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flac players on the RAZR

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Eugene

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I wanted to start a new thread on flac players on the RAZR. I used andless and Meridina on my original droid and they worked fine. On the RAZR andless will let me browse and choose and then drops back to the first page when trying to play. Meridian will do the same 2-3 times then finally play but without album art.

A couple other suggestiosn were winamp and ttpod, both of which say flac isn't supported when I try to play one.
 
Downloaded playerpro trial, it lets me browse by folder and shows number of sogs under each folder even if there are subfolders (example artist\album) and doesn't even display my flac folder.

Looks like poweramp works, playing with its trial now.
 
have you ever heard of kugou ?
if you are desperate to play flac in your phone and are not able to find any player, go for this kugou....its available in kugou(dot)com and even though its in chinese, the ui will help you understand the player very well.. in my old phone's chipset itself, it rendered the music very well and yes it plays flac with much ease. and not to mention, the ttpod is also a very good one and again in jap...but there are raw translated english versions in the net and my kind suggestion is, dont go for qqplayer(very similar to the ttpod and kugou), it is not a very pleasant player to handle.
 
is constructing an android app that plays flac files too hard ?
why are there so less number of apps on the market (store)...there are so many crappy apps which dont do anything useful:mad:
 
Its not that I'm desperate to play flac but after testing it on a couple albums and being able to tell the difference I thought it would be nice. I suppose I could turn up the sampeling rate above whatever lame defaults to but why bother, might as well just do lossless anyway.
I found ttpod to be very annoying, it had an iphone like interface which meant some functions were available in the menus but others you had to hunt for on screen buttons, like back would be drawn on the screen at the top instead of using the back button. One of the reasons I can't stand using Apple's products, having to hunt around the screen for buttons, some ate the top, some at the bottom, guessing what the hardware buttn will do at any given moment so I tend to avoid apps that use the same poor UI that you can tell have just been ported to android straight from ios.
I may end up buying poweramp, i like having the eq and the way it stops and starts when I unplug and plug in the headphones.
As i mentioned above I've noticed thedifference in quality between mp3 and flac. We bought a nice home theater system a couple years ago and if I turned up the volume on some mp3's I could hear distortion just like on my headphones. That HT system won't play flac but its an interim solution until i can get a nice media pc built, main isue now is storage, I found I can rip blurays successfully but they come out so huge I'm going to need several TB to store them.
 
narayanan9190 said:
is constructing an android app that plays flac files too hard ?
why are there so less number of apps on the market (store)...there are so many crappy apps which dont do anything useful:mad:
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flac isn't that popular, since its not DRM'ed the recoreding industry doesn't support it.
I follow several artists on Fb and twitter and each time they announce a new album (always on itunes, bleh) I ask if I can buy it in flac somewhere then end up buying it on cd so I can rip it myself.
 
Eugene said:
flac isn't that popular, since its not DRM'ed the recoreding industry doesn't support it.
I follow several artists on Fb and twitter and each time they announce a new album (always on itunes, bleh) I ask if I can buy it in flac somewhere then end up buying it on cd so I can rip it myself.
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If you are ok with it, i could get you keys for poweramp and you can use it without buying it,
"IF" you are ok with it and "IF" thats not a problem !
There are several ways to use poweramp without paying for it,
Againg "If......"
 
Nah, I'm actually good about not using things for free that shuold be paid for. I don't have any music or software that I haven't paif for. most of my softwae is open source so that saves on the overprices microsoft office and crap like that.
The only grey area is that while I pay for music I don't agree with the RIAA that it should be purchased per person or device, I'm buying one for my family and may have it on my phone, laptop, wife's laptop, etc, its generally only listened to by one person at a time anyway.

One of the reasons I won't buy from itunes, is the drm and control they want. I'm not pirating music so I don't feel as if I should be treated like I am and have restrictions on my backups.
 
Eugene said:
Nah, I'm actually good about not using things for free that shuold be paid for. I don't have any music or software that I haven't paif for. most of my softwae is open source so that saves on the overprices microsoft office and crap like that.
The only grey area is that while I pay for music I don't agree with the RIAA that it should be purchased per person or device, I'm buying one for my family and may have it on my phone, laptop, wife's laptop, etc, its generally only listened to by one person at a time anyway.

One of the reasons I won't buy from itunes, is the drm and control they want. I'm not pirating music so I don't feel as if I should be treated like I am and have restrictions on my backups.
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Thot so :) That's the reason there were so many defensive "if's" in my statement...and yes..drm is a serious pain.. I havent exactly used anything that is protected by drm but have heard a lot of bickering from my friendz and i buy my songs from flyte, an online music store in my country :D
 
I've went back to buying CD's for one so I can get the lossless and 2 so there is no worry about drm and crap on them.
Plus is gives me a DR backup stored in a box in the crawlspace.
 
Eugene said:
I've went back to buying CD's for one so I can get the lossless and 2 so there is no worry about drm and crap on them.
Plus is gives me a DR backup stored in a box in the crawlspace.
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I havent started earning yet, and i cant get cd's till i do.
However, I get flac of all my favo artists from the net.
The euphoric feeling when you can feel every pluck on the strings,....priceless :D

It bums me out, how many around me go praising around mp3's that are crap as hell.
 
free one didn't appear to and I didn't find anything in their docs. It seems that their big feature is snyncing with their windows version which i don't need.
 
Got the poweramp pro and it is absolutely awesome. . , . .worth every penny. .do go for it,if it comes in the affordable range

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RAZR (MAXX) doesn't support FLAC natively. Perhaps the reason Winamp plays FLAC just fine on my Droid 1 but not on RAZR. This reason alone almost drove me to sale it and purchase a used Galaxy Nexus, but the battery is sooooo nice.

Anyways, this raises more questions then answers. If none of the other Apps support FLAC (on RAZR) how does PowerAmp do it? Maybe it uncompresses the FLAC into WAV and plays it that way. Does this mean those of you who are playing FLAC experience lag?

P.S. I am proud I stuck it out this long w/ the OG droid, and wish Motorola kept as high standards on new releases as they did back then.
 
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