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Best Music Player?

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!

Request: Sound Equalizer / Presets

Hi, I know it is annoying to start new threads But I have a request (if possible). Can a Sound Equalizer be ported to the android music player or presets such as Rock, POP, Classic, etc. if not, is there any particular 3rd party Music Player which brings a built-in EQ or Presets?
I did a basic research about this and found nothing helpful. just people who wanted to unload their awful day and bad mood on me. sorry and thank you.

i don't think it is possible with android at the moment....

Need API to allow audio stream manipulation. Same issue as video codecs and why Coreplayer team bailed on trying to port their killer app to Android.
Need direct hardware access for core functions such as audio and video. Anything else would be a stuttery cpu choking mess.

Thank you for your responses, guys. At least now I know I would have to stick to buying my headphones with internal amplifier and/or noise reduction if I want some significant changes in the music sound.

BookDroid audiobook listener for Android

Absent Oy has published BookDroid audio book listener
for Android Platform
Want to take your audio book library on the go with your mobile,
but your phone doesn´t have a good player for them, well now you have.
Product homepage: http://www.absent.fi/mobile/bookdroid
BookDroid audio book listener features are:
* Player portion designed audio books in mind
* Supports all audio files that Android platform supports
* Contains personal audio book library, where you can
add/remove/modify audio books
* No matter if your audio book is in a single file or multiple
files, you can combine them into one audio book
* Supports bookmarks in audio books
* Auto save keeps the right position whether application is
shut down unexpectedly
* Undo button remembers last position if mistakenly you
seek or skip while listening
* Supports skip seeking (with configurable skip step) and
track seeking
* You can download thousands of royalty free books straight
within the application
* Downloads can be either audio files, or zip files, which BookDroid
automatically extracts them if they are archives
* Audio books can be transferred through USB or similar method
to device´s memory card (just like music)
SPECIAL DISCOUNT BEFORE THE APPLICATION
HITS THE ANDROID MARKET
Due to limitations on Android Market in Finland, BookDroid
cannot be sold through Android Market yet. Because this inconvenience
we are offering a special discount for the application before it is released
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We are sorry because we have to circumvent the selling through a third party,
but alas when Android Market accepts payments in Finland, we will
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now will receive all the updates for free just like those who will buy it from market.
Instructions how to buy and obtain the application,
see http://www.absent.fi/mobile/buy
BookDroid is developed by Santtu Syrjälä and published by Absent Oy.

Wrong forum; this should be in Apps & Games.

There is an app on the market called Books WordPlayer that is free and has many royalty free books available. How is this different than WordPlayer?
edit: this is an honest question, not meant to bag on your app at all. I'd be interested if it is worth the money.

Hi!
Jay652 : Sorry about this, can moderator move this to correct position?
tekkitan : Thanks for showing interest If I read correctly WordPlayer reads ebooks from texts. BookDroid is quite the opposite, it's audio book player, meaning that it is a media player focused on features for audio books. Many mp3 audio books are really long(8-20 hours) or they are chopped into many files(~100 mp3s). BookDroid aims to ease listening to audio books and specializes to features such as time skipping, autosave, undo skipping, bookmarks, collecting mp3s into one big entity etc. to make audio book listening as much comfortable as it can. Using regular media player with audio books is ockward at best.
Hope I clarified what BookDroid really is

bookdroid said:
Hi!
Jay652 : Sorry about this, can moderator move this to correct position?
tekkitan : Thanks for showing interest If I read correctly WordPlayer reads ebooks from texts. BookDroid is quite the opposite, it's audio book player, meaning that it is a media player focused on features for audio books. Many mp3 audio books are really long(8-20 hours) or they are chopped into many files(~100 mp3s). BookDroid aims to ease listening to audio books and specializes to features such as time skipping, autosave, undo skipping, bookmarks, collecting mp3s into one big entity etc. to make audio book listening as much comfortable as it can. Using regular media player with audio books is ockward at best.
Hope I clarified what BookDroid really is
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Thanks, you did.

I'd try it, but the Android market lets your refund apps you don't like. Can't do that from an untrusted source.

I am using an audiobook player I got from the Android Market called Ambling BookPlayer. It lets you combine multiple audio files into a single audiobook which it treats just the same as a single audio file for playing and bookmarking. It also has a bookmarking history feature that tracks the positions where you start and stop playing and has undo and redo buttons that let you go back to where you were, so you can't lose your place. The free version of this player is called Ambling BookPlayer Lite and it can automatically download the free audiobooks at librivox.org. They have a web site that shows the features in the different versions that are available at http://amblingbookplayer.com/

There's this app too.
ttps://market.android.com/details?id=com.inzi.dreamland2&feature=search_resu lt
That seems pretty cool for a 99 cent app.
I uses motion or speech to determine if you are awake.
Has links to a bunch of free audiobook like Librevox.
I don't think it's a general media player though.

Still haven't found an audio book program I am completely happy with. I will check some of these out

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Still haven't found an audio book program I am completely happy with. I will check some of these out
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check out MortPlayer. I've been looking for a good audio book player. Here are some quotes I collected from various forums.
MortPlayer Audiobook Player. Best audiobook player I've used on any device, and it's free.
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MortPlayer is one of the better dedicated non-DRM audiobook players.
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MortPlayer plays & lists files in correct order. Has every option I can imagine!
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MortPlayer allows you to add bookmarks to the track you’re listening to, so that when you return to your audiobook (from a selection saved on your microSD card) you can carry on from where you left off!
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mydiamarks
check out mydiamarks you can find them on the android market.
Bookmarks all local media (including audiobooks) and even YouTube videos. They even have other clients that android can synchronize with.

What Music Player do you guys use?

I mainly have been using Google Play Music cause of the cool Media Controller that is colored by the album and liked it but others have been using others such as PowerAMP or Samsung Music, etc and wanted to see what you all recommend for music playing and also Samsung Sound Effects such as Surround/Dolby Atmos, Concert Hall, Audio Preset, etc.
Current Config
Player: Google Play Music (cause Album colored Media Controller)
Sound Effects:
Surround/Dolby Atmos: Off
UHQ Upscaler: On (Bit and Bandwidth Upscale)
Concert Hall: On
Preset: Normal
Adapt Sound: Custom

Spotify.
Dolby atmos on.
Custom sound on. Depending where I play. I got profiles to use on my car ICE, wired headphones and BT headphones.
I find dolby atmos improve spotify by far.. Before it spotify sound quality sucks
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I've been going back and forth between PowerAmp and N7.

So far trying PowerAmp and sounds the same until I switch to this preset.
EQ: Speakers (Loud)
Reverb: Off
Resampler: SoX 99.0%
Output: Hi-Res, Sample 384kHz from 48kHz
Buffer: Normal
DVC: ON
MusicFX: OFF
Any PowerAmp users want to share their profiles or suggest changes to mine?

I just use the stock Samsung Music Player that comes bundled with the Samsung OS. It is pretty good and plays whatever I want. Seeing as I keep all my music stored locally on my microSDcard.

USB Audio player pro HiRES support added

With a recent update USB Player pro has added support for Hires audio to the A70.
It can now play Hires audio like FLAC, streaming service like Tidal (including with software MQA decoding) & Qobuz
PCM stream can be send directly to the internal DAC in bit-perfect.
I made some tests to compare the output with my USB Dac and so far the quality is on par

I wish Android auto would support USB Player, would be so perfect

downloaded it for my lg v20 today holy moly it is totally worth the money. so many cool options with it too. I have some original flac cds on my library aand some stream downloads from online purchases and it sounds alot different than i imagined. Will give my thoughts still playing around with it.