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Pocket Tunes Features

Pocket Tunes is the most feature-rich audio player for your smartphone or PDA. Whatever you are looking for in an audio player, you're sure to find it with Pocket Tunes.

NEW in 5.0! Download podcasts directly to your phone/PDA.
Pocket Tunes now includes a constantly-growing catalog of over 1,000 podcasts that you can subscribe to, or you can add your own favorites. Download podcasts automatically each night, and automatically delete them when you're done listening.¹
NEW in 5.0! Listen to Internet radio broadcast using WMA.
Pocket Tunes 5.0 now supports most WMA-format radio stations, giving you a much wider choice when it comes to your favorite music. The built-in catalog will be continually updated to include the most popular stations in any supported format.¹
NEW in 5.0! Sync your iTunes playlists with your device.
Automatically or manually synchronize your music and playlists from iTunes on your PC or Mac. Pocket Tunes supports all unprotected music files in your iTunes library. Of the music you have purchased music from the iTunes store, Pocket Tunes will only play iTunes Plus tracks.
NEW in 5.0! Support for Last.fm.
Every time you listen to a song on your Palm OS or Windows Mobile smartphone using Pocket Tunes Deluxe 5.0, this gets tracked to your Last.fm music profile - it's called scrobbling™. Based on this profile, Last.fm creates customized radio stations of music you'll like. Plus, Last.fm also uses your music profile to give you: New music to listen to, Concert listings in your area, Music videos, Free downloads, Neighbors (people who like the same music you do), Charts based on your listening history. For more information and to start using Last.fm, visit www.last.fm
NEW in 5.0! Remember your last position for all audio books and podcasts.
Pocket Tunes now automatically remembers your listening position for all audiobooks and podcasts so you never lose your place, even if you listen to something else for a while.
Superb customer support.
We invest in top-notch support engineers to get you quick and helpful responses to all of your questions.
15-day trial and 15-day money back guarantee.
We want to be sure that you're happy with Pocket Tunes. Take advantage of our 15-day trial and our 15-day money back guarantee.
Hundreds of preset Internet Radio stations.
Pocket Tunes 4.0 includes a huge catalog of the most popular Internet Radio stations available.¹
View the album art for your tunes.
When you play music that has album art attached to it, Pocket Tunes will show it to you.
Support for AAC and aacPlus files and Internet Radio.
Take advantage of the latest and highest quality music format, aacPlus, for CD-quality Internet Radio and ultra-small hi-fi music files.¹
Share your favorite Internet Radio stations.
Find a great station that you want to share with your friends? Send it via Email, Bluetooth, or infrared.¹
Access millions of songs and audio books from popular online music stores.
Pocket Tunes Deluxe supports all music stores that use Microsoft's Janus technology². Look for stores with the PlaysForSure logo.
Listen to Internet radio.
With Pocket Tunes Deluxe, you can tune into hundreds of ShoutCast, Live365, and many other radio stations on devices with built-in wireless connectivity.³
Listen to all your tunes on your phone.
Easily play music stored on your device's storage card, internal memory, or hard disk.
Keep your music synchronized with what's on your PC.
Pocket Tunes integrates with iTunes, Windows Media Player, Real Rhapsody, and many other music players on your PC to allow you to quickly and easily copy music to your device. Just plug it in, start Pocket Tunes, and go!
Find music quickly, auto-sorted by album, artist, and genre.
Pocket Tunes sorts your music by album, artist, genre, and playlist to allow you to quickly find what you're in the mood for.
Broad range of supported music files.
Pocket Tunes plays MP3, AAC¹, aacPlus¹, WMA¹, WMDRM (Janus)¹, PCM WAV, and Ogg Vorbis files.
Use your phone or PDA normally while music is playing.
You're free to run any other application on your device while playing music or listening to Internet radio.
Integrated with your phone.
Pause your music or change the volume using the buttons on the side of your Centro and Treo. When calls come in, Pocket Tunes automatically pauses the music until you hang up.
Control your music playback while using other phone functions.
Access the popup console while using other applications or phone functions to play, pause, change tracks, adjust the volume, and more.
Mix, shuffle, then repeat.
Quickly create playlists or pick songs one-by-one. Turn on the shuffle and repeat options to combine your music in ways you never expected!
Personalize Pocket Tunes.
Choose from dozens of skins (many of them are free) at www.pocket-tunes.com/skins/ to make Pocket Tunes your own.
Fine tune your music.
With features like crossfade, gapless playback, a high-fidelity equalizer, high quality volume boost, and many more, Pocket Tunes allows you unprecedented control over your music listening experience.⁴
Listen to audio books.
Pocket Tunes provides unique features (like bookmarks and auto-bookmarks) to make it a powerful companion when listening to books on the go¹.
Tons of playback options.
Not everyone uses their audio player in the same way. Configure Pocket Tunes to start playing on startup, stop playing after a certain period of inactivity, stop playing on low battery, and more.
Stay up to date.
By default, Pocket Tunes will ask you to check for updates every 30 days so you can ensure you always have the latest and greatest.
Ringtones, alarm clocks, etc.
Pocket Tunes integrates with dozens of third-party applications to enable great capabilities such as custom ringtones, alarm clocks, and much more.
Lots more!
Give Pocket Tunes a try, and we guarantee you'll be blown away!

Technical Specifications

Audio Support:	MP3 (all bitrates, CBR and VBR), AAC (all bitrates), WMA, Protected WMA (PD-DRM WMDRM9, Janus WMDRM10), aacPlus/HE-AAC v1, aacPlus/HE-AAC v2. Palm OS also supports Ogg Vorbis, PCM WAV through use of the optional free plugins.
Playlist Support:	Stored on SD card: M3U, PLS, ASX. Stored on device: internal playlist format. Accessed via HTTP: M3U, PLS, ASX. Other capabilities: playlists that include other playlists are expanded automatically.
Streaming Audio:	Protocols: HTTP, RTSP (WMA only), ShoutCast, Live365. Formats: MP3, WMA, aacPlus, Ogg Vorbis, WAV.
Album art:	JPEG and PNG format any size (depending on available memory). Supports album art embedded in MP3, AAC, WMA, or OGG files. Supports album art stored in the same folder with the music. If multiple album art files are available, automatically selects album art that most closely matches desired resolution.

Requirements

Supported Devices:

Palm OS: Palm® Centro™
Palm® T|X
Palm® Treo™ 650
Palm® Treo™ 680
Palm® Treo™ 700p
Palm® Treo™ 755p
Pocket Tunes 5.X may work on other Palm devices but is not actively supported.

Device Memory: 3MB

Screen Resolution: Palm OS: Any resolution (160x160, 320x320, 320x480, 480x320).

Recommended: 512MB or larger SD card for storing music.
Windows XP or Vista and iTunes 8 or Windows Media Player 10 or 11 for synchronizing music between your PC and your device.
Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel) or later and iTunes 8 for synchronizing music between your Mac and your Palm OS device.
Unlimited wireless data plan for listening to Internet radio and downloading podcasts.

¹ WMA playback requires the Deluxe version and is not available in the trial. Internet radio, AAC/aacPlus playback, podcast downloading, and bookmarks are among the features not available in Pocket Tunes Basic.

² Music stores that we have tested include: Napster, Real Rhapsody. Pocket Tunes supports both subscription and purchased content. Online music store access requires Pocket Tunes Deluxe and a paid subscription to one of many compatible music services. Online music store access is only compatible with some devices; please read the compatibility list below or check our web site for updates.

³ Listening to Internet radio may incur data usage charges; please check your wireless data plan before using this feature.

⁴ Crossfade and gapless playback are not available on copy-protected tracks. On Windows Mobile, volume boost and the equalizer are not available for copy-protected tracks.

¹	WMA playback requires the Deluxe version and is not available in the trial. Internet radio, AAC/aacPlus playback, podcast downloading, and bookmarks are among the features not available in Pocket Tunes Basic.
²	Music stores that we have tested include: Napster, Real Rhapsody. Pocket Tunes supports both subscription and purchased content. Online music store access requires Pocket Tunes Deluxe and a paid subscription to one of many compatible music services. Online music store access is only compatible with some devices; please read the compatibility list below or check our web site for updates.
³	Listening to Internet radio may incur data usage charges; please check your wireless data plan before using this feature.
⁴	Crossfade and gapless playback are not available on copy-protected tracks. On Windows Mobile, volume boost and the equalizer are not available for copy-protected tracks.