Ok i have tried a couple of different music players (^3, winamp, etc) and im trying to find a music player that actually continually plays. Confused? Well for instance when the end of a song features the beginning of the next song they mix, however on android it pauses and goes to the next song having am awkward pause. The ipod series mixes the songs really well just wonderong for any insight
So basically to have both song mix seamlessly instead of be two different songs
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I know what you mean. I haven't looked into it. Winamp, back in c.1995 was the first (I think) to put out this feature via plug-in that lets the next song fade in as the current song fades out. See if Winamp has a plug-in (or preference in the setting) on the Android app for that.
Yeah ive checked and no such option. Haha
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Check out the PowerAmp beta. I dunno if it has that fade in/out feature or not but it's supposedly a pretty kickass player.
Lithium player has that, called a cross fader. It's even adjustable.
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I am looking for an Android player that is pretty simple but i do not see why its so hard to find?
All I want is something that lets me play MP3's.. that does not scan the entire device (ringtones always seem to show up and I dont want them to)
something that kinda roots itself on the SD Card in a folder like "Music"
with a nice home screen
AND
somethign that will resume the next time it's open. for some reason the media player that comes with my Captivate seems to wants me to start all over when i dont use it for 30 min or so..
simple?
thanks for the advise
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PowerAMP. It's in the market, and has a really nice EQ setup in addition to what you're talking about. It's in beta right now.
http://power-amp.info/
thank you, Downloading and testing this now. I will keep you posted on my impression!
There is one in alpha
Try this one. It pulls data in from the music folder and allows for pause, fast forward and rewind. However it is still in alpha...
Meridian player has most of the features you are after such as Folder browsing and resuming Videos. Plus it has decent widget also
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PowerAMP. It's in the market, and has a really nice EQ setup in addition to what you're talking about. It's in beta right now.
http://power-amp.info/
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+1 for Power Amp
Player pro does the folder playing and is very simple, got some nice widget aswell
MortPlayer is another nice light alternative that meets your criteria. There is also a version of MortPlayer specifically for audiobooks that allows you to make bookmarks in your sound files.
I actually use both PowerAMP and MortPlayer: PowerAMP for general music listening and it's very pretty UI, and MortPlayer for listening to long recordings of lectures so that I can consistently come back to where I left off.
Hi all, I am looking for a music app that's easy on battery.
Criteria: Must work without media scanner
I have disabled media scanner, so literally all music apps I got from market can't seem to pick up my audio files. One works -- Music Folder Player Donate. I am looking for something like it, that reads based on folders, or scans music internally, rather than relying on media scanner.
This app is all nice, but it is missing navigation controls in notification dropdown. I am looking for a music app that would provide me these controls too. I am not too particular on lock screen music controls.
Have you tried PlayerPro?
How about mort player, has a nice widget too. I personally use power amp. But i feel mort is just as good. And free.
I would first like to try a free one, n then can upgrade. And then it should be easy on battery too.
Edit: Mort is packed with so many features for a free app!!!
The trick is that you need to check if the player supports GAPLESS playback. Most do *not*. So any live stuff, albums that blend songs together (Pink Floyd is notorious for this) will get a nice annoying pause in between songs that was never intended to be there. Even if some claim they are gapless they in practice are not (believe nothing, test everything). The app needs to actually trim any small dead spot at the end or you will get a click or pop at the end of songs.
The only player I found that does this successfully is Power Amp but there could be others, I just haven't found them yet.
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The trick is that you need to check if the player supports GAPLESS playback. Most do *not*. So any live stuff, albums that blend songs together (Pink Floyd is notorious for this) will get a nice annoying pause in between songs that was never intended to be there. Even if some claim they are gapless they in practice are not (believe nothing, test everything). The app needs to actually trim any small dead spot at the end or you will get a click or pop at the end of songs.
The only player I found that does this successfully is Power Amp but there could be others, I just haven't found them yet.
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My main criteria is low processor usage when to maximize battery.
Mort is good. Of the time I had the player on and screen off, it was on 200 for about 90% of time. CPU foreground was only 14s for about 47 mins of usage.
So just updated to the newest version of this excellent music player, ive noticed that they have added a beats effect option, ive used this and have to say that along with all the rest of the audio configurability it seems to me that having HTC Beats is not really worth it anymore, has anybody else tested this and what are thoughts on it. thanks for listening
I keep trying to switch to PowerAmp, but whenever I screw with the EQ settings, it just gets washed out. At least with the stock Beats, I just turn it on and it sounds pretty good, at least to me. I'm not an audiophile, but I like my music to sound a certain way.
Poweramp is great, kind of worth the 5 dollars. I don't like the "now playing" structure though. Last I tried it, I would begin at the now playing screen, have to go to the library/folder pane, hold the playlist until a context menu comes up, add my playlist to the que, then go back to now playing. Not sure if it's better now, but I prefer the HTC Music player or the CM9 Music player - which is still beta.
In Poweramp, now playing list (queue) is purely optional as Poweramp just directly plays any list. To play playlist, you go into that playlist and hit any song in it (or do that via long press/context popups).
Since MaxMP is here - I'm trying to select the ICS lockscreen controls on build 483 on my Sensation, and for some reason all I'm seeing is the normal lockscreen but the background is completely black instead of the normal background. No audio controls or anything.
Am I doing something wrong?
Running Sense-less ICS with AOSP lockscreen installed and live wallpaper being used.
I've read everywhere about how cool the new Google music update is but I have what I think is a major problem.
I press shuffle and nothing happens. The songs play in regular order of the queue and don't even reshuffle.
Is it just me? Is there some new secret way to do it?
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When you hit the shuffle button, it seems to get all the songs in the current playlist/album/artist/etc and shuffle them up in the queue (finally they implemented a queue system, i was waiting for this). If you untick shuffle after it has created the shuffled queue, it will play in order of the shuffled queue as it would've done anyway - enabling it again will reshuffle all the items in the queue. You can clear it so it plays normally by clearing the queue and playing a song you want to start listening to, and it'll act the same as it did before, but it'll all be in the queue rather than just the next song. They probably should have unshuffled the songs once you untick it though, it does seem a little confusing.
i dont understand
did you mean the shuffle button on the bottom left corner?
my google play music just shuffle it correctly
or maybe you cant try shuffling it after you choose song in "song"tab not artist or album..i always do that when i want to listen all of my music:laugh:
I have another problem. It doesn't play my music. It says "Music playback error". Everything is stock.
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I have another problem. It doesn't play my music. It says "Music playback error". Everything is stock.
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time to download another music player? i recommend winamp
Maybe he/she streams their music? Have you tried clearing data or maybe reinstalling the app?
Yeah, only reason I stick to GMusic is the cloud...UI is pretty slick too.
About the shuffle button, seems waaaaay too complicated. Why can it just shuffle my current queue? Now whenever I go to app, I have to turn off shuffle, clear my queue, start a new queue/playlist and then press shuffle again for it to work. If I happen to play another album for instance, shuffle button in new queue pretty much dies till I clear it.
It's horrid.
Mine is giving me the playback error as well, but only when I'm on data and not wifi. Which is weird because I have it set to only stream via wifi. And it only does this when using another music application(ie Pandora, TuneIn)
I've always been curious, when you "shuffle" your songs, does it truly pick songs at random, or is there some special "algorithm" the app uses to play certain songs? The reason I ask is, it seems like every time I shuffle my songs (which is how I normally listen to music), I always end up hearing the same general pool of songs. I have, like, at least 300 or so songs downloaded to my device for offline playback, but it seems like every time I shuffle, it's mostly the same songs I heard before.
My assumption is that it takes into account how many times tracks have been played, and the more times they've been played, the more likely they are to show up in shuffle. Thus, when I shuffle my songs, it would use generally the same ones, because those are the "most played" due to all the time they come up in the shuffle.
I just wonder, though, is there any way to change this algorithm, or at the very least, reset all the amount of plays my songs have? I thought I remember one time finding a way to reset the number of plays via the Internet browser client of Play Music, but it doesn't seem like that applied to the number of plays on my actual phone, as it didn't affect which songs were coming up in my shuffle.
I've got like same feeling about it. Shuffle all music seems to pick up songs which have higher listen countet than others, so I end up listening same good 'ol songs - mostly