Best Andriod mp3 music player

[JimKiler]

What is your favorite music playing app for andriod? I want to create playlists and put music on my phone and don't want to redo it everytime i find a good app. Please recommend me an app so I can do it once.

 

[ChronoReverse]

PowerAmp.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

PowerAmp is good but google music is pretty nice. You can craft your playlist from wherever you have web access. And google music will be the app your device uses if you're speaking to it and telling it to play a song. "ok google, play _________"

 

[cpacini]

I too prefer using Google music now, especially for me now that it's included in tmobiles free music data thing. The actual music player works well enough, and it's nice having access to my entire music collection and leaving the space on my phone available for other uses, while not worrying about streaming data.

 

[JeffMD]

I went to poweramp cause I was tired of the eqlizer crashing on playerpro. Also I was looking for a little bit better UI for music while driving. I've been pretty happy with it, although it is a pain in the ass to add album covers if it is not successful in searching for it (I have a number of japanese albums that are %100 moonspeak). It has NEVER accepted me picking a picture from my album.

 

[Channeledbymodem]

No one but me seems to use it but I love MixZing. It's like Pandora for your own music. After it analyzes your collection ( the bigger the better) you can choose a song and it will create a playlist. It also has shoutcast radio built-in and can play podcasts and videos in an elementary way. Don't underestimate the power of this obscure app.

 

[Zorander]

Neutron MP player

 

[gorcorps]

PowerAmp is good but google music is pretty nice. You can craft your playlist from wherever you have web access. And google music will be the app your device uses if you're speaking to it and telling it to play a song. "ok google, play _________"

Just like everything in Android, you can change that. Clear the defaults for Google music, and the next time you say "okay Google play xxxxx" it'll ask you which player to use. Pick poweramp and it works fine.

 

[soccerballtux]

PowerAmp.

power amp

poweramp hitches like crazy and can't handle multitasking in the background when the screen is off and CPU is throttled. It's poorly designed and needs a buffer rework. Even on the max CPU priority and buffer size it can't handle it.

Much prefer playerpro.

 

[ChronoReverse]

poweramp hitches like crazy and can't handle multitasking in the background when the screen is off and CPU is throttled. It's poorly designed and needs a buffer rework. Even on the max CPU priority and buffer size it can't handle it.

Much prefer playerpro.

Let me guess, you're using Cyanogenmod or Paranoid Android or have applied some "optimization" someone posted on XDA?

I've been using PowerAmp on many different devices over the years and I've only observed that sort of behavior with custom roms that have bugs or have "optimizations" that actually broke things. CM12's current nightly state is one of them (doesn't stop me from using CM12 though).

I can literally run a benchmark while playing music (over bluetooth if I wanted) without issue in Touchwiz despite the fact it's a slug in every other way.


PowerAmp's method of controlling and playing audio (one of the reasons why it actually has better audio quality) is definitely more intensive but it doesn't stutter unless the OS software has a (not so) latent issue.

 

[soccerballtux]

No, stock

Stop trying to defend crappy code.

There is absolutely nothing intensive about decoding mp3. A 25mhz CPU can do it.

 

[gorcorps]

No, stock

Stop trying to defend crappy code.

There is absolutely nothing intensive about decoding mp3. A 25mhz CPU can do it.

I know, yet poweramp sound WAY better than anything else I've ever tried. I think it's the direct volume control (DVC) which helps a lot. You don't need to try to explain it with numbers, just listen to it... it's better. I don't know why but it just is

Google music has made up some room though, it sounds quite a bit better now than it used to.

 

[Zaap]

Another vote for Poweramp.

Never had any of whatever issues soccerballtux describes with it, not even on my old DroidX back in the day. Certainly not with anything since.

I've tried just about all the other major players, keep coming back to Poweramp as it just works and sounds the best.

 

[soccerballtux]

Another vote for Poweramp.

Never had any of whatever issues soccerballtux describes with it, not even on my old DroidX back in the day. Certainly not with anything since.

I've tried just about all the other major players, keep coming back to Poweramp as it just works and sounds the best.

maybe I'll try it again. I just don't want to buy it

 

[isekii]

Sony Walkman App. Comes with their phones but I got the app off xda

 

[soccerballtux]

Sony Walkman App. Comes with their phones but I got the app off xda

sony always has good designs. I feel like nobody knows about Sony in the mobile arena though. Never seen an ad. "Oh, they make phones? Oh yeah"

 

[Midwayman]

N7. However it works best on larger screens. Poweramp is kinda the default choice for android. N7 works as well IMHO, and is much prettier.

 

[Zaap]

N7. However it works best on larger screens. Poweramp is kinda the default choice for android. N7 works as well IMHO, and is much prettier.

True, I used to really like N7 player in the car. The interface was just so easy to call up what I wanted to hear on the fly. (Before getting a car with a better music system built-in than just my phone.)