I use my Galaxy Note as my daily music player. As a father of two young children, I have to be selective of what tunes I play when they are around.
It seems that many new albums now include some tracks that have swearing in.
I'm not sure if it is even a feasible suggestion, but my thinking was that it would be great if there was an app, or music player that somehow censored any swear words. With the ability to get song lyrics already, and with the vastly improving voice recognition on our devices these days we must be getting closer to having something like this.
I for one would certainly pay for such an app, and expect that many other parents out there would find this useful.
Does anyone have any thoughts? Could it be possible?
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Just wanted to share my experience with Ambling Book Player Pro.
For the longest time now I've been using PowerAmp. It's wonderful, it is by far the best music player available. Impressive EQ support, folder and playlist support, and a VERY clean and slick UI. Highly recommend it. That being said, when listening to an audiobook I always had to remember my place if I wanted to listen to music or say, flash a ROM 3 or 10 times a day. It got relatively annoying, so I went searching for an alternative. Everything I found was ok, but nothing was great.
I finally decided to give Ambling Book Player Pro a shot (since a lot of the books I listen to are .m4a and .mp3, and you need pro to load files from your SD card). It's wonderful. Support for .mp3, .ogg, .mp4, .wav, .wma*, .3gp, and .m4a. You can create as many bookmarks you want for each book and they save to the sdcard so you never lose your place. It has options for using the button on a headset as well, including play/pause and set bookmark. Another problem I have is that I listen to books all the time while doing other things and often find myself missing a section of the book, trying to skip back to hear what I missed was frustrating. The app has forward and back at 15 and 60 second intervals, which made tracing my steps very easy. It's not the prettiest interface, but it's so incredibly functional that I don't even care. Now I have PowerAmp for my music and ABPP for my audiobooks. If you find yourself in a situation at all like my own, give it a shot. Music and Audiobooks are, for me, one of my favorite things about smartphones.
Does it have speed control? I really utilize the ability of Astro Player to speed up audio books, it's nice because it doesn't increase the pitch (chipmunk), just the speed. I download with Audiobooks by Traveling Classics and listen to them with Astro Player. The combo is perfect I've found.
No it doesn't.
Not my cup of tea, it's nice to be forced to listen at a slow pace where I can really take my time imagining what I'm reading. Nonetheless it's a feature it lacks that you enjoy.
I use Audbilbe and their own player obviously. I love their app. I, however, like getting stuff for free so where do you go to find your audiobooks? If you are not allowed to post it (i don't know the specific rules for those things here) just send me a pm, thanks guys. I'll let you know after you hook me up how I feel about the Penguins!
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.
Is it just me or playlist making on most android music apps sucks ? Dont know about you guys you might sync and do things and all but I find music playlist making a very hard thing to do on most apps. Say I had my desire s on factory default state and when on the sense music player I created a playlist I instantly added music on that on a mark unmark basis and adding them altogether afterwards. Not a nerd but I am geeky enough so it wasnt very long before I S-OFFed rooted installed a lit of roms and my sense music wasnt available on most other aosp roms what was I like the most. So a search of music player started or how would I have rocked all that EMINEMs all day? So I found some. But playlist making on most players is a very daunting job. I create a playlist and later what I do is go to all songs and have to add every other song by tap-tap-add or hold-add-select playlist method. Seriously app developers this is what you call convenience on music player apps? So I started searching for apps that could do this. Even google music became a no-go on that basis. Yes I have to go tap-tap or hold-select to add every song on that too. Oh after a long post my question to all this good people what music app has a convenient playlist making and which doesnt and what app do you rely on to feed your musical mind? Oh and I myself find drifting back to the good old miui player that was released a very while ago. I find that app feeding my needs well and all other apps are either removed or stays on my phone for typically 1 day. So share on guys your thoughts on this. I am waiting to see what others have to say on this.
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Ray.
I really like many of the music apps out there for Android, but would love to have one that can announce track info as the song starts. If would grab the title, artist, etc (configurable) and use the text to speech component to speak it. This way you can keep your device tucked away and still know what track you are listening to.
Is there anything like this out there?
I can't find anything and would really like it for Google Music, but that would require them to add it themselves or finally release APIs that we can use.
silentheero said:
I really like many of the music apps out there for Android, but would love to have one that can announce track info as the song starts. If would grab the title, artist, etc (configurable) and use the text to speech component to speak it. This way you can keep your device tucked away and still know what track you are listening to.
Is there anything like this out there?
I can't find anything and would really like it for Google Music, but that would require them to add it themselves or finally release APIs that we can use.
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There's no app out there that could do it. And there are no known APIs that could do it.
The only products that have this feature are the iDevices.
I just signed up for Google Music All Access. The first album I went to listen to was the Great Gatsby soundtrack.
Only 7 out of 20 tracks are listed! Does anybody know why this is the case? If this is a licensing issue, how can they have some of the tracks on an album, but not all? And if this is indeed the case, I'm definitely not gonna stick to this service.
I also tried listening to the same soundtrack. The issue is not with Google because there is the same issue on Spotify. I believe that the producers don't want to let everyone listen to the entire album without purchasing it. Unfortunately, that's nothing that Google can help. Most soundtracks are the same way, i.e the Django Unchained soundtrack.