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Best Music player?
- Thread starter bornintheuk
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Paradroid90
Newbie
How do you get Poweramp to acceses music as it is stored on the phone or MicroSD ie in folders/directories (artists folders within these albums folders within these track files).*
For some reason I cannot seem to get Poweramp to do this.
Folders on poweramp is just a mess, when my music is logically ordered on micosd.
chanchan05
The Doctor
Not sure in your case but my music is properly tagged, so they appear properly in the artists, tracks, albums and genre folders.
How sre your music arranged anyway? Mine is in a folder arrangement of artist>album>tracks. But with them being properly tagged, folder arrangement becomes irrelevant.
How sre your music arranged anyway? Mine is in a folder arrangement of artist>album>tracks. But with them being properly tagged, folder arrangement becomes irrelevant.
Paradroid90
Newbie
My music is arranged the same artist/album/tracks with exception of compilation albums which are located within a folder called compilation/album/tracks.
The main problem I have is compilation albums are literally broken down to artist - which actually creates duplicates eg killers or the killers.
"The killers" folder has 4 albums whilst "killers" folder has 1 track from a compilation.
I totally agree with everyone Poweramp is the better player but Playerpro does allow me to view/access music literally as it is stored on the micosd.
Poweramp has a problem with the 'album artist' tag. That is, it doesn't recognise it or use it. You can see this is you have a compilation album with lots of different artists on it. The 'album artist' is put down as one of the artists from the album, rather than what is tagged. In my case I have compilations down as 'various artists'. Took me a while to see this as an single artist album was always correct (as long as all the songs were tagged correctly that is).
They say that V3 of Poweramp will fix this but no idea when that's coming.
Dave
Nevpaurion
Newbie
I personally love Z Player. It has a really classy look to it akin to the old zune interface, and it grabs all kinds of artist info and art. Even lyrics.
chanchan05
The Doctor
That just means your songs are improperly tagged. Retag the 'Killers' to 'The Killers'
damewolf13
live~laugh~love
I have used Poweramp, Winamp, and Playerpro, and I prefer Playerpro because of the many choices of music categorization, and the customization options.
funkylogik
share the love peeps ;)
This app looks really nice. Has anyone tried it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7ulRHsPHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
SkyJackpot
Android Enthusiast
SkyJackpot
Android Enthusiast
Nice. When I press the lyrics button in PowerAmp I get the option to view the lyrics after they've been searched, or it plays the music in the MusixMatch plug in while the lyrics are displayed on the screen synced to the time when the Artist is singing those particular words
SkyJackpot
Android Enthusiast
I clicked on the State of Trance Album using PowerAmp and it showed many tracks by many different Artists
PrinceCorwin
Android Expert
Most of them do about the same things to me. The difference maker for my selection of PlayerPro is the album cover thumbnail when searching through lists of songs. In PowerAmp, I think you only see them when searching the "album" list. If there is a way to see the thumbnails when looking at the "artist" or "all songs" lists, I'd like to know how.
And ...? Not sure what you are saying. "Assuming" that all your mp3 tags are correct then it will list all songs/artists correctly. What it gets wrong is the 'album artist' tag. In the 'various artists' example I used, all the songs on the album would be listed correctly - but the 'album artist', that is the one that should be 'various artists' as that is what I used, is incorrect and a random song artist from the album is used.
Dave
SkyJackpot
Android Enthusiast
There isn't any "Album Artist" in the list of supported tags. Maybe if it's a popular feature that everyone would like then you could contact the developer and vote for a feature request.
I don't have any other compilation Albums, but in future I might label any compilation Album titles with a Various Artists appendage, and I can understand if you have needs of specifically knowing if there are various artists included in a particular Album.
For me it isn't really a second thought as I usually see the Album Art which is usually titled appropriately as to which Artist is featuring in the Album, or art corresponding to a popular compilation brand for example Hits of 89 with no Artist name on it.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying, or vice versa. The lack of the 'album artist' tag in Poweramp is a BUG. And, as I said earlier, it will be 'fixed' in V3, whenever that comes out. Glad you don't have a problem it not being there but lots of us do.
Dave
Napalm
Android Expert
So I read this again and thought I should mention a few things.
Note you mention Via USB. Yes I can sync up stuff to my phone using usb and any software out there right now. Even on my linux machine. I mean android base programing is designed to do that out of the box.
The unique thing with winamp is the availability of using wifi sync - and maintaining all of your playlists in one handy unit. Also if you mod a playlist with a song or set that is in another play list and those songs are already on the device - it doesn't try to re-send them.
I'll admit that usb might be faster - even though wifi N is no slouch. But I have to say I like being able to send updates to 2 devices at once without having either device in my hand.
Something I've not found any other player capable of. Also winamps eq works as well and sounds as well as PowerAmp's. IMO.
bear in mind this is on a Motorola Razr Maxx, and a Droid 4 as my user devices. So that might have some bearing
RazzMaTazz
Android Expert
Agreed. For me any speed difference of an incremental USB sync over a WiFi sync is completely insignificant and outweighed by the time that it takes me to connect the USB cable and turn on the USB storage.
Aside from WiFi sync, for me, the other big advantage of WinAmp over the others is the ability to stream Internet radio stations.
funkylogik
share the love peeps ;)
Bit off topic but id like if a music streaming app like Tune-In had its own EQ 
Paradroid90
Newbie
Im finding Poweramp doesn't seem to like hierarchy of directories whilst Playerpro does.
Eg
Music/artistA/album1/all tracks
Music/artistA/album2/all tracks
Music/artistB/album1/all tracks
Music/artistC/album1/all tracks
Music/artistD/album1/all tracks
Music/artistD/album2/all tracks
Music/compilations/albumA/all tracks
Music/compilations/albumB/all tracks
On playerpro I select folder microsd/music then scroll through artists then tracks.
Poweramp seems to display everything ie flat no hierarchy.
SkyJackpot
Android Enthusiast
Paradroid90
Newbie
The menu button enables options to set Hierarchy in the List Options
Thanks
done and it's great as a lot more logical now.storm marvel
Lurker
Considering only free players i like best Maven player (Emersys) it has all the functions i need.There is also a paid version but i have never tried it.
jetAudio? I don't have golden ears, but have heard some say this is the best. It's from the makers of Cowon mp3 players, which are known for audio quality.
There's also a no-ads Plus version for $4.
You have to dig around the interface to find all the options. Like the pitch-controlled speedup/slow down feature is not available in the menus on some screens.
There's also a no-ads Plus version for $4.
You have to dig around the interface to find all the options. Like the pitch-controlled speedup/slow down feature is not available in the menus on some screens.