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i have been really torn of late as to wether or not to keep my desire over my samsung omnia 7. The killer feature on the omnia is the zune music player and the ability to have an acount and download whatever albums i like etc.
Is there such an app or service that is similar to zune that will give me the same functions. I.e to be able to download whatever music and albums i want to the phone for a set monthly payment.
I know its possible to link my phone to i-tunes etc but then i would have to pay for every album i buy.
suggestions please.
Ps i have downloaded poweramp as my music player and am really happy with that. Just need the means to download my songs to the phone now.
I have also tried to use my zune account with all my music on it and transfer the songs to my desire but due to drm it dosent work. Anyone have a work around for this? If so this could solve the problem as i would stick with my zune account.
thanks
Power Amp. BY FAR!
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yeah i have that and agree its a great music player
i need however suggestions as to a good music service that allows me to download albums etc to my phone and whereby i pay like a monty subscription.
Just skip the monthly fee and use tunee music or music junk.
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I use spotify. It's great!!
by far, power amp is the best mainly coz it has great equalizer setup, but if sync matters more, then double twist is a good option two.
me, i use power amd in tandem with the double twist desktop software. no air sync, but still works great.
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Try Grooveshark
free music whenever wherever.
Power amp! !
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mort player, hands down. not only does it have a good user interface but is heavily customizable and doesn't rely on android to create a file list. for me it was being able to do an A - Z folder list to sort my music bypassing sorting like "genre" and "year".
Best Combo for free music: Transdroid linked to uTorrent. Download the music to a specific media folder on your computer from your phone. Then have Subsonic set up on your PC as well as your phone as a music server. That's what works for me.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/*tunewiki-social-media-player*/com.tunewiki.lyricplayer.android
use tune wiki.
as for your songs on zune just find the path where its downloaded. btw if you want to access your zune libray via my computer, use "Show hidden folders" option.
If you already have a great music collection subsonic is hands down a must have on any android device. I can get any of my 63 gigs of music anywhere in the world. You can either stream it or download songs/albums to your phone. As far as music player I just use stock cm6 (music mod) with dsp settings handling the equalizer. Gets the jib done for me. Doubletwist now has wifi sync as well as winamp. Just play with a bunch of them and decide which works for you
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Poweramp is definitely NOT the best.
PlayerPro is much much much better
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In my opinion, Winamp is teh best. But @ best this is subjective.
Give Winamp, Poweramp, Mort, 3^2 (Cubed) player a try.
These are the "big" music players that I know of.
gingerbread apparently has a pretty sweet music function that allows you to sync with your home pc's music library. Sounds pretty sweet but there's a ton of free music apps out there on the market (most likely legal issues involved) but I just google an mp3 when I want one.
Anyone remember imusic tao before it disappeared? That thing was killer. Sadly I paid for it and it was removed about a month later.
If what your looking for is a subscription music service that you can download to the phone is would try rhapsody. I think it's like 9.99 a month and you can dl any track they have or stream as well. I've had the service for years and I love it.
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Miui music player came out in an apk.. just read it on somesite.. its pretty good. I use that usually (seeing as in running miui rom) but fc lately made me go back to winamp.
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Anyone remember imusic tao before it disappeared? That thing was killer. Sadly I paid for it and it was removed about a month later.
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Didn't it just get renamed to "GTunes Music"? That's the app I use currently and it looks exactly like imusic used to.
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In my opinion, Winamp is teh best. But @ best this is subjective.
Give Winamp, Poweramp, Mort, 3^2 (Cubed) player a try.
These are the "big" music players that I know of.
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I use winamp as well. I have an iTouch for my music though, I just keep what I use for ringtones on my phone. Happy hunting.
Of the market.. its between Winamp or power amp.. I like power amp better because of the equalizer.. but now that I'm running sense on my g2.. I like the stock music player.. so I uninstalled the both I mentioned and I'm using the HTC desire z stock music player really nice...
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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So there are several different music streaming services out there, who in essence have the same music and pricing structure.
What I am asking is which has the best performing app (not service) on Android 4?
My vote is Deezer as I use it daily on my Desire and it is quite good but not perfect.
Rdio looks like a very well developed app, whereas Spotify has several negative reviews.
Opinions?
I love turntable.fm when it works lol.
And I like soundcloud as well.
Normally I use Sony music Unlimited because of the sheer number of albums available unfortunately it isn't available officially for the nexus and the side load crashes.
I've fallen back to Pandora, tune in and rdio
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MortPlayer is free and my new favorite that has more advanced features is PowerAmp
Most of the time I use Google Play Music since I've got over 1k songs already up, and they let you have a max of 20k songs. I can't imagine being able to find 20k songs that I actually like. No syncing across my computer/phone/tablet, just upload the files once into Google Play Music and then stream it anywhere.
The rest of the time I use Pandora.
So is Google Play Music the online store to rival iTunes that is only available in the US? Or is it the Android "Music" app to play local MP3s?
Pandora is interesting but also only in the US...!
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Most of the time I use Google Play Music since I've got over 1k songs already up, and they let you have a max of 20k songs. I can't imagine being able to find 20k songs that I actually like. No syncing across my computer/phone/tablet, just upload the files once into Google Play Music and then stream it anywhere.
The rest of the time I use Pandora.
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Agreed. Our N7 is our first tablet, and first Android device and I immediately liked the 20,000 song storage ability.
Love xda, getting some great ideas from just browsing around here. :good:
bertles86 said:
So is Google Play Music the online store to rival iTunes that is only available in the US? Or is it the Android "Music" app to play local MP3s?
Pandora is interesting but also only in the US...!
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Google Play Music lets you store songs you own, in the "Google Cloud", allowing you to play your songs from your phone/tablet/pc. You literally can upload all your mp3s into it - no questions asked.
You can also play music locally with it. And then the Google Play store also has music you can purchase which is added to your collection.
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Google Play Music lets you store songs you own, in the "Google Cloud", allowing you to play your songs from your phone/tablet/pc. You literally can upload all your mp3s into it - no questions asked.
You can also play music locally with it. And then the Google Play store also has music you can purchase which is added to your collection.
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How do i store music in the cloud? I have like 10 gigs of music on my phone I wanna share at least some with my nexus 7.
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I know Deezer lets you do the same as Play Music. You can upload to the "My MP3s" section of your Deezer account and stream them through the app.
It works quite well, but in Offline Mode obviously only the albums you download are available not any of the My MP3s tracks.
Also one flaw of Deezer is you cannot sync a single track for Offline playback, only full Albums.
My favorites in favorite order:
N7
Google Music
Cubed
Jango
I do own Poweramp, but like N7 better. I find Jango much nicer than Pandora. Cubed is just visually cool. I use Google Music on my PC at work 90% of the day.
edit:: sorry, I missed the "streaming" comment. Therefore GM and Jango only.
For playing music, the answer is simple - Neutron. It is amazing. What's even better is that you can get a special version for Tegra devices. Here's a link:
http://neutronmp.com/downloads.html
You want the NeutronMP_64.apk. If you are an audiophile like me, then you will be in heaven. Grab a good pair of headphones (NuForce is an amazing brand that not many people know about) and enjoy!!
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For playing music, the answer is simple - Neutron. It is amazing. What's even better is that you can get a special version for Tegra devices. Here's a link:
http://neutronmp.com/downloads.html
You want the NeutronMP_64.apk. If you are an audiophile like me, then you will be in heaven. Grab a good pair of headphones (NuForce is an amazing brand that not many people know about) and enjoy!!
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NEUTRONMP is the champion between hundred of music players.
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topolovich said:
For playing music, the answer is simple - Neutron. It is amazing. What's even better is that you can get a special version for Tegra devices. Here's a link:
http://neutronmp.com/downloads.html
You want the NeutronMP_64.apk. If you are an audiophile like me, then you will be in heaven. Grab a good pair of headphones (NuForce is an amazing brand that not many people know about) and enjoy!!
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Can't find the tegra version with the 64 in the file name, there's only a normal and a neon version
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PlayerPro, still the best in my opn.
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How do i store music in the cloud? I have like 10 gigs of music on my phone I wanna share at least some with my nexus 7.
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i think the only way to upload is to install the music manager on your pc. you'll then select the folders you want it to upload.
NeutonMP is awesome for its sound quality , but I hate its interface. I love n7 player interface but their sound quality isnt as awesome as neutonMP.
I'd bought both Poweramp and N7 and switch between them. Using Poweramp more and more. Like the album art display much better, more sound adjustments (not that it matters much on a Nexus 7). N7 starting losing album art (or not finding it), so it's not getting used much.
download utorrent
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Hey all,
I'm looking for some way to sync my GN with iTunes for quite a while now, but I haven't been able to find anything that matches my wishes.
The program must be able to do as following:
Sync regular music / playlists etc. Selectable per song
Sync podcasts. Must be selectable per podcast, not per podcast producer!! [*Note]
No limitations to the amount of music / podcasts synchronized.
Preferably a free program, because I don't know how long I'll be using it for and I don't want to pay a lot for something I barely used.
Now here are some more problems:
For the people who say I should stop using iTunes and use winamp or something similar: Please stop trying to change peoples preferences (advice is always appreciated though). I've tried every possible music player around, but iTunes just is the best when it comes to podcasts and having a lot of playlists. (In my opinion that is)
I'm from the Netherlands, so Google Music unfortunately isn't an option.
If anybody has a suggestion, I'm more then willing to try it out, I'm really frustrated about this by now.
/Tim
[*Note] Hereby I mean I want to be able to select podcasts as following: Podcasts 1, 5 and 6 by producer A. Podcasts 2, 7 and 45 by producer B. I've seen a lot of programs which only enable you to sync the last .... per producer, or the last .... which you haven't listened to yet. I want to be able to select them individually.
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Try Double Twist, certainly does the job for me. But you're gonna have to use the Air sync function for the GNex. It's what I use to sync my playlists and the likes to my phone. Works like it should!
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ShAaShAy said:
Try Double Twist, certainly does the job for me. But you're gonna have to use the Air sync function for the GNex. It's what I use to sync my playlists and the likes to my phone. Works like it should!
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I tried that as well, but the free version of that one also has quite some limitations. If I really had to pay, I'd pick iSync for PC, but I'd rather have a free one of course.
Tim
The only one I own and have really used is pocketcasts. It has a great UI, but is starting to fall behind now that Android 4.2 is out. The devs seem to be saying version 4.0 will be out next year but not sure when.
It lacks for example the notification controls other apps have updated to include with the latest JB update.
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Beyond pod. It has everything pocketcasts has plus notification and Lockscreen controls. I got tired of waiting for them to update pocket casts and moved onto beyond pod a few months ago.
I shouldn't really complain though, as I got pocketcasts during one of those free Amazon app of the day promotions.
BeyondPod.
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I have used Dogcatcher for years now to manage podcasts. Tend to just use Goggle Music to play them though.
DoggCatcher
Beyond pod:
Has backup and import features that work well.
Has a player control feature in notifications.
Loyalty to their longtime support and quality.
Has very customizable hands free Bluetooth controls like: skip forward, skip backward, next podcast, previous podcast.
Can sort podcasts in multiple ways.
Playlist features for managing played, partially played, not played, etc..
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I tested all 3 major Podcast managers - Beyond Pod, Pocket Casts, and Dogg Catcher...
Still haven't really found the right one, I guess I have rather specific requirements for my podcast managers. I use bluetooth most of the time to listen to my podcasts, also, I rarely download them before hand, I always stream.
Beyond Pod - This has issues with bluetooth controls (Pause, Resume, Skip etc). The bluetooth controls work most of the time, but sometimes they fail to register, or there is a really long delay before the podcast resumes. Video playback works well, but if it's paused and the screen goes to sleep, I can't resume the playback using bluetooth.
Pocket Casts - This has a really neat feature where you can switch quickly between audio only and video versions of a podcast, however the dealbreaker for me is how it handles bluetooth. Whenever I try to resume a podcast with bluetooth control, it re-buffers the entire podcast before resuming, which means theres a huge delay where the app is "buffering". Other times, it doesn't even complete the buffering, and just spits out some error.
Dogg Catcher - This works flawlessly with bluetooth controls and audio podcasts. Video playback pause & resume has the same issue as Beyond Pod, where I'm unable to resume after the screen has gone to sleep.
For now, I'm using Dogg Catcher until I find another manager.
BeyondPod, its just amazing
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At the moment I'm using Volksempfänger and Antennapod, they both have quite similair features. They are both lacking some features as well, but they're still in beta and getting new functions and improvements regularly.
I use Onecast and is pretty good. It allows for backups of podcasts and has a really nice interface. No lockscreen controls though.
Doggcatcher, but I only use it for Audio.
PocketCast use only for audio and love it
I have purchased the pro versions of the main three. BeyondPod without a doubt. 1 Tasker Integration, 2 individual speeds for each feed. These are things that the other two do not have, all other features are basically the same on each of them.
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I use doggcather. Have just gotten my n4 and the export / import was smooth.
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Another vote for BeyondPod. I'm basing this opinion on the full version, not the lite version.
Has ability to update based on schedule. extremely customizable and lots of options. I would give it a try, you probably won't need to try another other podcast manager.
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Another vote for BeyondPod. I'm basing this opinion on the full version, not the lite version.
Has ability to update based on schedule. extremely customizable and lots of options. I would give it a try, you probably won't need to try another other podcast manager.
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+1 For Beyond Pod! Definitely worthy of $$
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I'm with the crowd that BeyondPod is one the most complete on android, though still behind Instacast on iOS
I own a few of these as I posted before. I always go back to pocketcasts.. funny, after reading these posts I actually went and tried beyond again and still i had to go back.
I listen to many every day so this is an important app to me. That is why i ended up buying them all until I settled finally with this one. It is simple but also dies things I want like auto update/ download.. etc.
I also use tuneitpro but mainly just to listen to live radio shows.
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Jess813 said:
PocketCast use only for audio and love it
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Works well for video too...
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I use Doggcatcher as well. I only use it for audio. It does everything I need it do including comprehensive download and connection rules. I wish it had better lockscreen controls though instead of using the default lockscreen.
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BeyondPod for sure. Antennapod is the next runner up.