Vernon Barnes Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 What are people using Android devices using to play music? I am probably going to have to replace my phone soon and don't really want to pay a premium for an iPhone if I can get similar functionality to iTunes which has served me well enough to date. I want to load music, playlists etc. onto my phone over a USB cable, easily find albums and tracks and play them on the phone with no internet connection. As far as I can see using Google Music Manager has a 50,000 limit, which will not be an issue, but it appears it loads from the PC to the cloud and then you download to the phone, which I imagine will take hours. Also it seems to insist on taking card numbers and seems quite insistent in trying to persuade you to sign up for their streaming services. I assume Google has reasonable facilities for creating playlists, organizing tracks and understands the concept of an album. Apple Music for Android also seems to be intent on you streaming as far as I can see. I may be wrong but from what I have read USB connection to iTunes is only available on iPhones. Does this mean transfer via the Cloud? There seem to be several music player apps, Poweramp https://powerampapp.com/ looks reasonable and has the big advantage of being able to play many formats including FLAC. I am not clear how the transfer is managed and I assume synchronization with the library on the PC is manual?? Any comments welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulo Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 I use VLC, does what I need it to, but I'm by no means a power user. Basically as long as it plays I don't really care exactly what is playing it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Barnes Posted August 1, 2019 Author Share Posted August 1, 2019 13 minutes ago, paulo said: I use VLC, does what I need it to, but I'm by no means a power user. Basically as long as it plays I don't really care exactly what is playing it. Thanks, I use VLC as a media player on one of my computers so I will add that to the short list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 1 hour ago, paulo said: I use VLC, does what I need it to, but I'm by no means a power user. Basically as long as it plays I don't really care exactly what is playing it. Yeah, I use VLC on all my machines - Mac, Windows & Linux. It just works for the vast majority of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlen2133 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Hey Gly, I have an Android phone (Samsung S9) and I use their media player. You can set up playlists along with using MP3s that contain pictures and the likes. Fairly easy to set up and you can upload your music via USB C directly (no cloud needed). Just a thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.I.P. Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 My favorite music player app is Pulsar Music Player - Mp3 Player, Audio Player. When you click on shuffle, most music apps use an algorithm where some songs play a lot, and some songs very rarely or ever play. When you click shuffle with Pulsar it will take all the songs you have on your device, and create a random playlist, so every song will get played. I have a couple of thousand songs on my phone, and once it plays all the songs through, I just click shuffle, and it creates a totally new order. There is a free version, and a paid version. The paid version adds an equalizer. Other than that they are the same. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.pulsar&hl=en_US 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Now I just need a newer phone with more memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Barnes Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I am considering a Samsung Galaxy A50 which has 128GB. If I go this route I will try the standard player as suggested by arlen2133 first and move on to something else in the event I don't like it for some reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenfoot Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 I have been using Android devices for years. My audio player of choice is JetAudio+ with the AM3D Audio Enhacer plugin. Costs around 10 bucks all up. Worth every cent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mesh Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 18 hours ago, Glyn Barnes said: There seem to be several music player apps, Poweramp https://powerampapp.com/ looks reasonable and has the big advantage of being able to play many formats including FLAC. I am not clear how the transfer is managed and I assume synchronization with the library on the PC is manual?? Any comments welcome. I've been using the full version Poweramp for about 8 years now and I really like it. One time purchase (IIRC under $5) and it sounds very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcumpian Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Glyn, If you just need a player, there are several. The difficulty comes if you are trying to replicate iTunes Smart Playlist functionality. As far as I am aware, there are no Android players that do this, though you can fake it if you manually copy songs in a smart playlist from iTunes onto the phone. Unfortunately, you won't be able to sync back play counts and ratings which could break some of your smart playlist if that data is important. Musicbee supports smart playlists and I believe they have a utility to allows for syncing data back to the music library from an Android device. Foobar2000 also supports Smart Playlists, but as far as I know only syncs one-way. Good luck on your search! Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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