[Req] Music player that reads Meta fields

[himan]

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?

[Charles@Kinoma]

Originally Posted by himan

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.

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

[MrGoodtunes]

Originally Posted by himan

...can't seem to sort my music using genre, year, or id3...

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:


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

[himan]

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.

[Charles@Kinoma]

Originally Posted by himan

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

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