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[Q] Music Player with Good Equalizer

Hi Guys,
I'm looking for some app to play mp3 songs on my X10.Have Poweramp full version but it gives an error "Too many falied files,playing will now stop" if the mp3 file is not playable.
It then has to be reinstalled to play any songs further.
The only reason I sticked it was due to its awesome equalizer which coupled with good earphones produced excellent music.
I have also tried Music Player Pro-full version and winamp but lack of equalizer & punchy sound makes them dud
Any suggestions please?

PowerAMP
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MIUI music player makes the good equalizer.

vinny11 said:
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for some app to play mp3 songs on my X10.Have Poweramp full version but it gives an error "Too many falied files,playing will now stop" if the mp3 file is not playable.
It then has to be reinstalled to play any songs further.
The only reason I sticked it was due to its awesome equalizer which coupled with good earphones produced excellent music.
I have also tried Music Player Pro-full version and winamp but lack of equalizer & punchy sound makes them dud
Any suggestions please?
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You can check out MixZing. It has an equalizer.

rokca33 said:
PowerAMP
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I'm acing problem while playing a broken file,it pauses & never starts again.Has to be reinstalled !
Tehouster said:
MIUI music player makes the good equalizer.
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Did not hear about it.Searched in market ,not available there,is it a non market app?
LFCFredda said:
You can check out MixZing. It has an equalizer.
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Currently using MixZing,sound quality not at par with Poweramp.Still looking for some more options if left

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vinny11 said:
I'm acing problem while playing a broken file,it pauses & never starts again.Has to be reinstalled !
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My suggestion:
do NOT play corrupted files and stick with PowerAMP. I've tried almost every music player available for Android and in the end I've bought PowerAMP. I need good equlizer as well and PowerAmp is just the best (not only in terms of equalizer).
Btw.: I've been using it for quite a while and the problem you mentioned in 1st post occures when you use cracked version of it. I've installed cracked version to try it before I decided to buy it and it gave me that error. I've never encountered it since I've bought it. So if you don't have it bought, just do it. It really worth that money. If you have, make sure you're using the original version available on Market. Eventually, you can try to send me that song causing the error and I will try to play it on my device to see what happens

as borecz1 said, i have tried EVERYTHING out there!! and since i have been moding my phone and re-flashing roms so much latley i am still on the "trial" version, but intend to but the app once i've finished tinkering!
What i would dearly love (dev's..!!) is an app that can access the internal EQ settings on my x10i. I have seen a few that you can use with your PC, but i'm blown if i know what numbers to put into each box.
An app with access to the internal EQ, perhaps with a preset or 2 would be my very next purchase!!!

vinny11 said:
I'm acing problem while playing a broken file,it pauses & never starts again.Has to be reinstalled !
Did not hear about it.Searched in market ,not available there,is it a non market app?
Currently using MixZing,sound quality not at par with Poweramp.Still looking for some more options if left
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MIUI - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913166

Honeycomb Music app

Anyone using the Honeycomb music app? Im giving it a try it installed just fine for me. Works good and looks really nice. Give it a try, just google it.

Just got it. it works great and is better looking than the stock music player.
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where is the apk?

Just Google "honeycomb music player apk". A bunch of links out there.
I like the player but the thing I miss is the ability to use the Inspires Dolby or SRS sound enhancements. They really make a difference.

I'm using it. It's pretty nice
Via the XDA app for the HTC Inspire

theorioles33 said:
Just Google "honeycomb music player apk". A bunch of links out there.
I like the player but the thing I miss is the ability to use the Inspires Dolby or SRS sound enhancements. They really make a difference.
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Sometimes a really good pair of IEM's will cure the need for sound enhancers. IE7/8, Westone UM3, Shure 500 series. These top off the rack IEM's are why i love digital music.

i tried a couple of places but it never installs right for me

I just installed it two things bug me though. I there any way I could get it working as a replacement for the stock music player? Like making it work with the lockscreen and work right in the notifications area?
It's much better than stock even though it can be glitchy.

bathnapkin said:
I just installed it two things bug me though. I there any way I could get it working as a replacement for the stock music player? Like making it work with the lockscreen and work right in the notifications area?
It's much better than stock even though it can be glitchy.
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You would have to remove the stock app to make new one default.
I get the pause and play buttons on the lockscreen, is that what your talking about.

theorioles33 said:
Just Google "honeycomb music player apk". A bunch of links out there.
I like the player but the thing I miss is the ability to use the Inspires Dolby or SRS sound enhancements. They really make a difference.
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Definitely agree. Absolutely LOVE the Sense music player with the Dolby sound

illini71 said:
You would have to remove the stock app to make new one default.
I get the pause and play buttons on the lockscreen, is that what your talking about.
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It must be because i'm still using sense. I'm going to flash a different lockscreen and see if that fixes it.
I removed the stock apk and sideloaded the honeycomb music player Is there a specific way to replace it instead of that?

where have you guys gotten yours? i want to use it but it never works

[Q] CM12S' lockscreen audio visualizer

Does anyone have this working on any other player except Google Play Music?
I simply can't get it to work with GoneMAD or Poweramp, however Google Play Music and Apollo (CM's music player) manages to show it just fine. It worked on CM11S on both Poweramp and GoneMAD so it should probably work in CM12S too. I have obviously enabled the AudioFX equalizer in both GoneMAD and Poweramp and tried out different ways to approach it like disabling all other equalizers, trying to turn one thing off and enabling the other and AudioFX itself works and the album art is shown in the background, but the lockscreen visualizer does not show in these applications. Completely stock except root, so no modifications done.
Anyone have any tricks to get this working or can at least confirm this is a problem?

have it working on spotify

Jamesr1292 said:
have it working on spotify
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Really? Because I just tried Spotify and it doesn't do it there either. Now, I don't subscribe to the service so I dunno if that has anything to do with it, but it certainly does not show the visualizer at the lockscreen except the album art.
I also tried wiping the device, formatting system, data, cache, Dalvik and installing CM12 from scratch with only GoneMAD and Spotify installed and neither of them did it then either.

i dont have it working either with spotify - was previously on cm11s

I just tried with Poweramp, and it works just fine on my phone... But I don't have all the other music playing apps, just this one... Maybe they're interfering with one another?

I changed back to stock theme and it works. It wasn't on elixium theme
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minotauri said:
I changed back to stock theme and it works. It wasn't on elixium theme
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Did not work unfortunately.
I've tried everything at this point. I even wiped the entire device (even internal storage) and installed everything completely stock and it still doesn't work so this is extremely strange.

My apologies, it was working on cm11 but not 12. I kind of like it and would love to get it working on cm12 if anybody knows how
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Consistant said:
Did not work unfortunately.
I've tried everything at this point. I even wiped the entire device (even internal storage) and installed everything completely stock and it still doesn't work so this is extremely strange.
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Same problem here. Loved the feature on cm11. I thought they took it away on cm12 and was extremely dissapointed. I was randomly playing a song on google play and I saw the visualizer.
I realized its poweramp that is the problem. I dont know how to fix it, tried reinstalling the app but no luckl.

I had this problem too but when i use my bluetooth headphone, the equalizer show up on the lockscreen. When i switch back to my wired headphone, the equalizer goes missing.

The same happens for me. I have the latest CM OTA update as of time of the post.
I have only ES Explorer Media Player, I disabled Google Music and AudioFX but not force closed the latter, enabled the option in Settings-->Lockscreen, but the visualization shows only when linked to loudspeaker with Bluetooth

Viper4Android CONFIRMED!!!

Oh yeah. Viper confirmed working with Apollo player apk. Can provide links if needed. Just viper apk and selinux mode changer. Done
Edit. Appears google play music kills audio.
Selinux mode changer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=12506
Viper4android
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
Apollo/Eleven player
http://d-h.st/RgB0
Startup script. Allows running selinux in enforcing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=61242973
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skooter32 said:
Please the links help ta
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Links are up
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be sure to change the player to Awesomeplayer. (Settings===>Developer Options)
That should fix the Google Music Player cut off?

Dpat09 said:
be sure to change the player to Awesomeplayer. (Settings===>Developer Options)
That should fix the Google Music Player cut off?
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Oh yeah. Totally forgot.

Can't get this to work at all with Google Play Music (the only app I use to stream.)
- Flashed V4A 2.3.4.0 as a system app
- Used Tasker to set permissive on boot
- Disabled NuPlayer
- Disabled and froze Audio Effects.
Enabled: Yes
Status: Normal
Audio Format: Supported
Processing: No
Sampling Rate: 48000
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Spasticdroid said:
Can't get this to work at all with Google Play Music (the only app I use to stream.)
- Flashed V4A 2.3.4.0 as a system app
- Used Tasker to set permissive on boot
- Disabled NuPlayer
- Disabled and froze Audio Effects.
Enabled: Yes
Status: Normal
Audio Format: Supported
Processing: No
Sampling Rate: 48000
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Put it in compability mode. I got it to work with normal mode after flashing extreme music mos, but for gplay music just disable Motorola equalizer and put it in compability mode and select it in sound effects.
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patt2k said:
Put it in compability mode. I got it to work with normal mode after flashing extreme music mos, but for gplay music just disable Motorola equalizer and put it in compability mode and select it in sound effects.
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Thank you! I've been so used to having it easily working on Nexus 5 that I forgot about compatibility mode.
This method also works with a shell command I have in Tasker that allows V4A to run without having to use AwesomePlayer and setting SELinux to permissive.
/system/xbin/supolicy --live "allow mediaserver mediaserver_tmpfs:file { read write execute };"
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Spasticdroid said:
Thank you! I've been so used to having it easily working on Nexus 5 that I forgot about compatibility mode.
This method also works with a shell command I have in Tasker that allows V4A to run without having to use AwesomePlayer and setting SELinux to permissive.
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Yea no problem I spent 2 days trying to make it work with normal mode lol I listen to Pandora a lot and open fm and they don't have equalizer option.
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jmileti said:
Oh yeah. Viper confirmed working with Apollo player apk. Can provide links if needed. Just viper apk and selinux mode changer. Done
Edit. Appears google play music kills audio.
Selinux mode changer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=12506
Viper4android
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
Apollo/Eleven player
http://d-h.st/RgB0
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I don't understand the difference between using this and what the phone already has.

razieltov said:
I don't understand the difference between using this and what the phone already has.
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Your comparing stock sound to Viper. No comparison. If you install viper and nothing sounds different then something is wrong. To troubleshoot you can search for viper4androind thread. Or tell me how you installed and will try to help.

For reference so that he knows what you mean by that. Are you saying that Viper has better decoding (ie closer to source) or that it just has a better soft mixer to make things sound better? Ie one of those is better if your BYI DAC and the other is just trying to make the best out of the stock DAC and speakers. Or is it a great app for both of those cases?

It's been a while since I had Viper on one of my phones, I will have to give this a try and report back how it sounds. Thanks for the post!

jmileti said:
Your comparing stock sound to Viper. No comparison. If you install viper and nothing sounds different then something is wrong. To troubleshoot you can search for viper4androind thread. Or tell me how you installed and will try to help.
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Actually, he/she is making a very valid point. The audio reproduction on the phone is one of the best on the market and it's no slouch compared to standalone audio equipment.
http://www.gsmarena.com/moto_x_style_pure_edition-review-1308p6.php#aq
To take audio and run it thru a bunch of software filters is just going to degrade the quality. Period. You think it sounds better because you're accustom to crappy sounding sound. The only real way to make it sound better is to get some decent headphones and maybe a headphone amp if the headphones have a high impedance.

designgears said:
Actually, he/she is making a very valid point. The audio reproduction on the phone is one of the best on the market and it's no slouch compared to standalone audio equipment.
http://www.gsmarena.com/moto_x_style_pure_edition-review-1308p6.php#aq
To take audio and run it thru a bunch of software filters is just going to degrade the quality. Period. You think it sounds better because you're accustom to crappy sounding sound. The only real way to make it sound better is to get some decent headphones and maybe a headphone amp if the headphones have a high impedance.
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After thinking about it. Your right. This phone has best sound of any phone or tab I've had. Og droid, HTC rezound, galaxy nexus, Sam g4, LG g2, nexus 7 2013. Also have a g4 which is loud but sounds like crap when pushed. Always used Viper to mask the poor sound quality or volume. But on the other hand your saying as popular as viper is, where just listening to crap. Then we all have some pretty bad hearing. I think it is different for everyone as we all don't hear the same sounds so tweaking is the only way to reproduce what we are missing. I will try running with no viper on my MXP and see if it appeases me. Thanks for the input though I feel this will always be debated.

I am unable to get Viper4Android to work. SELinux is set to permissive, V4A is a system app and AwesomePlayer is enabled. Am I missing something?

ShaunWinSC said:
I am unable to get Viper4Android to work. SELinux is set to permissive, V4A is a system app and AwesomePlayer is enabled. Am I missing something?
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I had this problem after a factory reset trying to correct a signal issue. I installed as I have outlines and nothing. So I restored the backup I had with viper running. Didn't want to spend to much time fixing it cause we should have roms relatively soon. Wish I new what else to say. Viper is the easiest to install on a mostly stock Google experience. One thing I can suggest is to turn of amp eq in MXP music player.

jmileti said:
I had this problem after a factory reset trying to correct a signal issue. I installed as I have outlines and nothing. So I restored the backup I had with viper running. Didn't want to spend to much time fixing it cause we should have roms relatively soon. Wish I new what else to say. Viper is the easiest to install on a mostly stock Google experience. One thing I can suggest is to turn of amp eq in MXP music player.
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Where do I find the Amp EQ?

ShaunWinSC said:
Where do I find the Amp EQ?
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Sorry it's at the top of sounds under system settings under audio effects. Not in stock music app.

jmileti said:
Sorry it's at the top of sounds under system settings under audio effects. Not in stock music app.
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Already had that turned off. Really miss having V4A...

How to remove music application?

Hi,
The app is taking over spotify when I try to listen to music with Bluetooth in my car. I asked assistance in spotify forum but they could not help.
The app is built in as people know and there is not even disabling option. How can I get rid off it?
Thanks in advance

Leilebule said:
Hi,
The app is taking over spotify when I try to listen to music with Bluetooth in my car. I asked assistance in spotify forum but they could not help.
The app is built in as people know and there is not even disabling option. How can I get rid off it?
Thanks in advance
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have you tried to change default app settings?

vertex444 said:
have you tried to change default app settings?
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Thank you for the respond. Yes i tried, but there isnt any other available option. Writing with my honor 6 so excuse some typos. Also my main language is not english.
Let me explain this better:
I use spotify with bluetooth to listen to music through my car stereo, which is pioneer mvh 360bt. Everything worked; i could see the song details etc in the stereo display screen and next or previous buttons worked with stereo buttons. Making it very easy to change a song while driving. Suddenly i could no longer see song details and buttons to change songs stopped working also. No idea what may cause it. I did not change or install anything suspicious, except updates on apps obviously. What i discovered is the built in music app, which started to show song details in stereo screen and took over spotify. Basicly the whole controlling is in the music app now. I tried to figure out how can i get spotify back as it used to be, no luck yet. I deleted all songs related to music app and so on. Now i can play songs through spotify, but i cant change songs with stereo buttons and the screen show no title or no name. I think the stereo and bluetooth still connects to music app while leaving spotify outside.
What i tried to do:
Reseted phone to factory settings
Tried two different apps: bluetooth connect and play app, autoaudio bluetooth help. These programs did not change anything.
Messed with phone and stereo settings..
I think i will also reset the stereo settings just to make sure.. But my girlfriends Sony xperia m2 aqua functions as it should, so the problem must be in my phone, not in stereo.
TLDR: How can i get rid off built in music app and make my spotify to function again with my "honor 6 - bluetooth - pioneer mvh 360bt" so i can change songs with stereo buttons and see the song in stereo display screen?
Spotify said that they cant help me with the issue so i hope i could get some help here.
Feel free to ask more questions and details. Thanks in advance.

have you tried to uninstall spotify or music updates to that version that worked?

vertex444 said:
have you tried to uninstall spotify or music updates to that version that worked?
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Hi,
Yes. I tried to install Spotify again, many times. I also tried to install previous versions of spotify with no luck. Though might be a problem that I didn't possibly delete "old files" causing the issue still be there.
The music software, I have absolutely no idea what is it and how can I find previous updates. The software is called "Musiikki", which is "Music" in englishand the version number is v7.0.21.
Btw, I found more threads about similar issue with other Honor 6 users, but also some other phone models having them. Seems like they appeared after installing newest or second newest version of Spotify, but it's weird that I can't even fix the issue anymore by reinstalling older version of Spotify.
What really makes me think is this place where I can change default music application. I can only see there this music software and google play music, but Spotify will not be there, not even with older version.
Tomorrow I am going to reset my phone still one more time and install Spotify version where everything worked. Meanwhile I will also reset my car stereo. If I can't get this to work, I am out of ideas..
Thanks in advance.

i have Music version V6.9.6, try to uninstall updates to Music, from Huawei App Center

vertex444 said:
i have Music version V6.9.6, try to uninstall updates to Music, from Huawei App Center
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Hi. I guess it is worth to try. I downloaded Huawei App Store APK, installed it and I found the Music software but unofortunately I can't do anything for it.. How am I supposed to uninstall the program or even install previous version?

Leilebule said:
Hi. I guess it is worth to try. I downloaded Huawei App Store APK, installed it and I found the Music software but unofortunately I can't do anything for it.. How am I supposed to uninstall the program or even install previous version?
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did you uninstalled the huawei app center? didn't you had it when you bought the phone?
try an phone restart or reset to factory( wise idea - make a backup first)

The phone is european version so it uses google softwares. Anyway i figured out, installed older version of spotify and it started to work. Will keep this version untill spotify fixes this.
Thank you.

Leilebule said:
The phone is european version so it uses google softwares. Anyway i figured out, installed older version of spotify and it started to work. Will keep this version untill spotify fixes this.
Thank you.
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you're welcome
if u want to uninstall the Music app you have to do it from Hi Suite from a PC, at least for H60 L02 phone version.