Hello friends. As we all know the Xiaomi Mi A1 does not come with most of the features of Miui. Some applications, either are missing, or are very limited.
My question is: What are the best options to replace applications such as music player, video player, contacts calendar, file manager (with option to hide file folders) and image gallery?
Google apps do the thing for me. They are great. But I use Retro Music Player as a music player and Files Go as file manager.
That's the whole point of an Android One device - you can use your favourites apps !!
My favourite Galley app is Simple Gallery by far - and any of their other apps too. File manager = an old version of ES File explorer, but the Xiaomi version is getting more use now, Music player = Poweramp, video player = vlc, Photo editor, etc
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Hey all,
I've been wondering if there is a way to change the default music player -
I'm using TuneWiki (awesome app) - but everything on the device (like, when I download songs and click the 'download complete') still opens the builtin music player...
Is there a way to change that, like you change the default browser or keyboard?
use the nemo player the best sub for subpar android music app
I have been trying to figure out how to make a custom music playlist in Mediascape on the Xperia X10. I have searched all over the web and came up with only the Media Go option to create playlist from the PC. Anyone know a way to create one from the phone itself?
I think that the playlists do not work in mediascape. I´ve created a playlist in the Media GO aplication and import into the phone but I can´t see them in mediascape...
But if I open for example Meridian player - playlist´s are there and works fine.
See my post >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659893&page=2#13 << about the other media player in the phone, Its quite easy to do and playlists can be created and edited very easily and show in mediascape automaticaly.
Your not alone mate, I posted on this about a week ago.
It's seems that as good as MediaScape is, it doesn't offer the basic ability to create playlists.
Now there are workarounds for creating playlists on the x10 itself which MediaScape will recognise.
1. Install Astro file Manager from the market (free)
- Navigate to your Music folder on SD card
- Locate a track and long press, you should get a "Music Options" button.
- Within Music options you can either set as "ringtone" or "Add to a Playlist". (Please note this only seems to work with certain files i.e MP3)
2. Install Astro file Manager from the market (free)
- Navigate to /System/app
- Locate the sndroid Music player called "Music"
- Long press and select open as
- Select Audio
This will bring you into androids bult-in media player that SE have carefully hidden.
It loads your media library and allows you to create playlists easily, which will be instantly picked up by MediaScape.
You can always create shortcuts to the music app.
Long winded i know, and i'm suprised and disappointed that SE didn't include this facility in the Scape.
Thanks a lot for all the helpful info. So sad that mediascape is handicapped by lacking this feature. Would be nice to just be able to do all this in mediascape.
Any way of creating a link for this on the home screen??... and slightly off topic.. is there a standard android photo viewer hidden away too?
Mediascape detects the .m3u playlists in my music folder though.. Now I just have to find out how to make those playlists.
Hi all - I've sussed this out... download an app called "AnyCut" from the market... in here you can add all sorts of different things.. one of which is under the "activity" option.. called "Music" this is the stock android music app (mentioned by baggyb above).. this way you'll have a link to the music app on your home page which you can then use to create your playlists...
With Quickpic we have the option to hide pictures or folders that contains pictures and keeps them from being seen in Quickpic or other apps like the stock Gallery app.
My Questions is,
Is there such an app that does that but for music files?
For example:
I have a collection of Gospel music but I only play it using the Stock Music app. I play all my other music using Ubermusic and I would like to 'hide' or not let Ubermusic detect my Gospel music.
Another example:
I have this app called G Music Lite which downloads songs and streams it with lyrics. Only problem is, when I run its media scan, it detects ALL music files found in the device & microsd card, which means that even sound effects of games gets detected and easily gets mixed up with songs. I would like to somehow 'hide' or exclude this type of files from being detected by my music players.
Know any good app that can accomplish this?
This community rocks, and I'm so proud to be a part of it!
Anyone?
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I haven't used Ubermusic but some apps will let you select specific folders for your library, like PowerAmp, if that helps.
For the other question, use the stock file browser to navigate to the folder with the problem files > Menu > "Exclude from media scan". It will affect any subfolders within that folder too.
I copied some music on the phone, I can see the folder and every song if I search them in ES File Explorer, and even play them with the built-in music player in ES, but I can't play any music with the default music player, it says that there's no files.
The default file browser also can't see the music, more specifically if I look for it in the "all files" I can find it and even play the music, but in the music section of the file browser it says that there's 0 file, here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/CNCnQD9.png (it's not in English, but I think it's pretty straight-forward which one is the music).
How could I fix this?
Hello all,
I just bought an Essential yesterday (640 on swappa with the 360 camera). I noticed that there are some "stock" apps missing like music player, file manager and gallery, maybe I´ll found more later. I was wondering what you guys are using to replace this missing apps. For music I use Poweramp (bough it a few years ago, great music player), for file manager I downloaded File Explorer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mauriciotogneri.fileexplorer) and Gallery (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomicadd.fotos)
I'm using simple file manager and simple gallery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.filemanager
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery
For music I'm using shuttle music player
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=another.music.player
TheDethEgineer said:
Hello all,
I just bought an Essential yesterday (640 on swappa with the 360 camera). I noticed that there are some "stock" apps missing like music player, file manager and gallery, maybe I´ll found more later. I was wondering what you guys are using to replace this missing apps. For music I use Poweramp (bough it a few years ago, great music player), for file manager I downloaded File Explorer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mauriciotogneri.fileexplorer) and Gallery (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomicadd.fotos)
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I really like the HTC music player. You can find it if you search xda but here's a temporary link.
https://drive.mbag.net/index.php/s/W0n2Y2zy6RW2jKT
TheDethEgineer said:
Hello all,
I just bought an Essential yesterday (640 on swappa with the 360 camera). I noticed that there are some "stock" apps missing like music player, file manager and gallery, maybe I´ll found more later. I was wondering what you guys are using to replace this missing apps. For music I use Poweramp (bough it a few years ago, great music player), for file manager I downloaded File Explorer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mauriciotogneri.fileexplorer) and Gallery (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomicadd.fotos)
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They are intentionally left out, this phone is designed to offer software that only has the essential apps to function as a phone (except the Google apps google makes developers put on their devices). Which is the main reason I bought it. I'm lazy and stream music, I just go though storage if I need to access a file I downloaded.
swagglepuff said:
They are intentionally left out, this phone is designed to offer software that only has the essential apps to function as a phone (except the Google apps google makes developers put on their devices). Which is the main reason I bought it. I'm lazy and stream music, I just go though storage if I need to access a file I downloaded.
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Oh yeah I totally get this. My question was made because I hace not used any Gallery app or file manager other than the ones preinstalled on the stock or custom rom. So I just wanted to see more options
I use Google Play Music and Google Photos as my gallery. I also use FX File Explorer
skw5115 said:
I use Google Play Music and Google Photos as my gallery. I also use FX File Explorer
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Thanks for taking my post! Lol I use these exact apps as well. Asus offers a good file manager as well on the play store
Pulsar is what I use for music and QuickPic as gallery.
File manager in settings.
Settings>Storage>Explore