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[POLL] Which music player are you using?

As a follow up to this thread, let's determine the most popular music player.

Lithium the best

MediaScape not included in the list.

Thread moved to D&H Android General.

Sadly, I think the stock player is the best one yet. The volume rocker and trackball controls are a nice feature. Plus, it just looks nice having the album art as a black and white background while selecting a song.
I have tried several of the more popular players and found them to be fairly ugly and plain.
I remember reading somewhere that most media players dont even have their own audio support, they just use the default/built in audio engine of the regular player anyway...

Stock is working best and with the device controls for me right now.

Subsonic ..... It allows me to have all my music without trying to fit it on my phone
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Streamfurious, as I don't really use local mp3s.

Stock music player is so primitive it cannot be the best. Maybe most popular if it's good enough for many people, but I think some other players in this poll are better.

chaostic_2k1 said:
Streamfurious, as I don't really use local mp3s.
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There are many competing streaming music apps (btw Rdio opened to public today). Should make a separate poll for them.

MortPlayer
I've used MixZing, MusicMod, doubleTwist and Meridian

So the conclusion is ... inconclusive. The stock music player seems to be bad enough so that people are trying out other players, but there are no clear winner among non-stock players yet.

Default stock Sense music player is best to me.

I personally prefer RealPlayer. Currently it's in the Market in Beta stage. But it's incredibly clean looking, and easy to use. Plus, I don't have to put my music, video, or pictures in set locations on the SDCard. I can put everything where I want without loss of speed.

I like the stock player on my Captivate.. but for me it lacks lockscreen control and scrobbling. I have been trying other free ones that fit my needs, and may settle on 3 (cubed) for awhile.
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Id personaly love to see winamp, been using it for years and think its great.

HTC Stock because I don't really listen to mp3s on the phone (ipod), Retro Radio for streams

best mp3 program ?

Just wondering what the best mp3 and flac player for android is. Preferably free.

PowerAmp hands down. Plays mp3 and flac better than freaking VLC/Audacity (maybe) on the computer.
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Best Mp3
1. Double-twist will allow you to upload and sync with you android phone/tablet and is a great music manger/player with a great ui and look
2. Winamp is great and one of best in that it is extremely easy to understand and use, just dump the music files in a folder on your sd card and it will find them.
there are tons of music apps out there try them and see what works for you!!!!

frub3nz said:
PowerAmp hands down. Plays mp3 and flac better than freaking VLC/Audacity (maybe) on the computer.
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I agree with frub3nz, it's by far the best, even better than WinAMP. Only two bad things about it, it is a little quieter compared to WinAMP, and it only lasts 15 days as a trial version. Other than that though it's awesome.

Poweramp. It's worth it
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Poweramp! It plays FLAC!! Can't go wrong.

is there any other mp3 players other than poweramp that show lyrics?

yken said:
is there any other mp3 players other than poweramp that show lyrics?
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MIUI music player!

power amp cost me the best 3euros i've ever spent, it's just a fantastic player.

I really like PlayerPro. It has a much cleaner UI with the same features as PowerAmp, including the equalizer, lyrics, album art, etc. and it's only 5 bucks.
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Another vote for PowerAMP. If you take the time to set up the equalizer and pre-amp correctly, you won't believe the sound quality. Worth spending money on.

Nothing can touch Poweramp. Best on android.
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I've been using Songbird... its not the greatest, but the scrubber works while WinAmps doesn't. If you want something that just plays music, it works. Next week I may be using another music app though, I go through them often. Haha
I've yet to find any music app that matches iOS though, sadly. Android really lacks in audiobook and podcast support.
I don't need any of the other bulks apps give, like sync. I've put all of that on Amazon now, so why do I need a sync program anymore?
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PowerAmp by a mile IMHO and it's excellent through Bluetooth stereo.

Another Vote for Poweramp...hands down the best music app for android

I've been using instinctiv, simple ui, detects music on sd card and fast.
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Mortplayer is excellent and allows to play folders (nice for those who hate tags and arrange their albums in folders). It also displays lyrics through an add-on.
It is free and it is an excellent application. (I had it since windows mobile!)

Will miui music app work on oxygen rom on htc desire ?

poweramp....duh?
like many others my upvote is for poweramp just bought it today really is the best

I like PlayerPro... has a lot of functionality including an excellent EQ and personally I prefer the look and feel of it compared to poweramp..
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best music player?

I like Google music but the recent 4g outages have left me high and dry when I wanted to listen to my streaming collection. What is a good alternative to Google music that will give some control at lock screen. And/or can streaming be disabled on Google music and all content stored locally?

In google music, you can make albums available offline but that assumes you do it before verizon goes down again ;-)
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I love UberMusic, it looks awesome with the Metro UI.

I like to use songbird, but that's probably because I like to use songbird on my desktop. There are better music players out there
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I use MIUI's music player. It's nice!

Google Music with Equilizer app works great for me
Before that PowerAMP was great

Also using stock MIUI player... don't need anything else!

Depends on how you plan on your preference of listening to music. Google Music is great because it stores your songs on the cloud, so there's no need to store the mp3 on your phone. Spotify & Pandora are obviously great as far as streaming goes. As far as music players the Stock MIUI is really nice. Though the Sony Walkman music player is my current favorite due to the simplicity and being able to shake the phone to change songs.

I used winamp for some time, it's excellent because it has support for shoutcast radios... But it uses too much RAM it's a con...

Keep forgetting about google music... I been falling in love with the zune software so smooth and silky.

I second liking UberMusic
It has been one of my favorites.
I've also tried bTunes Music Player and Double Twist.
They all have their pros and cons check them out.
I didn't like Double Twist as much. Felt like I was being charged for every feature a-la-cart

I found Power AMP is best music player...

deepakpatil001 said:
I found Power AMP is best music player...
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The only downside is, that it does not work together with HTC sense lockscreen.
But the equalizer with its precut works a lot better than the one of every other music player i tested including Google musicplayer.

power apm is the best one out there and i found that its working on ics 4.0.3 rc3.1 build with no problems and no duplicates
cheerz

TuneWiki FTW. fricken love this music player.

O player da google que vem com o android 4 esta fantástico e muito bom
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Meridian
I love Meridian myself, it has a nice player interface and lots of good features, with exclusion directories and video support.
I can't link yet but its org.iii.romulus.meridian on the Market.

Still haven't ventured outside of Google music, gonna have to give poweramp a try.

Good music player for Galaxy Note

Hi All,
Apologies if I'm reinventing the wheel here, but I'm looking for a good solid music player app for the Note, as the bundled music hub doesn't cut the mustard with me.
Any ideas? What are you guys using?
Thanks in advance.
Neil
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I am using PlayerPro from BlastOn LLC. Highly recommended.
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Power Amp!! It's amazing how you can hear your old music completely new and improved through your headphones.
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Neutron! The GUI is a bit odd but the sound is excellent. Renders the music in 32 bit.

3
https://market.android.com/details?...sIm9yZy5hYnJhbnRpeC5yb2Nrb24ucm9ja29ubmdnbCJd
this is the one i have been using for almost 2 years now, its perfect! give it a try...

What about battery usage of the app you post?
The stock music player is very efficient when using FM kernel. While biking for 2 hours and listening a mp3 it loses just 6%.

Is one of those apps have music controls in the pulled down notification menu??
I used to have playerpro but it doesn't have those controls, only stock player has them but then the stock player dosen't have a widget!!
Any ideas would be great
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PowerAmp all the way
I use PowerAmp... awesome sound quality!
Have used WinAmp, but sound quality is pretty basic, although it is good otherwise.
PowerAmp doesn't have player controls in the taskbar, but it does have a decent widget. Also, had problems when upgrading to the full version where it corrupted the sd card within Android and had to rebuild it in windows before android would recognise it again. To prevent this found that uninstalling the widget and disabling auto-scan folders before installing the full key helped. No problems since.
Guess the other thing to mention is file transfer. I'm not really fussed on built in file transfer as I just copy and paste my folders to the sd card syncing the phone as an external drive. PowerAmp doesn't have any built in file transfer that I'm aware of, whereas WinAmp has wireless transfer which is supposed to be good.
It's all about music quality for me though and PowerAmp wins by a loong long way in that department.
Happy hunting, hope it helps

Try 3 it has a very cool interface
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Ubermusic is quite good I think

Cloudskipper, hands down

Another vote for poweramp. It's not free, but it's far and away the best - in my opinion of course.

Poweramp - i've tried all others, but poweramp is just full of pure awesomeness

Google music player is by far the best player. Stream all your tracks without taking up space on your memorycard
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Simple,
Powerapp all the way.
I use my phone alot for music(Who doesn't) and have gone through nearly every music player trying to find the best one.
Tried all the free, Then tried all the paid for ones, The best by far is poweramp, Simply because it handles the music so perfectly and the sound quality is superb.
Trust me when i say, You won't regret buying it, Plus you can try out the free version before hand.

Agree with the PowerAmp people. It's just the best!
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ttPod is the best google and YouTube it!!!
I love it
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Another vote for UberMusic

Player Pro is the best.

I use PowerAmp on the Note and MediaMonkey on the PC to convert my CDs to FLAC, which PowerAmp can read. So I get lossless CD quality on it.

a music player 4 me!

hi there! the standard music player loads me all audio files from my card but i dont whant that. on my windows pfone was simple. i had core player. loaded just the folder of music and go! here... i don't know. i gotta make playlists bla bla bla...dont have pacientce to load every song in playlist.
is there a player to be able to do that on android 4 & control the player with the headset. or is any easy way to load just a folder in the standard music player. btw... i have also winamp... same problem
thanks in advance. soryy 4 my english. it's not my native language!
i use the phone to lisen to music while i jogg.

Poweramp lets you choose the music folder you want, make playlists and control from headset, loads of options. Try it free for a while and see how you get on. Also sounds great too!

done! installed winamp pro!
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broucker said:
is seems that u know a lot! still isnt there a way to play from folder in winamp or standard player without the hasle of adding manualy every song and the subfolders? i read that poweramp its not free. i want a "free" app.
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I'm not very sure if ttpod has the folder mode. Give it a try. And yes its free
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Never realised winamp pro was free!

Looking for that time ago. I'll try winamp

MixZing is also a nice music player with eq, playlists, lockscreen, sleep timer... Free version is enough to play music everyday

I prefer vanilla music. I think it's on the play store but I got it from
F-DROID.
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JetAudio Basic (free) is still best (or buy regular what ever)... believe me