placed in your \Windows folder. After copying, run PocketPlayerLaunch.exe from your device's File Explorer (to authorize its use). After doing so, pressing the Back, Play/Pause, and Next buttons on your phone will launch and control Pocket Player. Note: The European SDA Music model works differently and requires the steps outlined here.
Folder Navigation 1.1 (Conduits)
For Pocket Player 2.X. Adds two large buttons - "Previous Album" and "Next Album" - to the main interfact, to enhance Pocket Player's track navigation. Instead of advancing just one track, it jumps to the next (or previous) folder-worth of tracks. This is useful if you have your music stored by album (\Storage\Music\Artist\Album\Tracks.ext) and want to navigate from album to album.
Conduits ID3 Chapters Plugin 1.2 (Conduits)
This plugin adds support for the ID3v2 Chapters specification, complete with table of contents, chapter artwork support. Adds menu items to the Seek menu.
Voicemail Plugin 1.2 (Conduits)
This plugin adds a "Voicemail" choice in the Browser, and scans your Inbox (or other mail folders) for messages with WAV attachments. It lets you browse them by date, listen to them with random access, and adds a Call Back menu command.
Audioscrobber Plugin 1.33 (Conduits)
This plugin interfaces with the Last.fm website, and allows Pocket Player to keep track of your listening habits, and when connected, send your listened tracks to the Audioscrobbler service.



Pocket Player Visualization Plugins
(None Available)
Pocket Player is bundled with several visualizations; however, there are currently no additional visualization plugins available. Source code to create new visualizations is available in the SDK.



Pocket Player DSP Plugins
Pitch/Echo/Stereo Wide DSP (Conduits)
This plugin allows for the pitch (speed) of the song to be increased or decreased, as well as an Echo effect be placed on the audio output. A third DSP is provided which can adjust Stereo Wide separation. Source code is available in the SDK.
Boost/Filter DSP (Conduits)
This plugin is bundled with Pocket Player, and permits Bass Boost and other simple frequency functions (Frequency Mute, etc). Version 1.1 fixes a problem where the frequency and gain were not saved correctly.
Replay Gain DSP (Conduits)
This plugin attenuates the volume of tracks based on the Replay Gain information stored in the track. More information is available at the Replay Gain website.
Stretch DSP 1.1 (Conduits)
This plugin allows for the speed of the song to be increased or decreased, without altering the pitch of the music. Source code is available by request (dsp_stretch uses the LGPL SoundTouch library).



Pocket Player Skins

alphaPod (Black) (Ionized)

alphaPod (White) (Ionized)

Like WMP11 VGA (Jimmer)

SimpliQVGA (Hieu Nguyen)

cTunes (Juni)

PADD (Mark Reddick)

cMini (PaulS)

Iron Curtains (Pasa)

BuzzTunes VGA (Buzzard)

WMP11 176x220 (Ahmad Amarullah)

PhotoCleaner (PhotoCleaner)

Army Of Trolls (Army Of Trolls)

Buzzaio VGA (Buzzard)

Uccoffee Blue Landscape (uccoffee)
Landscape with large font and no buttons

LHStyle (Juni)

Brushed Steel (Conduits)

PADD2 (Mark Reddick)

CD Stand (Pasa)

Silverado (Lightman)

Pocket Player 2.7 (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (LS) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (WM5 SP) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (WM5 SP LS) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (SP) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (Square) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (VGA LS) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.7 (VGA Square) (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.6 (Conduits)

Pocket Player 2.6 (VGA) (Conduits)

Basic Skin (Conduits)

2.6 Big Text (rotated) (Conduits)

2.6 Landscape (rotated) (Conduits)
Download Older Versions


Software details
VersionSupported Platforms
Download Now
Pocket Player (exe) 3.71
Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003/ 5.0 and Smartphone

URL: Download now>>

Pocket Player (exe) 2.8
Pocket PC 2000, 2002, Windows Mobile 2003/5.0

URL: Download now>>

Pocket Player (exe) 2.8
Windows Smartphone

URL: Download now>>

No comments: