I'm looking for something that plays the files on my SD card but that gives me my folder tree structure like I use on my desktop with Jriver Media Center. Tag organisation is great, but for lots of my music, folders and subfolders help keep my collection organised.
Is there anything that can read the folder tree of my SD card like that in an Android music app, give me some file info (encoder, bitrate, etc) and give me some interesting UI options?
Thanks!
By far the best music player I've found is Poweramp. It costs a few bucks after the trial period ends, but IMO it's worth every penny.
ganns1980 said:
By far the best music player I've found is Poweramp. It costs a few bucks after the trial period ends, but IMO it's worth every penny.
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Thanks. But no folder view for albums.
Search for MyPlayer++ were in XDA
or HikiPlayer on the play store
I am after the same thing; I tried the Samsung Music APK on my Nexus 6P and it did not install....
filtragem said:
Search for MyPlayer++ were in XDA
or HikiPlayer on the play store
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Wow... MyPlayer++ is pretty close to perfect. But for some reason it's the only app I've seen that has trouble with some of my artwork?
here some suggestion,
phonograph
shuttle+
pulse music
Myplayer++ is awesome. I've been using it for about a week. There has been some jitter though, which I will post in that thread about.
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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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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, with it at 2 votes, I'm gonna give it a shot.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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App is actually called sdrescan. Found it, used it, worked like a charm.
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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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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!
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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
I love listening to podcasts, but neither the default ICS player or Poweramp will bookmark where I am in audio files (even ones tagged as podcasts)
Are there any free (or at least cheap) audio players that will save my place in files??
Thanks!
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I love listening to podcasts, but neither the default ICS player or Poweramp will bookmark where I am in audio files (even ones tagged as podcasts)
Are there any free (or at least cheap) audio players that will save my place in files??
Thanks!
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Bump on this too. I just got my Sprint NG, so yeah I want good podcast management like my WP7 had.
Bump in hopes of someone seeing it!
Per recommendations online, I found DoggCatcher.
Holy crap this thing is perfect! After spending a day with it, exporting my list so I can re-import it at will (wish WP7/Zune could do that), I immediately bought the full version.
Awesome.
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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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.
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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
Is there a way to transfer music from my PC/iTunes without losing all of the information such as album artwork and artist name? Just, when I transfer an album over at the moment, it puts some songs as individual albums instead of with the album their with. For example, I transferred over Some Nights by Fun (great album) and, whilst most of the tracks were fine, Carry On was listed under a separate album. Anyway to avoid this?
Any ideas?
Music Folder Player
Google Play: Music Folder Player
"If you regularly play music on your mobile Android device, then Music Folder Player may come in handy.
It can be annoying when playing ,music without tags for example of your ripped CD’s without downloading the ID3 tag. How about when you’ve added music in a ‘new music folder in your memory card without knowing exactly all the artists/albums? Well, the dev of the app, XDA forum member cyberniko says this is where his app can help.
Music Folder Player is available as a free version in the Market, and the dev is looking for feedback on tablets."
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/music-player-with-filefolder-browsing/
My friend ,
I'll try to explain what i've done with my mp3 library
It's all about the tag stored in the mp3 file itself
There's more than a version of this tag
One file can contain more than one version
That's make the conflict
I'm using a wonderful free software on my pc called mp3tag
There's nothing you can't do in the tag
Give it a try
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Maybe you could give Mediamonkey a try instead of itunes... It also allows syncing with Note.
www.mediamonkey.com
Ps. Not affiliated with this vendor, just sick of the bloated itunes and found a nice alternative.
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Brad387 said:
Is there a way to transfer music from my PC/iTunes without losing all of the information such as album artwork and artist name? Just, when I transfer an album over at the moment, it puts some songs as individual albums instead of with the album their with. For example, I transferred over Some Nights by Fun (great album) and, whilst most of the tracks were fine, Carry On was listed under a separate album. Anyway to avoid this?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.vier.music.syncpro
I use this This is the greatest program I've used! I love iTunes for some reason, and this app syncs everything perfectly for me. I'd highly recommend it. It doesn't sync play count or stars, but that's OK. Playlists are all that I need and a fast easy interface.