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Which music player are you using?

I've tried different music players and to me there's no clear winner as all seem to have some good qualities but also some drawbacks. So I'm wondering what music player you have been using and why.
Lately I've been using mixzing which has most of the features I want. There aren't many drawbacks, except I wish there was a skin option (I would like to have bigger buttons while playing in portrait mode) and the possibility of launching it and have the music that was playing last start immediately (like an ipod). I also wish it would somehow integrate with the stock lock screen showing the music currently playing.

s2p
The best I have seen is the s2p. It is ipod style.

lallolu said:
The best I have seen is the s2p. It is ipod style.
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s2p seems to be a windows mobile app. I could not find an android version.

Interested in this as well. I'm still using the stock music player that came with my EVO.
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I use bTunes and Astrid Player, depending what I need

Zepiii said:
I use bTunes and Astrid Player, depending what I need
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Able to explain each one with pros & cons and why you prefer them over the 100 others found in the market?
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I quite like the standard one but I would like one with some huuge buttons (app or widget) and less emphasis on artwork, for practicality

MillyMoo106 said:
I quite like the standard one but I would like one with some huuge buttons (app or widget) and less emphasis on artwork, for practicality
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I haven't yet found any player with really big buttons, but I just tried btunes like some people suggested and it has gesture support, which is pretty good too and integrates somewhat with the screen lock. The only problem is the ugly iphone skin.

MixZing is awesome and so is MusicMod (for Froyo).
The latter is free.

mixzing is good, I was using cube for a while!
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the music player that comes with the samsung vibrant is just amazing.
big buttons, effects, equalizer... everything you need in a music player.

Meridian is cool.

JokerAce said:
Meridian is cool.
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Me, i'm using cube... It's new, it's great, it's beautiful...

Hi!
I`ve had my Desire for a couple of weeks now and,I started using the built in musicplayer..And after a while I downloaded Meridian since I did hear a lot of good things about the app.But for a couple of days ago,I was out walking (exersicing.. !! ",) ).It was raining an ocean,so I pluged in some earbuds started up Meridian an started playing some downloaded podcasts.After I have drayned I went online and found out that 3 Cubed was recomended for a nice 3D-effect cube (some sort of eyecandy..)But that wasnt the thing that made me switch,it was that the widget was smaller then Meridian and that I was able to change musictracks just by pressing the ON/off key on my cellphone and unlock.That was handy becouse I have an lockpattern on my cell.That means I could save me some toutches
As a multimedia-player (videoplayer and steamingplayer) they olso play music but Ive started using 3 as the prefferd player.If I have recorded videoes with my cell I often just use the built in or Meridain (I havent uninstalled it yet..Even thou Im running out off storrage on the "inernal".Since I havent rooted my cellphone and the OFFICIAL 2.2 ROM adjustments to Desire is HTC christmaspresent too me).The same goes when Im watching streams from TED or other sites.
I know that Meridian allow me too set "always on while playing"-setting but I found out that 3 solution was so nice that I might just uninstall Meridian since I need all the space I can get on Deisre
Just my 2 cents.
EDIT:Some letters had dissapeard and some of them was changing places on my reply

bTunes
After being disappointed with the built in player for HTC Legend, i tried many free music apps, like doubleTwist, 3, zimly, TuneWiki, meridian, Music Player etc etc. Everyone had one or two cool features and one or two drawbacks. Design, function, bugs, etc.
i finally found bTunes and went ahead and bought it.
It does look exactly like the player in iphone, but it has loads of features and settings, like for podcast/audiobooks, a lock screen (on top of the regular), cover art downloads automatically, lots of sorting options, etc. To sum it up, it feels more robust and one feels that a lot of thought as been put into it.
Although i must admit this is the only paid player i have tested, but all my needs are satisfied with this one, so i neednt look any further.

MixZing is the only one I've tried that I like more than the stock player. The lock screen and widget choices are what sold me. Well worth the seven dollars. I agree with the OP that skins would be a welcomed feature, but isn't a dealbreaker for me as long as the interface looks refined (which it is).

FOr now Im using Museek. Its not perfect, but its free, has pretty solid sound quality, and has a few nifty features with no real drawbacks.

Subsonic for music streaming. I keep almost nothing on my phone anymore and it works great.
Ambling for audio books.
Dog catcher for podcasts. Older program but works great.
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Spotify is the best music player I've used.

doubleTwist all the way, works great, looks great, sync great with its partner PC/Mac app.

[Q] A Good Music Player, with Good Equalizer?

I am looking for a music player with a good graphical equalizer. I have yet to find one that works without flaws...
(Running MIUI ROM on an Inspire 4G)
MIUI stock music player:
Sounds good, equalizer is satisfactory, but you can't tell it what folder to pull music from. It just reads the whole phone. It has a setting that you specify minimum file size for, but that's crap. Should be able to just tell it where to find music and only load that music... It also skips/cuts off etc A LOT!
PlayerPro:
This player has a really crappy equalizer. The only positive I can think of about this app is the ability to use SRS enhancement in HTC phones that have it. This one skips/cuts out music more than any other app I have tried. No matter what happens, screen turns off, like 5-20 rapid cutouts. Quality of playback is poor. Accessing certain features are a pain and needs to be able to be accessed from Menu button while in the player, not just the main screen. But the cutouts for anything happening to the phone, browsing for the next song, volume up/down. Minimizing, screen on off. Huge/a lot of cutouts in playback.
PowerAMP:
This was probably one of the better apps. Great equalizer, very direct navigation to whatever you need. But this player also suffers from the cutouts when locking/unlocking or interacting with the phone. This app does have that Buffer setting, but even set to huge (725ms) it still suffers from these cutouts. And the update that came out today.. well that just screwed it up even more...
UberMusic:
Smooth, looks pretty, can tell it's a complete rip from Zune so I know how to navigate it at least. Cutouts while navigating the phone weren't nearly as bad, or didn't happen. The problem with this app is that it doens't have an equalizer. I googled, and found out that Fede (many may know him from that scam app LPP) promised to implement an equalizer. That same dev also promised a re-write of LPP be the end of 2010 and look where LPP is at.. completely abandoned for this music app. With that history I won't buy his music app until the equalizer is implemented. But based on what he's shown with LPP I don't see that happening for 932750923 years.
WinAmp:
Loved it on my computers since middle school... But for the phone, the cut-outs are almost as bad as PlayerPro, and it also has a pretty crappy equalizer.
Anybody else know of a good/smooth music app, with no cutouts in music playback and a good equalizer?
Thanks!

What do you mean by cut out, I use pamp and really smooth no problem whatsoever
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Music playback like stops/freezes whenever the screen turns off, or on, or when I unlock, or when I hit menu, or when I hit any button on the phone. If I OPEN something, like browser, it chops like crazy.

It's Depend on your phone & rom. I normally use power amp & never have the problems you mentioned. It never cut out except when receiving incoming sms or call receieved.
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Try double twist. If you like it i'd highly advise buying to unlock all features.
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Same problem with double-twist. Didn't even bother to check for an equalizer...
I guess the problem is with MIUI. Figured after years they'd at least have it compatible with music players that millions of people use..

Never have problems with PowerAmp here, either. Could the cutouts maybe be an issue outside of PowerAmp, like your memory card perhaps, considering that it looks like every app you use has them?

Probably a Rom issue, I have no such issues with either playerpro or poweramp
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GTIVRon said:
Same problem with double-twist. Didn't even bother to check for an equalizer...
I guess the problem is with MIUI. Figured after years they'd at least have it compatible with music players that millions of people use..
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I had a similar problem a few phones back with HTC Hero and Desire. I had it underclocked on screen-off and an app-killer killing on screen off/memory killer. Both caused the music to "jump around" and/or kill the music. Underclocking sounds the more obvious issue here.
If not using either, make sure your SD card is class 4 or higher.
Poweramp had never failed me before, but now using google music on CM7 with DSP manager for the GMusic streaming...
Swyped from the past.

Discard this..

Google Music 4.0 with DSP Manager

I am using PowerAmp for an entire year and dont remember having a single cutout. You probably have a problem in your rom.

Yea I believe it might be a ROM issue, others in the ROM thread confirmed they also have this problem. I'm using the SD card that came with the phone, not sure what class it is...
Thanks for the tips!

ive tried all of the apps you mentioned except poweramp and none of them had "cutouts"

Wich rom?

Hi, which version do you recommend using in my new infuse? The last of October 18?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311960

Which*
and i am currently using CM7, but if you want touchwiz, i find Infused to be the most stable.

Darky rom is amazing!!
Darky Baby the one and only!!!

darky/any of the JVT roms have problems reading ID3 tags properly if you're planning to use your infuse as your primary music player like i do. particularily, they have trouble reading MP4, FLAC tags and it doesn't recognize some others too.
I personally recommend installing CM7, dynamic ram's 99 tweaks/server system/app process, and then finishing it off with USAS v13. It'll be crackhead fast, extremely responsive but the bluetooth doesn't work. I have no use for BT so that doesn't matter to me.
If you don't care about the ID3 tags, then i would say go with darky. amazingly snappy, and it has all the samsung apps on it too (i like the samsung contacts app, swiping left and right). I would say it's more responsive than the CM7 on its own, but after installing the 2 tweaks above i'd say they're about equal in snappiness.

Personally a fan of miui. Super customizable but need some under clocking cause it drains juice a bit. My second choice is def CM7.
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Depends on your needs. If you want bluetooth audio to work, I would avoid MIUI and CM7. They will never get bt working until the official is released.
If you like modified or skinned roms, anything with KK2 would be a good choice. I believe KK1 had some errors, so avoid that. If you want one of the latest stock roms, I'd try VictoryRom. I'm using it now and it works great without all the modifications. Bluetooth audio, wifi and GPS all work and it's already rooted.

projectvirtue said:
darky/any of the JVT roms have problems reading ID3 tags properly if you're planning to use your infuse as your primary music player like i do. particularily, they have trouble reading MP4, FLAC tags and it doesn't recognize some others too.
I personally recommend installing CM7, dynamic ram's 99 tweaks/server system/app process, and then finishing it off with USAS v13. It'll be crackhead fast, extremely responsive but the bluetooth doesn't work. I have no use for BT so that doesn't matter to me.
If you don't care about the ID3 tags, then i would say go with darky. amazingly snappy, and it has all the samsung apps on it too (i like the samsung contacts app, swiping left and right). I would say it's more responsive than the CM7 on its own, but after installing the 2 tweaks above i'd say they're about equal in snappiness.
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By USAS do you mean the "samsung adrenaline shot" ?
Sorry for the random question, but I'd like to try this combination.

berryman13 said:
By USAS do you mean the "samsung adrenaline shot" ?
Sorry for the random question, but I'd like to try this combination.
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Yes, the universal adrenaline shot.

So it sounds like JVT ROM's don't read ID3 tags properly? Sucks, I really want to use my phone as my main music player.
If that's the case, I have no options other than CM7

berryman13 said:
So it sounds like JVT ROM's don't read ID3 tags properly? Sucks, I really want to use my phone as my main music player.
If that's the case, I have no options other than CM7
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unfortunately. I tried ID3 v3,v2.3 in the 3 different encoding formats none of them picked up properly. so i got frustrated and went back to CM7. I also tried using the id3 changers from the market to see if that works, no luck. all the mp4/flacs cant even be edited. switching back to CM7 fixed those things for me.

projectvirtue said:
unfortunately. I tried ID3 v3,v2.3 in the 3 different encoding formats none of them picked up properly. so i got frustrated and went back to CM7. I also tried using the id3 changers from the market to see if that works, no luck. all the mp4/flacs cant even be edited. switching back to CM7 fixed those things for me.
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Is it just flac and mp4? All my music is in mp3 and m4a.

berryman13 said:
Is it just flac and mp4? All my music is in mp3 and m4a.
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m4a is also affected. Mp3's are affected in what appears to be a random pattern. Few songs from albums will show up different than the rest of the album. it'll lump my anime genre with my soundtrack genre. my k-pop genre showed up as k-pop twice, same spelling, half the songs in one, other half in the other.
i don't know why the music core from samsung is so broken but using it as a music player is impossible for me =[

projectvirtue said:
m4a is also affected. Mp3's are affected in what appears to be a random pattern. Few songs from albums will show up different than the rest of the album. it'll lump my anime genre with my soundtrack genre. my k-pop genre showed up as k-pop twice, same spelling, half the songs in one, other half in the other.
i don't know why the music core from samsung is so broken but using it as a music player is impossible for me =[
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Well screw that! It sounds broken. Samsung should get to it some day, haha.
Oh well, I love CM7!

Just set aside 2 days and go on a flashathon lol. See what works best for you and caters most to your unique preferences. Lucky for you, there's been a huge outbreak of new roms for us these last couple weeks so have some fun and try em out... and be sure to provide some feedback if you do...
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New music player for CM9 or any other ICS rom

I found this thread and thought I would share. So far it has proven to be a good alternative to the default music player and has a real ICS style to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604504
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feistygoat10 said:
I found this thread and thought I would share. So far it has proven to be a good alternative to the default music player and has a real ICS style to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604504
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Nice find. I tried it, but it still needs some work. Had 3 FCs in 2 minutes. Plus it requests default actions when switching tabs, minor annoyance, but major if you screw up and select Google Music, then you get either FC on open or when changing tabs.
It does look promising, but I'm gonna stick with MortPlayer for the time being. If you have tons of mp3's, I mean like 10000+ mp3's, you really need something like MortPlayer or a folder music player. Loading and scanning all those id3 tags can take forever or crash your device.
I used to have 50000 or so mp3's and 1.5tb of Videos until I had a brownout doing a backup of all my data. The lesson---when backing up all your important data from 15+ years, hook your pc up to the damn generator 50ft away in the storage shed. I might be at 10% of where I once was, but at least I'm getting replacements with BD quality. There weren't bluray quality rips back in the day. Don't ask how cause I won't tell.
Anyone ever watched those old DBZ rips in rm format??? Something like 15mb an episode and horrid quality, and we were damn happy to have them. Dial up was a mf.
I'm gonna go play MW3 now. I'm Bravoed out for the day.

Is their a music app that doesn't suck? I've tried everything!

I have searched the forums, searched google and God know's where yet I haven't found one single music app I like. I liked the sense music player that came with the phone but I don't like using the default launcher and their isn't any widgets for it for other launchers.
And now I am on the paranoid android rom so I can't use that no more. I like Apollo for it's UI but it lacks many features. And I don't like PowerAmp. It has features, but to many for me. I am literary over whelmed of the features. I just want a nice UI and and a few nice features.
I'd also like an app that supports the HTC one x's nice HD screen.
By the way here's the ever growing list of music apps I've tried and don't like for some reason or another.
Google Play Music, Apollo, PowerAmp, WinAmp, UberMusic, DoubleTwist and SongBird.
At this point I'd pay for a music app.
The only things I want are a good UI that isn't ugly and an album art grabber (for downloaded tracks with none) and of course it has to have a widget (which even all I've listed has had one so I'm sure that's standard.)
And it'd be nice if it had a coverflow effect. The effect from google play music is nice but this isn't a required thing for me.

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I have searched the forums, searched google and God know's where yet I haven't found one single music app I like. I liked the sense music player that came with the phone but I don't like using the default launcher and their isn't any widgets for it for other launchers.
And now I am on the paranoid android rom so I can't use that no more. I like Apollo for it's UI but it lacks many features. And I don't like PowerAmp. It has features, but to many for me. I am literary over whelmed of the features. I just want a nice UI and and a few nice features.
I'd also like an app that supports the HTC one x's nice HD screen.
By the way here's the ever growing list of music apps I've tried and don't like for some reason or another.
Google Play Music, Apollo, PowerAmp, WinAmp, UberMusic, DoubleTwist and SongBird.
At this point I'd pay for a music app.
The only things I want are a good UI that isn't ugly and an album art grabber (for downloaded tracks with none) and of course it has to have a widget (which even all I've listed has had one so I'm sure that's standard.)
And it'd be nice if it had a coverflow effect. The effect from google play music is nice but this isn't a required thing for me.
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I religiously use poweramp but try playerpro. Might be to your liking
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I've personally been using Doubletwist since I switched to Android from iphone and it's mostly been fine, just took a bit of getting used to but I think that's more about coming from iphone than anything that's wrong with Doubletwist. What didn't you like about it? If you buy the paid version it let's you download album art, and various other airsync features etc.

What exactly are you searching for?
I found this one music player.. very unique especially for people with hearing loss.
It goes through a process giving off beeps in your ears going left and right, then equalizes your acute hearing to perfectly fit your hearing. Its definitely ingenious as it helps me a lot, my right ear is kinda going out.
App - Soundbest Music player.
The widget is so so and the UI is simple but sucks.
3rd party Equalizers will help the music player as well..
At the moment I use Google Play for JB and SRS Panel with an Audio Mod. Yes I don't own a One x, I own a Droid incredible but I understand your pain of wanting the best music player. I've honestly searched up and down and really haven't found the best one. Poweramp is highly overrated, the equalizer and effects are terrible.
The only other app I've liked besides Soundbest is Neutron but even then the UI is a monster.. the widget is again so-so. But the effects and equalizer is unmatched.. perfect for a audiophile. I recent was using Semc Music player "Sony Walkman" but.. without a widget its almost useless plus it didn't active the equalizer on the fly.
The only ones I suggest trying are Soundbest and Neutron.
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I've always really liked Playerpro. Well worth the few bucks, and I've tried everything out there as well.

Try xbmc http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28757772 it looks great on htc one x, but it has few errors but looks greattt
From beast called HTC One X

If I didn't pay for power amp I would use Sony Walkman app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1676013.html

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I religiously use poweramp but try playerpro. Might be to your liking
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XNine said:
I've always really liked Playerpro. Well worth the few bucks, and I've tried everything out there as well.
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Thanks guys! Just tried it out and it seems to be what I've been looking for. I am not a fan of how the buttons (play, skip, etc) look blurry on my HOX.
Going to try all the others now to see if their is something better.

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I've personally been using Doubletwist since I switched to Android from iphone and it's mostly been fine, just took a bit of getting used to but I think that's more about coming from iphone than anything that's wrong with Doubletwist. What didn't you like about it? If you buy the paid version it let's you download album art, and various other airsync features etc.
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I really didn't like the UI mainly. I, myself came from an iPhone so I have heard about that when I was googling "how to sync music between iTunes and htc one x).
It's okay but I don't like music apps that put the album art and controls in a "drawer". Song bird does this too. I hate that :/

PlayerPro is my player of choice.

+1 for Playerpro. Plenty of skins available for it. Make sure you install the free DSP Pack too as it drastically improves the EQ :good:

I use the paid version of Poweramp and don't see what's not to like about it.
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If you use player pro at least design your own skin.
I made a co-co sense 4 version.
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There's one called "cubed" or 3. Its really good.
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I have a MIUI music.apk I've been using since my inspire lol works just as good on my Hox. Its like the iPhones music app

SkookDroid said:
I have a MIUI music.apk I've been using since my inspire lol works just as good on my Hox. Its like the iPhones music app
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wow that music app looks sexy. I might have to try the MIUI rom. I heard it was a good rom to try out. I just went to CM10 jelly bean though. so I'll try that later. (2 lazy to try 2 roms in a day xD)

McMichael96 said:
wow that music app looks sexy. I might have to try the MIUI rom. I heard it was a good rom to try out. I just went to CM10 jelly bean though. so I'll try that later. (2 lazy to try 2 roms in a day xD)
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I downloaded the apk from the internet(cant remember where) but it works on every ROM, so when switching between I can use it on all them lol

I would recommend you try Mixzing ( kinda like PowerAmp )
if you want nice UI with good amount of functionality I would recommend N7player
Here is the Google play link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uN21vYmlsZS5ucGxheWVyIl0.

Player pro is the best.

SkookDroid said:
I downloaded the apk from the internet(cant remember where) but it works on every ROM, so when switching between I can use it on all them lol
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Bahh you don't get the full effects of the miui music player though if your not on miui.
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