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Skyfire Android beta now in marketplace

Works pretty good on Desire

and somehow they decided to only make it available to the country with access to paid apps. long live market enabled
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Got it... will use it as my default for a while, see how it works out.

Does it do multitouch??

anyone care to post the apk? can't get it from the market....unfortunately i stay in australia where i have no chance to get alot of good apps...

Took it straight off, poor design and looks cheap...

lol....but it looks good on the video demo...just wanna try out playing flash on it.

it's clunky but...
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lol....but it looks good on the video demo...just wanna try out playing flash on it.
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...video playback is great. UI's a bit iffy, and the zoom (it does support multitouch) is in steps, but the killer feature is the video playback. Just tried some online content and it looked excellent - worth keeping just for that I think as an alternate browser.

yup, thats my point actually lol, just for the sake of the video playback...
someone please get me the apk =D

it's on the market now

ya i know its on the market if you read my previous post....
anyways i found where to download it =)
http://get.skyfire.com/dl_android.php
and if anyone wants a link to a great site with alot of movies and tv series then pm me =)
i just watched grey's anatomy on it, and tried to watch alien, =D works wonders all on my amazing HTC Desire wooohoo

I couldn't get nothing to play lol
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skyfire 2 is brilliants. It is still beta so no true serverside flash rendering yet, but it works just like the default browser with multitouch and with compression tehnology. Loving it.

I tried this app for ages yesterday but could only get one site to actually play any flash videos which is kind of the point. The site was redtube purely for research purposes of course
Sites that wouldn't play include:
itv player
demand five
megavideo
quicksilverscreen
empflix
vho
Can someone post some good video sites that do work? This app has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not living up to it. It is in beta though and I hope it will improve over time.
It is a pretty good browser though with multi-touch. Another nice feature is one button "connect as" - you can choose Desktop, iphone or Android which can load a mobile version of a site (or not)

purely a personal feeling, but I think the stock browser is way better, for what matters miles ahead of every other phone I've tried.
still, a lot of options is always an excellent thing...
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yes the stock is way better, just that it cant play flash video like skyfire period..
i tested megavideo, it works 1 out of 10times.....dont know why.......
there are other websites that are working and i watch a full movie of alien on it streaming on a website...=)

I might have been lucky, flash worked 9 out of ten times on stock browser for me. good to know I can rely on skyfire when problems happen however.
my 'mistrust' for skyfire comes from trying to use the last version on WinMo and finding it really slow compared to old versions. sort of different on modern devices...
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pd555 said:
I tried this app for ages yesterday but could only get one site to actually play any flash videos which is kind of the point. The site was redtube purely for research purposes of course
Sites that wouldn't play include:
itv player
demand five
megavideo
quicksilverscreen
empflix
vho
Can someone post some good video sites that do work? This app has a lot of potential but at the moment it's not living up to it. It is in beta though and I hope it will improve over time.
It is a pretty good browser though with multi-touch. Another nice feature is one button "connect as" - you can choose Desktop, iphone or Android which can load a mobile version of a site (or not)
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Me too even the BBC site loads the video but you cannot click on the play button it just sits there at the first screen or am I doing something wrong

Flash didn't work at all for me on Skyfire. Pinch to zoom was terrible aswell, it has this weird "acceleration" which means it zooms for half a second after you stop moving your fingers which I hated. I uninstalled it for now as the stock browser seems far better.

i am playing flash videos that i can't play on the stock browser....skyfire works great for me...
maybe all the years of helping old ppl crossing the road finally pays off, i am getting a good return...

epic fail no samsung music player

the samsung music player is not on the epic and the apk will not install at all epic fail I was looking forward to it

The epic uses touchwiz 2.5...... that's why there is no samsung player and that's also why some widgets are missing.
2.5 is also missing the ability to reorganize the icon grid and the ability to add or remove screens rom the home page..... this is due to the fact that the epic has a full qwerty (it heavily relies on landscape mode which touchwiz 3.0 is not fully optimized for.
I'm optamistic that the epic's 2.2 update will bring TW3.0 support.....
This is still the BEST galaxy s phone.
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My epic has a music and video player..

Phen0m said:
My epic has a music and video player..
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WOW REALLY?
No seriously... all the other galaxy S phones have a special music player. From what I can tell, people want it because of the 5.1 channel surround sound emulation. It's not included on the Epic.
I don't see how this has anything to do with touchwiz. It's a music player application. It should be there on the Epic..........

So... here's a crazy idea... download one.
Stupid thread title. Epic fail? Really?

The included player plays .wmv and other formats not generally found on android without a third party player so that is a plus. Otherwise once touchwiz is updated we should see the newer version.

I use btunes. It's my favorite android music player. I like its widget too. It's the only music player I've found so far that lets me view ALL songs by an artist at once instead of viewing 1 album at a time. The album option is still there though.
Also, it's laid out like the music player on the iPhone, which I was already used to before I started using android.

Honestly....
All of these FAIL threads sound like spoiled children whining.
Look around you...there are far more important things to worry about in the USA and the rest of the world at the moment.

jfenton57 said:
Honestly....
All of these FAIL threads sound like spoiled children whining.
Look around you...there are far more important things to worry about in the USA and the rest of the world at the moment.
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exactly! these are freaking phones for gods sake. stop crying and get used to the device, if you dont like it, return the damn thing. all these retarded threads arent going to help.

mine has 5.1 surround.. if you want a screenie, let me know.

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mine has 5.1 surround.. if you want a screenie, let me know.
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Uhhhhhhhh..... where?

I agree with the OP. This is a big feature of the Galaxy S line. If you really want your phone to double as a media player, the Samsung player is a HUGE selling point. I would like to see this app installed...

There is way more then just the music player missing. samsung video player, samsung apps with full version of asphalt 5(8-10 more apps from app program you can download), customizing bottom icons and app menu icons, aldiko ebooks, amazon mp3, media hub, 16 gigs of storage & 3.5 mm jack video out. I would call it epicless.

I was a little disappointed with the 1 GB of storage..
Just curious, if you root your phone, could you modify the fstab file to mount the SD card as your app folder?
I'm a little new to android.. Don't know if that is possible or not..

nicknomo said:
I was a little disappointed with the 1 GB of storage..
Just curious, if you root your phone, could you modify the fstab file to mount the SD card as your app folder?
I'm a little new to android.. Don't know if that is possible or not..
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I haven't tested this but you should be able to use one of the sd card lag fixs from the other sgs phones to create ext2 sd card partition. The lag fix will all so move apps to sd card. If you want good performance use a class 6-10 sd card. I cant find any lag fixes that use sd card since most of those threads have been updated to internal storage ext 2 partition lag fix since it runs faster. If I can find one I will post a link.
EDIT: Here is one but I dont think you can use it since it uses ext3\4. I thik the default kernel only supports ext 2 but i could be wrong.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724251

Music player recommendations

Hi folks, can anyone recommend a good music player. Would new great if it could also download mp3's but guess that's asking for too much.There are just so many out there
Thanks.
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Stock Galaxy S is the best IMHO. I wish I could get it on my Atrix.
If you want to explore 3rd party then you might want to give Winamp a chance...
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PowerAMP is really great.
Anyway, no matter what music player you take, dont forget to combine it with a voodoo sound app/kernel

Thanks guys, got the full voodoo app, just wish there was 1 app to play, download, recognise, show lyrics and allow you to place library where you wanted, would pay a lot for that, sigh!
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MIUI or Winamp - I use both
i love the look of the MIUI music player its really nice, with some nice features
And Winamp lets me sync with my PC so i have all my music from my hard drive sent to my phone via WiFi - love this feature

Definitely PowerAmp. It's worthed. Best sound quality and features.

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Thanks guys, got the full voodoo app, just wish there was 1 app to play, download, recognise, show lyrics and allow you to place library where you wanted, would pay a lot for that, sigh!
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The other guys are right but try soundhound aswell to complete the package.
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ccrows said:
Stock Galaxy S is the best IMHO. I wish I could get it on my Atrix.
If you want to explore 3rd party then you might want to give Winamp a chance...
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i too love stock player, with one major issue thou, if choose albums, or folders view, and switch to thumbnail view, and than exit player, it doesn't remember where i was, but open 'ALL view' every time player starts, it's really retarded behavior, from eclair to froyo, all the same
is there any workaround for this?

DoubleTwist
mortplayer if you wan t play folders
C3 if you like a good visual interface

Another vote for PowerAMP...just an excellent all around player with a great EQ and presets.
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PowerAmp, I've tried loads but none of them really match it, having said that I use FLAC rather than mp3. Player Pro is another decent alternative

meridian, why?
one may say it is ugly but
you can build playlist by picking files
you can play folders
you can select cue playlist
it can also play flac files
and it is also very good for video

i've only used stock SGS player and poweramp so far (both with voodoo sound module) and,regarding audio quality,the stock player is by far superior in my opinion.
just compare them by yourself and you'll find out how much weaker poweramp sounds.
there's also the new music player from launcherpro's dev,which has a really well done zune/metro interface. it's really smooth and it comes with widget,artworks download etc..it will also feature an EQ in the next builds if you are on gingerbread. on froyo you can use voodoo hw EQ which will come in the next realeases of the app.
lastest alpha build: http://launcherpro.com/music/
thread here on xda: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089808

PowerAmp is great, but once it gets running it never wants to quit. Has anybody figured out how to stop it from running in the background, and draining juice after you quit.? It's the main reason I stick with the stock player, which has a bunch of features if you dig deep enough.

DoubleTwist, simple and powerfull, free and combining a lot of features. Good replacement for the stock player.

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PowerAmp is great, but once it gets running it never wants to quit. Has anybody figured out how to stop it from running in the background, and draining juice after you quit.? It's the main reason I stick with the stock player, which has a bunch of features if you dig deep enough.
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In the advanced options, you have «keep service». Untick it.
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There is a Music Player named ³.
just type "music player" without "" in the market and scroll down. you ´ll find it quick because of its short name.
It cant download music but it has the best design for me and an equalizer. Its free and AD-free.
slimboyslim

SGS with Voodoo my experience and help required!
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I have SGS with Voodoo for last couple of months. Would love to share my experience here:
With Voodoo sound takes quantum leap from stock
I am at 2.2 froyo and Voodoo control at the moment. It has good mid range, punchy with my Brainwavz M2 and better than most phones I have ever heard, still not as detailed as most reviews make me believe
With control plus (I bought it few days back), sound quality deteriorated for me. Very muddy. So, i revoked superuser permission went back to free ver and it is much better
Yesterday tried to compare iPhone 4 with my SGS, same song, Brainwavz M2 and Senn CX 400 as earphones. I dont like to admit but iPhone was much better than SGS - Bass, clarity, stereo effect (Most pronounced); I noticed some parts which I never thought were there. SGS was much louder for sure but over all I was a bit dissapointed with SGS.
My questions to people in forum - is it my earphone? Am I doing anything wrong? I am in Darky's 9.5 with kernel having voodoo sound implementation.
I use stock and poswer amp and feel without any eq or effects, poweramp is a bit better than stock although stock's ui (in Darky's rom) is much better
Can my SGS sound as good as iPhone 4? I had huge hopes before gettign SGS after reading views of people in XDA and here. Overall I would still buy SGS again, it beats iPhone every other parameter..but SQ is close to my heart!
I couldnt post this in dev's forum as i am new and I feel most of the others here would know better than me
Any answers are welcome!

Is there any iPod touch look-a-like players? I love the ui of my Touch music player and would like to get similar to my SGS when I get it soon...

PowerAMP and the one from miui are very good

Andromadus beta 5 ideas

I like andromadus a lot. its the best rom ive ever had but i think i have some ideas for the next versions of it:
-themes, i would love a sense 4 or touchwiz or even a iOS theme
-more processor speed options, i mostly onderclock my Android. but there should be more "low speeds" options, like 600mhz.
-USB options, like the internet USB options in android 2.3x
-Beats Audio, maybe?
-The old music player, this one is not as easy as the one in beta 3
-Gmail update? it says everytime at opening that it hasn't been synced
-games, temple run is always buggy. Fix maybe?
-when at lockscreen, and then holding the lock button, you can still make screenshots or shutdown or phone, happend to me 2 times. fix that please
i will have more but this is it for now. what do you think?

mazdarati2 said:
I like andromadus a lot. its the best rom ive ever had but i think i have some ideas for the next versions of it:
-themes, i would love a sense 4 or touchwiz or even a iOS theme
-more processor speed options, i mostly onderclock my Android. but there should be more "low speeds" options, like 600mhz.
-USB options, like the internet USB options in android 2.3x
-Beats Audio, maybe?
-The old music player, this one is not as easy as the one in beta 3
-Gmail update? it says everytime at opening that it hasn't been synced
-games, temple run is always buggy. Fix maybe?
-when at lockscreen, and then holding the lock button, you can still make screenshots or shutdown or phone, happend to me 2 times. fix that please
i will have more but this is it for now. what do you think?
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last thing you said: it has always been like that.
themes pretty much difficult and there are cyano theme you can use
they're trying, I think, to keep the rom as much similar as possible to stock/cyano ics and and to add new features when they may be useful, but not to completely change it. Beats audio: it's mostly for sense roms, you can flash a zip if you want it. they can't update gmail themselves, google should.

mazdarati2 said:
-themes, i would love a sense 4 or touchwiz or even a iOS theme
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AAB4 supports theme. I think the place you should look at is the market. In case you really want sense 4, there're Sense 4 ROMs.
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-more processor speed options, i mostly onderclock my Android. but there should be more "low speeds" options, like 600mhz.
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Set CPU, the dev release it for free somewhere in this forum.
ROM Tool Box Lite, in the Market, free, doesn't let you create profile if you don't pay though
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-USB options, like the internet USB options in android 2.3x
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Never saw that in Stock GB.... but you can always do it in the settings
mazdarati2 said:
Beats Audio, maybe?
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You can flash it yourself, just as the Wifi-calling. It's somewhere in this forum
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-The old music player, this one is not as easy as the one in beta 3
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I think Apollo is way better, it runs smoother, faster and plays more file types. The old one was really crappy. I have no idea why you would prefer that one over Apollo.
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-Gmail update? it says everytime at opening that it hasn't been synced
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This is a known issue, I can't recall what causes this but it is solved by wiping the cache/gmail cache. Go to account & sync to check if the email sync is actually checked. Not AAB4's fault though.
Overall, I think a lot of things you ask for you can get it if you do some extra work instead of asking the dev to do some more work.

KyraOfFire said:
AAB4 supports theme. I think the place you should look at is the market. In case you really want sense 4, there're Sense 4 ROMs.
I think Apollo is way better, it runs smoother, faster and plays more file types. The old one was really crappy. I have no idea why you would prefer that one over Apollo.
Overall, I think a lot of things you ask for you can get it if you do some extra work instead of asking the dev to do some more work.
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sense 4 rom does not have working camera's and camcorders.
Apollo is more laggy than the old one for me
Im a noob at denvelop. and im not gonna customize this rom because i can let my HTC crash very easy. and i like this thing

This is pointless, honestly. Some people would like these changes, some wouldn't. They can't take a stock experience and change it drastically just for you, and if you must, please PM them your "Sense based" ideas.

Not sure on your other points but have to agree about Apollo. Not sure how anyone with a Desire Z would prefer that over the old music player when it does so much in Portrait rather than landscape....

Lol I made a sense 4 themed andromadus rom in the dev section. Just made it today haha
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mazdarati2 said:
-more processor speed options, i mostly underclock my Android. but there should be more "low speeds" options, like 600mhz.
-The old music player, this one is not as easy as the one in beta 3
-Gmail update? it says everytime at opening that it hasn't been synced
-games, temple run is always buggy. Fix maybe?
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I dislike how most CPU governors start slow and build up after wake. If the wake speed isn't high enough moving the lock circle on the lock screen seems very laggy and not fluid.
Music player is so very easy to change. If we are talking about custom roms, you can easily delete .apk files in /system/app because you have root access. I do this to ensure only my favorite browser is always used for instance.
I wish known issues like Temple Run crashes, camera focus is off, 3g doesn't always recover after wifi signal dropped were mentioned on the 1st post as "not working". I believe that post is misleading otherwise. Perhaps his 2nd reserve post could be used for a list of "issues" to be resolved.

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I dislike how most CPU governors start slow and build up after wake. If the wake speed isn't high enough moving the lock circle on the lock screen seems very laggy and not fluid.
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Which ones are you thinking of? To my knowledge, all the ICS roms released use kernels that default to the smartassV2 governor. SmartassV2 automatically hits an ideal wake frequency immediately after turning the screen on (768mhz in Andromadus). From there it will ramp up or down appropriately.
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83nn0 said:
Not sure on your other points but have to agree about Apollo. Not sure how anyone with a Desire Z would prefer that over the old music player when it does so much in Portrait rather than landscape....
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I suggest Google Play Music. It's much faster than the old player while maintaining the same look and feel. It also tries into Google Music, but I haven't tried that since I'm not in the USA.
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blk_jack said:
Which ones are you thinking of? To my knowledge, all the ICS roms released use kernels that default to the smartassV2 governor. SmartassV2 automatically hits an ideal wake frequency immediately after turning the screen on (768mhz in Andromadus). From there it will ramp up or down appropriately.
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I'm using Interactive governor since it move slowly up & down. For better less lag on my g2 andromadus b4. Thanks devs. I'm lovin this rom.
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blk_jack said:
I suggest Google Play Music. It's much faster than the old player while maintaining the same look and feel. It also tries into Google Music, but I haven't tried that since I'm not in the USA.
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Not the first time Ive heard that and i thought i was going crazy not being able to find it in market, however just looking on the web version of Google Play and i get ''This app is incompatible with your 3 HTC HTC Vision.''
Something to do with me being on the network 3 uk?

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Not the first time Ive heard that and i thought i was going crazy not being able to find it in market, however just looking on the web version of Google Play and i get ''This app is incompatible with your 3 HTC HTC Vision.''
Something to do with me being on the network 3 uk?
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Yea it's only available to networks in the US. There are tons of mirrors out there though so just sideload it onto your phone (like I do)

It will be great if you add the possibility to switch hardware keyboard language.

nikanorov said:
It will be great if you add the possibility to switch hardware keyboard language.
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I actually think you already can. I believe CM added the ability, somewhat recently, in some capacity. Worth looking into..

blk_jack said:
I actually think you already can. I believe CM added the ability, somewhat recently, in some capacity. Worth looking into..
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Are you shure? I don't see any option in b4.

nikanorov said:
Are you shure? I don't see any option in b4.
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It's not accessible via the menu which is why I couldn't refer you to something right away, I saw it committed in a patch but didn't look into it too carefully..
https://github.com/Andromadus/andro...mmit/85510e7ddf23abd99250f6b14cf38749d0027d26
Sorry now in retrospect I realize it's not what you were asking for, my bad

usb host mode?

blk_jack said:
I suggest Google Play Music. It's much faster than the old player while maintaining the same look and feel. It also tries into Google Music, but I haven't tried that since I'm not in the USA.
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i cant find Google Play Music. when im searching for that, i can find winamp and ringpod etc. but no specific app that is called: google play music. help me please

mazdarati2 said:
i cant find Google Play Music. when im searching for that, i can find winamp and ringpod etc. but no specific app that is called: google play music. help me please
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533816

What music app do you guys use?

Just curious to see what everyone's running. I was using Google play Music until it started disorganizing my music a couple days ago in ABC order instead of actual tracklist order. So now I use nice player! What do you guys use?
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Testicopolicious said:
Just curious to see what everyone's running. I was using Google play Music until it started disorganizing my music a couple days ago in ABC order instead of actual tracklist order. So now I use nice player! What do you guys use?
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I mainly use google play music because I have most of my music stored on the cloud, but for local I used to use PowerAmp which was awesome and sometimes I use Maple - it has some really cool features like pitch and speed adjustment.
but I think theres already a thread on this somewhere, in the apps section so you should probably look there

I hate how Google Play music makes it so hard just to get to the All Songs list. I think it requires at least three or four button presses, which I might be doing wrong but it's annoying to do if it really is that way.

yahoowizard said:
I hate how Google Play music makes it so hard just to get to the All Songs list. I think it requires at least three or four button presses, which I might be doing wrong but it's annoying to do if it really is that way.
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I agree with this. I wish Google made the music app similar to those in TouchWiz or Sony xperias. Although I don't like the UI of Play Music, I'm kind of forced to use it due the N4's limited storage and Play's free song upload feature.

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but I think theres already a thread on this somewhere, in the apps section so you should probably look there
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It's either been locked or disappeared forever, like this thread will be.

Shuttle+ is the best on my opinion, design, options and functions.

There is a thread made in themes and app section for all you guys.. It will help you all for knowing yhe various Music app people use..:good:

I use power amp and think it's totally worth the money. And yeah what other people said, there's a thread about this in the themes and apps forum where you can read about it there.
I personally went with power amp because the other media players annoyed me with the wrong album art work and would display the same artwork for all songs even though the artwork was completely irrelevant
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Play Music. its simple and doesnt eat a lot of battery compare to 3rd part music apps -_-.

Play Music + Viper4android as my equalizer. Doesn't eat a lot of battery and it makes your 10 in ear earphones sound like Hi-end headphones.

I use Google Play Music now since I subscribed to All Access. But if I was using local files I'd be using PowerAmp.