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NDBounce · Jan 30, 2003, 05:25 AM

Anyone know if there is an MP3 Player for the Palm Tungsten T?

I have read there is, but have yet to see it.

If there is, please direct me to where I can find it.

Thank you,

O
B unce!

Anomalous · Jan 30, 2003, 04:11 PM

I looked on VersionTracker, but the closest thing I could find was this Ogg Vorbis player: http://www.versiontracker.com/morein...73&db=palm

ebisix · Feb 1, 2003, 11:30 PM

Originally posted by NDBounce:
Anyone know if there is an MP3 Player for the Palm Tungsten T?

I have read there is, but have yet to see it.

If there is, please direct me to where I can find it.

Thank you,

O
B unce!

It is very bad that the Tungsten T did not even come with an MP3 player.

You can find the answer at the Palm Boulevard forums I'm pretty sure.

http://www.palmblvd.com

Riddler · Feb 2, 2003, 05:25 AM

Well the whole story of the TT MP3 player is this; the TT was meant to ship with an MP3 player co-developed between Real and Palm, basically a version of Real One Player for Palm that just plays audio.

However this was not ready for the TT's launch and it still is not available now, the latest estimate I heard was "a couple of weeks"

This is not the full story though, TT users hunger for music playback was so obvious that a couple of 3rd party developers stepped up and released solutions: Pocket Tunes and AeroPlayer.

The release of these apps highlighted two more issues, low volume and a bug in the TT's ROM which prevented CD quality sound, at the moment it's like listening down a phone line to music playing quietly.

It's emerged that with the release of the Real One Player that a "Sound Fix" will be released. Infact this was leaked last weak and it does indeed finally provide good quality audio, however the low volume problem seems to worsen with the alpha patch, here's hoping the final version fixes that also.

The community feeling at the moment is that AeroPlayer will be the best solution once the official sound fix is out, RealOne for Palm seems to require Real One on your "PC" and my guess is that Mac support will be lacking.

For more info see the forums at Palminfocenter.com

Anomalous · Feb 5, 2003, 02:00 PM

Well, what do you know, Pocket Tunes (which I linked to above) now supports MP3.

Riddler · Feb 7, 2003, 01:30 PM

Worth noting that 2 days ago Palm released the long awaited audio patch and the TT now has CD quality sound...

Registering AeroPlayer tonight...

GlobalNomad · Jul 19, 2003, 10:35 PM

Instead of a new thread I thought I would ask in a excisiting one

.

I intsalled Pocket Tunes (pTunes) and well how do I now load up mp3s? With Hotsync Manager it only lets you install mp3 files to an expansion card

.

I tried sending sendin the mp3 file with MacOSX bluetooh transfer. It sent and the Palm pilot recifed it but its not there and it didn't take up the 3mb of space.

Do you need an expansion card or something to actually have music on the palm pilot?

Sony has released a 1 GB card (you know like the ones for there cameras). Will we ever see one like that for the palm? I would never be able to afford one, I just hope that its release will lower the price of excisting cards.

SomeToast · Jul 19, 2003, 11:00 PM

Originally posted by GlobalNomad:
I intsalled Pocket Tunes (pTunes) and well how do I now load up mp3s? With Hotsync Manager it only lets you install mp3 files to an expansion card"

The RealOne player has been available for several months now. I've yet to run the installer, since it also only plays mp3 off an SD card, which I don't have (and having an iPod makes using the T for the same purpose slightly less attractive

).

GlobalNomad · Jul 19, 2003, 11:06 PM

Originally posted by SomeToast:
The RealOne player has been available for several months now. I've yet to run the installer, since it also only plays mp3 off an SD card, which I don't have (and having an iPod makes using the T for the same purpose slightly less attractive ).

Any way to play stuff without an SD card? If not that really sucks ass.

I know I would only be able to put like 2 songs on the Tungsten, but that will make the walk from the Bus every morning go much faster.

GlobalNomad · Jul 20, 2003, 12:21 AM

The link to d/l for Mac OS doesn't work.
It works for linux and win.

Here is a link that works
http://www.real.com/R/RC.021021r1mob...1021r1mobile_1

Now to go buy myslef one of thoes SD cards.
What is the biggest SD card anyways?

GlobalNomad · Jul 20, 2003, 02:28 AM

Hi,

So there are
SD Cards and CompactFlash Cards.

There are some pretty large ComactFlash Cards, http://www.sandisk.com/consumer/cf_card.asp .

I don't think these will work with the Palm, is this so? If it does work with the Palm will it work with the RealOne player?

Is there a website were you can buy a SD card? (for a resnable price)

cwasko · Jul 20, 2003, 06:25 PM

I have both the Real player and pTunes running on my TT. I like pTunes better. To the best of my knowledge, they only work with a SD card. I can understand that you don't want to buy more stuff, but I picked up a 256M card from Amazon back in march for 40$. it was a SAN Disk as well - not some cheezy no-name brand.

I think the audio circuitry sucks on the TT cause both Real and pTunes sounds like crap as compared to the iPod. I've tried all sorts of encoding, i.e.: 128-256, CBR, VBR, lame, iTunes, etc. NO matter what, they just don't sound as good. I do realize it could be the decoders, but it would seem odd that BOTH pieces of software suck in the same exact ways. But, if you don't have an mp3 player, and you want to use it for just general sound, it is still pretty good. Just don't expect to be blaring it in your car.

cwasko · Jul 20, 2003, 06:27 PM

Whoa... I guess I got the deal of the century on the 256 card. it was brand new as well. I just went to Amazon and the 256's are going for 99$. Yikes!