You no longer have to strain to load all the music you need to get you through your week into each and every android device to your name. You probably already know about online streaming services that offer you infinite playlists from all your favorite artists from around the world. With online streaming, you can choose to listen to anything you like instantly- from the newest hits to timeless classics. But did you also know that there are certain apps that not only allow you to stream from such sites but also save you music for later use in offline mode. Here you will find list of those apps.
http://getandroidstuff.com/music-without-wifi-offline-music-android/
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I've been looking to pay for a music subscription service for the nexus.
browsing through the marketplace, im stuck deciding between grooveshark, rhapsody, mog, and rdio. No spotify since I'm in the US. Just curious to see what you would recommend. All of them cost around $10/month and not interested in pandora, slacker as they are more radio stations that just recommend songs similar to your taste.
Im not that concerned about the social networking (lastfm/ping) and tagging aspect of these services. just want to be able to add playlists, play songs offline, and making queues. also which one has the best bitrate/quality for streaming or are they generally the same?
thanks for the suggestions!
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google up mspot
it's one of the easiest to use, and does not cache into your phone, no wasted space
but obviously, it will not work if you are in the subway, or anywhere without 3G
mrroey said:
I've been looking to pay for a music subscription service for the nexus.
browsing through the marketplace, im stuck deciding between grooveshark, rhapsody, mog, and rdio. No spotify since I'm in the US. Just curious to see what you would recommend. All of them cost around $10/month and not interested in pandora, slacker as they are more radio stations that just recommend songs similar to your taste.
Im not that concerned about the social networking (lastfm/ping) and tagging aspect of these services. just want to be able to add playlists, play songs offline, and making queues. also which one has the best bitrate/quality for streaming or are they generally the same?
thanks for the suggestions!
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Mspot is awesome
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
i agree that mspot and audiogalaxy are great ways to upload your own music to the cloud and stream it.
but im looking more for an app that lets you "download" the song into offline mode so i wouldnt have to always rely on 3g or wifi. plus services like grooveshark and rdio allows you to basically choose any song in their collection - like a netflix for songs if you will.
im asking if anyone has used both of these or any alternatives such as rhapsody or mog and could make a comparison/recomendation? all of them cost roughly 10 bucks a month.
mrroey said:
i agree that mspot and audiogalaxy are great ways to upload your own music to the cloud and stream it.
but im looking more for an app that lets you "download" the song into offline mode so i wouldnt have to always rely on 3g or wifi. plus services like grooveshark and rdio allows you to basically choose any song in their collection - like a netflix for songs if you will.
im asking if anyone has used both of these or any alternatives such as rhapsody or mog and could make a comparison/recomendation? all of them cost roughly 10 bucks a month.
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Google music should be launching soon and as it would be (assumedly) natively supported it might be something worth waiting to check out as I believe it would allow you to do everything you want and more (IE the ability to recognize songs you own and stream those songs as well as others)
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Google music should be launching soon and as it would be (assumedly) natively supported it might be something worth waiting to check out as I believe it would allow you to do everything you want and more (IE the ability to recognize songs you own and stream those songs as well as others)
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I sure hope that google music will provide an easier way of managing and transferring music and tags to our devices. Doubletwist syncing lags for me but id still prefer that to dragging and dropping onto the sd.
I heard that Google music would just be over the air sync of the songs your currently have on your device. But i guess well just have to wait till tomorrow to find out. hopefully whatever it is, it will be released following its announcement.
I posted this in the old Atrix 4G forum, before this existed. I now have an a partial answer to C. More comments / questions embedded.
I just came from the Windows Mobile world and needed to research how to listen / watch live streams.
A) Trying to listen to streaming audio (mp3) from a webpage. Leaving the web browser stops the audio. Besides trying to find the stream in a separate program, is there a browser (or other way) to keep the music playing?
B) Is there a way to keep the music streaming with the screen off (to save battery power)?
>>Item A/B I have yet to find a webbrowser which will continue to play in the background or stream with the screen off. Other music programs do work.
C) Is there a way to get embedded WMV/WMA (http/mms/.wmv/.wma/.asx/.asp) to stream, embedded or kicked off from a webpage?
I still can't fine a program which a browser will kick off if the browsers doesn't support it internally for an embedded media file. Any ideas?
Regarding entering in URLs directly. Using XiiiaLive I am able to stream a *.pls file and *.asx file. And in order to get the *.asp file to work, I'm able to open the file in a webbrowser, which then kicks off XiiiaLive and it works.
Unfortunately, it only plays the audio of video streams (even an *.wma) and on a recorded stream, you still can't fastforward or rewind. This is the only program I have found on the market that seems to support the various playlists / wrappers. I haven't found such a player for video.
In order to play WAV voicemail files in email, I used Remote Wave. It currently has a bug, that you need to kill it between uses. They are working on it.
I have been using the phone during my runs and out of 6 runs I have yet to have music last the whole time. I have used iheart and I have used the radio and both times after about 15-25 mins it will stop. Don't know.if lose signal or if runkeeper is doing it but it pisses me off.
Do you have task manager set to kill any apps or your music player. If so that could be the cause.
No. Why would that help? Think too many going on so system shuts it down?
No I had similar problems with my OG. When I set it to kill a few apps I had accidentally set it to automatically shut off my music payer also and it drove me crazy till I found it.
I don't know if this product exists and I refuse to believe no one is thought about it bud I am looking for a media player with truly smart play lists. I want to have my entire music collection playing and have the software track Which tracks I listen to all the way through and which tracks I skip through and build an automatic based on my long term listening habbits. I know that most media players will store track ratings etc., indipendantly of the media file so would it note be possible to store a play counter for each track in a similar way?
What is the best to store music. I have double twist, but it is a pain to sync my checked songs in Itunes. I am coming from a iphone, had one since 08. I also uploaded most of my music I listen to to Google Music. Is that the easiest? I am afraid with double twist it will sync all of my music. Also will stock music app play songs that I have on Google Music?
Thank
I have DoubleTwist, but I only use it for AirPlay, not for syncing, so I can't speak on that part.
The Play Music (Google Music) player is the only player that will stream your Google Music from the cloud. However, within Play Music, you can download songs to your device. At that point you need a third-party app to convert the downloaded Google Music songs to regular mp3's for use with other apps like the stock app or DoubleTwist.
Sorry, I can't recall what any of these third-party apps are called, but if you google around, you should be able to find them.
If you want to keep music on your phone (which is of course handy for when you don't have a data connection), I use Syncr, which seems to have an easier interface, and less buggy than DoubleTwist. I just dump the music I want into playlists, and sync the playlists to my phone using Syncr.
Haven't used Doubletwist in a while. But when I did, it seemed that more times than not, it would try to synch all my music to my phone, regardless of the fact that I indicated to only sync certain playlists. Since I have something like 40+ GB of music, it lock up my computer, and fail to sync successfully anyway (since there is obviously not enough storage on the phone). Then I would have to start over synching, and on subsequent attempts, it would finally do what I wanted.
I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
So does Google music not let others tie into their service? Big disappointment IMO, I am coming from windows phone and iPhone that have these app silos. Android has a file system and I thought this could be avoided.
I want to use the new HTC Music Hub and at first thought that it was going to tie-in from Google music and bring down all of my music as well as tie-in with local music I have on the phone. Which I am realizing is not the case. All the HTC Music Hub is going to do it let me launch Google music... Disappointing
New question though. Can Google Music two-way sync from the phone? Let's say I download an album from the internet onto my phone. If I put it in a certain folder will it sync? or is there an option in Google Music to upload music from the phone to Google Music?
And last but not least, can the Google Music player play music stored locally on the phone?
You can only add songs to Google Music from your computer, for now.
If you make music 'Available Offline', it becomes stored locally and you can listen to it without an internet connection.
You cannot use Google Music to listen to non-Goolge Music locally stored music.
danada said:
I find the solution I use to be quite useful and actually pretty awesome.
I've uploaded my entire music collection to Google Music. Yeah, it takes a while, but just leave your computer on for a couple of nights and it will finish.
Next, I made sure everything was well-organized. I only keep complete albums (like buying a CD), so sometimes there will be a song or two that need to be manually grouped into the album. Do this!
And finally, go into the Google Music app for your phone, select a few albums, and make them 'Available Offline'. It takes a minute or so to get an entire album transferred onto the device. Make sure you do this while on WiFi.
Since my phone can't hold all of my music, I select about 10 albums or so- more than I can realistically listen to while I'm out, and swap in/out albums when I get new ones or want to listen to something else.
It's also pretty useful if you stumble into anywhere with WiFi and want to listen to your entire music collection- something a lot of us cannot do even with 32GB phone storage. You can also make some more music 'Available Offline' when you find WiFi out in the wild.
This has worked wonders for me so far.
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This is exactly what I'm thinking of doing if I get the One X. Some questions...
Is is simple to swap in/out albums for offline listening? (When on wi-fi.)
So the music is stored locally when downloaded for offline listening? For the One X would that mean the 'phone storage'? (The 9.8 available for media.)
Any idea how long it would take over wi-fi if I hypothetically chose 6 GB of music to download for offline listening?
How well organized is your music once you use the Google Music app? Any bugs? (Songs missing, artist listed twice, anything else.)
Thanks in advance for your answers.
I've always been curious, when you "shuffle" your songs, does it truly pick songs at random, or is there some special "algorithm" the app uses to play certain songs? The reason I ask is, it seems like every time I shuffle my songs (which is how I normally listen to music), I always end up hearing the same general pool of songs. I have, like, at least 300 or so songs downloaded to my device for offline playback, but it seems like every time I shuffle, it's mostly the same songs I heard before.
My assumption is that it takes into account how many times tracks have been played, and the more times they've been played, the more likely they are to show up in shuffle. Thus, when I shuffle my songs, it would use generally the same ones, because those are the "most played" due to all the time they come up in the shuffle.
I just wonder, though, is there any way to change this algorithm, or at the very least, reset all the amount of plays my songs have? I thought I remember one time finding a way to reset the number of plays via the Internet browser client of Play Music, but it doesn't seem like that applied to the number of plays on my actual phone, as it didn't affect which songs were coming up in my shuffle.
I've got like same feeling about it. Shuffle all music seems to pick up songs which have higher listen countet than others, so I end up listening same good 'ol songs - mostly