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Cool/Useful Apps to Help Pacify Waiting on Froyo

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(VIDEOTONEZ-free)
Tired of traditional ringtones?
VIDEOTONEZ is a video ringtone app. How does it work? Someone calls and a music video clip pops up instead of the traditional ringtone that most of us are used to. Incase you're wondering, while the video/ringtone is playing you are able to view who's calling.
(LOOKOUT SECURITY-free)
This app helps protect any android running device from viruses, malware etc. How does it work? Everytime an app, music, video etc.is downloaded this app will scan to check for potential viruses, malware etc. This app can also give users the option to remotely wipe their device via internet.
(POWER AMP-trial)
This app is for users that use their phones as a music powerhouse. Power Amp is a music player that is more than a music player. It has both desktop and lock screen widgets for easy access to the player. Power Amp has a very powerful equalizer with pre amp. The UI is beautiful.
(ZEAM LAUNCHER-free)
Before I start, yes I'm aware of ADW and Launcher Pro! Unlike the two home launchers, ZEAM LAUNCHER has the least amount of settings but that doesn't mean that it can not/should not compete with the two. ZEAM LAUNCHER is very lightweight, not a memory hog and runs very smooth. I personally love ZEAM LAUNCHER'S UI out of the 2 I've mentioned. Try ZEAM LAUNCHER and be amazed!
(PICSAY PRO-not free)
Have you ever taken pictures with the myTouch Slide while using flash and noticed the evil red eye from hell? I have! PICSAY PRO will not prevent red eye, but it will fix the problem once red eye occurs. PICSAY PRO has many features, its like photoshop on a mobile phone. Ok, maybe not photoshop, but it has a lot of nice functions/options to edit photos.
(TUNE IN RADIO-free)
This app is one of my favorites because I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York, but I currently live in Maryland. I can now listen to NY radio stations without being in NY. How cool is that? If I lost or confused anyone this app is not limited to NY radio. Its global! THIS APP REQUIRES INTERNET/WIFI CONNECTION.
(SOUNDHOUND-free)
This app amazing. Have you ever heard a song on the radio, at the club, in a grocery store, at your grandmothers house, etc. and wanted to know who sings it/what's the name of the song? I know I have! SOUNDHOUND allows the user to find out those same questions. How does it work? Push the SOUNDHOUND button and put your phone near to a speaker
and SOUNDHOUND will locate the Artist name, song title, youtube video, lyrics and where the song/album can be purchased. THIS APP REQUIRES INTERNET/WIFI CONNECTION.
Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom
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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

Music Mod
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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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JaZart said:
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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EQ App

So what's the best app for adding universal graphic equalizer functionality? I usually use Power Amp, but I'm experimenting with Google Music to see if I could live with streaming my music on a Nexus 4. The two things I miss most are my EQ and crossfading. I know there are apps for an EQ, but not sure which is best. Crossfading I'll just have to live without.
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JaylanPHNX said:
So what's the best app for adding universal graphic equalizer functionality? I usually use Power Amp, but I'm experimenting with Google Music to see if I could live with streaming my music on a Nexus 4. The two things I miss most are my EQ and crossfading. I know there are apps for an EQ, but not sure which is best. Crossfading I'll just have to live without.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
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Try miui music player.. its not integrated on the widget but the apk itself shows a graphic eq. http://www.imgur.com/6v3bc.png on top it shows. I picked up 2.3.2 signed and its working on unofficial slim kko12

I'm looking for something that will affect the audio Google Play Music puts out, not another player.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.

Oh, my bad. Try the rezound mod. From what I read its a system wide change.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32707604
This app works system wide, can be found in the play store works wonders.....
Slim bean SG2.....

I little digging around on the Play Store and I've found an awesome universal EQ app. It's simply called Equalizer and it has free and paid versions. It just works. I love it.
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[APP] Poweramp Remote 4 Android Wear

Hello.
Just want to share some very good news - there's ain Play Store called "Poweramp Remote 4 Android Wear", and it works with Moto 360 like a charm. The app is paid, but it finally allows to use Moto 360 to control music as fully as Sony's SmartWatch 2 used to do.
WBR, Draco

first off, FINALLY THANK YOU.
second: few small things to make it perfect:
1. folder list
2. metadata is sometimes off, mostly pictures but sometimes I'll go to an artist and not see a song I know I have...if I find the another way the artist will show as same.
3. browsing on general should mirror poweramp...one of the reasons I will never switch away from poweramp is the way you can browse for a song: folders and artist then album.
there's one more annoyance that no one do anything about though and that's the ever present default notification that comes first when you play music . Once you can get this stuff working this will be as good as the app in SW2...really missed that app

Hi.
I'm not the developer of this app, I've just posted here about it You can contact developer via Play Store. As for the default music notification, it drives me mad also, but apparently there's nothing to be done yet - Android Wear is sort of a parody on the real Android...
WBR, Draco.

I looked at it but have been a supporter of the MusicBoss for Wear app. It can control pretty much any app that controls volume and the dev is responsive to fixes! I have been following the dev since the Kickstarter Pebble. So he is a user as well.

kpjimmy said:
I looked at it but have been a supporter of the MusicBoss for Wear app.
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There is a beta community too.
https://plus.google.com/communities/113365844369548639968

brotbuexe said:
There is a beta community too.
https://plus.google.com/communities/113365844369548639968
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Already there

I have also Music Boss (and on my pebble) but very huge difference, with Music Boss we can not browse Album, Artist, Title, and not setup for equalizer.
For Wear I use Stellio found before the Power Amp app (I have also Power Amp on my phone).

dersie said:
I have also Music Boss (and on my pebble) but very huge difference, with Music Boss we can not browse Album, Artist, Title, and not setup for equalizer.
For Wear I use Stellio found before the Power Amp app (I have also Power Amp on my phone).
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True, but I like to actually see what I am doing there on the phone, which is better to view the settings IMO. I have tried Stellio as well and is ok, but I gravitate back to MB for just playback and volume controls.