[Req] Music player that reads Meta fields
 

An easy way of making playlists is by adding "Rating=5" and whatnot to the id3/id3v2 meta tags of mp3 files.

I'm using Kinoma (free trial, because I mean really you'd expect windows mobile to have a decent free music player.. their biggest competition is the freaking iphone/ipod), but I can't seem to sort my music using genre, year, or id3.

Anyone know of a decent alternative?

Re: [Req] Music player that reads Meta fields
 

In My Media > Music, you can browse by Genres as well as Songs, Artists and Albums.

(The ability to browse by Year is a great feature request, thanks!)

-- Charles Wiltgen

Re: [Req] Music player that reads Meta fields
 

Pocket Player provides all those and more browsing/sorting choices. It's flexible enough that I've managed to make it's 'Album' browsing feature work for me, even with my singles-oriented mind set:
http://bellsouthpwp2.net/m/r/mrg2nz2/Browse.png

PP is not free, but well worth the $20 price tag, if only for the wonderful way its gapless playback makes my Sprint Touch play - no dead air! However, they've been unable to solve some problem with random hickups on newer HTC devices, including Touch Pro. A free 1 month trial version is here:
http://tinyurl.com/7tseh9

Re: [Req] Music player that reads Meta fields
 

Hey Charles,

I was surprised to see such a fast response from you on my Kinoma thread. Glad you liked the feature suggestion.

Would you also consider adding the sorting by metaname function as well?

I love sorting music by the Rating, Mood, etc fields in foobar.

Re: [Req] Music player that reads Meta fields
 

Sorry, dumb question...what is "metaname" in the context of ID3 tags? (I searched for "metaname id3", but didn't seem to get any useful results.)

A couple example scenarios would be useful as well, if we're talking about less-often-used metadata.

-- Charles Wiltgen