A decent music player for android?

[sm625]

I had been using my ipoop and usb thumb drives to listen to music/ podcasts. So I never had the honor of experiencing the awful nature of android music apps. Until now. I've been using my phone to play podcasts in my car on the way to and from work. Any music app works fine ... until you pause the app and then open other apps throughout the day. When I leave work that is when I discover that the music app tends to lose track of where I was. I suspect this is due to memory swapping, paging, or whatever you want to call it.

This isnt that big a deal for music, but for hour+ long podcasts it can be really annoying.

As much as I dislike the ipoop, at least I could always count on its stock music player to always remember where I was in a podcast. It never once forgot where I was in my podcast, even if I opened 30 different apps and forced plenty of paging.

I cant be the only one who finds this intolerable. Please tell me there is an android music app that actually works; ie one that always remembers where its at in a song or podcast, even if it has to be paged out of memory. I dont care about bells and whistles, I just want something that works.

 

[poofyhairguy]

What you want is called Poweramp. It costs $4 and is worth every penny.

 

[Annon2255]

What you want is called Poweramp. It costs $4 and is worth every penny.

QFE.
Best one I've found.

 

[Wingznut]

BeyondPod and Google Music are my choices... Neither lose their place when pausing and coming back later. Even if it's several days later.

 

[Zaap]

Yup, Poweramp always resumes where it left off.

As for podcasts, Pocketcasts not only keeps track of where a podcast left off... it syncs that across multiple devices. (I can be listening to a podcast on one device on a walk then get in my car and resume same podcast/same place/different device.)

 

[Wingznut]

What apps are you currently using... I don't recall using any that wouldn't resume where you left off.

 

[Naer]

droid x

 

[Kelvrick]

Poweramp is all anyone should ever use.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I hear Shuttle+ is nice.

Reddit has been creaming over that player the last few days.

 

[Raduque]

PowerAMP is the best. Nobody should ever use Google Music, unless you're a masochist.

 

[Bateluer]

BeyondPod and Google Music are my choices... Neither lose their place when pausing and coming back later. Even if it's several days later.

Beyond Pod is what I use for my podcasts. Don't listen to much music though, just Pandora when I've forced to the treadmill.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Yup, Poweramp always resumes where it left off.

As for podcasts, Pocketcasts not only keeps track of where a podcast left off... it syncs that across multiple devices. (I can be listening to a podcast on one device on a walk then get in my car and resume same podcast/same place/different device.)

Agreed, Pocketcasts also rocks.

 

[shortylickens]

I still think the Walkman player on Sony phones is good. But the rest of their software is meh.

 

[TiredEngineer]

Poweramp...one of the best $4 I have ever spent.

FYI...it's the amazing equalizer. My wife hates earbuds, so I stole her Apple "EarPods", and with Poweramp they sound like headphones worth much more than their monetary value.

 

[isekii]

google music

 

[gorcorps]

Poweramp...one of the best $4 I have ever spent.

FYI...it's the amazing equalizer. My wife hates earbuds, so I stole her Apple "EarPods", and with Poweramp they sound like headphones worth much more than their monetary value.

It's that plus the direct volume control (DVC). If you disable that it sounds like trash, which is how most other media players sound. It's on by default IIRC.

The UI isn't great, but the sound quality is well worth it.

 

[TiredEngineer]

It's that plus the direct volume control (DVC). If you disable that it sounds like trash, which is how most other media players sound. It's on by default IIRC.

The UI isn't great, but the sound quality is well worth it.

Just to confirm -> it is on by default.

 

[cronos]

I hear Shuttle+ is nice.

Reddit has been creaming over that player the last few days.

Never heard of it, but apparently it's Amazon free app of the day today, so I grabbed it (haven't installed it yet).

 

[Wingznut]

Never heard of it, but apparently it's Amazon free app of the day today, so I grabbed it (haven't installed it yet).

Used it a bunch today. It works just fine. I don't see anything it does better than any of the other hundred options, but I also haven't found anything to dislike.

 

[lxskllr]

I use Vanilla, Rockbox, and VLC, with Vanilla being my primary player. I'm not so much concerned with long pauses, but it seems like Vanilla picks up where it left off, even after days of disuse. It's not a primary concern of mine, so I may be mistaken, but I think it remembers well.

 

[shortylickens]

I use Vanilla, Rockbox, and VLC, with Vanilla being my primary player. I'm not so much concerned with long pauses, but it seems like Vanilla picks up where it left off, even after days of disuse. It's not a primary concern of mine, so I may be mistaken, but I think it remembers well.

VLC is on Android?

 

[Roland00Address]

VLC is on Android?

They consider it a beta project, but yes.

 

[vbuggy]

The only one that actually works like the iDevices in terms of remembering where it is in each episode is Pocket Casts. The bonus however is that if you have multiple devices, PC works a lot better than the iOS default apps (PC is also on iOS and also offers cross-platform syncing). And importantly, playback functions also work under the lockscreen.

 

[lxskllr]

VLC is on Android?

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=vlc&fdid=org.videolan.vlc

 

[Wingznut]

The only one that actually works like the iDevices in terms of remembering where it is in each episode is Pocket Casts.

That's not exactly true... It's not "the only one", there are plenty.