What's this media server crap - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Can anyone tell me what the heck is killing my battery here what's this media server crap. Heavy use music games and a movie. Stock non rooted.
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This might help
I came across this after seeing your post http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...-draining-my-battery-so-much.html#post2034495
Sounded pretty logical to me

So your having a lot of media served to you, and your wondering what Media Server is and why its consuming your battery?

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[Q] Google Music working for anyone?

Anybody not able to download offline copies to their Inc2 on the latest OTA? I know it's not my WiFi as I've checked to make sure it works. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the application. My phone is not rooted either.
Mines works, but it is on CM7
same here. works for me on cm7
I'm looking for anyone on the stock build specifically for listening to music offline.
I figured it out. You are allowed up to 8 authorized devices to play music from. Since I was flashing/reflashing so many times, I had my old device listed in there. Go into Google Chrome settings and just remove any unwanted devices. Music is now downloading offline for me.
It'd be nice if there was some kind of notification.
Anyone got invites for this or is only google sending out invites?
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Some users will get 2 invites (which I've already used). If you sign up, it shouldn't take too long. I think i got mine within a week or so
Amazons music player destroys googles option. Lock screen controls, eq, more control over offline selection, store, and a lot more stable. Use that if you want a cloud player.
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kingsway8605 said:
Amazons music player destroys googles option. Lock screen controls, eq, more control over offline selection, store, and a lot more stable. Use that if you want a cloud player.
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Agreed, though Google's looks a lot nicer/has more potential
I think Google might take a different strategy more along the lines of streaming similar to Spotify (or at least I hope). Hence, pinning for offlline.
That said, Amazon's has the one big advantage of letting you redownload your music rather than just pin it in a cache.

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?
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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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Cross fade and pause

Like many of you, I am a avid iPhone hater. The iOS software does have one cool feature that would be cool if the devs......thank you for all your hard work btw..... Could bake something into a rom. It is on all apple devices, say you are rocking out to your music with friends and you want to here something on YouTube. Apple software it automatically mutes what you were listening to and starts play the the new audio app you have selected. Just a suggestion, I have very basic programming knowledge so i am not much help, but I think everyone would appreciate this mod.
Thanks,
Well I just played something in double twist, then went to YouTube, and when the video started playing it paused my music, closed YouTube, went back to DT, and hit play. It picked up where I left off.
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Poweramp does this also. Its an awesome little music player.
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Poweramp does this also. Its an awesome little music player.
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Plus 10 it gives you the option to enable/disable
Unfortunately the music apps i use include YouTube, I heart radio, tune in radio, stock music player, and subsonic and that feature does not work with any of those apps. So I guess it's just not a widely popular idea so far.
I know Pandora does this too. It's all about the apps used, not the ROM.
Even youtube leaves off where u where when u switch to another app or press home and return to youtube

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I am currently using google music player.does anyone know where does it saves the playlist. I want to make a backup of that.
I am thinking of buying poweramp. Does it consumes more battery than other music players??
mohaimed said:
I am currently using google music player.does anyone know where does it saves the playlist. I want to make a backup of that.
I am thinking of buying poweramp. Does it consumes more battery than other music players??
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PowerAMP is the best player you'll find for android. Go ahead with your purchase.
Enjoy
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Does it drain more battery thats my question. And does anyone knows wherevdoes google music player stores the playlist?
I don't believe PA uses more battery than Gmusic, but it's possible, although I haven't noticed a difference. I am extremely happy with PA, it sounds better than most other players, and is extremely customizable.
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I am currently using google music player.does anyone know where does it saves the playlist. I want to make a backup of that.
I am thinking of buying poweramp. Does it consumes more battery than other music players??
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I searched for many hours on how to back up playlist you made on your phone and its possible but rather difficult.
Use an app called playlist backup to save new playlist but you can't retrieve the one you made on google play music..at least to my knowledge

S3 as Kodi media player

Hey guys.
As the title says, this phone has been sitting around the house, and I would like to turn it into a media player.
Basically I just want to run Kodi and some emulators on it through mhl.
So I would like to make it as little battery consuming as possible.
So I thought the best thing to do is ask you regular s3 users what do you think is less battery consuming.
Stock or Vanilla.
Also, with the thought in mind that this will only be a media player, any tips and tricks on how to save resources, or any ROM you guys think is better then Stock or Vanilla, or any other input will be appreciated.
Thanks.
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