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[APP]New Android Test Market, Music app and more

Yesterday there has been an accidental release of a new test market app and several other apps through it. You can find more info and a download link to those leaked apps here.
I tried to install the new music player, but no luck getting it to work. Currently running 2.3.3 JVK. When I ran the apk it asked if I want to replace the system music app, when I said yes it got installed. But still when I load the default music player its the same old one, no change. And there are no new shortcuts either. When I replaced the music player apk under /system/app and launch it I get a force close dialog for the new app. Let me know if any of you guys have any luck with it.

It runs fine on 2.2.1 but the streaming doesn't work nor does adding the Google acct.
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only camera works on JVK here. The previous version of music works, this one doesn't, either crashs the app or the whole system.
note that the signatures used to sign this one are also different from the previous ones.

The previous version is also force closing. I backed up stock music player app with titanium backup and them uninstalled, I then installed the latest honeycomb music player which keeps force closing on me (am on stock jvk rom) tried uninstalling the latest music player and then revert back to stock, but titanium backup doesn't give me the option to restore even though it says I have 1 backup. I then resorted to the old honeycomb music player app which also force closes on me when I press play and now for some reason my titanium backup no longer shows the original stock app I backed up.
the above might seem a little confusing but an in a bit of a pickle and would like to restore the original stock music player. Currently using winamp and I hate not having the option to change track from the notification menu.
Anyone with any ideas please help.

[Q] Changing the music app on MildWild 3.5.5

I recently switched from using VillianRom to MildWild 3.5.5.
I really like MildWild's ICS themed take on a stable Gingerbread core. The only problem Im having is some issues with the newer Android Music app that comes included in that rom.
I tend to do the majority of my music playing through my car stereo via bluetooth. If I use the standard HTC music app on the standard rom, or the stock android 2.3.6 music app on VillainRom then I get the song titles displayed in my car stereo. If I use ANY other music player, the display remains blank (although the music still plays OK).
I think this issue is related to the music app more than the rom, as I did once try the android 4 music app under Villainrom and noticed this didnt stream track titles across - hence I ended up going back to the default 2.3.6 player.
Im wondering now if I can somehow install the 2.3.6 gingerbread music app on the MildWild 3.5.5 rom. It might fix my issues.

Why don't you use a third-party musuc app like PowerAmp (best music app for Android imho).
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MatDrOiD said:
Why don't you use a third-party musuc app like PowerAmp (best music app for Android imho).
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+ Infinity. Finally bought this after their recent sale, wasn't willing to pay so much before xD

bortak said:
+ Infinity. Finally bought this after their recent sale, wasn't willing to pay so much before xD
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Would also do if I had a credit card, but don't have one yet.
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3rd party apps don't stream track titles via bluetooth either.
MatDrOiD said:
Why don't you use a third-party musuc app like PowerAmp (best music app for Android imho).
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I tried power amp but it doesn't stream track and artist titles via Bluetooth, so its very difficult to operate the music app using my car's steering controls and display screen. I've not found an audio app other than stock android or stock HTC players that work in this respect.

Have you tried music mod app.. This uses the older standard music frame work with nice touch screen gestures
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music player suggestions
clouskipper
juke fox
double twist
rocket music player
all are free without ads not sure if they support the feature ure after eg track id on youre car stereo

[Q] can i remove the original music player ?

hey,
I installed power amp but when there is lock screen it shows first the original music player.
On the original music player there are no settings at all. and i tried the poweramp settings but for no help.
my last option that i can think of is to remove the original music player, or at least to freeze it.
is it plausible?
If it is, which file i should delete\freeze ?
And can it harm something else ??

Go to poweramp settings and make sure lock screen widget is enabled. Also make sure that the stock music player is playing.
You can only delete/freeze/disable the default music player if you're rooted.

xxkid123 said:
Go to poweramp settings and make sure lock screen widget is enabled. Also make sure that the stock music player is playing.
You can only delete/freeze/disable the default music player if you're rooted.
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yeah, the lock screen is enabled. but why do i need the stock music to play ?
and yes, my phone is rooted.

You should be able to remove the default music player with titanium backup. Not sure if it will affect anything else though.
You can make a backup of the app before removing just in case you need to restore it again
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mushtafa said:
You should be able to remove the default music player with titanium backup. Not sure if it will affect anything else though.
You can make a backup of the app before removing just in case you need to restore it again
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but which app\process is it ?

I have never had problems with uninstalling the stock music app with titanium backup.

tripleR123 said:
yeah, the lock screen is enabled. but why do i need the stock music to play ?
and yes, my phone is rooted.
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Oops, meant not playing
Maybe the stock music player is switching on when you play, and you're getting the default lock screen widget instead of whatever you want.
If you're rooted, then titanium, su/terminal commands, and plenty of other apps will help delete stock music.

thanks guys.
My Q is what is the name of the app freeze\delete ?
Cuz i cant find it. i freeze couple of apps but it wont help.
maybe something lockscreen app ?

Not sure what rom you are using, but beware of deleting music.apk as on gingerbread roms deleting music.apk also deletes the video player, im not sure if there are separate apk's with regards to ICS or JB, so you may wish to look in to that prior to deleting music..

connect your phone to pc/mac go to command line/terminal and type:
adb shell rm /system/app/Music.apk
you must have adb installed. in ICS and JB it does not delete the video capability. Some ROMs come without GoogleMusic and video works just fine. However, as far as I remember there is an option to turn off the default player in lockscreen.

root your phone, and then use something like root explorer and find the apk file and remove it

otrfse UNIX
i do this with every rom i flash. never had an issue.

I underestimated the stock Music Player...

Seriously, it sounds awesome with Perseus audio tweaks and a little bit of tweaking within the player itself. I'm not a big fan of the UI, but it honestly just works.
The only reason I'm switching over is because PlayerPro's EQ and DSP pack were giving me issues. The "bass" knob was going...backwards.
PowerAmp is hideous IMO, but sounds good. Neutron isn't really user friendly, but it sounds epic.
Walkman is nice, but Ac!d audio along with it gave me FC's in Sound Enhancement. (Anyone know how to fix this?)
Anyway,
Perseus headphone amplification up to 63, a u-shaped EQ with +2 and -2 being the limits, negative gain on 1, stereo expansion on 6.
Mild bass/clarity adjustments in the music player, +1 on 3D, +1 on room size.
What can I say, I'm happy. My ATH-M50's suddenly have a new life.
I may flash Ac!d universal again and see how it sounds. I do feel like I can get a bit more sub-bass out of these cans.
Thoughts?

I love the stock music player. The only reason why I'm using poweramp (I like its asthetics fyi but let's ignore that for this discussion) is because of the ability to choose the folders that I want. With the stock music player, it pulls music from my dropbox and also voice recordings. With poweramp, I can prevent that which is better for me. I would use the stock music player otherwise. It also helps when I won a license key from poweramp a while back.

koreancanuck said:
I love the stock music player. The only reason why I'm using poweramp (I like its asthetics fyi but let's ignore that for this discussion) is because of the ability to choose the folders that I want. With the stock music player, it pulls music from my dropbox and also voice recordings. With poweramp, I can prevent that which is better for me. I would use the stock music player otherwise. It also helps when I won a license key from poweramp a while back.
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PowerAmp ftw. Been using it for a while. Well worth the price unless you won a copy like above lol.
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Since you guys seem to love it, and more to the point, use the stock player, I have a simple question.
When you open the player, say from the widget, how do you get back to a menu where you can open/switch-to a new playlist.
So far I only found that possibility when I open the app using the standard icon.
That annoyance has driven me to use apollo pro (a beefed up version of the player on CM9+ firmwares).

I have one major problem with the stock player (though it's really the os default behavior). I have a lot of music on my 64gb sd card (50gb?) and when I open the stock player it freezes while it rescans it all (about a min) - same on closing the player - very annoying. It does it every time so I use Player Pro which opens instantly for music and just use the stock player for podcasts. The other plus for me is Player Pro shows the album art on the lockscreen. I have no issues with the audio quality of either, though I also like and use the controls in Perseus stweaks.
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I have 38gb of 320kbps MP3's, no freezing issues here in any player at all!

Yeah combo of stock music and google play has replaced poweramp. Like the way google play creates playlist and stock player music squares.
Poweramp is in need of a major update. Been using it for years and its getting dated.
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If PowerAmp fixed its playlist issues, I'd probably use it again lol.

koreancanuck;37397874 said:
reason why I'm using poweramp is because of the ability to choose the folders that I want.
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This. The stock music player will happily play every media file on the damn phone, not just my music.
I haven't used a SINGLE stock music player in Android ever due to this issue.

I'm a playlist user. I use iSyncr for mac to get all my music on there, it all shows up fine.
I can agree about folders though. I have used them from time to time, PowerAmp did that job pretty well.

Cant u choose wich folder to play on stock player too? I like the stock player as well.
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I still haven't found a third party music app better than PlayerPro. Stock music player is actually quite good (probably the best stock player I've used) but I can't customize it in the same way I can with PlayerPro. And when you combine PlayerPro with the "Equalizer" app (paid version), it's a wrap!

No one likes winamp? I've been using it on pc since I was a kid and the app seems good. Shoutcast radio is also a plus.
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You guys know you can add a no media file for random music files like ringtones and game files.
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silentecho13 said:
I'm a playlist user. I use iSyncr for mac to get all my music on there, it all shows up fine.
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Ahh! That's why it was choking and scanning forever - I have no playlists and the music player interface always opened where I left it - on the Songs page/tab. If I leave the interface showing the Playlist tab, it opens without a lag! Now to add a playlist...
Ugh. Using the app to add the playlist is problematic, no impossible. I can choose individual songs to add to the playlist, but as soon as I choose "Select All" it freezes (and never completes the task). Then I tried to make the playlist with various apps but I couldn't get any to make a playlist of all songs given my directory structure (All Music > Genre > Artist > CD). Hmm... What should I call it - suboptimal? ...I finally did make a playlist with my PC version of Winamp (mounting the phone with SGS3 Easy UMS), but I'll probably keep using the Player Pro.
Thank you for that comment though as it explained my problem and gave a workaround (make a playlist with an external app), but I think I have to stick with the opinion that the stock player is poorly made... Though perhaps it would be more correct to say that the Android media scanning default behavior is just crazy bad and needs to be changed - then all the stock music apps would probably work fine. The Gallery app by the way suffers from similar problems for the same reason...

How do you get it to pull from dropbox?
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nemesis_9 said:
No one likes winamp? I've been using it on pc since I was a kid and the app seems good. Shoutcast radio is also a plus.
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I use Winamp Pro. Has an equalizer and plays FLAC. I also bought the Album Washer and Lyrics addons. Can't go wrong with that.

intruda119 said:
You guys know you can add a no media file for random music files like ringtones and game files.
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.nomedia files cause the system to ignore ringtones, and then you can't use them as ringtones.

Dr. Evo said:
"Equalizer" app (paid version), it's a wrap!
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This is a big plus, I'm using this Equalizer (unlock version) to save the presets + Power amp + Good quality headphones = Solved..

tpowell.ca said:
Since you guys seem to love it, and more to the point, use the stock player, I have a simple question.
When you open the player, say from the widget, how do you get back to a menu where you can open/switch-to a new playlist.
So far I only found that possibility when I open the app using the standard icon.
That annoyance has driven me to use apollo pro (a beefed up version of the player on CM9+ firmwares).
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When you open the player, say from the widget, how do you get back to a menu where you can open/switch-to a new playlist. I was confused by this too. If you use the widget, open the app with the lower right icon. Using the back button, you can move between main screen, playlist screen and song screen.

Best Music ID Apps, Weather Apps and Games For Gio

Which are in your opinion as a Samsung S5660 Gio owner: - the Best Music Player & Music ID Apps, Best Weather App and Best Graphic Games [maybe something 3D ]
For Gio?!
I have for the moment Shazam Encore for music ID but it can't identify classical music [ i'm weird ha ]. Angry Birds Space as game. Used to have Power Amp for music but i'm searching for something better.
For Weather Forecast i havent yet found the best app. Used to have Weather Bug, but it was not so impresive for me. Next i tried a weather app from Galaxy SIII, moded by a XDA member for Gio, but it did not got installed in my ROM for some unknown reason.
What is your take on SoundHound: - good - bad - so and so
Also i use taptalk for forums on Android, but it cant find http://forum.softpedia.com when i put it in the search bar. Comes up with no result. Can you find softpedia with your own forum posting apps?!
All serious replies are welcomed.

IMO
Best music player: i usually use rom included with dsp manager as equaliser..but poweramp has best sound quality,ttpod has best graphic with internal lyrics feature....
Best music id: soundhound is the best and also trackid from sony is a good idea...
Games: unfortunately i dont play games...but generally gio is weak for games...
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TTPod with dsp manager
Sudoku
Word search
Angry birds
Magic wingdom
Rope escape
Super dynamite fishing
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MH-Droid said:
IMO
Best music player: i usually use rom included with dsp manager as equaliser..but poweramp has best sound quality,ttpod has best graphic with internal lyrics feature....
Best music id: soundhound is the best and also trackid from sony is a good idea...
Games: unfortunately i dont play games...but generally gio is weak for games...
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I do the same on my other Samsung because it has a better player even if it's not an android :laugh: but on Gio because the sound is very low, only with te headset and Dolby 5.1 effect is better.
Soundhound only this week i discovered it. Now i have Need For Speed Shift on the phone, and i am trying to put it on the tablet with 4.0.4 ICS also since this morning. You need to download an aditional 91 MB first time so you can play it after. Got another version on NFS shift "cache" and put it on the tablet but when i want to play, i get the white colour over the cars and enviroment so i cant play it. Dont know why this is happening.
But it keeps telling me that it didnt downloaded anything and to retry.
I tried over the 3G connection and WiFi keeps repeating the same message.
Where can i download this Trackid from sony?!

owaismukhtarkhan said:
TTPod with dsp manager
Sudoku
Word search
Angry birds
Magic wingdom
Rope escape
Super dynamite fishing
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Thanks. Do i need the pro version of this DSP manager. And where can i get it?

Druidul said:
I do the same on my other Samsung because it has a better player even if it's not an android :laugh: but on Gio because the sound is very low, only with te headset and Dolby 5.1 effect is better.
Soundhound only this week i discovered it. Now i have Need For Speed Shift on the phone, and i am trying to put it on the tablet with 4.0.4 ICS also since this morning. You need to download an aditional 91 MB first time so you can play it after. Got another version on NFS shift "cache" and put it on the tablet but when i want to play, i get the white colour over the cars and enviroment so i cant play it. Dont know why this is happening.
But it keeps telling me that it didnt downloaded anything and to retry.
I tried over the 3G connection and WiFi keeps repeating the same message.
Where can i download this Trackid from sony?!
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From play store
For sound quality install a cyanogen rom
Stock rom dosnt have a good sound quality
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Druidul said:
Thanks. Do i need the pro version of this DSP manager. And where can i get it?
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Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2014550
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One more thing man another thread like this one exist so please use that for information about apps
Heres the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1700861
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my apps
for me best music player is either TTPOD or MIUI music.
music ID apps i use trackID
for weather apps i use yahoo weather
now for games
chaos rings (superb RPG)
FF III (another fine RPG)
Agent dash (better than temple run IMO)
Zombie Frontier

try jet audio player plus and then racoon audio...
its make your audio like monster...
iam was comper racoon audio with dsp and racoon audio its the winner....
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