Originally called Fede's Music app from Fedes Carnales (maker of Launcher Pro), version alpha 7 of this slick music player with the new name is now available.
Had a few fc's with alpha 5, but this version is running as smooth as butter.
http://ubermusic.com/
Thanks for this link... been looking for this... will this expire like Alpha 5 did?
Love this app. It been getting better and better per release. Unfortunatley Alpha 7 has made a whole bunch of artists names change to 'Unknown Artist ' all of a sudden. A little annoying, but a slick app none the less.
Anyone have an idea on how to change them? Im going to reinstall Alpha 6 for now and see if that works...
Yes this will expire. Pop up came and went pretty fast.
Didn't catch date, however have no problem with player as it is and hope it gets to market soon.
Fantastic app!
Love it! clean interface, fast! This has become my default music app Not having issues with artist names here, only suggestions I could add are:
add scrolling (in widget/"now playing"/etc)
lock screen music control (similar to default SGS music app?)
I ain't a programmer and wouldn't know where to start with those requests (I tried to muck around with camera.apk from SGS2 to change "self shot" from 2MP down to 0.3MP... I failed and those simili files gave me a headache)
Keep up the good work!
Yup i love this app. If i am not wrong it sayd it will expire on 10july or 30 kuly. one of this 2 dates.
I realy like the interface, but i would apreciate an equalizer.
Here are skins on the market. For those who like the W7 layout Ubermusic had up untill alpha 5, download the Metro UI. It's free.
I hope the final version will support gapless playback. With VoodooSound it already sounds great.
I ran into an interesting article that can pertain to a number of you who want a good music app.
Cyanogenmod 9 music app is available for download. Only for ICS devices
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...-released-for-download-coming-to-market-soon/
Thanks!
Apparently it doesn't support Google Music, which sucks. Can't really see the use in this for me if it doesn't support that. :/
Krijs said:
Apparently it doesn't support Google Music, which sucks. Can't really see the use in this for me if it doesn't support that. :/
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ahhh that sucks, i was wondering about this. thanks for the clarification. although i don't mind the stock player at all.. haven't found any problems with it so far?
flafla said:
ahhh that sucks, i was wondering about this. thanks for the clarification. although i don't mind the stock player at all.. haven't found any problems with it so far?
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My issues with the stock player with google music:
- status bar disappears in Landscape: WHY? Thats so stupid
- Landscape mode is annoying to use, i want a listing of my music, not cover art. It should have view options. I want my landscape artist mode to show this:
| album art | Artist
| album art | Artist 2
But, I cant use a different player, since Google hasn't released APIs for Google Music, so no other player will be able to support it.
I would still recommend MIUI Music over this. Much better UI.
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Don't forget it is in development! This is an early beta I think, many features will probably be added...
CM9 Music Player FC when I start to play Music. What can I do?
(AOKP build 15 + Leankernel)
Is gapless playback working for anyone on Jellybean? I heard it was supposed to work with Google music but there's still gaps in between my songs.
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BLAQK ROXSTAR said:
Is gapless playback working for anyone on Jellybean? I heard it was supposed to work with Google music but there's still gaps in between my songs.
Sent from my Jellybean powered Galaxy Nexus
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From what I've read in the developer docs, gapless playback requires implementing a new feature in apps from the Jellybean SDK. I have a music app that I'll be modifying to use this, within the next month or so. I'm going to wait for the official JB OTA release for my US GSM Galaxy Nexus so I have a stable phone to test it with.
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From what I've read in the developer docs, gapless playback requires implementing a new feature in apps from the Jellybean SDK. I have a music app that I'll be modifying to use this, within the next month or so. I'm going to wait for the official JB OTA release for my US GSM Galaxy Nexus so I have a stable phone to test it with.
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I wanted to follow up on my post above. I was able to implement gapless playback within my music app via the Jelly Bean/4.1 Android SDK. It works wonderfully. It's great to finally be able to listen to _Dark Side of the Moon_ on my phone without gaps!
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I wanted to follow up on my post above. I was able to implement gapless playback within my music app via the Jelly Bean/4.1 Android SDK. It works wonderfully. It's great to finally be able to listen to _Dark Side of the Moon_ on my phone without gaps!
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Mine explaining how you did it? :laugh:
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Mine explaining how you did it? :laugh:
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Most the credit goes to Google for introducing the ability within the Jelly Bean/4.1 SDK.
Android has a MediaPlayer class that takes care of all the underlying needs of media playback. You create an instance of this class and use different method calls to control playback. Prior to Jelly Bean, when the end of a music track was reached, a "completion listener" would be called, where the programmer could set up code to handle loading the next track into the MediaPlayer instance and then start play of this next track. Jelly Bean introduced a setNextMediaPlayer() method. Now, instead of having just one MediaPlayer instance, the programmer can have two. The first one is the "current" player and is the one actively playing a track. The second one is the "next" media player and is prepared with the next track in sequence and is passed to the current player via a call to its setNextMediaPlayer() method. When the current media player reaches the end of the track it is playing, the next media player immediately starts playing the next track. Thus, no gap while the app messes about with loading up the next track in the current player via the completion listener.
The completion listener is still needed to handle updating UI elements, as well as telling the app to swap the roles of the current and next media player instances and load up the next track.
I'd imagine most developers have or will soon be implementing gapless playback, since it's pretty straight-forward now. If you're interested, I just released the updated version of my app that includes gapless playback. It's called Just Playlists and can be found at Google Play.
just FYI, I use PowerAMP, and it does gapless playback great. on Jelly Bean (and it did gapless playback on ICS as well - no problems).
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just FYI, I use PowerAMP, and it does gapless playback great. on Jelly Bean (and it did gapless playback on ICS as well - no problems).
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From what I understand, PowerAMP uses custom media player code rather than the built-in Android MediaPlayer class, so they were able to code in gapless playback from scratch.
Yeah, AFAIK Winamp has gapless playback too, but I want the stock music player to do that. I hate to install another app that does the same that the built-in one.
The same happens with the browser. I only installed Chome because I like the sync feature. Other than that I would stick with the stock browser.
Cheers!
el_charlie said:
Yeah, AFAIK Winamp has gapless playback too, but I want the stock music player to do that. I hate to install another app that does the same that the built-in one.
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Since Google has added gapless playback support to the Jelly Bean SDK, I'd guess that the stock player will eventually support gapless playback when run on a device with Jelly Bean. I'd have thought Google would have added this into the stock player immediately. Hopefully soon.
For what its worth... I've downloaded and played with pretty much every big Media Player on the market in the hunt for perfect Gapless Playback. From my testing I can say that it does not exist!!
The player I found to handle it the best was GONEMAD MUSIC PLAYER. Although there was still a very very slight gap in between songs. Listening to mix albums or Pink floyd albums (as Member was saying above) tend to provide a pretty good test to any 'Gapless' player.
I only hope that JellyBean can solve this!!
MEMBER - I've downloaded your app to give it a go too!
zim_zimmer said:
For what its worth... I've downloaded and played with pretty much every big Media Player on the market in the hunt for perfect Gapless Playback. From my testing I can say that it does not exist!!
The player I found to handle it the best was GONEMAD MUSIC PLAYER. Although there was still a very very slight gap in between songs. Listening to mix albums or Pink floyd albums (as Member was saying above) tend to provide a pretty good test to any 'Gapless' player.
I only hope that JellyBean can solve this!!
MEMBER - I've downloaded your app to give it a go too!
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So far, playback of all my "gapless" albums using my app with the new Jelly Bean code has sounded perfect running on my Galaxy Nexus. I've played through my Pink Floyd collection and have been very pleased that the gaps are gone.
highvista said:
Most the credit goes to Google for introducing the ability within the Jelly Bean/4.1 SDK.
Android has a MediaPlayer class that takes care of all the underlying needs of media playback. You create an instance of this class and use different method calls to control playback. Prior to Jelly Bean, when the end of a music track was reached, a "completion listener" would be called, where the programmer could set up code to handle loading the next track into the MediaPlayer instance and then start play of this next track. Jelly Bean introduced a setNextMediaPlayer() method. Now, instead of having just one MediaPlayer instance, the programmer can have two. The first one is the "current" player and is the one actively playing a track. The second one is the "next" media player and is prepared with the next track in sequence and is passed to the current player via a call to its setNextMediaPlayer() method. When the current media player reaches the end of the track it is playing, the next media player immediately starts playing the next track. Thus, no gap while the app messes about with loading up the next track in the current player via the completion listener.
The completion listener is still needed to handle updating UI elements, as well as telling the app to swap the roles of the current and next media player instances and load up the next track.
I'd imagine most developers have or will soon be implementing gapless playback, since it's pretty straight-forward now. If you're interested, I just released the updated version of my app that includes gapless playback. It's called Just Playlists and can be found at Google Play.
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There is more to gapless playback than just playing one song immediately after the other finishes without waiting for the completion listener for formats like mp3 and aac. This works fine for the natively gapless formats like ogg and flac
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There is more to gapless playback than just playing one song immediately after the other finishes without waiting for the completion listener for formats like mp3 and aac. This works fine for the natively gapless formats like ogg and flac
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That's probably true, but whatever needs to be done to make gapless playback work is being taken care of by the process I describe, when using the setNextMediaPlayer() method. The documentation for the SDK indicates that this is what the new method is for, and it definitely works for the MP3 format, which is the format that I use for my music collection.
Gapless solved (but 1 issue remains)
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...definitely works for the MP3 format...
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Yes, works for my MP3s, and they are encoded VBR (variable bitrate), on my S4 Mini with ver 4.2.2 of Jellybean. Tried lots of other players, none has true gapless playback. Finally, Just Playlists and Just Playlists Plus have solved the gapless issue. This leaves only one other major feature still to be desired but not available in any Android music player: Skinnability
There are music players on Android that let you choose skin style, color, etc. But not one supports skinability via XML coding, yet. (Hopefully, somebody can prove me wrong by pointing to a truely skinable player. Or better yet, Keith Folsom will provide skinnability for JPP's main UI screen?)
Edit: UberMusic appears to have been skinnable for years! (I'll soon find out for sure.)
http://www.ubermusic.com/skinning/
Edit #2: Now I find that Poweramp has gapless playback, is skinnable, and has a currently active forum thread for skinning:
http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/3578-building-skins-quick-start-guide/
Gapless Test results
Did some testing re gapless playback with MP3s on my S4 Mini. Here are results:
The stock Samsung 'Music' player:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
UberMusic Player:
PowerAmp:
Just Playlists:
For details see my report, here:
https://googledrive.com/host/0BywTBh0QvABcQXY2R3pYUGk2cm8
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...player I found to handle it the best was GONEMAD MUSIC PLAYER. Although there was still a very very slight gap
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Quite right. Sorry to have miss'd GMMP in my recent tests. Better late than never; it has now been put to the same test, and has come out better than Poweramp for playing tracks completely with smallest gap. But still, Just Playlists remains the winner for zero gap with slightest cut into a track.
GoneMAD Music Player:
BLAQK ROXSTAR said:
Is gapless playback working for anyone on Jellybean? I heard it was supposed to work with Google music but there's still gaps in between my songs.
Sent from my Jellybean powered Galaxy Nexus
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I have no problem with gapless playback using Player Pro on ShinyROM 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 or any previous AOSP-based ROM.
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I have no problem with gapless playback using Player Pro on ShinyROM 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 or any previous AOSP-based ROM.
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Maybe because you have OGG music files, or AAC with gapless info in ID tags? When I put PlayerPro to the same test as above, the result was a 0.427 second gap with waveform similar to UberMusic. But it was the *trial* version, which had some playback selection choices gray'd out. The gapless checkbox was gray, but it clearly was check'd. I don't know whether this means it functions the same as the paid version and nothing at PlayerPro's website nor on Google Play Store provides any clue re gapless playback or differences between trial vs paid versions.
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Maybe because you have OGG music files, or AAC with gapless info in ID tags? When I put PlayerPro to the same test as above, the result was a 0.427 second gap with waveform similar to UberMusic. But it was the *trial* version, which had some playback selection choices gray'd out. The gapless checkbox was gray, but it clearly was check'd. I don't know whether this means it functions the same as the paid version and nothing at PlayerPro's website nor on Google Play Store provides any clue re gapless playback or differences between trial vs paid versions.
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All of my files (excepting my Amazon auto-rips) are Level 5 Compressed FLACs ripped with dBpoweramp.
I also do not know if there are any differences/shortcomings with the trial version of PalyerPro. Perhaps you can consider purchasing and testing within the 15 minute refund window...
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All of my files (excepting my Amazon auto-rips) are Level 5 Compressed FLACs...
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...works fine for the natively gapless formats like ogg and flac
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Apparently, FLAC is 'natively' gapless. Amazon rips vary widely, some VBR, some CBR, some even go a little way into the following track! Thanks for the 15-min refund idea, didn't know about that. Bought it for keeps anyway, due to the nice way it handles my huge oldies folder, better than any other player for that useful listing.
Got the same result as trial version out of the box as is. Gapless setting was still gray. I figured the DSP pack is necessary. After installing and activating, there was a big improvement. No more clicks, first track no longer getting cut off short, and the gap got reduced.
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In endless search for the best music app around I stumbled upon this kinda new player in this area - GoneMAD Music Player (a.k.a. GMMP)
It supports lots of audio formats and have some cool stuff like gapless playback, replayGain support, crossfade, built in equalizer with 3 quality settings, preamp, DSP limiter with adjustable attack/release (i like this), lots of skins and, have to admit, it has pretty cool sound output and quality.
I'm still testing it but so far i like what i see (and hear) and it's sure worth to try since there is 14-day fully functional trial period.
Bellow is link to the app on GooglePlay and some screenshots.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...esult#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImdvbmVtYWQuZ21tcCJd
Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with autor of this application, i just love to listen music :silly:
kobredabre said:
In endless search for the best music app around I stumbled upon this kinda new player in this area - GoneMAD Music Player (a.k.a. GMMP)
It supports lots of audio formats and have some cool stuff like gapless playback, replayGain support, crossfade, built in equalizer with 3 quality settings, preamp, DSP limiter with adjustable attack/release (i like this), lots of skins and, have to admit, it has pretty cool sound output and quality.
I'm still testing it but so far i like what i see (and hear) and it's sure worth to try since there is 14-day fully functional trial period.
Bellow is link to the app on GooglePlay and some screenshots.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...esult#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImdvbmVtYWQuZ21tcCJd
Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with autor of this application, i just love to listen music :silly:
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Hi, developer here. Feel free to post suggestions / comments over on our forums. Most reasonable requests typically get added in one of the next few updates.
Trivium <3
I have everything in UberMusic w/ wp7 skin and DSP Manager. I don't need more. But this app seems to be good as well.
I really enjoy the Android Music Player JRTStudio
. highly reccommended
Hey,
Most custom cyanogenmod ROM's for our phone uses Apollo music player V1.0. This version lacks some very basic features and the UI is not that good. Apollo V1.1 on the other hand is much better and uses very little phone resources compared to Google play music which is a big plus for our low spec phone. I tried very hard to find the apk but couldn't find it at all anywhere. I eventually found it and so would like it share it with you all....
This is not my app and I take no credit for it. Thank the Cyanogenmod team for this simple but amazing music player.
I am not responsible if any means installing or handling of this apk brick's your phone. Though, its highly unlikely.
I have attached some screenshots for you to look at as well.
Installation
1. Place the attached apk into your phones SD card.
2. Uninstall the existing Apollo V1.0 using any app manager(I use Link2SD)
3. Install the apk from your sd card.
4. As simple as....
Please Hit THANKS if this helped you !
Enjoy !
Isn't this the same thing that was on the playstore few days ago?
I had posted a link a few posts back
omkar9496 said:
Isn't this the same thing that was on the playstore few days ago?
I had posted a link a few posts back
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The music player you posted a link to on the Play store is called 'Omich Player'. Omich player is a mix between Apollo v1.0 and Play music. Whereas, the above apk is for the new pure Apollo music player version 1.1.
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Looks nice, going to try it when I get home. Ill drop you a thanks if it works properly
thx
Power AMP seems to be the best one there is... its simple, highly customizable and its got a really amazing equ.