hi guys, im just wondering...idk if this was answered before or not but i couldnt find it in the search, ermm my question is, which player takes up alot of battery power? the WMP or HTC Player?
From what limited information I have (Never use either, i use TCMP) - I believe WMP uses a LOT more resources and therefor would logically use more battery
forget both of them, download nitrogen. so good! just installed it this week!
i hear good things about htc audio manager
does nitrogen take up more battery life than both?
I believe wmp will take up more battery since it's another program that you'd have to run. Same reason applies to nitrogen. HTC player is built into TF3D so it shouldn't drain more power than it already does. Just my theory, no evidence to back it up though.
baboola said:
I believe wmp will take up more battery since it's another program that you'd have to run. Same reason applies to nitrogen. HTC player is built into TF3D so it shouldn't drain more power than it already does. Just my theory, no evidence to back it up though.
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Actually the HTC player in TF3D uses HTC Audio Manager. When you go to the music tab it actually launches HTC Audio Manager (or WMP depending on your settings), and its just a frontend to the player.
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does nitrogen take up more battery life than both?
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never actually done any "tests" as to whether or not tflo player takes up more memory...so i'm doing it now. one beef i have with tf3d player is that it takes like 30 seconds to even start a song after i hit the play button. sure it's convenient to have it right in touchflo but it's a pain in the butt to have to wait for teh music to start. i hit play before i started typing this and it's still not playing yet...
okay just finished - my memory usage went up from 40% to 43% wihle i was using it
just to be fair, ran cleanRAM on level 2 to hopefully stop whatever's open. wow, amazing, phone froze, soft resetting...
okay back up - usage down to 37%. okay and now i'm playing music and my usage is up to 39%.
on both touchflo's music player and on nitrogen i had my entire music library set as my playlist. well from my test it seems that nitrogen consumes less of the processor/memory than touchflo's built in music player - which should therefore consume less battery
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Hey Folks,
I'm new around here so please don't kill me
I got my Topaz four days ago in Shanghai. I really like the experience and since then the phone came with a HardSPL already installed and a modified ROM (The shop didn't have a native english version so they flashed one for me) I installed Dutty's 6.5 R6 Ult the next day.
When I use the phone more or less normally, everything works fine and battery life is enough (could be better).
However, I like to use my phone as an all-in-on gadget so i don't have to carry a MP3-player with me.
I would love to continue that with my TD2 (It worked perfectly on my Samsung TouchWith SGH-F480 which did about 15-20 hours of uninterrupted mp3 playback on one full charge).
The problem really is that the music player seems to prevent the low-power state for some reason with the result that the battery will be drained within about 4-5 hours which is way too short since on normal days i have my phone playing music for about 8 hours.
To make a long story short:
I'm looking for a music player that can playback simple mp3 music (or wma or aac or whatever. One format will suffice. I can convert my music) without draining the battery as if i was playing a 3d game. Does that exsist or do i need to consider getting an extra battery or seperate MP3 player?
Thanks for the help =)
Cheers
Darkstriker
No ideas at all? :_(
have u tried s2p ?
Have it in the charger and play music, no battery drain there...he he
Seriously, there are tons of music players out there. Just pick what suits you. To me mortplayer or nitrogen works just fine.
I hope I do not annoy you guys with my ... "Best ..." threads.
However I really would like to know what is your favourite Mp3 player on the TG01 - I personally haven't found a lot good players besides HTC Media Player and Nitrogen!
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I hope I do not annoy you guys with my ... "Best ..." threads.
However I really would like to know what is your favourite Mp3 player on the TG01 - I personally haven't found a lot good players besides HTC Media Player and Nitrogen!
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I second those 2
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I second those 2
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The best is pocket player (just use a skin for wvga - surch for it at xda)
much more options tna anyother, much better sound quallity (you don't need srs wow to simulate surround or bass boost)
it playes everything... and best of all, It works very well whit my bluetooth phones (witch, by the way, for it's price, I recomend - phillyps shb7110 - it can be used in the car also, and with any hi-fi or anyother apparatus with sound output) nitrogen doesn't work with the keys of forward or rewind of this phones.
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The best is pocket player (just use a skin for wvga - surch for it at xda)
much more options tna anyother, much better sound quallity (you don't need srs wow to simulate surround or bass boost)
it playes everything... and best of all, It works very well whit my bluetooth phones (witch, by the way, for it's price, I recomend - phillyps shb7110 - it can be used in the car also, and with any hi-fi or anyother apparatus with sound output) nitrogen doesn't work with the keys of forward or rewind of this phones.
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I agree: Pocket Player: It has hundreds of features!
My favourite is S2P - it´s for sure not as overloaded with features as pocket player is - but with a few ticks you listen music. And it integrates well with S2U2 (at least when you use it).
Pocket Player hangs on my phone when it goes to sleep, or the playback stutters. Maybe there´s an option somewhere - but until now I didn´t found it.
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My favourite is S2P - it´s for sure not as overloaded with features as pocket player is - but with a few ticks you listen music. And it integrates well with S2U2 (at least when you use it).
Pocket Player hangs on my phone when it goes to sleep, or the playback stutters. Maybe there´s an option somewhere - but until now I didn´t found it.
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in pocket player go to options advanced and search under power. Theres something related to that problem of going to sleep... (if can't find say again and I will see, can't do it now)
s2p is good but the author left its developmnt in favor of only s2u2. it lacks somethings important - can't bind buttons and doens't work landscape... for instance
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in pocket player go to options advanced and search under power. Theres something related to that problem of going to sleep... (if can't find say again and I will see, can't do it now)
s2p is good but the author left its developmnt in favor of only s2u2. it lacks somethings important - can't bind buttons and doens't work landscape... for instance
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Nevermind ... I wouldn´t use it anyway. And it has some problems with the 6.5.5 Button-Bar, at least the version I once had.
I don´t use landscape on my phone, but for what you want to bind buttons? Switching songs? I do this with my BT-Headset, so it´s enough for me. The only thing I miss is the album scrolling from the earlier releases, but from time to time there are updates for S2P - so I haven´t stop hoping it will come back some day
I was wondering which music player app would be the best for battery life! Winamp, from my experience, is an avid power eater, and I'm not sure about PowerAmp :/
So, any feedback/experience from other players that you might want to share?
8 to 10% per hour on mp3 is typical, more for aac.
Use stock player. As khaytsus said, 8-10% in a hour is pretty normal!
any battery usage trade off i make with poweramp is 100% worth it to me. that app (pro version) led me to sell my ipod, and just buy a bigger sd card for my phone.
Mixzing Media Player is the best!
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any battery usage trade off i make with poweramp is 100% worth it to me. that app (pro version) led me to sell my ipod, and just buy a bigger sd card for my phone.
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Woah that is serious ah! =)
Download Osmonitor from the market & check how much % of the cpu is being used.
For the desire HD, the stock music app actually uses less than 5%, while songbird was using 20-30%.
@Soulofkorea: It's the ugliest!
But yeah, PowerAmp = Nice polished UI, EQ and overall awesome!
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The quality of my life would be greatly reduced if I did not have nostrils.
Music apps that require network access (to DL album art, lyrics, etc.) will use more battery and data. So either turn these features off or use a player without those.
I routinely use poweramp and have not noticed it being a battery hog with wired headphones or bluetooth.
hmm.. winamp? drains less power 1 hour = 5%
If only Winamp has EQ.
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I think what you're looking for is this player: (deleted)
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Minimalistic players use the same codecs everyone else uses, with very few exceptions, and in general it's the codec decoding which uses CPU and therefore battery.
Otherwise, as mentioned, downloading album art or scrobbling will use more as well, but generally can be disabled.
So basically, in your experience, most players consume the same power, as long as their network options are disabled?
Thanks for the quick replies
I am looking for a music player with a good graphical equalizer. I have yet to find one that works without flaws...
(Running MIUI ROM on an Inspire 4G)
MIUI stock music player:
Sounds good, equalizer is satisfactory, but you can't tell it what folder to pull music from. It just reads the whole phone. It has a setting that you specify minimum file size for, but that's crap. Should be able to just tell it where to find music and only load that music... It also skips/cuts off etc A LOT!
PlayerPro:
This player has a really crappy equalizer. The only positive I can think of about this app is the ability to use SRS enhancement in HTC phones that have it. This one skips/cuts out music more than any other app I have tried. No matter what happens, screen turns off, like 5-20 rapid cutouts. Quality of playback is poor. Accessing certain features are a pain and needs to be able to be accessed from Menu button while in the player, not just the main screen. But the cutouts for anything happening to the phone, browsing for the next song, volume up/down. Minimizing, screen on off. Huge/a lot of cutouts in playback.
PowerAMP:
This was probably one of the better apps. Great equalizer, very direct navigation to whatever you need. But this player also suffers from the cutouts when locking/unlocking or interacting with the phone. This app does have that Buffer setting, but even set to huge (725ms) it still suffers from these cutouts. And the update that came out today.. well that just screwed it up even more...
UberMusic:
Smooth, looks pretty, can tell it's a complete rip from Zune so I know how to navigate it at least. Cutouts while navigating the phone weren't nearly as bad, or didn't happen. The problem with this app is that it doens't have an equalizer. I googled, and found out that Fede (many may know him from that scam app LPP) promised to implement an equalizer. That same dev also promised a re-write of LPP be the end of 2010 and look where LPP is at.. completely abandoned for this music app. With that history I won't buy his music app until the equalizer is implemented. But based on what he's shown with LPP I don't see that happening for 932750923 years.
WinAmp:
Loved it on my computers since middle school... But for the phone, the cut-outs are almost as bad as PlayerPro, and it also has a pretty crappy equalizer.
Anybody else know of a good/smooth music app, with no cutouts in music playback and a good equalizer?
Thanks!
What do you mean by cut out, I use pamp and really smooth no problem whatsoever
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Music playback like stops/freezes whenever the screen turns off, or on, or when I unlock, or when I hit menu, or when I hit any button on the phone. If I OPEN something, like browser, it chops like crazy.
It's Depend on your phone & rom. I normally use power amp & never have the problems you mentioned. It never cut out except when receiving incoming sms or call receieved.
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Try double twist. If you like it i'd highly advise buying to unlock all features.
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Same problem with double-twist. Didn't even bother to check for an equalizer...
I guess the problem is with MIUI. Figured after years they'd at least have it compatible with music players that millions of people use..
Never have problems with PowerAmp here, either. Could the cutouts maybe be an issue outside of PowerAmp, like your memory card perhaps, considering that it looks like every app you use has them?
Probably a Rom issue, I have no such issues with either playerpro or poweramp
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GTIVRon said:
Same problem with double-twist. Didn't even bother to check for an equalizer...
I guess the problem is with MIUI. Figured after years they'd at least have it compatible with music players that millions of people use..
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I had a similar problem a few phones back with HTC Hero and Desire. I had it underclocked on screen-off and an app-killer killing on screen off/memory killer. Both caused the music to "jump around" and/or kill the music. Underclocking sounds the more obvious issue here.
If not using either, make sure your SD card is class 4 or higher.
Poweramp had never failed me before, but now using google music on CM7 with DSP manager for the GMusic streaming...
Swyped from the past.
Discard this..
Google Music 4.0 with DSP Manager
I am using PowerAmp for an entire year and dont remember having a single cutout. You probably have a problem in your rom.
Yea I believe it might be a ROM issue, others in the ROM thread confirmed they also have this problem. I'm using the SD card that came with the phone, not sure what class it is...
Thanks for the tips!
ive tried all of the apps you mentioned except poweramp and none of them had "cutouts"
I have recently made the jump to ICS and have been looking for the best Music app for my phone. I have found i really like the CM9 music app minus a couple reasons, One being when i select an artist there is no way by default for it to show all the songs, Instead, i have to select the artist THEN the album its in, the problem with that is almost all my music has wrong/no album data at all leaving my music hard to find while browsing artist which to me is the best way to browse my music. Secondly, the app is slow. its always freezing up on me and is sometimes unusable. this may be the rom im running (Hypernonsense) but i doubt it could be when everything runs just fine. Please let me know if anyone else is having this problem, thanks.
poweramp is the best music app in the market but i actually use the htc stock one which has Beats audio and using cm9 that has never happened to me
Well considering you fall for the beats audio gimmick your mp3/music app opinion is invalid.
i also said that when i tried cm9 i have never had any freezing or slow scrolling
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Well considering you fall for the beats audio gimmick your mp3/music app opinion is invalid.
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Harsh. Beats isn't a gimmick, per se. It's just a dressed up bass equalizer. I like it, but I know it's no better than my old Sansa's bass EQ.
I've noticed that it gets really slow too. Especially when it has finished playing an album. It'll get really slow and it's really annoying when you want to scroll for something else. Bizarre little bug. I've not moved back to any other player though. It's still my favourite.
cm9 music app blows. constantly freezes if you try skipping 2 songs fast it freezes. thing sucks if you actually use it daily rather than just tried it out once or twice
I've been using it as a daily driver for two weeks. No issues.
CM9 Music player is only sluggish for me when it's playing music.
The alternative I use is PowerAmp. It's great. Go get it~
I had the same problems - fine at first but unusable after a few songs. I was never able to find a solution.
Out of all the music players I've tried (Google Music, CM9, and the HTC one) I actually like the HTC player the best. It just seems better organized and the playlist management works much better IMO.