I currently use Musicbee on my laptop - any suggestion as to a great one for the NT?
PowerAmp is my favorite android music player, but it has a bit of an issue with the status bar being on the bottom of the screen, making it hard to click on certain settings. I just use Google Music on it for the time being.
Google music here, can't beat the streaming.
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Google music in conjunction with Pure Music App. The pure music widget has a back button which I find useful.
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Zune and Foobar2000 on my desktop, Ubermusic on my SGSII and NT.
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The title says it all, google has truly missed the ball on this one. Now I have looked with zero luck. So im guessing the answer is no, but is there some sort of alternative music widget that will work with Google Music? Googles is way to boring. (Come to think of it every single google widget is boring and plain) I understand there are alternative app, but I used the cloud thing.
Welp thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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+1 the music widget does suck
i wish there was a full screen widget available.
But the 4x2 widget in CM7 suffices.
That's one of the main reasons that's holding me back from using the new google music.
Is there any way to change it, or let the big G know?
Not too happy with any of the music apps I've tried. Using DoubleTwist at the moment. Google Music didn't impress me too much not to mention it would take forever to upload my collection. Eyeballing Spotify but not sure I want to drop $120 a year on that service.
You have a screenshot of the CM7 widget? Just got my Captivate phone 2 weeks ago. Just rooted to get rid of AT&T bloatware and looking for an updated ROM from the stock FROYO.UCKB2 (2.2)
Seeing as other music apps were mentioned, a few examples are here: Android Media Players
is it not possible to get the widget from honeycomb? It's beautiful and it makes no sense to not have it in ICS
I agree, the single music widget provided with the Google Music app is terrible! And it's been that way foooorever.
I keep searching the Android Market every so often to see if any other 3rd party widgets have become available that will work with Google Music, but so far there's nothing I've found that has 100% compatibility.
The one I've ended up using is from the app called "iSyncr". I had actually purchased that app quite a while ago to sync my iTunes-based music on my Mac to my Android phone, and it turns out that the widgets that come with the app also happen to work relatively well with Google Music on my GSM Galaxy Nexus. The only glitch that occurs sometimes is that the widget can't show album art for some of my MP3s.
The iSyncr app comes with just 3 widget sizes: 1x4 and 2x4 and 4x4, and you can find them in the Widgets section of Android listed as "Music Ratings", after you've installed the app.
This is a link to the web site for iSyncr and it shows a pic of the 4x4 widget:
http://jrtstudio.com/iSyncr/iSyncr_Ratings_FAQ
My preferred music widget of the past was "Pure Music" and it was awesome!! Unfortunately, the dev for it says that he can't make it compatible with Google Music as Google has not released the appropriate APIs for him to do so. Really, really sucks because the Pure Music widget is really customizable and has a lot of nice options to alter how it looks.
Finally, I happened to have a brief chat via Google Plus with someone that works on the Google Music dev team and he said that one of the larget requests they get is to update the widget for the app and to offer more widget sizes for it. He said it's on their schedule of "things to do" during the first quarter of 2012, so here's hoping they actually do update it!!! <crosses fingers>
FYI: Pure Music Widget has now been updated so that it's compatible with ICS/Google Music app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.koxx.pure_music&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5rb3h4LnB1cmVfbXVzaWMiXQ..
This is what I'd been using as my music widget on my many different Android-based phones over the years but I had to stop using it when I got my Galaxy Nexus and found that it wasn't compatible.
Really happy the widget has been updated and I can go back to using it!
for some reason Pure Music Widget isn't showing the Album art from google music for me. I can see the title and song name but no album art. song plays smoothly.
any idea whats wrong?
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for some reason Pure Music Widget isn't showing the Album art from google music for me. I can see the title and song name but no album art. song plays smoothly.
any idea whats wrong?
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I've noticed the same thing with some of my mp3 files & pure music widget. Looks like it has something to do with either the type of picture file used for the album art or how the picture file is embedded into the mp3.
Most of my mp3s display the album art just fine but all of the ones I bought from 7Digital don't.
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How do I configure Pure music widget to play Google music?
Any news on google updating their own widget by the way?
as far as I know, NO WIDGET can pull album art covers from the Google Cloud...
which sucks, because the widget ACTUALLY WORKS even though the music player sucks, but I like my cloud storage just to free up room on the phone
Try Cube player its pretty cool but album does get mixed up when flashing different Roms.
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3d/cubed....pretty cool!
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.rockonnggl&hl=en
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Wow nice one thanks!
yae its cool
Nice find, looks good so far. I haven't found a music player that I really liked yet, hopefully this is the one.
Amazing!
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anyone know of any music apps that will sort the music by different folders that have my music in (rap, rock, grateful dead, etc...) Mort music player does this but i cant get it to load music from internal and external sd card its just one or other
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anyone know of any music apps that will sort the music by different folders that have my music in (rap, rock, grateful dead, etc...) Mort music player does this but i cant get it to load music from internal and external sd card its just one or other
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Player Pro does this.
Agreed +1 on player pro (current player with sense skin)
Also use the folder option as well...so that option won me over entirely
I think there is like one more player that offers a folder option (trust me I went through them ALL) but cant think of it to save my life...might of been miui player??? idk?? dont hold me to it...
I think Mixing had folder option as well. I started using Player Pro a couple years ago and never looked back.
It's good but i prefer poweramp
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It has a nice interface, but messing with the EQ too much causes it to hang. And if music is playing, you can't control it in any way, the only solution is to force close the app.
I usually just use Amazon MP3 to play music. The stock Blur player leaves a lot to be desired, and Google Music doesn't (seem to?) differentiate between cloud and local playback. With Amazon MP3 it's real easy. Plus, I buy music from them and I've ripped and uploaded my CDs to their cloud (and to Google's, it's nice to have options, heh). It isn't a great player, but it's reliable. And while I enjoy music, I don't play it on my phone often enough to need a fancy player.
But, thanks for the link, it was fun to try out.
Not really RAZR-specific, but it's the little things that make this phone so awesome. I just wanted to say an open "thank you" to Google for their new music app. Not only does most of my music carry over to it from my computer, but I don't have to store it on my phone.
The best feature is it sends track/artist information over bluetooth to my car headunit, something no other music player has done for me. It also allows my headunit to control Google music via my steering wheel controls; another bonus feature that doesn't always work as well with other players.
What Music app are you talking about? On my Razr I have the Moto developed app that gives you access to webradio and Motocast etc., not Googles music app.
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What Music app are you talking about? On my Razr I have the Moto developed app that gives you access to webradio and Motocast etc., not Googles music app.
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Google Music app is available from the Market for free.
Beartard, what kind of vehicle do you have? Is this a Ford sync feature?
I have a 2002 Jeep Liberty with a JVC KD-R926 headunit. Nothing special at all, really.
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What Music app are you talking about? On my Razr I have the Moto developed app that gives you access to webradio and Motocast etc., not Googles music app.
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Just wondering if anyone using this music app, or any others, has been able to get the lock screen music controls to work. I really like having them and they are currently the only reason I have stuck with the stock music app. Thanks
David:
MortPlayer Music has a downloadable lockscreen widget that gives you control on the lockscreen (you will need the player and the widget--two seperate downloads, both free). The only catch is that it's a folder-based player, so it'll only handle music that is actually on your device. Hope this helps!
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Correction: you only need the player. You can enable the lockscreen controls via Mortplayer's settings in 'Lockscreen' section.
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Can someone recommend a good music player. My son is using Btunes on his Galaxy II, but of course we can't see the new version on the market only the older one. I have used google music and ttpod and they are not bad I guess, I just wish that they didn't always want to connect to the web. I just want one that has nice usability and the ability for it not to keep running in the background when I close it.
Thanks.
Poweramp is one I used 100% on my phone with 2-4 gigs of space dedicated to music, I've been using google music on my nook tablet due too the google music cloud and the huge selection of music I have, going above 20 gigs lol
I installed and uninstalled Poweramp 3 times and I could never fix a volume problem. With both software and hardware volume cranked to max, it was way too low. I'm using Winamp now and I don't have that problem.
I really like cube. Shows up also as a 3. Its got a pretty cool looking interface and its free too.
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I use Player Pro from the android market. It allows you to make playlists and organize your songs/audiobooks in various other ways, plus it plays video files. It also looks good and operates flawlessly on the nook tablet.
I'll second Player Pro. I'm running that now and it works great.
I like the google play music app, but the widget is the most boring thing I have ever seen. Any using/know of some installable widgets that run the google play music app but have some more functionality than that simple bar offered from google?
I was wondering the same exact thing...
I use double twist widget to control music downloaded from Google play music
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Me too. It is ugly and very limited. The old music app has been removed unfortunately. Any ideas would help