Hello everybody!
So with all the hype of ICS source being released, there are a few things I think Google is overlooking BIG TIME!
Forgive me if you don't agree or don't care for that matter.
First. I am really digging the new Google Music app as well as the addition of the music store being added to the market. But my question to Google would be, why use your music store vs. ITunes on my CPU? There is no music management system for Google, which in my opinion is a huge short fall. I understand that Google is really hitting the cloud hard, but what if I don't want my new purchases or any music in the cloud? Manually dragging and dropping music files is a pain in the @ss. I guess my frustrations revolve mostly around their web based music player than the music app. Drop the web based music player and release an application. Make it easy for android users to flawlessly sync their phone with their CPU and CPU with the cloud. Make it easy to sync my music and playlists.
And dude what's up with your LAME music widget? Seriously? You make this beautiful UI, built from the ground up and you dont even have the decency to revamp your music widget... Com'on man!
Second. Again this is attention to detail, why did you not update the ui in the clock app? It doesn't match the ICS ui at all. It didn't even match with GB for that matter.
Don't get me wrong, I love android and Google but there are just a few things (IMHO) that need to really be tended to.
I guess that's all for now.
Good day.
I agree. Thats why I still use iTunes. Best music manager to me.
Temari x Shikamaru
Since we're on the google music kick... anyone notice you can't make individual songs available offline in the app? You can only do artists or albums (though, I really only tried from the artist view)...
And yes, they do need to redo the widget. I'm not so interested in a standalone music player for pc, though I do see the need for better pc-android syncing.
If you purchase the song, and you play it or make it available offline, you can listen to the local cached version.
No drag and drop, it's just there.
Craysh said:
If you purchase the song, and you play it or make it available offline, you can listen to the local cached version.
No drag and drop, it's just there.
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I get that, and it does work well. It's the music that is not synced to the cloud has to be manually drag/drooped to the phone. There needs to be a better music management system.
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knowledge561 said:
I agree. Thats why I still use iTunes. Best music manager to me.
Temari x Shikamaru
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Exactly!
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Completely off-topic, but more people should know this:
CPU ≠ Computer.
The CPU is an extremely small part of a computer, it stands for Central Processing Unit, and is the brain of a computer, but again, is NOT the computer itself.
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By the way, I completely agree with this entire post, btw. Closest I've come to an iTunes-like experience has been DoubleTwist, and has worked well for me. Give it a shot, if you like iTunes then this is the Android equivalent.
This is Google 101 my friend..Make a product that works and pretty it up at a later date..Its been like this for years..They worry about the aesthetics later on..They are just a bunch of engineers with no eye for ease of use or appealing UI.
I'm sure they will throw a coat of paint on it in the future.
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Atoro said:
Completely off-topic, but more people should know this:
CPU ≠ Computer.
The CPU is an extremely small part of a computer, it stands for Central Processing Unit, and is the brain of a computer, but again, is NOT the computer itself.
</rant>
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By the way, I completely agree with this entire post, btw. Closest I've come to an iTunes-like experience has been DoubleTwist, and has worked well for me. Give it a shot, if you like iTunes then this is the Android equivalent.
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Thanks for the clarification
I have used numerous apps, including double twist. While double twist has its perks, there needs to be a native android music management system. The problem with using other music apps is that you can't utilize there cloud. And with that it's annoying having to use two separate apps to accomplish what should be done with one. It seems redundant having to download an alternative app.
Also when you purchase music from the market its automatically stored "in the cloud". But when you select to download it to your phone from the music app, where does it save it to? MIUI music can't find any of my purchased music, nor can I using a file explorer. TIA.
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Lol I stopped reading at Itunes on your cpu hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Holy hell, you guys using itune or apple at all, that's a sin 'round here. You get burned at the stake for that. You should be embarrassed of your sinful admition.
Jk, but really using apple products, for shame feeding the beast. All your complaints will be fixed in due time.
Well Linux has a stand alone google music app. And everything is accessible from the browser in any OS. So I somewhat agree. I really don't know what the problem is but uploading music from a computer to google music is painfully slow. I 100% agree about the clock app and the music widget though. Everytime I set an alarm I cringe at the ugly UI lol
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Idc, iTunes is the best music app. Plus my first smartphone was an iphone
Temari x Shikamaru
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Well Linux has a stand alone google music app. And everything is accessible from the browser in any OS. So I somewhat agree. I really don't know what the problem is but uploading music from a computer to google music is painfully slow. I 100% agree about the clock app and the music widget though. Everytime I set an alarm I cringe at the ugly UI lol
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Is like they forgot about the clock lol
All I'm trying to her across is it would be nice to have some sort of iTunes type media management system to sync music, movies, shows, ringtones etc... Until then I don't foresee Google taking over the music market. ITunes works and works well (sorry to say it) and people have been using it for years.
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knowledge561 said:
Idc, iTunes is the best music app. Plus my first smartphone was an iphone
Temari x Shikamaru
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Sinner! Lol
Agreed.
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If you could just download the songs to your SD card and use any music player or release an api to allow apps like HTC music to use your Google music account. I hate having another music app because of this.
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Some it may be Google's agreements with the big record labels. I mean they make it virtually impossible to pull music you've downloaded from the store to a pc. But yes google needs to understand that although in the coming years the 'cloud' and tablets may be peoples only form of computing but until then and if they want to be successful now they need to make stand alone applications that is as robust as iTunes is for computers.
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I don't like itunes its incredibly over rated. There is nothing standout about it, plus it provides advertising and revinue for apple. I would rather use a folder on my desktop for arranging my music than use itunes.
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I don't like itunes its incredibly over rated. There is nothing standout about it, plus it provides advertising and revinue for apple. I would rather use a folder on my desktop for arranging my music than use itunes.
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Lol I love fanboys. You can still like Google and use apple products.
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I want to thank anyone who answers this in advance. I am usually pretty good at figuring this stuff out but at this point my head is spinning.
I just bought and Asus 300 tablet for house use. I mainly bought this for our 4 year old for learning apps and entertainment. I then realized that I have her music on a bunch of other devices so I figured that now would be a good time to get everything synced up with one another. I am mainly concerned about the music aspect of syncing and if an app(s)/method(s) included other things like pictures and videos I would not be opposed. The main devices I want to sync are as follows:
2 galaxy s3’s
2 older Android phones that will be used as media (music devices like an ipod) which are a Epic 4G and a Evo
1 Asus Transformer 300
2 computers running Vista and Windows 8
And maybe if it wasn’t a problem an XP desktop, an XP laptop, and an Ipod nano.
The nano is not a big concern since I know how Apple is about sharing and I could just take most of my music to another system/use another method. I have looked into Amazons Cloud Player and have heard about some other Apps like Double Twist but I am still a little lost. I am basically looking for something that is more or less fully automated (or pretty close to it).
Thanks in advance,
Jeffrey
I would also like syncing of playlists, I can't believe I forgot to mention that. It would be great to have the ability to have a playlist in a playlist or something like that.
Example:
Mia's music playlist"s"
...Mia's sleep music playlist
......song 1
......song 2 etc.
...Mia's fun music playlist
......song 1
......song 2 etc
mods....should this topic be moved or something?
i'm not sure if there's a definite app that syncs your music library from 1 android to another, but you can downloa sugasync or dropbox and sync everything
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i'm not sure if there's a definite app that syncs your music library from 1 android to another, but you can downloa sugasync or dropbox and sync everything
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It is fine if everything is on my main laptop and then synced to the other devices. Thanks for responding.
anyone else?
Has anyone tried using the media link HD with the one max?? I cannot get it to stream. it will only go into mirroring mode. Working with HTC but they claim it should work. All updates to phone and media link are done. Just want to know if anyone else has had trouble or i will swap the phone.
Thanks,
(i have two other HTC phones that it works on so not the media link HD. Its a one max specific issue)
i can confirm the media link hd only mirrors on the htc one max. i have the sprint version. stock not rooted.
when i went to the media link, it prompted me to update its firmware. as you mentioned, that did not help.
i know on the htc one and other devices (the lte 4G for example as well) whenever I would play a video or some other file and i was around my media link hd, i would get a prompt asking if i wanted to stream to the tv.. with the max, i get no such notification.
whats cool is my blu ray player, the sony 5100, picked up the pone and i can stream through that whilst i do other things on the device. i did not know the phone could talk to the player.
so yeah its not your phone its more likely a bug that needs removed.. :good:
Ok thank you for checking. I'll will mention that to HTC tech support.
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Ok so if anyone actually reads this don't waste your money on the HTC media link. The roku box or most decent blu-Ray players do the same thing and more.
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agree. thanks to your post i fired up the media link HD and at the same time had my blu ray player running. the max saw the blu ray player and the streaming was lovely.
i picked up chromecast and its been doing well. if someone is on the fence about getting the media link HD, id also suggest holding off. pick up a chromecast first as its much cheaper.
maybe htc will update the media link hd later....
Hey guys I am contemplating on developing a media play that will be able to play both audio and video within a single app and designing it partly around the vanilla KitKat experience. I was thinking I would list it anywhere between $1 to $3. What do yall think. Is it a good idea? Do you think it would sell? Would you buy it?
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I think people use their phones differently when listening to music or watching media, at least I do and the people I know do as well
So if I'm to listen to music, be it with head phones or streaming I go to one app, and I don't keep videos on my devices so all streaming is done through various apps
If you really want to do this I would suggest a free version with either limited options or ads so users can test and you will see if there is a market for it
But I think this is a case where you need to sell the user the idea that one app is better than two or three or....
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yeah i think this is a great idea especially with the kitkat UI implemented into it, and the idea to be able to have both music and videos within one app is great but what i think you should do is have different section for music and videos such as having a sub menu or something where you can select what you want to do and from that you could also implement a photo viewer and maybe even a stream type thing or something
I think a very simplistic "android player" with the new kitkat UI that plays all major video and audio would be useful. Possible features like playlists and album art would require the paid version. The focus of it would have to be the modern theme and simplicity since one app is simpler than two. It can still be very powerful without all the extra options that are in many applications.
Hi there, i recently switched to android (HTC One) ive rooted it, tried cyan, but went back to sense. Anyway, ive also ordered a Nexus Q - mostly cuz it looks gr8 - i have apple TV and i use it with an app on my One where i stream from spotify to my appleTV and to my stereo. When i get my Nexus Q i plan to get CyanogenMod on it, and a airplay server, so i switch out the appleTV.
BUT my dream would be to get a android app on my Nexus Q so i can stream everything from my HTC One to my Nexus Q with DLNA/UPnP,cuz thats possible right? DLNA/UPnP works like AirPlay? Is this possible?
u want to stream media content from device to device? why does it make sense?:laugh:
I want to stream the system audio, like spotify, just like airplay, screenmirroring would be nice, my question is: do i need a seperate device, like netgear push2tv, or is there a app that does the same thing like an android client