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Low freq. distortion with Sense Music Player

Has anyone noticed low frequency distortion when playing MP3s (and perhaps other audio formats) in the Sense Music Player? It's subtle, but definitely there. It's more noticeable in music with lots of bass. I know it's the Sense Music Player's fault because PowerAMP sounds just fine playing the exact same MP3s. Since SRS WOW can only be enabled in the Sense Music Player, that's the one I want to use. PowerAMP's equalizer, despite what people may say, is garbage. Aside from the low frequency distortion, the Sense Music Player sounds way better than PowerAMP when SRS is enabled.
The distortion I'm talking about doesn't seem to interfere much with the actual music quality. It's just an annoying, low-pitched popping noise that you can hear in the background so to speak. I hear the sound regardless of whether SRS is enabled or not. The equalizer can be on or off too. It's even there when listening to music via Bluetooth A2DP. I have several high quality headphones and the distortion effect is present in all of them.
I've tried several different ROMs and kernels (including the stock) and the issue has been present in all of them. Has anyone had the same experience? To be clear, I'm not looking for advice on what to use besides the Sense Music Player to avoid this issue. I've tried them all and they're all garbage. The Sense Music Player with SRS WOW enabled is the closest thing to my HD2 with the SRS WOW HD software audio driver. The HD2 (running WinMo 6.5.3) sounds better than any portable music player I've ever heard. You have to know what equalizer settings to use in the SRS control panel for the type of music you're listening to, of course. I just want to see if others can confirm my findings. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I find the sense player to be almost worthless, particularly in dock mode. Is suggest go.do.g another player.
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funkybside said:
I find the sense player to be almost worthless, particularly in dock mode. Is suggest go.do.g another player.
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You must not have read my entire post. I specifically said that I'm not looking for someone to recommend using another music player. I am concerned about the sound quality. I know of no other music player that can take advantage of SRS WOW capabilities of this phone. Aside from the distortion I described, the sound quality of the Sense player is better than anything else available.

I have noticed weird pops too when I'm using Pandora
my Tbolt is bone stock

need help with music player

what is the best free music player??

This is a good version of google music. Decent player with nice UI and a working EQ....
http://db.tt/U8QxBpYi
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well, you try MIUI Rom's musip player... It's all of the best you ever seen; Suppport all format. You khow HTC Sense Roms doesn't support some music format: flac, high bit-rate mp3, etc...
Auto download music lyrics, album cover. The best!

i would suggest stock..it has srs!!it does depend on the headphones from which u r listening...i do not use htc`s innovation all the time though!but i really like poweramp!!

I would use
PoweAMP
or
Winamp
Both are even better than HTC stock Music Player and ICS stock Music Player...

neutron music player

forcefreak said:
I would use
PoweAMP
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Winamp
Both are even better than HTC stock Music Player and ICS stock Music Player...
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I agree with that. Winamp got enough options and is quite simple.
If You need more options use PowerAmp.

Smudola said:
I agree with that. Winamp got enough options and is quite simple.
If You need more options use PowerAmp.
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PowerAmp FTW. Definitely. It's just not free.
Well worth the asking price though. Try the trial period out OP and see if you agree.

Personally I'm satisfied with the stock ones from HTC and default CM7. They have great simple, intuitive features already built in.

If you are willing to pay €10 a month, i'd say spotify
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Miui Player is only good on Miui Roms...you wont have lockscreen music controls or LastFM scrobbl in other Roms I'd suggest stock one

I like this one ---> http: //powerampapp.com/

Hello there,
if you're familiar with setting a 10-band equalizer, I would suggest the pro version of winamp (not free but well worth its price, imo). Otherwise sense stock player is ok to me. The best is to try a few with your headphones and see which one you like most!
Cheers

I'm still using mort player. Does everything i need and is free.
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My opinion :
Stock sucks.. it finds mp3's that i dont want to play, and you dont have much settings
Music players that just rock:
For free : Mort Player
Not free : Power Amp (!!!!!)
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because of this topic i went looking for another mp3 player
i'd like to add nrg player to my list of favorite players

i actually like the stock music player, but if you want a player that you can tailor to your own needs in terms of looks then go for player pro, although it is not free i love the skins you can put on it.

Is there a music player with lyrics?

faddys123 said:
Is there a music player with lyrics?
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MIUI music player?
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PlayerPro is great.
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Best android music player

Which music player is the best?
I got Winamp and I really see no difference between Stock and Winamp. Stock actually looks nicer in my opinion.
I have been suggested Player Pro, but it's not free.
Any suggestions?
Also a big thing for me is the ALBUM ART. Both Winamp and stock have LOW quality album art. My pictures are HD quality all the same size, yet they have blur and low quality. Very annoying!

Google music is good
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PlayerPro or TTPod
Try the PlayerPro trial, it's a very good player.
I also like TTPod which includes lyrics display too.
For lyrics compatible with most players, try MusicXmatch.
AudioTagger is great for ID tagging and album art downloading.

Cubed and cm7 stock float my boat
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umirin said:
Which music player is the best?
I got Winamp and I really see no difference between Stock and Winamp. Stock actually looks nicer in my opinion.
I have been suggested Player Pro, but it's not free.
Any suggestions?
Also a big thing for me is the ALBUM ART. Both Winamp and stock have LOW quality album art. My pictures are HD quality all the same size, yet they have blur and low quality. Very annoying!
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The best thing about Winamp is that it could replace your lock screen, allowing you to control the music without unlocking, I have tried several and always come back to winamp

+1 for Winamp.
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For the lock screen function, +1 to winamp.
I usually just remote desktop and stream from my computer though to access my huge database of music. (Gotta waste that unlimited data plan Somehow!)

Poweramp
Full graphic EQ with presets. Fully customizable plaer engine and Skins. With lockscreens

Poweramp was the best i tried.
EQ, themes, widget + easy to control
And MixZing is good as well but it hasn't got good interface.

Hi. My not sure if this is the best place to post my question..so sorry in advance
I'm on mikrunny w/anthrax both support beats audio and it works with sense stock music player but not google player... Is there other free music players available that supports beats and be able to download my music from google?
Thanks
Stone
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i guess player pro , gives u everything u need ... equilizer , awsum artwork , sharin is like cream n nice feel to it ...

Like some pals said, poweramp is very nice and has many options to play with.

I like MIUI music more.

simkid5614 said:
Poweramp
Full graphic EQ with presets. Fully customizable plaer engine and Skins. With lockscreens
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+1 for Poweramp,give it a try

Ok so I tried the Poweramp Trial.
It DOES have the high quality album art which matters to me. You can change the size of the album art as well.
The interface is ok, I still think stock music player has the nicest interface. The colours though are the best. the widget matches nice with my background.
The volume on it is higher than stock and equal with Winamp.
So maybe I will buy this one, but try the others first.
The lyrics don't matter to me. Mainly just looks, organization, and album art.

umirin said:
Which music player is the best?
I got Winamp and I really see no difference between Stock and Winamp. Stock actually looks nicer in my opinion.
I have been suggested Player Pro, but it's not free.
Any suggestions?
Also a big thing for me is the ALBUM ART. Both Winamp and stock have LOW quality album art. My pictures are HD quality all the same size, yet they have blur and low quality. Very annoying!
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If you are after a plain, and simple music player, i would recommend tiny player. It runs smoothly on my phone. It also consumes less RAM and CPU process..

simkid5614 said:
Poweramp
Full graphic EQ with presets. Fully customizable plaer engine and Skins. With lockscreens
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If you pay WInamp it has Full EQ too, easy to use, u can sync it with your desktop via streaming, Full album art, kinda workig shuffle, I've been using Winamp in my desktop since '98 so I completely trust winamp
Yes maybe the stock one looks better and use less resources, but In custom roms, i dont know why, everytime I pair it with bluetooth with my car, the phone just freezes, so I need to use a different one, so Winamp is my move

My favorite has been Google Music w/Volume+ as my equalizer.
I can't remember if you have to be rooted for Volume+ (it's been a minute since I've played with it), but it's a full featured EQ that you can set the phone speaker and headphone EQs separately. I also have all my music uploaded to Google Music so it takes up no space, works just fine and I get a full featured equalizer.
Pro tip, you can get Volume+ for free if you go to the developer's website (accessible in the Android Market). I bought it though, it really is quite good.

I use Poweramp its verry good cause you cabn choose different style of sound like bass, classic ext. But it paid.

I heard that Neutron Music Player is the best up to now. It supports lossless songs, and sound quality is great if used along with DSP Manager. You can search for reviews on Youtube.
However, that's what I heard. It seems that Neutron MP does not support my Gio. What a shame.
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What media player do you use?

I used a lot of ROMs, but I have not really got the best built in media player. The HTC stock player is good, but could be better, CM's Apollo is too much, and relies on data. I tried Sony Walkman, and just didn't like the UI. Then I downloaded Mixzing, it is good, but it is not simplistic. Don't get me wrong, I love messing with tweaks, but it just had too much going for it. However, I do keep it for identifying songs, and automatically filling in ID3 tags. So far, I am using Poweramp, and it is smooth and simple, but powerful as well.
Now if it just played videos, that would be great, but I have JoeVLC for that. The best darn VLC port on Android if you ask me.

Try doubleTwist (does audio and video, very clean ui) and maybe the miui music app. I use mvideoplayer for video. Great great video player.
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Thanks for the vlc link.
I use poweramp if I'm using good headphones. I like the sound it produces.
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=JKT= said:
Try doubleTwist (does audio and video, very clean ui) and maybe the miui music app. I use mvideoplayer for video. Great great video player.
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Tried that. A bit farfetched, and money hungry for simple features. I was really looking for id3 editing. Plus 4.99 for wireless transfers? That is what open SSH is for
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I use the stock Apollo music player with v4a xhifi sound mod. Best sound quality ever.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
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I'm a big fan of JetAudio Basic. I use MXplayer for videos

Neutron Music Player

Jet audio plus... Love the built in equalizer and presets. Ui does the job and im loving the semi transparent widgets
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i gotta have a player that will play .pls and .m3u with embedded shoutcast streams and take advantage of audio mods, so far only player that does it is Neutron Music Player.

DvineLord said:
i gotta have a player that will play .pls and .m3u with embedded shoutcast streams and take advantage of audio mods, so far only player that does it is Neutron Music Player.
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Sounds like winamp. Especially with shout cast
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Herc08 said:
Sounds like winamp. Especially with shout cast
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winamp on android doesn't take advantage of sound mods

Apollo, Only when I have This audio mod.
Makes the phone's speaker sound godly and the headphones sound even better.

Music: Poweramp. (the best music player so far)
Video: MX Player (trust me, It's the best in the market)

I use Nexmusic/Nexmusic Nightly Beta for music (obviously) haha and MX Player for videos (best video player EVER). For editing song info I use Pimp My Music.
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SirFork said:
I use the stock Apollo music player with v4a xhifi sound mod. Best sound quality ever.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
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Does it sounds bettter than AwesomeBeats V5 and did you manually or automatically installed?

Good things here. Making me want to try MX player. I use vlc on PC, and it does wonders. Especially like the lock function. What is a good mod to get "glorious" sound? Obviously beats audio isn't what it is cracked up to be
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I use poweramp for music and i use dice player for video. mx player is great as well

Herc08 said:
Good things here. Making me want to try MX player. I use vlc on PC, and it does wonders. Especially like the lock function. What is a good mod to get "glorious" sound? Obviously beats audio isn't what it is cracked up to be
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I used to use this when I was running the Sense roms but it's currently not supporting 4.2.2 so I'm using this. Both of them make the phone loud and the audio pretty great. I leave BEATS BOOST on Slight, Equalizer on R&B, and sometimes I turn on the VIRTUAL ROOM EFFECT which I leave on Studio.

jun10rocks said:
I used to use this when I was running the Sense roms but it's currently not supporting 4.2.2 so I'm using this. Both of them make the phone loud and the audio pretty great. I leave BEATS BOOST on Slight, Equalizer on R&B, and sometimes I turn on the VIRTUAL ROOM EFFECT which I leave on Studio.
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thanks, gonna try this out...

list of audio mods

DvineLord said:
hox audio.txt
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oh wow, thanks man..knew about a few of these, but others are new to me

What's the best music player available on Android?

Why do you use the music player you have? What makes it special? Plus, does it work well with iTunes?
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Well, that depends on the person. Me personally I use either apollo or poweramp. In my opinion, Itunes sucks

Player Pro is the best for me,with lockscreen widget.
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For me.. I move from player pro to jet audio plus..
Player pro have more sound, bigger n badder.. .. But in headphone, it get annoying to have many noise..
Besides, jet audio.. Give me more clear n pure output..
Since im in xperia now, sure i have walkman to for bigger n badder sound..
So..say goodbye to player pro.. Thanks for the time we spent together
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standard music player.

Player Pro is awesome as well.......Jet Audio plus though I have never used.......so is it really good

demonchildfp said:
Player Pro is awesome as well.......Jet Audio plus though I have never used.......so is it really good
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Try it.. U will love it..
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N7Player Lots of options, good sound, lockscreen overlay.
And I only use iTunes for my iPod, simply because I have no other choice. Every other moment it sits disabled on my pc untill I ask for it. Horrendously crap program.

I prefer Google Music, due to my small sdcard

Poweramp!!

I use either poweramp or Apollo. I like poweramp because it has the best eq out of all the players I've tried. Also it has a very great UI in that it is simple to use, and has a wealth of settings for a person who likes to dial in things. However, the downside is that it cost $4. Apollo also has a great UI too but there's no eq. However, when using viper4android (eq that works with ALL system sounds including music players) it makes it revivals poweramp's eq and sometimes surpasses it lol. So if you can't pay $4 you can go with the latter since it is free. Also I forgot to mention both have a lot of great themes but Apollo has more free ones and I don't use iTunes because imo it is too locked down and I'm not in Apple's ecosystem.
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Poweramp is just awesome. You get a lockscreen app and automatically downloads album art (if you want). I guess the downside is that you have to pay for it. Worth it though.

Player Pro is freeeee music player with many features
I think it's the best player available in the market

I prefer walkman music player... It had clear audio and best bass booster that make ur music experience better
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sks93 said:
I prefer walkman music player... It had clear audio and best bass booster that make ur music experience better
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Where do you get walkman music player from? I'm a fan of Sony and I would like to try it lo.

obscuresword said:
Where do you get walkman music player from? I'm a fan of Sony and I would like to try it lo.
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Just search walkman 4.6 on xda .. And u will found a thread by ibanez if not mistaken.. Then flash it through ur cwm recovery.. But before flash the walkman .. Remove ur other equalizer to prevent conflict..
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804520
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i think n7 player is great.

N7 is cool and all, but I prefer Poweramp.

poweramp for the WIN !

I used poweramp, I got board with it. I like Rocket player now. Really nice and polished UI with a lot of themes available.