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I Need: video player that keeps playing audio when minimized or screen is off

Is there such a program? thanks

median player

Meridian, just tested and it works.. also charged my fone fully and played music for an hour, earphones in full volume and only lost 3%!!!
I know your not after the music but it has a widget for it! Pretty cool an all..
Hope it helps!!
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thanks a bunch, i'll give it a try!
hm i don't get it...it doesn't work for me, it stops playback
i play a music video and i press the home button and it stops, what am i doing wrong?
i have the meridian player conservative, meridian player classic won't work, always force closes

My bad there i forgot to check like that.. all i tested was when screen was off which worked.. sorry about that!
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and i forgot to check "screen off"
thanks, that's good enough...could be better but screen off is fine for now

What is the point in playing a music video.. If you're not watching it?
Then you might as well just play the mp3 file instead.
Playing a movie uses more battery than playing a song.

a couple of years ago i downloaded about 6gb of music videos from youtube which contain some legendary stuff, i converted them to mp4 and would always want to keep them on my SD card
sometimes i watch the videos but most of the time i listen to music, and i can confirm what Mobzter said, when the screen is off, the power drain is just the same as when you listen to audio

Im glad its helped ya out a little..
Btw i used meridian again for an hr today, music full volume using earphones! didnt realise 3g was running an all (screen off, playlist on) and i only lost 1%!!! ridiculous o wat!!
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Running video in background ?
I to have historical videos, which I would sometimes would just like to listen and not watch,meridian does that, but it can't run in background,i mean android does support some level of multi tasking, doesn't it? It would also help in terms of battery use.is there any such video player?thnks in advance

Play only audio from your favorite video:
I have just found in market an app called: no video, which can play only audio from any video in your device,but it still can't play it in background,for time being it will help me

[REQUEST] [APP] Media app to play audio AND video

With the iphone, I could add videos to my music playlist. I cannot find a similar app for my nexus one. I don't really want to keep a mp3 for my playlist AND the mp4 video of the same song. Does anyone know a fix?

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With the iphone, I could add videos to my music playlist. I cannot find a similar app for my nexus one. I don't really want to keep a mp3 for my playlist AND the mp4 video of the same song. Does anyone know a fix?
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Try meridian player on the market, for free, I handles videos and music playlists..unless you're looking to play videos files and music files at the same time..not sure possible!

Yeah, I mean at the same time. On the iphone, I could add a video to my music playlist. It would still play the video selected, like a song, with the screen turned off. I can't seem to find one that can do that on the nexus one.

I know MixZing and Meridian all play both music and video so you could try each to see if they work. There's a third that was on my mind but I can't remember that also plays both, maybe it was Zimly? I forgot now.

Hello
Sorry for a possibly "silly" question : I've installed Zimly and
can't find out where are stored the files, the library etc
could you please help me ?
J.

Best Media Player?

What are the best media playing apps, of any variety and quickly why? If there is not one that does this well, list individual ones for music and video.
I am compiling a list of the best apps of each category, so leave your opinion and a quick reason to help out the community.
If the app costs $, be sure to say so!
edit: oops double post, please merge with http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945642 if mod sees.

Best music player in my opinion is MIUI Music
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=854766
Very nice UI, downloads album artwork and song lyrics (with option to only download when connected to wifi)
Lyrics are highlighted in sync with the song.
The app is free.

For hardware video playback, mVideoplayer is great. Subtitle and automatic subtitle downloading, gesture support, loads of other features. Is free with ads, I think, but I have those blocked so I can't say for certain. For software video playback... Rockplayer, plays most files perfectly. Costs money though. There's also moboplayer which is free, it's in beta and kinda buggy though, but looks promising and plays most of my normally unsupported files well. Also it's not on the market.
As for music I like doubletwist, it's free and has a nice, clean GUI.

Vital Player
It's free, open almost all format, and is on the same level of Rock Player...

Bump!
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I go between doubletwist, zimly, MIUI, and everything else. For videos I usually go with rockplayer, mvideoplayer, or the default music app.
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[Q] Any way to keep screen on while music player is playing?

I didn't notice any settings in my newly purchased Infuse that would allow this so I wanted to check, is there an add-on app or setting I'm missed that will allow the screen to stay on while the music player is playing?

this is an option that i don't believe the default player has. there are several media players in the market that have this option. i use PowerAmp, best player in my opinion

Thanks any thoughts on what is considered the most feature rich player?
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people seem to like doubletwist because it integrates with itunes i believe. but as far as features, i believe poweramp is head and shoulders above the rest. it autoplays on headphone insertion/bluetooth connection. it has its own lockscreen controls. it crossfades between songs and kills the silence at the beginning and end of tracks, making for a professional dj sounding club mix. the only shortcoming is, it doesn't directly handle m3u files, but this will be fixed in the next release.

Much appreciated.
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Rockbox is the most feature rich, not on the market though. You'll have to hunt for the apk.
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You can do this using tasker.

I was browsing apps the other day and saw Tasker... it seemed a bit daunting so I didn't look in to it closer... (as an aside I'm probably going to stay with the default music player as I like its integration and swiping capabilities), but it looks like I can use tasker to replicate a feature I did like from poweramp (launch automatically when headset is plugged in), and the keep backlight on... guess I'll give it a whirl.
Thanks again.
edit: Stumbled through setting up the task I wanted related to the music player this morning.
Worked brilliantly. Thanks!

[Q] music player

Music player on my phone is making music fade in and fade out. I tod this is song but i got this on all others. So question is: what music player are you using and whay?

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Music player on my phone is making music fade in and fade out. I tod this is song but i got this on all others. So question is: what music player are you using and whay?
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I have tried them all well not exactly but most the ones people recommend, none the less I had problems with the stock one doing the same thing. Sometimes it would play a song then sometimes it would just be silent, any way I tried the playerpro trial version same as full version just only last 5 days. any way it and dsp pack for it has proved to be the best so far plays anything, and had allot of sound adjustment. No I don't work for them lol just my 2 cents
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PowerAmp continues to be my favorite. Though it seems like there's a bug related to scanning each time the app is launched that was causing me some issue. Disabled that option and everythings good.

I use playerpro, like the features, get missing album covers, no issues. The widget is awesome, try it, it is free. The app is well supported.
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I have this exact problem. It isn't quite clipping but whenever there is a crescendo it only ramps up partway and then gets mushy as though there is a normalizer running. The consistency with which it does this has me thinking as though each frame in the MP3 is being decoded at a different level!