[APP] FLAC/APE Player [March 11 Update]

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I am not an application programmer but sound is very important for me.
I didn't find any flac players for Android, so I wrote a simple program myself.

The interface is rather ascetic because I'm not a java programmer.
The program plays any FLAC, APE or uncompressed WAV file, or all such files in a directory.
Hope somebody will contact me and write a really good flac player for Android.

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[Updated on November 24]

Here's the completely rewritten version.
It's much more stable and smooth, and has a better interface.
No need to use command line to set the required permissions, it'll call for the root access if it fails to open the sound device in read-write mode.

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[Updated on December 31]

(1) At last, found a way how to make the interface indeed responsive!
(2) Added WavPack (*.wv) and MusePack (*.mpc) support.
(3) Added a simple Settings menu to change font size and overall appearance.

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[Updated on January 30]

(1) CUE files support
(2) Playlists support

See post http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...03#post5499903 for details.

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[Updated on February 12]

(1) ROOT ACCESS IS NOT REQUIRED ANYMORE
(2) On request, playback of lossy files supported in Android

See post http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...99#post5603599 for details.

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[Updated on February 25]

(1) Added support of non-rooted Android 2.0 & 2.1 devices
(2) Improved interface (now shows track time/progress)

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[Updated on March 11]

(1) Added support of Apple Lossless Audio Codec (aka ALAC)
(2) Added auto-bookmarks so that you can exit and then restart exactly where you were playing before
(3) New icon and buttons (thanks to the people from 4pda.ru!)

(Minor update on March 12) Fixed a bug not flushing the buffer at the start of each track; auto-bookmarks as a user option.
(Minor update on March 14) Fixed sdcard write permissions in manifest

Please backup and uninstall the previous version before installing this one, it uses different SDK/NDK setup!!!

The sources are now available via SVN at http://code.google.com/p/andless.

It plays either FLAC or APE, both lossless and lossy.
Unless you're deaf, you'll hear the difference if you get proper headphones.

Awesome

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awesome stuff ive been looking all over the place for something like this. now i have to figure out how to root my hero . these commands give me the chills. you should have this on the marketplace


before we get into flac/lossy wars. what's important is that you don't have to convert any flacs to mp3 in order to put em on your phone. just drop and go. very helpful. that being said i dont think you can hear a diff. id have to own some grado headphones to test it out. i imagine the people who are getting headphone jack problems will cringe when they see this . good work ! thanks !

Fantastic! Thank you so much for this!

Can this made indefinitely part of the rom?

Originally Posted by naTTan

Can this made indefinitely part of the rom?

Kruton has written some patches which are currently included in cyanogen ROMs for G1. I tried to compile them for Hero, no success so far: the library he uses (libFLAC) seems to have certain bugs and won't reconstruct original encoded sound. On the other hand, this program uses the decoder from Rockbox project which I'd recognise as the greatest code ever written for mobile devices (including their ROMs for ipod etc). It's halfway in assembly language, and decodes flac/ape files EXACTLY as they were encoded.

Ok sorry is there a possibility that we should ask modaco to implement this into his roms from now on? There won't be much loss is speed right? And it's a good gain to play some other format of sounds.

Personnaly I'd be delighted if Modaco inserts the flac code in his ROMs! However given that the hero sources just appeared on the scene, he might have more important things right now (e.g. to port 2.6.29 kernel, etc).

Thank you very much for this!!

I would also love to see this make it in to modaco ROMS

Originally Posted by avs333

Kruton has written some patches which are currently included in cyanogen ROMs for G1. I tried to compile them for Hero, no success so far: the library he uses (libFLAC) seems to have certain bugs and won't reconstruct original encoded sound. On the other hand, this program uses the decoder from Rockbox project which I'd recognise as the greatest code ever written for mobile devices (including their ROMs for ipod etc). It's halfway in assembly language, and decodes flac/ape files EXACTLY as they were encoded.

I think the only reason I used libFLAC is because of the licensing. There's not much chance of getting the LGPL-licensed ffmpeg library included in Android. However, they are already using the Xiph License which is what libFLAC uses.

Who knows. Maybe they're actually going to include ffmpeg in the future and we'll have FLAC at that point!