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Best Music/Media Player App

Would be awesome if the VLC Team would make a simple Android implementation eg. name "aVLC". Existing players have their highlights, of course, yet it feels like a true libavcodec-based player would be assflipping. Me and many others would cheer for a feature-rich yet minimalistic player that would have no issues with various stable containers eg. Matroska. I just got my first Android smartphone and still feel pretty much lost and confuzed, not really sure which player would be the best option. Tried searching Android Market for "VLC" but search only yielded remote control applications and suchlike. Aawergh. Ideas?
 
Gew said:
Would be awesome if the VLC Team would make a simple Android implementation eg. name "aVLC". Existing players have their highlights, of course, yet it feels like a true libavcodec-based player would be assflipping. Me and many others would cheer for a feature-rich yet minimalistic player that would have no issues with various stable containers eg. Matroska. I just got my first Android smartphone and still feel pretty much lost and confuzed, not really sure which player would be the best option. Tried searching Android Market for "VLC" but search only yielded remote control applications and suchlike. Aawergh. Ideas?
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Personaly, I have been using stock Android app for music and RockPlayer free version for my video needs. But I only play .avi and mp4 formats.
 
Another vote for PowerAMP.

One of the few music players that the widget can be set to very minimal and has forward, back buttons for tracks and folders. Most other music player widgets that are set to very minimal only do forward. The update to the playlists features made it the best to me. I always had to make playlists with either Mixzing or a playlist maker app.

Videos...Rock Player seems to be fine. It plays clips most other players cant so far.
 
Gew said:
Would be awesome if the VLC Team would make a simple Android implementation eg. name "aVLC". Existing players have their highlights, of course, yet it feels like a true libavcodec-based player would be assflipping. Me and many others would cheer for a feature-rich yet minimalistic player that would have no issues with various stable containers eg. Matroska. I just got my first Android smartphone and still feel pretty much lost and confuzed, not really sure which player would be the best option. Tried searching Android Market for "VLC" but search only yielded remote control applications and suchlike. Aawergh. Ideas?
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No need to worry. VLC may be well known, but there are bunch of other players that can decode various video formats (mostly based on popular ffmpeg lib). These include the playback of videos in mkv, mp4, avi, mov, vob, wmv, m4v, flv, rmvb, 3gp, ts, and other containers.

Bottom line: it would be nice to see a VLC player for Android, but I will not miss it.
 
Yep, I also keep it simple - folder playback and no worries!
PowerAMP or MortPlayer do this perfectly.
 
steaky said:
I am a music junkie, and PowerAMP is the best Ive tried so far. Has many features. I am coming from iphone 3G so I am struggling a bit, as I do like smart playlists based on ratings and other info like year of the song.

Going to try Zimly and Meredian next. Winamp hopefully improves...a lot. Its lacking so far in beta.
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Hey, did you find a player that supports track ratings from itunes?
 
I love the MIUI music player, but to install that you have to be rotoed and install it through RootExplorer. It has a neat UI and is really cool.
 
I went on to Mixzing. It seems to be better than Doubletwist by far, does suggested songs, has an EQ that's smart enough to know when you're clipping and a lot more useful features.
 
just installed realplayer in HTC HD2, everything runs smoothly so far. used MyMusicOn previously, it was great with lyrics display. but it's kinda slow. thats why i wanta try realplayer see how it works. :)
 
New Android user here & 1st post on the forums, looked through this thread but missed the answer to this one - I have a Win7 PC with music (Mostly .MP3, few others sch as .MP4, .WAV and .WMA) and videos (Mostly .AVI, few DVD RIPS in video-ts type folders). My home broadband has decent upstream speed (6m) and most of the time I work in an office with WiFi that I can use.

What's the best setup at both ends to enable me to stream both music and films to my Android? I'm not too fussed if it is restricted to .mp3 and .avi as that is the majority of what I use.

I have no issues with stuff like redirecting ports of configuring VPNs but have no idea what software to use at the PC (Media Centre, Media Player, VLC?) or at the Android (Tried a few, some better than others but not tried enough to have an opinion yet).

If that has been asked gazillions of times before feel free to point me to a different thread/area :)
 
Inkblot said:
New Android user here & 1st post on the forums, looked through this thread but missed the answer to this one - I have a Win7 PC with music (Mostly .MP3, few others sch as .MP4, .WAV and .WMA) and videos (Mostly .AVI, few DVD RIPS in video-ts type folders). My home broadband has decent upstream speed (6m) and most of the time I work in an office with WiFi that I can use.

What's the best setup at both ends to enable me to stream both music and films to my Android? I'm not too fussed if it is restricted to .mp3 and .avi as that is the majority of what I use.

I have no issues with stuff like redirecting ports of configuring VPNs but have no idea what software to use at the PC (Media Centre, Media Player, VLC?) or at the Android (Tried a few, some better than others but not tried enough to have an opinion yet).

If that has been asked gazillions of times before feel free to point me to a different thread/area :)
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I'd make it simple. Install TVersity on the PC and set it up to stream over interwebs, get me a dyndns address and have it point to my router / pc, then in Android it's a simple question of opening browser, going to the address and stream from pc. With the correct settings it'll stream everything you throw at it. Hell, I've been doing it for over a year now. 800x480 max res is enough for me (my desire's screen res). Anything over that would just be overkill. It would be like playing a 48065165465410 x 6546806808409680 resolution on a old 640 x 480 monitor :D

BTW guys and gals: check out MoboPlayer. Got some great features for video. Lovin' it.
 
Fellow forumers, I need to know what is the "loudest" music player relative to a Zune/iPod. I recently broke my Zune and living in a suburban neighborhood to go running, it was nice to have it be just a little louder to be above the cars passing me (increased hearing loss notwithstanding). But I've tried Poweramp and PlayerPro so far and they just don't have the volume level that my Zune had. About to try MixZing but I doubt that will work either.

Is the problem perhaps my rooted Incredible on stock 2.2? Is the hardware just not capable of producing dB levels of, say, a Zune/iPod? I saw that MortPlayer has enhanced effects for 2.3. Does that provide the extra software processing boost regardless of hardware?
 
SingJsong said:
Fellow forumers, I need to know what is the "loudest" music player relative to a Zune/iPod. I recently broke my Zune and living in a suburban neighborhood to go running, it was nice to have it be just a little louder to be above the cars passing me (increased hearing loss notwithstanding). But I've tried Poweramp and PlayerPro so far and they just don't have the volume level that my Zune had. About to try MixZing but I doubt that will work either.

Is the problem perhaps my rooted Incredible on stock 2.2? Is the hardware just not capable of producing dB levels of, say, a Zune/iPod? I saw that MortPlayer has enhanced effects for 2.3. Does that provide the extra software processing boost regardless of hardware?
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I find that using MusicFX and the new Android Music v3 with some custom settings is quite satisfying. That, paired with some in ear buds, and I can no longer hear traffic around me.

That said, I must say that I am very disappointed by the loudness levels on most Android devices. Even my old Sammy Jet had better audio.
 
SingJsong said:
Fellow forumers, I need to know what is the "loudest" music player relative to a Zune/iPod. I recently broke my Zune and living in a suburban neighborhood to go running, it was nice to have it be just a little louder to be above the cars passing me (increased hearing loss notwithstanding). But I've tried Poweramp and PlayerPro so far and they just don't have the volume level that my Zune had. About to try MixZing but I doubt that will work either.

Is the problem perhaps my rooted Incredible on stock 2.2? Is the hardware just not capable of producing dB levels of, say, a Zune/iPod? I saw that MortPlayer has enhanced effects for 2.3. Does that provide the extra software processing boost regardless of hardware?
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After I flashed serendipity 6.4 on my captivate it came with an app called voodoo control, which is a headphone amplifier. Its a digital amplifier, and it works really well and at max boost I noticed an increase of 30%-40% in volume and music sounded audible as compared to the stock settings.

On another note, I'm going to try out Fedes player and see how that goes it sounds awesome!!
 
Is there a droid music player that remembers where you were in your playlist after the droid is turned off? It's very irritating to have to reshuffle my playlist each time I turn my Droid X on and then have to listen to some of the same songs over and over again.
 
BillZee said:
Is there a droid music player that remembers where you were in your playlist after the droid is turned off? It's very irritating to have to reshuffle my playlist each time I turn my Droid X on and then have to listen to some of the same songs over and over again.
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Hummm, interesting question. But to my knowledge, there isn't. Why would you turn you cell off, anyway? Why not just mute it or put it in airplane mode?
 
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