Music player

[Iomega01]

Is it possible for the wizard to continue playing music when in standby? or the best we can do is have the screen backgroung light timeout? Thanks

[Eugenia]

As I wrote in my review of the Wizard on TuxTops.com, it is unfortunate that there is no "hardware" lock button. There are two options you can have, but none is as good as a hardware lock slider would have been:

1. Use GSPlayer which has a "Turn Display OFF" menu option. However, the buttons are NOT locked during that time and so you can press stuff by mistake.
2. Use the built-in locking mechanism in the Today screen, which kicks in after a while. However, even on the smallest pressing of the screen or buttons, the screen will come up again (buttons will be locked, but still the screen will be ON again).

There used to be a very nice software called "ClearLock", that would turn off the screen and lock all the buttons on a PDA. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the Wizard because Clearlock requires to press simultaneously the first and fourth button of the PDA to come back to life. And the Wizard does not use the traditional 4-button PDA layout, so after you get into lock mode with this utility, you can never bring back up your phone, until you soft-reset.

[SBouri]

I use device lock...
choose the option to blank the screen...set it to a hardware button and your sorted

I listen to my MP3's with the device locked and the screen turned off :)

[fiddeh]

I use MortPlayer (http://www.sto-helit.de/modules/edito/content.php?id=28).

From homepage:
Screen saver (switch off display after some time or on button press) with optional button lock

[vmirage]

i tried using tcpmp and mortplayer... i find that the equalizer in tcpmp is higher quality compared to mortplayer.

i used to use pocketmusic as well, but i find it very slow on the wizard when using high quality eq. so i used tcpmp instead.

all support turning off the screen except that tcpmp is only able to turn off the screen with a click of button (if assigned).

[JNGold]

i tried using tcpmp and mortplayer... i find that the equalizer in tcpmp is higher quality compared to mortplayer.

i used to use pocketmusic as well, but i find it very slow on the wizard when using high quality eq. so i used tcpmp instead.

all support turning off the screen except that tcpmp is only able to turn off the screen with a click of button (if assigned).

Did you guys know that you can put the device in standby mode and still play music? You can do it if you are using AD2DP. Yes, kiddies, it is possible.

[darnel]

1. Use GSPlayer which has a "Turn Display OFF" menu option. However, the buttons are NOT locked during that time and so you can press stuff by mistake.

I don't understand why this doesn't work on Wizard, while on Magician auto display off deactivate hardware buttons and touch screen as I expected :-(