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Searching for the perfect music app

Alright, here's the story.
I come from the world of iPhone. I ditched the Jobs crapification of the mobile world in search of open source awesomesauce.I am SO happy with my move over to Android, I could kiss Gary Bussey... but I won't. Moving on...
The one thing I do missabout my iPhone is the media player. I listen to music via my phone all day long, and the android system seems to be lacking in the media playback department. Therefor, I'm calling on the masses to help me out.
I'm looking for a music player that incorporates two major things:
1. Gapless playback (No pause between tracks)
2. An equalizer
Is there anything out there for audiophiles like me, or are we stuck with laggy, almost-complete music apps?

drummingfool said:
Alright, here's the story.
I come from the world of iPhone. I ditched the Jobs crapification of the mobile world in search of open source awesomesauce.I am SO happy with my move over to Android, I could kiss Gary Bussey... but I won't. Moving on...
The one thing I do missabout my iPhone is the media player. I listen to music via my phone all day long, and the android system seems to be lacking in the media playback department. Therefor, I'm calling on the masses to help me out.
I'm looking for a music player that incorporates two major things:
1. Gapless playback (No pause between tracks)
2. An equalizer
Is there anything out there for audiophiles like me, or are we stuck with laggy, almost-complete music apps?
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Have you tried MixZing? I hear alot of good talk about it. I dont know that it has an equalizer or gapless playback but its worth a try.

My iPod doesn't have gapless playback. I know iTunes does though.

Bielinsk said:
My iPod doesn't have gapless playback. I know iTunes does though.
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It was built into mine. When I told iTunes that an album was gapless and then synced it to my phone, it would play back gapless on the iPhone.

+1 MixZing
kbizzle said:
Have you tried MixZing? I hear alot of good talk about it. I dont know that it has an equalizer or gapless playback but its worth a try.
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I personally used this for a while now..... I has great widget choices, free, and organizes and downloads missing artwork similar to iTunes. Plus the other features ouare looking for and more... imo better than stock app.

beerock said:
I personally used this for a while now..... I has great widget choices, free, and organizes and downloads missing artwork similar to iTunes. Plus the other features ouare looking for and more... imo better than stock app.
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Well, with it at 2 votes, I'm gonna give it a shot.

drummingfool said:
Well, with it at 2 votes, I'm gonna give it a shot.
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here is a screenie for anyone interested

Alright. So I installed MixZing lite, and I love it so far... but heres an issue. All my music is in a folder on my SD card called "Music", then broken down in folder by Artist, then by albums.
After having MixZing search my library, it completed, and afterwards I added another album folder into my SD Card, but MixZing isnt recognizing that I have new music. Suggestions?

drummingfool said:
Alright. So I installed MixZing lite, and I love it so far... but heres an issue. All my music is in a folder on my SD card called "Music", then broken down in folder by Artist, then by albums.
After having MixZing search my library, it completed, and afterwards I added another album folder into my SD Card, but MixZing isnt recognizing that I have new music. Suggestions?
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I would try going into the applications options and purging any saved data for mixzing, then fire the app back up and see if it recompiles the music db.

I like b tunes and also 3 search for rock on, both free on the market
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drummingfool said:
Alright. So I installed MixZing lite, and I love it so far... but heres an issue. All my music is in a folder on my SD card called "Music", then broken down in folder by Artist, then by albums.
After having MixZing search my library, it completed, and afterwards I added another album folder into my SD Card, but MixZing isnt recognizing that I have new music. Suggestions?
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theres a app called "sdscan" that scans the card and it should make the new album folder availible in the app.

Nanan00 said:
I would try going into the applications options and purging any saved data for mixzing, then fire the app back up and see if it recompiles the music db.
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The only option in there was to clear out the cache. Did so, but Mixzing wont recompile the db. I even tried removing it and re-adding the folder "Music", still doesn't see the new stuff.

david279 said:
theres a app called "sdscan" that scans the card and it should make the new album folder availible in the app.
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App is actually called sdrescan. Found it, used it, worked like a charm.

drummingfool said:
App is actually called sdrescan. Found it, used it, worked like a charm.
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oh sorry.

No problem bro, no problem.
Now I've got another issue, though... I'm trying to use MP3Tagger to edit the ID3 Tags, but its saying it cant load the songs for editing? Weird.

i like mixzing, wish it had a lockscreen option like stock. does anyone have a way to make the volume buttons change the music? my brother jailbroke his iphone and they have an app that does that. its a great feature ecspeacially while driving and working out.
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Music and Android?

I think this is the one area Apple beats Android, you connect your iPhone it syncs no hassle, On android its all a bit of a nightmare.
I've tried Double Twist but the damn thing is painfully slow to sync, can't edit duplicates and whatever else, it looks good but thats about it.
Winamp looked good on the surface, I made my playlist went to sync it took forever, then when I added more songs to a particular playlist and went to sync again rather than adding to the original playlist on the phone it created another playlist, so you actually have 2 playlist of the same playlist old and new.
So basically I need a way to sync and a player on the phone. I appreciate you can just dump all your tracks on the music folder but its impossible to organise 1000+ MP3's this way, so they would need organised prior to going onto the phone.
Any advice?

Nothing easier than put the mp3's in the media folder. Why do you think, syncing with ITunes is easier. I hate that software.
I'm organising my mp3 with mp3tag!

em.20 said:
Nothing easier than put the mp3's in the media folder. Why do you think, syncing with ITunes is easier. I hate that software.
I'm organising my mp3 with mp3tag!
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Lol same here, mp3tag owns.

Winamp works fine for me; no duplicate playlists. Maybe give that another shot? I love winamp on the PC though, so my perception may be skewed a bit by fanboyism. You could try the Google Music Beta as well. I thought I wouldn't like it, but having my entire 200 GB music library streamable is pretty handy. Personally, I prefer to manually sort and tag my tracks on my PC.

Combo Winamp + mp3tag.
But i do'nt sync with winamp, putting mp3 on the folders is much faster...

i've been using google's music beta service to stream music to me laptop/phone. works great. only issue is the new music app has no controls in the notification center or lockscreen.

slugger09 said:
its impossible to organise 1000+ MP3's this way
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I don't understand. Your music app will automatically find your mp3's and categorize them for you. Just put your MP3's anywhere on your SD card and you're done.

Make music folder, drag and drop
I hated how ipods have to sync, like if I go to my friends house want want some songs then delete my songs then put all of his songs grrr iTunes...
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drag and drop to SD card. never used 3rd party... seems silly.

em.20 said:
Nothing easier than put the mp3's in the media folder. Why do you think, syncing with ITunes is easier. I hate that software.
I'm organising my mp3 with mp3tag!
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Unfortunately and I can't speak about mp3tag, but dragging and dropping at least doesn't compress the audio file to save space at no reduction of quality. Itunes does this, and Itunes really isn't all that hard to use either.
Audio from Apple devices are better quality most times, but multimedia is one of Apple's strong parts.(Although also a lot of times you won't notice a difference) The original music app for Android is okay for just music, HTC's is okay, Miui is pretty nice, and the new music app from Google is pretty nice too. The audio support for Android is getting better.

I originally used doubletwist but it kept doubling, trippling, and even quadrupled the number of times a song was in my library. Finally went to ISYNCR &isyncrwifi. Works great, fast.
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rumblee1 said:
I originally used doubletwist but it kept doubling, trippling, and even quadrupled the number of times a song was in my library. Finally went to ISYNCR &isyncrwifi. Works great, fast.
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It did that to me as well and that's the problem with most of these syncing solutions, there is no common sense.
And as for putting all on 1 folder in the SD card, Now say I want song 3 from album A on a playlist followed by song 6 from Album E and so on there is no easy way of organizing this on the phone which is why I like it done on the PC, I have various genres of music, I don't want a hardcore trance song followed by country.
Google music doesn't work in the UK either

Great post and some really useful tips there. I love resource lists like this. Have social bookmarked it in the hope that others can also benefit.

thanks for the tips

I also do drag and drop, but yes apple is smoother in this area.

slugger09 said:
It did that to me as well and that's the problem with most of these syncing solutions, there is no common sense.
And as for putting all on 1 folder in the SD card, Now say I want song 3 from album A on a playlist followed by song 6 from Album E and so on there is no easy way of organizing this on the phone which is why I like it done on the PC, I have various genres of music, I don't want a hardcore trance song followed by country.
Google music doesn't work in the UK either
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What you are describing here is what I do on "PowerAmp". I have folders (has option for folders or library), then if I want I use the built in "Que" to select songs from different folders. You can also edit tags in PowerAmp.

Wow. And here I thought I was the only one who uses mp3tag.

mp3tag , is a great

+ 1 mp3 tag
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Gorship said:
drag and drop to SD card. never used 3rd party... seems silly.
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i use meridian only to play mp3 for a single directory

iTunes

Anyone know the best way to sync my nexus with iTunes? I've tried double twist and I don't like it as much.

I don't use iTunes, but I hear iSyncr is pretty good.

How dare you mention that program here jus kiddin' ... i dunno never tried it

Winamp should do the trick.

On your PC:
Get the Google Music Manager program (.exe) from Google
Install it to your Windows PC
Set it up and select the option that allows Google Music to sync automatically from itunes.
On your phone:
Download Google Music app and select your gmail account.
After initial sync is finished everything in your itunes will be in the Google Music app.
They will stay synced after that.

I use iTunes agent. It does the trick.

If I use google music I won't have any issues with some of my songs not being on my phone or not being able to play if I'm not in a good data spot will I? I did some research it looks like its a good way to go about I don't have a good media library I didn't wanna sacrific all my phones memory to all music but if I had to I am willing to.

I use isyncr and it works really well it cost a few dollars but good investment and the wifi plugin is a big plus

Just saying Amazon is usually cheaper than the for-mentioned excel spreadsheet music store
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If you are on a mac try this one Easy Phone Tunes
Just create a playlist with the music you want to sync, open app, sync DONE

I use iSyncr, tried a few others and once in a while album pictures or info didn't come out the same way they were on iTunes. Gets the job done for me.

Open itunes. Copy all music and drop in music folder on phone.
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Does isyncr refresh playlists and remove songs that are not in iTunes library. I hav dragged and dropped in all honesty I like having the playlists from iTunes to I think I'm stuck between Winamp or isyncr.

Nexus.S said:
Does isyncr refresh playlists and remove songs that are not in iTunes library. I hav dragged and dropped in all honesty I like having the playlists from iTunes to I think I'm stuck between Winamp or isyncr.
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yea you can set it to delete songs not in the playlist and the playlists do refresh

Right on theres what I've been looking for then. I was excited about google music but it was taking forever to upload my library of only 1535 songs and it'd probably take longer to be on my phone. And I was thinking since its cloud where I don't hav data or lose data the music won't play or it will buffer. That's just what I think anyway

oops double post my bad

try double twist, I use google music and just sync mine to the cloud using Itunes but if you are really apposed to Itunes thats a really good alternative

Im having a same trouble, but my problem is with all the syn with itunes.
The window says its syncronized but if i look in the phone i dont have nothing :S.
Sorry for my bad english.

Use google music. It' s hastle free. You have access to your library, as long as, you have a signal, or you can make songs available off line.
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Music - genre

I had been using an ipod to listen to music prior to getting my charge. When i got the charge i coppied music files(mp3) to the data card. Since then i have never been able to get any music player to identify songs correctly with regards to genre.
I've used programs like itag to modify song properties. Also tried modifying properties via windows mass storage. I even tried clearing data from players.
What else can i do?
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beavermjr said:
I had been using an ipod to listen to music prior to getting my charge. When i got the charge i coppied music files(mp3) to the data card. Since then i have never been able to get any music player to identify songs correctly with regards to genre.
I've used programs like itag to modify song properties. Also tried modifying properties via windows mass storage. I even tried clearing data from players.
What else can i do?
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have you tried Google Play Music or Winamp?

Yup. I've tried both and given up all hope that it'll ever work.
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I think a lot of it depends on the info settings for each song. you'll have to edit each song's info. I have read/heard of websites that will clean all of that up for you, but really did not venture too far into that.
http://lifehacker.com/5330784/tidysongs-cleans-up-your-music-genres

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