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While trying to get my music on my GS2, I found the easiest way was through the doubletwist player with Airsync. Seems to be a good player. Was using Google music, but that streams abd uses up my data.
What is your favorite music player???
The stock one works fine, had a few others but none stick out for me.
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I'm between poweramp and ubermusic.
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poweramp. spotify. google music.
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Been using winamp for about a day now. On my computer iTunes manages all my music so I wanted a music player that could sync with iTunes. Winamp does that fine and I like the layout of the player but it has one rather large inconvenience for me: the playlists don't sync. I went into the settings, specified that it sync all my playlists and specified I wanted them on H:\ (my SD card), but nothing :/
I really like Google music. And just so you know, you can save all the to the phone with one press of a button so it doesn't use the data . You can undo it just as easy.
Was on power Amp now I'm using player pro
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I really like poweramp. You can really customize all you want, but for the people who have lots of music that cant fit it all in their phone I guess winamp is good.
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donm76 said:
I really like Google music. And just so you know, you can save all the to the phone with one press of a button so it doesn't use the data . You can undo it just as easy.
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Interesting.....when you do that doesn't it use up your storage space on the phone, being that it is downloaded to the device storage and also does it not use the data to to download it to the phone?
Google music works like this. It stream music from your library to your android device. If you lose connection it can stream past played songs that it has saved. So yes it uses storage, and yes it uses data. But it doesn't use much storage.
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Try doods music streamer from the market.. its pretty awesome
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I was liking stock for a while, but then Raycaster3 told me about PowerAmp, yes you have to pay for it but its by far gives you the most options and great sound quality. I did a test also with it to see how it sounds compared to the stock 5.1 sound. And it sounded the same if not better. Then you mix PowerAmp with a nice set of SkullCandy in ear headphones and your golden. I dont mean anything too expensive either I just went with the $29 ones because they also come with a mic. They are amazing. Oh I guess I also use Google Music because I have 40gigs of music stored in the Google Music Cloud.
PowerAmp user here.
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I was liking stock for a while, but then Raycaster3 told me about PowerAmp, yes you have to pay for it but its by far gives you the most options and great sound quality. I did a test also with it to see how it sounds compared to the stock 5.1 sound. And it sounded the same if not better. Then you mix PowerAmp with a nice set of SkullCandy in ear headphones and your golden. I dont mean anything too expensive either I just went with the $29 ones because they also come with a mic. They are amazing. Oh I guess I also use Google Music because I have 40gigs of music stored in the Google Music Cloud.
PowerAmp user here.
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Not to brag...but been a long time PowerAmp Pro user since my Nexus One days, and used with my Monster Turbine Gold Ear Buds....nothing short of awesomeness...PS....spent the last two days walking the carpets at the CES Las Vegas extravaganza and and I listened to no less than a dozen competing Ear Bud companies. The Monster Turbines won hands down for purest, smoothest, most pleasing sound quality, IMHO. Oh....I did get to demo a new Headset I saw featured on Fox and Friends before my first trip to the show a couple of days ago. My Bose QC15 noise canceling over the ears headphones got knocked of by a new company I first heard about at the show. ZIK Parrot phones. They work wired as well as Bluetooth wireless. Sound was great but the added features of hand gestures to control volume and track changes was/ is the way of the future. Instead of dealing with unplugging the phones to pause, simply remove from your ears and the music comes to a stop. Put them back on and it starts back where you left off. No price on these since they are not yet released to the public.
But don't even get me going on the best of the event....LG's 55" OLED 3D TV. Will knock anyone's socks off...period, guaranteed, and I will bet the farm on this statement. Thickness = to 3 credit cards stacked!!! Sorry for the slight thread drift, BTW....
Playerpro , lots of features and lovely ui.
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Playerpro , lots of features and lovely ui.
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Just spent an hour comparing. Yes, I downloaded the much needed DSP pack. PowerAMP WINS, IMHO, hands down. Give it a fair try to compare all aspects. Going thru the menu more preferences is extremely important too.
My 3 favorites in order:
1. ZPlayer - I really love the Zune player on Mango and this is a very good clone of it. It has integrated Shoutcast, a nice UI, a very nice lock screen controls that displays picture of whatever artist is playing as the lockscreen background, artist bio, widgets, equalizer and more. It's missing a few features, such as better playlist creation, but it's a very sexy and stylish player.
2. PowerAmp - The most complete player on the market. Has just about everything I mentioned ZPlayer has (minus Shoutcast and artist bio), in addition to good playlist management. Only cons, is it costs $, doesn't have automatic mixing like the Google player, and no streaming from Google or Amazon. Still just about the best player on the market. Only reason I put Zplayer higher is because I prefer the Zune player look of Zplayer, but that's totally personal preference.
3. Google Music - Great player, but a few things are holding it back. If I have music stored locally, when it syncs with Google it will duplicate the music, so for example I have two Nine Inch Nail artists in Google Music. I wish it would not display the music stored on Google if it already resides locally. Also will always stream by default, even if song is stored locally. Again, they need to make it so that it looks to see if song is stored locally and play that instead of reverting to streaming everything. Automatic mixing only available for streamed music (FYI, when I mention automatic mixing, I'm referring to the feature that is similar to Genius on apple devices - both iTunes on iPhone and Zune on WP7 offer this feature for music stored locally, Google player does not). Interface is a bit clunky.
Those are my personal 3 favorites. If I could find one that marries the UI of ZPlayer, with the features of PowerAmp and streaming capabilities of Google Music, it would be perfect.
Thanks,
Very informative. I loved Google Music, but with Tmobile throttling, not feasable. Is there a hack to get around the throttling?
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Very informative. I loved Google Music, but with Tmobile throttling, not feasable. Is there a hack to get around the throttling?
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Look for a thread in the General section. Use Throttling for a search. You will find it Read the thread and specifically go here.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151082945165054
This was referenced in the thread and goes into more detail.
I don't know how long this is going to work, but I have tested this myself and it does indeed keep yopu separated from T-Mobiles grasp on your data usage. I have the feeling this won't last long, based on too many people talking in the open.
EDIT..many of the Roms are also including hacks that help the throttling issue, but not like this which all together bypasses the counting.
For me it's really a two way tie. Poweramp and miui music.
hiki player > everything else
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Like many of you, I am a avid iPhone hater. The iOS software does have one cool feature that would be cool if the devs......thank you for all your hard work btw..... Could bake something into a rom. It is on all apple devices, say you are rocking out to your music with friends and you want to here something on YouTube. Apple software it automatically mutes what you were listening to and starts play the the new audio app you have selected. Just a suggestion, I have very basic programming knowledge so i am not much help, but I think everyone would appreciate this mod.
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Well I just played something in double twist, then went to YouTube, and when the video started playing it paused my music, closed YouTube, went back to DT, and hit play. It picked up where I left off.
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Poweramp does this also. Its an awesome little music player.
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Poweramp does this also. Its an awesome little music player.
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Plus 10 it gives you the option to enable/disable
Unfortunately the music apps i use include YouTube, I heart radio, tune in radio, stock music player, and subsonic and that feature does not work with any of those apps. So I guess it's just not a widely popular idea so far.
I know Pandora does this too. It's all about the apps used, not the ROM.
Even youtube leaves off where u where when u switch to another app or press home and return to youtube
first off all sorry for my bad English ill do my best to make it clear.
i have a problem with my HOX as you can see at my you tube movie i made.
sound is very low so you have to put your volume a bit up so you can here what i mean.
you can here the music is stuttering of shocking. it comperes what you think of it.
it also happens sometimes when i just play music with the music player.
my HOX is complete stock latest version.
let me here what you thing or if you have any idea's to fix this
big thanks:good:,
Sonic
sonic1611 said:
first off all sorry for my bad English ill do my best to make it clear.
i have a problem with my HOX as you can see at my you tube movie i made.
sound is very low so you have to put your volume a bit up so you can here what i mean.
you can here the music is stuttering of shocking. it comperes what you think of it.
it also happens sometimes when i just play music with the music player.
my HOX is complete stock latest version.
let me here what you thing or if you have any idea's to fix this
big thanks:good:,
Sonic
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I also have the similar problem but only while playing Youtube videos. When I use MX Player for videos stored on phone there is no such problem. Try watching the same video on the youtube website on the browser.
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I also have the similar problem but only while playing Youtube videos. When I use MX Player for videos stored on phone there is no such problem. Try watching the same video on the youtube website on the browser.
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i think ill wait till the next update if its still there ill return it
I have thoose issues but only when using any equalizer app.
Im using viper rom i have this bs problem also on my 3rd one x in less than a month now
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The only solutions that comes to mind are the stuttering issue while beats (eq) is active (turn it off completely), or the CPU that is running on a too low clockrate/voltage.
Furthermore have you guys tried a hard reset ? Maybe there are some rogue apps running in the background and clogging up your memory/CPU resources.
The only time I experienced such issue was when I ran the older firmware versions with the beats stuttering bug, or when my phone didn't have enough resources left to do the job
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My phone does not do this with beats active. You might need to update your phone. If you want to return it I would now as I can't imagine there will be a new software update coming out in the foreseeable future.
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The only one I own and have really used is pocketcasts. It has a great UI, but is starting to fall behind now that Android 4.2 is out. The devs seem to be saying version 4.0 will be out next year but not sure when.
It lacks for example the notification controls other apps have updated to include with the latest JB update.
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Beyond pod. It has everything pocketcasts has plus notification and Lockscreen controls. I got tired of waiting for them to update pocket casts and moved onto beyond pod a few months ago.
I shouldn't really complain though, as I got pocketcasts during one of those free Amazon app of the day promotions.
BeyondPod.
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I have used Dogcatcher for years now to manage podcasts. Tend to just use Goggle Music to play them though.
DoggCatcher
Beyond pod:
Has backup and import features that work well.
Has a player control feature in notifications.
Loyalty to their longtime support and quality.
Has very customizable hands free Bluetooth controls like: skip forward, skip backward, next podcast, previous podcast.
Can sort podcasts in multiple ways.
Playlist features for managing played, partially played, not played, etc..
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I tested all 3 major Podcast managers - Beyond Pod, Pocket Casts, and Dogg Catcher...
Still haven't really found the right one, I guess I have rather specific requirements for my podcast managers. I use bluetooth most of the time to listen to my podcasts, also, I rarely download them before hand, I always stream.
Beyond Pod - This has issues with bluetooth controls (Pause, Resume, Skip etc). The bluetooth controls work most of the time, but sometimes they fail to register, or there is a really long delay before the podcast resumes. Video playback works well, but if it's paused and the screen goes to sleep, I can't resume the playback using bluetooth.
Pocket Casts - This has a really neat feature where you can switch quickly between audio only and video versions of a podcast, however the dealbreaker for me is how it handles bluetooth. Whenever I try to resume a podcast with bluetooth control, it re-buffers the entire podcast before resuming, which means theres a huge delay where the app is "buffering". Other times, it doesn't even complete the buffering, and just spits out some error.
Dogg Catcher - This works flawlessly with bluetooth controls and audio podcasts. Video playback pause & resume has the same issue as Beyond Pod, where I'm unable to resume after the screen has gone to sleep.
For now, I'm using Dogg Catcher until I find another manager.
BeyondPod, its just amazing
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At the moment I'm using Volksempfänger and Antennapod, they both have quite similair features. They are both lacking some features as well, but they're still in beta and getting new functions and improvements regularly.
I use Onecast and is pretty good. It allows for backups of podcasts and has a really nice interface. No lockscreen controls though.
Doggcatcher, but I only use it for Audio.
PocketCast use only for audio and love it
I have purchased the pro versions of the main three. BeyondPod without a doubt. 1 Tasker Integration, 2 individual speeds for each feed. These are things that the other two do not have, all other features are basically the same on each of them.
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I use doggcather. Have just gotten my n4 and the export / import was smooth.
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Another vote for BeyondPod. I'm basing this opinion on the full version, not the lite version.
Has ability to update based on schedule. extremely customizable and lots of options. I would give it a try, you probably won't need to try another other podcast manager.
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Another vote for BeyondPod. I'm basing this opinion on the full version, not the lite version.
Has ability to update based on schedule. extremely customizable and lots of options. I would give it a try, you probably won't need to try another other podcast manager.
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+1 For Beyond Pod! Definitely worthy of $$
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I'm with the crowd that BeyondPod is one the most complete on android, though still behind Instacast on iOS
I own a few of these as I posted before. I always go back to pocketcasts.. funny, after reading these posts I actually went and tried beyond again and still i had to go back.
I listen to many every day so this is an important app to me. That is why i ended up buying them all until I settled finally with this one. It is simple but also dies things I want like auto update/ download.. etc.
I also use tuneitpro but mainly just to listen to live radio shows.
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Jess813 said:
PocketCast use only for audio and love it
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Works well for video too...
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I use Doggcatcher as well. I only use it for audio. It does everything I need it do including comprehensive download and connection rules. I wish it had better lockscreen controls though instead of using the default lockscreen.
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BeyondPod for sure. Antennapod is the next runner up.
Can two different apps play audio simultaneously?
I'm looking to hear radio talk shows on the dogcatcher app and at the same time be able to hear music from another app.
I believe the developers call it audio focus.
Can it be done??
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Why would you even want to do that? I could turn on my TV and my radio at the same time but there wouldn't be a whole lot of fun in that!
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Why would you even want to do that? I could turn on my TV and my radio at the same time but there wouldn't be a whole lot of fun in that!
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Why do you want the radio on at the same time as the tv?
Cause I like to party
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Spoken word won't clash with instrumental music. if you hear them together it sounds like it's part of the song.. but if the song would include singing then yeah that would suck...
But anyway... can it be done??
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ionic7 said:
Cause I like to party
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Lol
ziploker said:
Can two different apps play audio simultaneously?
I'm looking to hear radio talk shows on the dogcatcher app and at the same time be able to hear music from another app.
I believe the developers call it audio focus.
Can it be done??
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You might be able to use an audio mixer app.
If you are using it for meditation there is apps like "Beyond Time" that would mix both background music and voice-over.
But by most part having more than one audio running is not enjoyable. For some of us, having different audios (that are not harmonized with each other) playing at the same time forces our minds to try to focus on both audios at the same time. That makes for painful headaches and extremely annoying at best. I personally don't get people having TV audio and music running at the same time. It is like the TV audio is a comfort sound blanket for some people. Mixing talking audio and background audio is tricking at best. The background audio needs not to be interfering with the focus on the talking. Which is the reason that one needs planning in mixing background audio with talking. As mention above there are apps for that. Audios that harmonizes with each other, well mixed talk & background audios, and ambient audios is the only audio sets that I can personally stand playing together.
So because there is not that much demand for this "feature", as well as stopping audio from playing when taking calls, another audio/video app starts to run, etc is a feature of these devices, there is not an easy way of playing two audio sources that I know of.
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Spoken word won't clash with instrumental music. if you hear them together it sounds like it's part of the song.. but if the song would include singing then yeah that would suck...
But anyway... can it be done??
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I get music playing over music all the time when I have tunes going and open a game.
Can it be done? probably very easily