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Product Support => HiMedia Q10 Pro, Q5 Pro => Topic started by: WinForME on October 06, 2018, 09:00:34 PM

Title: Album art and Album title in Music Player
Post by: WinForME on October 06, 2018, 09:00:34 PM

Is there a way to display album art and album title in the build-in Music player?
Otherwise, is there a music player which can AND supports DTS passthrough AND can folder play on external USB devices?
I tried like 50 players on playstore, there's always something wrong.
I  would really appreciate a solution, my friends say: your sound is great, but the interface sucks!
Also shown time duration is incorrect on DTS-HDMA files.

Title: Re: Album art and Album title in Music Player
Post by: Mount81 on October 07, 2018, 02:41:15 AM

In what format are those DTS audio files?

Not sure about DTS support, but you can try HibyMusic or Neutron Player. You still will need a mouse/airmouse or the remote controller app to operate these properly.

I guess KODI 16.1 or the "shitty build" version will also play DTS audio passthrough. (Later versions will not).

Title: Re: Album art and Album title in Music Player
Post by: WinForME on October 07, 2018, 07:33:45 PM

The extension I use is .dts and is supported by Music Player (linked via MediaCenter).
The Windows program I use to encode or recode is DTS-HD Master Audio Suite Encoder.
The format I usually use is: DTS-MA  = 24 bit / 96 Khz samplerate with1509 kbps core bitrate (needed to trigger 96/24 mode on many receivers)
BTW, the output has originally extension .dtshd which I rename to .dts so Music PLayer recognises it.

I tried both HibyMusic and Neutron Player, nice interface but DTS doesn't work regretfully.
Neutron recognises the .dts files but play only the core in stereo.

Can somebody tell me whether the current Music Player will get an update soon?

Title: Re: Album art and Album title in Music Player
Post by: Mount81 on October 08, 2018, 06:21:15 AM

Did you try the KODI versions mentioned?

Title: Re: Album art and Album title in Music Player
Post by: WinForME on October 08, 2018, 03:19:26 PM

Yes, Kodi works I just found out!
I think it handles each issue I mentioned, although I'll have to play with some settings and add-ons.
The reason I didn't think of Kodi is that with Kodi you'll have a shell in a shell with a different appearance.
Actually MediaCenter form Himedia works the same.

Thanks Mount81 for mentioning!

Title: Re: Album art and Album title in Music Player
Post by: Mount81 on October 09, 2018, 01:04:06 AM

Quote from: WinForME on October 08, 2018, 03:19:26 PM

The reason I didn't think of Kodi is that with Kodi you'll have a shell in a shell with a different appearance.
Actually MediaCenter form Himedia works the same.

If you mean that it works with the Wrapper and calls HiMedia Player for Playback, than it's not the way that I've meant.
You can install 16.1 or the "shitty build" and try them without activating the Wrapper, so it will use KODI's own internal player as default. If it works, you can later also reactivate the Wrapper for anything else and make an exception for .dts files in the playercorefactory.xml file found in the KODI folder, to still use KODI Player only for this format.