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Music player equalizer?

Hi, is their a equalizer in the music app on this phone? i cannot seem to find it

No there isn't unfortunately this is one of the things android has been lacking for a long time.

Sounds like osmething i can look into them myself. Any third party music players that have built in equalizers?

Nothing yet.
It's incredible to have this advanced OS, and this marketplace with 1000's of programs, but no one music player, which has equializer....
Is this an OS limitation, too hard to implement, or just simply noone had this idea yet??
By the way, I'm ready to donate to anyone who comes up with a working and good EQ for the Desire...

Astro Player Beta, BoomBoxoid both have EQs?
No experience with them, might be worth a look though?

i tired both this morning.. astro seems very basic.. no album art etc.. but works and the equaliser has an implact..
so does Boomboxiid but its almost to slick... caused my phone to lock up a few times and the player isnt that responsive so i uninstalled it.. stil though at least proves an equaliser is possible..
NZtechfreak said:
Astro Player Beta, BoomBoxoid both have EQs?
No experience with them, might be worth a look though?
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Any new music players with good equalisers?

A standalone EQ app (or widget) would be better than a player with eq built in.
Reason I say this is because, it could then be applied to any app you use audio via headphones or line out, rather than only working on the audio player.
say you use spotify, as well as a standalone mp3 player app. Would be good if you could use the EQ on both...

Music Player App

What do most of you guys use in your vehicles for audio player from EVO phone? Ive tested winamp, poweramp, & currently the music player from CM7 stock. BTW what music player is used in the latest CM7 mod, when I had destroyer v2 it wasnt used there? I really like how it sets up all your folders & you can go thru each one. Poweramp has an EQ which people rant n rave about but it seems like the EQ gives an exaggerated sound when used in a vehicle with speakers...Opinions?

i'm using miui music player. you need to manually sign the apk and everythign to get it to install, but it's worth it. i can shoot you a copy if you want. i love the lyrics support and automatic album cover downloads, the app is just plain awesome.

Do you have any pix or videos of it in action? Dont care for the album art really jus that I can go into seperate folders with music.

here's the app itself. signed, so just install from adb or through a file browser.

Pivo187 said:
What do most of you guys use in your vehicles for audio player from EVO phone? Ive tested winamp, poweramp, & currently the music player from CM7 stock. BTW what music player is used in the latest CM7 mod, when I had destroyer v2 it wasnt used there? I really like how it sets up all your folders & you can go thru each one. Poweramp has an EQ which people rant n rave about but it seems like the EQ gives an exaggerated sound when used in a vehicle with speakers...Opinions?
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I haven't found a music app yet that can compete with an iPod's. Sadly, I hate everything Steve Jobs' name is attached to but their music app far surpasses ours. If I find/make one you can bet your ass I'll be posting it here lol.
For now, I use MIUI (what dkdude uses) when I have music on my phone and otherwise I just use my Zune HD.

+1 Sucks, but true.

PowerAmp
I use Power Amp. It is my favorite!
It's available on the market.

If you like the CM music app, try "Music Mod". It's free in the market, and also the app CM chose for their roms.
EDIT: I'm currently using the MIUI music app as well because I'm on MIUI... plus it's really good. In the past I've used Player Pro, it's really nice. They've recently added an equalizer, which isn't a big deal to me, but is for some. Mixzing is another decent one.

I use the stock Sense music player. Works just fine.

I use poweramp, it was actually the second app I paid for (first was metamorph). I just make sure to turn on the large lockscreen widget.
I have it piped in through the AUX port on my head unit. As far as the EQ and sound and all that, I just set up custom EQ settings (on the head unit itself) for my AUX input mode and everything sounds great.
I especially love how it starts playing automatically when I plug in the headphone jack, and stops playing automatically when I take it off.

the newest MIUI music is really great. Not sure if dkdude has a working versions of it though. Settings always causes a force close. i dont care much for the apple music. Took all my music off my ipad, which is a paperweight anyway

Dont you guys who use poweramp find the EQ sound to be exaggerated? Everytime Ive used it in my car and put on the EQ the SQ doesnt sound natural it sounds exaggerated & not right...Also if I were to get mp3s with 320kb would it sound as good as using an original CD or thats just not possible?

I'm a big fan of Cubed. I've used just about every free music player in the market, and IMO, nothing comes close.

ive used poweramp, cube, doubletwist, stock sense, stock gingerbread, but now i switched over to using MixZing, its my fav so far, its free, has an equilizer, automatically downloads album art and updates the tags, give u a folder search. its good stuff!!

I totally feel you on PowerAmp. IMO it does exaggerage the range by the EQ; in most cases I just turned it off. I did dig the interface for a bit but it was hard to use one-handed for me. Also, it was a bit unintuitive.
I'm using the stock player in CM7/Gingerbread and I'm perfectly happy with it. Simplicity trumps most things for me. When I run Sense, I just use the Sense player.

alaman68 said:
the newest MIUI music is really great. Not sure if dkdude has a working versions of it though. Settings always causes a force close. i dont care much for the apple music. Took all my music off my ipad, which is a paperweight anyway
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Mine is working. Cm7. Tell me if you want an upload
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Pivo187 said:
Dont you guys who use poweramp find the EQ sound to be exaggerated? Everytime Ive used it in my car and put on the EQ the SQ doesnt sound natural it sounds exaggerated & not right...Also if I were to get mp3s with 320kb would it sound as good as using an original CD or thats just not possible?
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I don't bother with the EQ in PowerAmp, but I've always felt it was kinda annoying to mess with software EQs, especially on a touchscreen. I just adjust settings as needed on the head unit itself, and that works great.
As to your second question, that's something that's been debated in audiophile circles for a long time. With a car stereo, you might notice a slight improvement with FLAC/CD over mp3, but it will be only in the highest of the high frequencies and honestly you'd have to be actively paying attention. And that's assuming that your audio equipment is even of a high enough fidelity in the first place. Road noise while driving won't be doing you any favours either.
In short: don't worry about it, 320kbps mp3 is more than fine and will sound just like the CD for all intents and purposes.

dkdude36 said:
Mine is working. Cm7. Tell me if you want an upload
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Yea please
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Yea please
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srry it took so long. been busy.

Bought droid incredible now which rom would be best for me

Yesterday i bought droid incredible off ebay with a bad esn i plan to use it purely for mp3/android touch and i was wondering which rom would benefit me best for mp3 i was really thinking MUIU it looks pretty cool.

I don't use my phone as an MP3 player, so I'm looking at your question from the phone user side. I've heard that the MIUI music player is sweet, as a lot of people wanted it ported to other ROMs. That may be worth a try for you.

ok thanks i think ill give that one a try first do you have any idea if the os file size is big?

moz90 said:
ok thanks i think ill give that one a try first do you have any idea if the os file size is big?
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The latest version of MIUI's download size looks like it's about 93 MB, according to when I tried to download it. That's pretty small compared to a HTC Sense version of 2.2 or the leaked 2.3 builds of about 240 - 280 MB.

CM7 or MIUI. MIUI's music player does have some small quirks in it still, but overall, it's extremely awesome! Looks amazing and does the job and then some! Otherwise, get CM7 because it's great on battery (MIUI is too) and use any player from the market.

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CM7 or MIUI. MIUI's music player does have some small quirks in it still, but overall, it's extremely awesome! Looks amazing and does the job and then some! Otherwise, get CM7 because it's great on battery (MIUI is too) and use any player from the market.
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without the radio running, you'll be getting some pretty nice battery life.
I'd suggest either MIUI default media player or DoubleTwist player from the market.
Personally, I perfer DoubleTwist. MIUI would still be a nice UI to run even without considering the nice music player; you should also flash chad's incredikernel for additional battery life (after choosing your AOSP ROM)

I would recommend PowerAmp as a music player. The EQ settings are awesome. Also, I would recommend using CM7, as that comes with DSPManager, which allows you to further tweak EQ settings. I prefer to use the "large room" setting under "select room type."
Sent from my Droid Incredible running CM7.0.3.

I think ima have to go with cm7 to atleast try first everyone seems to love it I had cm6 on my og DROID so shouldn't b to different I wouldn't think as for music player is poweramp free or paid also could I take apk from miui and put it on cm7? And is it worth paying for double twist if chose to get it?

Best music player app?

I'm looking for a simple music player app that lets me do the following easily:
Search my music files.
Get back to my playlists and library without having to close the app and reopen it.
The stock music player is horrible. It has a search but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to go directly to the library once you get a few screens into the app so in order to get back to my library of songs and playlists I have to exit the app and reopen it. Maybe it does have a simple way to do this and I'm just blind and didn't see it but there has to be something better. I tried Android Music and the Play Music app that's also built in and those are easier to navigate back to the main screen but they don't have a search function.
Is there something out there that will do the simple things I want?

I love power amp. It is by far the best music app I've used. There is a two week trial version on the market and I believe it is $5 if you want to keep it.
Google play music app is also very good and free

crash822 said:
I love power amp. It is by far the best music app I've used. There is a two week trial version on the market and I believe it is $5 if you want to keep it.
Google play music app is also very good and free
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Also recommend poweramp, best player by far

Player Pro
Free trial and its beautiful. Worth every penny.

I prefer winamp, reminds me of college.

Just press the asterisk from the player screen
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Been rockin cloudskipper. I like it a lot. Slimmer and faster than anything else I've used. Does everything it needs to do. Nice Widgets too... seems to have good devs who are adding and twee king all the time
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i have been using playerpro. best one i have found after trying them all! very customizable!

junglizste said:
Been rockin cloudskipper. I like it a lot. Slimmer and faster than anything else I've used. Does everything it needs to do. Nice Widgets too... seems to have good devs who are adding and twee king all the time
Cloudskipper
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cloudskipper is my pick as well, its completely FREE and has a nice, clean looking widget. I didn't like poweramp when I tried it, plus I don't want to pay for a music player app.
Cloudskipper has free EQ as well. Highly recommended

several insohric
I'm a widget fanatic, so UberMusic is my choice. Gorgeous app. On a tablet, though, Hive Music Player all the way.

I also recommend power amp...way better than play music...just personal experience..
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xplay worth a look too
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Still haven't met anything that's better than PowerAmp for me - Been using it since my OG Droid and haven't seen anything better yet IMO!

Poweramp!

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Still haven't met anything that's better than PowerAmp for me - Been using it since my OG Droid and haven't seen anything better yet IMO!
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I agree 100%, IMHO PowerAmp is in a class of its own (just the lock screen controls alone make it worth using)

As others have said, Power Amp is nice. However, I switched to Player Pro a while back, and like it even better. As with Power Amp, it's really full featured. The interface is cleaner on Player Pro, and IMO it's just prettier. I also find the buttons easier to control while on an elliptical (they're a bit bigger).
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rickwood said:
As others have said, Power Amp is nice. However, I switched to Player Pro a while back, and like it even better. As with Power Amp, it's really full featured. The interface is cleaner on Player Pro, and IMO it's just prettier. I also find the buttons easier to control while on an elliptical (they're a bit bigger).
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been using PowerAmp for a while now. back then.. this was pretty much the only option if you wanted real good lockscreen controls. audio quality is great as well. i've stuck with this also, since the dev responds to emails quickly. i am curious as to how the alternatives today are. maybe i'll give PlayerPro a shot, though i don't quite understand why the DSP pack is a separate install, when this should already be built into the app like PowerAmp.

I recommend Poweramp as well.
On a side note: Has anyone else experienced incompatibilities with Poweramp and Bean's VZW Custom Stock Rom R2?
Every time I try to open the app it force closes on me.

+1 for PowerAmp. I've been using it since the early days and it's only gotten better over time. Plenty of controls, features, and options with a nice interface. Using it with an ICS skin and it looks great!

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I'm a widget fanatic, so UberMusic is my choice. Gorgeous app. On a tablet, though, Hive Music Player all the way.
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Yeah UberMusic is definitely my first choice but not because of the widgets. Out of all my searching, it is literally the only player I have found that has a true shuffle feature (no repeats).

Can anyone suggest a music player that's used for music on the phone- no cloud wanted

Still using the P2 Xl, but I don't want Google Play Music. I want a player that only plays files I loaded into the phone. I know Google Play music does that but I don't want any "services".
Thanks

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=code.name.monkey.retromusic
Works well for me.

Thanks, I also saw one called Black Player that's been getting good reviews

Pulsar is by far my favourite

Poweramp

For my needs, I use Vanilla Music player. It's basic and a light footprint.

Highly recommend poweramp

Poweramp all the way! - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xsoftstudio.musicplayer.pro
Been using it for years and never disappointed, especially with the new GUI changes they've rolled out.
Close 2nd for me would be : Player Pro - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro
Another neat one, but kinda cluttered is N7 Player - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer
Hope you find what works for you. Everyone tends to lean toward the cloud services, I still like loading my own music on my phone as well

I'm a fan of Shuttle. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=another.music.player

Power amp is my Fave , plays flac files also , Highly recommend it :good:

Pulsar is my favorite player

PowerAMP, been using it for years.

Also shuttle. It's free software as well

Look, get Poweramp and enjoy forever. There is no comparison. I've been using it for more than 8 years maybe. Tried other players only a first few years, then I stopped venturing out.

I like using Eleven music player https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-lineageoss-music-player-arm64-t3784730
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Look, get Poweramp and enjoy forever. There is no comparison. I've been using it for more than 8 years maybe. Tried other players only a first few years, then I stopped venturing out.
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Neutron. The gui might need a material redesign but the app itself is great for sound quality.
http://neutronmp.com/technology.html

blackplayer ex

I've tried and tested them all as i got over poweramp after many years with it . In the end, poweramp owns.
And its latest beta update is even better than ever!
Musicolet is my second favourite , but in the end poweramp just has everything you need.

pbman1953 said:
Still using the P2 Xl, but I don't want Google Play Music. I want a player that only plays files I loaded into the phone. I know Google Play music does that but I don't want any "services".
Thanks
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I really like the Sony Walkman app! Try it out

Thanks to all! I have been using Black player but will try the others mentioned too.