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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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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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.
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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
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The MIUI Music Player, the lyric syncing has to be my favorite part
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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
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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
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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
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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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.
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.
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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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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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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.
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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
Regarding music player, I just got used to using Google Music on GN, but with GS3, I have come to like Sammy Music Player
I love the Music Square, once I figured the music needed to be on the phone, and I needed to reload the music.
BUt I like to use genres when making playlists. I don't see them. are they there , is there a way to do it
I know there are tons of music players out there. But this gets lots of great reviews, the equalizer works etc
Is there one that MOST people agree is in the top 1 0r 2 Or is this one now one of those
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You can setup your tabs in settings. There's a genre tab in there somewhere.
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You can setup your tabs in settings. There's a genre tab in there somewhere.
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Wow do I feel like a fool
Ill try 2 for 2....for song search, is the only option to drag the slider thru the alphabet?
As far as tagging I see it does that. But album art, how do I get that
I know the other players get it...but
1. Do they keep it? Something I read led me to believe it was just temporary
I am speaking of PowerAmp and PlayerPro. Maybe even WinAmp
All I want is:
Ability to set playlists with genres
Ability to get tags PLUS album art
A decent EQ
Possibly music AND video in one with Video opening full screen
Believe it or not the reviews are right. Samsung did a good job
It can do #1, after u pointed it out.
It can do number 2, waiting on the ART answer
It is said by reviewers to have an awesome EQ
It doesnt play video. But I can use the Video player and It opens FULKY
Doubletwist, Playerpro do not open fully
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Eric.
Can't find this anywhere else, but I'm unable to queue music in the stock music player.
Is this possible, as it is in every other music player I've ever seen?
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Can I get the sammy musci player for cm9?
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Can I get the sammy musci player for cm9?
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Nope. It should depend on the Touchwiz framework to run.
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There's something called "schnellstartliste" in german. If you long press a song you can add it to that. If you select that from playlists, which should be the first entry, it acts as queue. Maybe that's what you are looking for
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There's something called "schnellstartliste" in german. If you long press a song you can add it to that. If you select that from playlists, which should be the first entry, it acts as queue. Maybe that's what you are looking for
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This works for individual tracks, but you can't queue an album in the 'quick list'.
You get the option to add to a list and the 'quick list' isn't an option....
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you can try poweramp theres a trail version on google play store, its pretty good and has loadsa options, used a couple of different players already and i find poweramp to be the best
I'm using 'cubed'. Good music player but not been tested on the s3 yet, hence can't create playlists.
Can queue tracks and albums though, so not too bad.
I just really liked the stock player and am a bit puzzled why you can't queue stuff properly. It's a deal breaker for me.
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I dont have it in front of me...but cant you add to playliist and play NOT random. Can't you drag the song up to where you want it
Like I said, not in front of it, i am trying to recall...my phone is in the mail, Upgraded to the 32gb