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Best android music player?

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I'm about to fill my phone with music and I heard the stock app sucks. Anyone have any recommendations?

I like Google Play Music and heard VLC player was pretty good too.

The standard player is decent, but doesn't have a very appealing GUI and not very many additional features IMO

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AIMP used to be good on PC when I used music players.

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I like Google Play Music and heard VLC player was pretty good too.

The standard player is decent, but doesn't have a very appealing GUI and not very many additional features IMO

I would like something with a good UI. I'll looking into Google Play.

AIMP used to be good on PC when I used music players.

Is that on android as well?

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I use PowerAMP, and I really like it. The UI is easy to understand, and it has a build in equalizer.

If you can install APKs from outside the Play Store, then Apollo might be worth a try.

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I would like something with a good UI. I'll looking into Google Play.

Is that on android as well?

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Phonograph is a new player, has the good quality playback as well as being a well-featured and nice material design UI.

The CM "Eleven" music app for lollipop (idk if it works below LP) is also great (used to have a crashing issue but it's fixed now).

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Phonogram is a new player, has the good quality playback as well as being a well-featured and nice material design UI.

The CM "Eleven" music app for lollipop (idk if it works below LP) is also great (used to have a crashing issue but it's fixed now).

Is Phonogram in the Play Store? Because I searched it up, but couldn't find it...

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Should I get cyanogen?

Apollo/Eleven is definitely worth a look.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paolinoalessandro.cmromdownloader

It's certainly a nice player visually. Plays back basically any type of audio file. I've personally had issues with it where it would crash a lot, popup notifications even when I wasn't using it, and it would never download album art. For these reasons I switched over to Google Play Music and I haven't had any issues, plus it downloads all of the album art. So that's nice.

 

But really though, experiment. Try out a few music players and see which one works best on your device. 

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Apollo/Eleven is definitely worth a look.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paolinoalessandro.cmromdownloader

It's certainly a nice player visually. Plays back basically any type of audio file. I've personally had issues with it where it would crash a lot, popup notifications even when I wasn't using it, and it would never download album art. For these reasons I switched over to Google Play Music and I haven't had any issues, plus it downloads all of the album art. So that's nice.

 

But really though, experiment. Try out a few music players and see which one works best on your device. 

I'm kinda wanting to get cyanogen since I can't move certain apps to my SD and I don't like the stock os on this S5. How would I go about it?

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I'm kinda wanting to get cyanogen since I can't move certain apps to my SD and I don't like the stock os on this S5. How would I go about it?

Depends on which version of the S5 you have. 

 

First step is to root the phone. Figure out which version of the S5 you have and go into its respective XDA section.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5

 

If there's a root process available, then you're good. Follow the guide, root the phone and ya. Then you have to install a custom recovery such as TWRP or CWM. There are guides for this as well. Then once that's installed you have can flash a custom ROM, such as CyanogenMod. Again, there's guides for that as well. 

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Depends on which version of the S5 you have. 

 

First step is to root the phone. Figure out which version of the S5 you have and go into its respective XDA section.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5

 

If there's a root process available, then you're good. Follow the guide, root the phone and ya. Then you have to install a custom recovery such as TWRP or CWM. There are guides for this as well. Then once that's installed you have can flash a custom ROM, such as CyanogenMod. Again, there's guides for that as well. 

All of this looks confusing and I'm just lost. I have the T-Mobile S5. I'm no bueno with phones

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GPM (Google Play Music bad?) At least the more recent versions of GPM, I'd say it's possibly even better than iTunes in iOS 8. (I guess that is if you're going to be loading on your own MP3s rather than streaming them(which streaming doesn't actually really have much of a footprint on data usage. Because even with my basic MVNO I use (Family Mobile) I have 5GB then slow downs after 5GB, I can't really exceed that maximum with in a month so yeah. I don't worry about having a metric crap ton of music on my phone/microsd.

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Heyyo,

http://www.androidauthority.com/best-music-player-apps-for-android-208990/

Some have been mentioned on this thread but here's a decent list. Take one that you like and give it a go! :)

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