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android music player?

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cmdrdredd said:
isyncr + stock player


Why? You sync from itunes and it imports your playlists exactly as you have them in itunes. Just like an iPhone.
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Don't have itunes, don't want that itunes crap on my computer anyway. I've used it in the past and its more of a headache than anything.

I bought poweramp last weekend and it works great for what I want.
 
My experience with Android music players on my Samsung Galaxy Tab was hit-and-miss.

I am a big fan of Winamp on the PC platform, but i found the Android version to be a horrible mess, which would more often than not crash on me, come up with lots of playlist errors after every start-up, and in general be more of a nuisance than anything else.

I unistalled Winamp and never looked back.

The thing is, I have a lot of music that's improperly tagged, and way too many music player apps nowadays seem to be fixed on tags for everything, from navigation to playback. This is wrong, in my view.

I'm not a fan of payware, either, so I can't comment on Poweramp.

However, after a lot of trial and error, and going through the likes of MixZing, Cube and so on, I found that MortPlayer is the best music player for me. It can read tags, but is also very capable of playing simple folder structures. If I have a CD ripped to MP3 without tags, all other players will just display "unknown artist" and make a general mess of the playlist, while MortPlayer can simply play any folder I choose, and will use the file and folder names just as happily as anything else. That, to me, is the best feature.

I am not interested in equalizers and DSP - these are easily superseded by a good pair of headphones.

I'm also very much against the idea of a music player being anything more than that. I loathe the iTunes idea and concept, and would not touch any application which attempts to put all my music into a library, categorize it and so on. I prefer to keep control over everything I have, without some genius programmer somewhere deciding how a program should organize my music for me.
 
OK, getting a little frustrated. PowerAmp keeps losing files stored on the external SD card. It installs and plays, but when I exit it loses them and I cannot get them back. Been searching but to no avail, is there any player that supports wma playback aside from PowerAmp?
 
I prefer MixZing, because the buttons on the widgets are a good size for hitting without really looking.

But, I'll try any player that supports folder structures, instead of dumbass playlists and "playing every single media file on the entire folder structure of the phone".
 
Raduque said:
I prefer MixZing, because the buttons on the widgets are a good size for hitting without really looking.

But, I'll try any player that supports folder structures, instead of dumbass playlists and "playing every single media file on the entire folder structure of the phone".
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poweramp lets you select folder or library view

im still on the trial. dont touch the eq or care about it. i liked the doubletwist interface a lot, but i wasnt able to find a way to make it rescan my library, and i didnt want to reboot my phone for that. maybe i didnt look hard enough *Shrug*
 
If you go to settings under folders there should be an option to rescan. I checked out MixZing and does appear to be a superior program to PowerAmp aside from the file support. They're coming out with a version 2.0 to PowerAmp that's supposed to fix my issue, maybe I'll stop hating on it so much.

I understand the native support issue for a Linux based OS and that it's probably more accurately an issue with MS rather than any of the player companies, but it seems like they could clean up with all the posts from people upset over the lack of formats if they would focus on that rather than interface. Maybe it's just that phone and tablet programming have different needs.
 
I just use the stock player as I stream everything through googleMusic. It's nice, the equalizer has some pretty nice features as well.
 
Doboji said:
Quebert... you need to start a blog that talks about all your customization and app selection... either that or I need to find a way to steal your phone for a few days.

Just downloaded cubed and really really like it...
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This is an old thread, but I found it via a search. I tried cube and I didn't like it at all. It doesn't even have a track timer, at least not by default. The interface is lacking IMO.
 
QueBert said:
Playerpro, N7 and a bunch of other music apps support scrobbling directly with just the last.fm scrobbler app installed. The last.fm player isn't that good. Not compared to Playerpro any ways.
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It was just the

Scrobble from any Android music player
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bit that I thought would be helpful. Doesnt that make app support for scrobbling irrelevant or do they still need to support it?
 
WelshBloke said:
It was just the



bit that I thought would be helpful. Doesnt that make app support for scrobbling irrelevant or do they still need to support it?
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I know in Player Pro I have to manually enable the option or it won't scrobble. So I'm guessing the "any music app" isn't correct.
 
Bumping this thread in praise of Poweramp. The sound quality I'm getting out of my SGS2 with the EQ settings on this thing is very impressive. For the first time in my life I don't feel like I have to carry my Cowon mp3 player separately just to get proper sound quality. It feels nice having one device for everything... something I didn't get out of my iphone 4.
 
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