I've tried using the stock music player, google music player and rocket player. None will play all my music files. I've converted all files to Mp3, yet I can sometimes catch an error message that says something like, "unable to play music file", then the entire phone freezes up until it shuffles to a file it will play. It can sometime take up to 5 or 6 minutes or longer to play a file and to use the phone again. Infuriating. Samsung galaxy S5.
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S5 and Music Player
- Thread starter mikepe33
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sbdc003
Android Enthusiast
You might want to give Poweramp a try. I've been using a full version for about a year and I'm pretty happy with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&hl=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&hl=en
RazzMaTazz
Android Expert
Most music-player apps utilize Android's built-in music-playing functionality (known as a "library") but Android doesn't natively support all music file types. Though Android's library supports MP3 playback, it's possible that your MP3 files are corrupted or that the codec used to create some of the MP3 files isn't compatible with Android's playback libraries. (E.g. I had a problem where Android could can play most of my WMA music files but not the ones that were created on a different computer with a certain WMA codec. Those WMA files played properly on PCs, car stereos, etc. but not on all Android apps.)
A few of the Android player apps, like PowerAmp, have their own supplemental libraries for playback of unsupported file types but I'd guess that PowerAmp uses Android's library to play MP3 files. You'd have to try each one to know for sure. I don't know which ones even have their own libraries.
It may be worth noting that each time you transcode from one "lossy" compression format to another (e.g. WMA-to-MP3) or even if you just recompress MP3-to-MP3, you'll lose some audio fidelity. (Personally, I refuse to do such conversion of lossy music files, but I'm fussy like that.)
A few of the Android player apps, like PowerAmp, have their own supplemental libraries for playback of unsupported file types but I'd guess that PowerAmp uses Android's library to play MP3 files. You'd have to try each one to know for sure. I don't know which ones even have their own libraries.
It may be worth noting that each time you transcode from one "lossy" compression format to another (e.g. WMA-to-MP3) or even if you just recompress MP3-to-MP3, you'll lose some audio fidelity. (Personally, I refuse to do such conversion of lossy music files, but I'm fussy like that.)
Thanks for the posts everyone. Had a breakthrough over the weekend. I tried Poweramp and was getting the same results...a stoppage of play due to the very thing Razzmatazz pointed out above. I knew that was the problem just wasn't sure exactly how to define it (great job Razzmatazz). You nailed it.
Neutron turned out to be the answer. Downloaded the eval version and it played all "problem children" files, no problems. So purchased the full version and I'm very happy with the results so far. It appears to playing the all files as well as my ipod does.
I know everyone has their favorite player for various reasons and I would stop short of recommending Neutron for everyone, but all I was seeking was a player that played all my files, regardless of how they were converted to Mp3, and as I write this, Neutron does.
Very happy camper here.
Neutron turned out to be the answer. Downloaded the eval version and it played all "problem children" files, no problems. So purchased the full version and I'm very happy with the results so far. It appears to playing the all files as well as my ipod does.
I know everyone has their favorite player for various reasons and I would stop short of recommending Neutron for everyone, but all I was seeking was a player that played all my files, regardless of how they were converted to Mp3, and as I write this, Neutron does.
Very happy camper here.