A simple music player?

[smokejones]

I would appreciate recommendations for a simple music player that can handle both wav and mp3 files. I don't need or want graphics, video capability, shopping links, etc.

All I want to be able to do is copy folders full of songs onto the phone, see a listing in the app, and hit play.

Sort of like the old days when you'd pop a cassette tape into the deck, sit back and listen.

 

[El Presidente]

I watched a video of it in action, but I've never used it myself, & RocketPlayer looks relatively simplistic: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...NvbS5qcnRzdHVkaW8uQW5vdGhlck11c2ljUGxheWVyIl0.

 

[hulkmarvel]

For me the simplest and also a very good player free is meridian music player.Perhaps it is not the best considering free ones (more options into maven,jet music,player dreams,mix zing) but it is a very good one and very simple to use.

I suggest to download also together with meridian an external equalizer,there are many of them.Music volume EQ (kk design developer) is good enough.Or Equalizer (smart android apps is the developer).

 

[smokejones]

For me the simplest and also a very good player free is meridian music player.

RocketPlayer looks relatively simplistic

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A couple of interesting looking players. I'll give them both a try.

Thanks!

 

[chanchan05]

What phone do you have? I mean the stock player on many phones already do that.

 

[smokejones]

What phone do you have? I mean the stock player on many phones already do that.

Droid Razr M

No stock player, no stock notes program, no stock voice recorder, way too much pre-loaded, unerasable shopping crap, and not much built-in RAM.

My first android phone, and worst phone I've ever owned.

 

[chanchan05]

Droid Razr M

No stock player, no stock notes program, no stock voice recorder, way too much pre-loaded, unerasable shopping crap, and not much built-in RAM.

My first android phone, and worst phone I've ever owned.

Wow really? None of those? That's surprising. But Motorola is pretty much nonexistent in my country nowadays so I didn't know that.

 

[smokejones]

Wow really? None of those?

Nope. I've had an iPhone (which comes with all of the above, and some other useful stuff) for a while and was tired of Apple's choke hold on what you can do with the phone, so I thought I'd go Android. I've been a unix sysadmin for years and expected a lot of freedom in this enviroment.

To say I was disappointed is a serious understatement. But I guess that's the prevailing business model these days. The user's needs and desires are unimportant. We're not customers, we're targets for advertisers.

 

[chanchan05]

HTC and Samsung have their own versions of music players, notes apps, recorders and whatnot. That's pretty weird.

 

[Theta9]

Most preinstalled music players don't do .wav, am I wrong?

 

[chanchan05]

Most preinstalled music players don't do .wav, am I wrong?

Oh wait, yeah, I think you're right. I may have been confused with .wma format.

 

[Theta9]

Oh wait, yeah, I think you're right. I may have been confused with .wma format.

I think most do .mp3 and .wma if nothing else.

I think I can recommend Music Player for Pad & Phone - its interface seems like what smokejones is looking for, and it handles .wav and a whole bunch of other file types.

 

[chanchan05]

I'd actually recommend either Music Player Pro or Poweramp. Pretty simple interface IMO plus awesome music quality.

 

[Theta9]

Nope. I've had an iPhone (which comes with all of the above, and some other useful stuff) for a while and was tired of Apple's choke hold on what you can do with the phone, so I thought I'd go Android. I've been a unix sysadmin for years and expected a lot of freedom in this enviroment.

I think you have to r00t your phone to get what you're looking for in that regard. Most Android tablets and phones seem to be locked down to some degree or another (among the worst offenders has to be the Nook Tablet, a nice piece of hardware hobbled by a terrible OS).

 

[mikedt]

Nope. I've had an iPhone (which comes with all of the above, and some other useful stuff) for a while and was tired of Apple's choke hold on what you can do with the phone, so I thought I'd go Android. I've been a unix sysadmin for years and expected a lot of freedom in this enviroment.

Usually you don't have root privileges to most Android devices as they come, so you are actually just a normal restricted user and NOT the privileged *NIX sysadmin.

To say I was disappointed is a serious understatement. But I guess that's the prevailing business model these days. The user's needs and desires are unimportant. We're not customers, we're targets for advertisers.

Go ahead and root your phone, you'll then have all the freedom you like in this environment. :thumb:

Many customers are just buying a phone to be used as a phone, and not as a pocket *NIX computer. They're not sysadmins or geeks. In fact unless they know what they're doing they're far better off without root access IMO, i.e. they can't mess things up. In fact we've had posts along the lines of.... help!! I've delete some file on my rooted Android, and now it doesn't work.

As a UNIX sysadmin, you should probably appreciate the importance of keeping users who don't know what they're doing out of the works.

 

[Umnik192]

Usually the variety of formats depend on the codecs that were pre-installed by the manufacturer. So it is better to install some codecs or the player that has such codecs.

About rooting. Some manufacturers even have faq's on how to root their devices. You may usually find it on the page "for developers".