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Music and Audio

Listen to Sirius or XM satellite radio on your device

Submitted Tuesday, January 29, 2008

With a subscription to Sirius or XM satellite radio, the proper software, and a live Internet connection, you can listen to commercial-free music and other satellite radio programming on your touch screen device. Here’s how you do it.

Sirius subscribers

Download Sirius WM5 at geekstoolbox.com and install it on your device.

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Create your own ringtone

Submitted Thursday, December 27, 2007

The surest way to have a unique ringtone on your smartphone is to create your own by recording one! The process is simple on Windows Mobile devices. Follow these steps.

Touch screen devices:

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Sound recorder compatibility with Windows Mobile 5 devices

Submitted Thursday, September 6, 2007

Read Werner Ruotsalainen’s roundup of sound recorder applications here.

RealOne streamed content on Pocket PCs

Submitted Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Werner Ruotsalainen explains how to watch and listen to RealOne streamed content on Pocket PCs, including using a Wi-Fi access point. Click here for the article.

Speed up playback of audio files on Pocket PCs

Submitted Thursday, September 6, 2007

The "Voice Pitch Lock" setting on Vito SoundExplorer (vitotechnology.com) allows you to slow down or speed up the playback speed. (Vito SoundExplorer supports Windows Mobile 2003 through Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PCs and includes a plug-in that lets you record and play back voice memos from the Today screen.)

Playing MiDi files on your Pocket PC

Submitted Tuesday, August 21, 2007

If you are interested in playing MiDi audio files on your Pocket PC, read Werner Ruotsalainen’s complete roundup of third-party applications that can do so. Click here for the article.

Get album art to appear in Windows Media Player

Submitted Friday, August 24, 2007

Media Player Mobile is designed to display album cover art when a song from the album is being played. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always do it—a bug that can greatly annoy music enthusiasts. One way to ensure that they will display is to manually create folders for each album and include the album image in the folder. Follow these steps:

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Listen to Internet radio on your device

Submitted Friday, August 10, 2007

Jaime Lendino provides advice and software and service recommendations for listening to Internet radio on your device. Click here for the article.

Seamless playback of songs

Submitted Friday, May 25, 2007

There are a number of third-party MP3 players for Windows Mobile devices that offer seamless playback (without noiseless gaps between songs). These include iPlay (40th.com) and Pocket Music (pocketmind.com).

How to use your alarm to wake up to music

Submitted Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Many bedside alarms these days include a setting that allows you to wake up to music first thing in the morning. Touch screen devices are no different. You can use the third-party program The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) (see Web site below) and the built-in Alarms program to wake up to music.

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Stream your own media content

Submitted Wednesday, December 13, 2006

You can stream music and videos you have stored on your desktop PC over the Web and listen to or view them on an Internet-connected Windows Mobile device (or other computer) anywhere in the world. Orb (orb.com) is the free service that makes this possible. After you’ve signed up and installed the Orb Media application on your PC, you can access the media content stored on it over a secure Internet connection.

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Play video & audio in various formats

Submitted Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Media Player Mobile can only play video in ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) or WMV (Windows Media Video) formats. In addition, it can only handle audio in WMA (Windows Media Audio) and MP3 formats. If you want to play content saved in another format, you will have to first convert it to one of the supported formats or install a media player application that supports the other format.

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"Rip" music from your CDs

Submitted Wednesday, December 13, 2006

All touch screen devices and non-touch screen smartphones come with Windows Media Player Mobile built in. This lets you play music files recorded in MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) formats, and view video recorded in WMV format.

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How to listen to music and watch videos

Submitted Friday, December 8, 2006

Microsoft Windows Media Player Mobile is software that lets you play music and videos on your Windows Mobile device.

How to create a podcast

Submitted Friday, December 8, 2006

You can create and post podcasts from your Pocket PC using Resco Audio Recorder.

Playing tracked music on your Pocket PC

Submitted Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Many Pocket PC games contain “tracked” (a.k.a. “module”) music that is very easy to extract and listen to without actually running the game. In my post titled “Listen to the music of the great space shooter game Enslave without having to start the game” (4/8/06), I’ve already elaborated on the JT MOD Player 1.0. In this post, I elaborate on the latest developments in the Pocket PC world relating to playing back tracked music.

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