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What is your favourite app for consuming audio media (e.g. podcasts/music) and why?

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Reason for asking:

  • I'm looking for a fantasy music app, and if I can't find it, I would like to make one.
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I'm using Google Listen for podcasts. I really wish it had a better way to mark what has already been listened to, but otherwise it is a decent (free!) app.

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I do, too, but would love to see a good app for listening to music. – Chuck Dec 10 at 17:14
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MixZing also looks good.

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I'm gonna give it a try tomorrow, but so far, this looks exactly like what I've wanted in a music app. – judge doom Dec 14 at 3:55
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I use the stock Music app. I'm not happy with it, but haven't found anything I like better.

My all-time favorite user interface for a media player is from the the old Rio Karma. I'd love to see an app that starts there and brings it 5 years forward.

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I also use the stock Music app, because everything else I've tried was ugly. (hopefully Google will improve this in Android 2.2?) – Isaac Waller Dec 10 at 16:18
I also use the stock Music app, but don't like it. I find myself using my ipod touch most of the time, just because I don't like the app. Unfortunately, it's the best of any I've used so far. – judge doom Dec 10 at 17:04
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Adam17 comments:

I have found Meridian Evolve to be the best music player out there,

I have experienced zero bugs, it is easy to navigate, you can edit ID3 tags, select from genres, and it plays videos well, too.

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Another vote for Meridian. The widget is light years ahead of the stock Music player's. – Chahk Dec 10 at 21:09
My problem with Meridian is the way you sort through albums. Say, for example, I want to listen to an album by Tom Waits, but I'm not sure which one yet. So I scroll through the artists and click on him. Whereas the stock app will show a list of all his albums (I have like 17), Meridian just shows all the songs I have by him sorted by album. Picking out one single album from that list is excrutiating. – judge doom Dec 11 at 4:18
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efan78 comments:

Personally I'm a huge fan of tunewiki, it gives you the functions of the stock media player tied in with a wiki/community based lyrics option (for all you budding Karaoke kings and queens), scrobbles to Last.fm and ties in with Shoutcast for internet radio so that you can listen to stuff that you don't have!

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I'll throw a vote out there for Pandora. I was skeptical of it not holding the signal/buffer issues, but it works quite well. Plus, it's Pandora.

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Adam17 comments:

The only other music player I can even stand to use is the HTC Music that is included in some custom ROM's.

The key [to both of these for me] is genre selection, why this is not native and why every other music player doesn't support it baffles me. It's right there in the ID3, so it should as easy to code as selecting by artist or album

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