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"podcast" app?

this isn't really specific to the DX, but it's what i have so i'm asking here:
i'm looking for an app that will play really long mp3's (like hours long... like a podcast) and, more specifically, will remember where you are in the podcast when you quit the program and start back up at that point when you want to start listening again.
currently i'm just using the native music app and i have to try and remember myself where i left off in a podcast and manually skip ahead to that point every time i need to stop and then come back to a particular file.
thanks for the info!!

I've been using Google Listen for audio podcasts

byproxy said:
this isn't really specific to the DX, but it's what i have so i'm asking here:
i'm looking for an app that will play really long mp3's (like hours long... like a podcast) and, more specifically, will remember where you are in the podcast when you quit the program and start back up at that point when you want to start listening again.
currently i'm just using the native music app and i have to try and remember myself where i left off in a podcast and manually skip ahead to that point every time i need to stop and then come back to a particular file.
thanks for the info!!
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I like .podkast. I download and listen to them with it.

Carcast. You can search for, download, and listen to podcasts in it. It remembers where you are in the podcast and restarts it from where you left off. It's also free...

Stitcher is the best podcast app it seems to have everything
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Check out PodTrapper. I used this app all the time when I had a Blackberry. When the dev came out with the Android version, I made the switch over to Android.
It's a powerful app that I use on a daily basis.
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Beyond Pod works great

Doggcatcher. best podcast app there is. and it's temp on sale with funds going to support Japan.

Listen....
Ive used pretty much all of them (except for DoggCatcher, because it aint free...)... Heres my humble opinion:
For almost one year, i used aCast, in my rooted HTC G1 (CyanogenMod 6.1), worked fine, until out of the blue, stopped catching...
I have to say, i ONLY use it to download and listen to TWiT casts... ive also been looking for an entertaining podcast featuring alternative punk rock music, but havent been sucessfull (suggestions are appreciated).
After aCast, i went on trying mostly every single podcast catcher i could...
Hapi Podcast worked awesome on my Droid X for maybe 4 months, i actually rated it 4 stars and an inspiring comment, and then.. poof... no synching..
Ive been happy now with Google Listen... Its the most simple of them all, plus, it syncs well with google reader on your pc. It remembers where you left on all your casts.. (well i usually sync down oly 5 or 6, and it does remember the part where im at, every time)
Google Listen seems to be my the app for the job.

Must Have Apps

Please post must have apps, preferably free.
I love how my G2X becomes a personal trainer, flash light, diary, radio, television, remote camera, motion sensor, etc.
Let us know what else this super gadget can become.
Just to bring it to all your attention though, get the Mugen 4500 mah extended battery. I wouldn't be able to enjoy my G2x and all it's potential without the extra power for all day activity using the apps I installed.

Well for an alternate lockscreen try ripple lock its like the honeycomb screenlock its badass I use it u can get it in market. And for font changing use absolute root tools. And for video playback use mobo player it plays all formats and is very very nice now all of these are free accept absolute root tools but its worth the couple ones

A PC replacement... Running stock CM7 with a Bluetooth Mouse/Keyboard and HDMI. Takes are of all your basic PC needs. Surf the web, send emails, play games, etc.
I'm sure its more powerful then my netbook.

must haves for me is
launcherpro
simi clock
set cpu
camera 360
quickpic
zedge
music junk
fruit ninja thd

There is already a topic for this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121800

What do you use your Android for?

What do you use your Android for?
Iam for.
Messaging
Opera
Xda app
Power amp
And what about must have apps ?

Kik, PowerAMP, YouTube, Xda, Friendcaster.
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Almost everything, car navigator, mp3 reader, usb stick for my car radio, IM, web surfing...

Rooting, Romming, Modding, Hacking, Flashing, Theming, S-offing.
Seriously thats the real fun of owning an android device

Remote PC control,
A remote for presentations and such.
Media consumption (Goodness I use my Note more like a tablet than a phone)

I mostly use my android devices for web browsing I would say. First on my OG transformer and now my nexus 7. Its come to the point where i hardly ever turn my PC on anymore. Unless I'm writing up some form of word document or something.
Also EBay, Amazon, Xda, Gmail, YouTube and virtua tennis challenge! Can't stop playing this game as I am a huge tennis man. The controls, graphics and challenge are all fantastic. Not an easy game but a lot of fun on the hardest difficulty level.
Also I use my galaxy nexus and other smartphones before it as my GPS for driving.
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I use Calendar intensively and other minor apps (and of cause i like to play some games)

Watching p*rn
Seriously watching movie, xda, net surfing, gaming and some cool stuff
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My internet connection... Thank you CyanogenMod!
Email
Keep track of my money (EEBA - free acct)
Games/kill time: solitaire, sudoku
Files - dl to phone when blocked by firewall, then email it to myself.
Brain backup: calendar, Astrid, note app

Texting, minor web, music.
Too much will overheat my phone. Literally has no games in it.

web browsing, music, tapatalk, rooting, custom roms, calling, messaging

Mainly for Web browsing, Youtube, IM, Navigating around the city, Friendcaster/Google+, Instagram, using VNC on my computer at home thats about it.

Steve Jobs said android is only for people who want to watch porn...

Also listening to music with poweramp. Best music player I've found to date. Been using it for years on multiple devices.
And also to watch adult content! Been doing that for years on multiple devices also.
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voyager_s said:
Also listening to music with poweramp. Best music player I've found to date. Been using it for years on multiple devices.
And also to watch adult content! Been doing that for years on multiple devices also.
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Yeah, just like me
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OneSlickDeal said:
Steve Jobs said android is only for people who want to watch porn...
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Music, social networking, some web, little bit of gaming, talking to my gf, theming, xda-ing, and most importantly my internet (dad brings the modem to work @#£%) connection!
Sent from my arc S.

Web, Gmail, social media, camera, navigating, geocaching, Messenger (Talkdroid), music (TuneIn Radio, YouTube),

EVERYTHING!!!!!
It's my entertainment/info hub
email, youtube, xda, apps, music: home/car, social media (facebook, google+), chatting (whatsapp, text message), basic photo editing, picture modifying, video camera, camera, streaming youtube to my TV, banking, video chatting with family/friends, etc...
I barely to never use my laptop. Actually my cell phone is more powerful than my laptop. LOL

Haraldr Blaatand said:
My internet connection... Thank you CyanogenMod!
Email
Keep track of my money (EEBA - free acct)
Games/kill time: solitaire, sudoku
Files - dl to phone when blocked by firewall, then email it to myself.
Brain backup: calendar, Astrid, note app
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Brain Backup? LoL Never looked at it that way. I also use it for Brain backup:
Back up passwords, credit card passes, taking notes, music and casual games (still waiting for super hexagon...)

What I want from a music manager (on the PC) and music player app (on Android)

I really don't listen to music on my phone very much. I have a desk job and keep Pandora streaming while at work. On my ~hour commute to and from work, I listen to audio books (it's the only time I get to "read"). But, I do enjoy music and have over 200GB of MP3s. Occasionally, I do want to listen to some of my music using my phone, such as when doing yard work or between audio books. Service around here is spotty, so streaming is typically out of the question.
I use Ubuntu on my PC. My phone is a Captivate. (As soon as I can cut off from AT&T, I'm upgrading!) It's been running SlimICS for a while, but I'm getting ready to upgrade to SlimBean.
I've tried a lot of different programs on the PC, and a lot of different apps and haven't found anything that fits my use. This is what I want:
What I want from the Android App:
- Designate a particular folder as the source for music. This is the big one for me. I don't want it catching my audio books (I have a dedicated audio book player that I love, but it's not suited for music), audio recordings, and other sound files. All but two apps I've tried didn't have that capability and one of those didn't seem to really work right. Why is that so rare of a feature?
- Use ID3 tags, including album art. But that's fairly common.
- Easy navigation. By artist, album, song titles, etc. Don't rely on "playlists." I don't build them. Just show me all my music and let me easily chose if I want to play a particular album, everything by a particular artist, a particular genre, everything all mixed up together, etc.
- Lock screen controls.
My favorite music app so far is 3 (Cubed). But, specifying a music directory doesn't work. It has a menu option to only look in a folder your specify, and I've enabled that, but it's still seeing my audio books and other sound files. It has lock screen controls but I don't like the way it changes the lock screen. And it has a beautiful interface interrupted by these ugly "pop up" boxes. I love using parts of it, but find other parts hard to use.
What I want from a Ubuntu program:
I'm currently using RhythmBox, and it's OK. It serves most of my needs except the big one. How it syncs to my phone. I have a LOT of music and I hate building playlists. I also hate trying to manually go through the thousands and thousands of songs trying to pick out which ones I want to copy to the phone. I just don't have that kind of time. What I want it to do is just randomly pick songs until a threshold that I set has been met. For instance, copy 5 GB of random songs from my entire collection to my phone. Or, copy 3 hours of random songs from the Metal genre. Or perhaps I'm in a Dylan kind of mood so I want it to copy 3 hours of random Bob Dylan songs. And if there's something specific I want to put on the phone, I can do that manually.
So, am I overlooking something that will give me these options? Is there something out there for me?

ubuntu: moc
android: poweramp
I am pleased with both.
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I haven't looked at PowerAmp because, well... it's not free. Free isn't a requirement, but I just don't feel like I listen to music on my phone enough to justify paying for an app like that.
Now, about moc... I had not heard of that before. I googled it and read about it, but I don't see any way to do what I'm wanting to do.

yeah, its different than what you want. The complete opposite, actually. But I still recommend it -- it grows on you. Worth an apt-get.
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I haven't tried it yet, but this program looks promising: http://mr-random.sourceforge.net/docs.html#Doc/

Give PowerAmp a try, they have the trial version. Once you've tried it, it's hard to use any other.

Music
HeathicusF said:
I really don't listen to music on my phone very much. I have a desk job and keep Pandora streaming while at work. On my ~hour commute to and from work, I listen to audio books (it's the only time I get to "read"). But, I do enjoy music and have over 200GB of MP3s. Occasionally, I do want to listen to some of my music using my phone, such as when doing yard work or between audio books. Service around here is spotty, so streaming is typically out of the question.
I use Ubuntu on my PC. My phone is a Captivate. (As soon as I can cut off from AT&T, I'm upgrading!) It's been running SlimICS for a while, but I'm getting ready to upgrade to SlimBean.
I've tried a lot of different programs on the PC, and a lot of different apps and haven't found anything that fits my use. This is what I want:
What I want from the Android App:
- Designate a particular folder as the source for music. This is the big one for me. I don't want it catching my audio books (I have a dedicated audio book player that I love, but it's not suited for music), audio recordings, and other sound files. All but two apps I've tried didn't have that capability and one of those didn't seem to really work right. Why is that so rare of a feature?
- Use ID3 tags, including album art. But that's fairly common.
- Easy navigation. By artist, album, song titles, etc. Don't rely on "playlists." I don't build them. Just show me all my music and let me easily chose if I want to play a particular album, everything by a particular artist, a particular genre, everything all mixed up together, etc.
- Lock screen controls.
My favorite music app so far is 3 (Cubed). But, specifying a music directory doesn't work. It has a menu option to only look in a folder your specify, and I've enabled that, but it's still seeing my audio books and other sound files. It has lock screen controls but I don't like the way it changes the lock screen. And it has a beautiful interface interrupted by these ugly "pop up" boxes. I love using parts of it, but find other parts hard to use.
What I want from a Ubuntu program:
I'm currently using RhythmBox, and it's OK. It serves most of my needs except the big one. How it syncs to my phone. I have a LOT of music and I hate building playlists. I also hate trying to manually go through the thousands and thousands of songs trying to pick out which ones I want to copy to the phone. I just don't have that kind of time. What I want it to do is just randomly pick songs until a threshold that I set has been met. For instance, copy 5 GB of random songs from my entire collection to my phone. Or, copy 3 hours of random songs from the Metal genre. Or perhaps I'm in a Dylan kind of mood so I want it to copy 3 hours of random Bob Dylan songs. And if there's something specific I want to put on the phone, I can do that manually.
So, am I overlooking something that will give me these options? Is there something out there for me?
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The best suggestion I can give you is not a PC application, but is rather a piece of hardware. I would recommend getting a Pogoplug and an external HDD. Connect the Pogoplug to the HDD and then connect the Pogoplug to the internet via cat5/6, then create an account and download the app on your phone.. in this scenario, the only limit to what you want to store and how much space you have is the capacity of your external HDD; This device can support multiple HDD's, so its pretty much limitless.

^^1(2050]=7 1337 said:
The best suggestion I can give you is not a PC application, but is rather a piece of hardware. I would recommend getting a Pogoplug and an external HDD. Connect the Pogoplug to the HDD and then connect the Pogoplug to the internet via cat5/6, then create an account and download the app on your phone.. in this scenario, the only limit to what you want to store and how much space you have is the capacity of your external HDD; This device can support multiple HDD's, so its pretty much limitless.
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I appreciate the suggestion, and it looks like a nice product, but I fail to see how that accomplishes my goal.

[Q] Is there a way to listen to audio books and read the text at the same time?

Hello,
I bought my 8 year old a 9.7" android tablet.
I would like to get him an app or some way for him to listen to audiobooks and read along with the audio.
When he gets tired from reading, he could just listen to the audio and when he doesn't want the audio, he could just read himself.
I would like to emulate the experience of me reading to him pointing with my finger at the text, where we are right now, so he gets more familiar with the words.
I let him play a lot of Civilization 5 and give him advice on what to build etc, which makes him have to read 90% of the time he actually thinks he's just playing
I'm just trying to make reading a more enjoyable and less tedious experience for him because oftentimes he reads the letters, but can't figure out the word, it's supposed to be, especially when their foreign words.
I'd appreciate any advice you guys might have.

Just play the audiobook mp3 while the e-book is on screen. Almost all Android tablets support multi-tasking, so even when you switch to the view of the book, the mp3 will still be playing. This would not require any additional resources that the tablet does not already come with.

syung said:
Just play the audiobook mp3 while the e-book is on screen. Almost all Android tablets support multi-tasking, so even when you switch to the view of the book, the mp3 will still be playing. This would not require any additional resources that the tablet does not already come with.
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That's of course possible, but when you're not THAT good at reading yet, it's hard to find the exact line of the text, where the audio is. So, I don't know, something similar to Karaoke would be cool.
It'll especiallyhard, when you want to pause or start again, switching between the apps, without a hard button to push or to go back a few seconds or a paragraph