Hi there everyone. Firstly I would like to thank each and every single one of you for your support and suggestions.
Ive now created an AROMA Installer which will make it alot easier for you guys to install any and all the Music and Video Players you wish all in one go.
A full list of the contents are listed below.
VIDEO PLAYERS
-Act 1 Video Player
-Avia Player
-BS Player
-Dice Player
-FLV Player
-HD Player
-Moai FLV Player
-Mobo Player
-MX Player
-Real Player
-Seaman Player
-Simple MP4
-Stick It Video Player
-Super Player
-Super Video POP UP
-T Player
-Video Player
-VLC BETA NEON
-VPlayer
-Wondershare Player
MUSIC PLAYERS
-Astro Player
-BoomBoxoid
-Clean Music Player
-Denon Club
-Double Twist Player
-EZ Folder Player
-Folder Player
-GoneMad Player
-Hiki Player
-Jet Audio
-JukeFox
-Meridian Music Player
-MixZing
-MusiXmatch
-n7Player
-Neutron Player
-Power Amp
-Rocket Player
-Senior Music Player
-Smart Music
-Tune Wiki
-WALKMAN
-WinAmp
-Xeno
-Xplay
INSTRUCTIONS
1-Download the file (LINK BELOW)
2-Copy the downloaded file to the External Memory Card of your Device
3-Boot in to Recovery Mode (POWER BUTTON+HOME BUTTON+VOLUME UP BUTTON)
4-Flash the file through CWM
5-Select the Files you would like to add to your Device
6-Select NEXT and wait until flashing is complete
7-Reboot your Device and Enjoy your new files.
DOWNLOAD
CLICK HERE
Enjoy
[AIO][Music]+[Video][Players]
All-In-One Android Music and Video Players
Have you ever spent time looking through the Internet or Google Play Store and Reading Review or User Comment to try find out which is the best Music or Video Player for your Android Device?
Well search no more, All the Music and Video Players have been suggested from other XDA users so you know that others are happy with the choices below.
If you notice any information in this guide which is incorrect, or any bad links, let me know and I'll fix it as soon as possible. Also, I know that there are a load that aren't on this list, so if there are some which aren't on the list but you think they should be, let me know and I'll look into them and update the list.
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GoneMAD Music Player
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Description:
Feature-Rich and Highly Customizable Music Player
GoneMAD Music Player focuses on providing tons of features and options to allow for a personalized listening experience. With 125+ customizable options, you can listen to music the way you want to.
Features include:
-Supported audio formats: aac(mp4/m4a/m4b), mp3, ogg, flac, tta, ape, wv, mpc, alac, wav, and wma (non-lossless)
-Flawless gapless playback (mp3 and aac gapless supported on most devices)
-Highly optimized media library, designed for large music libraries (50k+), that works with every supported format
-Browse your collection by artist, album, song, genre, playlist, or folders
-Built in file browser
-Album artist and disc no tags supported
-Tag editor (supports mass editing)
-Search artists, album artists, albums, songs, and filenames
PowerAMP
Description:
Powerful Music Player for Android
Poweramp is a powerful music player for Android.
Follow us on twitter @Poweramp2 to get instant updates on app development progress, feature spotlight, theme sharing, take part in giveaways and even chances for free copies of Poweramp.
Features include:
- plays mp3, mp4/m4a (including alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff (* some wma pro files may require NEON support)
- 10 band optimized graphical equalizer for all supported formats, presets, custom presets
- separate powerful Bass and Treble adjustment
- stereo eXpansion, mono mixing, balance
- crossfade
- gapless
- replay gain
- plays songs from folders and from own library
- dynamic queue
- lyrics support, including lyrics search via musiXmatch plugin
- embed and standalone .cue files support
- support for m3u, m3u8, pls, wpl playlists
- OpenGL based cover art animation
- downloads missing album art
Astro Player Nova
Description:
Powerful music and video player with audiobooks and podcasts support. Advanced bookmarks, folder based auto-playlists, fast playback up to 6x, equalizer, skins, scrobbling, fetching album art, gapless playback, auto-resume, lyrics, flac, radio, podcasts and more. Supports Google Reader and DAR.fm.
Features include:
Supported formats
Audio: mp3, ogg, flac, m4b(partial support), mp4, 3gp, m4a, mid, wma(not on all devices), xmf, mxmf, rtttl, rtx, ota, wav, m4a, amr
Video: mp4, 3gp
Advanced bookmarks
Unlimited number of custom bookmarks
Folder auto-bookmarks
All tracks auto-bookmarks (restores position on per-file basis)
Bookmarking functionality is available also for video
Each bookmark restores not only playback position but the corresponding playlist as well
Unique features
Adjustable playback speed: fast/slow 2x - .05x and 2x speed with the same pitch
Non-Unicode encoding support (displays Artist, Album in your own language for Non-Unicode encodings)
doubleTwist Player
Description:
"The Cure for iTunes withdrawal" -- New York Times
Are you tired of using multiple apps for things that your iPod could do out of the box? Download doubleTwist Player and get the best all-in-one music, podcast, radio, video & sync app.
Features include:
♬ Sync music (including iTunes playlists) to your phone from your Mac/PC over USB or AirSync over WiFi.
♬ Download legal, high-quality album artwork for your music.
♬ Smart Playlists for easy access to your Top Rated and Most Played songs.
♬ Subscribe to podcasts without needing a Mac/PC and get new episodes downloaded automatically over 3G or WiFi.
♬ Stream music, videos and photos to devices such as Xbox, PS3, Sonos, and Apple TV
EndoMedia Player
Description:
Play music and video media player application.
Features include:
•Video playback of music files that are stored in SD Card
•Spectrum display of data
You can change the background color of the bar and the size.
When the specified gradation, it takes the color range and peak gradient bar.
•Adjusting the sound quality In Equalizer
5-band equalizer, bass boost, surround settings are available.
You can save 15 presets and custom settings.
•LED-style display in the lyrics and Title Artist Name
You can change the text color as the background magnitude.
•A-B repeat between 2 points
•Movie full screen
•Spectrum, equalizer, preview, etc, set the visibility of each block
Click on the title bar icons.
Jet Audio
Description:
jetAudio is a music player with Wide/Reverb/X-Bass SFX and 10/20 bands EQ.
jetAudio for Windows is the highest rated and most downloaded media player on CNET.COM and, now you can listen to same high-quality sound on your Android phone using jetAudio.
Features include:
* 20-bands graphic equalizer
* Display lyrics in tag (Unsynchronized lyrics)
* 2 New lock screens
* 6 New app widgets : 4x1 (#2), 4x2 (#1), 4x2 (#2), 3x3, 2x2, 2x3
* Wide, Reverb, X-Bass sound effects
* AGC (automatic gain control) to avoid volume fluctuations between tracks
* Speed control from 0.5x to 2.0x (pitch adjusted)
* Crossfading, Gap-less playback
MortPlayer Music
Description:
Simple to use folder based music player with lots of features
Simple to use music player for all those who prefer folder structure over tags. (You want your mix folder, not separated by artists, right?).
Features include:
- Folder based navigation with simple folder change and auto progress to next folder
- Configurable main directory (e.g. all files below "/sdcard/music" or "/sdcard/audiobooks", individual for each player)
- Playlist support: Reads m3u, m3u8, pls, and asx; writes m3u and m3u8; allows adding files outside of main directory; easy access to playlists in main folder and subdirectories
- Ignores .nomedia (you set the directory, should be fine - right?)
- Reads ID3 tags itself (usually less buggy than Android's media library)
- Album art support: ID3 tags (jpg+png, types "other" and "front cover"), AlbumArt.jpg/png, cover.jpg/png, folder.jpg
Winamp
Description:
The Ultimate Media Player for Android.
Play, manage and sync music from your Mac or PC to your Android device. Winamp for Android offers a complete music management solution (2.1 OS & above) featuring wireless desktop sync (latest Winamp Media Player required)
Features include:
Core Features:
* Free Wireless syncing
* Now Supports syncing with Winamp for Mac (beta)
* One-click iTunes library & playlist import
* Over 50k+ SHOUTcast radio stations
* SHOUTcast Featured Stations
* Persistent player controls
* Easily collapsible/expandable Now Playing screen
* Artist news, bios, photos & discographies
* Extras Menu - Now Playing data interacts with other installed apps
* Album art gesturing for track change
* Free Music downloads with Spinner's MP3 of the Day
* Free Music streaming with Full CD Listening Party
* Integrated Android Search & "Listen to" voice action
* Browse by Artists, Albums, Songs or Genres
PlayerPro Music Player
The ultimate music player for Android.
PlayerPro Music Player is an advanced music and video player for Android 2.x+ devices.
Features include:
* Browse and play your music by albums, artists, genres, songs, playlists, folders, and album artists.
* Video browser and player.
* Automatically downloads missing album artwork, artist pictures and genre illustrations.
* Manually pick your preferred album artwork, artist pictures, genre illustrations from the Internet, the Gallery app, ID3 tags, or album folder.
* Change the user interface of the Player by installing one of the 18 available SKINS, all for free.
* Customize the layout, chosing between GRID or LIST views.
* Read album and artist REVIEWS.
* Download, search and and save LYRICS to your music files using standard ID3 tags.
ZPlayer
Description:
Welcome to ZPlayer a Windows Phone 7 / Zune themed media player. Zplayer has become a favorite of many music enthusiasts, who want more than the average music or video player on their mobile devices. It wears a Windows Phone 7 / Zune theme, and so keeps the minimalistic user interface, but incorporates more features into one application than any Android music player available!
Features include:
•Music album reviews, artist biographies, artist top tracks, top songs, top albums, similar artists, similar albums, artist events*, song lyrics*, last.fm scrobbling, last.fm ‘now playing’ status updates, last.fm ‘likes’ submissions
•Video and Audio podcasts streaming and downloads, podcast searching, podcasts subscriptions, podcast resuming.
•Online radio streaming (with metadata), radio searching, radio favorites***
•Music library listening history, Automatic playlists (favorite songs, new songs), playlist creation
•ID3 Tag editing for songs and whole albums, album art editing*, ID3 tag information for songs, cross-playlist adding and removing of tracks,
•Video playback, editable ‘music videos’, and ‘movies’ directories
•Music weekly charts featuring top artists, top tracks, and track favorites of community users
•Browse the albums sections not in your library and even get the album prices, 30 seconds audio samples of tracks, and “Buy” links to the albums.
•Audio Equalizer, Bass boost, Virtualizer, Automatic EQ
n7Player
Description:
Imagine music navigation like never before. We have done it!
We have always believed that music player experience can be something more. This is exactly why we have created n7player. This is a time-limited TRIAL version.
Features include:
- Unique user interface, based on OpenGL, consisting of innovative, fully multi-touchable album covers wall
- Supported audio formats: mp3, mp4, m4a, ogg, wav, 3gp, mid, xmf, ogg, mkv(4.0+), flac (3.1+), aac (3.1+)
- 5 band graphic equalizer with presets – requires Android 2.3+
- Environmental effects, bass boost and sound virtualization technology (SRS/Dolby Surround) (2.3+)
- Automatic and manual album art and artist image downloader
- Tags editor for all supported audio formats
- File browser (SD card) with filters
- 1x4, 2x4 widgets
- Lockscreen widget with direct unlock
- Headset support with many options
- Sleep timer
- Shuffle/repeat
- Lyrics support, using the embedded track lyrics & musicXmatch plugin
- Last.fm scrobbling
TuneWiki
Description:
Play your music with scrolling lyrics
The only music player where you can get, share and talk about lyrics and music.
Features include:
* Listen to any music with scrolling lyrics
* Share lyrics from your favorite songs to Facebook & Twitter
* Get lyrics instantly translated into 40+ languages
* Share Photos from your gallery.
* Free, unlimited SongID with synced lyrics
* Discover new music – songs that are being played and recommended by your friends
* Create, manage, and edit playlists
* View and edit detailed tag info for artists, albums and songs
* Supports installation to SD card. Please note that due to restrictions within the Android OS, the widget will be disabled when the app is on the SD card.
MIUI Player
Description:
The music player from MIUI as a standalone apk, rather than a full-on ROM.
Features include:
*Slick music equalizer
*Live lyrics sync (multiple languages)
*Music downloading feature
*Slick and elegant UI
*Adjust sleep mode time
*Music size filter
*Shake to change song
*And many, many more
BoomBoxoid
Description:
Experience high quality music playback to blow your mind!
A sleek Music Player with powerful media engine & visual features. Experience the rich quality of sound your ears deserve!
Features include:
• Multiple Skins Support. (More on the way)
• Visualizations (Live Wallpaper visualizations now
supported).
• Adjust Pitch/Tempo of Audio (Trial Mode)
• ID3 Tag Editing.
• Compatibility with Music Live wallpapers (even when equalizer and other dsp effects are enabled).
• 10 Band Equalizer (trial mode, resets randomly in free version)
• Bass & Treble Controls
• High Quality widget with album art.
• Drag & Drop play-list re-arrangements.
• Flac and other non standard format integration.
• Folder Playback.
• Swipe Gestures & Bluetooth Headset Controls.
• Album Art scanner and downloader.
CloudSkipper
Description:
A no hassle, *ad-free*, easy to use music player w/ sharing & lockscreen
Features include:
- on-screen volume slider (optional)
- thumb-happy UI
- controls fade out when not in use
- hide status bar (optional)
- loop & shuffle
- playback scrubber
- large album artwork
- Equalizer (EQ), Bass Boost, Reverb, and Virtualizer (Android 2.3+)
- playback controls controls
- Camera & LED flashlight
- on-screen volume slider (optional)
- silent / vibrate toggle
- playlist count
- album artwork, track name, and artist
- play/pause, rewind, fast forward
Google Play Music
Description:
Shop music on Google Play and listen instantly using the Google Play Music app.
Features include:
* Music purchases from Google Play automatically appear in the app.
* Add up to 20,000 more songs from your personal music collection on your computer for free.
* Access your entire music library instantly with the Google Play Music app, and save your favorites for offline playback.
* Share a free full play of the songs you purchase from Google Play with your friends on Google+.
* Learn more about Google Play at http://play.google.com/about/
* Available in the U.S. only.
Neutron Music Player
Description:
Professional audio quality with unique 32/64-bit rendering, fast and easy!
Neutron is a professional music player with high quality 32/64-bit audio rendering engine which helps to deliver to you the best possible sound quality from the Android device.
Neutron provides the sophisticated UI with advanced controls for music playback. It is not easy or another 'pop' music player, it is developed for the audiophiles and those who really in love with music. Recommended for use with Hi-Fi/High-End audio hardware.
Hope you'll like Neutron and have fun with it!
Features include:
* 32/64-bit audio processing for high quality HD audio.
* Audio formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG (Vorbis), FLAC, WMA, WMA Lossless (16-bit only), AC3, AAC, M4A, M4B, M4R, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, ALAC, APE (Monkey's Audio), WV (WavPack), MPC (MusePack), WAV, AU, AIFF, MPG/MPEG (audio only), AVI (audio only), iTunes/Windows Media inclusive except DRM-protected.
* Module music formats: MOD, IM, XM, S3M.
* Voice audio format: SPEEX.
* Surround sound DSP (Ambiophonic R.A.C.E. technology).
* Crossfeed DSP (for better stereo music listening experience with headphones).
* Rumble Filter DSP (to protect speakers from overloading with frequencies below 20 Hz).
* Normalization (post EQ re-mastering of tracks).
* Plus Much More
UberMusic
Description:
UberMusic is a beautiful and highly customizable music player for Android.
You can change the entire user interface by applying skins, which you can find on the market by searching for "UberMusic Skin". The last three screenshots here show the "Metro" skin available for free in the Market.
Features include:
- Fully skinnable (search for "UberMusic Skin" on the Market).
- Automatically downloads artist pictures and sets them as the screen background for that artist.
- 6 different widget sizes. The widget is fully skinnable too.
- Free live wallpaper included that shows album art from your music collection.
- You can click on the "Play" button next to an artist, album, playlist, etc. to directly play all the corresponding tracks.
- True shuffling (as opposed to just choosing a track at random) that avoids playing the same song twice.
- Super smooth interface with custom overscrolling on lists.
- Scrobbling support through the official Last.fm app or through ScrobbleDroid/SLS.
- You can choose which tabs to show on the Library screen.
- Custom minimalistic status bar that you can still swipe down to see your notifications.
Meridian Media Player Revolute
Description:
The most functional and customizable player for your video and music in phone.
The video and music player with most customizable space.
Convenient gestures to control.
Advanced media folder settings, you can set including and excluding folders -- in ANY DEPTH. Not only one level under /sdcard now.
PlayQ rather than playlists, can handle videos, musics, and their MIXTURE. Also, you can put a folder, an artist, an album or like that into a PlayQ.
Features include:
- Music tag editing (mp3, flac, ogg, mp4 audio, etc.)
- .srt subtitle support
- Song rating, can synchronize with PC in Pro version
- Play video as music, for your music videos
- Toolkit to rescan SD card, clean media database
- Folder browsing and index browsing
- Customizable tabs
...and more.
XenoAmp BETA
Description:
*** THIS IS UNFINISHED BETA, DON'T SEND ME ONE STAR, SEND ME ERROR REPORTS ***
Why try another music player when you've seen them all, and you use a better one anyway? Well - you haven't seen a music player like this. And believe me - mine's much bigger than yours!
Forget screenshots, watch it move!
Features include:
- Gapless playback on Jelly Bean!
- Standard audio controls: bass boost, equalizer, virtualizer, etc.
- Equalizer can be calibrated via automatic room correction (WIP)
- Different sound profiles for dock/car/headphones
Media management features:
- Browse your collection faster than ever - see it on a 2D pinch-to-zoom-able matrix with customizable axii
- Were you missing AlbumArtist tag? Well - not anymore
- Picking from zoomable matrix too fancy? Choose your tracks the way geeks do it: with filesystem browser
- Browse your tracks by rating, date of listening, date of adding to library, or playcount, with neat flow-style interface
- Synchronize your music tags to MusicBrainz either automatically or by scanning barcode from your original CD (WIP)
- Automatic album art downloading
- Don't like the album art XenoAmp's fuzzy logic picked? No prob - you can always choose a better one manualy
- And Much More
Folder Player
Description:
Your folders is your player!
This is a totally free (NO Ads!) minimalistic but powerful alternative music player which uses folders to play music or audiobooks: MP3, WMA, OGG or FLAC files. (FLAC/WMA works *ONLY* if supported by your phone).
Navigate deep to any directory you like and play it. You can play individual files too.
Already have your music organized in folders? Folder Player gives you direct access to your library.
Features include:
- integration with bluetooth headphones (and car)
- integration with last.fm (via scrobbler)
- pauses during phone calls and navigation speech
- sequential and random play
- configurable settings
- Equalizer (Android 2.3+)
EZ Folder Player
Description:
EZ Folder Player Free
Prefer using folder to manage your music files?
Always hard to find the song you want to play in Default Android Music Player?
This app is for you!
EZ Folder Player is an alternative music player based on folder structure.
Features include:
* Browse to your music folder and choose which music file you want to start playing.
* You can also play a folder with all it's sub-folders by click the folder icon.
* Supports Shuffle / Repeat one / Repeat All.
* Provides 4x1 4x2 widgets.
* You can modify the initial folder in settings.
Music Players Cont...
Rocket Music Player
Description:
The music player you haven't heard of... yet.
Rocket Music Player was designed with both the easy and advanced listener in mind. The easy to use interface allows you to browse to the music you want to hear faster without getting bogged down in details and extra buttons. Additionally, advanced options give you an opportunity to create your own music listening experience with quick playlist editing and a dynamic equalizer.
Features include:
☆ Browse and play your music by albums, artists, genres, songs, podcasts and playlists
☆ Create and edit playlists within the player
☆ 5 band graphic equalizer (Android 2.3+)
☆ iSyncr Live Lists dynamically update while playing
☆ Fade in and out when playing and stopping songs
☆ Controllable from the lockscreen
☆ Podcast bookmarking
☆ 4x1 and 4x2 widget
☆ Support for most scrobbling apps
☆ And Much More
MixZing Media Player
Description:
MixZing is simply the most advanced media player around!
Features include:
▷ Music ID identifies your songs, even those without valid tags, and lets you clean up their tags and album art
▷ Displays lyrics for millions of songs
▷ Mood Player creates custom listening sessions--like Pandora for your music!
▷ Graphic equalizer for MP3, AAC/M4A and OGG files
▷ Discover great new music from independent musicians (provided by Indaba Music)
▷ Automatically saves playlists and lets you restore deleted ones
▷ Folder browser lets you access your media collection by storage folders
▷ Tag editor for most file types
▷ Discover new music with spot-on recommendations
▷ Lock-screen widget to control player while phone is locked
▷ Sleep timer
▷ Automatically downloads missing album art
▷ Home-screen widgets with album art
▷ Batch playlist editing
▷ Genre and video browsing
Xplay music player
Description:
Play your music with xplay.
"Xplay" - is a handy music player for android with an equalizer visualization, management of your playlists and music library.
Features include:
- Browse your music library and playlists upravelnie (delete, edit, create).
- Playing in folders.
- Gorgeous design.
- Evalayzer with the ability to save presets, create and edit presets.
- Effects Bass bust, virtualizer
- Ability to edit the tags.
- Two lock screen widget widget and four desktop.
- Six types of visualization.
- Many options allow the player to tune for themselves for every taste.
- Operation with headsets (three-button single-button, and).
- Rating system.
- Control the volume using the buttons.
HikiPlayer
Description:
HikiPlayer is a lightweight folder based music player.
Features include:
-Local lyrics search by tag
-Customizable text, background, icon color
-Customizable font, icon, seekbar size
-Skins
-Auto-color mode (set colors based on album art image)
-СUE sheet support (if your device supports FLAC, APE etc.)
-Embedded and external album art (cover.jpg, front.jpg etc.)
-Video playback (codecs supported by device)
-Supports subtitles (.srt)
-Last.fm scrobbling
-Playlist shuffle
-Supports headset buttons
-Decrease the volume on phone call
-Home screen widget
-File operations
-Text viewer
-Image viewer
-Ad free
Clean Music Player
Description:
simple, fast, and elegant audio player
Clean Music is a simple, fast, and elegant folder player. You browse to the directory and tap it; no scrolling through the large portfolio of the great Renaissance man Unknown, no scanning your folder every start up, and no CD or folder icon, tiled over and over again to meaninglessness.
Features include:
• Tap a single song to play it and the rest of the songs in its directory.
• Long-press a song or directory to play individual songs, entire directory trees, or a combination of both.
• Long-press to organize your directory structure, too.
• Use MetaSort if your file names don't have track numbers in them.
• Hit repeat if you don't want it to stop when it's done playing your directory, tree, or individual song.
• Integrates with the equalizers in Cyanogenmod Stable and Android ICS.
☆ Clean Music is ad free!
• Despite the name, Clean Music will play any audio file supported by your phone, even if it's not actually music. Remember Position is particularly nice for audiobooks.
Apollo
Description:
Ever since it was released, I have been trying to use Google Music to synchronize and manage my music collection, in addition to the third party DoubleTwist player for local music. However, the setup isn’t ideal, and I am still on the lookout for a better way to play and manage music on my Android device. As such, when the Apollo application showed up preinstalled on a recent nightly build of my current daily ROM CyanogenMod, I decided to give the new music player a try and see how well it worked.
When I first opened the app, it became clear that Apollo is all about simplicity. There are only two main parts of the app: the music navigation screen and now playing screen. The music navigation screen itself has three main parts: a top navigation panel, main content display in the middle, and the now playing bar at the bottom. The top navigation bar contains the different tabs that you swipe left or right to navigate through, including “Recent,” “Artists,” “Albums,” “Songs,” “Playlists,” and “Genres.” Sensibly enough, the content display panel in the middle contains a list of the content in whatever tab you select, with the “Artists” and “Albums” tab sprucing things up a bit with almost Metro-like displays of album artwork. At the bottom of the screen, the now playing tab shows you what song is currently playing with the option to favorite it, as well as the search and menu buttons.
Moving on to the now playing screen, the simplicity and clean style of Apollo are still evident. The favorite, search, and menu buttons on the top and standard music buttons like play and shuffle on the bottom flank a large album art display. While this might not be the best setup for showing information about the song or detailed settings, it does look very clean and simple, and the basic controls you will need are all there. Also, at least in CyanogenMod Apollo also supports a notification bar widget with music controls as well as a lockscreen widget with controls by default, something most other unofficial music players don’t.
However, it seems that Apollo may have carried their policy of simplicity in the interface a bit too far, as Apollo has a fairly basic list of extra features. In addition to the most basic music playing duties, Apollo will also scrobble and favorite tracks for Last.fm, plug into the stock CyanogenMod EQ/DSP Manager app and Android share menu, and work with a few themes. This means that the settings menu currently only houses an options to change themes, and users running Apollo without DSP Manager installed might be out of luck in terms of EQ.
Sensor music player
Description:
Intuitive music player, using fun, useful and innovative controls.
Powered by exclusive algorythms, this full-featured player allows you to skip songs without using your screen.
Features include:
Walking, dining, driving, partying : there is a sensor mode for each situations !
5 easy-to-access modes are available :
- Wave over : Wave your hand in front of your device (5cm max) to play/skip current song. Wave twice quickly to go back to previous track. Hold it 0.5s to pause. The proximity sensor we use is generally located around the device front speaker.
- Pocket : Lock the device, put in your pocket, slap it to skip current track.
- Hammer : Put the device on a surface like a table, hit the table to skip current song. WARNING: using the device loudspeaker can produce enough vibration to fire the action ! (you can adjust sensitivity if needed)
- Custom : In case you feel the need to use different sensor settings. Set wich sensors you want to enable, set sensitivty and your own action for each sensor events !
- Sensors disabled : Sensors are disabled, you can only use buttons to control the player.
Additional features :
- on-the-go drag'n drop playlist
- library browsing by artist, genre, folders...
- equalizer, Bass Boost, Virtualizer (android > 2.3)
- smart search bar
- home screen widget
Kiwi Player
Description:
Kiwi players
The versatility of Kiwi Player Playing music is an application that can be used. In addition to basic music player features a detailed equalizer, using an acceleration sensor is easy to play with Next Track. Is adjustable through the menu. Producer: Kim, Keum-Tae and Lee, Sang-Hyeok
Gingerbread will be more ^ ^
First runs directly from the open market rather than by pressing the Run After returning Market please ^ ^
jukefox - a smart music player
Description:
Most unique music player for android - try it an see the difference!
jukefox (beta), formerly known as museek, is a music player for large collections (>20 albums). It knows about music similarity, and allows new ways to interact with your music collection. Jukefox provides a rich set of functions, including:
Features include:
* map of your albums in 2D and 3D
* smart shuffling mode that automatically detects your mood
* auto generated tag clouds to select precisely the style of music you want to hear
* automatically downloads album covers
* gapless playback
* scrobbles to last.fm
* shake skip
Smart Music Player
Description:
Smart Music Player is more than a simple app: It can learn what songs you prefer
Smp is more than a simple music application: It can learn what songs you prefer!
Features include:
- drag and drop for add/move songs
- smart playlists
- shake actions
- notification/gesture control
- auto-download album art
- queue, twitter
- folder playlist
Iconic Music Player
Description:
This music player does not try to be the most beautiful ( yet ), but does try to be the most usable.
Please email me if you have any feature requests or bugs.
Please note that this is still a beta version so do expect lots of improvements and new features in the coming weeks and months.
Enjoy your music!
Denon Club
Description:
Designed to enhance the listening experience with Denon’s new line of Urban Raver™ headphones, the Denon Club app features a premium audio player that lets you experience the best possible sound quality from your digital music library and favorite Internet radio stations. Gain one-touch access to the lyrics of the song you’re listening to, create & save custom EQ curves and audio effects, create & save instant playlists, enjoy internet radio stations via the built-in TuneIn service, and more. The Denon Club app will quickly replace all of your other music apps.
Features include:
- Graphical equalizer for your music library
- 5 band EQ
- 3 audio effects (Virtualizer, Bass Boost, and Reverb)
- 10 built in EQ Presets
- Create and save your own audio presets
- Bypass mode to quickly compare the original and equalized audio
MUSIC LIBRARY FEATURES:
- Enhances your listening experience with Denon Urban Raver Headphones or other audio playback devices such as a/v receivers, car stereos via USB, or Bluetooth.
- One-touch access to lyrics for the song you’re listening to over the internet thanks to integrated LyricWiki.
- Powerful queue based playback system lets you build and order your own playlist on the fly.
- Much More
³ (aka Cubed)
Description:
Visualize your music!
This is the beta version of the ³ (aka Cubed) music player. Enjoy!
NOTE_ If you are having issues with album art run 'Get Art' again. If that does not work try deleting the art cache (in the preferences menu) and then running 'Get Art' again. As a last resort you can try deleting the /sdcard/albumthumbs/RockOnNg folder.
musiXmatch Lyrics & Music
Description:
Welcome to #1 Lyrics APP on Google Play and World's largest Lyrics DB
musiXmatch Lyrics & Music player is a deep dive into the world of song lyrics, with the largest and most exhaustive official catalog of song lyrics, with more than 6 mln lyrics in 20 languages.
More than a pure Karaoke!
♫ FIRST LYRICS IDENTIFIER ♫
musiXmatch is the #1 Android lyrics app and music player that lets you:
Features include:
★ Identify UNLIMITED Lyrics with powerful MUSIC ID
★ Manage your music library with My Music (by artist,album, track,playlist,etc)
★ Save your lyrics in your FAVORITE
★ Search for Lyrics by typing words, artist name, song title, etc
★ Get Lyrics notification instantly from others player
★ Browse Lyrics OFFLINE
★ WIDGET AVAILABLE
Video Players
MX Player
Description:
MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies.
Features include:
a) HARDWARE DECODING - With new h/w decoder, more videos can take benefit from hardware acceleration.
b) MULTI-CORE DECODING - MX Player is the first Android video player that performs multi-core decoding. According to the test results on dual-core devices, it shows up to 70% performance improvement than single-core devices.
c) PINCH TO ZOOM - Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across screen.
d) SUBTITLE SCROLL - Scroll on subtitle text and playback position will be adjusted to match previous or next subtitle timing.
e) KIDS LOCK - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry about making calls or touching other apps. (plugin required)
f) ANDROID 4.1 - Fully supports Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
MoboPlayer
Description:
Enjoy Your Video.
The best video player on Android! Watch any of your videos on a phone without conversion, anytime and anywhere.
We feature the best playback experience and quality.
Features include:
Our video player supports:
All video formats (need to choose "software decoding" mode in most cases)
Popular subtitle formats such as SRT, ASS, and SAA
Subtitles built in MKV, MPV, MOV, and others
Multi-audio streams and multi-subtitles
Playlists and continuous play on same type files
Videos streamed through HTTP, RTSP protocols
Media libraries and sort videos by type
Thumbnail displays of videos
VPlayer Video Player
Description:
The best video player for Android.
VPlayer 1.x is the next generation of VPlayer, which brings experimental HW accelerated decoding and rendering to HD MKV/AVI/MOV/FLV/TS/M4V/3GP for most Android devices.
Access your NAS/Wifi/UPnP/DLNA/DVR/Dropbox/Facebook/Gmail videos from VPlayer seamlessly!!!
Play Youtube videos and Vimeo videos directly in VPlayer!
This is a free trial for 7 days with full features. Please buy 'VPlayer Unlocker' to continue use VPlayer.
VPlayer is a HW accelerated Media player for android. It use HW video decoder at various containers and audio codecs combination.
Dual Core/High end devices ( Sensation , Galaxy S/S2 , Nexus-S ) can play 720p even 1080p MKV/AVI/MOV/FLV/TS/M4V/3GP.
VPlayer drains less bettery than SW based players such as MX Video Player, MoboPlayer.
ICS devices can play 1080p files with full HW accelerations, Honeycomb tablets can play 720p MKV with Full HW accelerations.
If you use MIUI, CM7 or unofficial ROMs that can not play MKV/FLV/MOV/AVI using default player, VPlayer is the best solution.
Features include:
Formats
- AVI,MOV,MKV,FLV,AVI,3GP,3G2,ASF,WMV,MP4,M4V,TP,TS,MTP,M2T
Video Codecs
- HW : MPEG-4,H.264,H.263
- SW : MPEG-4,H.264,RMVB,XVID,MS MPEG-4,VP6,H.263,MPEG-1,MPEG-2
Audio Codecs
- AAC,Vorbis,FLAC,MP3,MP2,WMA
- Mutitle audtio tracks support
Subtitle
- (Advanced) SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass), SAMI(.smi), SubViewer(.sub), Subrip(.srt), MicroDVD(.sub), MPL2(.txt)
- MKV subtitle extraction supported
- Unicode/Multibyte charset supported.
- Mutiple subtitle tracks support
- Increased subtitle readability with thicker border and shadow around text.
DicePlayer
Description:
* If you have problems , please uninstall and re-install diceplayer.
HW Accelerated Video Player with Playback speed control and Network support.
Features include:
* POP-UP Play
* Network Support : Windows Share / FTP / HTTP
* Multiple audio track
* Multiple subtitle track : external sub also suppoted.
* HW Accelerations : no limitations like a network , containers.
Formats
- AVI,MOV,MKV,FLV,AVI,3GP,3G2,ASF,WMV,MP4,M4V,TS,MTP,M2TS
Playback speed control
- up to x2.0 ( on HW )
- audio pitch correction support
Subtitle format
- SSA,SMI,SRT, VoBSub (beta)
- MKV/MP4 embedded subtitle supported
- Unicode/Multibyte charset supported.
BSPlayer FREE
Description:
Ultimate video player for your smartphone, give it a try - you won't regret it!
BSPlayer FREE is the best hardware accelerated video player for Android smartphones and tablet PCs.
Features include:
- background playback in popup window (video and audio)
- hardware accelerated video playback - increases speed and reduces battery consumption*
- Support for almost all media files (video and audio player), such as: avi, divx, flv, mkv, mov, mpg, mts, mp4, m4v, rmvb, wmv, 3gp, mp3... and streaming content such as RTMP, RTSP, MMS (tcp, http), HTTP Live stream, HTTP.
- Multiple audio streams and subtitles.
- Playlist support and various playback modes.
- External and embedded subtitles ssa/ass, srt, sub...
- Find subtitles automatically (mobile data or wi-fi must be enabled to work)
- Playback media files such as videos and mp3's directly via Wi-Fi from your LAN shared drives/folders (such as external USB drives, Samba (SMB/CIFS) shared drives, PC shared folders, NAS servers (Synology and others)) - no need to convert video files and copy media files to SD card anymore!
- Playback files directly from uncompressed RAR files and much more!
Super Video, Floating & Popup
Description:
FREE Popup Floating Video with re-size, move window, two multi-window play-back.
Super Video, Floating!
█ YouTube feature is not working now.
YouTube has change the API, it will make the Super Video's YouTube feature not working now. It will take some times to survey the new method. Don't buy the pro license if you just want to use the YouTube feature.
█ The Best Popup Video Player.
Full Popup Floating Video with re-size, move window, two multi-windows play-back. Better operation experience, support subtitle and FREE in the popup video technique.
█ DEMO VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cenFDf72aI
█ Introduction
The "Super Video, Floating!" is an innovation video playback software for Android OS. It has a pop-up floating window system that can show the video on the top of your screen. In other words, you can watch your video content in any application. You can watch the video and do something else at the same time!
Features include:
☆ Popup Video Player.
☆ Simple Widget
☆ Multi-Window Video Player.
☆ Full Subtitle Support for Video Playback.
☆ Friendly and Simply User Inferface with Grid, List and 3D Gallery.
☆ 100% NO AD, Made in Taiwan.
☆ Support Vitamio Software Decoder to view the more format (like MPG, RM, RMVB, FLV, MKV ... etc) video file with floating player. (Need the Vitamio Plug-in and Android 2.3 later)
Wondershare Player
Description:
All-in-one media player to "Discover latest videos to watch online & offline"
Wondershare Player is an all-in-one Video Player & Video Discovery to "Discover latest videos to watch online & offline", no need for other players or codecs.
Features include:
* Watch Videos Later
Sometimes, you may be interrupted suddenly when you are enjoying a movie; or frustrated by the network connection. Now, don't be upset, you can add it in the "Watch Later" Queue, to watch it later without a data plan. Wondershare Player can download streaming videos from CNN, NY Times, Ted Talk, NASA TV, Funny or Die.
* Best Video Player for Android
Wondershare Player plays smoothly without any problem no matter the codec or format.
It supports all the video and audio formats, including FLV, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, RM, RMVB, ASF, M2TS, MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, M2TS, VOB, F4V, 3GP, etc.
It supports subtitles embedded video files, supports subtitles as SubStation Alpha(.ssa/.ass), SAMI(.smi/.sami), SubRip(.srt), MicroDVD(.sub/.txt), SubViewer2.0(.sub), MPL2(.mpl/.txt), PowerDivX(.psb/.txt), TMPlayer(.txt).
It plays DVD folders from SD card directly with DVD menu navigation.
It supports continuous playback and can automatically remember your last played position.
* And Much More
RealPlayer®
Description:
RealPlayer, the popular media player for music, video and photos provides features allowing you to customize your music listening experience. Supported in 9 languages, popular features include an intuitive user interface, widgets, equalizer, lastFM scrobbling, metadata editing, optimized graphics for high-res devices and more, so you can listen to music your way. This all-in-one player is brought to you by RealNetworks, dedicated to bringing you the ultimate media experience.
Features include:
• Music, videos and photos all in one place
• Available in nine languages
• Optimized graphics for high-res devices
• Playlists
• lastFM scrobbling
• Voice commands for search
• Control playback when phone is locked
• Sharing on popular social media sites
• Move application to SD card
• Set your favorite song as a ringtone
• Headphones controls
• Auto bookmarking of videos
• Home screen widgets to control media
• Access any file format your device supports
Additional Features – available through an in-app upgrade
• Graphic equalizer with ability to save custom settings
• Metadata discovery using the Gracenote database
• Manual metadata editing
• Cross fading for a seamless music experience
• RealAudio and RealVideo (rmvb) support
• No advertisements
VLC Beta (NEON version)
Description:
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming protocols.
This is a BETA version of the port to the Android™ platform. It is intended for power users and hackers. This version is not perfectly stable and is slower than the final version.
Features include:
NOTA BENE
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This version is ONLY for devices with a CPU ARMv7 that will support NEON. Other devices will be supported by other applications, very soon.
Features
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VLC for Android™ plays most local video and audio files, as well as network streams (including adaptive streaming), like the desktop version of VLC.
VLC for Android has a media library for audio and video files, and allows to browse folders directly.
VLC has support for multi-track audio and subtitles. It supports auto-rotation, aspect-ratio adjustments and gestures to control volume.
It also includes a widget for audio control, supports audio headsets control, cover art and a complete audio media library.
Missing Features
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As this is an early BETA version, a lot of things are not finished, but will change for the final release:
• The basic User Interface will change;
• Performance improvements are missing;
• Hardware decoding works only with a limited set of hardware;
• Other unknown issues.
Permissions
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• It needs hardware control, in order to change the audio volume;
• It needs phone calls control, in order to pause the music when someone is calling;
• It needs full Internet access to open network streams;
• It needs to be able to read logs, during the beta version, to understand the issues;
• It needs to get access to the SD card storage, in order to allow deletion of files.
• It needs to get access to the settings, in order to change your audio ringtone.
Act 1 Video Player
Description:
The best video experience on Android!
THE BEST PLAYER for video media on your sdcard. Lots of unique features!
Full paid version available; Select "View More Applications" on this screen to find it. This trial version is fully functional but limited to two minutes of continuous video playback for evaluation purposes.
Features include:
✓ Playlists (with random play)
✓ Thumbnails (only on devices with Android 2.0 or newer)
✓ Video zoom options (aspect, full, custom)
✓ SRT subtitle support
✓ Bookmarks (up to 20 for each video)
✓ Home screen shortcuts to videos and playlists
✓ Play in the background while you run other apps or turn off the screen
✓ A-B repeat
✓ Video sharing
✓ On-screen clock, timer, and battery meter
✓ Seeking by seekbar, screen gestures, trackball, and D-pad
✓ Screen brightness and button brightness controls (buttons on Froyo only)
✓ Resume points remembered for all your videos
✓ Video sorting and grouping options
✓ Delete/rename videos
✓ Video streaming
✓ Lots of shortcuts, conveniences, and configurations
HD Video Player Free
Description:
HD Video Player is the best video player and mp3 music player for Android.
Watch tv shows, movies, music videos as well as locally stored FLV and SWF flash video files. (You don't need to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin.)
Features include:
Video: mp4, wmv, avi, mkv, dv, rm, mp, mpeg, flv, divx, swf, dat, h264, h263, h261, 3gp, 3gpp, asf, mov, m4v, ogv, vob, vstream, ts.
Audio: mp3, wma, ogg, mp2, flac, aac, ac3, amr, pcm, wav, au, aiff, 3g2, m4a, astream.
It saves your time and disk space to transcoding or format converting. Just put your video on sdcard or click the URL in browser to watch it.
Support sub: srt, ass, ssa, sub,txt, utf, smi, rt,aqt, jss, js, utf8, utf-8.
It load external subtitle with same name of video automatically and support .m3u playlist.
Seaman Video Player Free
Description:
Seaman Video Player is a powerful video player and mp3 music player for Android.
By using this free mobile media player, you can watch tv shows, movies, music videos on your Android phone as well as locally stored FLV flash video files (no need to install Adobe Flash Player Plugin).
It can handle all popular video formats including AVI, DiVX, Xvid, MOV, MP4, WMV, RMVB, MKV, ASF, MPG, FLV Flash Video as well as audio formats AAC, AC3, MP3, and more.
Being based on the FFmpeg project, optimized for mobile devices, and highly optimized core video and mp3 player, Seaman Video Player has become more popular in the mobile video and mp3 player market.
No need to install any video codecs, all video and audio codecs are already built-in.
It's capable of playing incomplete or damaged video files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play partially downloaded files.
Features include:
Audio Formats:
MP3, MP2, AAC, WMA (1,2,3), Midi *, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729, GSM
Video Formats:
H.264 (AVC), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV (7,8,9), Theora *, Dirac *, MJPEG, MSVIDEO (1,2 , 3), rv (10,20,30,40), SVQ1, SVQ3
Multiplex format Formats:
FLV, Matroska, ASF, ASX, AVI, PS,, 3GPP, MOV, MPEG-4, OGM, NSV，rmvb/rm
Here are some key features of Seaman Video Player:
- Fluently play videos on mobile phone with no more transcoding: Seaman Video Player plays almost all video files on your PC, such as avi, rmvb, flv, mkv, etc. It's like watching live tv on your android.
- Best Experience: With better performance, higher image quality, higher resolution! Seaman Video Player will reform your video experience on mobile devices! Watch tv shows, movies and music videos.
- Dual Core Playback: Beside the high performance engine built-in, Seaman Video Player also makes the most of the OpenCORE inside Android system; you may switch the engine freely.
- Handy Features: resume playing, subtitle support, battery prompt over the video view.
Requirements:
HTC machine (Android 1.6 - 2.3.3) test has been passed and has not tested other models, if any problem, please provide the model name, the system specific information, we will solve.
Moai FLV Player
Description:
Simple FLV Player on SD-Card.
Moai FLV Player is simple FLV Player on SD-Card.
need Adobe AIR2.7 and Android2.2.
When you select the flv file from File Manager, you can launch the app.
To enable this feature, please set the following settings Mime Type of File Manager.
flv.....video/x-flv
f4v.....video/mp4
Video Player
Description:
Videos is the best video organizer.
Features include:
* Sort by name, date, duration
* Thumbnails
No ads
Videos is the best video organizer for Android. Organize and play videos from your SD card and phone. Videos was designed to allow quick access to all your videos. Videos integrates with your default video player or any other video player you have installed.
* Sort your videos by date added, name or duration.
* Sort ascending or descending order
* Thumbnails of videos (only on Android v2.0 or newer)
* Name of video
* Length of video
* bookmark
* Remembers exit point for each video
* Will play all h264 & 3gp videos and any other video format your phone will support. Please check your phones documentation for full list of supported formats.
TPlayer (Video Player)
Description:
The best way to enjoy your movies.
The most powerful video player on Android!
Our player supports:
All video formats and protocols.
Best playback experience and quality with dual-engine.
Movies auto-detected and listed with thumbnail and details.
Manage your movies easily.
Features include:
Enjoy or download plenty of web videos free (when sky browser has been installed), including:
e.g. Youku, Tudou, Qiyi, Sohu video, Phoenix video, QQLive, Ku6, CCTV, PPlive, Yinyuetai, Sina video, LeTV, 56, 163, etc.
Mainstream handset based on android 2.x/3.x/4.x and Armv5/v6/v7 chipsets inside.
Optimize for your CPU fully.
aVia Media Player
Description:
aVia simplifies accessing personal media with one, easy to use, media player.
With aVia you can play, manage, and share your music, video, and photos from all of your Android-connected devices so that your favorite media is available anytime, anywhere.
Features include:
- Optimizations for Android tablets and smartphones, Google TV, and Kindle Fire devices
- Play music, videos, and view photos through a variety of sources including social media websites (Facebook and Google+)
- Easily Fling media between personal devices
- DLNA streaming capabilities allow for sharing between compatible devices within a network
- DLNA server capabilities built into the app
- Easily create playlists and rate content using the intuitive interface
- Support for video scaling and subtitles
- Support for video codes and audio
SuperPlayer Video Player
Description:
SuperPlayer Video Player, best and simplest video player to enjoy your movies
SuperPlayer - The best and simplest video player to enjoy your movies on Android platform.
Features include:
SuperPlayer can play almost every kinds of video format, including avi, flv, 3gp, mp4, rm, rmvb, mpg, mov, asf, mkv, webm ...
SuperPlayer supports multi-language subtitles, supports srt, ass, sub, smi format and video's embed subtitle.
SuperPlayer can play video smoothly, we use hardware decoder if there is one, otherwise we use software decorder (thanks to FFMPEG).
SuperPlayer is very easy to use: copy videos to sdcard, launch SuperPlayer, scan the videos and watch it. You don't need any setting at all.
(The first time you scan videos, it may take some time if there are many files on your SDCard).
Simple MP4 Video Player
Description:
Play your videos (mp4 and flv files) from your SD-card
with this simple player. This player supports only mp4 and flv video formats. Subtitles are not supported yet.
You don't need to install Flash® Player Plugin, any other codec or
any other plugin to use this app to play videos (flv and mp4 video formats).
Please support development of new features by clicking the +1 button.
[******IMPORTANT******]
This free app is ad supported and contains ads in the notification tray which is not a virus. The ads help us create and maintain these free apps for you. This app doesn't contain any malware, virus or spyware. Please, respect the developer work. If you don't like notification ads, you can just uninstall the app, opt-out at http://opt.leadbolt.com/ or buy the paid version of this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.br.com.bitlabs.VideoPlayerAdFree
[******IMPORTANT******]
[Minimum Requirements]
Need Android 2.2 or superior. ARMv7 processor with vector FPU, minimum 550MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0, H.264 and AAC HW decoders and 256MB of RAM.
[Known Issues]
- Some Asus Transformer devices may play videos without audio.
- Devices with low processor power may experience poor video quality (delays).
[Usage Instructions]
1) Put your favorite mp4 and flv video files on your SD Card.
2) Open Simple MP4 Video Player.
3) Navigate to the video file you want to select.
4) Select the video file to watch.
☆ Stick it! (Pop-up Player)
Description:
Do you want to keep using your device while watching movies ? Stick it! is the way to go! Enjoy the desktop experience on your Android device!
!!! YOUTUBE SUPPORT: READ THE FAQ !!!
Stick it! is the only video player of its kind : it can live on top of your screen, above any of your other applications and allow you to use your device’s other features (browsing, emailing, texting...) while watching your favorite movie! Impress your friends with the MultiView™ feature !
Features include:
☆ MultiView™ : watch multiple movies simultaneously !
☆ Truly floating player : move, resize and minimize supported
☆ Background playing
☆ YouTube support (beta)
☆ Supports most video formats
☆ Streaming support (MMS, RTSP, HTTP)
☆ Built-in themes (Windows 7, Mac OSX, more to come)
☆ Built-in file browser
FLV Video Player
Description:
Play your flv files from your SD-card
with this simple player.
You don't need to install Flash® Player Plugin or
any other plugin to use this app to play flv videos.
[******IMPORTANT******]
This free app is ad supported and contains ads in the notification tray which is not a virus. The ads help us create and maintain these free apps for you. This app doesn't contain any malware, virus or spyware. Please, respect the developer work. If you don't like notification ads, you can just uninstall the app, opt-out at http://opt.leadbolt.com/ or buy the paid version of this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.br.com.bitlabs.FLVPlayerAdFree
[******IMPORTANT******]
Adobe® Systems, Inc discontinued the Flash® Player Plugin for mobile devices, but with FLV Player you will be able to watch your flv video files.
Please support development of new features by clicking the +1 button.
[Minimum Requirements]
Need Android 2.2 or superior. ARMv7 processor with vector FPU, minimum 550MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0, H.264 and AAC HW decoders and 256MB of RAM.
[Known Issues]
- Some Asus Transformer devices may play videos without audio.
- Devices with low processor power may experience poor video quality (delays).
[Usage Instructions]
1) Put your favorite flv video files on your SD Card.
2) Open FLV Player.
3) Navigate to the flv file you want to select.
4) Select the flv file to watch.
[Trademarks]
Flash® and Flash® Player are a registered trademarks of Adobe® Systems, Inc.
BIT LABS is not associated or related to Adobe® Systems, Inc.
Advanced Video Player
Description:
There must be a media player on your mobile phone and it help you enjoy movie when you have nothing to do or what to relax yourself after a long time working. But do your player can play all kinds of file? Can your media player support you search other files in your mobile? Can you take shortcut to the screen when you love a scene most? Can you add subtitle to video and use them to learn foreign language or new song? If not, I have to say your media player is out of date and you need an advanced one now!
Advanced Media Player Pro is the latest video player with advanced function in it. IT supported all kinds of video format like flv, mp4, asf, wav and other hundred video formats appeared on market. If you download this file, you need not download video converter any more and you can download all video from popular sites like YouTube, Nico-video and so on with your computer or other devices.
Features include:
1.Make shot about the screen. When you watch the video, there are must some scene impressed you most, you can shot them and save in your SD card.
2.Size button help you change the size of the screen.
3.Subtitle button help you add subtitle into this video you are playing. It will show you all file in your mobile, press the subtitle file, you can add them into video successfully.
4.Lock the screen with lock button. If you what to unlock, please press menu button on your mobile.
5.About button help you give me five stars share with friends or tell me the problems you find about this media player.
6.There is a playing bar under the screen. Press the bar, you can make fast forward or rewind.
7.Press the button on the end of the bar, you can make a pause/stop or continue to play.
8.Under the bar are words tell you what's the name and format of the playing video.
9.Slide the screen on the right side can help you manage the volume size.
10.Slide the screen on the left side can manage brightness of the video.
Download Links
Music Players
GoneMAD Music Player: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
PowerAMP: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Astro Player Nova: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
doubleTwist Player: Link to FREE version
EndoMedia Player: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
jetAudio: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
MortPlayer Music: Link to FREE version
Winamp: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
ZPlayer: Link to PAID version
n7Player: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
TuneWiki Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
MIUI Player: Link to FREE version
BoomBoxoid: Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
CloudSkipper: Link to FREE version
Google Play Music Link to FREE version
Neutron Music Player Link to PAID version - Link to FREE version
UberMusicLink to PAID version
Meridian Media Player Revolute Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
XenoAmp BETA Link to FREE version
Folder Player Link to FREE version
EZ Folder PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Rocket Music PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
MixZing Media PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Xplay Music PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
HikiPlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Clean Music Player Link to FREE version
Apollo Link to FREE version
Sensor music player Link to FREE version
Kiwi Player Link to FREE version
jukefox - a smart music player Link to FREE version
Smart Music Player Link to FREE version
Iconic Music Player Link to FREE version
Denon Club Link to FREE version
³ (aka Cubed)Link to FREE version - Link to DONATE version
musiXmatch Lyrics & Music Link to FREE version
Video Players
MX PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
MoboPlayer Link to FREE version
V Player Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
DicePlayer Link to FREE version
BSPlayer FREE Link to FREE version
Super Video, Floating & Popup Link to FREE version
Wondershare Player Link to FREE version
RealPlayer Link to FREE version
VLC Beta (NEON version) Link to FREE version
Act 1 Video Player Link to FREE version - Link to PAID version
HD Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Seaman Video Player Free Link to FREE version
Moai FLV Player Link to FREE version
Video Player Link to FREE version
TPlayer (Video Player) Link to FREE version
aVia Media Player Link to FREE version
SuperPlayer Video Player Link to FREE version
Simple MP4 Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
☆ Stick it! (Pop-up Player) Link to FREE version
FLV Video PlayerLink to FREE version - Link to PAID version
Advanced Video Player Link to FREE version
If you guys have any suggestions of Video or Music Players to be added to the list then please Comment below.
They will all be added.
Have Fun and Enjoy
Great list, man!
Maybe you could generate some community interest by also asking people to comment on the players they use, why they use them and what ROMs they use them on.
Here are a couple more:
FLV Players:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.br.com.bitlabs.FLVPlayer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.jp.moai.flvplayer
A little known player, but quite capable:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AdMP27A3
And one more which isn't quite a media player, but I always have it on my phones:
Tube mate
http://tubemate.net/
Great for downloading videos
Keep up the good work!
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And one more which isn't quite a media player, but I always have it on my phones:
Tube mate
http://tubemate.net/
Great for downloading videos
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Hi there Tubemate is considered warez mate as it gives users the ability to freely download Videos from Youtube which is against Youtube policies.
But thank you for your suggestions. They have been added to the OP
Advanced Video Player
FLV Video Player Have both been added to the OP and Download Links are available
Thanks for your suggestions and keep them coming.
Also please feel free to comment with any feedback of any player you see above whether it be good or bad.
Enjoy
Cool, I'll comment a couple of lines on one or two.
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The wait is over everyone.
I have added an AROMA INSTALLER which contains all the Music and Video Player so it makes installing them quicker and easier as you now don't need to worry about Google Play Store saying if its Compatible with your Device or not.
Check out the First Post for more details.
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I just got an update today for both my Gnex and N7 and tested it out and it works!!! I am SOO happy now This has been bothering me for so long, but after the update, I put a live album on that is easy to tell and there were NO GAPS!!
I'm just mildly happy. It does work for MP3 and Vorbis files, but not for AAC which I happen to use for my audio collection. Haven't tested any other formats so far.
Definitely a step in the right direction though.
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I'm just mildly happy. It does work for MP3 and Vorbis files, but not for AAC which I happen to use for my audio collection. Haven't tested any other formats so far.
Definitely a step in the right direction though.
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Well, I upload my music to google music, and all higher quality music just gets converted to the highest rate MP3 anyway. But that is good to know, thanks.
Listening to it now, love it.
#Galaxy Nexus HSPA+
I think this was done in time to appease people who buy the Nexus 4 and need a solution for music that they can't put on their phone due to the low storage space.
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I think this was done in time to appease people who buy the Nexus 4 and need a solution for music that they can't put on their phone due to the low storage space.
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And gapless playback helps this how?
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And gapless playback helps this how?
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People with a ton of music on their computer, especially live albums, tend to love things like gapless playback. If they can't play a lot of music on their phone locally, as is the case on the Nexus 4 with its limited storage which is also needed for apps, photos, video, etc, they will buy another phone or a dedicated mp3 player. However, now that Google music has gapless playback just in time for the sale of the Nexus 4, more people will warm up to the idea of playing their music over the cloud with a Nexus 4 and they will buy it.
This isn't related to cloud storage. Gapless playbck didn't work AT ALL in the Android music app until now, even for files stored on the device.
I've tested a different AAC encoder and the files it produced do play gaplessly.
Apparently, the gapless information stored by Nero AAC (current version 1.5.4.0) isn't supported by the Android music app. It does work an any other device/software player with gapless playback support I tried, so the problem is probably on Google's end. It even works on Apple devices.
Files produced by the Quicktime AAC encoder work fine.
Does it have to be in an album or what? And is the gap less trigger stored in the file itself?
There are some tracks - not live albums - of various artists that have gap less tracks (Green Day's Holiday and Boulevard Of Broken Dreams is an example, Royksopp's Melody A.M. album is another)... So how does it great those tracks in that case? Gap less, or standard?
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You're confusing gapless with crossfade. Crossfade plays the second track before the first ends, merging them into one. Gapless just makes sure that there is no additional gap between the files, the second track is played exactly when the first ends.
As you can see, there is no reason to disable gapless for specific situations. It is never harmful.
I didn't mean cross fade; I know exactly what gapless playback is all I was curious to find out was are there certain rules where gapless playback kicks in, or does it apply on all tracks by default.
(In short - how the app knows when to remove gaps and when to treat it like normal files)
Because it was said that encoding it in AAC using Nero doesn't help, but QuickTime encoding works... So... Kinda confusing me.
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I didn't mean cross fade; I know exactly what gapless playback is all I was curious to find out was are there certain rules where gapless playback kicks in, or does it apply on all tracks by default.
(In short - how the app knows when to remove gaps and when to treat it like normal files)
Because it was said that encoding it in AAC using Nero doesn't help, but QuickTime encoding works... So... Kinda confusing me.
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Gapless playback under Android doesn't remove any data from the files or depend on any metadata scheme. It just plays the tracks back-to-back so that any silence between tracks is due to that silence being encoded in the files themselves.
The underlying mechanism for gapless playback was added to the Android SDK for Jellybean/4.1. I added it my music app a couple months ago. I was surprised that Google didn't add this into their player at the same time that Jellybean was released.
Oh... So there's no gap or delay when playing the files (or switching from one file to another), right?
I thought it involved using a buffer and cutting to the next file and whatnot.
So its all normal. Thanks.
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Hmm some things are gapless others aren't. Really annoying.
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I didn't mean cross fade; I know exactly what gapless playback is all I was curious to find out was are there certain rules where gapless playback kicks in, or does it apply on all tracks by default.
(In short - how the app knows when to remove gaps and when to treat it like normal files)
Because it was said that encoding it in AAC using Nero doesn't help, but QuickTime encoding works... So... Kinda confusing me.
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Ah, now I understand what you mean.
Lossy audio compression (like MP3, AAC, whatever...) adds a bit of silence at the end and beginning of each track. It's part of how lossy audio codecs work.
In order to remove this silence during playback, modern encoding tools write some additional data to the compressed audio file that says "remove x milliseconds at the beginning and y milliseconds at the end" to restore the tracks original length. Players need to look for such data and skip the additional parts accordingly.
If you take an album that has silence at the end of tracks on the CD and convert it to MP3/AAC/whatever, it will add some more silence to it. A player that supports gaplesss playback will remove this additional silence, but keep the original silence that was on the CD.
AFAIK, there is no official standard on how to write this gapless information to the compressed audio file, so different codecs do it in a different way and developers of audio players must take a look at files produced by popular codecs to understand how each codec handles it and implement support for it.
Android 4.2 along with the latest version of the music app supports the format used by Lame MP3, Vorbis and Quicktime AAC (and probably others, these are just the ones I tested). AAC files produced by Nero AAC, which do have gapless data and work fine on other players, are not supported at the moment.
Ahhh so that's how it works. I've been a long time winamp user and use the silence remover capability in there...which does it on the fly! Never tried it with portable devices...but I think I may give it a shot this time.
Cheers!
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I enjoy the cross-fade feature in PowerAmp, would be cool to see that implemented one day too.
Cross fading in those apps are basic i.e. they only work on a constant. Not sure if any of you guys know about this plugin for Winamp called Sqr Advanced Cross fader... it works based on the silence level of the currently paying song, and works wonderfully in most cases.
Then there are times when I end up cross fading songs myself in Winamp
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Ah, now I understand what you mean.
Lossy audio compression (like MP3, AAC, whatever...) adds a bit of silence at the end and beginning of each track. It's part of how lossy audio codecs work.
In order to remove this silence during playback, modern encoding tools write some additional data to the compressed audio file that says "remove x milliseconds at the beginning and y milliseconds at the end" to restore the tracks original length. Players need to look for such data and skip the additional parts accordingly.
If you take an album that has silence at the end of tracks on the CD and convert it to MP3/AAC/whatever, it will add some more silence to it. A player that supports gaplesss playback will remove this additional silence, but keep the original silence that was on the CD.
AFAIK, there is no official standard on how to write this gapless information to the compressed audio file, so different codecs do it in a different way and developers of audio players must take a look at files produced by popular codecs to understand how each codec handles it and implement support for it.
Android 4.2 along with the latest version of the music app supports the format used by Lame MP3, Vorbis and Quicktime AAC (and probably others, these are just the ones I tested). AAC files produced by Nero AAC, which do have gapless data and work fine on other players, are not supported at the moment.
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Very nice explanation, thank you!
So I went ahead and listened to some of my lossy mixes, still .1 second gaps between songs... it hurts wish the player could analyze the spectrum and fix this... guess nobody at google listens to trance
On the plus side, I ran a local mix that was in FLAC, and it was truly gapless! Too bad that it every 30 seconds theres a .5 second pause.....
I remember not having these problems 2004, why do I have them in 2012
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Just use PowerAmp, you'll need to pay a few Euro's, but that player is just great! Gapless playback? Like that is a novelty! PowerAmp had Gapless playback 2 years ago already! Besides that, PowerAmp has a great Equalizer and a big deal of other settings to match it to your liking...
Is anybody aware of a system-wide solution to avoid the upsampling of 44.1KHz / 16-bit music to 48KHz?
With system-wide, I mean a solution that does not rely on certain player apps such as UAPP or Neutron, which we know can do it, but only when playing from inside that app. A solution which works with all (or most) audio sources and apps, modifying the default system behavior of upsampling 44/16 to 48KHz when playing to the Quad DAC.
Personally, I am looking for solutions to work with Tidal offline tracks. Others are looking for solutions to Qobuz, Spotify, Google Play Music or other apps.
Do some of the custom ROMs have fixes for this? Are there policy file or build.prop changes that are proven to fix it?
Googling and searching on XDA finds many references to Android's infamous 48KHz upsampling/re-sampling (SRC) but none that look to be actual, working solutions for our phones. I hope I am wrong and that there is a simple fix which I overlooked.
Background
The LG V series and G series (most models) are appreciated by audiophiles for their excellent ESS Sabre DAC (ES9218P, branded Quad DAC by LG). It can deliver amazing sound quality when paired with good headphones or IEMs (In-Ear-Monitors, earphones). (And no, that doesn't necessarily mean High-Impedance headphones/IEMs, but that's a whole other discussion.)
V30 in particular has gained a rather large following among audiophiles, many of whom congregate on head-fi.org, where you will find a huge V30 thread, a growing V40 thread and a dedicated V30 Music apps, tricks and tips thread.
When it comes to HiRes music (anything higher than 48KHz sample rate and anything 24-bit) most music apps play it correctly: Bit-perfect, without any processing or re-sampling, directly to the DAC -- exactly as audiophiles want it. A few apps are known to downsample HiRes music to Android's default sample rate of 48KHz, but those are the exception.
However 44.1KHz / 16-bit music is always routed through Android's Mixer, which upsamples it to 48Khz. This causes artifacts that are audible to good ears, particularly when played on sensitive IEMs. Since 44/16 includes anything CD quality (whether compressed or uncompressed) that means most music in the world gets molested before it reaches the DAC.
For whatever reason, LGs implementation of the ESS DAC throughout the V and G series have suffered from this inability to play 44/16 music without upsampling. It is the one thing that truly hampers their reputation among audiophiles (arguably even more so than the inability to select between gain modes, which is annoying, but not a deal breaker for most).
This can be verified by inspecting the Output Thread of audio_flinger dumps, showing whether an output stream is played through the DIRECT path (not the MIXER path) and with the offloadable flag (sent straight to the DAC for decoding and rendering). Of course it can also be verified by listening for those artifacts.
The last 1.5 years, audiophile V30 users have relied on UAPP or Neutron as music players because they are able to work around this upsampling. They do so by converting 44/16 format music to 44/24 on the fly, adding zero bits to convert 16-bit to 24-bit. Different from the 48KHz upsampling, this is a harmless conversion which doesn't affect audio quality. (Of course it's also much faster, requiring no interpolation.) And once music is in 44/24 format, it is no problem sending it directly to the DAC, as described above.
We recently confirmed that PowerAmp also is able to do this correctly now (which wasn't always the case). But only if you configure it to convert all music to 44/24, which obviously isn’t desirable for HiRes.
UAPP is my personal favorite, as it also supports streaming services Tidal, Qobuz and Google Play Music, in addition to network services and any PCM or DSD file you can throw at it. All of it pristinely bit-perfect. But it cannot support Tidal or Qobuz offline, which means when playing offline you are limited to HiRes music (only a small part of their catalog) unless you can tolerate the 48KHz upsampling of CD quality tracks in the Tidal/Qobuz apps.
Head-Fi titan @csglinux and I have set out looking for a solution to this, along with other interested head-fi members. csglinux has been testing various policy and build.prop edits (so far no cigar), while I have been digging through the ESS driver source code from the kernel (but I am not set up to actually build the kernel).
More background and discussion can be found in csglinux' V30 Music apps, tricks and tips thread on head-fi. I also recently had a brief (and more technical) discussion with @ctheanh about this over in the XDA V40 forum, starting here. Arguably those posts would be more suited here.
We have several ideas, but it is a steep hill to climb, as none of us are Android developers. But before posting pages of what we have already tried, or dozens of audio_flinger dumps from various setups, we wanted to throw the topic out there for input. Again, maybe there is already a solution we have overlooked.
Any input is much appreciated!
TL;DR
I personally recommend UAPP as the best $8 anybody can spend if they care about sound quality on their V30. This is not about avoiding that. But UAPP doesn't cover all scenarios, in particular offline Tidal and Qobuz.
That's why we're looking for a system-wide fix (mod or custom ROM) that avoids the upsampling.
Reserved (more technical background and evidence to come)
TheDannemand said:
Is anybody aware of a system-wide solution to avoid the upsampling of 44.1KHz / 16-bit music to 48KHz?
With system-wide, I mean a solution that does not rely on certain player apps such as UAPP or Neutron, which we know can do it. A solution which works with all (or most) audio sources and apps, changing the default behavior of upsampling 44/16 to 48KHz (when playing to the Quad DAC).
Personally, I am looking for solutions to work with Tidal offline tracks. Others are looking for solutions to Qobuz, Spotify, Google Play Music or other apps.
Do some of the custom ROMs have fixes for this? Are there policy file or build.prop changes that are proven to fix it?
Googling and searching on XDA finds many references to Android's infamous 48KHz upsampling/re-sampling (SRC) but none that look to be actual, working solutions for our phones. I hope I am wrong and that there is a simple fix which I overlooked.
Background
The LG V series and G series (most models) are appreciated by audiophiles for their excellent ESS Sabre DAC (ES9218P, branded Quad DAC by LG). It can deliver amazing sound quality when paired with good headphones or IEMs (In-Ear-Monitors, earphones). (And no, that doesn't necessarily mean High-Impedance headphones/IEMs, but that's a whole other discussion.)
V30 in particular has gained a rather large following among audiophiles, many of whom congregate on head-fi.org, where you will find a huge V30 thread, a growing V40 thread and a dedicated V30 Music apps, tricks and tips thread.
When it comes to HiRes music (anything higher than 48KHz sample rate and anything 24-bit) most music apps play it correctly: Bit-perfect, without any processing or re-sampling, directly to the DAC -- exactly as audiophiles want it. A few apps are known to downsample HiRes music to Android's default sample rate of 48KHz, but those are the exception.
However 44.1KHz / 16-bit music is always routed through Android's Mixer, which upsamples it to 48Khz. This causes artifacts that are audible to good ears, particularly when played on sensitive IEMs. Since 44/16 includes anything CD quality (whether compressed or uncompressed) that means most music in the world gets molested before it reaches the DAC.
For whatever reason, LGs implementation of the ESS DAC throughout the V and G series have suffered from this inability to play 44/16 music without upsampling. It is the one thing that truly hampers their reputation among audiophiles (arguably even more so than the inability to select between gain modes, which is annoying, but not a deal breaker for most).
This can be verified by inspecting the Output Thread of audio_flinger dumps, showing whether an output stream is played through the DIRECT path (not the MIXER path) and with the offloadable flag (sent straight to the DAC for decoding and rendering). Of course it can also be verified by listening for those artifacts.
The last 1.5 years, audiophile V30 users have relied on UAPP or Neutron as music players because they are able to work around this upsampling. They do so by converting 44/16 format music to 44/24 on the fly, adding zero bits to convert 16-bit to 24-bit. Different from the 48KHz upsampling, this is a harmless conversion which doesn't affect audio quality. (Of course it's also much faster, requiring no interpolation.) And once music is in 44/24 format, it is no problem sending it directly to the DAC, as described above.
We recently confirmed that PowerAmp also is able to do this correctly now (which wasn't always the case). But only if you configure it to convert all music to 44/24, which obviously isn’t desirable for HiRes.
UAPP is my personal favorite, as it also supports streaming services Tidal, Qobuz and Google Play Music, in addition to network services and any HiRes PCM or DSD file you can throw at it. All of it pristinely bit-perfect. But it cannot support Tidal or Qobuz offline, which means when playing offline you are limited to HiRes music (only a small part of their catalog) unless you can tolerate the 48KHz upsampling of CD quality tracks in the Tidal/Qobuz apps.
Head-Fi titan @csglinux and I have set out looking for a solution to this, along with other interested head-fi members. csglinux has been testing various policy and build.prop edits (so far no cigar), while I have been digging through the ESS driver source code from the kernel (but I am not set up to actually build the kernel).
More background and discussion can be found in csglinux' V30 Music apps, tricks and tips thread on head-fi. I also recently had a brief (and more technical) discussion with @ctheanh about this over in the XDA V40 forum, starting here. Arguably those posts would be more suited here.
We have several ideas, but it is a steep hill to climb, as none of us are Android developers. But before posting pages of what we have already tried, or dozens of audio_flinger dumps from various setups, we wanted to throw the topic out there for input. Again, maybe there is already a solution we have overlooked.
Any input is much appreciated!
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Erm i suggest bit perfect mode on USB audio player pro
Mrxyzl said:
Erm i suggest bit perfect mode on USB audio player pro
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Thank you. Again, I already use that, and have for the last 1.5 years. But UAPP doesn't cover all scenarios, in particular offline Tidal and Qobuz, nor Spotify and other popular streaming services.
That's why I'm asking if anybody knows of a system-wide fix (mod or custom ROM) that avoids the upsampling.
I seem to recall that you did some work into this in a custom ROM, right?
Edit: It's a long opening post, so maybe I should state this briefly:
1) This is about a system-wide fix to avoid the Mixer and upsampling of 44/16 audio when playing through the Quad DAC.
2) This is not about avoiding UAPP or Neutron. I personally recommend UAPP as the best $8 anybody can spend if they care about sound quality on the V30.
So my settings sucks?
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So my settings sucks?
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Well, yes and no
Personally I wouldn't do it. I would set PowerAmp to output at 44.1KHz and 24-bit, which should avoid any re-sampling and just convert to 24-bit. Make sure you disable Dither (somewhere else in those Settings) so that it just adds zero bits in that 16-to-24-bit conversion. That way your 44/16 music should be sent unchanged to the DAC in 44/24 format.
But then you need to change your settings when you play HiRes music in PowerAmp, since otherwise it will be downsampled to 44.1KHz.
That said, as a fixed setting you are much better off letting PowerAmp upsample to 352Khz than letting the Android Mixer upsample to 48Khz. 44-to-352KHz is a harmonic upsampling (8x44=352) so it can be done perfectly, whereas 44-to-48KHz is just ugly. And when playing HiRes 88KHz and 176KHz music, it will be harmonically upsampled to 352Khz as well.
Ideally, PowerAmp would have had a way to only convert 44/16 to 44/24 and pass everything else through untouched. That's what UAPP does when it detects that it's running on a V30.
Another benefit of UAPP is it understands MQA and knows how to set a flag to enable the V30's hardware unfolding and rendering. (Note that you don't have to buy UAPP's optional MQA decoder for this.) With PowerAmp, the MQA will either be lost (if you re-sample or process the stream in any way) or ignored because the flag to enable MQA decoding won't be set.
Disclaimer: I don't use PowerAmp myself, so I cannot say if it it does something other than what those settings imply. I am completely open to corrections if any of my assumptions about it are wrong.
The DAC itself will upsample internally as part of so-called "noise shaping" to minimize the rounding errors that occur when trying to fit a digital sample into an analog sine wave. But we want to leave this process just to the DAC, and not add another step of upsampling (or any other digital modification) before sending music to the DAC. And particularly not an ugly upsampling like 44-to-48KHz, which simply cannot be done in a pretty way.
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Thanks for that detailed answer man, I appreciate it!
I tried neutron, hated the UI. I'll try out USB audio pro. Looks like it's a bit updated to MD. It's not as nice looking as PA, but that's ok lol.
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Thanks for that detailed answer man, I appreciate it!
I tried neutron, hated the UI. I'll try out USB audio pro. Looks like it's a bit updated to MD. It's not as nice looking as PA, but that's ok lol.
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I am the same: I tried Neutron and absolutely could not stand that UI. But I know some who love it. And they deserve credit for being first to crack the 48KHz upsampling on V30 (as I understand).
With UAPP I was instantly comfortable with its UI, features, and of course the sound quality -- the latter being as good as it can get, since it plays everything bit perfect and even supports MQA. If it could handle Tidal offline, I wouldn't even need a solution to bypass the Android Mixer, as that is the only big thing missing for me. Again, with others it's Qobuz offline or Spotify or some other music service.
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I am the same: I tried Neutron and absolutely could not stand that UI. But I know some who love it. And they deserve credit for being first to crack the 48KHz upsampling on V30 (as I understand).
With UAPP I was instantly comfortable with its UI, features, and of course the sound quality -- the latter being as good as it can get, since it plays everything bit perfect and even supports MQA. If it could handle Tidal offline, I wouldn't even need a solution to bypass the Android Mixer, as that is the only big thing missing for me. Again, with others it's Qobuz offline or Spotify or some other music service.
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Trying it out, I like it but have a few issues that are getting on my nerves.
1) no cross fade into the new track.
2) It separates my albums for whatever reason. PowerAmp will not do this. My tags are the way I want them. I did my own edits.
Edit, the EM album that's solo is also in the EM album collection. Just chose to list it 2 times.
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Trying it out, I like it but have a few issues that are getting on my nerves.
1) no cross fade into the new track.
2) It separates my albums for whatever reason. PowerAmp will not do this. My tags are the way I want them. I did my own edits.
Edit, the EM album that's solo is also in the EM album collection. Just chose to list it 2 times.
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I apologize for the tardy response. Swamped these days.
1) Ahh. I don't use cross fading myself, but I see what you mean, it's a valid request.
2) My entire music collection is carefully curated as well (manually edited tags) and I've never seen any problems with UAPP handling albums correctly. You could try Clearing the database and Scan again. But you probably already did...
I suggest you write to the Dev about both issues. You can either email [email protected] or post in their support thread on Head-Fi. I've found them very response to user requests and issues.
BTW, also check this recent Head-Fi post by @csglinux: It appears LG really screwed up the Quad DAC in Pie, so it now re-samples even some HiRes files (which all play perfectly on Oreo from most apps). It also sabotages UAPP in the process.
I don't know why LG is so hellbent on messing up music playback, when they spend good money putting a high-end audiophile grade DAC in their phones
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I apologize for the tardy response. Swamped these days.
1) Ahh. I don't use cross fading myself, but I see what you mean, it's a valid request.
2) My entire music collection is carefully curated as well (manually edited tags) and I've never seen any problems with UAPP handling albums correctly. You could try Clearing the database and Scan again. But you probably already did...
I suggest you write to the Dev about both issues. You can either email [email protected] or post in their support thread on Head-Fi. I've found them very response to user requests and issues.
BTW, also check this recent Head-Fi post by @csglinux: It appears LG really screwed up the Quad DAC in Pie, so it now re-samples even some HiRes files (which all play perfectly on Oreo from most apps). It also sabotages UAPP in the process.
I don't know why LG is so hellbent on messing up music playback, when they spend good money putting a high-end audiophile grade DAC in their phones
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I did send an email to the Dev. We tested a few things and then I guess he quickly made a newer version of the app and gave me a download link. It's a beta but he seen what the issue was and fixed it. Total time with emails and download link took about 30 minutes. I never expected the guy to reply so fast that a few minutes would go by with me not seeing his new email.
Awesome support! Just wish the UI would be gesture-based. Having to back out of a current playing album is a pain in the butt. PowerAmp definitely did this correctly.
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I've edited three config files from US998 30b which I attached to this post. With this mod I always get 24bit and 44.1kHz output through Mixer. Now I can't hear the noise, but I'm curious if anyone can so please test it after making a system backup in TWRP. The mod contains the files without any script.
@TheDannemand and everyone who is interested.
I was trying to get direct output, but it's maybe impossible. I tried to have direct output instead of deep_buffer, but only UAPP wanted to use direct and other apps "moved" to primary output. Also the primary output does not tolerate any messing cause it's a p...y. So I'm not able to do what even @csglinux couldn't.
Solutions:
1) It's not possible due to most apps just don't support direct output even if we convert it to 24bit on the fly. Apps can use primary output instead of deep buffer but direct is like an isolated thing lol. I did enough tests with policy files to get bored of it.
2) Maybe I can try replacing or somewhat in mixer_paths_tavil.xml in vendor/etc to get the direct output. (?)
3) We need to do hard modifications in source codes and codec driver. Or just accept this Mixer and use it with some mod. So sad.
DooMLoRD77 said:
I've edited three config files from US998 30b which I attached to this post. With this mod I always get 24bit and 44.1kHz output through Mixer. Now I can't hear the noise, but I'm curious if anyone can so please test it after making a system backup in TWRP. The mod contains the files without any script.
@TheDannemand and everyone who is interested.
I was trying to get direct output, but it's maybe impossible. I tried to have direct output instead of deep_buffer, but only UAPP wanted to use direct and other apps "moved" to primary output. Also the primary output does not tolerate any messing cause it's a p...y. So I'm not able to do what even @csglinux couldn't.
Solutions:
1) It's not possible due to most apps just don't support direct output even if we convert it to 24bit on the fly. Apps can use primary output instead of deep buffer but direct is like an isolated thing lol. I did enough tests with policy files to get bored of it.
2) Maybe I can try replacing or somewhat in mixer_paths_tavil.xml in vendor/etc to get the direct output. (?)
3) We need to do hard modifications in source codes and codec driver. Or just accept this Mixer and use it with some mod. So sad.
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Huge thanks to you, DoomLoRD77, for your efforts on this. Major props also to TheDanemmand, who has been relentlessly pursuing this little problem with LG's phones.
So, I took your config files, and voila, they work as promised, at least according to audio_flinger:
Output thread 0xeb1034c0, name AudioOut_15, tid 1804, type 0 (MIXER):
I/O handle: 21
Standby: no
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
HAL frame count: 1792
HAL format: 0x6 (AUDIO_FORMAT_PCM_24_BIT_PACKED)
HAL buffer size: 10752 bytes
Channel count: 2
Channel mask: 0x00000003 (front-left, front-right)
Processing format: 0x6 (AUDIO_FORMAT_PCM_24_BIT_PACKED)
That's the good news. The bad news... for reasons I don't completely understand, all the exact same re-sampling artifacts are there, just as audible as before. (I think most of us are using the same test track here - Speak to Me, from The Dark Side Of The Moon.) Either audio_flinger is misreporting, or being fooled, or there's something else going on here that I don't understand.
I'd mentioned to some of the other headfi folks that Amazon's new lossless streaming service doesn't display these digital artifacts (it still doesn't sound quite as good as Tidal to my ears, but the SQ gap is much closer). Amazon re-samples everything on Android to 48 kHz using 32-bit float. I would have thought doing no resampling at all and shifting to 24-bit for the digital volume control would be enough, but apparently not. My best guess is those extra zeros we're packing into those remaining 8 bits aren't actually being used by the digital volume control.
DooMLoRD77 said:
I've edited three config files from US998 30b which I attached to this post. With this mod I always get 24bit and 44.1kHz output through Mixer. Now I can't hear the noise, but I'm curious if anyone can so please test it after making a system backup in TWRP. The mod contains the files without any script.
@TheDannemand and everyone who is interested.
I was trying to get direct output, but it's maybe impossible. I tried to have direct output instead of deep_buffer, but only UAPP wanted to use direct and other apps "moved" to primary output. Also the primary output does not tolerate any messing cause it's a p...y. So I'm not able to do what even @csglinux couldn't.
Solutions:
1) It's not possible due to most apps just don't support direct output even if we convert it to 24bit on the fly. Apps can use primary output instead of deep buffer but direct is like an isolated thing lol. I did enough tests with policy files to get bored of it.
2) Maybe I can try replacing or somewhat in mixer_paths_tavil.xml in vendor/etc to get the direct output. (?)
3) We need to do hard modifications in source codes and codec driver. Or just accept this Mixer and use it with some mod. So sad.
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Thanks a ton for your efforts here and for sharing these modified files!
Unfortunately I won't be able to test them myself, both because my V30 is still on Oreo (and I have no plans to update it yet) and because I am currently unrooted, waiting for LG to approve a warranty claim (at which they're dragging their feet).
I think with your work and @csglinux' feedback we have established that there is something going on beyond just the re-sampling of the Mixer. The fact your changes eliminated the noise you were hearing, but NOT the artifacts csglinux has reported, would indicate that maybe we have two different problems going on. And so far only playing DIRECT (bypassing the Mixer) solves both problems.
Re your point (3) I did actually spent quite a bit of time studying the source code for the ESS codec driver for the various LG models (es9218p.c and es9218p.h in the kernel source code). Interestingly, 44100 is NOT one of the sample rates listed in there as being supported. The rates and formats listed below are references in the snd_soc_dai_driver structure towards the end of the driver, with which the codec driver declares its capabilities. I've been puzzled how DIRECT play of 24/44 is even possible given this fact. But audio_flinger claims to do it -- and it sounds great when it does.
Code:
#define ES9218_RATES (SNDRV_PCM_RATE_8000 | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_11025 | \
SNDRV_PCM_RATE_16000 | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_22050 | \
SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000 | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_48000 | \
SNDRV_PCM_RATE_96000 | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_192000 | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_176400 | SNDRV_PCM_RATE_384000 ) //|SNDRV_PCM_RATE_352800 TODO for dop128
#define ES9218_FORMATS (SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_BE | \
SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S20_3LE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S20_3BE | \
SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S24_LE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S24_BE | \
SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_BE)
I am completely swamped with work at the moment, so I have no time at all to play (neither play music NOR tinker with my phone). I promise I will contribute more actively again once I have more time AND once I have a phone I can root.
Once again thanks a lot for your contribution! :good::good::good:
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You're welcome. Yes, I played the Speak To Me song at the volume level of 10/75 from about 0:14 to 0:40. It can be possible that it's just misreporting, but it's weird that you hear the same artifacts and I hear just very very little noise instead of big. So we hear 2 different thing separately. From my experience it seems that the extra 8 bits are used for volume control. Or 24bit is more accurate for interpolating as you wrote something on head-fi. I will see more results later with GR09.
Also, thank you for the efforts and for this test!
I can mention an app for 16/44.1 lossless it's called D**zl#ad*r (replace "*" with "e" and "#" with "o"). I know it's not great to get files for free but I can play it offline through direct. It's for Android too and there are some funny facts how it can work.
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You're welcome, too. Something is really weird about the Mixer as there is 2 kind of issue, indeed. I will just probably give up this soon for now, but I'm thankful for the support as I could achieve a small improvement.
If it's really a declaration as you said and I looked a bit into it then it's also weird how it can support 44.1 without resampling.
To replace Tidal offline there is an app above but it requires re-downloading everything. I solved it by automation. Life is just short to be always a good boy:silly:
Looks like deep-buffer is used for high latency low power output and this is ok for music. As I'm new I can't post proper link here, but googling "android audio deep buffer" gives answer.
To enable deep-buffer for music we need:
adb shell setprop audio.deep_buffer.media 1
So it looks like without it android is still using 48kHz from primary output and still resamples internally or I'm missing something. I own V30 but I'm not rooted yet so can't test this.
In the meantime I've looked into policy and there's additional MQA policy available. Maybe UAPP is using it to play MQA on LG?
I've also tried to use 16bit direct output from UAPP and there's noise on all recordings when V30 volume is low and I set my amplifier to almost full. This is unrealistic scenario but easily shows 16bit limitation. @DooMLoRD77, @TheDannemand could you check this UAPP setting if it plays through mixer or directly: MQA enabled and 16 bit hi-res driver audio format. Could tou also check if setting mixer into 32bit float mode works? This setting works for UAPP.
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You are right that mixer is using 48khz upsampling either through deep buffer or primary output or call it whatever. Deep buffer for music is by default. Where did you found that MQA policy?
I can't help you now as my V30's motherboard is dying and it will take some time to replace it, but I can tell you that modifying the mixer to give 32bit output gives nothing just mute sound and lagging youtube playback maybe because of buffer size or idk.
You can have 32bit with direct, of course. Anyway, what recordings are giving noise? Vinyl? 16 bit does not have limitations like that. I guess you hear the noise generated by AVC in the Quad DAC. It has a high SNR but not enough if you amplify it with don't know what at max volume. I just assume that. I appreciate your interest.
DooMLoRD77 said:
You are right that mixer is using 48khz upsampling either through deep buffer or primary output or call it whatever. Deep buffer for music is by default. Where did you found that MQA policy?
I can't help you now as my V30's motherboard is dying and it will take some time to replace it, but I can tell you that modifying the mixer to give 32bit output gives nothing just mute sound and lagging youtube playback maybe because of buffer size or idk.
You can have 32bit with direct, of course. Anyway, what recordings are giving noise? Vinyl? 16 bit does not have limitations like that. I guess you hear the noise generated by AVC in the Quad DAC. It has a high SNR but not enough if you amplify it with don't know what at max volume. I just assume that. I appreciate your interest.
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Recordings from Tidal app (except MQAa) and when UAPP is set into 16bit mode inside "HiRes driver audio format" give noise. When I change this option to "Auto" then noise is gone. To hear it I just set sound level to 1/70 (lowest possible) and amplify rest on my amp. I'm not sure it's due to digital volume control or something else, but noise is there and I'm still above my NAD C372 noise level (100dB). How to check output path? I can do it myself but haven't found how...
If music is using deep buffer then your solution is very elegant IHMO and should work. Is youtube also using deep_buffer? Is deep_buffer always used or only when phone is sleeping?
MQA policies are inside /vendor/audio_output_policy.conf: direct_pcm_16_mqa and direct_pcm_24_mqa. As I see /etc/audio_policy.conf is depreciated but looks like /vendor/etc/audio_output_policy.conf is used and there are two different audio_policy_configuration.xml files. Is there documentation for android audio available?
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I think direct does not support 16bit. It can be DVC or just the not really perfect mixer makes noise or what kind of interpolation error. You should have SDK platform tools to check it. Start inside an adb connection in cmd. Command: "adb shell" or "./adb shell" then "dumpsys media.audio_flinger" and it should read much thing about path and so on.
YouTube uses deep_buffer if it's available. It's used when music is played not only when sleeping. Primary is more like for notifications maybe some games. Sorry, what solution? LoL. 24bit modification?
I will check that policies again, thanks.