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looking for an mp3 player,,,,,

miltk

miltk

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,,,,that reads FOLDERS.
is there such an app? every app i've tried is a tag reader.

thx
 
Mortplayer (free) can browse and play music by folder. PowerAmp and PlayerPro can too but they're premium apps.

As a practical matter, WinAmp (free) basically can play music by folder because if you view your music by "Album" WinAmp displays anything in a given folder name as an album. For example, if you had SongX by GroupX on AlbumX and SongY by GroupY on AlbumY in a folder called "AAA Folder", then in album view, you'll see three "albums", AAA Folder, AlbumX, and AlbumY.

I use WinAmp. I used to put my music in folders that were essentially playlists because it was so time consuming to make playlists on the phone. But if you load WinAmp on your PC, you can easily make playlists and sync the playlists and music to your phone (either by WiFi or USB). So now it's a lot easier for me to manage the music and playlists on my phone from my PC.
 
Folder viewing is now available in the stock music player with Jellybean. It may even have been available in earlier version but it was something you had to turn on then.
 
i've always found it odd that most players don't read folders when, i assume, most people organize their music in folders on their desktop.....thx guys
 
Tap on settings then Music Menu. Folders is the 5th check box down on my S2. Make sure it is checked and you'll have that option at the top of the Music player screen. All of my Music is in folders already like you expected so when I tap on folders it looks almost exactly like my Album selection screen with the exception of a couple of Old Time Radio shows I have in a folder called New Folder on my SD card.
 
MORT PLAYER...omg what a convoluted player

i give it minus 10 stars for user friendliness LOL:D

fellas,,,i want the music played in the order they're placed in their folder. how do i set this?
 
dontpanicbobby said:
Tap on settings then Music Menu. Folders is the 5th check box down on my S2. Make sure it is checked and you'll have that option at the top of the Music player screen. All of my Music is in folders already like you expected so when I tap on folders it looks almost exactly like my Album selection screen with the exception of a couple of Old Time Radio shows I have in a folder called New Folder on my SD card.
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i don't think i'm using the same app as you. are we talking about "play music" with the headphones icon?,,,because i don't see what you see.
 
dontpanicbobby said:
No i'm talking about Music Player with the blue circled play button and light green note icon. I don't do Play Music at all. Didn't like the experience, don't use it.
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That's the Touchwiz music player by Samsung. It's only found on Samsung phones, and the folder option has been there since 2.3 for it.
 
Looks like miltk has a Nexus 7 so I guess this won't work for him then. Sorry about that miltk I though it was a Google app on all Android devices. We need to create an Android Users Group in my area so I can see more phones close up. I've been pretty much in the Samsung universe about forever.
 
thx for all your help...

i found what i want...there are a few "folder players" available. they're crude and basic, like scanning through a directory, so i guess i'll use them in conjunction with a standard player and switch when needed.
 
dontpanicbobby said:
Looks like miltk has a Nexus 7 so I guess this won't work for him then. Sorry about that miltk I though it was a Google app on all Android devices. We need to create an Android Users Group in my area so I can see more phones close up. I've been pretty much in the Samsung universe about forever.
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actually i was looking at my droid maxx. well,,,,i was originally looking for something for my samsung galaxy player but when you mentioned the stock droid i went looking for it in my droid maxx which is 4.1.2

anyway,,,,allz well.
 
I have been using PowerAMP Pro since I got my first galaxy s and I couldn't think of a better music player. It's got everything you need and it comes with awesome widgets ;-)
 
miltk said:
i've always found it odd that most players don't read folders when, i assume, most people organize their music in folders on their desktop.....thx guys
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I think your assumption is wrong. I'd say that most people rip their CDs with tools (like Windows Media Player) that put their music into hierarchical folders by artist and then album name. Then when people download songs, they either maintain the same folder structure or put downloads in another folder. Either that or people put their music in a flat directory. Either way, in this age of ID3 tags, it's arguably inefficient to put music in folders that act like a playlist, when you can just make playlists. I used to put music in folders that served as playlists but then I'd waste storage space keeping multiple copies of the same song in different folders. Now I use WinAmp on my PC to easily create playlists and sync them to my phone. Much better than putting music into folders in my opinion.
 
RazzMaTazz said:
I think your assumption is wrong. I'd say that most people rip their CDs with tools (like Windows Media Player) that put their music into hierarchical folders by artist and then album name. Then when people download songs, they either maintain the same folder structure or put downloads in another folder. Either that or people put their music in a flat directory. Either way, in this age of ID3 tags, it's arguably inefficient to put music in folders that act like a playlist, when you can just make playlists. I used to put music in folders that served as playlists but then I'd waste storage space keeping multiple copies of the same song in different folders. Now I use WinAmp on my PC to easily create playlists and sync them to my phone. Much better than putting music into folders in my opinion.
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i gotcha...i just don't like the order in which my music is played. with a folder-read player, like all of my sony players have a folder-read option beside the tag-read, the music is played in the order as stored, which is by file name. tag-read players play by song title. so say, if i want to play my oldies which are stored and played by filename. a tag-read player would play that whole folder by song title which mixes up the order.
 
I have my music organised as folders.. i dont really understand tags tbh lol and i use poweramp. Just tell it which folders i want it to read from and its simple from then on. Move a jpeg into a folder to make it like an album cover :)
Love the simplicity combined with a lot of options if needed
 
miltk said:
i gotcha...i just don't like the order in which my music is played. with a folder-read player, like all of my sony players have a folder-read option beside the tag-read, the music is played in the order as stored, which is by file name. tag-read players play by song title. so say, if i want to play my oldies which are stored and played by filename. a tag-read player would play that whole folder by song title which mixes up the order.
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One possible solution... You can use an app like Playlist Designer to automatically generate playlists of entire folders (as well as creating playlists using other optional criteria like genre, decade, etc). Then once you've created a playlist of a given folder, you can easily modify the playback order of the playlist by dragging and dropping the songs up and down the playlist (at least with most decent music player apps like WinAmp, PowerAmp, Google Play Music, et al.) Not sure if you've got tons of folders and that's too much work for you, but I thought I'd toss it out there.

One thing that I don't like about WinAmp and the stock music player is that when playing an album, the songs are either played in alphabetical order by song name or in random shuffle. But some albums (e.g. Pink Floyd's the Wall, Beatles' Abbey Road, or a musical) really should be played in track-number order. That's not a showstopper for me. But I'd certainly like the option to play an album by track number. I'm not sure which other players might have that capability.
 
RazzMaTazz said:
One thing that I don't like about WinAmp and the stock music player is that when playing an album, the songs are either played in alphabetical order by song name or in random shuffle. But some albums (e.g. Pink Floyd's the Wall, Beatles' Abbey Road, or a musical) really should be played in track-number order. .
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exactly. i have experienced that playing by track# is unreliable. some mp3 albums have filenames like 01___ or (1)____ which i can't stand. so i clean up the filenames. songbird was playing a tchaikovsky concerto out of sequence!, and that's what brought me here because while my sony/cowon mp3 players play correctly, my android players' and phone apps DON'T.
 
funkylogik said:
I have my music organised as folders.. i dont really understand tags tbh lol and i use poweramp. Just tell it which folders i want it to read from and its simple from then on. Move a jpeg into a folder to make it like an album cover :)
Love the simplicity combined with a lot of options if needed
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i'll give it a try
 
You can play by track numbers if you have proper tags. Never had problems playing by track number, and I've used lots of players: PowerAmp, WinAmp, PlayerPro, UberMusic, stock TouchWiz and Play Music.
 
chanchan05 said:
You can play by track numbers if you have proper tags. Never had problems playing by track number, and I've used lots of players: PowerAmp, WinAmp, PlayerPro, UberMusic, stock TouchWiz and Play Music.
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except, for instance, i have 200 songs in my "oldies A-C" folder, and over 1000 oldies total. a folder player will play those songs by filename which starts with the artist's name. the other players play the songs alphabetically BY SONG TITLE which messes up the sequence and mixes all the artists, which btw i just found that poweramp does. i'm not about to give a track number to these 1000+ individual songs,,,or put a batch (xxx) in front of each file name. a folder player plays the sequence innately.
 
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