Showing posts with label Android Music Player. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android Music Player. Show all posts

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Radio App For Android - Listen Music You Love Anywhere And Anytime

This is one of the best Android Radio Apps for music lovers. It allows you to create Radio Station by the artist you like and keep on streaming hours of music that you love to listen. It also give wide range of stations created by genre and quickly tap into class of music you want to listen. A really coolest app to try and see...oh, I mean listen...

This is second post on Radio App for Android and if you have not yet read about first Android Radio app discussed in earlier post then you can read it at : Best Android Radio App - With Over 50000 Free Online Internet Radio Stations

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Radio App For Android - Jango Radio App : User interface of this app is so simple and friendly. It does just what you want an android radio app to do without any jargon. Best part of this app is, it is so small in size that just takes few kilo bytes of your Android memory space and provides coolest music than other heavy radio apps in Android market.

Android Radio App - Welcome Screen : When you start this app first time then it may display a screen with information about latest update to this version of app and once you dismiss that screen then it would present you with the welcome screen as shown below.

Android Radio App - Welcome Screen
Android Radio App - Welcome Screen
This screen provides two options. First option allows you to log-in using your Jango account, if you have created one. Second option allows you to start using Jango radio without registering a account. You may try this app without creating an account and once you like the app then go and create an account.

Android Radio App - Create Station :  Tap "I am new to Jango" for using this Radio app without registering for an account. Tapping this option would display the following screen.

Android Radio App - Create Station
Android Radio App - Create Station
Type the artist name you want to create radio station by, in text box with text "Enter any artist to get going". You need not enter complete artist name. For example, just typing "Ad" would search and display list of artists whose name begins with "Ad" - AD, Adele, Adina Howard, Adam Sandler, Adam Ant, Adam and The Ants, Adema, Adam F, Adolescents, Adam Green, ADULT, Addison Road, ADL, Adrian Belew, Adrima, Adam Cohen, Add N to (X), Adriano Celentano, Adam Freeland, Adonis, Adrian Enescu, Advantage, Adam Beyer, Adeva, Adalberto Alvarez, Adem, Adam Sky, Adolphson & Falk, Adam Fields, Adam Popp, Adolfo Urias Y Su Lobo Norteno, Adam K & Soha, Adult Net, Adultnapper, Adlm (After Dinner Liquid Mints), Adept, Adrian Raso and the Mess, Advanced Association, Adora, Adam Tyler, Adam Brock, Adonis Puentes, Adam Teague, Adamo, AdamTake2, Adjay, Adoram, Advisor, Adrienne Pierce, Adalia, Adam Rykala, Aduro, Adam Martin, adVerSity, Adam Jarvis, Addison Baker - Fusion, Adriana Evans...and list is on.

Tap the name of artist from the list to create a radio station by that artist and start playing the station you just created.

Android Radio App - Station Playing : As mentioned above if you tap the name of the artist then it would create a station and start playing it. For example, tapping "Adele" from the list of artists shown in above screen would start playing the station for Adele as shown in screenshot below.

Android Radio App - Station Play
Android Radio App - Station Play
There are many useful functions on this screen which you can use. The icons with up and down thumb are for rating the song. You can tap pause button to stop playing station at any point of time and it changes to play icon. Tap play icon to resume playing the station. Tap next button to change the song.

Volume icon allows to change the volume of the Radio station. This is very handy feature because it allows you to change the volume of radio irrespective of the volume setting of your phone.

Android Radio App - Edit Station : In above screenshot notice an icon at right hand top corner of the screen. Tap this icon to display the "Edit Station" screen shown below.

Android Radio App - Edit Station
Android Radio App - Edit Station
You can use this feature only when you are playing a station created by Artist name. This can not be done while playing station by genre.

Edit station screen displays the names of artists similar to the one you entered for the station. Here either you can add the artist by tapping "+" icon or remove them by tapping icon in pink color. You can also add artist not listed in list by tapping "Add Artist" button. Tap "Variety Settings" button to alter few settings to fine tune the behavior of this Android Radio app.

Using this screen you can add or remove one or more artists to your custom radio station. Once the radio station is created then you can play that station to listen music for those and similar other artists.

Android Radio App - Genre Stations : You can tap "Genre Stations" button on bottom tool bar of this app to display the predefined list of radio stations by various genre categories.

Android Radio App - Genre Stations
Android Radio App - Genre Stations
There are good number of categories for exploring the radio stations. You can select from - "Top Stations", "Alternative", "Christian & Gospel", "Classical & Opera", "Dance", "Country", "Decades: 70's", "Decades: 80's", "Decades: 90's", "Electronic", "Independent", "Hip Hop", "Indie", "Jazz & Blues", "Latino", "Pop", "Rock", "R&B / Soul", "Themes & Moods" and "World & International".

For example, tapping "Top Stations" from above screen would display the list of top stations or hot stations as shown in screenshot below.

Android Radio App - Top Stations
Android Radio App - Top Stations
This screen displays the list of top stations. Here you can select from - "Top 100 by Jango", "Thanksgiving", "Fresh 40 by Jango", "Christmas Classics", "UK Top 100 Chart", "R&B Christmas", "Hot Country", "Independent Christmas", "Love Songs", "Hot Hip Hop / R&B", "Hot Adult Pop & Rock", "Hot Dance Hits", "Hot Alternative" and "Hot Indie Dance".

Just tap any of the genre listed above to start playing that radio station and you can enjoy hours of streaming music on your Android phone.

Android Radio App - World & International Stations : Selecting the "World & International" genre category displays the list of radio stations covering music from all over the world. Here you would find radio stations list with stations like - "Swedish Essentials",  "World Music", "Dancehall", "Afrobeat", "Ska / Rocksteady", "Bollywood Hits", "Raggae", "Chansons Françaises", "Pinoy Music", "Celtic", "Irish Pub Songs", "Deutsche Music", "Brazilian", "Tango", "Cuban" and "Regional Mexican"

You can tap any of the world or international radio stations from above list to start enjoying the music from that part of the world. For example, tapping "Bollywood Hits" starts playing the radio station with music from Bollywood movies as shown in screenshot below.

Android Radio App - Bollywood Hits Station
Android Radio App - Bollywood Hits Station
Screenshot above is showing a song, "Jai Ho" from "A. R. Rahman" being played by Bollywood Hits radio station.

As mentioned earlier in this post, this is second post on Radio App for Android and you can read about first Android Radio app at : Best Android Radio App - With Over 50000 Free Online Internet Radio Stations

You can download this radio app from Android market or app store of your choice and start enjoying music you love on your Android mobile phone anywhere and anytime.

If you like this app then find about more such wonderful apps here by reading other posts. Bookmark this url and keep coming back to read about more such coolest and best apps for Android.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Music Player For Android - With Equalizer, Lyrics, Album Art and Videos

This is one of the best and free Android Music Player apps in the market. It comes with nice features like Album Art, Lyrics, Equalizer. It has wonderful and useful search capability where you can search related information of the song being played at Youtube, Wikipedia, Google and more. It allows you to play audio as well as video songs. This app has all those wonderful features which you may be looking for in a Android Music Player.

This is second post on Android Music Player. If you have not read about the previous Android Music Player then you can read about it at Android Music Player 1.

If you are looking for an internet radio for listening hours of streaming music then you can checkout one at : Radio App For Android - Listen Music You Love Anywhere And Anytime

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Android Music Player - MixZing Basic : This is absolutely free, ad supported Music Player app and has features which you would find in paid Android music player apps. The user interface of this app is simple and nice. One of the interesting features in this app is you can search related information of the song being played. You can search from lyrics to videos. Once you find the related video of the song then you can tap it to play it within this player itself. You need to install and experience this app once to understand how good it is.

Android Music Player Home Screen :  When you launch this app first time then it shows you useful informative screens. Once you move past the informative screens then you would see the wonderful home screen of this app.

Android Music Player - Home Screen
Android Music Player - Home Screen
You can see how different and innovative the user interface of this app is. Here you can tap "Now Playing" to go directly to the current playing or last played song. You can tap "Shuffle All" to immediately start playing the songs in random order. You can tap "Folders" to browse the folders on your phone and select the songs from specific folder to play.

You can press the menu button of your Android phone to see some useful menus on this screen. One of the important menus is "Settings", where you can fine tune behavior of this app and customize certain aspects to suit your need.

Android Music Player - Songs List : When you tap "Music" in home screen then you would see the songs list screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Songs List
Android Music Player - Songs List
This screen allows you to access your music by Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres or Playlists. Tap one of the icons on the bottom toolbar of this screen to see your music by that category. Above screenshot is showing the music by songs and you can see the songs button is highlighted in green color.

At the top of the screen you can see the last song that was played. You can tap this top bar to start playing that song again. Below that you see the songs with their duration at the right of their names. To start playing any of the songs listed here, just tap it.

Android Music Player With Album Art : One of the interesting features of this app is ability to show the album art of the song that is being played. When you tap the song from the list displayed above then you will see the player as shown in screenshot below and it would start to play the tapped song.

Android Music Player - Album Art
Android Music Player - Album Art
The Album Art of the song is automatically fetched and displayed if it is available. Tap previous, next button on the bottom toolbar of this screen to move to previous or next song in the list. Tap the pause button at any point of time to pause the song. Tapping the "More" button at the right side of the toolbar displays few more buttons which provides few more useful functions. You can tap the progress bar to move song to specific point.

Android Music Player - Lyrics : While you are in player and song is being played you can tap the "i" button  at the top left hand corner of the screen to display the drop down menu. From this drop down menu you can select "Biography", "Lyrics", "YouTube", "Wikipedia", "Google" or "Close Info". Tap the "Lyrics" from these menus to display the lyrics of the song being played. It would fetch the lyrics from the internet if available and display it.

Android Music Player - Lyrics
Android Music Player - Lyrics
As shown in screenshot above, you can see the lyrics of the song while it is being played. This really make you appreciate the deep meaning of the song and powerful music which is decorating it. If you want to close the lyrics page then tap the slider at bottom left corner of the screen with up arrow icon on it. This would show you the same menus where you can tap "Close Info" menu to go back to player.

Android Music Player With Equalizer : When you are at player screen then you would find the Equalizer button at the left side of the bottom toolbar. Tap this button to launch the Equalizer settings screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Equalizer
Android Music Player - Equalizer
Tap the "On" check box at left hand side top corner of this screen to switch Equalizer "On" or "Off". Here you can either do custom setting by dragging individual bids by your finger or you can select preset settings by tapping the drop down control just after "On" check box.

By selecting the appropriate "Apply to" value from drop down box, you can decide whether the Equalizer setting would be applied to all songs or specific song. Tap the "More" button at the right hand top corner of this screen to see few more Equalizer controls.

Once done with the Equalizer setting that you want then press the back button of your Android phone to go back to player screen.

Android Music Player With Video Player : This app has built in capability to play video music files as well.  From home screen of this app tap "Videos" to see the list of video files on your Android phone. From the list of those video files tap the video that you want to play and app would start playing it as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Video Player
Android Music Player - Video Player
Above screenshot is showing Shakira's "Hips don't lie" video. You can tap pause button to pause the video at any point of time. You can tap on progress bar to move quickly in video at specific point. Only drawback which can be noticed with this video player is it does not have full screen mode. To exit from the video player and to go back to home screen of the app, just press the back button of your Android phone.

This app comes with nice widgets which you can put on your Android phone's home screen. Check out those widgets.

If you find this app interesting then you may like to read post on another such wonderful Android Music Player app at Android Music Player 1.

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Android Music Player - With Equalizer, Lyrics, Album Art and Themes

This is one of the best Android Music Players which has those required features which Android lovers would love to have. It has all exciting funtionalities which you may be looking for namely equalizer ( eq ), themes, album art, lyrics and more.

In last post I talked about one of the best apps for downloading Wallpapers and Ringtones. If you have not yet read about it then you can find it at : Three coolest apps to download free Wallpapers for Google Android phone - Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers

This is first post on Android Music Player. If you have not read about the second Android Music Player here then you can read about it at Android Music Player 2.

If you are looking for an internet radio for listening hours of streaming music then you can checkout one at : Radio App For Android - Listen Music You Love Anywhere And Anytime

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PowerAMP : There are few great Android music players in market namely PowerAMP, PlayerPro and Audiogalaxy. PowerAMP is one of the best Android music apps that you can find in Android market. It has wonderful features like themes, equalizer, album art, lyrics and much more. It's user interface is amazing and cool. Just take a look at it once and you would fall in love with it. It is bit difficult to understand for first time users but if you read this article then you would get up to speed quickly and would be able to make most out of it in no time.

Android Music Player With Album Art : When you first time launch PowerAMP Music Player you would see following screen.

Android Music Player - PowerAMP
Android Music Player - PowerAMP
As shown in above screenshot, it displays the Album Art of the song if it is available. Immediately below the album art are buttons to play / pause the song and to navigate to next/previous song. Below the play buttons, at left, you can find Repeat button which you can tap to play the same song again and again. At right side, below the play buttons, you can see Shuffle button which you can tap to shuffle the songs in your playlist.

Android Music Player With Equalizer And Lyrics : At bottom left of the screen is EQU (Equalizer) button and you can tap it to switch it ON or Off. At bottom right corner of the screen is volume knob. This Music Player app also displays the Lyrics if those are available as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - With Lyrics
Android Music Player - With Lyrics
You can read the lyrics of the song as it is being played. Above the EQU (Equalizer) button is progress bar of the player which you can drag to fast forward / backward the song to specific location that you want. Above it you can see the brief information of the song being played. Below the scroll bar and immediately to the left of the volume knob is the small display which shows you current Equalizer settings.

Android Music Player With Equalizer Presets : You can tap the PRE (Presets) button to set one of the predefined Equalizer settings. Tapping PRE button displays pop up shown in screen shot below.

Android Music Player - Equalizer Presets
Android Music Player - Equalizer Presets
There are plenty of preset equalizer settings which you can select, namely Classical, Dance, Rock, Pop and more. One of the presets called Phone Speaker (Loud) is especially useful. You can set this to play the songs with full volume with phone speakers. You can long press any of the preset to display context menu with buttons as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Preset Menu
Android Music Player - Preset Menu
The button at right, Delete button should be used with caution. It deletes the preset from the list. Tapping the Edit button launch the Preset Edit pop up as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Edit Preset
As shown in screenshot above you can edit the name of the preset using this screen. You can also assign the given preset to Speaker, Folder, Wired Headset, Current song or Bluetooth.

There were two buttons in  previous to above screenshot, Assign and Unassign which I have not explained yet. The Assign button provides you same Assign to functionality that we saw in Edit Preset screen above. Unasssign button allows you to remove all the assignments done for selected preset.

Android Music Player Playlist : On the first screen of the of the PowerAMP player, when you press menu button of your Android phone you can see the menus as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Menu
Android Music Player - Menu
Add To FL menu allows you to add a given song to playlist. Ringtone menu allows you to set the given song as your phone ringtone. Info menu displays a pop up as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Song Information
Android Music Player - Song Information
Apart from the song information displayed on this pop up, three more very useful functions are available here. Tapping Search button launches the internet browser and displays the Google search result for given song. Lyrics button would be enabled if Lyrics for the given song are available and tapping the Lyrics button displays the lyrics of the song.

Android Music Player As Music Manager : Edit Tags button is very handy feature and tapping this button displays the pop up as shown below.

Android Music Player - Edit Tags
Android Music Player - Edit Tags
You must have guessed how useful this feature can be for editing tags as you want and managing your songs in better way. This is one of the features which makes this app the best Android music manager as well.

Lets go back to app menus which we saw in one of the previous screenshots. I have to explain yet the remaining menus namely Delete, Folders/Lib, Equalizer, Settings and Help. Delete menu should be used with care as it can delete the song from your SD card. Folders/Lib menu displays Android Music Folder screen as shown in screenshot below.

Android Music Player - Music Folders
Folders displayed in this screen could be different on your phone. You can select which folders should be displayed here by using settings menu and we would see how to do it in a short while. Notice the two buttons Folders button and Library button at the bottom of the screen. You can tap these buttons to switch from Folders and Library screen. Tapping Library button displays the screen as shown below.

Android Music Player - System Library
Android Music Player - System Library
As you can see in screenshot above it displays the Android system library where all the Android music categories are displayed. You can quickly browse and select the songs using these various categories.

Android Music Player Equalizer : Lets go back to remaining app menus which I have not explained yet, Equalizer, Settings and Help. Help menu displays help of the PowerAMP Music Player app. I am going to explain Settings menu in a short while.   Before that lets see Equalizer menu. When you tap Equalizer menu or tap volume knob or tap equalizer display on main player screen then it launches a Equalizer screen as shown below.

Android Music Player - Equalizer
Android Music Player - Equalizer
You can drag Vol, Treble and Bass knobs on this screen to modify those settings of equalizer. You can tap Tone button to switch it ON or OFF. Similarly you can tap EQU (Equalizer) button to switch it ON or OFF. PRE button launches Preset screen which we saw earlier. Save button allows you to save your Equalizer settings. Reset would reset all changes. Above these buttons Equalizer wave form is displayed. If you notice, there are two small arrows on this wave form. That part of the wave form is sliding window and you can drag it to display remaining wave form. It also scrolls the sliders in top area of the screen. You can drag the various slider knobs as you want for creating your equalizer setting.

Android Music Player App Settings : Now lets see last and remaining settings menu. When you tap the settings menu it displays the settings screen as shown below.

Android Music Player - PowerAMP Settings
Android Music Player - PowerAMP Settings
There are lot many useful and powerful settings provided by PowerAMP app and you can see those all in leisure. I want to talk about two of the settings which are useful and interesting. First is Theme settings option. You can tap Theme settings option to change the theme of your PowerAMP Android Music Player app to Matte Metal, Aluminium, White Plastic or Black Neon. Second interesting and useful option is Music Folders which is not displayed in above screenshot and can be seen by scrolling down. You can tap Music Folders option to launch the pop up as shown below.

Android Music Player - Music Folders
Android Music Player - Music Folders
You can mark the check boxes ON for the folders that contains MP3 files or other music files and you want  those to be shown in Music folders screen. We saw the Music screen earlier when I talked about Folders/Lib menu.

You can download PowerAMP Music Player app from Android market or Android store of your choice and start playing Android MP3 songs.

If you find this app interesting then you may like to read a post on second such wonderful Android Music Player app at Android Music Player 2.

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