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Best music player for TP2

So which one do u choose ?
CorePlayer
Nitrogen player
Windows media player
TF3D music player
or others?
Plz post your reasons too

so? 90 views and no answers

i'm using pocket player . it works great
and i'm using it with jabra stereo blutooth headset.

TF3D music player
I've been using the TF3D music player on my tp2 for about a month now and it seems to be doing all that i need from it.
Simple to use and good quality output as well. Can't say much about other music players as I haven't used any recently.

in order to get as much music on my phone as possible i am using aac compressed audio (with SBR). This format provides 128kbit/s-mp3-quality at 48kbit/s (at least to my ears).
The only players that i know supporting this format are WMP and TCPMP. As TCPMP does software decoding the device gets slow during playback. WMP seems to have something like hardware acceleration for aac. therefore i am using WMP (with another skin as the default one is not very finger friendly).

thanks yeah i like the TF3D default myself too Nitrogen is good but i think the volume is a little low compared to TF3D player,i use coreplayer for movies and TF3D for musics,just wanted to know other opinions

while the htc audio manager is nice, NITROGEN is now my player of choice despite minor bugs.

WMP works well for me. Don't like the skin but I have downloaded an HTC-like theme so it is all good.

pocket player too
wide variety of audio format support (4.x supports aac), AVRCP support, plugin to add pitch adjustment

Power Problems
Mesquire said:
while the htc audio manager is nice, NITROGEN is now my player of choice despite minor bugs.
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How did you get the player to play in power saving mode. with the screen off. Whenever I do this it stops the music, and some times, even unloads my memory card.
This has been my biggest bain and major issue with my tmobile tp2. I have tried Mortplayer and Nitrogen, the best IMHO and have had the same issue. I have tried different searches to enable the device to let the music play while the screen is off and none have worked. I am going to try S2P. My only gripe witht that program is that it does not play all file formats.
Oh well...

Coreplayer.
Has EQ, bass boost and pre-amp options and also is the best video player.

juliangun4ev said:
i'm using pocket player . it works great
and i'm using it with jabra stereo blutooth headset.
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yeah,Pocket Music Player is the thing,it can auto power off and power on,holy ****,which else can be as nice as this one?

+1 for Pocket Player.
My reasons: AVRCP support (a must have feature for me), wide format support (many free players don't support wma, which is a deal breaker for me), equalizer, gapless playback(!), quite finger friendly (some buttons are rather small on the default skin, but it has kinetic scrolling etc.)...
Video support is a bit lacking, but then again I only use it for audio.

I use Pocket Player as well, mostly because it works well for both music and audio books. I am frustrated with whatever method it uses for shuffle, though. I've had 6 different songs play 2-4 times in 4 hours. I have nearly 1000 songs and 66 hours of music! Seems like I should not be getting that kind of repetition.

Pocket Player problems with playing large MP3 files...
One thing guys - and anyone who uses Pocket Player on the TP2 may have seen this... I listen to a lot of voice audio. I prefer to combine the files for audio and can sometimes have long audio files of 300 megs all the way to 1.2 gigs (I use a 16 gig storage card).
The problem i have seen is that sometimes the control that shows where you are in the audio file goes haywire and slides from the correct position all the way to the right - making the bookmarking feature fail and impossible to navigate. Additionally it appears Pocket Player somehow miscalculates the size and length of the audio - but it originally has the size and length correct - this only happens after a certain point (for me it seems after about 240 minutes or so - about 4 hours in).
WHat is so strange is this does NOT happen for all audio files on this device. Some of the large files seem to play fine without problem. Additionally when I compare this to another TP2 that has an installation of the competitor program Pocket Music, this does NOT happen. Also this never happenedon our original HTC Mogul from Sprint.
The problem is we need the AVRCP controls and we all know that Conduits is the only company that has addressed this. It's also pathetic that HTC themselves has continued down this path and refuses to even comment on this issue.
2 questions to this wonderful community of genius people who take it upon themselves to fix what should have been included in the first place:
1. Has anyone seen a hack / mod that will fix the AVRCP controls so that programs like Pocket Music and other players can be used via Bluetooth remote controls?
2. Has anyone seen this specific issue with Pocket Player (which has that beautiful speed plugin that does not alter pitch - love that) and if so - is there a fix or workaround for large files 'breaking' in the middle of playing so that you can no longer save your position or know the correct position of the player in the middle of the MP3 being played?
Thanks in advance to all of you who have any suggestions on either issue.

I'm using Kinoma Play, though mainly for its integration with Orb and video abilities.
For music it supports album art, but only has bass and treble adjustments, not an equalizer.
There is a Kinoma Free you can try.

I am searching for the perfect player and have been testing several of them to see how they work. In addition to some of the normal music player requirements I have 2 pet peeves in particular:
1) The player must support the "Album Artist" tag so that compilations are listed properly in the library.
2) Proper alphabetization - "The Beatles" should be listed under the B's not incorrectly under the T's.
I am testing Pocket Player right now. So far it is the only music player that supports and uses the "Album Artist" tag and it does so by default. It does not support proper alpha. AVRCP works fine out of the box.
The HTC player has the advantage in that it is the only player that can be integrated on the TF3D tabs but does not utilize the "Album Artist" tag nor uses proper alpha. It also has a serious bug that prevents it listing and playing a albums tracks in the correct order. AVRCP of course works well.
WMP supports proper alpha but not the "Album Artist" tag. Strange since MS pioneered the use of the "Album Artist" tag in the desktop version of WMP. AVRCP works fine.
CorePlayer is an evil company. I will never buy or use any SW they make.
Kinoma is next up on my list.
I wish I could find a music player that addresses both of my pet peeves and could be integrated into the TF3D tab replacing the HTC one. That would be the perfect player for me.
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sleonard said:
2) Proper alphabetization - "The Beatles" should be listed under the B's not incorrectly under the T's.
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I understand what you're saying but I would argue that any player that puts that artist name under B is the one doing it incorrectly. If you want The Beatles under the B's then you should rename those tracks to the album artist "Beatles."

For the people that got the TF3D music to work, please share your magic on having it identify your library from a storage card.

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How did you get the player to play in power saving mode. with the screen off. Whenever I do this it stops the music, and some times, even unloads my memory card.
This has been my biggest bain and major issue with my tmobile tp2. I have tried Mortplayer and Nitrogen, the best IMHO and have had the same issue. I have tried different searches to enable the device to let the music play while the screen is off and none have worked. I am going to try S2P. My only gripe witht that program is that it does not play all file formats.
Oh well...
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I know this question is like 2 months old but I use Nitrogen and its good enough for me...very finger friendly! And on the main screen there's a button that looks like a Power Button under the volume keys...thats how you put it into "sleep mode" and music will continue playing.

best audio player ?

easy question - whats the best player for audio on HD ?

its a difficult question - for me its s2p

If you mean the most user friendly one, I would suggest Nitrogen player.

Yes, Nitrogen too. The best !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=523505

I used nitrogen player for a while but came across a problem (if it's me please do tell me i'm an idiot 'cause i like this program); i have all my music in different folders by different artists; how can i play ALL my songs randomly???? i can ony manage to play all the songs by one artist (or making a playlist by going to each artist and adding its songs).
Thanks!

nitrogen
i just installed nitrogen a couple of days ago.. and i absolutely love it..
clean interface, easy to use file browser..
beats WMP by miles..

samsanchez88 said:
I used nitrogen player for a while but came across a problem (if it's me please do tell me i'm an idiot 'cause i like this program); i have all my music in different folders by different artists; how can i play ALL my songs randomly???? i can ony manage to play all the songs by one artist (or making a playlist by going to each artist and adding its songs).
Thanks!
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uh, make sure "Recursive Search" is selected in the song browser menu, then go up the to top of the directory where all your songs are stored, tap and hold and select "Append and Play".
eg. if ur music is under \Storage Card\Music, then you tap and hold that folder.

Does anyone use players for audio books?

I have tried a lot of players, all of them not suitable for audio books. When I answer on incoming call couple seconds of the book (about 3 to 8) lost and I need to rewind some. When you are listening to the music its not a problem, but audio books...
Can anyone suggest me right kind of player?

I'm using Pocket Tunes 4. It's not free and i'll take a look to nitrogen also

This is my first reply to a thread.....lol
I just had to add my two cents worth, I have probably tried about 10 different audio players and always come back to Pocket Player, whilst allot of others have fantastic options I find Pocket player has all of the benefits of the others plus more. When the phone rings its pauses, then resumes to the exact spot when the call ends. It can play virtually all types of audio files and has heaps and heaps of settings to configure to your personnel tastes
Good luck

[Q] MP3-Player exits on pause

hi,
since monday i have a i9000 and it is always the same problem.
i start the mp3 player
play some tracks
press on pause to get a coffe or talk to people
and if i finally want to continue playback, mp3 player is gone.
i love the lockscreen feature of this player but if i have to do recreate my
playlist and last song every time i want to hear music, i will get crazy.
as you can imagine i could not find anything helpful here or in any other forum.
maybe i just chose the wrong words to search for.
can anybody give me a hint how to prevent killing, or a alternative to the SGS mp3-player that also has lockscreen integration?
thanks
bennson
the device uses the latest stock-firmware by samsung including samsung task manager

Humm.. when you press "pause" and do other things, it's gone.
Well, it's not a bug, it's a feature ^^
If you want to try other players *with* lockscreen widget, I used some like :
- WinAmp :
http://www.appbrain.com/app/winamp/com.nullsoft.winamp
- Music Mod + Music Mod Lock Screen
http://www.appbrain.com/app/music-mod-(froyo-only)/com.piratemedia.musicmod
http://www.appbrain.com/app/music-mod-lock-screen/com.omeudroid.musicmodlockscreen

thank you for these hints on alternative players. i will try.
i do not agree that pause means that the player is not needet anymore. i would agree if i'd press a stop-button and it would then exit after a while and not save it's current status. but on pause?
just imagine your "real" cd-player would just shut down after a couple of minutes when you press pause?
yes, in the way that the process manager looks at this process and sees it is not active it is ok to send term after a while.
but this is a case of "works as designed but not as expected".
edit: i think a well designed mp3-player such as winamp would know about androids process management and autosave current playlist and song...
my conclusion: it's a pity that samsung did such a nice looking player with that awesome lockscreen-integration and forgot to add one this absolutely common feature.

Yeah, this problem is very prominent on 2.2, but after I started using 2.2.1, I haven't had the problem. So they did some fixing there
Now I can pause it to take a coffee and resume afterwards.

thank you very much mstrandbo. this was it.
i am on 2.2.1 (XXJPY) now and there is a mp3-player-core service running. this keeps the current state of playback.

Changes in the JellyBean music app

I'm a big fan on Google music mainly because of the streaming features, and I wouldn't call myself an audiophile, just someone who loves to listen to music. I used to love the style of the app in ICS, but I know many didn't, for understandable reasons.
With the update to JellyBean some of you may have noticed a change in the styling of the app. The orgainization is different, with the recent having large album art (image below), playlists being left of that (which I love, since I mostly go there anyways) and back controls on the now playing bar at the bottom. Also, the now playing screen now has a different layout with a shortcut to the list of songs now playing (while before you wouldn't see this at all). This is actually where the problem is.
Try it out yourself. If you have two different playlists, play one and then play the other. Afterwards when you press the now playing button it should show the current songs from the second playlist now right? Wrong. Now this list shows both playlists in the list and anything else you have played since updating the app (see the second and then third image). To remove them you have to select menu then clear queue.
Say you have a playlist in a particular order that you like, so you don't use shuffle (maybe it's a new album where each song transitions into the next). If you have shuffle currently in the now playing then too bad. The only way to get it to work is to go to now playing, deselect shuffle, and then select the playlist.
On the plus side however, if you do use shuffle, and deselect and reselect it from the now playing tab, then the list will show you the order of the new shuffle and will keep the order of the songs you have already played instead of shuffling everything.
So in my opinion it's some good and some bad. What do you guys think? Have you noticed anything else different?

Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.

Yes, but the UI in Music is much better, and I really like the album art previews upon opening.

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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I thought this was one of the bullet points for Jelly Bean. That's rather disappointing...

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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Right? I understand if it may not be gapless when you're streaming, but at least it should be for things that are pinned.
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Yes, but the UI in Music is much better, and I really like the album art previews upon opening.
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I agree that the UI is a bit cleaner and better oriented for the multiple tabs, I just don't like the design of the now playing. It bothers me that when the additional items (shuffle, repeat etc) disappear you now have this progress bar and media buttons that seem cramped together. They still work but it kind of seems like a waste of space. Also the menu button/action bar is consistently at the top now, a feature that everyone complained about in ICS. I think the only app that has menu at the bottom now is Gmail, which has it in two places, neither of which are the top.

Headcase_Fargone said:
I thought this was one of the bullet points for Jelly Bean. That's rather disappointing...
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Jelly Bean has a new API that should enable gapless playback, but the Music app doesn't appear to use it so far.

I miss being able to access other songs from the album or artist from the Now Playing screen, but overall like the new ui.
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While streaming to a bluetooh speaker you can now change between phone speaker/headphones and the Bluetooth device without actually turning Bluetooth off and I love that
Sent from my Jelly Beaned GNexus

blempka said:
I miss being able to access other songs from the album or artist from the Now Playing screen, but overall like the new ui.
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I didn't even remember that! It actually came in handy for navigating, whenever I decided I was feeling like listening to more of an artist. Shame. Good point out.
ray3andrei said:
While streaming to a bluetooh speaker you can now change between phone speaker/headphones and the Bluetooth device without actually turning Bluetooth off and I love that
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Also a good point. I don't use bluetooth but I can imagine this as a great feature, given that we don't have quick toggles (but let's not get into that topic ).
It seems to me that Google is getting to that "It just works" period. Love it.

I don't like the update.
I liked the way before, when a song is playing, I can tap the screen, it'll "shrink" the cover-art and then I can tap the artist name or album name to view their songs/albums.
Much easier than tapping the little thing on the top right which shows the current playlist.
I like to play all songs in shuffle, but when I hear something I like, I like to tap the artist then quickly play one of their albums, harder to do it now.

Two more quick things: there now a thumbs up playlist, and there's actual album art for each playlist, made from a combination of the album arts of songs in said playlist.

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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this is why I use PowerAmp, gapless works fantastically there.

I would rather that the app prompts me to create a playlist than generate one automatically every time I select a single song from an album.
The UI is a bit nicer to look at, but auto-generated playlists are terrible.

earlyberd said:
I would rather that the app prompts me to create a playlist than generate one automatically every time I select a single song from an album.
The UI is a bit nicer to look at, but auto-generated playlists are terrible.
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Well it's not auto generating playlists. When you select a single song from an album it adds the rest songs in that album to the playlist. If you have shuffle enabled then they're shuffled as well, but if not then it starts the playlist in the position of the song in that album. If you select a song from the songs section then the playlist is all of the songs you have.
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I miss being able to access other songs from the album or artist from the Now Playing screen, but overall like the new ui.
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nxt said:
I don't like the update.
I liked the way before, when a song is playing, I can tap the screen, it'll "shrink" the cover-art and then I can tap the artist name or album name to view their songs/albums.
Much easier than tapping the little thing on the top right which shows the current playlist.
I like to play all songs in shuffle, but when I hear something I like, I like to tap the artist then quickly play one of their albums, harder to do it now.
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But it is still possible though. Just in case anyone doesn't know, you select the playlist tab in the now playing screen, press the more options tab on the song and select more by artist. Like above said, though. It's a bit more effort.

Does this update display album art at better quality? The one on the Play Store now still pixelates some of my decent quality (400x400) album art. This is one of the main reasons I've stayed away from Google Music.

Can you finally choose which songs you'd like to "Make available offline" instead of choose the whole album?
And can you can delete specific songs from cache ?

SaharLevi said:
Can you finally choose which songs you'd like to "Make available offline" instead of choose the whole album?
And can you can delete specific songs from cache ?
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No and no.

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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Apple may sue you LOL
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nxt said:
No and no.
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Damn it!
*flipping the table*

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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I used to use Power Amp so I'm used to it but now I use Google Music exclusively and with 4G on its the closest to gapless than it has ever been.
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HTC Music app,how to play by folder?

Hello!
Though I have HTC phones for 2 years, I never used them for music play.
I bought the Stereoclip yeaterday and I am ''obliged'' to use the HOX to stream music as my cowon J3 BT volume is too low and crappy.
Now to focus on the question here, is there any way to play songs per folder?
I always divide my songs by genre in folders like ''Trance'' ''Rock'' ''80s''...
Ok the HTC music player can play by genre but unfortunetly my mp3s are nothing but well ID3taged + I don't want to put 500 songs in a genre.
So please how can I play by folder?
Any modified htc music app for that purpose?

vegetaleb said:
Hello!
Though I have HTC phones for 2 years, I never used them for music play.
I bought the Stereoclip yeaterday and I am ''obliged'' to use the HOX to stream music as my cowon J3 BT volume is too low and crappy.
Now to focus on the question here, is there any way to play songs per folder?
I always divide my songs by genre in folders like ''Trance'' ''Rock'' ''80s''...
Ok the HTC music player can play by genre but unfortunetly my mp3s are nothing but well ID3taged + I don't want to put 500 songs in a genre.
So please how can I play by folder?
Any modified htc music app for that purpose?
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I would create your own playlists with the Names of the genres you are using.
You can also add sources from DropBox etc this could be a good idea if you want to keep the space on your device free for apps etc.
To do this, goto your music play, click the "Settings" top right corner and click "Add Music source"
Hope this helps my friend.

vegetaleb said:
Hello!
Though I have HTC phones for 2 years, I never used them for music play.
I bought the Stereoclip yeaterday and I am ''obliged'' to use the HOX to stream music as my cowon J3 BT volume is too low and crappy.
Now to focus on the question here, is there any way to play songs per folder?
I always divide my songs by genre in folders like ''Trance'' ''Rock'' ''80s''...
Ok the HTC music player can play by genre but unfortunetly my mp3s are nothing but well ID3taged + I don't want to put 500 songs in a genre.
So please how can I play by folder?
Any modified htc music app for that purpose?
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I had the same question like you. I Gave up and installed PowerAMP...

i use a program called. music folder player
https://sites.google.com/site/zorillasoft/

Forget the dropbox thingy with our very limited 3G network in Lebanon (20 to 100mb per month), or else I would have used Tuneinradio in my car all the time
I think I will install a 3rd party app though I would have preffered to do it with the HTC music app

vegetaleb said:
Forget the dropbox thingy with our very limited 3G network in Lebanon (20 to 100mb per month), or else I would have used Tuneinradio in my car all the time
I think I will install a 3rd party app though I would have preffered to do it with the HTC music app
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Okay, heres three options and I can't think of any other way for you to do it, I hope this is helpful.
1 - Obviously you could use another music player, such as WinAmp.
2 - Sort your music into the folders you want, get a file explorer (I Use ESFileExplorer) go on that, navigate to the folder, long press and then click "Music" that folder will then be loaded by itself into the music, Long winded I know but you can still use the stock app.
3 - Create playlists and just name the playlists by the folder.
2 is probably your best bet !

Thanks dude!
I will try playlist to begin with, if it's a pain in the as* I will install a good 3rd party app.
Btw which one is the best (music quality) and has lockscreen controls?

vegetaleb said:
Thanks dude!
I will try playlist to begin with, if it's a pain in the as* I will install a good 3rd party app.
Btw which one is the best (music quality) and has lockscreen controls?
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No worries mate
Tbh never used a third party music player, as in my opinion they are never as loud or clear as the stock. Perhaps that could be sorted if you know what to do with an equaliser, but I don't haha.
Couple of Suggestions that I know are good music players:
DoubleTwist - GirlFriend uses this, its free, very smart and sleek looking, and has many functions. Including the lock screen control you asked for. I'd take a look at this.
Player Pro - Looks very capable but never had an experience with it.
Also
WinAmp - Has been around for long time, before android even existed as it was a PC music player, hense the "Win" for "Windows"
I had a good look at PlayerPro, this could be a brilliant option for you, its got everything you've previously mentioned, playing by folder, lock screen controls. etc etc

Hi mate,
here's what I did on my HTC Desire X. You create a folder with a specific name where you put all your music and then in the Music app on HTC Android, you Search for that folder. It then shows up under Albums and you are able to play only the tracks contained in that Album/folder. For the folder names, they have to be somewhat unique, if you have a lot of music on your phone because otherwise it's gonna getm mixed up.
Hope it helps!

Since Sense 4+ we can use folders play in the HTC Music app

I just found an easy solution to the problem.
1. Organize all your songs on your phone under folders as you like
2. Connect your phone to a PC
3. Open Windows Media Player
4. Select all songs from one folder (on the phone) and add to Windows Media Player Playlist
5. Rename Playlist according to your preference
6. Save the playlist
7. Copy the playlist from your music folder on your PC and paste it on your phone in the Music folder
8. The playlist will now be available on your stock music player