Our recent release of Rocket Player brings several great features. We are so thrilled about it we are also doing an unlocker giveaway in this blog post! Our latest and greatest features include: 

• Enhanced Genre Support

• Supported Audio Formats

• Tag Editing

• Album Compilations

• x86 Intel supported Androids

Rocket Player now supports genres outside of the supported Android genres. If you have a whacky genre like "Light Switch Rave"or a non-generic genre like "Vocal Concerted Music", these will now be displayed accurately in Rocket Player's genre tab. If you do see an unknown genre, simply edit the genre tag. 

Supported Audio Formats

Rocket Player is now able to support audio formats outside of the Android supported formats. These formats include: 

• APE (ape)

• Musepack (mpc)

• Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)

• True Audio (tta)

Tag editing has been on our feature request list for a long time and is now available to everyone. With tag editing, edit a song title, artist, album, even track numbers and years. As mentioned before, "unknown" in tags can be edited to display the correct or desired information in your media.

Artist Compilations 

Additionally, a feature that all of our listeners can now enjoy is artist compilations. Album compilations is a sorting feature that will now display
albums in the order they were released by the artist. 

x86 Intel Supported Android

Rocket Player is now ready to support of x86 intel based processors for Android devices. This does not affect many devices yet, since ARM processors are still dominant; never the less, x86 processors in Android devices are coming to a store near you. 





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Justin is currently creating a new build for Rocket Player v1.3, but we need your help by testing our latest beta. We only have so many devices to test on (below).


If you believe that this is a lot of devices, well, you'd be right! But compared to the growing list of devices as reported by open signal in May of 2012, it is just a small fraction of the available devices.



What's in it for you?
Besides our eternal gratitude, you get a chance to preview some of the newest features that we are bringing to Rocket Player. With this release we are working on creating our very own media scanner to help resolve issues that individual devices' media scanners cannot handle!

Email us at [email protected] or sign up using this form below and we will send you a copy of the beta build.

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Although Justin and I were busy jamming out to at Austin City Limits this past weekend, we still found the time to crank out a new release of Rocket Player 1.2.7!

Feature 1: Audio Focus
(First requested by: Anonymous user who Rocks!)


New in "Audio Settings" is a feature called "Audio Focus" that allows users to select how Rocket Player operates when another application is attempting to take audio focus from Rocket Player. Settings like "Pause on Phone Call," and "Pause on Focus Lost" allows users to automatically pause Rocket Player when a phone call comes in or another application takes control of the audio focus.

You can also adjust how Rocket Player performs when notifications from other applications come in. Toggle the setting "Ignore Other Apps" to allow Rocket Player to play regardless of other applications notifications. Additionally, the "Temp Focus" setting will allow you to "Duck" or "Pause" the player when important notifications come in like an email, text, or a message from a navigation app.




Feature 2: Keep Notification
(First requested by: hansen.wong and alex.a.vasilescu)

We decided to give you the option of allowing Rocket Player notifications to be toggled on or off. Toggle this setting "off" and you can now pause and exit Rocket Player. Toggle the setting "on" to keep Rocket Player active even if paused and press the power button on the notification to exit from the player.





Feature 3: Support Volume Controls 
(First requested by: clintonf) 

This feature is designed specifically those who were struggling to change the volume using their headsets. Previously pressing the volume up/down on your headset would act the same as a button press (Pause/Pause, Next, Previous), now these volume controls can be used as they were intended, to change the volume!


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According to telekom-presse, and now being reported by a number of other media outlets such as techradar and CNET, Samsung will introduce two lower tiered smart phones on October 11 in Frankfurt that focus on music. And since we are all about the Android music experience around here, we wanted to keep you guys in the loop.

These devices are aimed primarily at audio consumers who want a better audio experience out of their smart phone without throwing down an extra bundle of cash. These are low end devices but what makes them special is dual front facing speakers.

I can see it now... use Rocket Player equalizer to set up the perfect sound and then blast it with the speakers on these new phones. Now you can start a dance party anywhere!

Oh and also cool: the news, coming out of Germany, coincides with Rocket Player being translated into German all sourced by our awesome German speaking users!

Want to help us with the German translation or another translation? Head on over to http://www.getlocalization.com/JRTStudio