Ok, so I've been using the stock android music player for over 2 months now. It has all the functionality I want in a music player except maybe editing tags (album name, artists, etc) and finding album art (Album Art Grabber is my current solution to this).
The problem I have been having with this player is that when transferring music to the phone via 'Windows Media Sync' option is that sometimes the album art will not appear on the phone (happens to quite a few albums) and also the tags will be messed up. For instance, just recently I turned the phone on and was browsing my music library and all of a sudden the song titles appeared in lower case (ie. 'Tighten Up' became 'tighten up') I know this is a small thing but I find it annoying a little. Other things like artists will appear as 'Unknown'.
Anyone experience these problems as well? What programs/apps do you guys use? I've tried out poweramp trial version and it does allow my to edit tags but I was wondering if there is an app that is a sort of one click 'Find Album Info' like in Windows Media Player?
Check the music player called Neutron on the app market
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So I know that the play music app is basically all the songs linked to your google play account and our not necessarily downloaded or drm free. I just bought a song today and noticed it was there in that app after I pressed the button with the head phone picture after purchase. Also a cd a burned onto my pc is in that same app after I had added to my play music using the music manager so does music basically update to your phone automatically when you add music or anything else to your play account? My phone was plugged into my pc but I didn't do anything or at least don't think I did. I am used to having to deal with itunes and syncing everything so I may be over thinking all this but is that basically how music on android works? You buy a song on your phone and add it manually to the play music app or if you buy a song on your web browser or upload your own music to your play account on your pc everything just goes to your phone automatically if you have wifi? Also what does that tack icon mean by the music? For some songs I press it, it turns white, and in the status bar I see "keeping requested music" I always stop it though before it gets to 100% Sometimes the tack icon is blue and when I hit it I see "this music is already stored on this device" which I do not get because with the exception of the song I just bought all my music was dragged and dropped to my phone because everything was converted from itunes to drm and 2 songs were just downloaded from my play music..
Finally my Persona 4 album has artwork in my play library on my pc but on my phone there is no album artwork. Is there anyway to add the album artwork on the phone?
Looking for a little help on music player apps. Specifically, a tablet running 4.3 (should be updated to 4.4 in a month or two according to the manufacturer), all music will be on SD card.
Currently, all my music is album oriented and sorted by Genres, then Artists, then Albums. This works on my iPod in my car (both iTunes and car software work flawlessly) and on my MP3 player (both MS My Music and player software work flawlessly). I start with Genres, find my Genre and click, brings up Artists within this Genre in alphabetical order, click on my Artist and brings up the Albums, click on Album and the songs, in album order, come up. Click on the first song and the album plays all the way through.
I haven't found an Android music app which will do this. Many sort by Genre, then go into directly into Songs, in alphabetical order. Many sort by Artists, but with over 20gb of music and hundreds of Artists, this takes forever to get to ZZ Top.
Anyone know of a music app which can go from Genre to Artist to Album? If this approach works with iTunes/iPods and MS Music, I found it hard to think I haven't found an Android app which can do this. Tried about 20 players in Play Store and haven't found one that does this. All help is appreciated. Thanks.
P.S. No playtlists; no single songs; simply albums by artist catagorized into genres.
Have you try some of them?
Apollo - Music player:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2196385
beat (2.0.2) - a music player with floating controls
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545818
Google Play Music:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&hl=no
(I recommend you to try Apollo and see if it right music player for you)
All of these only allow single level searches. I'm looking for something that allows a three level search; first, genre; second, artist; third, album.
It seems ironic I can do this with iTunes and MS Media Player but not with Android. I must be missing something here.
Hankaws said:
Have you try some of them?
Apollo - Music player:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2196385
beat (2.0.2) - a music player with floating controls
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545818
Google Play Music:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&hl=no
(I recommend you to try Apollo and see if it right music player for you)
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Mixzing
In case anyone is looking for the same thing, Mixzing works. You can set it for Genres; click on your genre, it shows the Artists. Click on your artist, and it shows the artist's Albums. Click on the album you want, and it shows the Songs, in album order.
Exactly what I was looking for.
i must be an idiot or something
can't figure out how to play all albums by an artist, in order. i can play all songs *shuffled* but i can not play them in order nor am i able to sort my playlist in any way. functionality that is common on music players for over a decade.
Does anybody know why Google Play music does not show all my downloaded music in Songs, however it shows in a large downloaded Playlist?
The above mentioned is when I am Offline.