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[Q] last.fm alternative?

i'm bummed that they are now charging for last.fm.. i use it pretty much every day. Pandora sucks...
So, does anyone know of any good alternatives? otherwise i may actually consider paying for the service....

killa cam said:
i'm bummed that they are now charging for last.fm.. i use it pretty much every day. Pandora sucks...
So, does anyone know of any good alternatives? otherwise i may actually consider paying for the service....
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have you tried slacker?

I'm playing with it now... its weird, different. Their top stations are awful but I created a new station that was playing my kind of music.
The thing I loved about lastfm was their vast selection of music. They even knew about this local garage band around me. I guess time will tell if slacker is good, but I'm open to more suggestions
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killa cam said:
I'm playing with it now... its weird, different. Their top stations are awful but I created a new station that was playing my kind of music.
The thing I loved about lastfm was their vast selection of music. They even knew about this local garage band around me. I guess time will tell if slacker is good, but I'm open to more suggestions
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My favorite music app over and above all else is now AudioGalaxy. Check it out. It streams all the music from your home computer without you having to sync.

i like GrooveShark. its not free, but at 3usd a month, its not going to bankrupt me. you can cancel it anytime too, and you get to use playlists from other people(check out reddit, grooveshark playlists). you can see these on your computer and your phone, and mark favorites from them.
i'd check out the free version on your PC first, everything it can do, so can the mobile client.

EdKeys said:
My favorite music app over and above all else is now AudioGalaxy. Check it out. It streams all the music from your home computer without you having to sync.
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HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?
setting up when I get home today... wow, this would be my savior. I keep having to add/delete cds off of my sd card, this sounds like a much better solution.

EdKeys said:
My favorite music app over and above all else is now AudioGalaxy. Check it out. It streams all the music from your home computer without you having to sync.
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Thanks for the info. This is great.
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Audio galaxy is alright, just don't like that your computer must be on in order for it to play
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pmcqueen said:
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?
setting up when I get home today... wow, this would be my savior. I keep having to add/delete cds off of my sd card, this sounds like a much better solution.
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Saved me from buying a new sd card.
trsanning said:
Thanks for the info. This is great.
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I know...I like the interface...the album covers show too!
texotic said:
Audio galaxy is alright, just don't like that your computer must be on in order for it to play
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My computer (I've had several) has been on constantly for the last 15 years...lol

EdKeys said:
My computer (I've had several) has been on constantly for the last 15 years...lol
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same.
already in love with audiogalaxy. I was looking for something along these lines forever and had no idea it existed. THANK YOU for replying in this thread!

EdKeys said:
My favorite music app over and above all else is now AudioGalaxy. Check it out. It streams all the music from your home computer without you having to sync.
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Just set up audio galaxy and WOW! This is awesome! All (ridiculous amounts) gigs of my music available and runs flawless on even the edge network. I love it! Thanks! I hit the thanks button too!

trsanning said:
Thanks for the info. This is great.
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pmcqueen said:
same.
already in love with audiogalaxy. I was looking for something along these lines forever and had no idea it existed. THANK YOU for replying in this thread!
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jayb222 said:
Just set up audio galaxy and WOW! This is awesome! All (ridiculous amounts) gigs of my music available and runs flawless on even the edge network. I love it! Thanks! I hit the thanks button too!
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I used Titanium backup to remove the stock music player and now my lockscreen music controls on CM7 and my headset music buttons work for AudioGalaxy without firing up another player. That used to happen to me. Sometimes I'd have 2 players play at the same time. Since AG is really the only mp3 player I need I uninstalled the other ones.

Another alternative is Grooveshark.

chobie said:
Another alternative is Grooveshark.
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While I personally love grooveshark and pay for it to use the android app, the fact that such payment is required makes this a less than likeable alternative for many who are seeking something free like lastfm used to be.
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[Q] Video Out?

Is it possible to have video out? So I could either Wired or Wirelessly send my phone display to my TV/PC Monitor/Display etc?
I'm going to guess this is a no but would be something I would love to be able to do!

I would like to know to I sold my EVO and then a few weeks later I got a huge flat screen lol sucks right. But I got the g2 and still would like to get something now but not sure if its possible.
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you can stream wirelessly via DLNA with the Vision. check Twonky out on the market.
whatever you're streaming to must be DLNA compliant, if it needed saying.

Ill take a look at it! Thank you
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I tried to look that app up in the market and all I get is some bubble app that's has something to do with linn and ds stuff but it only mentions twonka as a weblink or something is there a direct sit that we could go to maybe to see what its about?
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i tried an app called imediashare and i was able to watch my vids on my ps3.
for some reason the Connected Media app does not find my ps3 i was hoping i dont have to download anything

prittyboy203 said:
I tried to look that app up in the market and all I get is some bubble app that's has something to do with linn and ds stuff but it only mentions twonka as a weblink or something is there a direct sit that we could go to maybe to see what its about?
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Here you go.
also, if you want a nice resource on how to use DLNA, their website is pretty helpful at explaining what it is and how to use it.
I am not a twonky spokesperson, in fact I don't even use it anymore, but when I was doing DLNA streaming, it was my fav. there are others out there, just do some googling for android DLNA apps.
happy streaming!

Oh sweet thanks for the help about to look at the links right now
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Youtube issue

I use my phone as a mp3 player but some songs I like to listen to off of youtube. I can't when I get the song and hit the lock it pauses the song. I don't know if there is a way around this or if it is the rom. I am running darkside everything. 2.4 that is posted. Please help thank you.

Omnicide said:
I use my phone as a mp3 player but some songs I like to listen to off of youtube. I can't when I get the song and hit the lock it pauses the song. I don't know if there is a way around this or if it is the rom. I am running darkside everything. 2.4 that is posted. Please help thank you.
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Every phone stops youtube when locked.
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My droid stock didn't thats what I use before I got galaxy.

Seems like that would waste alot of bandwidth. Why not just download the songs
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Then that would be a bug in the Droid. All android phones are programmed to stop playing YouTube when locked aas far as I know. (I'm 99% sure)
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curry67 said:
Seems like that would waste alot of bandwidth. Why not just download the songs
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Well because i'll by a cd but I never seen the point in just one song. I might just be weird. lol also seens my iphone I don't even know where I could buy music now.
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Then that would be a bug in the Droid. All android phones are programmed to stop playing YouTube when locked aas far as I know. (I'm 99% sure)
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Well guess I was just lucky but thanks for the info.

Use torrents
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curry67 said:
Use torrents
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The only torrent I ever used was supernova.com or something like that. once that closed out I never found one I trusted to use. Do you know any?

yeah isohunt and piratesbay work pretty good. You can even download single songs just download the torrent for the artists whole album and just select whatever song you like and click off the ones you dont want
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If u stream music and don't mind the data usage, use food's music streamer from market. U can search and play pretty much any any song u can think of. Tuneun Radio is also good. Both these apps play with screen off/lock

Thank you ill give this a shot

This might work. Haven't tried it myself
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rd.youaud
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icenight89 said:
If u stream music and don't mind the data usage, use food's music streamer from market. U can search and play pretty much any any song u can think of. Tuneun Radio is also good. Both these apps play with screen off/lock
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https://play.google.com/store/search?q=dood&c=apps
doods is pretty kool.

Heres a sweet torrent app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilityflow.torrent
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Vids/pics/music on XBOX

Surprised no one has talked about this at all. Anyway, happened to be watching Netflix on my XBOX last night, and while doing so, was checking out some pictures on my phone. Saw a button I never seen before that kind of looked like a little computer screen with 3 lines kind of going through it. I guess it said something like "view on another player". This apparently being the first time I was using my S3 and XBOX at the same time. So I press the button, and it stops my movie, and shows my picture on my TV!
Did some fooling around. As long as I'm using a stock music, video, or gallery app, and the file is on the phone itself, it will stream through my XBOX at the touch of a button. The free Avengers movie in Media Hub didn't work, Netflix didn't work. USB transferred an episode of Hell on Wheels over to the phone, it asked if I wanted to convert it to assure it would work on the phone and said yes, tried it out and it worked pretty good. I can only imagine how nice it would have looked if I hadn't converted it, going to try later and see.
Was just curious if anyone else has used this feature at all? Seems pretty cool to me.

I think that's DLNA.

What tv do u have?
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RotaryXperiment7 said:
What tv do u have?
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The TV has nothing to do with it, it's going through my XBOX. It was just crazy to me because I've never been able to link my XBOX and computer properly, and I can see my computer in the gallery app sometimes but I can never see any files. I did happen to start a test on my battery while having basically everything running and all options available, so I have activated some options I normally don't use. I think one night I tried messing with the settings on my XBOX to get it to show my phone since it comes up on my roomie's PS3 although I've never tried using this feature on that before. Since I don't use my XBOX a whole lot lately, and I imagine it's possible others don't use it at the same time, I thought I'd mention it.
aNYthing, is that exactly what DLNA is? because, if so, there's a lot of people going and buying that allshare hub thing that wouldn't need to if they have an XBOX or PS3. Obviously Samsung is not going to promote that! I don't have the DLNA share option being used so it never occurred to me that it could be using it. I guess I assumed DLNA was something that was used to go directly to the TV, which in my case, is not what's happening, and definitely not possible.

Where was that monitor icon? On Xbox or phone?
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RotaryXperiment7 said:
Where was that monitor icon? On Xbox or phone?
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on the phone. XBOX was already playing a Netflix movie. Pressed it and it stopped the movie I was watching, and a few seconds later, it appeared on my TV. Swiped to another pic, and IT popped up. Watched a short video I took the other day, it looked GREAT! As I said, I'm not really sure what I changed or if I established a link between my S3 and XBOX before or not but hey, it was pretty damn cool to me, lol.

Try serviio on your computer and enjoy videos on your computer through Xbox and on your phone. I've been using it for years
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Yeah bro I use this feature a lot since I can't shell out the cash for the special mhl adapter. I watch videos play music and view slide shows on my xbox and hdtv through dlna.
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i have heard that ps3 media server works on xbox and you can do .mkv over it, also recently TVERSITY has been updated to supposedly do .mkv but I am yet to try it

It'll work on any dlna enabled device like my bravia tv
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Any setting I have to activate on my phone? Couldn't get it to work last night.
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No whatever device your trying to connect to must be on the same network as your phone.
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Doesnt the end device have to be codec compatible ?
I had issues with video stuttering or simply not playing on my Viera.
Have not tried my xbox but I will.

No it just streams it. If it stutters it might be ur connection or ur tv.
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xManMythLegend said:
Doesnt the end device have to be codec compatible ?
I had issues with video stuttering or simply not playing on my Viera.
Have not tried my xbox but I will.
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works great on my xbox. i'm sure the file has to be compatible but you probably won't get the other viewer option if it's not anyway.
My main purpose of this post was to find other people using the same feature and if they have any tips such as, what files will work for this or what apps can use it, etc.

had no idea i could do this until i saw this thread. thank you!

You have to be connected to the same Wi-Fi and it will work.
Or you can yes double twist and it does the same thing.
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tony yayo said:
works great on my xbox. i'm sure the file has to be compatible but you probably won't get the other viewer option if it's not anyway.
My main purpose of this post was to find other people using the same feature and if they have any tips such as, what files will work for this or what apps can use it, etc.
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I made a tut on how to do this on the PS3 but it didn't seem too many people were interested in it. Simple though get a video converter and convert the movies to mp4 standard and don't let the phone convert it on transfer leave it the way it is and it will work no matter what, the phone sends everything by means of media player so any device that allows media server wifi conection will play from this device.
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I use twonky plays perfect 1080p videos from my gs3
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has anyone tried wifi tethering to the device and seeing if it plays that way

streaming to Xbox360 UPnP apps

I have run into an frustrating issue as of late regarding streaming music from my s3 through my xbox using the built in music player. What is happening is the music player will randomly pause while streaming, requiring me to press the play button to get it going again. This is not being caused by incoming messages or calls. I don't have voice enabled. Keep wifi on is also enabled.
Strong wifi signal through entire home. Running frosty Jb v7.
If it's a player issue whats the best alternative? I tried a few from the play store 2player, bubble UPnp, poweramp , winamp. They either have ****ty interfaces or act just as wonky.
Maybe I am just not understanding the tech of it. I turn the xbox, tv and stereo on. Then push the icon on my music player(see attached photo) and it starts streaming through the xbox. I thought it was pretty slick until it started acting up on me.

I'm getting the same thing. Happens more often when I put the phone on shuffle.
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mt3g said:
I'm getting the same thing. Happens more often when I put the phone on shuffle.
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Possibly a custom kernel issue? No idea, just a thought. I know they can cause things to not work properly sometimes.

Was on stock. Good thought though.
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I tried bubble UPnP for a while.. didnt like the interface to begin with.. I want to go to artist then sort through various albums. It did work however until the program itself began freezing up and not retrieving my files. So that was a no go.

I am stock. Am I able to stream music as well? Or do I need a particular rom ...Assuming you guys figure this out.
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MikeJennni said:
I am stock. Am I able to stream music as well? Or do I need a particular rom ...Assuming you guys figure this out.
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Can be done on stock as well. Its a built in feature, just need to have a wireless(wifi) capable tv, xbox, or ps3 (maybe some thing else like adapters) pretty sure anything DLNA capable. And phone and Device need to be on same wifi.
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How are you guys are to do this?
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adracup said:
How are you guys are to do this?
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+1
Enlighten please
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MikeJennni said:
I am stock. Am I able to stream music as well? Or do I need a particular rom ...Assuming you guys figure this out.
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I did it on stock very easy. If you have Xbox, as long as it's on, your good. If you are watching Netflix, it will stop what you are watching. You have to use a stock samsung app. I just go through my gallery, find a pic or a movie, choose it, and there is an option which looks like a monitor with a couple of hornizontal arrows going through it. This doesn't work for streaming something on a website or whatever. If it is a file already saved to your phone it will work. All you have to do is go to the picture, or start playing the video, tap the screen and on the top you will find that different icon. Again, you have to have your Xbox ON or it won't show the icon. For Xbox it is cool because you could start watching the video or pic on your phone and want to say to everyone, HEY< WATCH THIS! and with one click it goes.
You can also connect it to work with PS3 but it only works as a media server. Meaning, with Xbox, you can decide, hey, I want to watch this on the Xbox now! With PS3, you have to search for the file and THEN, play it. It's not such an immediate action.