Recently, my iPod Video got stolen so now all I have to listen to music is my AT&T Tilt. I bought an 8GB Micro SD card and I don't really like the default media player that I'm using.
What media player do you recommend? I'd love to be able to create playlists easily and to browse music quickly and efficiently.
Thanks alot.
Hmm... it doesn't do playlists yet, but I haven't found anything that's as nice and easy to use as S2P
Try Nytrogen, i like it.
I pref coreplayer
Yep coreplayer for me or if freeware mortplayer is very good.
Me, I liked Pocket Player so much I paid for it
I'm an Itunes user, so I like the AAC support and the nifty browsing.
PocketPlayer 4.1 for music as it's got awesome sound a great interface & CorePlayer v1.3.5 Build 7340 for videos
I have PocketPlayer V4.0. It is very good & sounds good with a 3.5mm adaptor & good headphones.
i've gone through quite a few audio players. yesterday, i revisted the latest version of pocket player and i was BLOWN AWAY!
so i remembered reading this thread...dug it up...and decided to
1. give my props to pocket player (i am considering purchasing it!!!)
2. provide brief reviews of pocket player as well as other audio players i've tinkered with over the last 2 years.
HTC Audio Manager (most recent versions are similar with minor differences)
1. FREE!
2. has shipped with nearly all HTC official ROMs...integrates nicely with HTC Home and Manila2d/3d.
3. good audio quality but no built in equalizer. if headphones are plugged in, you can get equalizer functionality with the HTC audio booster.
4. now playing view is quick and to-the-point.
5. library is easy to use and straight forward.
6. auto detects music files across the entire device (i consider this to be a bit more "poky" than necessary).
7. bit sensitive to bad/corrupt mp3 files. often crashes even if a single mp3 file is indexed into your library.
8. finger scrolling is NOT kinetic and relies COMPLETELY on touchflo scrolling. this means that if you are like me (i.e. you use WM6.5 and you have completely disabled touchflo scrolling to allow WM6.5 native thumb scrolling to work properly), you will have to use the d-pad or scroll wheel or the scroll bar on the side to navigate the album
9. some versions on some ROMs are unable to play music through the loud speaker if the device is put to standby (playback through head set ALWAYS works with nearly every player in this list when device is on standby)
10. seems to support playlists but thats it! i don't think you can "manage" playlists more than just picking an existing one to play.
S2P (0.73beta)
1. FREE!
2. good alternative if you want something that looks a bit like the ipod/iphone music player. similarities are mostly cosmetic though.
3. library view is good! uses its own native kinetic thumb scrolling.
4. i think it supports playlists but i didn't see good support for building a playlist.
5. library navigation with the d-pad felt a bit unintuitive.
6. proper access to the library requires ordering your files in a certain heirarchy of folders.
7. good but not as clean to use (e.g. in the car) as nitrogen and not nearly as good as pocket player
Nitrogen
1. FREE!
2. skinnable. however, i found that most skins are made EITHER for portrait OR landscape but NOT both. that means rotating your screen and bringing up nitrogen meant manually switching to a landscape theme before you could see the rest of nitrogen's GUI.
3. tries to provide its own kinetic thumb scrolling but falls flat on its feet on my kaiser with WM6.5. i just couldn't make the scrolling usable enough to be able to navigate my music folders with ease.
4. the now playing view is easy and straight forward to use and most of the skins make the now playing view almost FUN to use.
5. like S2P, nitrogen requires the library to be arranged in proper files and folders for your own good. this is because nitrogen's library is really not a library! its just a glorified file/folder browser. however, nitrogen supported some nice features such as enqueue, enqueue and play, etc, suggesting that its internal playback is indeed building up some sort of a playlist that can be managed/saved.
6. does NOT continue to play through the loudspeaker if you put your device to standby (works fine through headset when put on standby). stutters on WM6.5 if the WM6.5 lockscreen comes up.
7. equalizer felt good but i didn't test scientifically.
Pocket Player v4.1
1. NOT FREE! (BUT WORTH IT, READ ON!)
preamble: on the desktop, i swear by WinAmp. once properly configured, WinAmp is the best experience for music playback on the desktop IMHO so i always sought something similar on the mobile (similar in functionality and power, not necessarily in looks). pocket player turned out to be shoe-in!
2. extremely customizable, lots and lots of options
3. only player in this list of AUDIO players that provides VISUALIZATIONS
4. only player in this list of AUDIO players that can play VIDEOS too
5. skinnable (supports native skins, winamp skins, and also auto detects available windows media player skins)
6. now playing view revolves around an explicit editable/managable/savable playlist. what this means is that in other players, the playlist is implicit. when you choose to playback an album, the tracks in the album are the ONLY tracks maintained in this implicit/hidden playlist. when you choose another album, the old playlist is cleared and the new album listing is loaded as the new playlist. this works but it is limited. with pocket player, you can dynamically BUILD a playlist. its a powerful concept that brings a level of experience similar to winamp on the desktop.
7. EXCELLENT library view. behaves like htc audio manager (because it does not require a special reorganization of your files and folders). looks for files to add to the library only in folders explicitly chosen by the user (like S2P and nitrogen).
8. playlist in now playing view is fully thumb friendly with kinetic scrolling (smoothest i've experienced on the kaiser).
9. library is fully thumb friendly with kinetic scrolling and with alphabetic indexing strip on the right (smoothest i've experienced on the kaiser).
10. large menus (regardless if you have WM6.1 or WM6.5).
11. POWERFUL options in the popup menus of items in the library. what behavior or what menu pops up is controlled through simple gestures. the mappings are all up to you!
12. keeps playing with the device in standby, through loudspeaker as well as through headset. no stuttering experienced so far.
13. supports crossfading.
14. equalizer felt good (i was using the "fast" equalizer, perhaps the other equalizers can give even better quality).
15. i can't stress this enough...the library view is a DREAM!
Pocket Player...HIGHLY recommended!
cheers!
Related
I think my Diamond can get a bit faster. I used TF3D Config and then noticed something interesting: It seems like TF3D gets a bit of a boost if I use less Tabs. So I decided to delete some tabs which I don't use often. For example the internet tab - I simply put an Opera shortcut on the program tab and done.
Now to the music thing..
I was wondering if there is might be a way to enjoy music on the diamond without the candy and sometimes unhandy Music tab on TF3D. I like the Windows Media Player from WinMo, cause its very basic but opens with a very usable archive-view which shows my music. So i think its cool if we put the media player with a shortcut on the program-tab and get rid of the TF3D Music Tabs.
...But to things are somehow disturbing:
1. The Media Player isn't that cool when it comes to mp3 tags, so I need a small app which let me edit tags on my music files
2. Of course, to make this idea work, we need a black media player skin which suits into the interface. Don't know where to get this. It should have eyecandy things like showing the albumcover, huge buttons for tapping with the finger, or less buttons plus a concept how to configure the diamond buttons with the media player.
Any ideas how to solve this? Or are you all satisfied with the TF3D Music functionality?
Im not satisfied with TF3D as a whole, mainly because of the music tab.
So I use PocketMusic. For me this is how music on the pda is supposed to be.
TF3D music player is not for nomad use. The interface is cute, but really not made for an everyday use.
I've tried a lot of music players on my diamond.
The 3 best ones in my opinion are :
1) Conduits Pocket Player (has a WMP-like skin, btw)
2) MortPlayer
3) PocketMusic.
Each one has pros and cons. Though, the huge amount of config options in Pocket Player and MortPlayer allows quite good things, much more than with PocketMusic.
Though, I still haven't found a way to correctly map my volume buttons with any of these three apps (see my other post about this issue).
The best combo I've got for the moment is AEBPlus + Pocket Player : Long Press DOES work for volume buttons, but inhibits them in TouchFlo.
Pocket player has some cool features, I agree, but in my opinion pocketmusic simply has the best sound.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks during my work commute and used to use my iPod for this. Since I have a decent sized memory card in my X1, I'd rather use it instead so I only need one device with me. The problem is that all of my audiobooks are in .m4b format, so I need something that runs on WinMo that can:
1. Play this .m4b format (I think it's just AAC)
2. Bookmark where I am in each book so if I close and re-open the player, the book continues from where I left off
3. Allows fine tuned rewind/fast forward as I often rewind 5-30 seconds to hear some part of a book a second time
I've found tcpmp/core player can play .m4b's, but it's not great at bookmarking. That is, if I'm listening to a book, close the player and re-open it, the bookmark works fine and it continues to play where I left off. However, if I open any other file in between, the bookmark is lost. This is made worse by the inability to do any fine tuned rewind/fast forward. The only option is to use the progress slider, which tends to jump in VERY large increments.
Any suggestions? Is there another audiobook format I should try which would work better?
Convert to MP3 then use something like:
http://motorola-windows-mobile.hand...id=1093&for=Motorola+Windows+Mobile audiobook
Unfortunately m4b is a gash Apple format and so needs to be converted...
You could also try Kinoma (www.kinoma.com). Not sure if it plays .mb4, I use it for books from audible.
I personally just use the standard windows media player, I also listen to alot of audiobooks usually a few hours a day and when I get to and from work I use the notes program to make a note of where I am. This isn't necessery all the time because I can just minimize windows media player and then start it back up when I want to carry on listening (the program doesn't fully close when pressing x)
I have never used an audiobook on an ipod so im not sure what type of support it has though it would be nice to have the feature but it isn't something I really need, it's easy to do without.
bump for more opinions.
I use CorePalayer for my audio books.
http://www.coreplayer.com/
Resco Audio Recorder allows you to bookmark MP3 files at specific points (Store lots of bookmarks for various MP3's), it's also got a finger friendly fast forward/rewind.
According to the website it plays the following files
MP3 — The most popular audio format ever. Widely supported by all platforms. Ideal trade off between quality and hardware requirements.
Ogg Vorbis — Alternative to MP3 with higher quality, but requires faster PDA.
Speex — Outstanding speech compression ratio, but also needs fast device.
WAV — Lossless quality, low hardware requirements, but huge memory consumption.
RAF — Minimal hardware requirements, minimal energy consumption, compresstion ratio 4:1.
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It also can do standard voice recording and phone call recording
Edit: Just looked on their site. They have a Codec pack addon that allows recording/playing of AAC files
Second Edit: They also have a seven day demo (I'm assuming you can add the demo of the codec pack as well) So that you can test it to see if you like the software
THJahar said:
Resco Audio Recorder allows you to bookmark MP3 files at specific points (Store lots of bookmarks for various MP3's), it's also got a finger friendly fast forward/rewind.
According to the website it plays the following files
It also can do standard voice recording and phone call recording
Edit: Just looked on their site. They have a Codec pack addon that allows recording/playing of AAC files
Second Edit: They also have a seven day demo (I'm assuming you can add the demo of the codec pack as well) So that you can test it to see if you like the software
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Ooooh, now this is what I was looking for. The bookmarking feature works very well for my audiobooks and the touch friendly controls are exactly what I was looking for. It doesn't seem to like the m4b files, even with the AAC codec, but I can easily convert my m4b's to mp3's and everything works wonderfully.
Thanks!
Or have a look at MortPlayer.
With favorites (easy navigation through your music/audiobook folders), special audio book support (auto bookmarks for audio book files/folders, auto rewind when continuing, ...), bookmarks, finger friendly since the first beta (somewhere in 2004, iirc), skin support (including WVGA since 3.31b73), ...
However, the AAC/MP4 plugin from GSPlayer (included in beta installers) doesn't work properly on all devices, and I'm not sure whether m4b is included...
Hey, I found out, that Audiooboks in the m4B Format can't be handled by the Mort Player.
BUT
If you rename the file from m4b to m4a the player can handle them.
Cheers
Jens
I was very excited to try this as I have a number of .m4b audiobooks I would like to listen to on the Android. But I just tried renaming an .m4b file to an .m4a file on my Android G1 and it still did not play I have been using the Ambling BookPlayer which works well with mp3, oog, or m4a files, but renaming the m4b to m4a didn't work.
The Ambling BookPlayer has worked very well for playing audiobooks even those that have a lot of individual audio files, and it has a bookmarking history with undo and redo so you can jump right back to each place you started or stopped listening. The Ambling BookPlayer Lite is free on the Android Market and it supports automatically downloading the free LibriVox audiobooks directly to the Android.
I would be interested in knowing if anyone else been able to successfully play an m4b file after renaming it to an m4a? and if so which Android phone does it work on?
I found that there is a request for Google to add support for the m4b format to the Android at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3923 You can boost the priority of this request by going to the page and clicking on the star to cast your vote in favor of adding this feature.
Audiobooks from iTunes in M4B are encrypted. Simply renaming the files from .m4b to .m4a will not help. You need to decrypt the files first. Google for Requiem.
The m4b format does support encryption. Some m4b audio files are encrypted but others are not.
If you get one of the conversion programs (there are many available) that will convert mp3 files into m4b files, the resulting m4b files are not encrypted. Other m4b files, such as those sold by some stores, are encrypted.
If you purchase an audiobook on CD, rip it to mp3s, combine them and convert them to an m4b (just for the purpose of getting bookmarking to keep track of your place in the audiobook), the resulting m4b file is not encrypted.
new player app
Here is a new Android app Akimbo Audiobook Player that has m4b support with chapters and artwork. Finally I have got back to where I was years ago on the ipod
I am a long term kaiser owner, couple of years now.
I decided to try it as my day to day mp3 player. I normally use a Sony dedicated player but as I have a spare 16GB micro SD, I thought I would put that to use.
Does anyone have any tips on a good audio player that is installable as a cab because I have no real knowledge of flashing custom roms (apart from orginal ones, ie, setup.exe, next, next )
many thanks all for a great place for info
Best AudioPlayer i.m.o is PocketPlayer download the demo give it a shot
Best audio player and it's FREE...is Mortplayer. I use it on my TyTN II and have used it for many years now. I am unable to upload cab, but the latest is MortPlayer-v3.31b77. You won't need another mp3 player. Just Google it and you'll find it.
cheers all
Sadly I used the windows media player, there was a way to turn the screen off with it so I used it.
NITROGEN IS THE WAY TOO GO
fast,simple,light, and you change change the skin
always been using this
yeah windows media player all the way
The only thing I have to say about Nitrogen is that it does not sort my memory by album, artist, etc... Otherwise, I MUCH prefer Nitrogen to anything else, just feels 'right'... all the buttons do what I feel they should do, the scroll wheel is the volume, and the volume is independant of all other sounds on the device. Allows me to balance my voice navigation agaist my mp3s, etc.
How does Mort player stand up?
+1 for Nitrogen
Ive tried searching and googling but I cannot find the best dedicated Music app for the HTC touch pro.
Any help would be fantastic. thanks.
Personally, my favorite app to play audio is TCPMP. It is lightweight, but highly customizable. It is the only app I know that allows you to control playback speed (something I like).
i ve a wired headset w/all the playing buttons (play-stop,pause,vol+-,etc) and it only works with windows media playe. At least without making some reg changes.
I use Nitrogen. It's one of my favorites.
I use HTC Audio Manager. It looks clean and it recognizes the playlists I created in Win Media Player.
the best has to be Pocket Music hands down, it has way more features and options than any of the above and i know coz i've used all of them, Pocket Music lets you customize it heaps and it includes radio FM and tons of equalizers, playlists and skins etc, it's awesome.
me too
I am also searching for a better audio player. The windows media player that come with my room is a big brick of SH*T. I hate it, while playing, the music stop when end, and looks like the phone is dead. Too slow.
Coreplayer is good, but dont have much options and crashes.
The one i am using now is Pocket music player, but it also have a lot of bugs and CRASHES too, at least have so many options, and its a lot flexible. and thats what i want, but there is a delay when changing music ( i dont know why, is this configurable?) that i really dont like.
any one knows something better than Pocked music?
how about S2P?
It's my favorite APP with WM6.5 HTC Touch Pro...
I like Nitrogen too. It has nice looking skins and I like using the sleep timer.
merovigiam said:
I am also searching for a better audio player. The windows media player that come with my room is a big brick of SH*T. I hate it, while playing, the music stop when end, and looks like the phone is dead. Too slow.
Coreplayer is good, but dont have much options and crashes.
The one i am using now is Pocket music player, but it also have a lot of bugs and CRASHES too, at least have so many options, and its a lot flexible. and thats what i want, but there is a delay when changing music ( i dont know why, is this configurable?) that i really dont like.
any one knows something better than Pocked music?
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I like Conduits Pocket Player better. Check it out.
My vote goes to S2P - combined with S2U2 it is absolutely perfect
I'm missing some features though like playlists or viewing some additional info (bitrate etc.)
I like s2p for music and pocket player for podcasts, PP has a great bookmarking feature that alot of others don't have
I like windows media player mobile. Coz it supports my audio adapter hardware buttons. But I miss the sleep/close/pause timer on it.
PocketMusic in Hermes 2 months ago, now TouchFLO Music Tab
I had used PocketMusic on my Dopod 838 Pro (HTC Hermes)..
It has features I need :
Sleep Timer
Playlist
Control playing with Hardware buttons even when minimized (like in Nokia XpressMusic)
Bass Boost
Now, I'm using the built-in TouchFLO 3D 2.1 dedicated Music Tab on my HTC Touch Pro..
Now, I need a player with PocketMusic features that can replace the Music Tab (because I love the integration), also better if it has integration with S2U2
S2P hides the taskbar, right?
Question: Anyone recommend a music player app that will seek and find my SD Card 2? I want to load my mp3s on the secondary card but I don't want to have to click on each file each time in ES File Explorer to get them to play. None of the programs tried so far work (stock music player, MixZing or WinAmp -- WinAmp burps (FC) when I try to tell it to select that option). Running TnT-Lite-2.4.
Thanks.
Very basic player that works: Andless (in the market). It has an Explorer-like interface so you just point it to /sdcard2 and your music subfolder. It also has the added benefit of supporting FLAC files, if that's important to you.
Experimental player that is flippin' awesome but has a horrible UI, right now: Rockbox. If you're an audiophile, you probably already know this app. Amazing EQ that really REALLY makes the GTab sing when you configure it to your liking. But, the UI is a mess at the moment - takes a lot of getting used to and it doesn't quite fit the screen yet.
Rockbox beta link: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AndroidPort
My 800x480 compiled Rockbox, from 10/31 which I'm using on the GTab: http://www.mediafire.com/?o43jl5rj4llracm (I guess I need to update that)
I am a major music fanatic, so SQ is pretty important to me. I primarily use my 10/31 RB port with my HD600's and MiniBox E+ amp, or Andless when I just need something to run quickly and without the UI headaches.
Poweramp lets you identify folders to add to its library, including sdcard2 locations. I will admit that have not tested the response that it gives when you remove or insert different cards.
Alternatively, I did use Any Cut to make a shortcut to the Android media scanning function (Activity > Media Scanner). Normally it seems that this function only runs at boot. Running it after I've made a file update seems to allow everything to show up in the default musuc player.
I use poweramp no problems all my music is on /sdcard2