Just wanted to throw it out there, FLAC + EVO + Grado SR80 = sexy
andless no root required!
wut.........?
+1 for Andless. I have been using for some time now and it truly is an awesome app!
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andless is a player that can play lossless files (http://www.appbrain.com/app/net.avs234)
grado sr80 are some very nice headphones
I used Andless before. I gotta say, it's a bit... Lacking, in some ways. But a really nice thing? Cyanogen added FLAC playback into the Android music player, which is really well polished, and can use lockscreen, bluetooth, headphone, and volume-button (for prev/next) control.
You guys should check it out sometime.
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Hi!
Anyone can recommend a good music player besides WMP10 Mobile with lots of effects settings like equaliser, 3D, surround, bassboost, preamp, reverb etc
GSPLayer2 have these effects but they have no effect on the sound output quality. Could be that its still not WM5 compatible although you can still use it.
So, any good one which is WM5 compatible?
Thanks
Pocketmusic bundle - www.pocketmind.com , has xtra bass stuff. Key mapping not working yet, developer updating but sound quality is great.
Or buy Sennheiser headphones with wmp10.
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Or buy Sennheiser headphones with wmp10.
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I concur. Its spooky that my Exec sounds better than my old JJ. But I use the Sony EX71SLBs and HiFi quality Sennheiser and the sound quality is good.
I use TCPMP to play my MP3s and it also sounds great.
Every program has its merits and downfalls, and this is a topic that's close to my heart. I wanna be using WMP as it's by far the nicest looking, but doesn't play .OGG which is in my opinion the best quality : compression format. MP3s are good, but they have to be at least 192 and you're pushing 80 - 100mb for a decent sized album. With AAC / OGG you get closer to 60.
TCPMP - so many good features but the obvious issues are around the look of the app, and the fact there's not much tag or playlist support (especially track number).
PocketMusic - good quality but a power and resource hungry beast. Probably the best overall, but quite expensive for what it is.
Pocket Player - the one I use at the moment. Though not as good as PM it's a more general all-rounder.
WMP - Probably the best PLAYER and the best visually, but not a great deal of features.
These are far and away the best set of players...I've tried the others and was disappointed with them all.
Ant
I just saw this a moment ago MORT PLAYER:
http://www.freewareppc.com/multimedia/mortplayer.shtml
Care to try. It's free.
PocketMusic 4.0.2 Bundle (PocketMind).
Simply the best.
Regards,
This is the best ;-) trust me
San
dreamtheater39 said:
This is the best ;-) trust me
San
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WinamPAQ only plays MP3s, though. :wink:
Ant
Anton.Valleyman said:
dreamtheater39 said:
This is the best ;-) trust me
San
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WinamPAQ only plays MP3s, though. :wink:
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well, it plays .ogg files as well....
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OK, for the moment I'll settle with TCPMP for it has a preamp that can increase the sound level
I'll wait for GSPlayer to release its WM5 version and with its multitude of effects I can get better output sound control
Thanks for the feedback
I'll jump ship to Android when these bastards start shipping in HTC devices. I could have a full third of my FLAC library on my phone at any one time.
http://gizmodo.com/5565944/imagine-toshibas-128gb-nand-flash-memory-in-your-next-phone
flac= the ****.... however on a phone, there would not be a noticible difference because it would be played out of headphones or a small speaker.... when i synce music to my ipod i just auto convert flacs to 320 kbps.... on my home theatre system it saounds freakin incredible though lol
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flac= the ****.... however on a phone, there would not be a noticible difference because it would be played out of headphones or a small speaker.... when i synce music to my ipod i just auto convert flacs to 320 kbps.... on my home theatre system it saounds freakin incredible though lol
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How many versions of your music library do you want to keep?
How crappy are your headphones?
I use Meridian which supports FLAC, but it still skips on my Hero. Kernel support doesn't have this problem, and it CAN be baked in to a custom kernel... Usage is slightly lower than OGG or M4a... I also use UE SuperFi 5 pro IEM's, and let me tell you - the difference can audible. I can hear the noise scatter caused by interacting with the touch-screen (which was *really* bad on the OC kernel ) A lot depends on the type of music, too.
That said. 128GB still is short of my collection, so... why carry it all at once? It'll be fun to have that much storage on the phone still.
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How many versions of your music library do you want to keep?
How crappy are your headphones?
I use Meridian which supports FLAC, but it still skips on my Hero. Kernel support doesn't have this problem, and it CAN be baked in to a custom kernel... Usage is slightly lower than OGG or M4a... I also use UE SuperFi 5 pro IEM's, and let me tell you - the difference can audible. I can hear the noise scatter caused by interacting with the touch-screen (which was *really* bad on the OC kernel ) A lot depends on the type of music, too.
That said. 128GB still is short of my collection, so... why carry it all at once? It'll be fun to have that much storage on the phone still.
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lol i have skullcandy full metal jackets and I use media monkey to manage and sync and foobar to play. media monkey converts them while syncing so i dont have to keep multiple collections. i do need better headphones though...
Keep in mind that higher bit rate music file also require more CPU processing to play them. If you are playing a lot of music, you'll find that your battery life will be much better with lower bit rate files.
So I'm not completely satisfied with Vibrant's default music player and its EQ. I tried Astro Player but the EQ on that is crap. I found out MixZing has THE EQ I'm looking for and it sounds quite amazing but the app itself is not ideal as a music player and the EQ taxes the CPU = lower battery. Is there another player with a similar EQ or is there a program I can use to force a EQ over the ENTIRE phone (not just music player) so that I can then use any music player. I don't care if I have to root the device to get such an app to work.
I'm new to Android coming from Nokia XpressMusic series (which sound amazing with their EQs) so looking to replicate that. It's a HIGH priority for me being an audiophile.
would like to know this as well
No one has an idea?
If you were an audiophile you wouldn't use an EQ.
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I just use the stock music player since it plays all my FLAC music. I messed around with the EQ and sounds pretty good with me. Other than Mixzing I haven't really using anything else.
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If you were an audiophile you wouldn't use an EQ.
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That's baloney.
Anyway... what's wrong with the Vibrant's EQ? I don't particularly like the range of adjustments for the low and high end but it's fine for the most part and it's not very clippy.
its frustrating that i have to select bass enhancement every time i go to use the music player. it won't remember it. i know that feature won't work without headphones, but still.
also the whole Android community has been in need of an EQ for a long time. lots of threads out there for people such as Droid users. They will be jealous when they find out the Vibrant has one.
Hello
Im looking for a media player that can reproduce all possible formats (mostly videos). Something like VLC for Android would be nice.
Anything out there?
Have you tried arcmedia ? It plays most of the formats, its worth a try. Especially since its free.
rockplayer , xyplayer etc etc.. look on google... I know I did
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rockplayer , xyplayer etc etc.. look on google... I know I did
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I did as well but didnt find anything universal that plays everything. I swore there was a player that the description said "VLC like; Plays all formats"
Tried many, chose Rock Player:
RockPlayer can support audio and video container format: avi mkv rmvb mp4 mov wmv asf wma wav mpg ts mpa dvd au mp3 mid ivf aiff ogm ogg cda flic d2v aac roq flac drc dsm swf pls pmp.Audio and video encoding format AAC AC3 DTS FLV4 LPCM ALAW ULAW MPEG Audio MPEG-1 MPEG-2 RealVideo RealAideo Vorbis AVC VC1 XVID DIVX SVQ Theora Bink Theora Bink basically includes all popular multimedia formats.
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Tried many, chose Rock Player:
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When I saw it was powered by ffdshow, I pretty much decided
Thanks.
I used to use arc player but you could not move it to sd. I now use aPlayer and it plays everything I have streamed...
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u should try poweramp its pretty awsome supports swiping through music a lot of equalizers and auto downloads the album art
Audio: PowerAMP
Video: RockPlayer
No more words...
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What phone have you got btw?
Because you won't be able to play anything properly if you've got a phone like HTC legend, HTC wildfire, you'll need 1ghz processor to play everything property..
If you have 1ghz , then try arcmedia. It's free, but if its not good enough for you for some reason, then try rock player, its paid app, but also has a trial. I never had any issues with rock player, it plays everything smoothly.
I use yxplayer on My wildfire
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What phone have you got btw?
Because you won't be able to play anything properly if you've got a phone like HTC legend, HTC wildfire, you'll need 1ghz processor to play everything property..
If you have 1ghz , then try arcmedia. It's free, but if its not good enough for you for some reason, then try rock player, its paid app, but also has a trial. I never had any issues with rock player, it plays everything smoothly.
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I meant what phone has the author if this thread got.
So how's watching videos on a wildfire ?
Because its about as fast as HTC legend, and it was sluggish on the legend sometimes.
You will have to get the apk.. so if u can't get it off the developers site then maybe try some not so legal methods to see I'd it works that way?
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I meant what phone has the author if this thread got.
So how's watching videos on a wildfire ?
Because its about as fast as HTC legend, and it was sluggish on the legend sometimes.
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I've tried everything to improve the horrible sound on the Galaxy s II (poweramp,equilizer,etc.)...nothing beats the combination of Cyanogen Music Player and DSP Manager...just installed both on my S2 and its FINALLY sounding like a decent music player! Download and install from here:
www.theandroidsoul.com/galaxy-s-ii-s2-gets-cynogenmod-7-music-app/
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Tell me what you guys think
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I guess I'm ignorant, I listen to music every day with headphones and the music sounds all right. Stock 2.3.3 unrooted, using Ubermusic and google music as players.
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I guess I'm ignorant, I listen to music every day with headphones and the music sounds all right. Stock 2.3.3 unrooted, using Ubermusic and google music as players.
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same here with stock player
+1 stock music player user. I'm kinda ignorant about this too. Maybe its because the SGS2 audio quality is already far better than my nexus one, therefore I'm quite satisfied with my upgrade.
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Likewise same as last two post . But with an enormousness variation in hearing and music played its only to be expected that some need adjustments .
Crap music is crap music no matter how you try to improve the sound .
Worth a look/try anyway .
jje
Combined with Poweramp equalization and an AKG K319 my stock SGS2 with 2.3.3 sounds quite good ... no need for further hassle.
PS: It might be worth mentioning, that I only play Ogg in 224 Kbit ... MP3 is junk even at 320 Kbit
I for one thank you sir for posting this. I actually despise the sound of music on this device without an EQ as when you turn up the bass the preamp maxes out and the sound distorts. DSP manager does a MUCH better job (had it on my HTC Hero with CM7) at managing that and I had no idea it could be installed as an APK. I thought it was integrated into CyanogenMod. YIPPEE!
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Combined with Poweramp equalization and an AKG K319 my stock SGS2 with 2.3.3 sounds quite good ... no need for further hassle.
PS: It might be worth mentioning, that I only play Ogg in 224 Kbit ... MP3 is junk even at 320 Kbit
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Possibly why my music is not a problem Encoded as AAC+ at 192 KBps and no need to distort my music by ramping up the bass .
Noticeable that many who complain are looking at false bass sounds .
jje
Actually to my ears it isn't just music on this phone that sounds bad. When I play Gun Bros and things explode, the explosions distort as well.
I suppose I also use the expression of sounding "bad" as a relative term. Music doesn't sound "bad" I guess but I prefer mine to have much more bass and clarity, and I just don't get that with straight up stock. I do with DSP Manager however.
IMHO, Cyanogen Music Player has much better output than stock. The sound is also much clearer. Power Amp is a very good music player and the equalizer is top notch, but it just doesn't provide the punch I like in my music, I find myself playing with pre-amp a lot, but it tends to distort the sound to a high degree. For now, DSP Manager combined with Cyanogen Music player has been the solution to my problem. Sound is clear, punchier than stock player and PowerAmp, and gives a fuller/bolder music experience. Any one try it out??
I will give it a try. I had been using poweramp on my HTC Hero, with no EQ, just tone, plus DSP Manager with EQ. Sounded perfect for me, but I will give CM player a try and see if I like it as much as you do.
I got excited when I saw DSP Manager and got too lazy to try the music player too right away.