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The best music app?

I'm looking for the best music app in terms of functions, GUI, and lock screen support for ASOP.
So far, I think winamp is good but its gui is ugly as hell.
Miui is beautiful but laggy and no lock screen support and no eq.
Poweramp is a memory hog.
What's your cent?
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I've tried Mixzing, Power amp, Miui, Lithium & a few othes, while they are good music apps none of them was what I was really looking for.
So for me it's 3 cubed, superb UI, album art grabber, lockscreen & the lack of an eq doesn't matter as the SGS sounds great with mixget and quality set of headphones.

Yeah, MIUI is beautiful but... no lockscreen...
I use : http://www.appbrain.com/app/music-mod-(froyo-only)/com.piratemedia.musicmod
Lockscreen : http://www.appbrain.com/app/music-mod-lock-screen/com.omeudroid.musicmodlockscreen

winamp is okay.

PowerAmp is the one, works perfectly on SGS, amazing UI, album art grabber, plus a very well done equalizer.
I never had any problems with it being a memory hog.

vlad11 said:
PowerAmp is the one, works perfectly on SGS, amazing UI, album art grabber, plus a very well done equalizer.
I never had any problems with it being a memory hog.
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I will try the PowerAmp. Now I use 3D Cube, but there´s no equalizer. On some tracks i´ll miss it.

vlad11 said:
PowerAmp is the one, works perfectly on SGS, amazing UI, album art grabber, plus a very well done equalizer.
I never had any problems with it being a memory hog.
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Second this!

Poweramp + sgs = love.

Poweramp <3

hmm i wonder why the SGS stock player ain't getting any love here... Imo its the best music player out there made for andriod. Wide codec support, excellent hardware eq with optional sound enhancements, colourful UI and fantastic yet simple lock screen controls. Perhaps I think performance and compatability issues in the earlier firmwares + the bad reputation of touchwiz might be the reason why its not well recieved but I feel that the player has improved in terms of performance and stabilty to very usable levels in the recent firmwares(esp the 2.2.1 firmwares). Thus for me personally the SGS music player is a winner in most if not all aspects and will be my sole music player app for some time to come...

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hmm i wonder why the SGS stock player ain't getting any love here...
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Agreed. Stock player is great. The lock screen controls are only available if you use the stock glass lockscreen so some people wont get them.
I like using it with the "wide" effect.

MiG123 said:
hmm i wonder why the SGS stock player ain't getting any love here... Imo its the best music player out there made for andriod. Wide codec support, excellent hardware eq with optional sound enhancements, colourful UI and fantastic yet simple lock screen controls. Perhaps I think performance and compatability issues in the earlier firmwares + the bad reputation of touchwiz might be the reason why its not well recieved but I feel that the player has improved in terms of performance and stabilty to very usable levels in the recent firmwares(esp the 2.2.1 firmwares). Thus for me personally the SGS music player is a winner in most if not all aspects and will be my sole music player app for some time to come...
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Stock SGS Music Player is very decent.

Stock Music player is great but in my opinion poweramp is better mainly because you can select the music folder

sciacallo010 said:
Stock Music player is great but in my opinion poweramp is better mainly because you can select the music folder
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Sgs music player has music folder selection. Look in options. I wish it had album cover search and aosp lock screen
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Dunno your's but in mine options there are "equalization, effects, music menu, visaulization" and nothing else

SGS Stock Music Player
I second MiG123....I have tried nearly all music players available in the market for SGS, but end up reverting to stock music player. However I recently used ipod's headphones and wao...huge a difference in the sound quality. The standard head phones with SGS are crap...try the ipod ones and you will hear the difference. I also used Audioboost2 etc.

MixZing Pro version. Hands down.

Like the stock one but bothers me alot that with the phones it only allow you to pause the music, not going to the next or the previous like in btunes.

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MixZing Pro version. Hands down.
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Best choice for sound quality ......it remenbers the equaliser settings for a song or album. and with my transparant skin the widget looks great too
I use this player 8 hours a day with my sennheiser PX 210 BT

Imma let you finish, but I've still gotta say that PowerAMP is definitely the most kickass player of all time... of all time!

Music Player App

What do most of you guys use in your vehicles for audio player from EVO phone? Ive tested winamp, poweramp, & currently the music player from CM7 stock. BTW what music player is used in the latest CM7 mod, when I had destroyer v2 it wasnt used there? I really like how it sets up all your folders & you can go thru each one. Poweramp has an EQ which people rant n rave about but it seems like the EQ gives an exaggerated sound when used in a vehicle with speakers...Opinions?

i'm using miui music player. you need to manually sign the apk and everythign to get it to install, but it's worth it. i can shoot you a copy if you want. i love the lyrics support and automatic album cover downloads, the app is just plain awesome.

Do you have any pix or videos of it in action? Dont care for the album art really jus that I can go into seperate folders with music.

here's the app itself. signed, so just install from adb or through a file browser.

Pivo187 said:
What do most of you guys use in your vehicles for audio player from EVO phone? Ive tested winamp, poweramp, & currently the music player from CM7 stock. BTW what music player is used in the latest CM7 mod, when I had destroyer v2 it wasnt used there? I really like how it sets up all your folders & you can go thru each one. Poweramp has an EQ which people rant n rave about but it seems like the EQ gives an exaggerated sound when used in a vehicle with speakers...Opinions?
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I haven't found a music app yet that can compete with an iPod's. Sadly, I hate everything Steve Jobs' name is attached to but their music app far surpasses ours. If I find/make one you can bet your ass I'll be posting it here lol.
For now, I use MIUI (what dkdude uses) when I have music on my phone and otherwise I just use my Zune HD.

+1 Sucks, but true.

PowerAmp
I use Power Amp. It is my favorite!
It's available on the market.

If you like the CM music app, try "Music Mod". It's free in the market, and also the app CM chose for their roms.
EDIT: I'm currently using the MIUI music app as well because I'm on MIUI... plus it's really good. In the past I've used Player Pro, it's really nice. They've recently added an equalizer, which isn't a big deal to me, but is for some. Mixzing is another decent one.

I use the stock Sense music player. Works just fine.

I use poweramp, it was actually the second app I paid for (first was metamorph). I just make sure to turn on the large lockscreen widget.
I have it piped in through the AUX port on my head unit. As far as the EQ and sound and all that, I just set up custom EQ settings (on the head unit itself) for my AUX input mode and everything sounds great.
I especially love how it starts playing automatically when I plug in the headphone jack, and stops playing automatically when I take it off.

the newest MIUI music is really great. Not sure if dkdude has a working versions of it though. Settings always causes a force close. i dont care much for the apple music. Took all my music off my ipad, which is a paperweight anyway

Dont you guys who use poweramp find the EQ sound to be exaggerated? Everytime Ive used it in my car and put on the EQ the SQ doesnt sound natural it sounds exaggerated & not right...Also if I were to get mp3s with 320kb would it sound as good as using an original CD or thats just not possible?

I'm a big fan of Cubed. I've used just about every free music player in the market, and IMO, nothing comes close.

ive used poweramp, cube, doubletwist, stock sense, stock gingerbread, but now i switched over to using MixZing, its my fav so far, its free, has an equilizer, automatically downloads album art and updates the tags, give u a folder search. its good stuff!!

I totally feel you on PowerAmp. IMO it does exaggerage the range by the EQ; in most cases I just turned it off. I did dig the interface for a bit but it was hard to use one-handed for me. Also, it was a bit unintuitive.
I'm using the stock player in CM7/Gingerbread and I'm perfectly happy with it. Simplicity trumps most things for me. When I run Sense, I just use the Sense player.

alaman68 said:
the newest MIUI music is really great. Not sure if dkdude has a working versions of it though. Settings always causes a force close. i dont care much for the apple music. Took all my music off my ipad, which is a paperweight anyway
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Mine is working. Cm7. Tell me if you want an upload
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Pivo187 said:
Dont you guys who use poweramp find the EQ sound to be exaggerated? Everytime Ive used it in my car and put on the EQ the SQ doesnt sound natural it sounds exaggerated & not right...Also if I were to get mp3s with 320kb would it sound as good as using an original CD or thats just not possible?
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I don't bother with the EQ in PowerAmp, but I've always felt it was kinda annoying to mess with software EQs, especially on a touchscreen. I just adjust settings as needed on the head unit itself, and that works great.
As to your second question, that's something that's been debated in audiophile circles for a long time. With a car stereo, you might notice a slight improvement with FLAC/CD over mp3, but it will be only in the highest of the high frequencies and honestly you'd have to be actively paying attention. And that's assuming that your audio equipment is even of a high enough fidelity in the first place. Road noise while driving won't be doing you any favours either.
In short: don't worry about it, 320kbps mp3 is more than fine and will sound just like the CD for all intents and purposes.

dkdude36 said:
Mine is working. Cm7. Tell me if you want an upload
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Yea please
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alaman68 said:
Yea please
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srry it took so long. been busy.

Best music player app?

I'm looking for a simple music player app that lets me do the following easily:
Search my music files.
Get back to my playlists and library without having to close the app and reopen it.
The stock music player is horrible. It has a search but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to go directly to the library once you get a few screens into the app so in order to get back to my library of songs and playlists I have to exit the app and reopen it. Maybe it does have a simple way to do this and I'm just blind and didn't see it but there has to be something better. I tried Android Music and the Play Music app that's also built in and those are easier to navigate back to the main screen but they don't have a search function.
Is there something out there that will do the simple things I want?

I love power amp. It is by far the best music app I've used. There is a two week trial version on the market and I believe it is $5 if you want to keep it.
Google play music app is also very good and free

crash822 said:
I love power amp. It is by far the best music app I've used. There is a two week trial version on the market and I believe it is $5 if you want to keep it.
Google play music app is also very good and free
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Also recommend poweramp, best player by far

Player Pro
Free trial and its beautiful. Worth every penny.

I prefer winamp, reminds me of college.

Just press the asterisk from the player screen
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Been rockin cloudskipper. I like it a lot. Slimmer and faster than anything else I've used. Does everything it needs to do. Nice Widgets too... seems to have good devs who are adding and twee king all the time
Cloudskipper
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i have been using playerpro. best one i have found after trying them all! very customizable!

junglizste said:
Been rockin cloudskipper. I like it a lot. Slimmer and faster than anything else I've used. Does everything it needs to do. Nice Widgets too... seems to have good devs who are adding and twee king all the time
Cloudskipper
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cloudskipper is my pick as well, its completely FREE and has a nice, clean looking widget. I didn't like poweramp when I tried it, plus I don't want to pay for a music player app.
Cloudskipper has free EQ as well. Highly recommended

several insohric
I'm a widget fanatic, so UberMusic is my choice. Gorgeous app. On a tablet, though, Hive Music Player all the way.

I also recommend power amp...way better than play music...just personal experience..
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xplay worth a look too
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Still haven't met anything that's better than PowerAmp for me - Been using it since my OG Droid and haven't seen anything better yet IMO!

Poweramp!

WA_Bob said:
Still haven't met anything that's better than PowerAmp for me - Been using it since my OG Droid and haven't seen anything better yet IMO!
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I agree 100%, IMHO PowerAmp is in a class of its own (just the lock screen controls alone make it worth using)

As others have said, Power Amp is nice. However, I switched to Player Pro a while back, and like it even better. As with Power Amp, it's really full featured. The interface is cleaner on Player Pro, and IMO it's just prettier. I also find the buttons easier to control while on an elliptical (they're a bit bigger).
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rickwood said:
As others have said, Power Amp is nice. However, I switched to Player Pro a while back, and like it even better. As with Power Amp, it's really full featured. The interface is cleaner on Player Pro, and IMO it's just prettier. I also find the buttons easier to control while on an elliptical (they're a bit bigger).
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been using PowerAmp for a while now. back then.. this was pretty much the only option if you wanted real good lockscreen controls. audio quality is great as well. i've stuck with this also, since the dev responds to emails quickly. i am curious as to how the alternatives today are. maybe i'll give PlayerPro a shot, though i don't quite understand why the DSP pack is a separate install, when this should already be built into the app like PowerAmp.

I recommend Poweramp as well.
On a side note: Has anyone else experienced incompatibilities with Poweramp and Bean's VZW Custom Stock Rom R2?
Every time I try to open the app it force closes on me.

+1 for PowerAmp. I've been using it since the early days and it's only gotten better over time. Plenty of controls, features, and options with a nice interface. Using it with an ICS skin and it looks great!

LIGHTSOUT225 said:
I'm a widget fanatic, so UberMusic is my choice. Gorgeous app. On a tablet, though, Hive Music Player all the way.
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Yeah UberMusic is definitely my first choice but not because of the widgets. Out of all my searching, it is literally the only player I have found that has a true shuffle feature (no repeats).

Power Amp still best sound on a Music Player?

Man, there are tons of them now.
Bells and whistles are secondary...I need good depth of sound. Power Amp always held that crown for me.
Short of using them all, anyone have any candidates that rival that app?

PowerAMP for me too..

hey xda
+1
for me poweramp and dsp manager rules my note 2
greetz benji

no, neutron player is muuch better :fingers-crossed:

Music Folder Player, in addition to forward it also has backward track, and excellent sound quality.

Equalizer app + Poweramp does it for me!

TW music player + sound alive = win
but there is no lock screen controls which is sucks :/

yahyoh said:
TW music player + sound alive = win
but there is no lock screen controls which is sucks :/
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better than poweramp equalizer?

agrttc said:
no, neutron player is muuch better :fingers-crossed:
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Tried this one, personally I think it's crap
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DMax99 said:
Tried this one, personally I think it's crap
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(Sadly) it´s still poweramp for me. "Sadly" just because I don´t like the interface very much. Has anybody seen the "Walkman" app around here? The one that comes with the AC!D package? THAT is a nice looking piece of musicsoftware (at least for me!) But it doesn´t matter as it is not near the sond quality of powerAmp AND (much more important) WALKMAN has no option for genre-sorting!!!
I always feel to try Songbird again, as it really looks nice and sleak...but I always find myself deinstalling it again because it´s still just too laggy.
So soundwise it´s still PowerAmp. When it comes to simplicity and look --> Walkman app!

yes I agree w/Power Amps interface. Incredibly counterintuitive.
But it speaks to the sound of the app cause I'm more than willing to put up with it.

rockky said:
Incredibly counterintuitive.
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Exactly, and furthermore pretty much unpractical for one handed usage. I don´t know why there are still no themes out there for poweramp...I think when the developer would open up the skinning possibility to the users, there would be a hell more to squeeze out of that app^^

Always have been a Power Amp user but recently have been using n7player.... So far so good, love how it looks more than anything.
Trial version available and full version on sale at the moment!!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer
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Still Power Amp. Don't really look much at the player, i'm using the widget, form where i play the music.

extrememonkey said:
Always have been a Power Amp user but recently have been using n7player.... So far so good, love how it looks more than anything.
Trial version available and full version on sale at the moment!!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer
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I'm a Power Amp user. Agreed on the interface, its nice enough looking but a bit counter intuitive.
Now this N7player - very good except for one thing. It doesn't do gapless playback (like the default player and many android players seemingly, unforgivable in 2012), until it does, it's a deal breaker Unless I've missed something?

Gold Standard
Its difficult to argue that PowerAMP is not the best and baddest sound on the market. With 3 years running, no one has really held a candle to PowerAMP.
However, I really value the sound quality of Rocket Music Player Premium. It has a great looking interface and sounds as good as PowerAMP IMO.
Bells and whistles are always nice and PowerAMP has plenty of them but I really value the supported audio formats.
RMP Premium also supports media formats outside of the Android supported formats.
PowerAMP is definitely still the "Gold Standard" but there are many players that are comparable. At the end of the day you have to go with works best for your setup - for me it is RMP Premium.
Take it easy.

What I really miss on MOST of the players is a good and customizable tree structure (accessibility) of my music. I always start my "music-adventure" with the genre tree - and the following should just work like I am used to it from my PC (on every software I´ve ever used):
Genre --> Artist --> Albums --> Songlist
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It´s that easy!
But what is it that I have to find on MOST players?
Genre --> Albums --> Songlist. ...or worse ...Genre --> Songlist
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Now imagine the chaos that I always feel confronted with when some (a lot) of my beloved artists produced a LOT of albums (scrolling ´till tomorrow). I just can´t understand that this is not a standard anymore (at least an OPTION so that people who don´t care are allowed to customize it).
PlayerPro is in someway better than poweramp, as it allows you to customize the tree a bit more. However, the interface looks kind of ugly to me.
So for me as a music-loving guy it is still a very sad situation on the android market.

Just discovered ttpod. Seriously nice UI with lyrics and for some reason actually sounds better than power amp for me, but in don't do any customization of the equalizer settings in both. But yeah the theme and the awesome sound out if the box, and the fact that it is FREE just makes it flawless.
You guys should try it out. It's available in English too, if you guys are wondering.
PS: My gear is a jvc fxt90 iem.
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power amp for me

stock music player +music equilizer+volume mod...
n plz change the name of the thread....its not the power amp thread..plz mate

Best music app for FLAC over BT that can shuffle albums?

I'm looking for something that shuffles by albums and preferably has a 5x1 widget for 7.1.1.
I have been out of the loop for music players for quite some time and I have been using Rocket Player for the last 4 years. I am looking to upgrade to something that might be a bit better.
Apps I've checked out:
Player Pro
Rocket Player
PowerAmp

I've been a huge fan of GoneMAD music player. It plays flac, shuffles (not sure if by album), and has a 4x1 widget. It is paid but there's a trial version you can try.
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hfcobra said:
I'm looking for something that shuffles by albums and preferably has a 5x1 widget for 7.1.1.
I have been out of the loop for music players for quite some time and I have been using Rocket Player for the last 4 years. I am looking to upgrade to something that might be a bit better.
Apps I've checked out:
Player Pro
Rocket Player
PowerAmp
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What's wrong with Poweramp? It does all of that

prot- said:
What's wrong with Poweramp? It does all of that
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It's expensive and I'm looking for more apps to check out so I can pick the lightest one to save power.

Shuttle is pretty sweet. I've used it for over a year now. The free version is great, but I liked it so much that I threw the dev some money for the Shuttle+ version or whatever.

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Shuttle is pretty sweet. I've used it for over a year now. The free version is great, but I liked it so much that I threw the dev some money for the Shuttle+ version or whatever.
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Yeah I've been liking Shuttle++ quite a bit although I would like if they changed the pixelated looking status bar icon and made the play controls for the notification nicer like Sony music. The widget options are the most extensive I've found though. Artist artwork came through much easier than Sony Music too.
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hfcobra said:
I'm looking for something that shuffles by albums and preferably has a 5x1 widget for 7.1.1.
I have been out of the loop for music players for quite some time and I have been using Rocket Player for the last 4 years. I am looking to upgrade to something that might be a bit better.
Apps I've checked out:
Player Pro
Rocket Player
PowerAmp
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Best Player overall is Black Player (EX)
Most customizable, and feature rich music player.
In my opinion, its well made and looks damn awesome.

Shadow of Destiny said:
Best Player overall is Black Player (EX)
Most customizable, and feature rich music player.
In my opinion, its well made and looks damn awesome.
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The other thing Black Player EX does that I like is editing is really user friendly. some of my MP3s don't have the artists name show up and I can make that happen with Black Player EX. Player Pro allows that as well but not as user friendly.

You might ask the guys over in the billion post Android DAC thread at Head-Fi.
If anyone knows a good player, I'm sure it's them.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/595071/android-phones-and-usb-dacs/5010
edit: wow, 8639 posts as of today. Not quite a billion but it'll get there someday.

After reading this yesterday, I did a little comparison last night. Used Freebird for guitar run, Stevie Nicks for voice, and full song of Jessica by the Brothers. Compared paid versions of Poweramp, Black player EX, and Player pro with DSP pack. They are so similar it's hard to pick except Poweramp has the least distortion at high pre-amp settings on high frequency sounds. So below is my ranking (just my personal opinion):
1. Poweramp
2. Blackplayer EX
3. Player Pro with DSP pack