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Has anyone tried the "3" media player

Seraphina said:
I like it, but on the widget, it doesn't seem to show the name of the song I'm playing. Or am I doing something wrong?
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I don't think you're doing anything wrong. As far as I know, the widget just shows album art which I suppose is a drawback for some (doesn't bother me).
 
The large widget shows Artist & Song info. I liked the app enough I gave it it's own screen.
 
VERY NICE!
Thank you for sharing this. Finally a music app that will play my album music in the same order as on the album.

You have to search "rockon"...with no space between the words.

Again...THANKS!!!
 
I've had this happen twice now - the cube disappears from the app. I enter it and the top and bottom UI is there, but the cube is just gone. I've tried swiping/touching where it should be, but it won't come back.

Last time this happened I had to uninstall/reinstall to fix it, and it doesn't save album art, so had to re-do that again as well...

Love the app, hope dev makes good progress and has an update soon. :)
 
Been using this for a couple of day's based on the recomendation here... I like this app... Lots of good features and none of the bloat of TuneWiki.
 
I have the album art in my m4a files but ^3 won't show the art. Even after I long press on the album and select the local one. In fact, if I don't have an albumthumbs folde ron my sdcard, it says local art is unavailable. So I don't think it's even using the art in the file for the local option. It's just piggybacking on the default player's cache. At least the default player uses the art in the m4a file to create the thumbnail.
 
After letting it download art I can select the local art for the ones it got wrong. Has anyone found a single music app on android that can shuffle albums instead of tracks like iTunes?
 
Very nice looking app. There is though one thing holding me back from using it, is that like the default android music player, it does not seem to display the songs by album names as I need it to.

I have tons of music without album names or just random things written in that category. So it groups together all the songs that have blank or random things written in the "album" category all into one group, which is bad for me.

Mixzing, which is what I'm using, does a better job at displaying that.

Here's an example of what happens in the android and "3" music player:
I search for an artist "Kanye West"
It shows me 4 albums
However one of the albums is a "blank" album name:
It tells me there's 2 Kanye West songs out of 200 songs that have a "blank" album name
When I click into that "blank" album, it displays all 200 songs with "blank" album names instead of just those 2 Kanye West songs.

In Mixzing however, when I click into a "blank" album name, it properly only shows those 2 Kanye West songs.

So idk if it's some setting or something I'm doing wrong. But that's why I personally have only used Mixzing. And I really don't have the patience to go through 400-500 songs individually correcting the album names.
 
downloaded it today and have the medium widget on its own page (I like my screens minimal) I really like the UI and had no problems with it automatically grabbing album art. I'm looking forward to seeing the development of this app for sure!
 
@zeroG

You might want to look up a program called Mp3tag Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)
This is a great, easy to use program to auto tag all your music. It has the option to look up songs off the amazon database and replace all your tags globally with the correct tags or just certain fields, including art work.

I really like it and it has allowed me to really clean up my music library fairly quickly. I keep all my music on a folder on my comp as a backup and Mp3tag will auto look up that folder each time you start it so its nice to keep everything organized.
 
one thing i don't like about Mixzing is that you can't force it to update album art, unlike 3 which lets you update everything at once. from what i can tell, mixzing only updates album art as you play the song and it won't update if you have no service, as in underground on the subway or something. and also, when you unplug your headphones out of the jack it doesn't auto stop the music. i don't get that because even the stock media player lets you do that. i like being able to just unplug my earphones and stopping the music all in one step :P
 
Mixzing didnt work for me because I also didn't like the fact that I unplug my headphone and it keeps on playing. I also did not like the fact that Mixzing is constantly going out searching for suggestions and the star rating system. I just want a good "iPodish" player to use my amazing android phone as a great multimedia player as well. I actually wish rockbox would get ported to android. On a similar note though the 3 player does the opposite of Mixzing in that it automatically starts playing a song when I plug in my headphones, which is kinda annoying. I want to be able to press play or switch to another song when I get in the car without having to quickly press pause first.
 
One thing I've noticed about 3 is that it does not seem to multi-task well... If I click on facebook, and am scrolling, it just stopped in the middle of a song... seems to happen occasionally...

Another thing that I think is wierd is that it lists all the albums along with the playlists... shouldn't that be it's own search function? I get that artist is searchable from the cube its self...

I do like that it found all the album art (and even other art out in the world you could choose instead) and the small widget is nice and tight, and still gives the ablbum art, song/artist info, and easy to press pause/FF buttons....

I'm impressed, and can't wait for the small bugs to get ironed out.
 
n2imagination said:
@zeroG

You might want to look up a program called Mp3tag Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...)
This is a great, easy to use program to auto tag all your music. It has the option to look up songs off the amazon database and replace all your tags globally with the correct tags or just certain fields, including art work.

I really like it and it has allowed me to really clean up my music library fairly quickly. I keep all my music on a folder on my comp as a backup and Mp3tag will auto look up that folder each time you start it so its nice to keep everything organized.
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Thanks I'm gonna check that out, hopefully it works for me
 
zandroid said:
maybe this response is dumb, but mine didn't show til I actually played something. :o

either that or you dont have the album art?
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I have album art but when I add the widget it just plays the songs. So this strip of widget takes up my whole home screen. Ugh.

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I just tried it again. It works now. Weird!!
 
I have read a few things on this music player and i finally decided to venture away from tunewiki and try this out. Wow i am so glad i did, what an amazing interface. For one its free, and it has a great album cover finder built in. I have paid for album cover apps and most of them suck, the one that is built into this player found everything i had with no problems. I have only been playing with it for a few hours but i discovered the neatest thing. When i connect my phone via bluetooth to my b uetooth enabled car stereo and wirelessly stream music, i can use my wireless IR remote made for my pioneer 9800bt head unit to switch songs on the phone. Now i can go down the road and fast forward, skip through playtlist set on inside of the "3" music player and not have to take my eyes off the road. Hours afterwards i dumped tunewiki, i have no more sue for it.To fine it just search 3 music player in the forums and you can figure out how to find it on the market place. Rockon...
 
I enjoy it when it works, half the time the block won't come up and ill get a blank screen. Does this happen to anyone else? Are there any fixes shirt of uninstalling and reinstalling?
 
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