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Music player of choice?

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johnpro112

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Hi everyone,

I would just like to get a feeling of music players you all use. I stay classy with Doubletwist.
 
I use Google Play Music to sort all my music, both in-device and cloud. Also, the newest redesign of the app is absolutely sleek and fast, loving it!
 
Google Music is a bit not user-friendly. Just my opinion of it. :)
 
I refuse to use Gmusic in protest to the "all areas" thing only being supported in the centre of google's universe (US) :p
 
Google Now works pretty well in London, I don't use it because it drains battery, but it got pretty useful. I mostly use Google Apps, when available, Samsung's ones are usually bloated. Thankfully, I finally got rid of that slow dialer/contacts too.

Anyway, I'm not that interested in All Music, so I don't mind it not being available in the UK. I just love the interface and the smoothness. Samsung's crappy apps always have micro-lags here and there. I'm not sure if they do that on purpose lol
 
Yeah but android is open source. Anyone can use it for free :)
And when i install the google apps package (gapps) the deal is that google give me lots of great services and i pay by letting them learn my habits and interests and selling that data :)
 
funkylogik said:
Yeah but android is open source. Anyone can use it for free :)
And when i install the google apps package (gapps) the deal is that google give me lots of great services and i pay by letting them learn my habits and interests and selling that data :)
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I meant that Android is still under Google.
 
Kinda, but for example, im using AOKP firmware just now which is based on google android. Noone had to pay google for that.
A phone will run fine without any google apps on it, you just dont get playstore, gmail etc.
Android is like a big open melting pot and im sure google use nearly as much stuff that has created by 3rd party devs like Cyanogen etc as devs use of googles. its a big open party. Even companies like Kindle can use android, google just dont allow them to use GApps :)
 
funkylogik said:
Kinda, but for example, im using AOKP firmware just now which is based on google android. Noone had to pay google for that.
A phone will run fine without any google apps on it, you just dont get playstore, gmail etc.
Android is like a big open melting pot and im sure google use nearly as much stuff that has created by 3rd party devs like Cyanogen etc as devs use of googles. its a big open party. Even companies like Kindle can use android, google just dont allow them to use GApps :)
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Is that why you have to install an additional Google Apps when you flash a custom rom?
 
Nobody pays Google for the android code. Not custom ROM devs, not manufacturers.

It's out there for anyone who wants to use it. Really the only stipulation of that is if you modify (and distribute) the linux kernel, you have to have source available

The reason kindle can't use gapps is because they forked android, and to get access to gapps you have to play by googles rules. Amazon wants you to use their store anyway, so its not like they were trying hat hard to get access to gapps ;)
 
Rxpert83 said:
It's out there for anyone who wants to use it. Really the only stipulation of that is if you modify (and distribute) the linux kernel, you have to have source available
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Exactly. Its not like google throw android into the river and everyone just feeds on it, its more like a pond and everyones innovations go back into the pond to be used by everyone :)
My wife has just came home with an iphone3g :banghead:
 
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