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Best music player for TP2

So which one do u choose ?
CorePlayer
Nitrogen player
Windows media player
TF3D music player
or others?
Plz post your reasons too

so? 90 views and no answers

i'm using pocket player . it works great
and i'm using it with jabra stereo blutooth headset.

TF3D music player
I've been using the TF3D music player on my tp2 for about a month now and it seems to be doing all that i need from it.
Simple to use and good quality output as well. Can't say much about other music players as I haven't used any recently.

in order to get as much music on my phone as possible i am using aac compressed audio (with SBR). This format provides 128kbit/s-mp3-quality at 48kbit/s (at least to my ears).
The only players that i know supporting this format are WMP and TCPMP. As TCPMP does software decoding the device gets slow during playback. WMP seems to have something like hardware acceleration for aac. therefore i am using WMP (with another skin as the default one is not very finger friendly).

thanks yeah i like the TF3D default myself too Nitrogen is good but i think the volume is a little low compared to TF3D player,i use coreplayer for movies and TF3D for musics,just wanted to know other opinions

while the htc audio manager is nice, NITROGEN is now my player of choice despite minor bugs.

WMP works well for me. Don't like the skin but I have downloaded an HTC-like theme so it is all good.

pocket player too
wide variety of audio format support (4.x supports aac), AVRCP support, plugin to add pitch adjustment

Power Problems
Mesquire said:
while the htc audio manager is nice, NITROGEN is now my player of choice despite minor bugs.
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How did you get the player to play in power saving mode. with the screen off. Whenever I do this it stops the music, and some times, even unloads my memory card.
This has been my biggest bain and major issue with my tmobile tp2. I have tried Mortplayer and Nitrogen, the best IMHO and have had the same issue. I have tried different searches to enable the device to let the music play while the screen is off and none have worked. I am going to try S2P. My only gripe witht that program is that it does not play all file formats.
Oh well...

Coreplayer.
Has EQ, bass boost and pre-amp options and also is the best video player.

juliangun4ev said:
i'm using pocket player . it works great
and i'm using it with jabra stereo blutooth headset.
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yeah,Pocket Music Player is the thing,it can auto power off and power on,holy ****,which else can be as nice as this one?

+1 for Pocket Player.
My reasons: AVRCP support (a must have feature for me), wide format support (many free players don't support wma, which is a deal breaker for me), equalizer, gapless playback(!), quite finger friendly (some buttons are rather small on the default skin, but it has kinetic scrolling etc.)...
Video support is a bit lacking, but then again I only use it for audio.

I use Pocket Player as well, mostly because it works well for both music and audio books. I am frustrated with whatever method it uses for shuffle, though. I've had 6 different songs play 2-4 times in 4 hours. I have nearly 1000 songs and 66 hours of music! Seems like I should not be getting that kind of repetition.

Pocket Player problems with playing large MP3 files...
One thing guys - and anyone who uses Pocket Player on the TP2 may have seen this... I listen to a lot of voice audio. I prefer to combine the files for audio and can sometimes have long audio files of 300 megs all the way to 1.2 gigs (I use a 16 gig storage card).
The problem i have seen is that sometimes the control that shows where you are in the audio file goes haywire and slides from the correct position all the way to the right - making the bookmarking feature fail and impossible to navigate. Additionally it appears Pocket Player somehow miscalculates the size and length of the audio - but it originally has the size and length correct - this only happens after a certain point (for me it seems after about 240 minutes or so - about 4 hours in).
WHat is so strange is this does NOT happen for all audio files on this device. Some of the large files seem to play fine without problem. Additionally when I compare this to another TP2 that has an installation of the competitor program Pocket Music, this does NOT happen. Also this never happenedon our original HTC Mogul from Sprint.
The problem is we need the AVRCP controls and we all know that Conduits is the only company that has addressed this. It's also pathetic that HTC themselves has continued down this path and refuses to even comment on this issue.
2 questions to this wonderful community of genius people who take it upon themselves to fix what should have been included in the first place:
1. Has anyone seen a hack / mod that will fix the AVRCP controls so that programs like Pocket Music and other players can be used via Bluetooth remote controls?
2. Has anyone seen this specific issue with Pocket Player (which has that beautiful speed plugin that does not alter pitch - love that) and if so - is there a fix or workaround for large files 'breaking' in the middle of playing so that you can no longer save your position or know the correct position of the player in the middle of the MP3 being played?
Thanks in advance to all of you who have any suggestions on either issue.

I'm using Kinoma Play, though mainly for its integration with Orb and video abilities.
For music it supports album art, but only has bass and treble adjustments, not an equalizer.
There is a Kinoma Free you can try.

I am searching for the perfect player and have been testing several of them to see how they work. In addition to some of the normal music player requirements I have 2 pet peeves in particular:
1) The player must support the "Album Artist" tag so that compilations are listed properly in the library.
2) Proper alphabetization - "The Beatles" should be listed under the B's not incorrectly under the T's.
I am testing Pocket Player right now. So far it is the only music player that supports and uses the "Album Artist" tag and it does so by default. It does not support proper alpha. AVRCP works fine out of the box.
The HTC player has the advantage in that it is the only player that can be integrated on the TF3D tabs but does not utilize the "Album Artist" tag nor uses proper alpha. It also has a serious bug that prevents it listing and playing a albums tracks in the correct order. AVRCP of course works well.
WMP supports proper alpha but not the "Album Artist" tag. Strange since MS pioneered the use of the "Album Artist" tag in the desktop version of WMP. AVRCP works fine.
CorePlayer is an evil company. I will never buy or use any SW they make.
Kinoma is next up on my list.
I wish I could find a music player that addresses both of my pet peeves and could be integrated into the TF3D tab replacing the HTC one. That would be the perfect player for me.
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sleonard said:
2) Proper alphabetization - "The Beatles" should be listed under the B's not incorrectly under the T's.
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I understand what you're saying but I would argue that any player that puts that artist name under B is the one doing it incorrectly. If you want The Beatles under the B's then you should rename those tracks to the album artist "Beatles."

For the people that got the TF3D music to work, please share your magic on having it identify your library from a storage card.

moSess said:
How did you get the player to play in power saving mode. with the screen off. Whenever I do this it stops the music, and some times, even unloads my memory card.
This has been my biggest bain and major issue with my tmobile tp2. I have tried Mortplayer and Nitrogen, the best IMHO and have had the same issue. I have tried different searches to enable the device to let the music play while the screen is off and none have worked. I am going to try S2P. My only gripe witht that program is that it does not play all file formats.
Oh well...
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I know this question is like 2 months old but I use Nitrogen and its good enough for me...very finger friendly! And on the main screen there's a button that looks like a Power Button under the volume keys...thats how you put it into "sleep mode" and music will continue playing.

Any app to control music player over phone

Hey guys ive been searching online for a couple hours now without results just apps that are for ppc what i wanna do is control something like winamp itunes o media player over the phone via bluetooth or wifi something simple skip tracks, volume, stuff like that. kind of like a multimedia remote if anybody is using or now about an app like this please let me know thaks guys

nothing ???
bump. . . nothing guys ?? anybody knows something else besides remote desktop im building a car computer and i wanna be able to control it with the dash well at least the multimedia part

i don't have any specific examples for you, but you may want to look for a web interface for your media player. i don't know if winamp has one, but i know foobar2000 has a plugin for one.
also, xbmc (great media program) has a plugin for one.
don't know how well they'll look on a phone screen, but it's a place to start... you may be able to customize the web interface to show up better on a phone.
hope this helps,
ZachG

[Q] ICS: alphabetical music bug still exists?

Good day,
Can anyone with a real live Galaxy Nexus (or even another handset hacked and running Android 4.0) confirm if the music-playing-alphabetically bug STILL exists? If you aren't familiar, let me explain. This problem is well documented and has existed for years in various versions of Android. (Do a Google search for "android music alphabetical order" and you'll see years of posts from all over the Internet, about tons of devices, regarding this issue.)
As briefly as possible, the bug is that media in non-MP3 format (notably M4A and WMA) ignores track numbers in metadata tags and instead gets sorted and displayed alphabetically. I had great hope that this would be fixed in Google Music, but can confirm that this application on my Galaxy S II running 2.3.4 still does this wrong.
To duplicate, just do the following: place a full, correctly-tagged, album in M4A or WMA format on the phone using any method you like (USB Storage or MHL via Windows Media, makes no difference) then attempt to play the album in real life track order. It doesn't work. Android refuses to read the tags on anything except MP3's and thus defaults to alphabetical order. (It ignores embedded album art too, for the record. And just to confirm: YES. All my music is meticulously tagged, and even a tagging app on the Android phone confirms that it sees the track numbers.) It's an M4A- or WMA-and-Android problem.
I won't go on a rant about how utterly inexcusable this is (although it absolutely is) and how my WP7 and iOS devices handle this very simple task just fine. Except: it is inexcusable, and those OS's DO handle this just fine. As someone who frequently listens to albums in real-life track order, and who doesn't have the time to transcode all my music just to satisfy a buggy OS, it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me. I'm interested in the Galaxy Nexus, but after purchasing a Galaxy S II and being disappointed with this bug, I'm not inclined to get a Nexus if it can't do this properly either. Can anyone confirm if this works properly on a Galaxy Nexus and/or in Android 4.0?
Thanks much,
Adam

it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me.*
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I leave it to someone with an ICS phone or rom to answer your question, but until then you can help yourself with a little app.
Use MediaFix from the market to update your MediaStore database with the correct informations: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.gorgonloop.MediaFix

gokpog --
Thanks for the reply. I had forgotten completely about the existence of MediaFix. It's even installed on my GS2, but I use the device so sporadically I forgot all about it. (As you may have detected from my post, I just picked it up again for the purpose of checking out Google Music.) I suspect you'd agree with me that such a utility shouldn't even need to exist, but hey, a fix is a fix.
Still, I'm quite interested to see if Google has addressed this properly in 4.0.
Again, thanks,
Adam

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gokpog said:
I leave it to someone with an ICS phone or rom to answer your question, but until then you can help yourself with a little app.
Use MediaFix from the market to update your MediaStore database with the correct informations: https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.gorgonloop.MediaFix
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I'm going to check this out and see if it fixes the album art bug. I am anal about properly tagging my collection and it burns me that the media services screw up the album art all the time. I mean come on all the mp3 in each album all have the same art, album, and artist and it still assigns random wrong art to albums and tracks. I just don't get it.
EDIT: looks like it only works for mp4. Oh well.
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leew1979 said:
I won't go on a rant about how utterly inexcusable this is (although it absolutely is) and how my WP7 and iOS devices handle this very simple task just fine. Except: it is inexcusable, and those OS's DO handle this just fine. As someone who frequently listens to albums in real-life track order, and who doesn't have the time to transcode all my music just to satisfy a buggy OS, it honestly renders an Android device nearly useless to me. I'm interested in the Galaxy Nexus, but after purchasing a Galaxy S II and being disappointed with this bug, I'm not inclined to get a Nexus if it can't do this properly either. Can anyone confirm if this works properly on a Galaxy Nexus and/or in Android 4.0?
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Since when does iOS or Android support WMA?

Solved... ish...
It was really an accident that I learned about the WMA bit. Windows Media Player understands and syncs to the phone but insists on conversion of MP4 to WMA, with no way to turn this off -- as verified flatly by an official Microsoft answer. The Galaxy sees and will play the tracks but refuses to read the tags or album art in the WMA file. I would have been willing to (grudgingly) accept using WMA files on the phone, but not at the expense of making the original problem worse. Natch.
After some more research and testing I have ascertained that -- bafflingly -- the problem is directly related to the method of file transfer. MP4 files (but still not WMA as discussed above) which are put onto the phone using the MTP sync protocol get recognized fine, tags, art, and track numbers... All correct. The problem is therefore that files written using USB Mass Storage are the screwed up ones. (Sorry, DoubleTwist, you lose too.) So, in a roundabout way this seems it will be fixed with the Galaxy Nexus in that it only supports MTP. Someone geekier than me, please feel free to speculate or flat-out school me on why this difference exists. I do understand that MTP works at the logical file level rather than the lower block level of Mass Storage, and thus I can understand why the Galaxy Nexus can't support Mass Storage (no way to dismount the single partition)... but back to the Galaxy S II, I am still perplexed at how the phone fully understands files laid down one way but doesn't for the exact same files laid down another way.
So now, for me it's either manual copies in Windows Explorer (sucks, no way to easily and automatically add new albums using smart playlists, as I do with iTunes for my iOS devices and Zune for my WP7 phone) or use a media manager which supports MTP but which also doesn't force WMA conversion. This therefore knocks out WMP and Songbird. So far, then, this means it's either Kies (and hell will freeze solid before I use that garbage routinely) or MusicBee which seems to work fine, but damn, this has been a long way round a problem which shouldn't exist at all... And which would also seem to leave Mac and Linux users still out in the cold, as MTP is basically a Windows-only technology. Bah.
Any other suggestions, anyone?
Regards
Adam
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PLEX Media Player Playback Issue

Is anyone running the Plex Media Player successfully on the A100?
I am on the latest 1.12 ICS leak and when attempting to play a TV show from my library over my LAN I receive the following:
"We're sorry but there was a problem attempting to play 'TV Show name here'
There was a problem with media playback."
For a song I receive:
"We're sorry but there was a problem attempting to play 'song name here'
An error occurred (error 0x 17: UNKNOWN)"
I can connect to the server just fine and the content shows up as expected but playing the media results in the above errors.
I have tried all different combinations in the settings and think this may be an ICS issue. Unfortunately I never tried it on HC before I upgraded so I can't be sure if its the device or the android version.
I pretty sure it's not a codec issue because the content plays fine in PLEX on my other android devices and I believe the app itself installs the codecs.
Anyone have it working on either HC or ICS?
Thanks!

Well I guess nobody use this application?
As an update I have researched the issue further and through the PLEX forum's have determined that ICS Rom's in general ARE experiencing problems with this app. Some users are saying that if the device has received an "official" ICS (Ex. Galaxy Nexus, Moto Xoom, Etc.) that the application is working fine while users on "custom" ICS rom's are having difficulty.
The general belief is that the official ICS Rom's offer built in hardware acceleration and the custom rom's do not because they were not built from the official source.
This worries me because the ICS we are using is a leak of the official and I would assume hardware acceleration was already incorporated. Perhaps not and they will add it last minute prior to the official release but I'm doubtful.
Again, if anybody uses this app, posting your experience would be appreciated.

I have never even heard of this app before, try using more widely known/supported apps like MX video player, TTPod, and PowerAMP.

littleemp said:
I have never even heard of this app before, try using more widely known/supported apps like MX video player, TTPod, and PowerAMP.
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Thanks for the advice however PLEX is way more than just a "player". It is a complete media content system that is running throughout my house. It consists of two separate applications. One is a media manager and the other is the "player". Players can run on all different platforms and access the media being served up from the manager.
I currently run the players on a minimum of 6 different devices. Using a simple player like you have referenced (no matter how good they may be) is not an option for me.
I either need to downgrade to HC or wait (and hope) that the official ICS release will fix this issue. Or use another tablet.
For those interested see this LINK. Unfortunately the Android App is not free but the local media manager and players for Linux, MAC and windows are free.

Hi, did you manage to make things work with Plex?
I can not even log in the frakking server...lol
At first I thought Firewall was playing around after an update, but even diable was not able to log.
Any ideas? It is a really lovely app that one.
Do you know any other with similar results?
Tks brother!

It works fine on Cyanogen. Once I went to that ROM all issues disappeared.

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Land Master said:
Is anyone running the Plex Media Player successfully on the A100?
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Yes. I was having the same error as you and many other ICS users. There was an update to the server this week, and now it works. I am on stock 4.03.

Throw and Media Server

Question:
How can you use media server and the throw features in the Xperia Ion running ICS (w/o new update)
What I Found:
Sony Site has been telling people to get a client software for computers...<---- What is this?
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I'm not sure what client software they would be talking about. I've seen the feature on video but not sure what devices it works on. I thought only the Xperia Tablet and select Sony TVs it worked on.
Sent from my Sony Xperia™ ion

Been mucking about with it for past few days, here are my findings:
"Play-on" for images works well, shares with my 2011 LG smart tv and Windows Media Player on Win7.
Throw for videos does not work at all. The receiver accepts the request to play media from the phone but after constant buffering and skipping doesn't actually play even a 10 second video taken with the phone.
I will try to play with the media server aspect of it too, basically turning it on in Connected Devices makes it visible to your DLNA players (so you initiate the request from your PC/TV/PS3). You then authorize it inside the phone... that's as far as i had gotten last night before the baby woke up
UPDATE: pretty much same thing with media server turned on. VLC doesn't even see it, WMP sees all the pictures and views them fine, if a bit slow. Music/Video doesn't even display the list of available files, just keeps spinning the status indicator. Also, looks like when the phone acts as the client for video streaming, it isn't aware of many different video formats. For instance, MKV files play just fine from SD on the Ion using MX player, and the Ion knows to launch MX player for all my videos (even using DLNA), but its the DLNA app that decides whether it wants to support a given format... basically, it won't send the file to MX if it doesn't like it, even if it can be played.

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Hoping merge will resolve my question

My videos play smooth pictures work fine as well on att ion with .29 international deodexed and intd
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