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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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Android Video Player - Best and Free App to Play AVI, WMV, MKV, MP4, FLV and Many Codecs with Subtitles

In this post I am presenting to you an Android Video Player which can play lot many codec formats like avi, mp3, rmvb, rm, 3gp, wmv, mp4, mov, mkv, flv, 3gpp, mpg, mlv, mpeg, m2v, vob, tp, ts, asf, ra, ram, hlv, ogg, f4v and m4v. Once you install this video player on your Android phone then you don't have to look for android video converter. This is one stop Android media player which would play for you the codec formats you want.

In one of the previous posts I have talked about Android Music Player and if you are looking for a Music Player then you can read : Best Android Music Player - App with Themes, Equalizer, Album Art and Lyrics

If you are looking for a good Movie App for Android then check this out : Best Android Movie App - With Player, Trailers, Showtimes, Tickets, Synopsis and News 

This is first Video Player App discussed here and if you want to read about second Android Video Player app then you can read it at : Video Player For Android - Best And Free App For Playing Movies, Music And Other Videos 

MoboPlayer : This is one of the best Android Video Player apps you can find in Google Android market or Android store of your choice. It is simple to use and feature packed. Best part is, it is absolutely free. It comes with it's own codec format package and can play a very big list of formats for you. It's user interface is so friendly that after using it once you may not look for any other video player again.

When you launch this Android video player first time then it asks you to download and install codec formats as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Install Codec Formats

You have three different choices here, either you can download and install codec format package from Android market or you can do it from Mobo site or you can do it using offline instructions provided for installation. When you tap DownloadFromMarket it launches Android market app and takes you to the codec download page. Just tap to install the package from there. Once installation is completed then you need to launch again the MoboPlayer by tapping it's icon. If the codec formats are installed properly then it would not display the previous screen above and take you to instructions screen as shown below.

Android Video Player - Instructions

This screen informs about the various user friendly interfaces provided with this Android media player. Double tapping anywhere on the screen pause or resume the video playing. When you slide at left hand side of the screen in verticle direction as shown in screenshot above then brightness of the video is adjusted. When you slide at right hand side of the screen in verticle direction as shown in screenshot above then volume of the video is adjusted. When you slide at top side of the screen in horizontal direction as shown in screenshot above then you can decide the play time to jump into video. You would find these features with example screenshots given below in a while.

When you go ahead from instruction screen to main screen of this Android video player then you would find  empty screen because no media directory is selected yet.

Android Video Player - Main Screen 

There are two ways to go for selecting media directory here. Either you can tap the small folder icon at left hand bottom corner of the screen or you can tap the text message "There's no media directory, click here to set". This would open a Media Directory selection screen as shown below.

Android Video Player - Media Directory

When you tap check box at any of the directories then it is checked ON or OFF. It would also display the menu shown in above screenshot. Pressing your Android phone's menu button would also display the above menu. When you tap Confirm menu then Video Player starts scanning media files as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Scanning Media Files

Android video player app displays the progress of the scanning and how many media files are found. Once the scanning is completed then "Cancel" button changes to "Close" and you can tap it to return back to main screen of video player.

Android Video Player - Main Screen

Screenshot above displays the main screen with grid view of the videos. You can tap the icon at right hand top corner of the screen to change the view between grid and list. Tap the thumbnail of the video to start playing it and it would launch the player screen in landscape mode as shown in screenshot below.

Android Video Player - Controls

You can change the zoom ratio by tapping the icon at left hand bottom corner of the screen. You can drag the progress bar to the location of your choice to fast forward or backward the video playing. You can tap the Pause icon displayed at bottom center of the screen to pause the video playing. Same icon changes to Play icon on pausing the video and you can tap it to resume the video playing.

Android Video Player - Volume Control

As explained earlier there are user friendly gesture controls provided with this Android video player. Sliding your finger up or down vertically at right hand side of the screen displays the volume overlay on the screen and changes the volume. Play with it for some time to experience how convenient this feature is.

Android Video Player - Brightness Control

Like volume you can control the brightness of the video by sliding your finger vertically at left hand side of the screen. This would display the volume level as you slide. I have already explained earlier that you can tap twice anywhere on the video to pause or resume the playing.

Android Video Player - Jump to Location

Many times we want to jump to a specific location in the video and start playing video from that point. This Android video player makes it very convenient to precisely jump to specific location. Slide your finger horizontally at top side of the screen and it would display the "Jump to"  button at right hand top of the screen. Keep sliding your finger toward left or right to change the displayed location as you need. Once the required location is displayed then tap the "Jump to" button at top right hand corner of screen to execute it. This would start playing the video from that point onward.

Android Video Player - Coverflow View

When you are at main screen of the video player app where you are looking at all the available videos in grid view then you can rotate the phone and you can see the videos as shown in screenshot above. This view is called Coverflow or Pictureflow. Here you can see the Album Arts or Thumbnails of the videos as shown above. You can swipe the pictures by your finger to see the available videos. Tap the picture in front to start playing that video. Play with this to understand how user friendly this interface is.

Android Video Player - Context Menu

You can long press the picture in front to display the menu as shown in above screenshot. One of the important menus here is "Add to play list". You can tap this menu to add the given video into playlist. By creating playlist you can group the videos by a particular theme and can play all the videos in playlist by just single tap.

Android Video Player - More Menu

On main screen of this Android video player app you can tap "..." (more) menu item at the right hand bottom of the screen to display the more menu as shown in above screenshot. Here you can change the Background of the app and can also goto the PlayList screen to start playing playlists. Settings menu launches the settings screen shown below.

Android Video Player - Settings

Here you would find lot of settings to fine tune the behavior of this Android video player app. One of the options is "Choose the media directory". This feature we saw earlier in this post where you can select the media directories to scan the media files. One of the sections of settings are related to Subtitles. Where you can choose to show Subtitles by automatically loading subtitle file. You can also choose text size, color and character set for subtitles.

As mentioned at start of the post, this is first Video Player App discussed here and if you want to read about second Video Player app then you can read it at : Video Player For Android - Best And Free App For Playing Movies, Music And Other Videos 

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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