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TB for Music or stick to the iPod?

SO currently I use my ipod touch for music, and I also use itunes. However, I thought about using my TB as my music player, here are some questions:
1. How big of a pain is it to get music on
2. Rhapsody or iTunes (library is on itunes, never used rhapsody)?
3. Possibly my biggest question is quality. I have run Pandora on my TB and the quality is much lower than that of an iPod (understandable as its a radio frequency). However my point is, if I have to run songs on my TB at VOL 50 instead of VOL 40 in my car to adjust to the quality and get the bass up, then I am not sure the TB is the best music player. With that said, whats your experience with the quality?

I use my TB exclusively for music, thanks to Google Music. Haven't had an issue with quality with my Sennheisers, but YMMV.
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CC268 said:
1. How big of a pain is it to get music on
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Simple, Connect your phone to your PC, and copy the music you want to your SD card.
CC268 said:
2. Rhapsody or iTunes (library is on itunes, never used rhapsody)?
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You don't have to use a certain program to sync, you can if you choose to, there are many out there, I don't sync my music so I can't help there.
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3. Possibly my biggest question is quality. I have run Pandora on my TB and the quality is much lower than that of an iPod (understandable as its a radio frequency). However my point is, if I have to run songs on my TB at VOL 50 instead of VOL 40 in my car to adjust to the quality and get the bass up, then I am not sure the TB is the best music player. With that said, whats your experience with the quality?
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I connect it via the 3.5mm jack to the aux in 3.5mm jack in my 09 jeep with a monster audio cable. Things sound great to me, especially using the SRS enhancement with the stock music player. Bass is nice, not crackly like you would get with an FM transmitter, I would honestly say it is at least CD quality. But all my music is ripped at a high VBR or 320kbps.

There are apps that will let you sync your iTunes library to your Android device, do some Googling.
If you are used to using your iPod for music then I don't think you are going to like the interface.
I miss having my iPod Touch but I refuses to carry separate device just for music.
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All my music needs are fulfilled with slacker radios caching. It allows me to save 100's of songs on my phone and play them without needing a data connection. Bad part for some would be you can't pick what song to hear unless you have the higher paid account. For 4.99 a month I just cache my favorite stations for all my music needs.

ddgarcia05 said:
All my music needs are fulfilled with slacker radios caching. It allows me to save 100's of songs on my phone and play them without needing a data connection. Bad part for some would be you can't pick what song to hear unless you have the higher paid account. For 4.99 a month I just cache my favorite stations for all my music needs.
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Subsonic can do that also, think it's a one time $10 donation for unlimited use. Can stream pretty much any type of media on your computer.

Check out Audiogalaxy. It's a free app that streams your *entire* music library from your desktop/media server to your phone. If you are in a 4G area, it streams without compressing. I have an ipod classic but I rarely use it anymore. Streaming via AG is more convenient & sounds just as good.
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If you are going to listen to your own music on the thunderbolt, i would strongly recommend buying power amp. That player will allow you to drive the actually good audio hardware to its limits, dropped my old mp3 player faster than a sack of rocks after i started using poweramp

Haven't used my iPod in forever... I use the following:
Slacker: When I want to stream and/or listen for new bands...
Subsonic/Google Music: When I want to listen to my personal music collection (which is too big to fit on any size device right now).
PowerAMP: For cahced music.
Now Google Music is not that great right now (Subsonic is better IMHO) because it is picky about some of the music I have and won't upload it. Subsonic turns your computer into the music server so you don't have to upload anything, you just have to asign your computer a static IP and keep it on.
I love PowerAMP for the quality of play so I will usually use Subsonic or GM to cache (or download) some songs and then play them with PowerAMP, since the Subsonic and GM players don't hold a candle to PowerAMP.

Deltaechoe said:
If you are going to listen to your own music on the thunderbolt, i would strongly recommend buying power amp. That player will allow you to drive the actually good audio hardware to its limits, dropped my old mp3 player faster than a sack of rocks after i started using poweramp
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I just installed PowerAmp...Holy Crap! This sounds great, I most definitely second this statement.

Deltaechoe said:
If you are going to listen to your own music on the thunderbolt, i would strongly recommend buying power amp. That player will allow you to drive the actually good audio hardware to its limits, dropped my old mp3 player faster than a sack of rocks after i started using poweramp
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After reading the last couple comments, I downloaded the trial, listened to 2 songs, tweaked the EQ and settings, and listened again, and then bought the unlocker, this is an amazing music player.

Don't forget that the thunderbolt is compatible with DHS enhancements

Thanks a lot for the responses guys, I will try your suggestions and test it out!

The srs in the htc music app is amazing, especially with in ear headphones
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Just installed full version of power amp, how should I transfer my itunes music to my phone? I dont know that I would like to keep using itunes, waiting for google music beta invitation so I can start using that

I use the ipod only because there is no good way to connect it with my car radio that doesn't leave a bunch of wires all over the place... I've emailed HTC about a bottom connector but they weren't to receptive to it.
Again I know I could do it with the phone, but having that bottom connector on the ipod allows me to have it in my car and hidden without a bunch of wires all over the place.
+1 for subsonic, donated to that project and use it all the time... everywhere!

I use iTunes as well and use the Thunderbolt for my music player.
iSyncr (and/or iSyncr WiFi) syncs itunes music including playlists so it is very easy to set up. Use Bluetooth in my car; not missing anything from when I used an iPhone/iPod. It even syncs playcounts if you have Last.FM scrobbling.

06ms6 said:
I use iTunes as well and use the Thunderbolt for my music player.
iSyncr (and/or iSyncr WiFi) syncs itunes music including playlists so it is very easy to set up. Use Bluetooth in my car; not missing anything from when I used an iPhone/iPod. It even syncs playcounts if you have Last.FM scrobbling.
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iSyncr is the way to go. It's what I use to get my music on the Bolt.

If you're not concerned about the battery, I wouldn't use your iPod anymore. PowerAmp does just fine as a music player.

I use Google Music and upload to the cloud

Best Music App since only 16gb

I'm sure for most of us this is our first device with non-removable storage. Welcome to iphone-ville territory (WHY HTC?). Anyway, for those of us who enjoy music on a regular basis and prefer not to store all of our music on the phone, what app do you use to cloud-sync? I've tried google music but it seems limited and the upload is very slow. So what is your preferred method to listen to music?

Pandora and Grooveshark!

those apps are good for random playlists. But im talking about your own personal music library. I like the htc music app, but its useless if I can't store my entire music library.

Google Music upload is slow? Are you kidding me? I mean, maybe the initial upload - but after that, it's super fast and auto adds songs you add to your music collection instantly. I love it.

I like and pay for Spotify.
It integrates my itunes collection including playlists and I can sync whatever I want for offline playback.

I pay for Spotify as well and Im coming from Zune marketplace, of which I loved! Spotify is just as good imo and I don't find that it sucks my battery dry within an hour either.

Google Music and Spotify.

Off topic slightly but since some of use google music where and how does it store music for off line listening? Does it store them as actual MP3 files or something else and how do remove them when no longer wanted? Thanks in advance
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E.Cadro said:
Off topic slightly but since some of use google music where and how does it store music for off line listening? Does it store them as actual MP3 files or something else and how do remove them when no longer wanted? Thanks in advance
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Not sure how it is stored, but basically you go to the Music app, then you hold down on an album, hit "Make availible offline" and it downloads is somewhere. Then after you want to delete it, hold down on it again, and uncheck "Make availible offline" Its really awesome, try it out if you haven't already.

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Google Music upload is slow? Are you kidding me? I mean, maybe the initial upload - but after that, it's super fast and auto adds songs you add to your music collection instantly. I love it.
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yeah thats what im referring to when I speak of uploading. Good to know it gets faster because that was my only issue with google music.

Audiogalaxy hands down. The best sound quality out there (IF YOU HAVE A GOOD QUALITY LIBRARY) You stream your own personal library from home. You can log in from any computer anywhere and have your playlists and library. it caches wonderfully. sounds better than pandora, slacker, tune in, iheart, lastfm all of them. All my music is either lossless or itunes aac highest quality and it sounds amazing. It uses your itunes playlist also. the best thing is its FREE! 5 of my friends are logged in to my library at all times.. its in the market.. Audiogalaxy

yeah I just downloaded audiogalaxy. It uploads alot faster than google music. Liking it alot so far

Check Amazon MP3 player.

Audio galaxy is OK if your fine with being the server ... instead of Google...
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amazon got my monies ages ago with prime, and then they released their mp3 service before google. I honestly don't like how google music adds random tracks based on your "likes" I have a zune and zune pass, when I wanna explore I do it there.
I download all my music from zune and then upload the mp3s to amazon and call it a day.
I keep a solid 2gb on my phone, the rest is easily streamed with my unlimited LTE plan, and if you root and install either rogers or asia rom (I have asia) you don't even have to worry about att throttling your data

best music player??

what do you guys think? i personally use poweramp, but i'm interested to see what you guy like!

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what do you guys think? i personally use poweramp, but i'm interested to see what you guy like!
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I use Poweramp Full version & MX Player Pro as my media players...

I played with poweramp for about an hour before I bought the full version. Works for me, haven't found too much to gripe about thus far.

I use Winamp PRO, because it quickly, easily syncs all my music from my computer while I sleep via Wifi. And since I don't use MP3's, my FLAC files sound fantastic. With the equalizer, dark theme, and no problems, it is by far my favorite music player.

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what do you guys think? i personally use poweramp, but i'm interested to see what you guy like!
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Double Twist is by far my favorite. So many awesome options

I am a Playerpro user all the way.....Poweramp is not bad, but its UI is a bit cumbersome. I take my players seriously, and have tried many. While driving, Poweramp becomes an accident waiting to happen if your trying to find a specific song or album coming from the actual player screen. Playerpro is much easier to navigate, much better UI and its options/features are comparable to Poweramp. Both have great album art support, and both are equal in sound quality (I have Martin Logan Sequal II electrostatic speakers that I have thoroughly tested both on). You also may notice that I am only mentioning these 2 players.................no reason to mention anymore!

aight cool lol i might try out all these man lol

I use google play music since its most convenient. Just wish i could play it via another player because its a very basic player.
Really wish i had the beats audio from my evo lte tho shii soumds gooooood
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Edge?What is the ultimate music listening/management suite of apps for the S7 edge?

Folks, I have a pretty large non-DRM .mp3 music library in iTunes. I have used ISyncr in the past, with my Galaxy s5, to bring down playlists and music and synchronize my Android phone to iTunes. Lately it hasn't been working well, probably because I have well over a thousand playlists.
I am also looking for the best music player, and wish to add Lyrics, and am intrigued by the Viper 4Android sound app, but I don't want to root my phone.
What do you all recommend as the best music player, the best app to sync iTunes, the best audio effects suite of apps to a music lover? Thanks so very much in advance for your help!

I've used all the free and paid music players over the years. Neutron is truly the only professional solution. It literally has every feature, where most players offer half of what neutron does. Poweramp is good for consumers too. Idk about iTunes syncing, I organize all my music in folders. Neutron has the most full featured non-root EQ, but if you're rooted eXtreme beats is coming out with a new revision soon.

for a regular user i think poweramp is the best music player.. nice sound and controls plus skinning. you can import playlists and export them as well.

Neutron is widely considered the best by audiophiles followed by Onkyo player (unlocked).

personally i leave the mp3 tagging stuff off of the phone. I havent found any apps that will properly list and tag mp3's as well as i can do it on a computer.
Assuming you're on windows, use MP3Tag to manage all your tags. it works on way more than mp3's, but it is by far the best solution for media library management.
For playback, i jump around on windows. Musicbee looks nice and is full featured. Winamp is nice. Foobar is very spartan and quite ugly but it works well and you can make it look more or less however you want, though it takes a lot of effort.
On the phone itself i use poweramp for music playback (though i do find the interface a bit clunky, and i dislike the "queue" thing it does). Neutron always gets good ratings. I had a horrible time with onkyo hf player. winamp is OK at best.
For audiobooks, i use SmartAudiobook Player. there are some weird bugginess issues, like when my head unit automatically starts the audiobook app instead of music, and refuses to play nice with it. Like if i stop the audiobook player and start music, sometimes the music will immediately stop and audiobooks will play instead. but my car is so damn loud that i use headphones while driving most of the time anyways.

I think JetAudio plus does a great job.

Where do I start lol...I have slowly turned into an audiophile and always look for the best audio on my phone so I have tried just about all the most popular music players / audio configs i could find on my phone,
I have also tried external DACS / Amplifiers and to be honest with my setup did not do much for me..I am running SOL Master Tracks XC headphones which are amazing with this phone and would totally recommend Neutron or Poweramp they seem to give the best sound from all I have tried and are also very customisable with the sound...
ViperFX is a must!! and the options / tweaks are just insane and what a difference it makes with a simple change of Convoler and EQ,
I use ViperFX with Dolby Atmos and Beats Audio which seems to me the best option and I flick between Neutron and Poweramp which i am still not decided on

What do you guys think of PlayerPro Music Player v3.7 ? I think it has the most features but I don't know how it compares to others, so I need your help to decide .
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&hl=en

Rocket Player Pro is great! Using it for years!

Been using Timber for a bit now. Mostly use it because it looks really slick. I like the material design it has.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=naman14.timber

emariu said:
What do you guys think of PlayerPro Music Player v3.7 ? I think it has the most features but I don't know how it compares to others, so I need your help to decide .
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&hl=en
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Player pro amazing app, I switched to Neutron which I am currently using and was using Poweramp before that, I find Neutron to give a more Natural better sound than others but Neutron / Poweramp / Player Pro and Jet music are ones id recommend

I'm a Poweramp fan myself.
There's an option in the app to opt into the beta, which let's you try an overhauled new version which improves on a lot of the old usability issues.

emariu said:
What do you guys think of PlayerPro Music Player v3.7 ? I think it has the most features but I don't know how it compares to others, so I need your help to decide .
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro&hl=en
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I use this. I've used it for a few years. I love it. Plenty of skins, downloadable DSP Pack for additional audio controls, has it's own lock screen. :good:

Thank you for your replies..
So I guess if I stick with PlayerPro Music Player ,I am not missing any other features and the sound of other players is not greater/nicer than this ?!

Stock, because there's no real difference.

the best is power amp beta version try someday

Question What Music Player are you using???

Hey, I was wondering what everyone is using for their music player on the Pixel 7(Pro)??? I'm currently using PowerAmp but feel like the UI is very clunky and outdated. I wasn't sure what better options exist. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I'm hoping there's something better than this!!!

I was using Black Player Ex on my S21U with Android 12, and it's my favorite player of all time, but it's not qualified against Android 13 yet on my Pixel so I had to pivot. I tried Rocket Player (again), Musicolet, and a few others. Ultimately, I landed on Retro Music. Great look and feel, no ads.

Musicolet. It's free with no ads and highly customisable.

depends on what your requirements are. if you're fussy about sound quality and use a USB dac for example, like me, neutron is excellent. completely configurable and able to output direct to the dac, bypassing any internal processing.

Jet Audio Plus. Besides the extras (like Bongiovi and AM3D), it's interface rocks , you can set specific profiles depending on if you're listening on the phone, BT speakers, earbuds, etc and will store specific profiles for each device.
I've been using this for years in combination with V4A. Now it's all I get since V4A isn't P7P compatible... but it's still very good.

Poweramp

Another PowerAmp

Aimp

Media Monkey. Handles all formats. Has a corresponding Windows program that facilitates organizing, ripping and several other useful functions.
Used it for several years and have yet to find anything better for my particular needs.

The Files app. Don't listen to actual audio files often (pretty much never) thanks to streaming services.

YouTube Music for me. I have some files on my phone that I go to time to time, but even then, they can all be found on YouTube Music still since it can play YouTube videos.

Poweramp with Liv Dark substratum skin.

Another for Poweramp with Liv Dark subs and skin.
What specifically about the player do you find clunky and outdated?

Not sure if I'm understanding everyone's needs here. I'm only interested in playing music that I've stored locally on the phone. Are all of the above mentioned apps for this purpose, or are they for streaming?

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Not sure if I'm understanding everyone's needs here. I'm only interested in playing music that I've stored locally on the phone. Are all of the above mentioned apps for this purpose, or are they for streaming?
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I've tried a LOT of music apps over the years. And like you, I'm really only interested in music I have stored locally on the phone (which is a lot). Where I finally landed was GoneMad Music Player. I was looking for something that has its own sound engine, was aesthetically pleasing and ticked all of my other boxes. These boxes will vary with every person. It is a paid for app but I did not mind paying for it at all.
Before that I had used Musicolet for some time. I like that one a lot too.
I used Neutron years ago but I can never seem to get it to work anymore. It never sees my music folder(s) even after I give it permission. Obviously the UI is outdated but that never bothered me as much as it bothers some others.
I used PowerAmp before Neutron but I was never overly impressed with it.

PowerAmp pro. A good one.

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I've tried a LOT of music apps over the years. And like you, I'm really only interested in music I have stored locally on the phone (which is a lot). Where I finally landed was GoneMad Music Player. I was looking for something that has its own sound engine, was aesthetically pleasing and ticked all of my other boxes. These boxes will vary with every person. It is a paid for app but I did not mind paying for it at all.
Before that I had used Musicolet for some time. I like that one a lot too.
I used Neutron years ago but I can never seem to get it to work anymore. It never sees my music folder(s) even after I give it permission. Obviously the UI is outdated but that never bothered me as much as it bothers some others.
I used PowerAmp before Neutron but I was never overly impressed with it.
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Thanks for the reply! I just DL'ed Musicolet, and it does everything that I want, and a bit more. Thanks again!
Edit: just learned that Gonemad has a trial. I DL'ed that too.

andygold said:
Thanks for the reply! I just DL'ed Musicolet, and it does everything that I want, and a bit more. Thanks again!
Edit: just learned that Gonemad has a trial. I DL'ed that too.
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My pleasure. I've obsessed about this long enough not to share some of my experiences, lol

Youtube music. It is good enough for playing music from phone as well.

PowerAmp, Clunky and outdated? WTF lol