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Looking for a full features (think iPod with a good widget) music player app that displays album are beautifully with the Widget on the desktop and is also quite useful... opinions ?
So there are no good music apps for Android?
Go with Cubed (^3) and you will never look back. Granted the 5.1 surround sound in the stock player was nice but I don't miss it.
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kramttocs said:
Go with Cubed (^3) and you will never look back. Granted the 5.1 surround sound in the stock player was nice but I don't miss it.
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Awesome music player, thanks
MixZing is really good and full features. Only con is it's expensive at $6.99
I use the Music player from the Cyanogen ROMs. I found it over on their forum somewhere.
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I use the Music player from the Cyanogen ROMs. I found it over on their forum somewhere.
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Can't seem to find it over there, could you help me out mate?
I like the Samsung player. My only complaint with it is that it's a bit tedious to set up playlists on, and no widget surpoort. There are a number of really great widgets for the stock Android player, for which I believe I saw a thread that will help you install it, but I haven't gone through the effort to install it so I can't comment much on it.
Cubed is kind of a neat player, great for showing off, but the eye candy makes browsing fairly inefficient (imho), and having the controls at the top of the screen is a pain.
kramttocs said:
Go with Cubed (^3) and you will never look back. Granted the 5.1 surround sound in the stock player was nice but I don't miss it.
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Cubed is good unless you plan on using the lock screen option, then it's garbage.
I was unimpressed with ^3/Cubed. Nice eye candy, but hardly functional.
I have Mixzing installed and it seems useful, but it's my secondary music player right now.
TuneWiki was cool for the lyrics display feature, but the interface is ugly as all hell.
DoubleTwist is the nicest looking and most polished of the bunch, but also no support for m3u playlists not synced via the DoubleTwist client (which was unacceptably slow for me). Maybe I'm just using it wrong.
The default Samsung player would have been great if it would just recognize my m3u playlists. WTF, Samsung.
As is, I actually installed the stock Android player. It's minimal and functional. I've heard MusicMod is a nice addition to it, but it looks like the latest version is only supported on Froyo.
I ended up going back to the default Samsung Player. The lock screen widget works the best of all the apps I tried and it has no issue seeing my playlists I sync over using iSyncr. Its biggest weakness is the lack of controls via the headset button. Play/Pause works but no forward or back.
A friend used bTunes which looks the nicest out there IMO. A close second was Doubletwist but the lack of a lockscreen widget was a deal breaker. Thing I hate the most from all 3rd party apps I tried (aside from dT) was that they all indexed multiple copies of my playlists. It was a pain trying to guess which of the 4-6 copies of my playlists I saw would actually have the music inside them and I got tired of always deleting the blank ones everytime I sync'd.
If Samsung can add some additional headset controls and a smart playlist feature I will be very happy.
I have to say though that the stock Samsung Player is quite handy and non-laggy.
I especially like the 5.1 option, which is god-like.
Other than that, it doesn't have many features but it is convenient.
Nobody has mentioned Meridian; I like it quite a lot.
fezlopez said:
I have to say though that the stock Samsung Player is quite handy and non-laggy.
I especially like the 5.1 option, which is god-like.
Other than that, it doesn't have many features but it is convenient.
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ya. and it looks the best!
fezlopez said:
I have to say though that the stock Samsung Player is quite handy and non-laggy.
I especially like the 5.1 option, which is god-like.
Other than that, it doesn't have many features but it is convenient.
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I'm with you. The 5.1 in my car sounds amazing. I wish I had two options though:
1. I want to "lock" to landscape, without auto-rotate to the CD GUI.
2. It only rotates one way! Turn the phone on it's right side, and the CD GUI is upside down.
If these two issues had workarounds, it would be perfect.
I like DoubleTwist....
I've been using btunes with Widget locker to get lock screen controls. Works nicely!
I use museek. I loved the samsung player but the only issue with it was the sever lack of a random play mode.
Museek REQUIRES ID3 tags.
Museek supports album covers, Last.FM scrobbling, Sleep(auto stop), Lock Orientation,Gapless playback, and its free.
Play modes are: Repeat all, Shuffle (with the option to shuffle whole collection or just with in the playlist), Smart shuffle, Play similar songs (with the option to avoid repeating an artist until a specified threshold of songs have played).
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I use museek. I loved the samsung player but the only issue with it was the sever lack of a random play mode.
Museek REQUIRES ID3 tags.
Museek supports album covers, Last.FM scrobbling, Sleep(auto stop), Lock Orientation,Gapless playback, and its free.
Play modes are: Repeat all, Shuffle (with the option to shuffle whole collection or just with in the playlist), Smart shuffle, Play similar songs (with the option to avoid repeating an artist until a specified threshold of songs have played).
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Stock Samsung player has shuffle. Tap the screen and it's the two intertwining arrows just above the progress bar on the left.
So what players have a lock screen function? I hate the dang lock screen on this thing. Maybe I can turn it off, never thought about that.. heh.
The ONLY thing that I don't like about the stock music player is the fact that songs without album art show some gay-looking colored circles... Why not just a simple neutral graphic? Why not give an option to change the default picture?
Can anyone get the "Play me some songs from [band name]/[album title]" to successfully start playing music through the Play Music app using Google Now/Touchless Control?
The best I can do is get it to return a search for the band/album in Play Music, despite that face that Google Now responds with "Playing Request", and acknowledges the correct band/album name I've said...
aside from this, if I tell Google Now to play, for example, "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance, it will acknowledge that I've said that specific song, but it will search Play Music for "Teenagers" and play the first hit, which is a song called "Teenagers" by Department of Eagles.
This is especially infuriating because in the new ads that Motorola just put out, they launch Play Music using Touchless Control and it works great! (can't post a link here since I'm new, but just youtube "lazy phone - touchless control")
any one else experiencing this issue?
I'm on a Moto X (duh) running the latest version of the Google Search app (2.7.9.789824) and Play Music (5.2.1204L.814012) .. I have "Play Music" checked in the Phone Search settings, but having it unchecked seems to return the same result.
thanks in advance for the help!
Same problem
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Can anyone get the "Play me some songs from [band name]/[album title]" to successfully start playing music through the Play Music app using Google Now/Touchless Control?
The best I can do is get it to return a search for the band/album in Play Music, despite that face that Google Now responds with "Playing Request", and acknowledges the correct band/album name I've said...
aside from this, if I tell Google Now to play, for example, "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance, it will acknowledge that I've said that specific song, but it will search Play Music for "Teenagers" and play the first hit, which is a song called "Teenagers" by Department of Eagles.
This is especially infuriating because in the new ads that Motorola just put out, they launch Play Music using Touchless Control and it works great! (can't post a link here since I'm new, but just youtube "lazy phone - touchless control")
any one else experiencing this issue?
I'm on a Moto X (duh) running the latest version of the Google Search app (2.7.9.789824) and Play Music (5.2.1204L.814012) .. I have "Play Music" checked in the Phone Search settings, but having it unchecked seems to return the same result.
thanks in advance for the help!
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I was able to get it to work after clicking the drop down menu next to the card to use play music. It did take me a few tries to complete.
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I was able to get it to work after clicking the drop down menu next to the card to use play music. It did take me a few tries to complete.
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bgeorger, I've gotten this far as well, but are you saying that after that screen it sucessfully launches Play Music and begins playing "No Church In The Wild" (the first track from Watch The Throne)?
Superpopsss, glad I'm not alone in this. now we've just gotta find a fix!
I've been talking to someone on G+ who is running 4.3 on his Nexus 7 and this functionality works fine. (he's also on All Access, but I don't think that should affect this behavior)
maybe it's a bug in 4.2.2?
Same here, works fine on my '13 N7, N4, and GNex all on 4.3
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so can anyone running 4.2.2 get this to work?
Worked fine on my htc one on 4.2. It's an acknowledged bug as far as I know
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bgeorger, I've gotten this far as well, but are you saying that after that screen it sucessfully launches Play Music and begins playing "No Church In The Wild" (the first track from Watch The Throne)?
Superpopsss, glad I'm not alone in this. now we've just gotta find a fix!
I've been talking to someone on G+ who is running 4.3 on his Nexus 7 and this functionality works fine. (he's also on All Access, but I don't think that should affect this behavior)
maybe it's a bug in 4.2.2?
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It does auto play, however, it isn't a track off the actual album. It does seem to work just fine when you only specify a band.
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It does auto play, however, it isn't a track off the actual album. It does seem to work just fine when you only specify a band.
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Only specifying the band works for me up to the point where I still have to press the "play" button on Play Music. I mean, thanks Google Now, you opened the thing for me, and have it ready to run. But didn't I already ask to play it? I mean... that's what I thought when I said "play some Aerosmith" (btw, Gnow does have a hard time understanding "Aerosmith" )
Also not working for me
Using the Moto X on Rogers, and I'm having the same problem, but I'm one step further back.
The voice commands/google now won't bring up a "play music" card at all. I've tried "play ___", "listen to ____", etc. and all I get is a google search result with youtube links or music play store links to buy the music. It recognizes what I'm saying but there doesn't seem to be the functionality to play the music using voice commands as advertised. I've tried putting hard copies of the music in the "music" folder and that doesn't change anything. I've been through google now settings and moto voice commands settings but can't find anything to help.
Any suggestions? Otherwise everything works perfectly.
I have a big problem using this music playing functionality...
But.. My main problems are actually my own and not how the phone performs.
First of all, I can never think of an actual name of any song or sometimes even artist that I want to listen to. My brain just does not translate desires into words very well, but works fine when scanning through a list of names. But I think I can get over this and have it be of slightly more use.
What really limits my use of this function is the actual music I listen to.
I listen to a lot of power metal, punk rock, and other more obscure music.
I have been completely unable to get Google Now to recognize band names such as:
-Ayreon
-Kamelot
-Turisas
-Benuts
-Blackguard
-The Blaggards
-Cruachan
-Deathmole
-Dethklok
-Doomsword
-Eluveitie
-Falkenbach
-Forefather (GN always hears this as "for father")
-Heavatar
-Naio Ssaion
-Powerglove
-Power World
-Sirenia
-Skatalites
-Tyr
Surprisingly it recognized the bands Korpiklaani and Gojira.
That said, this is only a small segment of the music I have on my phone but it includes some that I listen to very often, and many of these artists are more readily in my mind.
I think it's extremely odd that I'll ask Google Now "What is Ghost Opera" and it'll come out and tell me that it is an album by Kamelot.
But, if I ask it to "Play Ghost Opera" it chooses to play a song with that title by Technomind, and I can't ask it to play the album or the song by Kamelot because Google Now always thinks I'm saying Camelot.
But, I do have a question for people that have gotten this to work... Does it ever actually queue up more than one song?
For instance I'll ask for it to "Play some songs from Voltaire", and it'll only queue up "When You're Evil" every time. It won't ever play another one of his songs even though this specific song is nowhere near the first one in any of his albums or playlist.
Can it play playlists if I create them or any of my defined "radio stations"?
I've had better luck saying "Stream (artist)" or "Stream (song) by (artist)"
No luck on queuing up more than one song, though. Saying "Stream (album) by (artist)" still just plays one track.
edit: saying "Stream (album) by (artist)" actually just takes me to the artist page, without playing the album. A shortcut, but not ideal. This is assuming that the title of the album is NOT also a title of a song. If that's the case, it just plays the song. Saying "Stream the album (album)" or "Stream the album (album) by (artist)" results in a google search.
It's hit and miss with me. Unfortunately it's a problem with Google Now. Google will need to fix it.
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Using the Moto X on Rogers, and I'm having the same problem, but I'm one step further back.
The voice commands/google now won't bring up a "play music" card at all. I've tried "play ___", "listen to ____", etc. and all I get is a google search result with youtube links or music play store links to buy the music. It recognizes what I'm saying but there doesn't seem to be the functionality to play the music using voice commands as advertised. I've tried putting hard copies of the music in the "music" folder and that doesn't change anything. I've been through google now settings and moto voice commands settings but can't find anything to help.
Any suggestions? Otherwise everything works perfectly.
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Khourya make sure in your "settings" for Google Now in "Phone Search" you have Google Music checked. Though it seems to have no affect for me, it may for you.
also try "play me some" or "stream" like some others in the thread were suggesting.
Dark, it's interesting you say it's an issue with Google Now. I think it's more an issue with Play Music. I've seen a lot of videos use Now to launch a random track when searching for an Artist, or play an Album, but it was all with the old (pre-white UI) Music app...
I find it hard to believe they know it's a bug when they're quite literally advertising the functionality we're all having trouble with in those new "Lazy Phone" ads...
In general I can get it to play music but it only actually started playing after I selected a few times that I actually want it to play music using Play Music instead of just searching for music to buy.
My bigger issue is actually getting Google Now to recognize me when I say band names that I know it can recognize.
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Khourya make sure in your "settings" for Google Now in "Phone Search" you have Google Music checked. Though it seems to have no affect for me, it may for you.
also try "play me some" or "stream" like some others in the thread were suggesting.
Dark, it's interesting you say it's an issue with Google Now. I think it's more an issue with Play Music. I've seen a lot of videos use Now to launch a random track when searching for an Artist, or play an Album, but it was all with the old (pre-white UI) Music app...
I find it hard to believe they know it's a bug when they're quite literally advertising the functionality we're all having trouble with in those new "Lazy Phone" ads...
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Google music is checked in settings and I've tried all permutations of the phrase, but I still can't even get the card to show up...
Very frustrating.. Guess I'll just have to keep on scratching my phone's hairy belly! (that was a lazy phone commercial joke just in case)
I'm on the verge of calling rogers/Google/Motorola..
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Mine works for specific songs perfect, but if I say to play songs plurally it limits it to one
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Khourya said:
Google music is checked in settings and I've tried all permutations of the phrase, but I still can't even get the card to show up...
Very frustrating.. Guess I'll just have to keep on scratching my phone's hairy belly! (that was a lazy phone commercial joke just in case)
I'm on the verge of calling rogers/Google/Motorola..
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I'm on rogers moto x as well. Same issues you are having. I even tried typing in "stream" or "play music" in Google now and the selected "phone" section and it couldn't find any results in my phone. Ridiculous.
Maybe because Google music isn't in Canada rogers?
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I'm on a different device but same problem. It doesn't seem to work at all for me. I have phone search set to search my music player but google now will always perform a web search. If I scroll all the way to the bottom and select 'phone' as what to search under after I searched I see my song there, but the automation part seems to be broke.
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I'm on a different device but same problem. It doesn't seem to work at all for me. I have phone search set to search my music player but google now will always perform a web search. If I scroll all the way to the bottom and select 'phone' as what to search under after I searched I see my song there, but the automation part seems to be broke.
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Nine out of ten times this is what it does to me too. Very upsetting day one with phone. I think this is the only thing that I haven't been able to make work. grrr
Hello.
I've been using an app in my androidphone "Metafy" that shows track and artist on my pebble when using spotify. Since the latest update of Spotify this does not work any more. Any one have the same problem?
How-to:
http://selfscreens.com/forums/index.php?threads/how-to-spotify-and-pebble.387/
milky81 said:
Hello.
I've been using an app in my androidphone "Metafy" that shows track and artist on my pebble when using spotify. Since the latest update of Spotify this does not work any more. Any one have the same problem?
How-to:
http://selfscreens.com/forums/index.php?threads/how-to-spotify-and-pebble.387/
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Found an alternative app for sending Spotify info to the Pebble music controller that seems to work.
(BTW I'm using galaxy s3 and liquid smooth ROM 4.4.2).
why don't you share what you found as an alternative?
Alternative app
I use Media Utilities. It works with Spotify and Podcast (and possibly more).
The disadvantage is, that it needs notification access to read out the current track/podcast. Additionally the user interface is a little odd and buggy.
But it works and nothing bad has happened yet.
...yay, can't post links as a newbie, but I bet you can find it yourself in the Play store ( com.batescorp.notificationmediacontrols.alpha )
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Sorry I forgot to put that in there. It was not a good solution anyways it was a strange app that constantly increased the volume.
Tried Media Utilities as posted above and it works!
It does not show Album though.
In the app I added spotify, and then in settings under Application Integration i checked the marker next to Pebble Watch.
Use Music Boss to fix this, and you'll also gain the best watch app for Pebble as a bonus n
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Im not sure if its a glitch with my Pebble, or a problem with the software in general. Using the stock music player, i am able to correctly use the controls; play/pause, next and previous track. however even though the Pebble is set to use PowerAmp for my music, the display only shows one song and it isnt the song thats currently playing. Nor does it change when i go to different tracks
Anyone else have this issue? any resolutions? I also wouldnt mind a recommendation for a music app to throw on here, the only ones that looked decent are paid
Your music app on your phone isn't broadcasting AVRCP, common issue.
To fix this and get a vastly superior music control watch app - get Music Boss for Pebble.
Read more about why, here: http://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comm...ally_a_fix_spotify_on_pebble_props_to/ckrs3q7
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You don't need to pay money for silly music pebble apps. Go to the bluetooth settings in power amp and toggle metachange intent to ON. That is all.
JeffMD said:
You don't need to pay money for silly music pebble apps. Go to the bluetooth settings in power amp and toggle metachange intent to ON. That is all.
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I would hardly call the best App for Pebble, written by the most responsive and user focused Pebble developer, "silly".
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I have joined the Samsung family after having been with Sony for many many years and the 1 thing I do miss are the music, keyboard and weather apps/widgets. Other then that I am loving the S10!
I do want to ask what music apps people are using though? Ideally I want 1 like Sony's as it gave me the option of a widget and I could download album art on there. I have tried many of the apks that are available for the Sony one, some don't work on the S10 and some work flawlessly EXCEPT I cannot make a playlist or add songs to my favourites. However when I tried doing these on other music apps and then going back to the Sony one, the songs will appear on my playlists?! Is there a reason for this? It's really bugging me that my S10 is not yet perfect for me :crying:
Any advice or recommendations are welcome!
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
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I have joined the Samsung family after having been with Sony for many mang years and the 1 thing I do miss are the music, keyboard and weather apps/widgets. Other then that I am loving the S10!
I do want to ask what music apps people are using though? Ideally I want 1 like Sony's as it gave me the option of a widget and I could download album art on there. I have tried many of the apks that are available, some work and some work flawlessly EXCEPT I cannot make a playlist or add songs to my favourites. However when I tried doing these on other music apps and then going back to the Sony one, the songs will appear on my playlists?! Is there a reason for this? It's really bugging me that my S10 is not yet perfect for me :crying:
Any advice or recommendations are welcome!
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
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I using Musicolet. It is new app. Is free and without ads, heavy customizable and light. I was using long time JetAudio, PowerAmp and now settled with Musicolet.
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SalamiQueen said:
I have joined the Samsung family after having been with Sony for many mang years and the 1 thing I do miss are the music, keyboard and weather apps/widgets. Other then that I am loving the S10!
I do want to ask what music apps people are using though? Ideally I want 1 like Sony's as it gave me the option of a widget and I could download album art on there. I have tried many of the apks that are available, some work and some work flawlessly EXCEPT I cannot make a playlist or add songs to my favourites. However when I tried doing these on other music apps and then going back to the Sony one, the songs will appear on my playlists?! Is there a reason for this? It's really bugging me that my S10 is not yet perfect for me :crying:
Any advice or recommendations are welcome!
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
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Samsung Music 16.2.16.10 (Available On Apk Mirror) is the best music app ever made for offline playback. Its very colorful just like Sony's Walkman used to be.
For Editing Album Arts etc I would recommend Star Music editor from the play store.
Poweramp!
It's also the only music app with folders search in android auto
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I using Musicolet. It is new app. Is free and without ads, heavy customizable and light. I was using long time PowerAmp and now settled with Musicolet.
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Same here.
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Samsung Music 16.2.16.10 (Available On Apk Mirror) is the best music app ever made for offline playback.
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The Samsung app is very nice, but not usable for anyone with a music collection over 10k songs. It will only play the first 10k songs in the music players list. I've tried many different ways to get it to play different ways and it basically only plays the song you selected and the 9,999k in the first of the list from what the app can see. It wasn't like this prior to the apps updates introducing Spotify into the app.
The Sony music app, de-crippled to allow installation on all devices, is available on XDA here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2728110
SalamiQueen said:
I have joined the Samsung family after having been with Sony for many mang years and the 1 thing I do miss are the music, keyboard and weather apps/widgets. Other then that I am loving the S10!
I do want to ask what music apps people are using though? Ideally I want 1 like Sony's as it gave me the option of a widget and I could download album art on there. I have tried many of the apks that are available, some work and some work flawlessly EXCEPT I cannot make a playlist or add songs to my favourites. However when I tried doing these on other music apps and then going back to the Sony one, the songs will appear on my playlists?! Is there a reason for this? It's really bugging me that my S10 is not yet perfect for me :crying:
Any advice or recommendations are welcome!
Thanks:fingers-crossed:
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This is my favorite app for music quality, which supports different phones that have built in Hi-Res DAC or a dongle
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.usbaudioplayerpro
Thanks everyone for your recommendations, I'll give them all a try later on =)
Also thanks for the link to Sony's 1 but I have already tried that and as mentioned, creating playlists or adding to favourites doesn't seem to work ? but for some reason if I create those playlists in another music app, they will appear in the Sony one?! Anybody know why or how I can fix this please?