Best Free Music Player?

ZingXao · April 26th, 2011, 02:25 PM

At the moment, am using Winamp. I've used Songbird, but I find the interface a bit clunky, in my opinion. I've tried doubleTwist, but had a problem with a song's music tag... now fixed, but the app seems similar to Winamp. I've tried Realplayer, but it kept on dragging in the 'Facebook pop' sound, and it was annoying me, lol.

Can anyone recommend any good music player apps, and give their opinion on the ones I've used? Would be a great help.

Thanks.

Jew · April 26th, 2011, 02:32 PM

I am liking PowerAMP, but it isn't free. You can download the trial and see if you like it. It is really cheap if you want to buy it (about $5). I don't know any free ones that do what I like (divide songs into folders instead of by artist or album).

shauny13 · April 26th, 2011, 02:45 PM

+1 for poweramp, best $5 you'll ever spend on an app. Some really decent apps like this, you just have to bite the bullet and pay for i'm afraid. Mort player or 3 cubed are very good for free apps.

Usta · April 26th, 2011, 02:59 PM

I like MortPlayer and MixZing. They both have plenty features and good interface.

vosg · April 27th, 2011, 10:56 AM

MortPlayer is perfect. And free.

barqers · April 27th, 2011, 11:02 AM

I personally love Player Pro and won't look back.

Usta · April 27th, 2011, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by barqers

I personally love Player Pro and won't look back.

The man is asking for free players...

ZingXao · April 28th, 2011, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Usta

The man is asking for free players...

Haha, that I am

I've been sticking with Winamp recently, it seems to do the job perfectly. I can't understand why it get's so many negative reviews on the market :/

Adauth · April 28th, 2011, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by ZingXao

Haha, that I am

I've been sticking with Winamp recently, it seems to do the job perfectly. I can't understand why it get's so many negative reviews on the market :/

Mainly just because there are so many better music players out there, that winamp gets pushed to the bottom.

~~emily1169~~ · April 28th, 2011, 04:59 AM

Freeware. My view of freeware is simple. It should be free…no pop-ups…no petitioning…and no strings attached.

ZingXao · April 28th, 2011, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Adauth

Mainly just because there are so many better music players out there, that winamp gets pushed to the bottom.

What 'better' music players are there then? Again, preferably free. I'm a poor student.

skullshank · April 28th, 2011, 10:23 AM

i'll throw a vote for mixzing...seems to be the only freebie ive found with an EQ.

barqers · April 28th, 2011, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Usta

The man is asking for free players...

Whoops! Sorry, brains not functioning during summer :P

In that case I loved mixzing the most out of the free music players

JamesSJ · December 25th, 2011, 07:35 AM

A number of people like Zimly in another thread. I tried it and like it. I want folder view, able to repeat 1 song, and lyrics would be nice.

~~Anfans~~ · December 26th, 2011, 01:35 AM

Maybe this article can be helpful to you:
5 best free music player apps make your android phone better

UssjTrunks · December 26th, 2011, 09:51 PM

All the free ones suck. They're hardly an improvement over the stock player.

saptech · December 29th, 2011, 10:22 PM

Does the same company who make the VLC media player for computers make the same one I see in the Market list? Have anyone tried it out?

Thnx.

aaanadie · January 25th, 2012, 01:01 PM

Zimly is the best for me. Quality, Free & No Adds is very very hard to find.

Satires · January 29th, 2012, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ZingXao

At the moment, am using Winamp. I've used Songbird, but I find the interface a bit clunky, in my opinion. I've tried doubleTwist, but had a problem with a song's music tag... now fixed, but the app seems similar to Winamp. I've tried Realplayer, but it kept on dragging in the 'Facebook pop' sound, and it was annoying me, lol.

Can anyone recommend any good music player apps, and give their opinion on the ones I've used? Would be a great help.

Thanks.

Just pay for a decent one and support the developers

Apps are not that expensive...

squidward2016 · February 10th, 2012, 04:40 PM

cloud skipper has the best lock screen, awesome widget, and better than every one of the free apps mentioned there... trust me from experience

Megalomando · February 17th, 2012, 01:52 PM

My MP3s are extensive and I'm a musician. I just bought a Samsung Admire & joined MetroPCS. I want to import 20GB of my MP3s to a 32GB card SD card and use them as a library when I need to remember certain lyrics, this is what I did with my Blackberry. The built in player with the Blackberry was pretty slow but did a decent job. I'm not so interested in a pretty ap, just good functioning of the player & if a player that also plays FLAC is also available, that would be great.

If there's one that allows the slowing of a tune & keeps the pitch, that would be a big help. I use a program; amazingslowdowner with my computer to do this but it would be good to have that with a player as well.

Any suggestions to a great player and maybe one that does those extras?

Thanks!

beefyy · February 17th, 2012, 02:40 PM

You can upload 20,000 songs (without regard for size) to the google music player and stream all of the music. You can make your favorites available offline and not worry about having a network available. I've been using it quite a bit and it's pretty solid.

Megalomando · February 17th, 2012, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by beefyy

You can upload 20,000 songs (without regard for size) to the google music player and stream all of the music. You can make your favorites available offline and not worry about having a network available. I've been using it quite a bit and it's pretty solid.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I'd rather keep them on the phone, it would take so long to upload 20 GB of MP3 to the cloud. I'm just wanting to have them on the SD.

See you're in Boston, I'm heading to Framingham right now for the Bluegrass festival at the Sheraton.

Thanks!

Jimmy1979 · February 24th, 2012, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ZingXao

At the moment, am using Winamp. I've used Songbird, but I find the interface a bit clunky, in my opinion. I've tried doubleTwist, but had a problem with a song's music tag... now fixed, but the app seems similar to Winamp. I've tried Realplayer, but it kept on dragging in the 'Facebook pop' sound, and it was annoying me, lol.

Can anyone recommend any good music player apps, and give their opinion on the ones I've used? Would be a great help.

Thanks.

Im having the same problem

Jimmy1979 · February 24th, 2012, 05:44 AM

This thread has helped a lot

Nigma · February 25th, 2012, 06:12 PM

If I may latch on to this thread please, I only need a simple music player but I have searched this forum together with many reviews and cannot find one to suit me. I would be very grateful if anyone can suggest an app with the following please:

1. Playlists which do not just repeat the first track
2. Ability to shuffle playlists
3. Album art
4. Lyrics displayed (As track plays would be great but I don’t know if this is possible?)
5. No adverts
6. No ability for app to make phone calls or use camera (as Cloudskipper does)
7. Ability to sync music and playlists with PC useful but not essential

Many thanks for your suggestions

Adauth · February 25th, 2012, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Nigma

If I may latch on to this thread please, I only need a simple music player but I have searched this forum together with many reviews and cannot find one to suit me. I would be very grateful if anyone can suggest an app with the following please:

1. Playlists which do not just repeat the first track
2. Ability to shuffle playlists
3. Album art
4. Lyrics displayed (As track plays would be great but I don’t know if this is possible?)
5. No adverts
6. No ability for app to make phone calls or use camera (as Cloudskipper does)
7. Ability to sync music and playlists with PC useful but not essential

Many thanks for your suggestions

That's asking alot for a free app that does all that.

Nigma · February 25th, 2012, 06:47 PM

I don't mind paying but are the paid apps likely to be more complex with features I don't need?

Adauth · February 25th, 2012, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Nigma

I don't mind paying but are the paid apps likely to be more complex with features I don't need?

I think PowerAmp Pro does all that except maybe the lyrics part, but it may be able to do that, but i have never tried.

chanchan05 · February 25th, 2012, 09:57 PM

PowerAmp can display embedded lyrics over the album art.

Adauth · February 25th, 2012, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by chanchan05

PowerAmp can display embedded lyrics over the album art.

I thought so but wasn't sure.

chanchan05 · February 28th, 2012, 06:28 AM

Been testing a lot of Free Apps lately mainly because I am looking for widgets that fit my current theme and I settled for MixZing for now because of a nice combination of music quality and nice interface. I had WinAmp a close second among free players but the minimalistic design of MixZing's widgets won me over. I do hate the ads that pop up for 5 seconds every now and then in the app, but I'll be controlling the music primarily from the widget anyway.

pixaro · March 4th, 2012, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by chanchan05

Been testing a lot of Free Apps lately mainly because I am looking for widgets that fit my current theme and I settled for MixZing for now because of a nice combination of music quality and nice interface. I had WinAmp a close second among free players but the minimalistic design of MixZing's widgets won me over. I do hate the ads that pop up for 5 seconds every now and then in the app, but I'll be controlling the music primarily from the widget anyway.

You are right. MixZing and WinAmp are the best free music players. I also use MixZing Media player now.

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