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Nexus s 4g stock music player???

So I rooted my ns4g pretty much the minute I got it and I noticed there isn't a stock player??? It could be the rom I flashes doesn't have one but I didnt notice it when it was stock either. Any feedback??
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It does have a stock player. It is called "Music."
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Yep and it is actually a darn decent player too. Still using poweramp since I paid for it and has an eq but the default music player imo is easier to navigate while on the run.
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Ok so I looked through my apps and I have one called music but I'm pretty sure thats the google music beta app I downloaded. The Icon is an orange set of Headphones. My Epic 4G had a music player that had an equalizer which I loved!

Remember the Nexus is vanilla android, the galaxy is castrated by Samsung and touchwiz.
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Mandro1d said:
Ok so I looked through my apps and I have one called music but I'm pretty sure thats the google music beta app I downloaded. The Icon is an orange set of Headphones. My Epic 4G had a music player that had an equalizer which I loved!
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Nope. That's the updated music app.
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krohnjw said:
Nope. That's the updated music app.
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There are good free eq apps in the market that add a menu option to music apps using 2.3+. I like flat with my klipsch s4, but it helps greatly for my cold shure ec2. I use "equalizer" from smart android apps.
Look for the eq in the sound effects menu option. That menu option is only available on the playback view, not in any of the library views.
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Winamp is a pretty decent music app for the Android as well. I use that rather than Google's stock music player.

Which rom are you using? I put the new google music player in becuase the market will keep telling you you have an update. TBH, I like the new one better anyway. If you want the aosp out-of-box player, I can give it to you.

mikeyinid said:
Which rom are you using? I put the new google music player in becuase the market will keep telling you you have an update. TBH, I like the new one better anyway. If you want the aosp out-of-box player, I can give it to you.
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I'm currently using this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070383
The only thing I didn't like about the music player is the absence of an equalizer, but I dl'ed the equalizer app and it works flawlessly! Thanks

Best Equalizer w/ Music Player out there

Cut that Beats crap, thats no where close to a real Eq. You want to hear what real music was supposed to be like?
You want a powerful music player that has equalizers for nearly every aspect of your song?
You want to get the recently released jetAudio app. This music player is the most feature packed one I've seen and tried yet.
It is a player that is for Windows and it was recently ported to Android.
I blast Dubstep though my headphones daily so I needed a nice Eq for that. This is the best sounding player I've seen in a while.
It supports nearly every format availible, has insane amounts of equalizers, can change the speed of song, different effects (crossfade, cut, etc), can post to twitter/facebook for what you are playing if you want, has some fancy animations and more.
If you are looking for a music player then use this one.
Play Store Link (free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jetappfactory.jetaudio
It is currently recently released so it may have bugs. From what I've seen its working 100% though.
Also, if you want an ICS themed music player, check out the Apollo app from CM9 (google around to find the apk). It is awesome as well and is themeable (it only has a dark and light theme as of now though).

Thanks, great find! Looks nicer than PowerAMP.

Great!

Looks great, I'll definitely give this a try. I just wish they decided to use the Holo theme rather than going for a shiny-iPhone skin... but I'm OCD!
Any idea if the headphone controls actually work with our phone? I haven't had any success with even playing/pausing using any other headset :/

Anyone have any feedback as far as comparing this to poweramp+beats?
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Going to try it since you mentioned dubstep... I would of said dnb but dubstep works too
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Also going to try this one since there's been mention of both dubstep and dnb on this thread...
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Wow, amaaaazing, how awesome that JetAudio Basic player is... (And for FREE! Not just 15-day-trial like PowerAMP free version... )
Get JetAudio Basic and rate it!
Anyone got an idea how to get a JetAudio Basic-widget on the homescreen? Like a mini-player with play/pause? :/

Loving the eqs on this, just wish it could work with my play music since I don't keep much music on the phone since no expandable SD card :/
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Does it have themes ? I like the free theme holo ICS theme makes poweramp look nicer
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jasonr803 said:
Loving the eqs on this, just wish it could work with my play music since I don't keep much music on the phone since no expandable SD card :/
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Right? I love Google plays service, butthe player limits optimal audio experience.
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gridlock489 said:
Looks great, I'll definitely give this a try. I just wish they decided to use the Holo theme rather than going for a shiny-iPhone skin... but I'm OCD!
Any idea if the headphone controls actually work with our phone? I haven't had any success with even playing/pausing using any other headset :/
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The only headphones controls I've gotten to work are the Samsung gs3 earbuds. And I mean the only ones
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How can you listen to music on 8 gigs? You have to change the songs almost daily
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Without BBE+ this player is not that great, however BBE Sound Inc. will soon come out with there own player app for Android soon, some time this year.

Music App for Nexus 5?

What's everyone using for their music app on their N5? I'm coming from an SGS3 and really don't like Google Music. I'm also hoping to be able to play occasional .flac files. Anyone have a suggestion?
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I've used Player Pro for a couple of years, and always been quite happy. Great sound with the DSP pack addon installed, and a good number features.
I haven't used it for. flac files, but have been told that the DSP pack enables support for these.
I have also used PowerAmp, but in the end have preferred the interface and sound quality of Player Pro.
Caveat: As with most, I just got my Nexus, so I've really only had one opportunity to play music.
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Power Amp, it has all the features you could ever need and great Dev support.
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Shuttle+ REALLY impressed me. Love that app, dev is really active and supportive, too.
Worth. EVERY. Cent.

Now playing is a pretty decent bare bones music player that's very nexusy
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I actually live Google Music because I prefer their music streaming service.
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stereoprologic said:
Shuttle+ REALLY impressed me. Love that app, dev is really active and supportive, too.
Worth. EVERY. Cent.
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Agreed. Finally a music app that looks good and doesn't have annoying quirks.

Playerpro together with ios7 holo skin. The best.

poweramp

Is the built in player too bad? I used Apollo on my old Cappy.

I ended up pulling the music.apk from AOSP 4.4 and I'm really liking it and the lock screen widget but the lack of a home screen widget really sucks. Its got a pretty respectable eq as well. I'll have to give some of the mentioned ones a go.
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Poweramp works great.
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mjs2011 said:
I actually live Google Music because I prefer their music streaming service.
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this. I don't ever have mp3 music anymore. living in the cloud is where it's at. and Google play music is to notch
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I've noticed a huge improvement in the sound quality through my earpiece when using googles play music on this device. In past android devices the sound quality has always sucked and I've used power amp as a slightly better option. On the n5 tho, the sound is incredible. Mind you, I'm using a high quality earpiece but I used the same ones on many of my android devices (and I've had MANY) and the n5 has a much better sound quality. Just my two cents. Don't need another player in this device. Besides, the cloud is nice. I have a ton of music on it & so it doesn't take up my storage space.
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zephiK said:
Poweramp works great.
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Diggin the cloud so far
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abalosmusic said:
Diggin the cloud so far
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Cloud doesn't work that great for me, i live in NYC so we don't have access to the cloud all the time when were underground.

Poweramp or player pro.
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abalosmusic said:
Diggin the cloud so far
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I hear ya on the underground thing, but for those without those issues, play music is nice. What's greatest to me is being able to upload 20,000 of your own songs (takes a while tho). Works everywhere on everything with an internet connection...
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What's streaming like on battery? I read the n5 has something to take the strain off battery when streaming
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Google Music works excellent for streaming or on device(MP3) music. No real reason for me to use any other player.

[Q] Music Player

I had asked this previously coupled with other quetions but i didnt get any reply!
How can i install Apollo Music Player on stock or non cm based roms?
besides is there any other music player ( free ) which has a similar UI to apollo.
i have also heard that nexus 5 sounds terrible on non stock music players is it true?

Sonone said:
I had asked this previously coupled with other quetions but i didnt get any reply!
How can i install Apollo Music Player on stock or non cm based roms?
besides is there any other music player ( free ) which has a similar UI to apollo.
i have also heard that nexus 5 sounds terrible on non stock music players is it true?
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To install it just find/download the .apk and load it on your phone. Shuttle/Shuttle+ has a similar UI to Apollo.

Sonone said:
I had asked this previously coupled with other quetions but i didnt get any reply!
How can i install Apollo Music Player on stock or non cm based roms?
besides is there any other music player ( free ) which has a similar UI to apollo.
i have also heard that nexus 5 sounds terrible on non stock music players is it true?
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I've rooted and installed Viper4Android which dramatically improved all the Nexus 5 audio output. Then I switched from Poweramp to Neutron player and am very happy with my music options. If I was going to take only one of those two options the free Viper4Android wins hands down as the improvement is amazing. Check the XDA Nexus 5 themes and apps section for the thread on how to install Viper4Android on your phone and have to work well with almost any music player.
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3DSammy said:
I've rooted and installed Viper4Android which dramatically improved all the Nexus 5 audio output. Then I switched from Poweramp to Neutron player and am very happy with my music options. If I was going to take only one of those two options the free Viper4Android wins hands down as the improvement is amazing. Check the XDA Nexus 5 themes and apps section for the thread on how to install Viper4Android on your phone and have to work well with almost any music player.
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i will surely check that and report back to you!

EnVyUs said:
To install it just find/download the .apk and load it on your phone. Shuttle/Shuttle+ has a similar UI to Apollo.
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Thanks man i did check out shuttle it rather feels more like the google music..
But still i will again give it a try!

Best Nexus 5 Music Manager?

I'm looking for a recommendation on a decent music player app. My gripe with Google's one is that I can't make my own custom playlist with my own songs I copied to the device. Then a have a couple of instances where it would stop playing music and I would have to FC and open it again.
Thanks in Advance
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I feel the same way I just use avia now though since I paid the 3 dollars for Chromecast and Dropbox. Honestly a great investment since I still have 50gb dropbox space from my s4. Makes being stuck on the 16gb not as bad because it frees up a lot of space. Although I never had any problems with play music and playlists it doesn't sound as good through headphones or an aux cable
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I like simple, yet elegant. I very much dig Apollo. I kinda set my standards to that. I do a lot of driving and my phone is my music player. As big as the selections are for it, its the best so far. WALKMAN in 2nd and Omich player in 3rd. (Its basicly Apollo with more features that you have to pay for. And some basic Apollo stuff is paid too)
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jetAudio
If you guys havent tried Jetaudio plus. Do so. great eq and audio enhancement options. and 20 band eq is just off da hook.
The only prob is...our stock headphones dont have extra buttons for song change, volume etc. Once u pause a song while your playlist is in shuffle, it re starts the playlist from any other random song.

PowerAmp > All other Android media players :good:
The feature list is too big to type here... just Google some reviews or test the free trial for yourself.

CitizenLee said:
PowerAmp > All other Android media players :good:
The feature list is too big to type here... just Google some reviews or test the free trial for yourself.
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+1.

I like player pro and power amp

I use the Gonemad music player. Love the functionality in it, and it is compatible with Viper4Android.

Poweramp it's simply the best one
Money well spent

Music player
I use shuttle, doubletwist and walkman. I love them all, I just use the one i tap . However, I like DoubleTwist the most.

try fusion music player its a pretty good music app

Poweramp no question
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Poweramp hands down
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sony WALKMAN?

Nozzy the best
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PlayerPro
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Poweramp. An old and ugly interface but what a powerful app !
You can try Nexmusic but there's some bugs for the moment.
Playerpro is doing a very good job too, but it's an really ancient app feeling abandoned by his developer.
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Neutron ....
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PowerAmp :good:

Just gave NexMusic a shot. So far so good!