When you are listening to music on your phone, did you know that you can control certain aspects of playback using your wired headset? Many headsets–including the one from Palm that comes with your phones–have a button on them that you use to hang up a phone conversation, but that is not the only use you will find for that button. From the stock music app to homebrew apps like Music Player (Remix) or other audio apps like DrPodder, you can control the audio playback using that button. Just load up an audio file and click once to pause/play that current track, or quickly click twice to fast forward to the next track.

 Thanks to RagaR for suggesting this tip

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Hopefully everyone knows that you can plug in your webOS device to speakers, a car stereo or any device with an auxiliary input jack using the phone’s headphone jack to output audio, but did you know that if you can also connect your phone to a media player that has a USB input? As detailed on an Official Palm Blog entry, many modern TVs or stereos that have an input for a USB plug will allow your phone to act the same as a thumb drive, allowing you to access any media file (music, videos and pictures) over that USB connection. Of course, each TV, home entertainment system, car stereo or speakers will have different procedures  on how to access the files once connected, but to initiate that connection just plug in your device through the USB cord and select "USB Drive" (as if you were connecting to your computer). And as a bonus, this will charge the battery, too.

Be advised that just because an external device has a USB input, this may not work for you. As stated in the original posting, "some gadgets implement USB connections in a non-standard way, [so] we can’t guarantee this will work."

Source: The Official Palm Blog; Thanks to tllemmon for suggesting this tip!

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Being only one tap away from accessing a dashboard notification for an audio program such the stock Music Player or DrPodder is an extremely convenient feature of webOS, but did you know that those notifications are also active while your phone is on the Touchstone? Instead of unlocking your phone, tapping on the dashboard icon to maximize the notification and then performing your action, you can do it right from the lock screen. This is extremely useful if you have a car-mounted touchstone because you can quickly stop, rewind or fastfoward with just a quick glance at your phone and not take your eyes off the road!

Note that this may not work will all audio applications.  Each app may have different results

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Just as video recording came to the Pre (via the homebrew Precorder app) well before Palm officially released its official version, now voice and audio recording have arrived unofficially as well, also from the webOS Internals team, via Zcorder.

read more

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Multimedia on webOS has always been a bit of a mixed bag. Some files play fine, others don’t.  Palm has given webOS users all the basic audio and video codecs to get by, but sometimes that’s just not enough.

Currently webOS supports the MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, QCELP, and WAV audio codecs and the MPEG-4, H.263, and H.264video codecs. Nothing more nothing less. However, that certainly leaves something left to be desired by many users.

Zsoc from WebOS-Internals has heard your cries for wider format support. One of the first formats requested was GSM6.10 encoded WAV audio.  Some businesses deliver voicemails via email in this format. And now, that coded request has been fulfilled. The GSM6.10 WAV codec is now available in Preware for your downloading pleasure.

That’s not all. Zsoc has managed to successfully add Ogg as well as Flac codecs onto his device however there are still a few issues that need to be ironed out before he works on figured out how to package it up for end users. In addition, he’s made some headway at adding Xvid support, though there are still a few roadblocks to be faced.

So if you’ve been waiting for GSM6.10 WAV for your device, today’s your lucky day. It may not be official, but it’s still top notch quality.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>