Music player

marine1 said:
Is that to play music on the device too? Not stream
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You mentioned Joox so I thought you meant streaming since that's what you primarily use it for. Spotify can work for offline files if you sync it via the desktop app else try Poweramp which was the best when I used it yonks ago or the FOSS https://github.com/AdrienPoupa/VinylMusicPlayer (material design) or https://github.com/vanilla-music/vanilla for folder based layout if you like that more.

CranialBlaze said:
If only their offline mode was not complete arse and their generated playlists gave a remote crap about what you liked
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Strange their Top songs 2019, On Repeat, Repeat Rewind, Daily Mixes and Release Radar playlists has been pretty much spot on for me. Haven't digged into Discover weekly yet but doubt it'll be any different.
 
backstreetboy said:
You mentioned Joox so I thought you meant streaming since that's what you primarily use it for. Spotify can work for offline files if you sync it via the desktop app else try Poweramp which was the best when I used it yonks ago or the FOSS https://github.com/AdrienPoupa/VinylMusicPlayer (material design) or https://github.com/vanilla-music/vanilla for folder based layout if you like that more.


Strange their Top songs 2019, On Repeat, Repeat Rewind, Daily Mixes and Release Radar playlists has been pretty much spot on for me. Haven't digged into Discover weekly yet but doubt it'll be any different.
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Mine was for the 3 years I used it before it landed in SA, then suddenly every 2nd song was lok WTF is this ****. I went from playing perfect music to stuff I would come back from the dead to turn off. 3 months I could not get it to generate a, playlists that didn't make me wanna burn off my ears.

Eventually gave up and went to Google who only fails me if I use my Google mini, that ai gets in a mess with me mood and spins up random dolly Parton and friends crap
I just tell her to play something else and she gives up on the joke.
 
What do you guys use to get the album art for the media you have. I don't want to complicate an issue it there is an easy way
 
Wanted to recommend Apollo, but it doesn't seem to be on Playstore any more. I used it up until a few years back, stopped because I subbed on Google Play Music.
Apollo was good back then.


Does your phone not come with a default player installed?

EDIT: looks like the JoeApollo music player on the playstore could be very close to the Apollo one that Cyanogen made.
 
beans100 said:
Wanted to recommend Apollo, but it doesn't seem to be on Playstore any more. I used it up until a few years back, stopped because I subbed on Google Play Music.
Apollo was good back then.


Does your phone not come with a default player installed?

EDIT: looks like the JoeApollo music player on the playstore could be very close to the Apollo one that Cyanogen made.
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Surprisingly I don't see that option in the default player

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
On Phone: Spotify Premium, otherwise PowerAmp.

backstreetboy said:
Spotify can work for offline files if you sync it via the desktop app
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No, you need to navigate to the playlist on your phone and just toggle it:
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If you add a song to the playlist on any device, it will sync/download the song on all devices that have it toggled. You can set it so it only downloads on WiFi. Green icon on left-hand side means that song has been downloaded.
Note playlists like daily mixes cannot be downloaded as they are dynamic, it will keep adding songs at the end based on what you liked/disliked. If you like the daily mix, just save it as a playlist.

Offline feature is only for premium, song radio (Probably spotify's best feature), the number of daily mixes, the non-forced shuffle on mobile, etc. are also premium.

Note that devices such as the Google home mini will only shuffle through the first 100 songs of the playlist, this does not apply to PC/phones.

On desktop:
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Toggled on my desktop:
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Can't really show it downloading as 100Mbps line, but green icon shows up for a second in playlist.

Meanwhile on my phone it's not downloaded:
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I'd need to use the toggle.
Most of the stuff is downloaded though as in my liked list.
 
Johnatan56 said:
On Phone: Spotify Premium, otherwise PowerAmp.


No, you need to navigate to the playlist on your phone and just toggle it:
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If you add a song to the playlist on any device, it will sync/download the song on all devices that have it toggled. You can set it so it only downloads on WiFi. Green icon on left-hand side means that song has been downloaded.
Note playlists like daily mixes cannot be downloaded as they are dynamic, it will keep adding songs at the end based on what you liked/disliked. If you like the daily mix, just save it as a playlist.

Offline feature is only for premium, song radio (Probably spotify's best feature), the number of daily mixes, the non-forced shuffle on mobile, etc. are also premium.

Note that devices such as the Google home mini will only shuffle through the first 100 songs of the playlist, this does not apply to PC/phones.

On desktop:
View attachment 763796
Toggled on my desktop:
View attachment 763798
Can't really show it downloading as 100Mbps line, but green icon shows up for a second in playlist.

Meanwhile on my phone it's not downloaded:
View attachment 763800
I'd need to use the toggle.
Most of the stuff is downloaded though as in my liked list.
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PowerAmp is my daily driver, too. There was a bit of stuff I simply couldn't find on Spotify - Tool, for example - and an update removed the ability to shuffle all your songs for some stupid reason (basically, I fire up PA, go to All Songs, and hit Shuffle), so I uninstalled it.

Tool did the most un-Tool thing ever, and made their entire catalogue available on Spotify - but not sure about being able to shuffle all my songs without having to set up playlists of liked songs first. If they'd just make like it was (and a LOT of people complained about it because there was no real reason for them to change it), then I'd probably start using it again, because the ability to instantly add a new band someone recommends or to find really old stuff you'd forgotten about is really cool.
 
update: I was about to give up with the whole metadata tagging till I came across an app that works wonders. Had to do things manually one by one but it fixed up as many files as possible and accurately. In terms of music apps I tried a few but went back to an old favourite Poweramp. It just looks better in my opinion. That and the must have spotify and I'm sorted musically.
 
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