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Anyone else not using the default Android player because it sucks? I've found Winamp to be much better. If this is almost identical to the stock Android music p

Anyone else not using the default Android player because it sucks? I've found Winamp to be much better. If this is almost identical to the stock Android music player (like the article suggests), that'd be quite a letdown. I was hoping Google would make some improvements soon.

ericmoritz 16y ago
I use a mix of Rdio and Pandora for my music enjoyment. I have about 100 gigs of local music on my Drobo that I never listen to.
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  SomaFM is also very nice.
- bitskits 16y ago
  I do the same, but s/Rdio/Mog. So much easier to simply pay for access to everything than to figure out what music I want to own. In the past year or two I have done a complete 180 on my thinking about this.
adambyrtek 16y ago
As far as I know Winamp for Android can only synchronize with a Windows machine, so I don't have a convincing reason to use it. Personally, I find the ³ player[1] extremely pleasing, mostly because of its innovative UI (no, it doesn't do the sync). [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.rockonnggl https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.ro...
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  Synchronize? I use Linux, and I just cp the files over to the 'music' directory on my SD card. I suppose if I wanted to have my entire collection on my phone I could script something with rsync, but there's no way it could fit on a 16 GB SD card.
  - adambyrtek 16y ago
    Well, is there any other reason to use Winamp for Android? I don't consider the UI particularly appealing.
SkyMarshal 16y ago
I started using Poweramp, then upgraded to the Pro version. It's solid, and looks good too.
StavrosK 16y ago
I don't really know what people find so disappointing with the default player, it's basically the same as everything else. I don't think Winamp is much different, I tried using it for the syncing but it breaks on non-English filenames so I went back to the default player for the lock screen integration. I also tried 3, but it looked a bit too gimmicky... What don't you like about the default player?
- thwarted 16y ago
  so I went back to the default player for the lock screen integration The default music player on my nexus one running 2.3.3 doesn't have lock screen integration, and as far as I remember from my G1, the default player never has (the app doesn't even have a preferences/options screen). A friend recommended doubleTwist to me, however, which does have a lock screen overlay for music control.
  - StavrosK 16y ago
    Oh, hmm, maybe the Sense player I have is different from the default.
unicornporn 16y ago
I first used Winamp but then switched to Songbird. Seems a bit faster on my slowish Wildfire. Songbird scrobbles, just like Winamp. That's a feature I "need".

ericmoritz 16y ago

I use a mix of Rdio and Pandora for my music enjoyment. I have about 100 gigs of local music on my Drobo that I never listen to.

w1ntermute 16y ago
SomaFM is also very nice.
bitskits 16y ago
I do the same, but s/Rdio/Mog. So much easier to simply pay for access to everything than to figure out what music I want to own. In the past year or two I have done a complete 180 on my thinking about this.

adambyrtek 16y ago

As far as I know Winamp for Android can only synchronize with a Windows machine, so I don't have a convincing reason to use it. Personally, I find the ³ player[1] extremely pleasing, mostly because of its innovative UI (no, it doesn't do the sync). [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.rockonnggl https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.ro...

w1ntermute 16y ago
Synchronize? I use Linux, and I just cp the files over to the 'music' directory on my SD card. I suppose if I wanted to have my entire collection on my phone I could script something with rsync, but there's no way it could fit on a 16 GB SD card.
- adambyrtek 16y ago
  Well, is there any other reason to use Winamp for Android? I don't consider the UI particularly appealing.

SkyMarshal 16y ago

I started using Poweramp, then upgraded to the Pro version. It's solid, and looks good too.

StavrosK 16y ago

I don't really know what people find so disappointing with the default player, it's basically the same as everything else. I don't think Winamp is much different, I tried using it for the syncing but it breaks on non-English filenames so I went back to the default player for the lock screen integration. I also tried 3, but it looked a bit too gimmicky... What don't you like about the default player?

thwarted 16y ago
so I went back to the default player for the lock screen integration The default music player on my nexus one running 2.3.3 doesn't have lock screen integration, and as far as I remember from my G1, the default player never has (the app doesn't even have a preferences/options screen). A friend recommended doubleTwist to me, however, which does have a lock screen overlay for music control.
- StavrosK 16y ago
  Oh, hmm, maybe the Sense player I have is different from the default.

unicornporn 16y ago

I first used Winamp but then switched to Songbird. Seems a bit faster on my slowish Wildfire. Songbird scrobbles, just like Winamp. That's a feature I "need".