I used to search high and low for music player appz for the X10 Mini.
Besides the Spotify player/client for streamed music from that paysite (I have a premium account) I use the PowerAMP to play my own music (mp3s ripped from my CDs thats legal in Sweden as long as I just makes copies for myself) ,
PowerAMP is good and has a lot of bling-bling even for a pay app. Had some issues with the PowerAMP that it started to play tunes every now and then.
Like plugging in or out the 3,5 jack (at home) or connected the Samsung SBH650 bluetooth headset.
As the X10 Mini has a great multitasking capability that meant that PowerAMP played music when I tried to listening to music from Spotify.
Since the latest SE update the PowerAMP seems to stay shut when not actuallu tapping it's play button
Does someone out there found players, that have become a favourite?
PS. Love to use the Spotify music streaming and Google Maps and GPS simultaneous when driving. As long as there are 3G cover maps, GPS-positions as well as the music will work without glitches from this little magic box, we call X10 Mini. Don't know about the Pro, never had one
My favourite is WinAmp. Just really handy to use. Although before this I used TuneWiki - it has an awesome lyrics function.
I find the full version of Meridian the best.. even has an audiobook tab.. and video etc..
Kiwi
kiwiBratwurst said:
I find the full version of Meridian the best.. even has an audiobook tab.. and video etc..
Kiwi
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send apk or link here!!
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Can you not find it in Android Market?
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Google or search on youtube for some demo vid's of the features...
(you will need to buy the full version to have all the features tho )
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(you will need to buy the full version to have all the features tho )
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that's why asked for apk.. need full version!
I recommand Mortplayer, one of the oldest player with tons of features. I'm using it since i have had my HTC Magician (WiMo2003) in 2004.
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that's why asked for apk.. need full version!
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Funny guy huh?
but seriously.. its a great app, I recommend checking it out (even the free version is pretty good)
Mortplayer is the best. At least in my eyes.
You can play all files in one folder, not just from playlists, or song / artist / album.
Cubed. The coolest player ever. And it´s free.
MortPlayer
MortPlayer
Music PlayerPro. Advanced version of standard android player.
I use PowerAMP
Though the letters are too small,it can play any format of audio including FLAC and also has an equalizer....
So its the bets in my eyes....
doubleTwist & Btunes
doubleTwist
Btunes
Best for me..
i prefer winamp, but i didn't hear much music via my mini pro, ipod in car-use
PowerAmp.. the best one.
I tried all cited players, and all uses more battery that original. So I decided keep stock player mod version, found here on forum. Its usefull; it doesnt have to many resources but I can play for hours without drain my battery.
I listen thru the default stock player but then I found this PowerAmp and decided to test it. It simply blow me away... Great player with music tag aditor, album art auto download and those equalisers are awesome...
Features wise; Poweramp.
I try Cubed because it's free and I found it very good, widget included and nice user interface (but a little difficult at first look) !
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Fyi the Defy music app is prob best music app on the market..
Everyone should take a look at that and export it to all android os phones
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Get powerAMP, this one is totally awesome with equalizers, bass and trebela and stuff...totally awesome.
Is there a way to include additionnal codecs for the default player, instead of installing another music player?
For instance to add Flac, ogg and m4a support.
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Is there a way to include additionnal codecs for the default player, instead of installing another music player?
For instance to add Flac, ogg and m4a support.
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i haven't used the music player app yet - am waiting for my 16GB sdcard and car mount - but lack of flac/ogg is a bit of a no brainer for me - it's minimum requirement.
i guess i'd better start hunting around. I noticed WinAmp has released a beta that syncs over WiFi but i guess that will only be with WinAmp Windows version - i run Ubuntu.
I have tried pretty much all of the readily available players. Ended up with PowerAMP, as it's the only one where you have the equalizer so that you can compensate for some lousy headphones (yes, my DEFY is my main music player).
The builtin music player is intresting, but I feel everything is just tooo many taps away. Also I find it utterly confusing how you get out of one Album and search for the next one ...
Most of the other player apps are just rehashes of the existing players without anything new featurewise that makes them compelling.
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I have tried pretty much all of the readily available players. Ended up with PowerAMP, as it's the only one where you have the equalizer so that you can compensate for some lousy headphones (yes, my DEFY is my main music player).
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I'm looking into getting a defy and I was only lurking these forums, but your post made me register. You say you use your defy as your main music player? can I inquire as to how long straight it can play music for? from 100%-0% (or close to) battery?
As I plan on replacing my mp3 player as well when/if I get a defy. I'm tired of carrying around both my phone and music player all the time.
The defy battery status is in increments of 10%... i have a one hour commute and didn't lose anything while using mp3 mode on airplane mode(bc i take the subway)
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so i guess it is right to assume you could get at least 10 hours then? this is acceptable... Id probably only use about 4 hours a day. pretty much set on this phone now... had any grievances with it?
As i use my Defy as my only mp3-player, i would like to inform you, that there is a equalizer in the phone.
Settings --> Sound and Display--> Audio-Effects for Media --> then the first one.
Sorry, my english is bad, my settings are in german language. Hope you find it.
For me, the sound is great, using the Equalizer with the filter "Bass-Schlag" (the 2. Filter).
Sorry for my English, but i think, this one is important.
Best regards
Stefan
Thank you for your input your english is fine.
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As i use my Defy as my only mp3-player, i would like to inform you, that there is a equalizer in the phone.
Settings --> Sound and Display--> Audio-Effects for Media --> then the first one.
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it is very basic and only has 5 presets but it's better than nothing!
I like the phone and I was glad to have DSP effects (it's supposed to have powerful DSP's).
Unfortunately when I tried them with Streamfurious, I could hear a fairly loud noise. It's only there with the EQ/DSP effects enabled and while the effect would be good with the earphones the noise is often unbearable.
Well whaddayaknow, it's pretty easy to extract, using the MotoDev software. And it installs on other Android devices just fine...
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stfnlg said:
As i use my Defy as my only mp3-player, i would like to inform you, that there is a equalizer in the phone.
Settings --> Sound and Display--> Audio-Effects for Media --> then the first one.
Sorry, my english is bad, my settings are in german language. Hope you find it.
For me, the sound is great, using the Equalizer with the filter "Bass-Schlag" (the 2. Filter).
Sorry for my English, but i think, this one is important.
Best regards
Stefan
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Hey man, your English is good. Thanks for sharing the tips. I never knew it before.
hi,
is there any way to get the music app to rescan the sd card for music files?
I changed my card from the stock 2GB card to a new 16GB. I copied all the files on the old card over to the new card then switched them over.
I have now switched on my Defy, the music files are all visible in astro and can be played by clicking on them but when i go into my library in the media player app i get a message saying there are no music files on the sd card.
edit : the gallery app picks up the photo's just fine so it appears to be only the media app
edit 2 : it appears to sorted itself now. i guess it was just taking a bit of time to rescan in the background.
I was looking for another player to be able to read ogg files, but the Defy reads them without issues!
So that's perfect, i'm gonna convert a ton of my Flac collection into Ogg, and get one of those huge µSD cards!
Only thing that could be better, is the fact that i have to put the volume at about half the bar to get a good volume, whatever earphones i use. I wonder if there's a way to make the player raise the sound volume a bit more?
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I'm looking into getting a defy and I was only lurking these forums, but your post made me register. You say you use your defy as your main music player? can I inquire as to how long straight it can play music for? from 100%-0% (or close to) battery?
As I plan on replacing my mp3 player as well when/if I get a defy. I'm tired of carrying around both my phone and music player all the time.
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Sorry for this late respons.
Yes, I use the DEFY as my main music player. I have used my phones always for this, since my first D750i ;-) I cannot really say how much it runs with the music player on. Looking at the battery stats the player shows up in the very low range (<= 5%) compared to standy/idle, which are 95%. So I'd say you are more bound by other things. The phone itself survives for me 2 days without recharging.
Couple of more comments. I do use for our cars here either a 3.5mm connector to the stereo, or one of those cassette inserts (make sure you turn of the dolby noise reduction). With this setup, you have a hands free as well. The incoming call gets put onto your speaker system, and the mic is good enough to directly work. No fiddeling around required. The other thing is that with PowerAMP the Scullcandy kits for my Smith Ski helment works nicely. You can use 1 to 3 button pushes on the little control that comes with it to pause/play, forward, backward. Of course at the same time you can take phone-calls. Actually with PowerAMP you also can select a short-push/long-push setup as alternative, which I found easier to deal with if you ski in the trees and the current song just does fit your rythm.
Ah, one more thing. I am kind of old-school. I am using winamp to maintain my music database on the PC. Main reason originally was that the pro version thereof had good AAC-HE encoding. With that encoding you can use 64k over the normal AAC-LE with 256k. With most speaker systems you cannot tell the difference (at least I cannot). At the end of the day it saves however a HUGE chunk of space on the SD card. You might want to use mp3tag along with winamp.
As somebody else noted in the thread, there is some other setting available in the system settings. What I do there (or did there) is to add some bass so that other apps don't sound so ultra bad. This is very useful for listening to FM radio, or say pandora/last.fm/di.fm (online music, that plays rather nicely, even in the car).
Can't use radio with Chinese Froyo..
Is this version different than the one that comes with the Defy by default?
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Well whaddayaknow, it's pretty easy to extract, using the MotoDev software. And it installs on other Android devices just fine...
Ironically, this was shot with an HTC Desire
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Get PowerAMP...
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Oh yeah, its really nice, beautiful Bass...
I'm mostly using MortPlayer (beta), cause of the Pop-up.... than, I shouldn't go out of my App
So I used TubeMate to download a 1280x720 video from YouTube. It's 120MB, and seems to have downloaded correctly (deleted and downloaded again to be fairly certain). But when I open Gallery and try to play the video, it doesn't show the screenshot like all my other videos do (all converted movies that I copied from my PC to the memory card via USB at home), and it doesn't play.
Found another post in a different forum, where the user was asking why he could play these files under 4.1.57, but not 4.1.83. The user was scolded for asking in the wrong forum, and the thread closed. But it doesn't appear anyone has addressed this issue.
Can't help but figure YXPlayer would probably work, but I haven't paid for it on my new phone. Any thoughts? Would sure like to get this working. Thanks!
Download GSpot here on your PC (it's not porn) ------->
GSpot Homepage
Open video file with GSpot. Post screenshot of the results.
Here ya go! Thanks for the help!!!
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Tried a bunch of different video playing apps, to see if I could resolve the issue. Moboplayer was the best, actually starting the video... but the audio and video got out of sync.
Something must be amiss, but it's VERY frustrating. Since MANY of the videos I converted to play on my Xoom show up and play FINE on the Atrix. Must be something about these YouTube videos that are different.
Are you trying to play just on your phone, or through the hdmi cable? I had the problem with it not playing videos in webtop or hd entertainment center. The fix is pretty simple and involves changing a value in the build.prop file.
Just trying to play it on the phone. I could download and watch in on PC's in all sorts of formats if I want to watch it elsewhere...
NOTE: Just tried downloading the 640x360 version with TubeMate, and it plays fine using the Gallary Media Player. Wonder why the HD version 1280x720 doesn't work the same way.
merkman said:
Here ya go! Thanks for the help!!!
Tried a bunch of different video playing apps, to see if I could resolve the issue. Moboplayer was the best, actually starting the video... but the audio and video got out of sync.
Something must be amiss, but it's VERY frustrating. Since MANY of the videos I converted to play on my Xoom show up and play FINE on the Atrix. Must be something about these YouTube videos that are different.
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Look at the 720p I have in this post ----->
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13840116&postcount=106
Your kbps are way low, even when compared to my 480p video. Audio is also not at a standard bitrate. I doubt that has anything to do with it, but you never know. That could be your sync problem there if the Atrix isn't handling variable bit rate audio for example.
I'm having the same problem with the same program. It gives me the same error is about 3 different players. And I'm able to play the 640 version as well. It seems to be an issue with the encoding from the app on the higher quality videos. the 640 version looks decent on my phone and I guess I'll stick with that until there's a Tubemate update.
I just found out about the Media Go program by Sony, which let's you sync music, video and pictures and view/play them.
It looks much better than Winamp and Mediamonkey, and works easier too.
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Download at the Sony Website:
http://mediago.sony.com
It works with other brands too, a SGSII user reported this working great.
It works with any Sony multimedia device,kinda surprised you found out about this now
also to add album art to mp3's use this program,all the players will read album arts correctly
Hi,
I've been using the program since it's launch a few years ago. I think it's visually the best program of it's kind...I agree it's easy to use and for phones it's pretty good software I think.
But...it duplicates songs a lot, and I don't always know why. I know that if I imported music by CD without connection to the internet, then look up song info in Media Go it keeps the old songs AND finds the info of the new songs...it duplicates some songs on my SD and I don't know why.
I've been chatting about this on the Sony Forum. Many 2011 Sony devices have a problem with version 2.1. No matter what your sync settings, every time you connect your phone it resyncs everything in your library...I've a lot of music/tv/podcasts...that's a nightmare. I wish I could tell it that some of my music is not music but actually podcasts.
Overall it's a great program, just a few issues left......
p.s. downgrade to version 2.0 if you have these problems, they go away, find it on softwareinformer.com past versions.
Album art
SharpnShiny said:
I've been using the program since it's launch a few years ago. I think it's visually the best program of it's kind...I agree it's easy to use and for phones it's pretty good software I think.
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I would like to ask, that do you know how to embed album art to the mp3 file itself (using Media Go)?
I know, that I can link album art, but it is not always embedded in the file.
My test is: I add the album art to the song properties is Media Go, and then play the music in VLC. If it shows the album art, then I assume it embedded.
I am running the 1.6 version (higher versions fail to retreive info from Gracenote database for me).
Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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I was hoping for a solution, that doesn't require to send my song to the device, but I'll definitely give this method a try!
Strange story: I had an album, which I set art to. Later, I use the 'VLC check" I mentioned before, and only 1 song had the art. So I selected all the songs in the album, and set the artwork for them together. After this, the covers were there with every song?!?! ... Tried to do this with other albums also, but without any luck. I have noooooo idea how this works anymore!
One solution
SharpnShiny said:
Hi ^^ I think that will work; download album artwork, then sync to your device, the artwork becomes embedded after download is complete. Does that answer your question?
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It worked!
Now I only have to send all my music to a device and transfer it back!
If someone has a solution, that doesn't include so much copying, please don't keep it to yourselves!
Strange
Hi all!
I am having this strange issue, with one of my mp3-s.
I set the album art in MediaGo, and transfer it to my thumb drive to make it embedded.
After that, when I play the music from the thumb drive, an another picture is embedded, always the same one, which I don't even have.
I tried different downloads of the mp3, different drives, different pictures ... this keeps happening!
Anyone can think of a solution?
Hi, one solution which usually works for artwork and playlist problems is deleted Android's build of those details. Go to apps, all apps, media storage, delete. Now restart the phone. Album artwork, thumbnails and playlists recount from the very start.
SharpnShiny said:
Hi, one solution which usually works for artwork and playlist problems is deleted Android's build of those details. Go to apps, all apps, media storage, delete. Now restart the phone. Album artwork, thumbnails and playlists recount from the very start.
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I use a pendrive / storage unit / thumb drive / usb stick (or idk what you call it) for this embedding. But the mentioned same image gets embedded, even if I use a usb stick, that has never had that mp3 on it! ... this is why I'm confused
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Can you put up a Google play link so we make sure we download the right one please? Thank you
thats a $120 piece of equipment...sweet!
Well i searched it and i think i found the right one there were only 2 lol. I'll start testing this weekend and report by the date. Id love to have on of those tonidoplugs. I didnt know what it was until google searching and it seems awesome.
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Well i searched it and i think i found the right one there were only 2 lol. I'll start testing this weekend and report by the date. Id love to have on of those tonidoplugs. I didnt know what it was until google searching and it seems awesome.
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Ok thanks i downloaded the right one already. Also ill be testing with stock rom and kernel 4.2.2 with root but no actual changes to system so it will be stock experience.
So far from home, on my Wi-Fi, its great! I used to use other apps like Splashtop 2 and the like, but I prefer to have it streamed to my tablet, rather than just mirroring my PC. I'm going into work overnight, so at that point I'll get to try it out with 3G/4G.
How are you going to try 3g on the nexus 10? Its only WiFi. Did you mean on your phone? And I can confirm that its been working great so far but I haven't tested very much yet.
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How are you going to try 3g on the nexus 10? Its only WiFi. Did you mean on your phone? And I can confirm that its been working great so far but I haven't tested very much yet.
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He can plug a 3g dongle and use it on the tablet... :silly:
Yes, I meant tethering my tablet to my Nexus 4.
So over mobile data, it runs great, and as I mentioned before, it also runs well over Wi-Fi. When playing a song, I like how it runs in the background too!
The UI looks neat, and there's also a little sync functionality like DropBox.
Only irk for me is that occasionally when I seek, the video would freeze on one frame, but picking an earlier or later spot would set it right.
Also, with apps like Splashtop, I would get some serious performance decrease on my PC, but with Tonido, I can play BF3 on my PC and watch Married With Children on my tablet!
Overall I'm really loving this app!
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Yes, I meant tethering my tablet to my Nexus 4.
So over mobile data, it runs great, and as I mentioned before, it also runs well over Wi-Fi. When playing a song, I like how it runs in the background too!
The UI looks neat, and there's also a little sync functionality like DropBox.
Only irk for me is that occasionally when I seek, the video would freeze on one frame, but picking an earlier or later spot would set it right.
Also, with apps like Splashtop, I would get some serious performance decrease on my PC, but with Tonido, I can play BF3 on my PC and watch Married With Children on my tablet!
Overall I'm really loving this app!
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I decided to let this subject get its own thread since I guess that it can be important.
I bought a 128 GB SanDisk Cruze and a USB-OTG cable (Startech) today for the Ultra and can report that it works perfectly. The drive mounts properly and everything seems to be perfectly OK.
To me, it is a great way to expand the storage capacity when needed and it is a great way to store media files etc and offload photos and videos taken with the camera to the flash drive when necessary.
Here is a picture of the Ultra with the Cruze attached.
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Well this is nice to know in case we are traveling and we want to watch a lot of (1080p) movies
Would the flash drive use more power vs using a high capacity microsd card?
File system?
What is the drive's file system? I just want to make sure... can it read NTFS drives?
It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
E90 Commie said:
It seems like my drive is formatted as FAT/exFAT when I checked it. I haven't tried NTFS on the Ultra.
I think it is a great idea to use it for movies - it is also easy to move it between devices. I have a lot of 1080p movies but some of them are really big, 5 GB or so and I am transcoding them down to around 2 GB. They still look great on the device and with HandBrake and H.264 in the MP4 container, Sony Movies can play them (I have noticed that I fails to play my mkvs with Dolby audio).
I can recommend MovieBrowser uPnP for those that want to watch a lot of movies on any Android device. It has a nice widget and a very elegant UI where the movies are presented, the information is automatically downloaded and put in place. I think it is a very nice front end for a movie collection and makes it very enjoyable browsing it. The only drawback is that it is a bit picky with the recognized players, i.e. it can't send a movie to whatever player. Sony Movies works so it can be selected as the default player and then it starts playback when a movie is selected in MovieBrowser.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adree.moviebrowser.upnp&hl=en
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Awww too bad... i was hoping it can handle NTFS... i know it is an android or kernel limitation..
If it was ntfs, no need to transcode files bigger than 4gb as the NTFS system would let you handle big files.
As for the video player, i just use BSPlayer.. never failed me..
Thanks for the reply!
I use BSPlayer too, it is great but it seems that there has been a Dolby licensing problem so the latest versions lack support for Dolby Digital. I hope they can resolve it.
I am transcoding my movies more because I think that 4-5 GB is a bit too big for the device when equal picture quality can be provided with 2-2.5 GB. So in my case, it is about using the space more efficiently.