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Has anyone tried the "3" media player

The more I use this, the better I like it. I also showed an iPhone colleague of mine this interface and he was pretty surprised that an Android phone had a player this refined.

Anyways, I made a little video overview of cubed's features. Please ignore my inability to recite the alphabet, as well as my monotone voice. Heh.

YouTube - "3" Music Player for Android Overview
 
alostpacket said:
Is there an option to stop it from using its own album art? I remember with rock on, while it didn't replace my album art, it got half of them wrong and it didn't show mine. I listen to a lot of live recordings and had custom made album art for each, so this was not what I wanted to see.
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If you long press the album art, it will bring up the "local" image you have. At least mine did. It also searches the net. Just select the one you want, it replaces it.

Also, in the beginning, you can choose not to look for them.
 
Fabolous said:
The more I use this, the better I like it. I also showed an iPhone colleague of mine this interface and he was pretty surprised that an Android phone had a player this refined.

Anyways, I made a little video overview of cubed's features. Please ignore my inability to recite the alphabet, as well as my monotone voice. Heh.

YouTube - "3" Music Player for Android Overview
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Thanks for the vid, and for sparing us lady gaga, heh :)

stewart1champ said:
If you long press the album art, it will bring up the "local" image you have. At least mine did. It also searches the net. Just select the one you want, it replaces it.

Also, in the beginning, you can choose not to look for them.
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Thanks, I think i will give it a whirl.
 
Not bad. Slick GUI. Has some bugs. I was getting some FC's sometimes when picking on an album, and at the same time the Droid would ask me which email app to set as default? Whaaa?
 
Gunner said:
I was getting some FC's sometimes when picking on an album, and at the same time the Droid would ask me which email app to set as default? Whaaa?
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Whoa! That's totally random.

Anyways, like the dev says, it's still a work in progress. But for it's beta condition, it's pretty damn good.
 
Gunner said:
Not bad. Slick GUI. Has some bugs. I was getting some FC's sometimes when picking on an album, and at the same time the Droid would ask me which email app to set as default? Whaaa?
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Its because when it FCs they want you to send an email to them, so it automatically goes to your email when it FCs, it just happened to me.
 
Well that makes perfect sense. Although it never said anything about sending a crash report, so I just thought it was going goofy on me.

They need to turn down the sensitivity on the Wall view. It's cranked up too high.

Very cool app, tho.
 
Great video, Fab. I've been using this for about a month and I didn't even know about the "wall". But then again, they just updated it a couple days ago, so I'm sure that was a part of the update.
 
So I really like the UI of this app, however while I was driving home from work using my MOTOROKR I found some bugs.

1. I have an album called "Singles" filled with various artists....when I tried to listen to this album and shuffle/change songs, it would change to a different album....not song.

So I went back to use mixzing for the time being....and.....

2. When I pressed the volume up button on the MOTOROKR.....'3' automatically started up. The widget was off the homescreen and the app was killed. This bascially blocks the use of any other media or radio player, because 2 songs will play at once.

Anyone else experience this? I will probably email the developer to see if he knows whats up.
 
i downloaded this and couldnt even get my songs to play. im not sure what happened, i selected a song from my playlists, and then it just shows me a big green album (like the error screens you see on a broken tv) and it like freezes there. i also got the strange select which email app you want to use. anyway, i uninstalled it because i couldnt even get to the cube album thing. anyone else having this problem?
 
I did not have any problems with this app. I am even thinking of doing a ROM change with a nandroid update. I did not do them beofre becasue most of my album art was from an app, Album Art Grabber, and I always had to reload my missing art after the update. This app finds most of the correct art really well. It even works in landscape mode. This one is a keeper. Might get rid of Meridan player.
 
I don't know if its because I'm overclocked but Cubed runs way better than Rock On did I'm very impressed. So smooth and quick. Still suffers from the same problem that I'm not able to browse by Artist. Huge problem for me. I have almost 13GB of my SD that's Music. The lack of being able to browse by artist completely kills this app for me, just as Rock On did for me.


Edit: I just realized if you swipe left and right on the cube it scrolls through the alphabet to jump to artists. I might give it a try see how that works. Definitely a huge learning curve to the person you just hand your phone to when you have your friend pick a song to play. Haha.
 
pinesal said:
No, that shuffle what's in the queue. I want to either shuffle all songs or add all songs to the queue. I cant find a way to do either.
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Try clearing your queue. I had nothing in it, and I had that shuffle turned on, and when I fast forwarded, it seemed to be just playing random songs from my entire library.
 
First time install had a glitch w/album art pulling, and after a while UI went away aside from controls at top/bottom - album cube was gone.

Uninstalled and reinstalled, and it downloaded album art again and has been flawless since that finished about 25 minutes ago - been using it constantly, adding/removing songs from queues, browsing heavily, playing w/the widget.

For a beta this seems to be remarkably stable once it's had a good, clean install/setup.

I'm running Taz overclock at 800 and cube scrolling is the smoothest of any app I've seen on my droid running any GUI anything like this, better by a good margin, not getting any slow-downs or glitching. Just very cool...

Queue management needs work - can't find a way to remove individual or groups of items from the queue - appears to be all or nothing.

Sorting needs to disregard "The" in artist titles - The Beatles should be under "B" not "T" IMHO. I should also admit that I always put Led Zepplin under "Z", so you may take my suggestions on alphabetizing with a grain of salt. ;)

As noted, will be necessary to allow browsing by Artist for those w/larger collections of music.

Can't seem to FF - touching or long press on the FF button skips to the next song. Would love to have a drag bar for FF/RW when on the larger widgets and in the app.

Love how when you go to the queue it brings up the currently playing album in the background.

My teenage son, Mr. Unimpressed-I-already-own-an-iTouch said "Wow!" when he saw and played with this app. Never got a "Wow" out of him w/anything else I've showed him on the Droid, aside from Google Sky Maps.

This music app provides a really cool UI that is very usable and easy to quickly understand...a winnah in the making.
 
Redflea said:
Can't seem to FF - touching or long press on the FF button skips to the next song. Would love to have a drag bar for FF/RW when on the larger widgets and in the app.
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When you're in the app, at the bottom, where the title of the song is playing, you should see the progress bar (a bunch of dots). You can drag that to FF :D
 
Fabolous said:
When you're in the app, at the bottom, where the title of the song is playing, you should see the progress bar (a bunch of dots). You can drag that to FF :D
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Perfect!

Thanks for pointing that out - I missed it - my not so great eyes didn't pick that subtlety up. Wonder if he can add that to the widget...
 
Anyone else seeing that the playlist doesn't clear after playing? I went to bed listening to a bunch of music I'd queued up, and when I got up this AM, the music I had already listened to was still in the queue and wanted to play again. Anyone seen that happen?
 
Also, what does the single bar to the left of the Play/Pause button do?

When I tap it in the app or in the widget, nothing happens...
 
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