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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Best Android Widgets - Clock, Weather, Calendar, Power Control, Music, Dictionary And SMS Widgets To Personalize And Beautify Your Google Android Home Screen

There are many beautiful Android widgets in market for every need you may have. If you know about Android widgets already then you must be wondering which are the best, topmost, coolest and must have Android widgets that you should download and install on your Android home screen. Here you will get to know few best and free android widgets for Clock, Weather, Calendar, Power Control, Music, Dictionary and SMS. If you do not know about Android widgets yet then do now worry, you will learn shortly about "What is an android widget" and how to use Widget to personalize and beautify your Google Android phone's home screen.

Android Clock Widget : There are two types of clock widgets, traditional analog clocks and digital clocks. Let's see a traditional analog clock widget first.

Android Widget - Clock

Above screenshot is showing the beautiful analog clock Android widget - NexTHEME. You can download  and install this beautiful Android clock widget from market. Once installed on your phone you can put this widget on your phone's home screen. If you are new to widget and do not know what are widgets and how to put those in Android home screen then hold on, read the next paragraph.

What Is An Android Widget : Android widget is a small gadget app which has a visible presence and can be put on your Android phone's home screen or desktop. Widgets are primarily used to personalize and decorate your phone and to get the easy access to frequently needed information or service. You can install the widgets from Android market or Android app store of your choice. Once installed then widget is available for you to put it on your Android home screen. You can either press Android phone's menu key and tap "Add" menu or long press the home screen of your phone to launch "Add to Home Screen" menu.

Android Widgets - Add to Home Screen

As you can see in screenshot above "Add to Home Screen" menu has two options to add widgets, "Samsung Widgets" and "Android Widgets". If your phone is different then you would see different menu in place of "Samsung Widgets". Tap "Android Widgets" menu and from the available android widgets list, select the widget that you want to place on your Android home screen.

Animated Weather App With Clock and Weather Widgets : This is one of the best and interesting app which comes with widgets. Animated weather app comes with beautiful weather animations. When you launch this app for first time then it prompts you to select the city by name or pin code. This information is used to define the location for which you want to see the weather information. Once you set the location then it fetches the weather information and display it to you with beautiful animated effects.

Animated Weather App for Android

Above screenshot is displaying the animated weather of New York and it is being shown as thunder showers. Lightening and rain shown is screenshot above is not just a picture, it is live animation and is beautiful. It works with older phone versions and you need not to have latest phone to see these animated weather effects with this app.

At the bottom of the screen there are two tool bars, the one with larger icons with text "Sa", "Su" and "Mo" is indicating days of the week and you can tap the appropriate day for which you want to see the weather prediction. Tool bar with small icons indicates time in a day that is Morning, Day, Evening and Night. You can tap these small icons to see the weather at that specific time for selected day.

Android Widgets - Clock and Weather

Animated weather app comes with two beautiful clock and weather Android widgets. The screenshot above is showing one of these two Android clock and weather widgets. Another widget is small in size from this and is equally beautiful.

Android Music Widget : Android music app comes with a nice widget which you can keep on your home screen to play music as and when you want to.

Android Music Widget

Refer to screenshot above. You can tap "Touch to select music" button to launch the Android music player and you can select the music that you want to play. You can tap the play button to start playing the music you have selected. Play button changes to pause when music starts and you can tap the pause button anytime to pause the music.

Android Power Control Widget : This is a very handy widget which allows you to control the power consumption of your Android phone from home screen.

Android Power Control Widget

You can see that it is a beautiful android widget which allows you to switch on and off various phone services like Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Auto Sync and Brightness. These are the services if switched off then increase the performance of your phone battery and you would need to charge the battery less frequently. This handy widget allows you to do that at a tap of a button.

Android Calendar Widget : Android calender app which is explained in one of the previous posts comes with nice Calendar Widget. If want to know more about it and have not read that earlier post then you can read it at : Android Calendar - Best App and Widgets with Google Sync

Android Dictionary Widget : Android dictionary app also, which is described in one of the previous posts comes with handy dictionary widget. You can use this widget to read about different words randomly and can increase your vocabulary drastically. If you have not read it earlier then you can read it now at : Best Android Dictionary - With Thesaurus, Widget, Over 140,000 Words and Works Offline

Android SMS Widget : In one of the previous posts a SMS app is described in detail. This SMS app comes with a nice widget which you can keep on your Android home screen and access the SMS easily. If you want to know more about it then can read it at : Android SMS App - With SMS Backup, Search, Quick Text, Widget, Scheduler and Batch Operations

These are some of the widgets which are useful and handy. Apart from these widgets you can find more on Android market. Few which should be mentioned here are note widget, email widget, agenda widget, contacts widget, news widget, photo gallery widget and twitter widget.

Download and install the widgets that you are interested in and start putting those on your Android home screen to personalize it. If you like this post then you may would like to check out few more Android apps from popular section if you are reading it from desktop browser or by going to home if you are reading from your mobile browser. Keep coming back to read more about cool and best apps for Android.