Hello to all.
As the title of thread says i am looking for a music player for my kitkat android phone. I would love a few suggestions from you guys. The basic three functions i require are
1) Custom Playlist: I should be able to make playlists.
2) Custom Selection of folders: I do not want it to scan all my device memory and put every audio file in the playlist. I should direct it to the folders i want to be auto scanned and updated each time i add a new song in that folder. Each Playlist will have different folder set in its settings for songs. (Reason: i have different types of songs like sad, party etc in their named folders. So i want to direct Sad playlist to play songs in folder Sad, Party Playlist to play songs from folder Party and so on.
3) This one is not very important but it will be good if it look beautiful and with a lot of functions.
Thank you. Please give some suggestions.
hasham33 said:
Hello to all.
As the title of thread says i am looking for a music player for my kitkat android phone. I would love a few suggestions from you guys. The basic three functions i require are
1) Custom Playlist: I should be able to make playlists.
2) Custom Selection of folders: I do not want it to scan all my device memory and put every audio file in the playlist. I should direct it to the folders i want to be auto scanned and updated each time i add a new song in that folder. Each Playlist will have different folder set in its settings for songs. (Reason: i have different types of songs like sad, party etc in their named folders. So i want to direct Sad playlist to play songs in folder Sad, Party Playlist to play songs from folder Party and so on.
3) This one is not very important but it will be good if it look beautiful and with a lot of functions.
Thank you. Please give some suggestions.
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Well if one of the playlists can be password protected then it would be just awesome.
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Anyone know of a program that can create playlist files from folders? I keep my music organized by style.
For example, Music--> Soundtracks -> Movie Soundtracks --> Prince of Persia. or
Music --> Techno --> House.
I have found this MUCH easier to maintain than making playlists everywhere but I can't get the default player on the Vibrant to recognize Folder structures so...anyone know of an app that can CREATE playlist files out of music folder structure? I can then feed these playlists to the music program I want to use.
I don't like how Astroplayer sounds so I'd rather not use a different music player. I just want to save and create playlist files or make the phone SEE the folder structure AS playlists.
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Anyone know of a program that can create playlist files from folders? I keep my music organized by style.
For example, Music--> Soundtracks -> Movie Soundtracks --> Prince of Persia. or
Music --> Techno --> House.
I have found this MUCH easier to maintain than making playlists everywhere but I can't get the default player on the Vibrant to recognize Folder structures so...anyone know of an app that can CREATE playlist files out of music folder structure? I can then feed these playlists to the music program I want to use.
I don't like how Astroplayer sounds so I'd rather not use a different music player. I just want to save and create playlist files or make the phone SEE the folder structure AS playlists.
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I just use Mixzing which plays the playlists (.m3u files) I made with WinAmp just fine. I have foldered structures for my mp3 files similar to yours and each album has a playlist file in its folder.
Playlist from folders
Creating playlists based on folder content would be useful. Using .m3u files works fine until files are added or deleted.
I use a play list .bat file. Google m3u create batch file. Its simple code.
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In the music player I get a lot of files I dont want there. Is it possible specify which folder to look for music so I wont get a stupid notifications sound or something else when I am shuffle all songs?
I want the same for the gallery app. I dont need to see all the icons, pictures used by games etc in my gallery, just the pictures take from my camera and from a specific folder.
There isn't a setting to block folders from being scanned. I remember reading a review for an app last week which lets you pick which folders you want scanned.
I don't remember the name, if I find the link I'll post it here. Think it was free.
I use StudioKUMA .nomedia manager (it's free) to control what folders get scanned.
Not sure if anyone can help me.
I have just invested in a 32gb sd card for my S2 and transferred my music files over from my Cowon J3.
I sort my music by having firstly an artist folder (compilations go into a various artists folder) and within the folder I store the albums by that artist, so ArtistA:Album1,2&3 Artist B:Album1, etc.
My Cowon lets me browse these folders, so I can go down the list of artists and then pick an album by that band/singer etc (by searching folders:J3:[music]:artist folders).
Unfortunately on my S2, it sorts by artists (which is inconvient as it lists all the artists from compilations), albums (but it lists them alphabetically, rather than grouping and listing them by artist) or folders (but unfortunately it seems it ignores my first level of folder (i.e the artists name) and lists the folders alphabetically by the album names, which again means the albums aren't grouped together by artist).
I have downloaded winamp and although I can search for an artist, it still isn't what I really want, as I like to scroll down through my artists and then pick an album.
Does anyone know of a music player that would allow me to browse my files by folder, in the same manner as my Cowon?
Many thanks for your help.
Try looking in the settings options in the default sgs2 music app. You can select "folders".
I've tried that, but unfortunately it lists the album folders, rather than the level above (artist folders).
If there was a way of setting the Artist function as album artist rather than song/track artists, that would fix it.
Poweramp supports folder browsing, so does uberplayer. Personally I use poweramp, it's amazing.
Many thanks Robafet, PowerAmp is exactly what I was looking for and I love having the option to have the player on the lock screen!
Looks like this is going to become my first ever 'paid for' app, just need to make sure I don't lose it now, as I'm unsure how to back up my purchases, lol.
once you purchase something from marketplace, you can download it as many times as you like I think.
Good afternoon folks, I'm just curious if anyone can assist me with a quick question/issue I am having. I have done a search for my answer previous to creating this thread (and registering even), asked elsewhere etc, but didn't and couldn't really find anything pertaining to my exact problem. Of course, I may have missed or overlooked it, and if so, I apologize.
First, my phone and what not. (if more information is required, I'll provide)
LG Optimus One (LGP500h)
Rooted - Gingerbreak v1.20
Have tried .mp3 and .ogg with same results.
What's happening is; I've created my own ringtone(s) and am trying to have them separate from my music, but no matter what instructions I follow the custom ringtone ALWAYS appears while listening to the music I have on my phone. eg: when I walk my dog listening to an album, my ringtone lists as a music track and plays as one.
I have tried the numerous tutorials out there for doing this:
- create separate ringtone/alarms/notifications folders on the SD card
- create the above as sub folders within the media folder on the SD card
- create the above as sub folders within the DCIM folder on the SD card
- create the above as sub folders within the Sounds folder on the SD card
All of the above locations allow me to use my custom ringtone no problem, BUT when I listen to the music I've added to my phone via the stock music player, my ringtone plays as if it was a song, so I get a 30 second ringtone in the middle of an album. It's not really a big deal if I keep my custom ringtones limited to one, but it does get a bit annoying if I want to add several custom ringtones.
I'm curious to what I am doing wrong here, or if this is just the cost I have to pay to have a custom ring tone - I've searched all over and haven't found a solution, nor found anyone else having this same issue which leads me to believe I am doing something incorrectly.
I'd prefer to not use an app that downloads music for ringtones, as I am a musician myself and have created my own, so I'd just like to use the one(s) I create and not have them appear as music tracks.
Thanks in advance for any insight or help.
esau13 said:
Good afternoon folks, I'm just curious if anyone can assist me with a quick question/issue I am having. I have done a search for my answer previous to creating this thread (and registering even), asked elsewhere etc, but didn't and couldn't really find anything pertaining to my exact problem. Of course, I may have missed or overlooked it, and if so, I apologize.
First, my phone and what not. (if more information is required, I'll provide)
LG Optimus One (LGP500h)
Rooted - Gingerbreak v1.20
Have tried .mp3 and .ogg with same results.
What's happening is; I've created my own ringtone(s) and am trying to have them separate from my music, but no matter what instructions I follow the custom ringtone ALWAYS appears while listening to the music I have on my phone. eg: when I walk my dog listening to an album, my ringtone lists as a music track and plays as one.
I have tried the numerous tutorials out there for doing this:
- create separate ringtone/alarms/notifications folders on the SD card
- create the above as sub folders within the media folder on the SD card
- create the above as sub folders within the DCIM folder on the SD card
- create the above as sub folders within the Sounds folder on the SD card
All of the above locations allow me to use my custom ringtone no problem, BUT when I listen to the music I've added to my phone via the stock music player, my ringtone plays as if it was a song, so I get a 30 second ringtone in the middle of an album. It's not really a big deal if I keep my custom ringtones limited to one, but it does get a bit annoying if I want to add several custom ringtones.
I'm curious to what I am doing wrong here, or if this is just the cost I have to pay to have a custom ring tone - I've searched all over and haven't found a solution, nor found anyone else having this same issue which leads me to believe I am doing something incorrectly.
I'd prefer to not use an app that downloads music for ringtones, as I am a musician myself and have created my own, so I'd just like to use the one(s) I create and not have them appear as music tracks.
Thanks in advance for any insight or help.
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I'm not sure about any fix for the issue. But I think if you use a 3rd party music app like PowerAMP, you can select where you want the app to scan for media. You can exclude some folders for scanning. But if you prefer the stock app, the you can have a workaround: Create a playlist with all the albums except the ringtone album (categorize all the custom ring tones under a single album). This way you can always play the playlist, which will not have the ring tones album.
Try it and see if it works!
Thanks for the quick reply! I feel kind of silly now that I never considered using a different player, or even making a playlist as it seems kind of obvious to me now. I'll check out some music players (like PowerAmp) and will post again if this solves my problem.
Again, thank you for the quick response.
Under Sound Settings and Phone ringtone, I remember it created a Ringtones folder on my sd card. Then I would put my custom ringtones in that folder. I would never hear it when I was going through my music. I am also using PowerAmp and it scanned only the music folder.
esau13 said:
Thanks for the quick reply! I feel kind of silly now that I never considered using a different player, or even making a playlist as it seems kind of obvious to me now. I'll check out some music players (like PowerAmp) and will post again if this solves my problem.
Again, thank you for the quick response.
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Try it. It's a very good app. But personally I don't like it because of its UI. I prefer the simple, clean stock music player.
Agent3 said:
Under Sound Settings and Phone ringtone, I remember it created a Ringtones folder on my sd card. Then I would put my custom ringtones in that folder. I would never hear it when I was going through my music. I am also using PowerAmp and it scanned only the music folder.
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Unfortunately I didn't have the same results, and had to create my own.
gkarthik16 said:
Try it. It's a very good app. But personally I don't like it because of its UI. I prefer the simple, clean stock music player.
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Thanks gkarthik16, your suggestion seems to have solved my problem.
I also liked the stock player, but not enough to have to deal with my original issue. I tried out a couple free players very briefly, and although I'm not sure about PowerAmp's U.I just yet, I'm going stick with it for now and see how it works out and consider purchasing the full version. I imagine I'll get used it for my needs.
Thanks again.
Hi,
I'm using CM's Apollo as music player on my phone, and i think it's doing it's work perfectly.
The thing is, i have marked certain songs as favorite but i'd like to use that favorites playlist on my PC also.
As i understand it the favorites section is just a playlist like all other playlist, so i reckon it must be stored somewhere.
I've checked /data/data/com.andrew.apollo/databases/ and it has a file named 'favorites.db' in it.
I opened it in notepad since i don't have miscrosoft access or other database editors, and there's names of my favorite songs everywhere between a bunch of characters. Obviously this has to be the playlist, but i can't use it as playlist on my PC this way.
I also have another playlist named 'playlist 1' but it's not in that location, so it's also possible that there's another location where Apollo stores it playlists.
I was hoping any of you might have an idea how to use or convert it, i'd be very thankful!
Cheers