Sony have included a rather nice podcast app as part of their their default software. It's probably functionally not as sophisticated as some other podcast apps, but it certainly does everything I need.
Anyway, for some reason, there's no actually "podcast" app icon. You need to go through the "movies" app (!?). I didn't really fancy doing this every time I wanted to refresh my podcasts, so I found a way to create a direct link to the podcasts app.
Basically, download an app from the play store called "quickshortcutmaker", go into the "activities" list, find "Podcast", then choose "EntryActivity" from the option and then this will put a shortcut on your homescreen which, when clicked will take you straight into your podcasts.
It works. Thanks
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Didn't even know about this and it's something I'd use a lot. Thanks
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Hello,
My quetion is, how do I change a default app? I want to use power amp, but the built in music player always starts. I tried clearing the cache (even used titanium backup as I have root) but no luck. Im fairly new to android but love this phone over my old iphone
Thanks for any help!
Leon
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Try going to Settings > Applications. Then click the "All" tab and find music and clear defaults for that program.
Tried it. Same result its actually grayed out now
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Leonredbone said:
Hello,
My quetion is, how do I change a default app? I want to use power amp, but the built in music player always starts. I tried clearing the cache (even used titanium backup as I have root) but no luck. Im fairly new to android but love this phone over my old iphone
Thanks for any help!
Leon
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Freeze or uninstall original music app?
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Are you using a custom launcher? It might be that you just have a shortcut pointing to the default Music player.
No custom launcher. Im worried if I uninstall that the phone will no longer update. I read on this forum that the update performs a check on apps installed in the system folder. Can anyone confirm this? I would love to uninstall lol.
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The default music player always starts when you do what? Click the music player icon?
Since you have Titanium Backup, look for Music and freeze it. Then reboot your phone. The music icon will be gone in the app drawer and it will be impossible to start the default app. If you ever need it again, unfreeze it with Titanium Backup.
Don't uninstall any system apps with Titanium Backup. As you said, problems might arise when it comes time to update. Freezing is fine because you can unfreeze.
If you're talking about the music icon on the home screens, press and hold the icon, you should be able to change what app it opens.
As an example, if I manually click on an mp3 I want poweramp to open but the default does. If I double tap home, the default player opens etc.
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Lol now it says unable to open filetype after I froze the music app....WTF
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Weird, so you're talking about clicking in an mp3 from the Files app right? For me it was also defaulting to Music. After I went to Application Settings and cleared defaults for Music, when I clicked on an mp3 again it popped up a dialog asking whether I wanted to open Doubletwist or Music.
Don't you get that choice?
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Negative. I know, very strange
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Maybe it's a problem with Poweramp not properly broadcasting itself as a music player. I just realized I have Cubed on my system and it didn't offer that as an option either. Maybe test it out using another app? Doubletwist works for sure. Use the demo to test whether it's an app problem or something else?
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I just looked up some directions online, and someone, who also used PowerAmp, said they simply cleared the default and force closed the stock music app, then in the file manager clicked on an mp3 and the phone asked them to select a music player to use... None of my apps have the default selected currently, but I also can't make PowerAmp open when I select an mp3. Weird...
Lol I just installed doubletwist and it now auto launches this instead of poweramp. I reinstalled poweramp, same result. Funny thing is when poweramp is the only player, the icons next to mp3s match poweramp yet it still says unable to open file type..... WTF is going on???
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Any ideas?
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I think it just sounds like a problem with PowerAmp then...I remember being able to see the Poweramp logo next to my mp3's in the file app, but the guy a few posts above said he had that and it still didn't work. But either way, when I want to listen to music I don't usually open the file app and go look for the mp3 files on my SD card anyway so...so maybe it doesn't matter. Unless maybe the auto headset settings get screwed up if Poweramp isn't default?
Yeah I had the icon but it just doesn't want to load poweramp. My problem is that I want poweramp to replace functions such as the music button in car mode instead of having to add another shortcut for example. Or doubletap home....
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Despite never looking back since binning my iphone (actually it got nicked!) I have missed the use of itunes on my Galaxy, and the ability to download music on the go. What music download/purchase apps are, the best? What's being used and which has the best database of tracks?!
Thanks in advance!
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Why download when you can stream?
This opens the gates for things like Spotify and such.
You can try Amazon Mp3 store download from there.
I like TuneTribe here in the UK in the weekends albums 320kbps are priced at £4 in the evenings much cheaper than iTunes and better quality, the top 100 albums.
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There are countless apps on the market which use sites like Kontakte to download music.
Countless apps? Any recommendations? Streaming is all good and I do use spotify, thing is I need music when I'm offline too. Maybe I'll give amazon a look...
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Woot i just tried the amazón app its awesome
Plays music depending on your mood.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ad60.songza
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Awesome thanks for finding this
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Awesome thanks for finding this
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No problem. I had to spread the word once the app started playing haunted house mood music because I wanted it to. :good:
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I have been using Songza on my iPhone 4 in the US but now it's not available in Google Play in my region even though it's a free app. Can anyone share the apk or point me to a site that allows me to download it? Thanks.
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I have been using Songza on my iPhone 4 in the US but now it's not available in Google Play in my region even though it's a free app. Can anyone share the apk or point me to a site that allows me to download it? Thanks.
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Use google for searching the APK, just search for "songza apk", the first one to appear is the apk4 .us site, donwload it and try to use it. If it says that you are outside the US, assuming you are rooted, just download Orbot, a Tor's Client. I live in Argentina and like many others, can't use Songza or Pandora, but this little app do the trick. Search it on the Play Store.
Once you launch it for the first time it ask you for rooted permissions, then it ask you for the apps that will go trhough Orbot, click the "Select Apps.." button, wait for the list of apps installed on your phone and then check Songza, go back and when it shows you the Large button press for 2 seconds, it begins to connect to the Tor network, once it goes Green.....ALELLUYA!!!!!
Luanch again Songza and there you go listening for your favorites tunes!!!!
Remember to go through the Options in Orbot for uncheck the "Start with the system" option.
By the way, with that little bastard of Orbot, you can make any app "shows" you on the US, like I said before, I live in Argentina, and besides Songza and Pandora, I use Last.fm, Hulu, Rdio, and so on...
Good luck!
When I got my note2 i was playing music on it through the music player on the phone and noticed an icon on the upper left hand corner. When i hit it all of a sudden the music started to play stream through my Xbox and i thought this was an awesome feature! Tested it with my photos and videos and it all worked great. Since then i rooted my phone and got rid of what i thought was bloatware. Today i tried to play music through my Xbox again and the icon was gone, so i figured i mustve deleted the app that allowed me to do this. Can anyone help me out and tell me what was it that I accidentally deleted and mistook for bloatware? I tried to reinstall the Allshare Play app, but the icon in my music player is still missing and no streaming to xbox. Any help?
Sounds like all share. You need to have the all share app and I believe "fw upgrade" needs to be installed still
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I got the allshare play app and the sw dongle app, still no go.
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I got the allshare play app and the sw dongle app, still no go.
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Do you have fwupgrade in system apps still? There's actually like 4 app s for all share. Grab the zip from Eclipse ROM thread
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next time freeze the apps instead of deleting them with an app such as titanium backup pro. that way you can go back through the frozen apps list and defrost one by one.
All,
I recently downloaded Themer and love a lot about it. It's quick, and very nice looking.I realize it's still in beta and I can appreciate how stable it is for being a beta program.
My questions concern more the area of customization rather then functionality.
1: Is there any way of adding my own Smart categories? I'd love to be able to reorganize some apps into a slightly different hierarchy/grouping.
2: Is there anyway to get the launcher to recognize the Music player on the Galaxy S4? it refuses to use it on any of the home screens/themes I've tried even though I've got it set in the app preferences.
I'm coming from using a bunch of other launchers that are good, but not quite what I've been looking for.
Thanks in advance.
1. The function is probably going to get added
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on the S4 m8 just select widgets from themer menu then select the music player widget
Alldroid, these themes already have a music player widget as part of them. Replacing it with the stock music player widget would ruin the theme. For now I have it pointing to Play music player, but I would like to have the Samsung music player be the default app for playing music.
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All,
I recently downloaded Themer and love a lot about it. It's quick, and very nice looking.I realize it's still in beta and I can appreciate how stable it is for being a beta program.
My questions concern more the area of customization rather then functionality.
1: Is there any way of adding my own Smart categories? I'd love to be able to reorganize some apps into a slightly different hierarchy/grouping.
2: Is there anyway to get the launcher to recognize the Music player on the Galaxy S4? it refuses to use it on any of the home screens/themes I've tried even though I've got it set in the app preferences.
I'm coming from using a bunch of other launchers that are good, but not quite what I've been looking for.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
1. We are planning on doing this in the future.
2. The manufacturer music players are incredibly hard to incorporate, but it will also be added in the future.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
I dont have social Networks. How do i use it?
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I dont have social Networks. How do i use it?
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You can log in using your Google account. You needed a Google account to log into the Google Play Store and download Themer, therefore you can use that same account