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Best music app?

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.

MikeyMike01 said:
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).

kenjindomini said:
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?

How to set mp3 as ringtone

Hello all,
I can't find a way to set a mp3 as ringtone in default music player.
Anyone know how?

leventero said:
Hello all,
I can't find a way to set a mp3 as ringtone in default music player.
Anyone know how?
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Default music player doesn't allow this. Grab RingDroid from the Play Store.
Tappin the talk

leventero said:
Hello all,
I can't find a way to set a mp3 as ringtone in default music player.
Anyone know how?
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you could put the mp3 in a "Ringtones" folder, then pick the file from sound in settings.

With ringdroid i can only set it as a notification,can't use it as ringtone.
And tried to copy the file to the Music folder and media/audio folder but i can't see it in my settings

Default music player does let you set the ring tone-
Just "long press" on the track and the option appears:

markiepuk said:
Default music player does let you set the ring tone-
Just "long press" on the track and the option appears:
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Is the Smartwatch any good?

Good question, I won my smart watch in a phones4u comp, I thinks it's great but not sure I would feel that way if I paid full Price.
If you set the clock display to always on the battery won't last a day. I have it set to come on when double tapping the screen. Not so handy if your struggling with the shopping!
Other than that it's pretty impressive, being able to quickly glance at notifications saves taking the phone out of your pocket constantly and mp3 control, whilst basic, is a nice touch.
It does however have a detrimental effect on your phones battery and keeps disconnecting from the Z (worked perfect on the S) maybe the next update will sort it.
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markiepuk said:
Good question, I won my smart watch in a phones4u comp, I thinks it's great but not sure I would feel that way if I paid full Price.
If you set the clock display to always on the battery won't last a day. I have it set to come on when double tapping the screen. Not so handy if your struggling with the shopping!
Other than that it's pretty impressive, being able to quickly glance at notifications saves taking the phone out of your pocket constantly and mp3 control, whilst basic, is a nice touch.
It does however have a detrimental effect on your phones battery and keeps disconnecting from the Z (worked perfect on the S) maybe the next update will sort it.
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Cool.
Thanks for answering.
Am I right in thinking it doesn't work as a hands-free kit?

charlodroid said:
Cool.
Thanks for answering.
Am I right in thinking it doesn't work as a hands-free kit?
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It does not have a speaker so no good as a hands free, You can answer and reject calls but only any real use if your use a blue tooth headset- or as I do a blue tooth car stereo.

markiepuk said:
It does not have a speaker so no good as a hands free, You can answer and reject calls but only any real use if your use a blue tooth headset- or as I do a blue tooth car stereo.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Hope you enjoy your XZ.

I've downloaded a music player from play store and the player had the option for it.

markiepuk said:
Default music player does let you set the ring tone-
Just "long press" on the track and the option appears:
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Wow my bad. Never even saw that option in the long press menu, then again, I don't long press random things.
Tappin the talk

To set one of mp3s as a ringtone you don't need to download anything extra. Just go to the sound setting and on the top right hand side of the screen press the Music Symbol and then you'll have access to all your music on your pone.

Revert back to default ringtones folder
GO TO->Settings->Apps->all->Tap on THREE dots & reset apps preferences.
NOW GO TO-.SETTINGS->SOUND->UNDER RINGTONES&VIBRATIONS, TAP->PHONE RINGTONES->TAP SIM1/SIM2->U'LL FIND SOUND PICKER,FILE COMMANDER & SO;SELECT SOUND PICKER TO SELECT XPERIA'S PRELOADED RINGTONES,THAT'S IT!

Music Controls

Has anyone found a better app for remote controlling your music.
the stock one is ok, but it would be nice to see the track listing.

Null
And maybe any good music programs to use with null rom, and non samsung phone?

akira8473 said:
Has anyone found a better app for remote controlling your music.
the stock one is ok, but it would be nice to see the track listing.
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I personally used M2D's manager app to send tasker intents from my watch to my phone and on the phone I have tasks for each control and use "Media Utilities" in the Play store to actually perform the actions as it has a tasker plugin. I also use it to send the currently playing song to my watch and display it with the Zooper widget. It's tricky and time consuming but there is a tutorial in the M2D thread in these forums.

Good Audio App? Volume Control?

Moto X Dev Ed. I hate the G**gle Player app. I don't want them knowing what I'm listening to. (How does it frickin' bypass Android Firewall to get album covers?!) And it has no volume control through headphones.
I tried Phonon, but it doesn't allow you to choose a folder to play, which is a vital function for me.
Walkman crashes on this phone, at least this Tit-restored one I have, and it's not in the Play store.
Anyone recommend an audio app which allows you to coose a folder of music to play?
Is there a reason my volume buttons have no effect on the level in headphones? (it's too quiet)

Quantumstate said:
Moto X Dev Ed. I hate the G**gle Player app. I don't want them knowing what I'm listening to. (How does it frickin' bypass Android Firewall to get album covers?!) And it has no volume control through headphones.
I tried Phonon, but it doesn't allow you to choose a folder to play, which is a vital function for me.
Walkman crashes on this phone, at least this Tit-restored one I have, and it's not in the Play store.
Anyone recommend an audio app which allows you to coose a folder of music to play?
Is there a reason my volume buttons have no effect on the level in headphones? (it's too quiet)
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Have you tried PowerAmp? There are free and pay versions.

I don't think volume control headphones work with android phones.. at least they never have in my experience (unless maybe they're specially made for it) Only pause/play button works. I don't think its an app issue, its android itself I believe.
As far as players I use a simple less known app called Maple which lets you play from folders and has some cool features like pitch and speed adjustment, and its free.

marzak said:
Have you tried PowerAmp? There are free and pay versions.
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I have used PowerAmp in free version. Happy feel to using it..

PowerAmp expires after two weeks.
Maple is OK, although I'm still trying to figure out how to play a directory and switch directories.
Also, these are not volume-adjust headphones. They are just regular Koss headphones, but the phone's volume control doesn't have any influence over the volume in them. Controls do work with the phone speaker.

JetAudio. I like it on my Windows machines, and I think I'm going to on KK too. I think it'll play a directory since it plays 'albums' in a directory.
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Default Action/Music player when you plugin USB-C Headphones

Hi all,
I've just gotten this phone and what's driving me nuts is every time I plug in my headphones it tries to start the default music player which has only one track which is like a ringtone. Pressing any of the buttons on the headphones remote controls this player instead of SoundCloud or Spotify that I have playing.
Any way to fix this??

No one else having this problem? No one got any solution or method they are using for getting around this?

nnila said:
No one else having this problem? No one got any solution or method they are using for getting around this?
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Can you not change this in Settings > Apps > Default Apps? Pick a different one for Music?

It's currently set to VLC yet it still pops up with the same default music app when I put my headphones in
One real big pain from this phone so far!

Same problem for me but not with headphones (not tried them) but when Bluetooth car stereo connects. Very annoying.

nnila said:
No one else having this problem? No one got any solution or method they are using for getting around this?
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Go to "Settings > Apps & Notifikation > Apps > Music" and then "Draw over other Apps" = no and "Write Systems Settings" = no
That will deactivate the Autostart for Music. But I didn't find out to activate other Apps to autostart with the Headphones
KR Raffi

Thanks
A2DP volume can do it. Not old and ugly but will auto start whatever you want.
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Unfortunately this issue is still there even after this step.
Seems impossible to get their default music app to not jump in and interrupt after plugging in headphones.
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Exact same thing happens when I dont have Play Music open when my P20 connects to my car audio via Bluetooth. It's the ONLY gripe I have with this phone

From settings got to 'Apps & Notifications' - 'Default apps' - 'Music' and then select your music app. Worked for me.
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BurtieBL said:
From settings got to 'Apps & Notifications' - 'Default apps' - 'Music' and then select your music app. Worked for me.
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Sorry just noticed someone has already suggested this. I use poweramp but playing music via bluetooth in the car or headphones always started the preinstalled music app. Changing the default settings fixed it for me.

A bit related: VLC app stopps playing sound over bluetooth after about 1 minute, which seems solved by setting "manual" under battery optimization. Unusual that an actively playing music app needs that...the standard music app does not need this.

But default music player doesn't list Pocket Casts, so I can't change it. I know it's not music but many problems are shared