Busker MP3 player for Palm OS is the latest offering from Electric Pocket, the Welsh company that brought you BugMe! and Ringo. Busker MP3 promises a fun and uncomplicated user interface while providing some unique features that other Palm music players don't. The Treo 650 comes with a barebones tiny version of RealPlayer in ROM. It works, but if you listen to a lot of music, you�ll want something better.
Music files MUST be on an SD card or Busker won�t find them. Besides, the average four minute song, encoded into MP3 at 128k or 160k (FM and CD quality, respectively) are about three to five Meg in size, and given the Treo�s paltry internal memory, you wouldn�t want to load them internally anyway. (This is where I get down on my knees and beg Palm to give us a Treo with a hard drive or MUCH more memory in it).
Another nifty feature of Busker is its ability to display MP3 embedded Album Art during song play. If embedded art isn't already included with your music files, a simple tap will send Busker on an Internet search and find mission to retrieve the art and store it on your SD card.
If Busker is unable to locate art for a specific track, you have the option of choosing any JPEG file to load in its place. This is done by transferring your selected image into the same folder as the music file. Don�t expect to find album art for every track you play. One of my favorite artists is guitar god Steve Hackett, who has cranked out twenty solo albums since he left Genesis in the 1970s. I have a bunch of tracks from his �Live Archive 04� album on my SD card. Busker couldn�t find the matching album art, although it found the art for the follow-up �Live Archive 05� and plenty of his other albums when using its artist lookup feature. So you can substitute a JPEG if Busker can�t find the right cover art when you ask it to, or you can hide the album art entirely with a menu selection.
If you enjoy downloading and listening to podcasts while you�re on-the-go, Busker lets you do it, and set bookmarks to stop and start them as necessary.
Busker also has an alarm clock feature that�ll rouse you in the morning to your favorite tunes; it�ll play music in the background while other applications are in use, and an auto off option that conserves battery power.
There�s one glaring omission that bothered me about Busker: it doesn�t have a graphic equalizer or even basic treble and bass tone controls, just a volume slider. Hey, call me an audio snob (I won�t mind), and this may or may not be important to you, but it is to me. I like to EQ my music, no matter what kind of home device, portable, or software I�m using, and different kinds of music don�t all sound their best when played �flat� with no EQ tweaking. If all you have with you is your Treo and a pair of headphones, then tone controls or a multi-band graphic equalizer are a must. If you pump your Treo�s audio out to a decent speaker system or your car stereo through a cassette adaptor or a FM transmitter, then you can massage the output with their controls. Busker really needs an equalizer to take it from cool to awesome.
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