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Lazik - Winamp remote controll with media library access

Hello,
I present you my first application for Android called Lazik/Lazik+!
It's a remote control for Winamp media player compatible with versions 1.6 to 2.2 of Android.
Here are a few screenshots to get an idea of rendering:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Two versions are available, Lazik which is free and supported by ads and Lazik + (1.69 €)
Lazik features:
.playback controls
.playlist
.media library
.search
.display album covers
Lazik+ features:
.no ads
.conection over 3g,edge,...
.fetches missing album covers
.more to come
Possible actions from the madia library have been thought to be as practicable as possible:
- Enqueue at the end of the playlist
- Enqueue just after the current song
- Enqueue just after the current song and play immediately
- Play immediately at the current position in the playlist or at the end of it
To operate Lazik you must install a plugin for Winamp, More information and a tutorial are available at: http://www.bypops.com.
Feel free to comment and report any bugs you might encounter
Lazik :
Lazik+ :

Sweet! This is the best program to control winamp I've come across. It's 99% perfect! (apart from a few grammatical errors )
Works brilliantly on my rooted Desire!

IceBone said:
Sweet! This is the best program to control winamp I've come across. It's 99% perfect! (apart from a few grammatical errors )
Works brilliantly on my rooted Desire!
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Thanks for the comment
About grammatical errors, feel free to send me corrections on the support email address if you are motivated enough. I'm french so my English is not perfect ...

Will do so. In the mean time, the only gripe I have with it is that you can't use the scroll bar to advance a track. In fact, it doesn't move at all. Is that a Lazik+ feature only? Also, sometimes it takes a while for the controls to show when you press the album art.
Well, the only things wrong with the text I've found were in the server management: "Search for servers" would sound nicer. As well as Searching for servers when the app is looking for them.
Keep working on the app, it's awesome, but I have a few suggestions if you don't mind, hehe...
Would be nice if the search would use the standard Android search functionality, as it is, it's kinda odd.
Also the colours are quite ghastly. The design isn't bad, but the colour choice is quite off, if you ask me.
But these are just my suggestions, still your app.

IceBone said:
Will do so. In the mean time, the only gripe I have with it is that you can't use the scroll bar to advance a track. In fact, it doesn't move at all. Is that a Lazik+ feature only? Also, sometimes it takes a while for the controls to show when you press the album art.
Well, the only things wrong with the text I've found were in the server management: "Search for servers" would sound nicer. As well as Searching for servers when the app is looking for them.
Keep working on the app, it's awesome, but I have a few suggestions if you don't mind, hehe...
Would be nice if the search would use the standard Android search functionality, as it is, it's kinda odd.
Also the colours are quite ghastly. The design isn't bad, but the colour choice is quite off, if you ask me.
But these are just my suggestions, still your app.
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The seeking scrollbar should be working, even in the free version. Maybe it's too small for you to be able to drag it. It's size will be changed as some people asked for that.
For the grammatical problems, I'll update it, maybe with your suggestion, or maybe by changing the way it's told.
Concerning the search suggestion, I will consider it but I can't say if I will change it or not. It will depend on how it have to be implemented and if it would prevent some current functionnalities ... The colors have been choosed to integrate in the android UI, because they are colors used in Android. They won't change for the moment as I have some more importants things to implement, but I will try so change them to see what result I can have when I'll have some time to. Maybe it could be a theme option in a future version (but certainly only for Lazik+ users).
By the way I have seen some posts of you on other forums about my App, so I want to thank you for that, since I don't know all good english forums for Android ...

Yeah, no problem, great apps should be shared. As for the design, I REALLY REALLY like the way DoubleTwist is done, it's a real treat to look at.

First of, great great work!
Works really well!
Side note: People please note that you need to have proper firewall settings.
Some things I noticed.
The app found my winamp server, I then flipped open my keyboard to type in my server name (This was on a HTC DREAM: G1) , yet the little window disappeared and went behind the add and search server window.
When installing the plugin, the installer automatically kills winamp. Dunno if its stated somewhere, it didn't bother me though!
Anyways, thanks again! Real nice app!

Works great with my 2.2 Desire!
But... When I start the App, WiFi is enabling itself. I would like to control my Winamp trough my 3G connection.
I'm using a VPN, so the local ip-address is no problem. Also with a portmap in my router it should be possible to use it externally. All you have to do is turn off the automatic WiFi enabler and add support for connections over 3g?
Keep it on!

I love the app, simple and works a treat
here' s a couple of suggestions:
+1 on scrollbar size, it's a bit tricky to use it
would it be possible to add bookmarks support? I have all my radio links there...
I' ll play with it a little bit more an post more

I've been looking for something like this to control music playback on my PC from bed, thanks!

IceBone said:
Yeah, no problem, great apps should be shared. As for the design, I REALLY REALLY like the way DoubleTwist is done, it's a real treat to look at.
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I don't really agree..
Double twist's gradients look bad and it all looks a bit 'cheap'.
There is too much wasted space and no instant easy access button to get back to library or playlist. Stock HTC music app is much more practical and usable, and looks cleaner and more profession.
Judging by the screenshots the design of this app looks great

Well, to each their own. A sort of theme would be nice, yes. Standard for you, a bit different for me.

PieP said:
Works great with my 2.2 Desire!
But... When I start the App, WiFi is enabling itself. I would like to control my Winamp trough my 3G connection.
I'm using a VPN, so the local ip-address is no problem. Also with a portmap in my router it should be possible to use it externally. All you have to do is turn off the automatic WiFi enabler and add support for connections over 3g?
Keep it on!
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I already thinked about this possibility, but judged it would be too hard to use for a simple user without computer skills. Anyway, your post shows me some people would like to use Lazik over 3g. I didn't gave it a try but it should work. Maybe it won't be in the next release but I'll add an option to disable automatic wifi in the future, so that "experimented" users would be able to test it over 3g. The way I thinked it would be not to hard was by using a service like no-ip.com, so that you could use an alias, and not your internet ip. By the way, router configuration will be necessary, but you seem to already know that Send me an email on lazik support so I'll be able to contact you when a version with this option will be available

Gorkytje said:
First of, great great work!
Works really well!
Side note: People please note that you need to have proper firewall settings.
Some things I noticed.
The app found my winamp server, I then flipped open my keyboard to type in my server name (This was on a HTC DREAM: G1) , yet the little window disappeared and went behind the add and search server window.
When installing the plugin, the installer automatically kills winamp. Dunno if its stated somewhere, it didn't bother me though!
Anyways, thanks again! Real nice app!
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Thanks for the comment
The fact that the installer kills Winamp is normal, because Winamp needs to restart in order to see the new plugin.
Concerning the problem you mentionned while entering the server name, I wasn't aware of it since I never had the possibility to try Lazik on a G1 or any device with physical keyboard. I'll try to find why this occurs ... For the moment I advice users to use the virtual keyboard here.

vigin said:
I love the app, simple and works a treat
here' s a couple of suggestions:
+1 on scrollbar size, it's a bit tricky to use it
would it be possible to add bookmarks support? I have all my radio links there...
I' ll play with it a little bit more an post more
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Thanks for the comment
Concerning the bookmarks, I never used them in Winamp but it could be a good thing to add them to Lazik. I can't promise it will be added quickly but it will be added to my todo list for a future version

THIS APP IS AMAZING! It works so unbelievably quick and well its really astonishing. Not quite perfect, but oh so close. (Winamp is also still the best music player in my opinion)
Bugs:
- The seek bar doesn't "seek"/There is no way to seek through a song
- There is no way to remove songs from playlist
Suggestions:
- Make seek and volume bars larger in the 'play screen'
- when you tap on a song on the playlist (or on the play button to the right of the song), a "back, play/pause, next" should hover up at the bottom or top of the playlist to give you more control within the playlist. Also, a seek bar should hover over the playing song. (I realize this would kinda take the place of the playback screen...)
- Alternate suggestion to previous one: Add a 'tap to play' queue to the playback screen.
- long press song in playlist to remove or move. Something similar to the home screen icons where a trash can pops up would be consistent and nice.
Suggestions that I'm not sure are possible:
- In the media library, when you navigate to a song, you should be able to tap it (not on the "+") to play the song, but NOT add it to your playlist. (should have similar hovering controls as in the playlist but of course no next/back cuz its not a playlist, its your media library)
- A way to save the playlist to the phone or to the computer
- A way to transfer song to phone or download all playlist songs to phone
- A way to stream music to the phone exclusively or at the same time as the computer
- Be able to 'screen' a song on your playlist from your phone WITHOUT having it play back on the computer (this builds upon the previous suggestion)
- Have the streaming music to the phone perfectly in sync with computer (Mac's Airport does this as well as a PC application called "Airfoil")
The last two suggestions would be absolutely invaluable to this app as it would CLEARLY distinguish the app from anything of the like. They would also be an incredible asset in a light DJish environment. Not to mention the phone would basically turn into a wireless speaker access point which I would gladly pay cash monies for if it worked as excellently as the app currently does.
Ridiculous Suggestions:
- Since you're already installing a plugin, add a simple VPN client built into the application so that you can access your music from your computer and play the music over the phone. (this builds upon the previous suggestions)
- Link multiple computers on the network using Winamp and send songs to be played on different computers (I don't even know what I would do with that function)
- A way to play songs from the phone, on the computer in the same synced/exclusive manner
- Ummm, don't hit me, but, video playback support?
Many of these suggestions require the app to have a full music player within the app which just might be FAR outside the scope of a "controller app". I personally don't like DoubleTwist at all, but I could see the majority of these suggestions (if possible) being rolled into the DoubleTwist app.
Ultimately I believe the implementation of the majority of my suggestions are limited by the audience. Unless this app becomes like a renowned/feature app on Android, I couldn't see anyone expending that much energy developing it...
Excellent app! AMAZING job! Thank you VERY much! Keep up the exemplary work!

Just bought your app. Works very well, but I've got one bug to tell you:
When I create a playlist in Winamp and select a track via your app, it doesn't show the cover on my device (HTC Desire with 2.2). In Winamp the cover is shown properly. I tried it with several mp3s, so I don't think it is a problem of a specific mp3.
I just tried to find the problem and I think it is a problem concerning the media database. All mp3s included in the main- and subdirectories are display with cover. But sometimes you wanna listen to the mp3 before archiving them. They are stored temporarily on my Desktop, but not on my media drive.
Would be very nice if you are able to include cover support for this setting (mp3 which are not in the database) as well.
Another 'bug': When Playing a track of your playlist and removing it while playing in Winamp, the main view of your app switches to the next song, but Winamp continues to play the song you just removed (which is a feature). Would be better if the plugin updates the current song after the song has finished to play.
Just found another small bug: When you search in your media library the searchbar at the bottom covers the last entry of your search results.
added on 28.08.: isn't it possible zu merge all tracks of one album together? Now all tracks of each album are show seperatly, even when i search for an album explicitly.

Nice work Mr.
I have a suggestion that might be doable.. Can you hook into the fact that a phone call is coming in and have it pause the music during the phone call? Might also be nice to have it as an option.. also to have it so u have to manually press play again so u don't get blasted as soon as you hang up the phone.

Really excited about this app. A lot of positive reactions. And indeed there hasn't been a proper winamp remote app on the market. But finally here it is!
But i have the following problem on a Windows XP sp3 installation at work:
I can't find the server and cannot connect to the IP adress the server should be running. Also, I'm not sure the server is installing like it should. Because I can't find the plugin in Winamp's plugins list. (Anyone know what it is called?)
Furthermore i'd like to add that Winamp had an iTunes plugin installed, but it did not have iTunes installed. So it would promt that it needed iTunes installed in order to use that plugin. Maybe this could mess things up? I'm just guessing.
The Windows firewall is turned off, but I do have Norton AV 2008 running. I couldn't find any settings for port managing so i thought Norton leaves this alone.
I tried turning the Windows firewall on and make an exception on port 5976, but no luck.
I'll try it in a few minutes at home on a Windows 7 64 bit box. (Without the iTunes plugin.)
But does anyone have some suggestions on how to get it to work at the bar I work in.
Regards,
DaanJordaan
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Works fine at home! Really cool app!

Great app.
Working on Magic 2.2
and on Hero 2.2
A lock screen widget/controlls could be cool

I'm looking for beta testers for my first app: Rock Anywhere

I've created a simple application called: Rock Anywhere. The application allows you to control your music player from ANYWHERE on your phone. It doesn't matter if you are browsing the internet, reading an ebook, or playing Angry Birds, you can literally change the track from anywhere on your phone.
This is accomplished by launching the application 1 of 3 ways:
From the notification pane
trigger off of the volume rocker
Long pressing the search button
You can disable the first two options in the app. To disable the 3rd simply select a different default application. Whenever the application is triggered a dialog pops up that tells you the current song and presents controls allowing you to jump forwards or backwards.
I've also added what I'm calling a super button to the dialog. The super button is a quick shortcut to many different things. you can use it to compose an SMS, send an email, open your browser, or initiate a voice search. (I plan on expanding this list soon).
So far I only support 3 media players:
Stock Android
HTC Sense
^3 (cubed)
I'd really like to be able to support all of the different media players I even contacted the developers of all the major media players asking for help to integrate players controls for their app into mine. Most of them have told me to screw off.
Here are a few screenshots:
http://imgur.com/o0LEG
http://imgur.com/NXlsd
http://imgur.com/fJ322
You can download a beta version from here. It will only be available for a few days. This does not have ads although it has a place holder for where ads will go. I'm planning on releasing a Ad based and free version.
A few phones don't support the search long press, this is a problem with their stock ROMs, phones that I know don't work are:
Droid X
MyTouch 4g

Nice.. I'll give it a shot, sounds cool!

Neither of the 3 players in the presets are installed, as i use power amp i cant and wont use this appication. Installing on my x10 went well though.
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Real nice. Great idea and done Rele well. Would use it but I'm using winamp but I'm going to be keeping an eye on this.
Good work
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neurostu said:
Most of them have told me to screw off.
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oh i bet they are using android because its open source , good for them , good for them .
keep up the good work dude , dont give a damn about people like them !

PollPixx said:
Neither of the 3 players in the presets are installed, as i use power amp i cant and wont use this appication. Installing on my x10 went well though.
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nailmind said:
Real nice. Great idea and done Rele well. Would use it but I'm using winamp but I'm going to be keeping an eye on this.
Good work
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I contacted PowerAmp and WinAmp about being able to support their players and PowerAmp told me that maybe in their next version they'll open up and let 3rd parties control their player. I never heard back from winamp.

Very nice. Works with MusicMod by Elliot Stocker too. How about MIUI? Did you talk to them? What do you think the final version would cost? I don't mind ads but it kind of bugged me in this app for some reason.

I haven't tried it on any non-stock roms so I'm glad to hear it works under MusicMod. I've actually released a Pro and Free version in the market. The pro version $1.00 and the free is free.

neurostu said:
I haven't tried it on any non-stock roms so I'm glad to hear it works under MusicMod. I've actually released a Pro and Free version in the market. The pro version $1.00 and the free is free.
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It's worth a buck for any one who is using one of the supported players.
MusicMod is stock on CM based roms so you've got hell of user base covered already. I'll be watching this... hoping for MIUI support, shouldn't be too hard - it's based on stock I want to say.

try to contact the guy that made this:
http://www.androidtapp.com/meridian-player/
i know that there are alot of users to this player.

[REQUEST] App to keep track of TV shows you are watching

Hello guys!
I've been looking for an app that will help me keep track of the tv shows I'm watching... When the next episode is due on, what episodes i've already seen and an episode guide of the episodes so far.
I haven't been able to find one so far... Do any of you have any suggestions??
Thanks you

Dario777 said:
Hello guys!
I've been looking for an app that will help me keep track of the tv shows I'm watching... When the next episode is due on, what episodes i've already seen and an episode guide of the episodes so far.
I haven't been able to find one so far... Do any of you have any suggestions??
Thanks you
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I use this http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.tvshowfavs
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I love TV Show Favs as well. It is the best app of its kind that I have seen on either the Android or the iOS market. I love how it syncs all your favorites to "the cloud". The widget is great as well. I'm not that interested in keeping track of what I've already seen, but this will even do that as well. I also love that it tells me when one of my favorites has been canceled or is "on the bubble", but do wish it had better options to alert me for season/series premiers. Ones that I have tried that do that though what to totally fill up my Google Calendar with so many cable repeats and such that I had to delete it and spend a lot of time cleaning up my calendar.

http://www.sidereel.com/topic/android

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.battlelancer.seriesguide&hl=en
or even better...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tvshowfavs&hl=en

I really miss ios's Tv Forecast , it was super fast and looked good. when i moved over to android i found and been using this one called Tv Shows
https://market.android.com/details?...result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS50dnNob3dzIl0
I paid for the paid one and over the last yr it seems like he stop supporting the app , it misses shows and is extremely slow at updating, but it works.

jietzer said:
I really miss ios's Tv Forecast , it was super fast and looked good. when i moved over to android i found and been using this one called Tv Shows
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That is what I used on the iPhone as well. Really liked it. But I had issues where I'd have to totally set it up from scratch on a number of occasions. It's a real pain when you had as many favorite shows as I did.

djeaton said:
That is what I used on the iPhone as well. Really liked it. But I had issues where I'd have to totally set it up from scratch on a number of occasions. It's a real pain when you had as many favorite shows as I did.
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oh ya me too, Atleast on Tv Shows it allows me to backup and restore.

What I do expect from Apollo (or a CM9 integrated music app)

Hi all,
I'm writing this because I really don't understand what's is the point with Apollo.
It seems that the developer was copying things from Play Music and trying to make an app from scratch.
But, it totally lacks features and doesn't address any previous shorcomings:
No Various Artists grouping
No Replay Gain
No settings at all
No album arts stored in the files/folders
Albums downloaded are bad resolution and not able to change them
Not so smooth interface
No folder selection to play music from
Unstable (Sometimes it just stopped playing)
Seems somewhat heavier that Play Music
And on top of this.. it is integrated in CM9 and with version 1.00. Then, voodoo sound doesn't get integrated. Not only that, but there is a plan to charge for "premium" features, like what? Change the album art or pick it from the files itself??
I'm happy with CM9 as they are adding features and addressing issues, but this Apollo is annoying.
Really.. Am I missing something?
I don't know, I think that Play Music is so much better than this one.

damianmb said:
Hi all
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Really.. Am I missing something?
I don't know, I think that Play Music is so much better than this one.
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You're missing the fact that Apollo is still a work in progress.
I'm using Apollo over PowerAmp Pro because the DSPManager from CM9 is incompatible with the latter (in my case, at least).
Trimis de pe Defy CM9

I think the biggest problem with Apollo (and all other 3rd party music apps) is that it isn't able to integrate with my Play Music library. This is of course a failure on Google's part for not providing an official API.
I've been moving toward uploading more and more of my library to Play Music so that I don't have to carry so much around on my external SD card, opening up more space for storing videos, pictures, etc. Eventually Apollo isn't going to have much to work with...

Well, not everyone has unlimited data plans and not all areas have good coverage. Also, I like to keep my data locally (at least important or large stuff).
Trimis de pe Defy CM9

vap_66 said:
Well, not everyone has unlimited data plans and not all areas have good coverage. Also, I like to keep my data locally (at least important or large stuff).
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I understand that. I certainly don't have an unlimited plan or the greatest coverage 24/7 either. But you can sync stuff from your Play Music library to your phone while on WiFi for offline playing, so you can kind of have it both ways.
And I guess that means you could potentially sync your Google music and then play it through Apollo. (Assuming Google syncs them as normal mp3 files and not some weird encrypted DRM format.) But it's still annoying to need multiple apps installed.

4. No album arts stored in the files/folders
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Yep, that's retarded. I love the artist photo dowload, but why not use the album art that is already there (either inside the MP3 or in the folder) instead of downloading a craptastic low res image? I hope that's not supposed to be a future premium feature (I can only think it will, since using a local picture seems easier to implement than downloading it).
Also, no AlbumArtist/Band support, it seems. I have compilations and OSTs and they appear spread in the Artist tab, instead of appearing once under "Various" or "<Name of the film>"
I was removing Music.apk and replacing it with PlayMusic.apk before flashing. Will do the same with Apollo.apk for now.
(edit) Reading the author's google+ comments:
Settings are supposed to be that way. You don't need as many as you did in previous versions, but I will be including more in the Play Store version. One of which is a different way to set album art and such
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it seems local album art will be reserved for paying users, although most people there are asking for this feature. Goodbye Apollo, then; going back to Google player.

Yes, I was using apk replacement a while ago. I really wanted to download flash but I guess I will have to use PC, edit and then flash.
What I would really like to know is how difficult is to implement Replay Gain that is around for a while.

I can't stand how Apollo won't use the album art that comes with the songs. If it already has album art it'll still show the "Apollo - Illuminate Your Music" art since it can't find it online...even though I already have it.
It's stressing. And the art it does find is so grainy and low quality.

My biggest gripe is that Apollo doesn't use the equalizer. I just flash the old original cm9 music whenever a new build comes out. Even though it's kind of cpu heavy.

I simply can't understand why such an app can make it's way to cyanogenmod...
It has no settings at all, you aren't asked if you want to download covers or use those in the music files, the app simply starts downloading.
This is not the way a cyanogenmod app should be or behave!
I tried the January version of Apollo... well there are the missing settings but the rest of the old version is really slow and often not responding.
So I switched back to the old cm9 music app.. it is a nice feature of ICS that you can deactivate system apps ;-)

i expected it to be on the market by now

I guess one can freeze the app and use something else but I liked it for what it offers. It still seems there is much work to do. It works with DSP. That is nice. Downloads artist pics, but when you click on them, you get a FB's timeline type, rectangular frame where you can't really see the pic. Add some settings, and include a dark theme, don't let us download it.

keksberg said:
I simply can't understand why such an app can make it's way to cyanogenmod...
It has no settings at all, you aren't asked if you want to download covers or use those in the music files, the app simply starts downloading.
This is not the way a cyanogenmod app should be or behave!
I tried the January version of Apollo... well there are the missing settings but the rest of the old version is really slow and often not responding.
So I switched back to the old cm9 music app.. it is a nice feature of ICS that you can deactivate system apps ;-)
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Same feeling here, rest of CM is working really nice. Also battery is nice, I can get 1 day with normal usage.

It's in the market from today, 5.31. Description is lacking imo. Cost: 4.64. No free version listed in developer's other app section. Weird thing:i downloaded app from web and market showed as the app already installed. If true that it's the exact same app as the 5.21 release, it's definitely not worth the price at this point. Imo. Also, imo, based on developer's track record, I'm not sure how quick updates will be.
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rnrstar said:
It's in the market from today, 5.31. Description is lacking imo. Cost: 4.64. No free version listed in developer's other app section. Weird thing:i downloaded app from web and market showed as the app already installed. If true that it's the exact same app as the 5.21 release, it's definitely not worth the price at this point. Imo. Also, imo, based on developer's track record, I'm not sure how quick updates will be.
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The dev said it would be 2.3+ compatible. Could you send me the link to the app on Play Store? I can't find it
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Hi,i think someone might've been trying to steal the dev's work. Was wondering this after my first post as there was no communication from Dev's site today. i can't find the app in the market now either. maybe Google took it down.someone did link to it on dev's g+ page in the comments section today. But someone there also suggested the app was probably not official. Sorry for the confusion. I'm just as curious as the next person to see what the official app looks like, hence my 1st post.
Edit: just checked link on Dev's g+ page and link still is live. The app in the mkt is listed under the developer name: living water. another issue is the mkt icon is not the Dev's official icon which should've been a red flag for me. sorry again.
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I cant seem to find it in the market

Anyone have news about the Market version? He said almost 2 weeks ago that it would be on Play Store in a couple of days, and nothing until now...
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i don't know how long the play store upload process takes but for some reason this taking so long doesn't surprise me; might be awhile longer (but i hope not). If u catch comments in Dev's g+ page, he has been absent since like the day he posted on 5.21. Some communication might be good from him
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Where can I submit a request for the app?
One feature that I would really love is being able to listen to music by folder. It seems to have everything else but this. EG Artist, album, genre, etc.
I store my workout music in a workout folder and I would like to be able to just select that.
I know I could create a playlist for each folder but then I need to update it all the time.
PLEASE ADD FOLDER PLAY OPTION.

[UPDATE] Kugou Music Translation - Netease alternative

[UPDATE MARCH 2015]
So after another 3 month without Netease, there's some news.
Kugo and Kuwo really anoyed my, because of their bad streaming/downloading speed, as well because of the bad translation (which of course, I'm responsible for).
But guys, don't despair! There's a great alternative, available right here on xda
"Huawei Music Player" / "EMUI Music Player" is a great chinese service, even though fully in english! It allows you to stream songs for free and download them to MP3 (192kb/s).
If you manage to get a working Huawei ID, you can also use 320kb/s download as well as personal playlists and radios. Wasn't able to do that, since, quote: "This service is not available in your region".
So to get it, just google search "huawei music player apk" and take the xda result (still can't post links, sorry).
Have fun and happy easter
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So, I finally got a working alternative for Netease CloudMusic: Kugou Music
It is NOT blocked at this time (15/12/2015) and the translation should work.
Translated APK will come soon, but I have some problems compiling, so you need to use the Xposed Module AndroTraductor and download the archive I created (h t t p://www8.zippyshare.com/v/lUZCXxXv/file.html) [Sorry, can't link websites right now, just delete spaces to http].
Also make sure to download the official app from the Playstore (search for "Kugou" and install the first result)
Extract the dv_translate directory to the root of your SD card and restart.
I DIDN'T test it for too long, so please comment your result :)
Keep in mind, that the translation is very bad, but I'll improve it in the future!
Hi guys, this is my first thread and english isn't my native language, so sorry. I hope this is the right section for that topic.
I guess there are a lot of people who are as sad as me about Netease blocking of foreign listerners.
At first, only the translated app was blocked by using an MD5 sum check, a pretty pitiful act in my opinion.
But now, they block EVERY CONNECTION from outside China mainland, which results in most of Western pop songs unplayable (they will be greyed out and a ">_<"-message pops up). So I was looking for some alternatives.
UPDATE: So after some more testing, I settled on translating the Kugou Music Player, since it serves the user better download performance. I'll update the thread eventually.
The user [user=4738691]@bloodvayne[/user] brought my attention the the Spotify Mega Mod, which you can find on onhax.com. It gives you unlimited songs without ads, but some users (Android 6) experience lots of crashes. Even while it doesn't allow you to download MP3, it obviously is HIGHLY ILLEGAL and I advice you to *NOT* use it.
Well, the most legal way would be using [B]Spotify or getting the 3 free premium months of Apple Music[/B] (the app just got released for android).
But I even if you pay for their Premium plan, you will notice that you don't get the same functionality. Primarily, the download as MP3 function will be missed.
So I searched and found some alternatives, which give you allmost the same functionality as Neteasy CloudMusic and, who would have thought, all 3 of them are based in China as well.
So first, we have [B]QQMusic[/B], which isn't really that new and if you are able to create an account, you will get the best streaming quality and speed. But that's also a downside. As I said, you WILL HAVE TO create an account with QQ International to use it, and for me in particular, it didn't work. If you want to try it, ( h t t p://reg.imqq.com/) here you go and please leave a comment on wether it worked or not.
So, if you got an account, you just search the PlayStore for QQMusic and install the first app that pops up (yes it's chinese). It will prompt you to login and then you should be able to use it. I DIDN'T TEST IT, because of the reasons above.
The next app in the list is [B]Kugou[/B] (or 酷狗音乐播放器), which is basicaly the same as Netease CloudMusic. You CAN open an account to get download HQ, but it is NOT NECESSARY. The app's got a big music library, chinese and western. I personaly get very poor streaming speed, but a friend of mine said, for him it's faster than Netease was.
it saves your MP3 files in /sdcard/kgmusic and is [B]available in PlayStore[/B] ("Kugou").
As my testing shows, it appears to be [B]the best alternative[/B].
The last one I got is [B]Kuwo MusicBox[/B], which is actually the same as Kugou with a little prettier interface. I also have mixed feelings about the streaming speed, so please comment your results. It downloads the MP3s to /sdcard/KuwoMusic .
I am actually trying to translate the whole thing to english, but it's a hard task, since strings.xml got over 1200 lines.

Sad to see Netease Music go down for non-Chinese. Right now I use a modded Spotify version for mobile streaming: to maintain being "logged in" I use a VPN. It gets the job done, the only drawback being unable to download music to my library. Might try some of the apps you mentioned.

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Sad to see Netease Music go down for non-Chinese. Right now I use a modded Spotify version for mobile streaming: to maintain being "logged in" I use a VPN. It gets the job done, the only drawback being unable to download music to my library. Might try some of the apps you mentioned.
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Thanks for the tip, googled a little bit and found Spotify Mega Mod on onhaxcom. It works really good, but as you said, no mp3 download. I don't want to use 2 different apps for listening my music.

I'm in the UK, somehow the tablet version of Kugou is compatible with my Nexus 5 but the phone version isn't.

No idea
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I'm in the UK, somehow the tablet version of Kugou is compatible with my Nexus 5 but the phone version isn't.
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I'm using a Oneplus One in Germany, only tried the Phone version, not the tablet one (HD).
You could get the APK from somewhere on the web, or just wait till tomorrow, I hope I have the translated APK till then.

loader72 said:
I'm using a Oneplus One in Germany, only tried the Phone version, not the tablet one (HD).
You could get the APK from somewhere on the web, or just wait till tomorrow, I hope I have the translated APK till then.
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Yeah, I sideloaded the APK and it seems fine; after all, the target market is where the Play Store isn't allowed so I assume I'll be notified of updates anyway. As well as providing translated APKs will you be uploading the arrays.xml and strings.xml to use with the Xposed module AndroTraductor? That way, if the strings don't change too much between versions we can use newer versions updates without having to compile or wait for a new APK.

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Yeah, I sideloaded the APK and it seems fine; after all, the target market is where the Play Store isn't allowed so I assume I'll be notified of updates anyway. As well as providing translated APKs will you be uploading the arrays.xml and strings.xml to use with the Xposed module AndroTraductor? That way, if the strings don't change too much between versions we can use newer versions updates without having to compile or wait for a new APK.
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Yeah, I'll do that, still working on the arrays.xml. strings.xml is more or less translated, but very poorly. I'll improve it in the future.
AndroTraductor is a nice way, but it isn't compatible with Android 6 and causes bootloop for me.

That's odd, I don't know about Kugou but AndroTraductor works fine for me with Netease and QQ Music on my Nexus 5, stock 6.0.1.

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That's odd, I don't know about Kugou but AndroTraductor works fine for me with Netease and QQ Music on my Nexus 5, stock 6.0.1.
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Okay it works now, maybe it was just the custom rom.
Updated the thread, feel free to test my dv_translate archive

I think I managed to install the beta version of Kugou instead of the stable one. It's now v7.9.10. The layout is affected a little by the English text. It looks like it says
"Ring Tones/
ringtones"
instead of just "Ringtones". And it says "Core Dog Music" instead of Kugou Music in some places. But it's a good start!

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I think I managed to install the beta version of Kugou instead of the stable one. It's now v7.9.10. The layout is affected a little by the English text. It looks like it says
"Ring Tones/
ringtones"
instead of just "Ringtones". And it says "Core Dog Music" instead of Kugou Music in some places. But it's a good start!
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Yeah I noticed that, allready working on it...
After all, it is was translated automatic so didn't expect anything other.

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Yeah I noticed that, allready working on it...
After all, it is was translated automatic so didn't expect anything other.
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No one can really beat NetEase. Kugou has missing pieces tho, and Kuwo, I cant download songs...

I think Kuwo is different from kugou. It has a larger database and doesn't block some songs. For example, one band that has most of these chinese apps is the japanese band "abingdon boys school". They work only on Kuwo, so a translation of Kuwo would be aweome!
I know japanese so navigating the app isn't hard, but i do have some question. How do I stop it downloading songs automatically? and how do I choose the quality when playing the songs?
thanks

your post have been so helpful that i'm using kugou music player as the main music player but recently i've observed that I am getting a force close on scanning for songs can you please help with it. or can you please tell me the procedure how to extract this array and strings files

ashfaqn73 said:
your post have been so helpful that i'm using kugou music player as the main music player but recently i've observed that I am getting a force close on scanning for songs can you please help with it. or can you please tell me the procedure how to extract this array and strings files
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For extracting the apk, you'd have to decompile it. You can do this with an installed android SDK, or better, with one of the available online services (just google search for "apk decompiler online".
How ever, there's a much better alternative now. I am using the official "Huawei Music Player" for about a month now, and it really works great. It's allready in english and supports MP3 DOWNLOAD (however, only 192kb/s). Couldn't get HQ download(320kb/s) or personal playlists ect. to work, since you need an account for it, and Huawei doesn't allow to register outside of China.
You can get it by just google searching "huawei music player apk" (take the xda result), it's not only a great app and music player, but also has great streaming and downloading speed

Thanks for the reply sir and will surely try this app you have suggested