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Neither the stock music app on .68 NookieFroyo or Winamp will play WMA. Argh, just MP3/4 files. Any idea on how to either fix it or a good player that will play everything?
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KDOG2020 said:
Neither the stock music app on .68 NookieFroyo or Winamp will play WMA. Argh, just MP3/4 files. Any idea on how to either fix it or a good player that will play everything?
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I get the WMA error but it still plays. So I don't know what to say.
Hmmmm. Mine doesn't. Well that will stink if their is no player that will do it.
try mortplayer, I know it plays almost all kind of file types including wma on my phone. Haven't tried it on NC yet though, but definitely give it a shot.
Just tried MortPlayer. No dice. Thats 3 for 3 that won't play WMA.... Hmmm
Have you tried poweramp? There's a trial version for free. I don't really use my NC for music, but it works great for wma's on my Droid X.
Also has a nice equalizer...great player
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I'm using PowerAmp Pro. Started with the free version but loved it so much I bought the unlock.
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I'm using PowerAmp Pro. Started with the free version but loved it so much I bought the unlock.
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SUCCESS! Thanks. I'll probably end up buying the unlock as well...
I noticed the picture viewer will play m4v videos that I put on the device through USB, but not FLV videos. What video formats are supported?
Is there anything that will play .flv video files? Any recommendations for better video players?
Thanks
I just purchased KalemSoft Media Player from the App Catalog, the price a little high but it plays many more formats than the stock webos player. I am happy because it's playing my divx movies so it was worth the cost for me.
What formats is the stock software supposed to support?
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What formats is the stock software supposed to support?
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Kalemsoft Media Player 0.3.4
Just a hint
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Kalemsoft Media Player 0.3.4
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Good hint...
Thanks for the hint.
Anyone have a guide as to how to install .ipk files? I've been Googling but I'm not finding much.
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Anyone have a guide as to how to install .ipk files? I've been Googling but I'm not finding much.
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Google "webos quick install" and "preware" or just go here: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Applicationreware#Installing_Preware_with_WebOS_Quick_Install
Thank you. Easy as pie with the WebOS quick install program. I was Googling and Googling and wasn't finding this.
[Q] Video: Streaming via SMB
Hello world
how can I do to watch movies on my touchpad streaming via SMB?
Are there any applications for it?
I thank you for your help
guys,
i need help to find out a good app to play .avi files on the touchpad ...
i tried installing Kalemplayer, it opens up the file and plays it but the screen is pretty messed up ..
i also did the touchplayer, but i cant seem to make it navigate to any of the file locations.
any help would be greatly appreciated
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I would really like to have a good video player on my touchpad which could stream over my home network (samba). The best program I've seen so far is the one which comes with the Archos tablets.
What do you mean you cannot navigate using TP?
for some reason the kalem video player in preware is messed up, you can get a good copy by going to the kalemsoft website and downloading it from there, preware should install it when you try to open it.
http://www.kalemsoft.com/site/downloads2.html
it should be the link highlighted in red
Unable to install Kalem media player either. I was able to download it onto my touchpad but says 'Cannot open MIME type'.
Was one of the many that got it on sale and still pretty new to it. How do I get around this and get it on?
Try the touchplayer. It's back up on Preware.
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When you install it, you have to make you are on 3.0.2. Also, your best bet, install Internalz Pro then install TouchPlayer, after they are installed reboot the device 2 times [for good measure]. They should install all dependencies that you will need.
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Hello world
how can I do to watch movies on my touchpad streaming via SMB?
Are there any applications for it?
I thank you for your help
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I cant tell you a way to do it via SMB, but even if I could then you would need to start worrying about compatible codecs.
I would instead suggest Kalemsoft media player. It is seven bucks in the market or Free for the older version on their website.
If you download the server app, setup a DDNS account and forward the default kalem server ports you can stream your home moves to anywhere you have internet access.
If all you care about is streaming while at home, then I would use UPNP...
http://www.webosbuzz.com/hp-touchpad-hd-apps/1245-[app]-bhomepro-upnp-media-player-v1-1-2-a.html
kalem soft works the best .. still no luck with touchplayer. thanks for the link duplissi
When you use Kalem, you're video isn't lagging at all?? I tried using Kalem and TouchPlayer. Honestly Kalem is better by far because at least it plays my video.... but otherwise, are those the only two video players out there ?
Hey there all, I've been working with Android relatively well for the last six or so months and have been utterly shocked by the complete lack of mediaplayer software that will play streaming radio. I have two .m3u files and one .pls that I've tried in the stock player, Meridian, Astro mp, WinAmp Mobile, StreamFurious pro, and RadioHeart, but none of them will play it. Has anyone seen a media player or even a standalone program for Android that will play streaming radio files?
Thanks.
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XiiaLive Lite?
MortPlayer Music on the play store says it reads m3u files. So I'd give that a try.
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XiiaLive Lite?
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Bernie Nolan said:
MortPlayer Music on the play store says it reads m3u files. So I'd give that a try.
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Sorry, no dice on any of those.
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I can't believe it - nobody has got streaming radio to work on android?
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VLC Beta (April 23rd Build), but I can't get it to work with playlists yet so you have to resort to copying and pasting the stream source URL from within the playlist file. The format support is good pretty much any stream URL that works in desktop VLC will work mobile. Once they add playlist support and some other features from the desktop edition we may finally have a suitable Android replacement for TCPMP. I'm keeping my hopes up as this is an early unofficial build, and I've used VLC for years on my desktop. Its a very good media player and VLC will be doing an official Android version someday as they have a link placeholder on their website.
Its hard to believe that TCPMP was abandoned 5+ years ago yet it still beats anything offered on Android as of now. Sure there are programs out there like TuneIn and iHeartRadio that play radio stations, but if you want something that takes a custom stream or streaming playlists your options are limited. Looking forward to VLC official builds they may be the answer.
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VLC Beta (April 23rd Build), but I can't get it to work with playlists yet so you have to resort to copying and pasting the stream source URL from within the playlist file. The format support is good pretty much any stream URL that works in desktop VLC will work mobile. Once they add playlist support and some other features from the desktop edition we may finally have a suitable Android replacement for TCPMP. I'm keeping my hopes up as this is an early unofficial build, and I've used VLC for years on my desktop. Its a very good media player and VLC will be doing an official Android version someday as they have a link placeholder on their website.
Its hard to believe that TCPMP was abandoned 5+ years ago yet it still beats anything offered on Android as of now. Sure there are programs out there like TuneIn and iHeartRadio that play radio stations, but if you want something that takes a custom stream or streaming playlists your options are limited. Looking forward to VLC official builds they may be the answer.
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Good call; I gave that a shot and found that I couldn't play the playlist files themselves, but opening them in a text editor and grabbing the URL did the trick for all but one of my radio stations, an ASX playlist (which I actually haven't used in a while, so this doesn't necissarily mean that ASX is out of the question as the stream could've changed).
I did find that to switch between streams would cause an FC, but it would be fine once it started up again. Hopefully they get this working even better, but until then, I still have to ask, is this the only thing on Android right now that can play streaming radio?
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Well like I said VLC is in an early beta, I believe its actually an unofficial build compiled from the source. The desktop VLC has great playlist support, xspf, m3u, asx, etc all work and I imagine playlist support will be added.
What I did as a temporary solution was to make a HTML file of my streams as links. Then I copied the file to my phone and bookmarked it in Dolphin HD. So now I can browse to the page, tap and hold a link, select copy URL and paste into VLC.
I've also been getting FCs if you open another stream. The issue seems to be that it tries to add the additional stream to a playlist much like desktop VLC, but since playlists aren't working yet something is going haywire and FCs it. We'll just have to wait for more updates and hopefully an official build from VideoLAN even if its still a beta. The finished project should be able to open playlists and change between streams without issues.
Winamp Pro can also do streaming, but is limited to MP3 and AAC streams (I can't get WMA working), under the shoutcast section you can add custom streams and save them as favorites. Its not free, and VLC will probably have better streaming support when its done.
I use the standard "boxed" streamers like Tunein, Slacker, Jango and Sky.fm so the platform will work with radio. Besides what has already been said there are apps out there that say they will do it : M3U Player, KamMa's folder player, ServeStream. Another question is, have you checked the files on a none Android platform?
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Well like I said VLC is in an early beta, I believe its actually an unofficial build compiled from the source. The desktop VLC has great playlist support, xspf, m3u, asx, etc all work and I imagine playlist support will be added.
What I did as a temporary solution was to make a HTML file of my streams as links. Then I copied the file to my phone and bookmarked it in Dolphin HD. So now I can browse to the page, tap and hold a link, select copy URL and paste into VLC.
I've also been getting FCs if you open another stream. The issue seems to be that it tries to add the additional stream to a playlist much like desktop VLC, but since playlists aren't working yet something is going haywire and FCs it. We'll just have to wait for more updates and hopefully an official build from VideoLAN even if its still a beta. The finished project should be able to open playlists and change between streams without issues.
Winamp Pro can also do streaming, but is limited to MP3 and AAC streams (I can't get WMA working), under the shoutcast section you can add custom streams and save them as favorites. Its not free, and VLC will probably have better streaming support when its done.
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At least we're somewhere, even if the process is tedious. It's amazing to me how there is absolutely NO software in however many years we've had Android (the only smart platform left on the market) that there is no better way to stream radio; hopefully the newer releases of VLC will finally implement this. Gave WinAmp a try too, and no dice with that either. Hopefully somebody will get this figured out.
I mean, if the Epic users are banned from the privilege of listening to FM radio, you'd think we could at least stream something. Guess the whole radio thing wasn't meant to be (short of pasting the URLs into VLC Alpha) - maybe Samsung wins this one.
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Besides what has already been said there are apps out there that say they will do it : M3U Player, KamMa's folder player, ServeStream. Another question is, have you checked the files on a none Android platform?
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Gave "M3U Player", "Kamama's", and "ServeStream" a try this afternoon, and they don't seem to be able to play any streaming radio, M3U or otherwise from my playlist files (one of them might have had the tedious "pasted URL" option that VLC mobile had, but nothing we haven't covered so far).
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I suppose we all patiently wait for a software that will let us stream radio on our devices.
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Jogjastreamers
I use Jogjastreamers, it's a standalone radio streamers with limited channel - only radio Channel in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and surrounding cities as the name suggests.
maybe not the one you are looking for, but it's a radio streamer app and it works
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I use Jogjastreamers, it's a standalone radio streamers with limited channel - only radio Channel in Jogjakarta (Indonesia) and surrounding cities as the name suggests.
maybe not the one you are looking for, but it's a radio streamer app and it works
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I'm just looking for a simple program that will let me click on one of the radio stations that I've got saved and play it. Just that simple. I can't believe Android has been going this long and still doesn't have anything like this.
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what about "A Online Radio?"
never use it, but it says it plays: MP3/M3U/PLS/AAC/AACP channels, shoutcast/icecast.
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panmoto said:
what about "A Online Radio?"
never use it, but it says it plays: MP3/M3U/PLS/AAC/AACP channels, shoutcast/icecast.
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I don't think I have it installed right now, but I do remember trying it and it unfortunately not working.
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kainppc6700 said:
I'm just looking for a simple program that will let me click on one of the radio stations that I've got saved and play it. Just that simple. I can't believe Android has been going this long and still doesn't have anything like this.
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VLC, but we are going to have to be patient. Hopefully it will have playlist support soon it already plays all my streams fine if I copy the raw stream URL into it. On my desktop I've made playlists of all my favorite radio streams that I play in VLC. Its a lot easier than opening my browser and opening some bloated player. On Android I have some streams in Tunein, some in iHeartRadio and some streams that don't have an Android app at all.
When I first made the switch to Android I was also surprised there was nothing out there that compared to TCPMP. Even WMP which was pretty basic on Windows Mobile opened playlists. VLC has the potential as long as they don't strip too many features but porting open source always takes time and I appreciate the efforts of the developers.
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VLC, but we are going to have to be patient. Hopefully it will have playlist support soon it already plays all my streams fine if I copy the raw stream URL into it. On my desktop I've made playlists of all my favorite radio streams that I play in VLC. Its a lot easier than opening my browser and opening some bloated player. On Android I have some streams in Tunein, some in iHeartRadio and some streams that don't have an Android app at all.
When I first made the switch to Android I was also surprised there was nothing out there that compared to TCPMP. Even WMP which was pretty basic on Windows Mobile opened playlists. VLC has the potential as long as they don't strip too many features but porting open source always takes time and I appreciate the efforts of the developers.
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I guess we will just be using VLC. Any word on when the newer or official releases are coming out?
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kainppc6700 said:
I guess we will just be using VLC. Any word on when the newer or official releases are coming out?
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I keep checking the VLC website to see if they will have any info on any official builds, but nothing has appeared yet:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html
There are also the unofficial builds here that are being updated every few weeks or so.
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kainppc6700 said:
I suppose we all patiently wait for a software that will let us stream radio on our devices.
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You're not alone, guy! i'm searching a simple radio streaming app, too. An app where you just write the name and url of the radio that you want to listen. An app with only a play/pause button without advertising and 10000 radio pre-installed. An app like radiotray on linux.
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You're not alone, guy! i'm searching a simple radio streaming app, too. An app where you just write the name and url of the radio that you want to listen. An app with only a play/pause button without advertising and 10000 radio pre-installed. An app like radiotray on linux.
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In that case, you're in the right "waiting room". Right now, the closest thing we have to a solution is using one of the prerelease "XDABrewed" (I just made that one up) versions of VLC. Instead of simply opening a playlist file with the app though, you've gotta first open the playlist file with a text editor, copy the stream URL out, then paste it into VLC and it'll play. Also, if you decide to listen to a different stream, you have to fully exit VLC and start it again. This might seem like a lot of effort, but it is an early "alpha" sector build and there hasn't even been an official release of any kind yet.
If you find anything better, be sure to let us know!
Thanks for visiting.
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Does anyone know any Android music players that stream from FTP/HTTP(S)? The only ones I know are Dice Player and ES File Explorer. The former has no playlist capabilities whatsoever, while the latter's playback capabilities are fairly restricted and clunky.
I think bsplayer can too.
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I think bsplayer can too.
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Thanks, I looked into it, and it seems it doesn't.
bump (too important a topic to let it sink)
Discovered one more that does ftp streaming, though as far as I can tell, it doesn't have much in the way of playlist capabilities: VLC for Android.
One more that does FTP streaming, and also has some playlist capabilities (not much though).
coconut music player
Though it lags a lot . even on my s4
XBMC for Android does it too, though it's way too clunky at the moment. My hopes are that the VLC people will eventually see the light...
Coconut music player.
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Coconut music player.
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Not really: Coconut does not do stream playback/streaming, but just downloads the track(s) and then starts playback. Nice try though
My FTP streaming findings.
Hi
I just found this thread so I thought I would resurrect it to see if the OP has found a solution?
My situation is I have an FTP server set up and I want to stream music to my S4. I have tested many players and the best I have found so far is MX Player as it has some buffering capabilities.
Trouble is that as MS Player has no inbuilt FTP support I have to open the file(s) using ES File explorer. Opening one file works a treat as you have the 'open as' option. But if you select multiple files you lose the open as option and ES File explorer defaults to using it's own media player which is some what lacking and has no inbuilt buffering capabilities. So when streaming in areas with poor reception the playback is jerky.
I tried using a playlist to get round this problem but MX player doesn't support them, anyway I am not sure that a playlist would work over FTP.
Player I have tried (that I can remember) are:
VLC - Works but no buffering (shame my favoured windows player)
ES Media player - can open multiple files in ES File explorer however no buffering.
Google media player - Same as VLC
XMBC Gotham nightly build - Couldn't find the FTP functions described in this post
FTP Media Player - disappointing and the title was so promising.
Also tried quite a few others all with the problem that you had to play through ES File Explorer and no buffering.
In short I am looking for a player that supports FTP and has buffering.
OR
A way to get ES File explorer to send multiple files to MX Player.
Cheers Dave
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I just found this thread so I thought I would resurrect it to see if the OP has found a solution?
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The solution I have found is to simply drop my quest for FTP streaming, and switch to HTTP(S) streaming. Better chances of finding a client-server pair. Currently using ServeStream for a client, and ServersUltimate for server. The latter is well worth the money, and then some.
VLC - Works but no buffering (shame my favoured windows player)
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Haven't tried this one recently. Did they build in any playlist capabilities in the meantime by any chance?
Google media player - Same as VLC
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What player is that? Never heard of it. Link? Is that Google's Play Music by any chance? I remember trying that, but it wouldn't stream from FTP.
XMBC Gotham nightly build - Couldn't find the FTP functions described in this post
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Dig a li'l deeper, and you'll find it. My issue was that it's too big and clunky. I need something much leaner, don't care much about all its myriad other features.
In short I am looking for a player that supports FTP and has buffering.
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Switch to HTTPS streaming. My advice.
A way to get ES File explorer to send multiple files to MX Player.
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Have you tried assembling an .m3u playlist and feeding it to MXPlayer or ES File Explorer?
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I already have a HTTPS setup as well. I am running Windows server 2008 R2 and have used the inbuilt server functions in that.
But while ok (only OK though not amazing) for windows to windows, it's no good for Android as it uses Silverlight to play the file, I was hoping something would come from the Moonlight devs but that seems to have died a death now MS are planning to ditch Silverlight in favour of HTML 5.
I will defiantly check out ServersUltimate.
I really setup my FTP server as a bit of an exercise to start with, and then got round to thinking it would be cool to stream my music collection on the move.
No it would seem that VLC still doesn't have playlist capabilities. In fact I didn't have any luck with M3U playlists at all. But I am thinking this maybe due to trying them from a remote location? I may give one a go from a local location just to test this out.
AS for the Google app yes I was talking about Play music, the standard player that gets shipped with the phone.
I too thought XMBC was a bit to much and ended up uninstalling it after my initial look around seemed fruitless.
Looks like I will be looking into HTTPS alternatives. Shame it felt so close as I actually had something working.
Cheers Dave
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You should look into daap streaming instead. There are some free servers out there.
I've had a good experience with subsonic (subsonic dot org ) even though it's on the resource heavy end for my liking. It works better than any of the other alternatives I've tried.
Any news lately relevant to our HTTP(S) music streaming quest?
Hi all, I myself am looking for an FTP music streamer. Any new apps or updates on this subject?
Neutron Player for Android claims lots of support for network playing including CIFS/SMB and FTP. However I've never been able to get it to work. Give it a try, you may have better luck with it.
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Neutron Player for Android claims lots of support for network playing including CIFS/SMB and FTP. However I've never been able to get it to work. Give it a try, you may have better luck with it.
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Does it do streaming over HTTPS?
Jimthree said:
Neutron Player for Android claims lots of support for network playing including CIFS/SMB and FTP. However I've never been able to get it to work. Give it a try, you may have better luck with it.
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A year passed, and yet.
Neutron player didn't work for me either, it never able to find any files/directory in FTP.
Capriccio player works quite well
Hello everyone!
I was wondering around in the Play Store looking for a nice music player but I couldn't find one.
That made me wonder, what are other people using?
What are you using as (offline) music player?
Rubster477 said:
Hello everyone!
I was wondering around in the Play Store looking for a nice music player but I couldn't find one.
That made me wonder, what are other people using?
What are you using as (offline) music player?
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Couldn't find one? There's a ton...lol
Tho Poweramp is the reigning king (imo)...I also like and use daily, JetAudio HD. Not as 'deep' as Poweramp but waay more than enough for general use.
Musixmatch and Google Play Music
also poweramp here. one of the, if not the best
My personal favourite one: SoundSeeder
Poweramp
Rubster477 said:
Hello everyone!
I was wondering around in the Play Store looking for a nice music player but I couldn't find one.
That made me wonder, what are other people using?
What are you using as (offline) music player?
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Musicolet is best for offline and good features that you cannot see in other players....
Playstore:-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.krosbits.musicolet
No Ads, No Intenet Permission, only 3mb....
Retro music player