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Music Setup

I don't think there is a lot of discussion about this, so I thought i would start one. Good evening, my name is Gregg and I am a recovering Ioser. It started out with just an ipod...you know it was convenient, it was shiny. It worked well. Buying music was a simple process. You clicked and could listen immediatly. At first it was just occasionally, but I got into the podcast scene and itseemed to fit me perfectly. Podcasts would let me listen to things while I was doing chores around the house. Eventually though podcasts on my ipod weren't enough for me. I also had to carry around a phone on the side, so I decided that maybe it would be OK to try a little iphone. The first click was awesome...phone and tunes...podcasts done well. I was hooked.
For two years I was doing a lot of Ios, but eventually the shiny IOS had me hooked. There were bills for apps that did nothing but make funny noises, their was music that I paid for but never listened to. I was hooked. I probably hit rock-bottom last year. My iosing was out of control and I thought I would go cold turkey. So I got my G2x.
Sorry for the goofy intro, but I though this would set me up a bit. Here's what I have itunes on the windows side. So getting music and podcasts from itunes to the g2X involves multiple layers.
1. Moving music to the machine.
2. Moving and managing podcasts
3. Playing and managing music (which includes playing, rating music and searchng through my music)
So I will start with the first question. From what I understand there are really two ways that I know of to move music and podcasts from itunes to your phone. One is doubletwist, the other is isyncr. There might be others, but these are the two that I worked with. of the two I went with iSyncr and here's why. Doubletwist has a lot going for it. Really a nice interface, and a nice music player on the android side. Its trying very hard to give me, an ex-ioser a bit of what I am missing. The sync app looks like itunes and allows me to sync my playlists. The app looks a lot like itunes. It plays music fine. The player struggled with my phone, though. Somehow it didn't cooperate with the cm7 ROM I am using. It wouldn't play well on the lock screen and seemed buggy. The syncing was buggy too. Genius podcasts wouldn't refresh when they changed on my itunes. There were workaround(relaunch itunes and doubletwist).
Isyncr is a 2.99 purchase. Its simple. You install the app on the android(you pretty much install and forget it) and it syncs when you launch the windows EXE on the memory card when the phone is docked to the computer. It works well. It syncs podcasts, and ratings. To me, that was important because I have this theory that I will rate my music into organization in itunes.Its flawless. I haven't tried the wifi setup, but I might in the future. It doesn't play your music, so its just a solution for syncing.
As for podcasts, I tried very hardto find a solution on the android side that will satisfy my needs right on the android. I bought the full version of pocketcasts. There are a lot of good things going for it, but there are bugs. One that was kind of a deal breaker was that if you try to advance the podcast in the player while its playing you lock up the app. Restart is the only solution. So, it was a good, pretty solution, but it had to go. I tried a couple other apps, but I wasn't sold.
So, ultimately, isyncr is my solution for podcasts too. It woks well, but it will require a daily sync. The advantage ultimatley of syncing from the desktop is also that I am able to make Mp3 CDs of podcasts as well as sync my podcasts from the same source. Simple, efficient and workable.
Which brings me to playing. I love google music(I have two more invites if anyone wants one), and it allows me to access my music when I am around wifi seamlessly. It allows me to make instant mixes based on a song. That's a killer feature. Combined with wireless access to all my music via the cloud its excellent. Advancing and moving within tracks and podcasts works well. Its not a full-feature app, but it works.
Almost there, there is one last aspect. I would like to rate music from my library while its playing. Isyncr has a nice widget that allows you to rate and see your playing apps and see the album art. Its part of the package. The ratings and playcounts go right back to itunes.
My preferences represent my unique quirks in terms of music and listening: I am a podcaster and a music listener and I prefer to rate my music. Because of this I am happy with: Isyncr and google music.
Long set-up, but ultimately I am asking you what your music listening setup is. Thoughts?

I use the standard music app since it has DTS for the g2x. Google music as well for some streaming music. Google Listen app for podcasts. I also like BeyondPod.
I drag and drop music. It's not fancy but I don't mind.

Power Amp with some EQ modifications and Voodoo Sound is how I enjoy my music. I used to use Doubletwist for syncing my music to my phone, but each update made more and more bloated, along with random freezes, so I just uninstalled it. Sony's Media Go software good is good for adding music, but I prefer to drag and drop into organized folders.
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If you're using a stock ROM, I'd recommend sticking to the stock player because of it's DTS feature. It greatly improves sound quality if you have it selected.

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.

oxeneers said:
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

[Q] Google Play Music playlist track limit

Since Google doesn't seem to have any support forum anymore that would be related to Google Play music, I'm forced to post this message elsewhere. I did already contact Google support about the issue, however they've not answered me yet.
The problem that I have with Google Play Music is that playlists seem to have rather low maximum limits for number of songs. Currently I've mostly been listening to music by simply giving good tracks a thumbs up. After this I can simply shuffle the thumbs up playlist and It'll only play songs that I like and not only one genre like the radio stations. Recently, however I realized that the number of songs on the 'Thumbs up' playlist doesn't keep increasing but instead stays at approx 1150 songs or 95 ½ hours. For whatever reason my phone and other mobile devices show 1200 songs for the 'Thumbs up' playlist.
I tried to go around this problem by creating a new playlist and adding everything in thumbs up to it but apparently other lists only support 1000 tracks. :silly:
What this means is that the whole thumbs up system is almost entirely useless for me from now on; adding more songs will simply drop some earlier added ones from the playlist (I did verify by copy-pasting the whole playlist to Notepad++ that there are actually only 1146 songs in the list). It's also pretty much impossible for me to now keep up with which songs have been dropped from thumbs up and should actually be there.
Has anyone else ran into this issue? I couldn't really find anything similar to my issue by googling around. Surely I can't be the only one who has over 1200 tracks on their thumbs up list?
Edit:
After some further investigating I found out that on my every mobile device the amount of tracks on 'Thumbs up' is different. Anyone else experiencing this issue?

Same Problem
I use a playlist to select the songs I want to sync to my Android phone. It has over 2000 songs in it but the limit is 1000. Please remove this limit Google!
Rd. Vortex said:
Since Google doesn't seem to have any support forum anymore that would be related to Google Play music, I'm forced to post this message elsewhere. I did already contact Google support about the issue, however they've not answered me yet.
The problem that I have with Google Play Music is that playlists seem to have rather low maximum limits for number of songs. Currently I've mostly been listening to music by simply giving good tracks a thumbs up. After this I can simply shuffle the thumbs up playlist and It'll only play songs that I like and not only one genre like the radio stations. Recently, however I realized that the number of songs on the 'Thumbs up' playlist doesn't keep increasing but instead stays at approx 1150 songs or 95 ½ hours. For whatever reason my phone and other mobile devices show 1200 songs for the 'Thumbs up' playlist.
I tried to go around this problem by creating a new playlist and adding everything in thumbs up to it but apparently other lists only support 1000 tracks. :silly:
What this means is that the whole thumbs up system is almost entirely useless for me from now on; adding more songs will simply drop some earlier added ones from the playlist (I did verify by copy-pasting the whole playlist to Notepad++ that there are actually only 1146 songs in the list). It's also pretty much impossible for me to now keep up with which songs have been dropped from thumbs up and should actually be there.
Has anyone else ran into this issue? I couldn't really find anything similar to my issue by googling around. Surely I can't be the only one who has over 1200 tracks on their thumbs up list?
Edit:
After some further investigating I found out that on my every mobile device the amount of tracks on 'Thumbs up' is different. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
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Google Music Thumbs Up Keep Disappearing from Auto Playlist
Rd. Vortex said:
Since Google doesn't seem to have any support forum anymore that would be related to Google Play music, I'm forced to post this message elsewhere. I did already contact Google support about the issue, however they've not answered me yet.
The problem that I have with Google Play Music is that playlists seem to have rather low maximum limits for number of songs. Currently I've mostly been listening to music by simply giving good tracks a thumbs up. After this I can simply shuffle the thumbs up playlist and It'll only play songs that I like and not only one genre like the radio stations. Recently, however I realized that the number of songs on the 'Thumbs up' playlist doesn't keep increasing but instead stays at approx 1150 songs or 95 ½ hours. For whatever reason my phone and other mobile devices show 1200 songs for the 'Thumbs up' playlist.
I tried to go around this problem by creating a new playlist and adding everything in thumbs up to it but apparently other lists only support 1000 tracks. :silly:
What this means is that the whole thumbs up system is almost entirely useless for me from now on; adding more songs will simply drop some earlier added ones from the playlist (I did verify by copy-pasting the whole playlist to Notepad++ that there are actually only 1146 songs in the list). It's also pretty much impossible for me to now keep up with which songs have been dropped from thumbs up and should actually be there.
Has anyone else ran into this issue? I couldn't really find anything similar to my issue by googling around. Surely I can't be the only one who has over 1200 tracks on their thumbs up list?
Edit:
After some further investigating I found out that on my every mobile device the amount of tracks on 'Thumbs up' is different. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
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I have the same exact issue, but I am not sure how we are going to be able to do anything about it until Google just figures it out. I doubt they are trolling this forum. I called Google and they said there is a limit and that it was recording the thumbs up/down, but it only allows for a certain amount of songs in the auto playlist. Something about something on the back end preventing longer playlists. This is complete bull**** as Spotify and other music services do not have these limitations. Whats the most annoying is that I love Google music and want to keep using it, but if it's just going to keep blasting away my thumbs up playlist periodically as I add new tracks over the next 10 years then whats the point? I should have like 10,000 thumbs up tracks in there, not 1,000!!! Complete FAIL!

Google Music Thumbs Up Missing Workaround
doomsdalicious said:
I have the same exact issue, but I am not sure how we are going to be able to do anything about it until Google just figures it out. I doubt they are trolling this forum. I called Google and they said there is a limit and that it was recording the thumbs up/down, but it only allows for a certain amount of songs in the auto playlist. Something about something on the back end preventing longer playlists. This is complete bull**** as Spotify and other music services do not have these limitations. Whats the most annoying is that I love Google music and want to keep using it, but if it's just going to keep blasting away my thumbs up playlist periodically as I add new tracks over the next 10 years then whats the point? I should have like 10,000 thumbs up tracks in there, not 1,000!!! Complete FAIL!
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Hey friend hopefully you're still monitoring this thread. I found a way around this bug and hopefully it works for you also. When I was on the phone with Google they told me that my thumbs were all being saved, but just not all showing on this thumbs up playlist. What I did was select all the tracks in the thumbs up playlist, and then select "add to library". Once I did this all of my thumbs up tracks appeared in the thumbs up playlist and everything seems to be working now. I guess there is some sort of bug in which if you add your thumbs to your library they will all show. I will do this periodically as I thumb up more songs, but at least this worked for me. Let me know if it works for you and hopefully others can find this thread!! I may or may not call Google back to report this finding. I do have an open ticket with them and they said they would call me back.

Download a third-party music app!
Third party music apps are a good way to go about music issues.
I like Apollo and Rocket Player. There are plenty of others, though. usually third party apps don't have a playlist limit.
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[Q] Recommend Music Player?

Hello there everyone ^^ my question is about Music Players. I have been using for 3 years now the PlayerPro Music Player, I really like it because you can do what other players won't let you, like:
- Delete songs (as far I know, the default android music player won't let you do this, and IDK if other players would let you since I've only used the PlayerPro all these last 3 years).
- Search and edit artwork for songs, albums, artists from internet.
- Edit songs, albums, artists names and all the other info.
That's pretty much everything I love about that player. The thing is that after 3 years I would like to get a new one but I don't want to lose all those features that makes my life easier. Another reason to change player despite the 3 years using the same one is that I've been getting a lot of bugs and errors lately from the PlayerPro. I can't enjoy it anymore. Yeah, I know apps get updates fixing all kind of bugs and error. But hey, I want a new one x).
Does anyone know about another player with the same features I wrote? Thank you very much minna-san.

KuroJohnny said:
Hello there everyone ^^ my question is about Music Players. I have been using for 3 years now the PlayerPro Music Player, I really like it because you can do what other players won't let you, like:
- Delete songs (as far I know, the default android music player won't let you do this, and IDK if other players would let you since I've only used the PlayerPro all these last 3 years).
- Search and edit artwork for songs, albums, artists from internet.
- Edit songs, albums, artists names and all the other info.
That's pretty much everything I love about that player. The thing is that after 3 years I would like to get a new one but I don't want to lose all those features that makes my life easier. Another reason to change player despite the 3 years using the same one is that I've been getting a lot of bugs and errors lately from the PlayerPro. I can't enjoy it anymore. Yeah, I know apps get updates fixing all kind of bugs and error. But hey, I want a new one x).
Does anyone know about another player with the same features I wrote? Thank you very much minna-san.
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I personally like Rocket Player
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrtstudio.AnotherMusicPlayer&hl=en
It can delete songs and lets you edit all the meta-info. Unfortunately it can't fetch the metainfo automatically for you

PlayerPro Music i'm using it too, has everything i need.

I like the Sony Walkman player, you can find the apk online

I am also a big fan of Sony Walkman

i really like fusion music player, it has all above mentioned features and more

Power Amp is very nice. Black skin the best.

[Q] Google Play Music annoyances

I've been trying to find a good way to keep all my music constantly synced and updated, and I've been having a hard time of it. I've used doubleTwist for a long time, but some of it's more annoying bugs are starting to wear on me. I know there's other iTunes --> Android options, but I was wondering if anyone had much luck turning Play Music into their main method?
Uploading my music is fine, but it often doesn't album artwork with it. Whenever I edit a file or tag in iTunes or elsewhere, it's not reflected in Play Music. If I were to move a file or slightly rename it, it's just uploaded again, so the duplicates were off the charts. Besides those two main issues, I really like the way Play Music is set up. Has anyone found a way to get around those? Any other suggestions for management? Thanks!