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Favorite Music App?

Just starting a 'entertaining' thread as we wait the last few days for froyo .
I'm currently useing PowerAmp's music player and love it. My favorite feature by far..little weird.. but is when I unplug my headset it instantly pauses.. and waits in the background for anything to plug back into the headphone jack. It plays back up..awesome for quickness.
Was just curious as to what you all use; and some 'unique' feature they may have.
Doh..I'm a little slow tonight; posted in this in the wrong section. Mind helping me with a move mods? Sorry!

Love PowerAmp. Two features that no other player has: view music by folder, and an equalizer. Hands down best player.

The MIUI Music Player, the lyric syncing has to be my favorite part
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862056

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Project Legacy said:
The MIUI Music Player, the lyric syncing has to be my favorite part
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862056
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^I stamp that. MIUI is definitely THE Best -- to me.

Player Pro is an awesome music app
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power amp ftw....

PowerAmp hands down

Im on stock 2.2 player. The 5.1 feature just makes my music sound so much better.
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I'm also all about PowerAmp and would 10 star it if I could
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MIUI Music Player. It is simply amazing.

i've tried alot of music players, and i'm kind of a music snob, so they all piss me off.
but my regular music app is mixzing.
meridian has great features but i don't like the ui.
native 2.2 is actually better than most, but it pulls songs into the library from non-my-media folders. one minute: bob dylan. next minute: damn ringtone.
i'm looking forward to trying poweramp, since so many people here like it.

The samsung music player for 2.2 is the best! Disc view is cool. Music controls in notification bar is the best feauture.
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I enjoy Winamp's android app. It's pretty nifty.

I'm using a player called "3". I've used them all, this is great. Easiest playlist generation, it looks great, and the lock screen feature makes life easy.
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I love the 2.2 music player.
Awesome sound effects, controls in the status bar, visualizations, ability to searcha single song to play, and it will continue to play songs from the directory where all the songs are kept. Stays loaded in memory, doesn't stutter.
As far as aftermarket, winamp is great.
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That stock 2.2 player, you can have it pull songs from specific folder (;
Just change the option in category view
readermo said:
i've tried alot of music players, and i'm kind of a music snob, so they all piss me off.
but my regular music app is mixzing.
meridian has great features but i don't like the ui.
native 2.2 is actually better than most, but it pulls songs into the library from non-my-media folders. one minute: bob dylan. next minute: damn ringtone.
i'm looking forward to trying poweramp, since so many people here like it.
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I feel like I've tried every one on the market.
The 3 features "dream" features, which I can't find together in a single player are:
Gesture fast forwarding & rewinding (Meridian),
"Recently Added" playlist (Meridian and Stock 2.2)
Bookmarking for multiple tracks (a few, but best is Astro Player).
I listen to mostly podcasts, and I'm using Astro Player now, but the UI is excruciating to use.. counterintuitive menus, super pita. But it bookmarks all of my podcasts really well... open to recommendations

readermo said:
native 2.2 is actually better than most, but it pulls songs into the library from non-my-media folders. one minute: bob dylan. next minute: damn ringtone.
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Create a file called ".nomedia" in the directories where you your ringtones and other non-music files are and the media scanner will overlook them, thus preventing your ringtones from showing up in your music library.

audio player with EQ is sooooo sick with the S9-hd bluetooth headphones. you set the 32 herts all the way up and put the 64,125,250 hertz all the way down. then you up the 1k hertz one bar up and then the 8k hertz 4 bars up and the 16k hertz 3 bars up. it sounds like your in a suv with low end punching subs with warm mid range.
you can use any headphones but it has to be noise canceling ear buds

Best Music App??

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.

Royalknight6190 said:
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?

ScottBroker said:
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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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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Changes in the JellyBean music app

I'm a big fan on Google music mainly because of the streaming features, and I wouldn't call myself an audiophile, just someone who loves to listen to music. I used to love the style of the app in ICS, but I know many didn't, for understandable reasons.
With the update to JellyBean some of you may have noticed a change in the styling of the app. The orgainization is different, with the recent having large album art (image below), playlists being left of that (which I love, since I mostly go there anyways) and back controls on the now playing bar at the bottom. Also, the now playing screen now has a different layout with a shortcut to the list of songs now playing (while before you wouldn't see this at all). This is actually where the problem is.
Try it out yourself. If you have two different playlists, play one and then play the other. Afterwards when you press the now playing button it should show the current songs from the second playlist now right? Wrong. Now this list shows both playlists in the list and anything else you have played since updating the app (see the second and then third image). To remove them you have to select menu then clear queue.
Say you have a playlist in a particular order that you like, so you don't use shuffle (maybe it's a new album where each song transitions into the next). If you have shuffle currently in the now playing then too bad. The only way to get it to work is to go to now playing, deselect shuffle, and then select the playlist.
On the plus side however, if you do use shuffle, and deselect and reselect it from the now playing tab, then the list will show you the order of the new shuffle and will keep the order of the songs you have already played instead of shuffling everything.
So in my opinion it's some good and some bad. What do you guys think? Have you noticed anything else different?

Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.

Yes, but the UI in Music is much better, and I really like the album art previews upon opening.

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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I thought this was one of the bullet points for Jelly Bean. That's rather disappointing...

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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Right? I understand if it may not be gapless when you're streaming, but at least it should be for things that are pinned.
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Yes, but the UI in Music is much better, and I really like the album art previews upon opening.
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I agree that the UI is a bit cleaner and better oriented for the multiple tabs, I just don't like the design of the now playing. It bothers me that when the additional items (shuffle, repeat etc) disappear you now have this progress bar and media buttons that seem cramped together. They still work but it kind of seems like a waste of space. Also the menu button/action bar is consistently at the top now, a feature that everyone complained about in ICS. I think the only app that has menu at the bottom now is Gmail, which has it in two places, neither of which are the top.

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I thought this was one of the bullet points for Jelly Bean. That's rather disappointing...
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Jelly Bean has a new API that should enable gapless playback, but the Music app doesn't appear to use it so far.

I miss being able to access other songs from the album or artist from the Now Playing screen, but overall like the new ui.
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While streaming to a bluetooh speaker you can now change between phone speaker/headphones and the Bluetooth device without actually turning Bluetooth off and I love that
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I miss being able to access other songs from the album or artist from the Now Playing screen, but overall like the new ui.
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I didn't even remember that! It actually came in handy for navigating, whenever I decided I was feeling like listening to more of an artist. Shame. Good point out.
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While streaming to a bluetooh speaker you can now change between phone speaker/headphones and the Bluetooth device without actually turning Bluetooth off and I love that
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Also a good point. I don't use bluetooth but I can imagine this as a great feature, given that we don't have quick toggles (but let's not get into that topic ).
It seems to me that Google is getting to that "It just works" period. Love it.

I don't like the update.
I liked the way before, when a song is playing, I can tap the screen, it'll "shrink" the cover-art and then I can tap the artist name or album name to view their songs/albums.
Much easier than tapping the little thing on the top right which shows the current playlist.
I like to play all songs in shuffle, but when I hear something I like, I like to tap the artist then quickly play one of their albums, harder to do it now.

Two more quick things: there now a thumbs up playlist, and there's actual album art for each playlist, made from a combination of the album arts of songs in said playlist.

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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this is why I use PowerAmp, gapless works fantastically there.

I would rather that the app prompts me to create a playlist than generate one automatically every time I select a single song from an album.
The UI is a bit nicer to look at, but auto-generated playlists are terrible.

earlyberd said:
I would rather that the app prompts me to create a playlist than generate one automatically every time I select a single song from an album.
The UI is a bit nicer to look at, but auto-generated playlists are terrible.
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Well it's not auto generating playlists. When you select a single song from an album it adds the rest songs in that album to the playlist. If you have shuffle enabled then they're shuffled as well, but if not then it starts the playlist in the position of the song in that album. If you select a song from the songs section then the playlist is all of the songs you have.
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I miss being able to access other songs from the album or artist from the Now Playing screen, but overall like the new ui.
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I don't like the update.
I liked the way before, when a song is playing, I can tap the screen, it'll "shrink" the cover-art and then I can tap the artist name or album name to view their songs/albums.
Much easier than tapping the little thing on the top right which shows the current playlist.
I like to play all songs in shuffle, but when I hear something I like, I like to tap the artist then quickly play one of their albums, harder to do it now.
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But it is still possible though. Just in case anyone doesn't know, you select the playlist tab in the now playing screen, press the more options tab on the song and select more by artist. Like above said, though. It's a bit more effort.

Does this update display album art at better quality? The one on the Play Store now still pixelates some of my decent quality (400x400) album art. This is one of the main reasons I've stayed away from Google Music.

Can you finally choose which songs you'd like to "Make available offline" instead of choose the whole album?
And can you can delete specific songs from cache ?

SaharLevi said:
Can you finally choose which songs you'd like to "Make available offline" instead of choose the whole album?
And can you can delete specific songs from cache ?
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No and no.

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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Apple may sue you LOL
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nxt said:
No and no.
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Damn it!
*flipping the table*

MoosDiagramm said:
Still no gapless playback.
I'm very disappointed with the music playback capabilities of Android, even iPods offer gapless playback since ~6 years.
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I used to use Power Amp so I'm used to it but now I use Google Music exclusively and with 4G on its the closest to gapless than it has ever been.
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Music Player with a2dp, id3 tag, and folder selection support

On the hunt for a music player if it exists, as far as I know only the stock music app and play music appear to show support for the id3 tags streaming via Bluetooth.
Now the only app I've really come across with good folder selection is still poweramp, but it appears poweramp doesn't play too well with a2dp as it takes a a few button fidgets to get the player to start playing when connected to Bluetooth.
So at the moment it's trading one feature for the other, id3 tags and somewhat normal music streaming with the stock players, but no folder support so I'm playing everything on my phone, ringtones, notification sounds and music.
Poweramp works well if I'm just using headphones as I can select just my music folder on my extsd. But the lack in id3 tags and initialization of music through a2dp are horrible, but not unbearable.
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Going to try UberMusic today as I completely forgot about it until I saw it's awesome ui again.
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Mort Player should be the best bet. The close second is winamp (it costs you to have folder function).

Thanks I'm going to look into that as I've been using PowerAmp and realized it has the selective folder function but still no bt id3 tags.
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Is there any third party music app that supports playing your google play music files?

Poweramp shows tags over Bluetooth just fine on my Pioneer deck.
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dzson said:
Is there any third party music app that supports playing your google play music files?
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Google play music lol.
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Poweramp shows tags over Bluetooth just fine on my Pioneer deck.
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Yep, after the update they're supporting it. Found 'the' player. Nice ui and does everything I need. And comes with an eq.
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try player pro. It can display id3 embedded album art.

Yep, after the update they're supporting it. Found 'the' player. Nice ui and does everything I need. And comes with an eq.
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I read this post and now i'm curious. I have a new Alpine car deck with bluetooth. My android 4.1 play's well with the stock app but with poweramp there is no id3 tags.
what Poweramp version do you use ?

Hello all, i was about to start a similar thread on another subforum...
I am looking for a player capable of almost everything you discussed here.
i have tried several but none has came close to what i need :
- Play mp4 (as video or audio -> vlc play it)
- Edit tags directly on the app (comments field in particular)
- display name of the artist - song name on the video during the playback (i am surprise how almost every player only show song name)
- SD Card
- If possible be able to continue to play even if close the book cover of my galaxy tab s
- good bluetooth integration
i can do without the last two but the others are really needed.
thanks for the heads up

DJCarlos said:
Hello all, i was about to start a similar thread on another subforum...
I am looking for a player capable of almost everything you discussed here.
i have tried several but none has came close to what i need :
- Play mp4 (as video or audio -> vlc play it)
- Edit tags directly on the app (comments field in particular)
- display name of the artist - song name on the video during the playback (i am surprise how almost every player only show song name)
- SD Card
- If possible be able to continue to play even if close the book cover of my galaxy tab s
- good bluetooth integration
i can do without the last two but the others are really needed.
thanks for the heads up
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I use poweramp. I'm not 100% sure but I think it does everything you asked for
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Shack70 said:
I use poweramp. I'm not 100% sure but I think it does everything you asked for
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Hi Shack !
sorry i realise that since 2012 i forgot to say thank you ! for the reply and the advice.
everything was great.
better late, then ever

DJCarlos said:
Hi Shack !
sorry i realise that since 2012 i forgot to say thank you ! for the reply and the advice.
everything was great.
better late, then ever
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No problem, glad it worked
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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.

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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.

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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.