Recommend a Music Player

hummer010

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Hey all, I'm looking for a music player. I've always used poweramp in the past, but I'm having some stability issues with it. I generally listen to music for about an hour a day in my car via Bluetooth. Lately, for some reason, poweramp hangs and then reboots the phone.

I've tried Play Music for a couple of days now, and no reboots so far.I do miss a couple of poweramp features though. I like the swipe to change tracks, and the setting to keep the screen on while playing.

Any other recommendations for Music players?

Edit: I should mention the portrait-only aspect of Apollo disqualifies it. My phone is in a cradle in landscape in my car.

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moneybag

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I'm using noozy, no groundbreaking features and not as many options as power amp, but the sound quality is just too good to pass up. I listen with my headphones, so I'm not entirely sure if you'd notice the difference with your Bluetooth car speakers. If you listen to music with headphones or something of that sort though, I'd highly advise trying this player

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dpeeps74

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I've always had to bump up my min cpu speed to use bluetooth audio and it work well on multiple phones and versions of android. Usually 400 seems to be the most responsive min speed for a variety of things to me. From bluetooth issues to gps issues to seeing who is calling fast enough to answer.

~Nexus S 4G~AOKP JB~Matrix 24.0~
 

kbshowtyme

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I been using Player Pro along with Voodoo and Volume+ for over a year and love it. It stable and has all the functions as Poweramp. I have both and perfer PP
 

ej8989

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Hey all, I'm looking for a music player. I've always used poweramp in the past, but I'm having some stability issues with it. I generally listen to music for about an hour a day in my car via Bluetooth. Lately, for some reason, poweramp hangs and then reboots the phone.

I've tried Play Music for a couple of days now, and no reboots so far.I do miss a couple of poweramp features though. I like the swipe to change tracks, and the setting to keep the screen on while playing.

Any other recommendations for Music players?

Edit: I should mention the portrait-only aspect of Apollo disqualifies it. My phone is in a cradle in landscape in my car.

Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2
Poweramp hangs when you're overclocking.
If you really need OC, use SetCPU and set profiles only for apps that need overclocking.
 

hummer010

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Poweramp hangs when you're overclocking.
If you really need OC, use SetCPU and set profiles only for apps that need overclocking.
I've never overclocked this phone at all.

I tried setting minimum CPU to 400MHz as suggested in this thread, and so far it has worked. I haven't tested it enough to be sure.
 

lurtis

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been using n7player for about a week now. its got a really nice interface, built in eq and sound quality is better than say gmusic. be sure to grab their beta by liking their facebook page. it fixes some issues in the play store app
 

minifromage

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Hey all, I'm looking for a music player. I've always used poweramp in the past, but I'm having some stability issues with it. I generally listen to music for about an hour a day in my car via Bluetooth. Lately, for some reason, poweramp hangs and then reboots the phone.

I've tried Play Music for a couple of days now, and no reboots so far.I do miss a couple of poweramp features though. I like the swipe to change tracks, and the setting to keep the screen on while playing.

Any other recommendations for Music players?

Edit: I should mention the portrait-only aspect of Apollo disqualifies it. My phone is in a cradle in landscape in my car.

Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2
MortPlayer Music has a decent amount of features
 

hummer010

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Power AMP is the best music player ever :)
Except when it randomly causes your phone to reboot.:cyclops:

I'll be sticking with poweramp though, because raising the minimum cpu to 400 MHz seems to have solved the problem, and had a pretty negligible effect on battery life.

Thanks for all the suggestions folks.
 

Doctor.N

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I'm using noozy, no groundbreaking features and not as many options as power amp, but the sound quality is just too good to pass up. I listen with my headphones, so I'm not entirely sure if you'd notice the difference with your Bluetooth car speakers. If you listen to music with headphones or something of that sort though, I'd highly advise trying this player

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+1

if you aiming for pure sound quality, you should try noozy + noozxoide engine...

i've already tested many music player from poweramp, N7, playerPro, Neutron, Walkman, XenoAmp, MIUI music player, Apollo, songbird, rockbox, or even stock player, but none of them surpassing the sound quality of noozy, at least in my ears :angel:
 

mik3di3s3l

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I been using Player Pro along with Voodoo and Volume+ for over a year and love it. It stable and has all the functions as Poweramp. I have both and perfer PP
I have PlayerPro as well, and i must say that app rocks!!!! very easy to use for the driver who wants to quickly change a song(especially w/ volume rocker controls enabled) As far as BT, that technology can be a ***** sometimes tho....go along w/ DPEEPS and try to bump up your min cpu speed a hair. :good:
 

jojoost

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Why does everyone have to bump up their min CPU? doubleTwist does a great lagless job on 100/1000 cfq/ondemand!!

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dpeeps74

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I don't have to. I prefer to. I've found that everything that most people complain about...gps, bluetooth, playing music, general lag, etc...are all non issues for me when I use 400 as min cpu. It held true on my hero and it holds true on my ns4g.

~Nexus S 4G~AOKP JB~Matrix 24.0~