Tired of the same old music player what's the best one out?
Have you tried Wimamp ?
I like Meridian
its really up to you.......try them all
PowerAmp gives you the best sound production imho.
PowerAmp+Galaxy Tuner = WIN
I have to go with Meridian because I ride a motorcycle, so I love its headset button controls. I knew the click to pause, but recently discovered that a quick double-click skips to the next track, slower double-click goes to the previous track, and possibly a few more I can't think of right now.
I have yet to found any headphones with multiple remote buttons that are compatible with the vibrant, so this was my solution to avoid certain death on CA's freeways.
I prefer Mixzing. I love the widget player especially with Widget Locker.
I've always liked Winamp and Doubletwist.
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I have to go with Meridian because I ride a motorcycle, so I love its headset button controls. I knew the click to pause, but recently discovered that a quick double-click skips to the next track, slower double-click goes to the previous track, and possibly a few more I can't think of right now.
I have yet to found any headphones with multiple remote buttons that are compatible with the vibrant, so this was my solution to avoid certain death on CA's freeways.
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Never had a iPod or a iPhone headphone?
They do the same but I didn't know slow double click did previous :O
Ill try it out
Thanks for info
cezzarmicu said:
PowerAmp gives you the best sound production imho.
PowerAmp+Galaxy Tuner = WIN
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I just downloaded both how do I get galaxy tuner to give me the best audio for headphones?
xriderx66 said:
I just downloaded both how do I get galaxy tuner to give me the best audio for headphones?
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Got my setting from this post, sounds real good with this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909801
Btw, powerAMP also has that headset-click-to-control feature as well. Better sound than meridian and mixzing....
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disregard above link, here's the correct one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10655872&postcount=10058
bnielsen40 said:
I have to go with Meridian because I ride a motorcycle, so I love its headset button controls. I knew the click to pause, but recently discovered that a quick double-click skips to the next track, slower double-click goes to the previous track, and possibly a few more I can't think of right now.
I have yet to found any headphones with multiple remote buttons that are compatible with the vibrant, so this was my solution to avoid certain death on CA's freeways.
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PowerAMP also does the click thing as well. Plus it gives off much better sound quality
Power amp is amazing...especially through a full stereo. 2 eqs and and a clean sound.
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PowerAMP also does the click thing as well. Plus it gives off much better sound quality
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Thats wierd, because the sound quality of pweramp was what made me switch BACK to meridian
maybe there was an update to poweramp, but i did not like the output
+1 Meridian. Headset button support is nice. 2 things notably missing: Lock Screen Support, and replaygain tag support. The latter is something I would really like, but the app creator has indicated that it ain't coming.
So far I have found that all of the music player apps on android suffer from one flaw: the random playlist - not so random.
I have about ~800 tracks on my phone and for some reason (winamp/stock player/doubletwist/poweramp/etc etc) always play the same songs from a select handful. It is like their random playlist generator peaks out after a certain amount. I have seen all of them play a track (lets say file #205) then go to 4-5 more different tracks then it plays file #205 again. I hit skip, and then it plays one of the 4-5 it played before #205. It appears to me, that they all use a built in android function (or some such) for the random playlist. But this function uses a dynamic ever-changing source pool. So instead of reading your tracks from the SD card and then randomly sorting that list and hitting "play" it, instead, puts all the tracks file paths in an array and then on each "play" or "skip" it generates a random number and picks a track out of the array to play (while not removing any of the already played-tracks).
As for the file affinity, I have no idea. It is almost like a specific random number set is always generated (like when debugging in VS where it always picks the same set of "random" numbers so that you can test the program flow).
Is there any music player app that is either true-ly random or uses the single play-list and does not repeat songs in the play list?
Wow...that was a long post.
Poweramp bit that's just my opinion.
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I've tried most I haven't found one with good performance
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wergeld said:
So far I have found that all of the music player apps on android suffer from one flaw: the random playlist - not so random.
I have about ~800 tracks on my phone and for some reason (winamp/stock player/doubletwist/poweramp/etc etc) always play the same songs from a select handful. It is like their random playlist generator peaks out after a certain amount. I have seen all of them play a track (lets say file #205) then go to 4-5 more different tracks then it plays file #205 again. I hit skip, and then it plays one of the 4-5 it played before #205. It appears to me, that they all use a built in android function (or some such) for the random playlist. But this function uses a dynamic ever-changing source pool. So instead of reading your tracks from the SD card and then randomly sorting that list and hitting "play" it, instead, puts all the tracks file paths in an array and then on each "play" or "skip" it generates a random number and picks a track out of the array to play (while not removing any of the already played-tracks).
As for the file affinity, I have no idea. It is almost like a specific random number set is always generated (like when debugging in VS where it always picks the same set of "random" numbers so that you can test the program flow).
Is there any music player app that is either true-ly random or uses the single play-list and does not repeat songs in the play list?
Wow...that was a long post.
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Have you ever tried Rockon I never have the problem your having on it.
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Have you ever tried Rockon I never have the problem your having on it.
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I think I had. Was a while back though. I thought Winamp would solve this issue since Winamp on PC is kick ass and it uses a single play list and drops a song once it is played from playing again (until a stop or reload occurs).
I will try it out again and see how it goes.
xriderx66 said:
Never had a iPod or a iPhone headphone?
They do the same but I didn't know slow double click did previous :O
Ill try it out
Thanks for info
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I actually came from a hacked iPhone, but always used headphones with multiple buttons. That's probably the ONE thing I miss about the iPhone: the huge, blind following of the masses always supplies it with the best accessories. c'est la vie.
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Thanks for letting me know. Sounds like there are mixed opinions about PowerAmp...I'll have to try it out for myself.
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No, it's not the one where my music stops at 2 minutes .
I have tried searching for this topic, but searching for Winamp glitch, or Winamp playback issue keeps on bringing back the same threads.
My glitch is pretty odd.
When playing a group of songs from a playlist or an album from a certain artist the song will occasionally insert another track -in the middle- of the currently playing track.
For example:
If I am currently playing Track 1, somewhere in the middle of the track the song will switch to Track 4 but Winamp is still showing that I'm playing Track 1 (with the minutes counting down as usual). If I let it continue playing, towards the end of the track I the song usually switches back to Track 1. If I skip the song it will skip as normal, if I go to the beginning of the song the problem replicates itself.
This does not happen all the time, but it happens often enough to annoy the **** out of me. Anybody experience a similar issue?
I have had this happen...with the stock player AND with Miui player. Just think of it as a mashup!
If it happened more often I would be quite annoyed...
I've had this happen as well using both the stock player and winamp. There seem to be a lot of bugs that Motorola shipped this device with. This one and the front microphone/44100hz sound recording bug are two of the worst in my opinion.
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I have had this happen...with the stock player AND with Miui player. Just think of it as a mashup!
If it happened more often I would be quite annoyed...
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Yeah, a mash up would actually be the perfect way to describe what's happening. Although most times the songs don't match so it sounds like ****
So I guess nobody has come up with a solution?
Edit: Just to add... I won't be too bothered by this glitch if I could simply skip to the next track. The problem is, I usually listen to music during my commute on motorcycle (1 hour each way) and don't have access to the phone controls. So I'm stuck having to listen to the mismatched music till it ends.
Happens to me too.
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This has happened several times to me using the default music app. Does anyone know if this happens on other phones or is it our specifically?
Well I came from a nexus one and this never happened. ever! On my atrix I've also noticed skips where its like a bad cd but... its not
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I had that problem too.
Just remove Winamp or your favorite Music Player from the Autoclose list in the Task Manager.
Get an app called "HeadSet Blocker" i had this issue on the default one. After using these..haven't had a song skipped yet. Its a widget so make you have turned on.
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i use winamp every day and i've never came across this issue. i did previously experience a glitch with the song skipping in the beginning of the song but i no longer have that issue. running GingerBlur v1.3, latest winamp version. I also didnt experience this on the stock rom or on GladiAtrix.
Anybody getting distorted sound? I think it nay be a sample rate issue. Doesn't matter the level certain songs have clear distortion like its clipping but its not.
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Try this song on your Atrix. Distorted for me.
http://db.tt/VpZWldu
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I had this happen to me a couple of times
I'm not sure if you are describing the bug I have had or not. I've had the default music player essentially just start taking over when I'm already using a different player. If you are rooted you can safely freeze the default music app and it fixes this problem.
I used to be a big fanboy of WinAmp, now due to too many failures /hickups I moved to MixZing. This player just works and I never experienced ANY problems.
Big thumbs up for that one - I'm never going back.
Try it out if you are not too hung up on ONLY WinAmp...
I've absolutely had this! Glad I'm not alone.
Its happened with the stock player, the leaked new player from a week ago, and even with doubleTwist.
Its rare and each time seems to be caused when I skip a track then decide to go backwards to the previous one.
All through the song its like it wants to skip back to the middle of the one I was on before I skipped back.
+1 for Mixzing. Just tried it now & it seems way better than stock or Winamp. Thanks, Robert_it.
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I'm a bit of an audiophile and for me the music side of things really is lacking in Android. Its absolutely fine for example if you come home in the evening and want to listen to a few albums, its 110% no problems at all.
I listen to music on my phone 8-9 hours a day at work and its a let down.
Getting songs on it for a start is a nightmare, sure you can plunk all in a music folder again fine for listening to an odd album or whatever but there is no sort of organisation, Say I want a playlist with song 2 from album E followed by song 1 from album C and so on this is a nightmare to create on the phone, this is where iTunes comes into its element. Sure we have things like Doubletwist, on paper it should be fantastic, but the reality is it duplicates songs and playlist and isn't even smart enough to recognize duplicates in your library, there is also things like Winamp and its wireless syncing, it takes forever and again duplicates.
Then we have the problem with MP4 files, My Galaxy S2 can recognize many files but has issues with MP4 files, you get song name but artist info etc all unknown, it can't read the tags.
Then general sound levels, I've tried 3 android phones over the years and all 3 are to low, they are about 70% that of an iPhone and this is fine for general listening but if your fave song comes on you like a bit of a boost and well you can't, I also work in quite a noisy environment and machinery can he heard over the top of the phone on full, there are apps like Volume+ which claim can boost the volume and well they can but it distorts so all rather pointless.
Then there is finding a player, I've notice volume differs between them all, and some can't read the playlists you've created so in the end i;ve had to stick to stock player, although crap its the best of a bad bunch.
A feature I also liked on iTunes was Genius, I could pick a song say a rock song, hit a button and it would create a playlist similar, even if this was possible on android it wouldn't work anyway as all the MP4 tags are fooked.
So as I say I take music seriously and I suspect 90% of people won't care about these issues but I do and am hoping for some good advise as don't want to go back to iPhone but at the moments its looking like the only solution as Android is so frustrating to use for music.
First off, look at Voodoo sound control from the android market. It's often times included in custom ROMs. It will allow you to pump the volume up far beyond the stock ROM's capabilities. There's quite a few other tweaks it offers that I'm sure you'll find. The only catch with Voodoo is that it's only compatible with certain Kernels.
As for media playback, "Music" by Google is pretty powerful. It's not the same program that many phones run stock. It has support for FLAC playback, Song info lookup, even lyric support.
I recommend you take a look at PowerAmp. I am a music nut like you and it does everything and more! There is a full featured trial version and to buy it is only a few bucks. Check it out.
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I have to use music by G but I wish it has some more useful features like 'query' or 'play after this song' such.
There will probably never be a mobile player that will do Replay Gain on the fly so i suggest your grab yourself a copy of mp3gain for your PC. Plug your phone in via USB, drag and drop your music from phone to program interface, set level to 92db, Scan Tracks and then Apply Gain.
92db may be higher than some of your tracks already are and may be lower than others. Find a level that gives you the audio boost you need. As all tracks are set to the same level you won't have to adjust volume between tracks during playback.
There are plenty of players with Playlist support so that's covered. Try one of the ones mentioned above.
I think i've found the answer by accident, I was using Media Monkey I noticed it has a feature to analyze the volume of tracks, so I got them all analyzed and noticed most were in or around -10db, I hit level which brought them up to 0 to +5db and I have noticed a good improvement, It also sorted out all my tagging and artwork issues and even synced my playlists perfectly to my phone.
Hi, is there any app I can use to listen to my audiobooks which would let me pause and resume the progress throughout the book?
The books I have are simple mp3's but the default app doen't properly save where you left off?
It is for a Samsung Galaxy S II
Thanks
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Hi, is there any app I can use to listen to my audiobooks which would let me pause and resume the progress throughout the book?
The books I have are simple mp3's but the default app doen't properly save where you left off?
It is for a Samsung Galaxy S II
Thanks
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I listen to audio books constantly and I found that Winamp seems to work best for me.... even if my phone reboots winamp picks right up where it left off. It doesn't let you "bookmark" multiple 'books' so you can't jump from one place in one 'book' to another place in another 'book' but it far exceeds the default app. All of my audio books are mp3's and when I have a single large mp3 file, Winamp's resume capability saves a lot of time and effort to scan forward to find your place.
There is an audiobook specific player on the market but it failed to play the audio for me and I found my way back to Winamp and haven't left since. And you can't beat the price! Free
Good Luck!
Cool. Ill have a look and test it out. But yea as far as i know the books are just standard mp3s
What features would you like to see added/removed, and are you happy with it compared to the stock music app, or how do you feel it stacks up against another music app.
*This is a general topic, and I'm just curious to see the community's response.*
I don't use it. It doesn't have features I need.
Namely, ability to keep the screen from sleeping, and the ability to limit where it looks for music at.
i like gmusic. I dont use it daily (I use slacker daily) but gmusic works great when I do need it. Its far more reliable than when it first came out, so they're definitely making progress.
My only complaint is when I flash a new rom, it registers my phone as a new device so it adds it to gmusic (which is great) but google limits it to 8 devices. So occasionally I need to go into gmusic website and delete my old devices, which is all the same phone. Its not really a complaint for google but i wish there was a way for it to detect that its the same device/IMEI
I personally love google music I use it daily. I have a computer for school and don't want to cramp it up with music so I can stream everything. Also I use my phone in my truck for music and it is nice to have access to all my music when I need it.
Absolutely love it. I have my entire collection stored. My main problem lies when I'm doing file management and the media scanner starts while I'm playing music. Google Music stops streaming completely and I have to manually restart it. I turned caching off, so that the song being played is solely dependent on the connection, but it still does it. I suppose it stops to look for new songs that might have been added. I'd like it to at least resume playback when scanning stops.
The other thing is with optimization I guess. In my last billing cycle, I got throttled and streaming was impossible (as expected). However, Pandora was still able to stream entire songs, for long sessions without stutter (it just took longer between songs). I'm curious if it'd be possible for them to improve performance on slow networks, so that it's on par with Pandora.
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General is something related directly to the phone or an app that comes stock with the phone. GoogleMusic does not fit that description since it has to be installed by the user and not everyone uses it. This should have been in Themes and Apps. Just sayin'.
I wish it would sync with a folder on my phone with all my music, so that when it tries to play a song, it checks that folder on my phone first before downloading the song with a weird name in another random folder. That way, whenever I add a song on my computer to the Google Music Folder, it adds to my phone as well when I try to play it, keeping my music in sync.
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I wish it would sync with a folder on my phone with all my music, so that when it tries to play a song, it checks that folder on my phone first before downloading the song with a weird name in another random folder. That way, whenever I add a song on my computer to the Google Music Folder, it adds to my phone as well when I try to play it, keeping my music in sync.
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That'd be boss. Maybe in a future update?
I love google music.
Especially after switching from iTunes and my iPhone 4. I really hated iTunes haha
i like it on my zoom and Google TV. But I wish it would sync playlist too. A good playlist takes time and it wouldn't be nice to listen to them on phone, tablet and TV. The main thing that make be go back to the Samsung music player is that while connected to my Bluetooth stereo it shows track info on the stereo but the Google music doesn't. Not a big thing, but enough to keep me using the samsung player. If those two were fixed it would be a perfect player.
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I love google music.
Especially after switching from iTunes and my iPhone 4. I really hated iTunes haha
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I too converted, and couldn't be happier.
Absolutely love Google music. No complaints here, it works great. I'm really happy that Google came out with this app, I show everyone with an Android phone.
im using PowerAmp i think its better than gMusic
Not bad... Steaming better but still slower than other streaming apps.
My biggest complaint is music purchased can only be played in gmusic and can't be downloaded to phone or computer. Frustrating when I paid for something. if they keep prices at $4.99 album $.49 song I might get over it... Doubtful that will last.
Saw app in market that claims to make music portable though.
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Not bad... Steaming better but still slower than other streaming apps.
My biggest complaint is music purchased can only be played in gmusic and can't be downloaded to phone or computer. Frustrating when I paid for something. if they keep prices at $4.99 album $.49 song I might get over it... Doubtful that will last.
Saw app in market that claims to make music portable though.
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Just click on the song you purchased and click download. It will let you download it at 320k and no drm. Also the google music manager has an option to auto download any purchased songs to your pc automatically.
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I would really like to be able to download my music that was uploaded to google music. I had everything in itunes also, and one day after it was all uploaded itunes moved everything without me knowing it and that file got deleted on accident. Of course i didn't care at the time because nothing should have been there. Thanks itunes.
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Also the google music manager has an option to auto download any purchased songs to your pc automatically.
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Automagically? I missed that. Cool.
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My only complaint is the shuffle feature isnt very good at all, I only have a library of about 400 songs yet some songs I never hear when I use shuffle all n some songs I will hear twice in a 10 song span. I use gmusic daily n love it other than that.
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Love it!!!
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I wish there was a way to manage the songs on the server from the phone. I sent all my music to the server and now run across songs (when in shuffle) that I no longer want. Would like to delete the song off the server from my phone.
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Not bad... Steaming better but still slower than other streaming apps.
My biggest complaint is music purchased can only be played in gmusic and can't be downloaded to phone or computer. Frustrating when I paid for something. if they keep prices at $4.99 album $.49 song I might get over it... Doubtful that will last.
Saw app in market that claims to make music portable though.
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uhh, yes it can...
Hello all, I am searching the net for a music app which will auto-crossfade a playlist of tunes. According to the description, it seems that the Rocket Player app can do this but I installed it and there's a gap between the tunes. Is there any other app I can try or if Rocket player can do this, how can I get support from it's developer please?
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Thanks, I tried it, it is not auto-crossfading so I have written to the developer for help.
what do you mean by "auto-crossfading". if it has anything got to do with fading out the end of the current song and fading into the new song its there
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what do you mean by "auto-crossfading". if it has anything got to do with fading out the end of the current song and fading into the new song its there
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I mean I select a playlist and the software will play every song on it's own without myself having to select song after song, like a shuffle feature but it will crossfade every tune so no gaps in between the tunes.
BlackPlayer! Does it all... I like a lot this new minimalistic toy
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BlackPlayer! Does it all... I like a lot this new minimalistic toy
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Same deal with blackplayer, even though the "gapless" option is selected it is not crossfading, would you mind checking the audio preferences in blackplayer on your android phone and let me know what else is checked so I can set mine the same way please?
You could try PlayerPro. Been with for ages, and always come back to it. It's even running right now, crossfading as you wish
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i think what you're looking for is something like Mix and Mash on iTunes. This program allows you to choose the songs you like (either individually or by playlist) and then you crossfade songs for any length of time. Plus, you don't have to play the entire song, you can choose to play whatever amount of time you would like and songs usually begin playing somewhere in the middle, so you don't have to listen to the beginning or end of a song.
Is there an app like this for android???
Poweramp. It's not free, but I believe there is a trial. I've used it for years now. It's one of the few apps have made the journey from Gingerbread to Nougat with me, lol... Turn on the cross-fading in the settings, and play any song from the 'All Songs' list. You can turn on shuffle or let the list play in order. There are two settings [other than off] under Auto-advance fading, one is to only crossfade songs that aren't gapless and the other is to crossfade all songs. You might have to change the setting to the 'Crossfade all songs' setting, as many songs I've tried don't seem to do it. This creates a problem if you want to listen to an album that is gapless (no delay between tracks), so toggle the setting as needed
I found one called media monkey and it has a cross-fade in the settings. throw a playlist in and it mixes all tracks with no silence
In case anyone is still looking, the best crossfade I found is "neutron music player" (evaluation version). All other players (Pi music player, dub music player) I tried will "crossfade" only if I follow playlist order, but there is an obvious break if I randomly pick a song from the list. I use this app to play pad music and have to choose different files as needed instead of following the order of playlist.
However, neutron has really horrendous interface compared to others. Not user friendly at all, I would have given it up immediately if I could find something else that works.