What is YOUR favorite music player?
 

What is your favorite music player on your tablet?

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My favourite MUSIC player is certanly Quasar ( http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ghlight=quasar )

it's fast and complete and manages very well the playlists (apart fro the little ussue with the OSK and the n800 :P )

I've tried all of the player in the pool, and this seems the better ( and it's lightweight too!)

my 200 cents xD

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Thanks, never heard of Quasar before, gonna have to check it out.
I'm a YouAmp user currently.

Edit: Installed Quasar..and..wow. I may be a convert.
The things I'll 'miss' from YouAmp will certainly be its small footprint (Quasar and required libs are what, 10meg?) and the Search function.
But quasar may well be worth it for its additional features and very good looks.

Thanks for the tip!

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canola as it is reasonably quick. the two most important reasons for me are that it has nice easy car-friendly controls, and a quick easy way to play my library randomly.

i would convert but have not found anything which better suits my needs. the built in player would be great but it frequently hangs, uses all my cpu cycles, and the crawler drags everything in and is not configurable.

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And your favorite player for .ogg files?

If I double-click an ogg file, it will play in mplayer, but just that one song. File > Open in mplayer does not show ogg files, so I can't make a playlist.

YouAmp forever says it's Updating Database but never finds any songs. I have only ogg files for music, so I don't know if it's a general problem with my YouAmp or if it's ogg-specific.

So I use Canola, even though it's a heavy footprint for an application I use solely for its music capabilities .

I'd be glad to know another program that played well with multiple ogg files.

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Thanks for the info on Canola. All my music is in ogg as well, so I guess I will be using this app when the time comes, if it comes.

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Having all my music in OGG leaded me to MediaBox. And after a bit more than a year using I won't switch to any other mediaplayer :)

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WIth the N900, the included media player is very nice. For music, it is perfect for my needs, well done, supports my NAS and looks good.
(For video, unfortunately, it doesn't play MPEG2/TS and FLV, so I need MPlayer for that right now)

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youamp -just needs work on playlists ---quasar is good but has volume control bug-which no one has bothered to fix

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My short-lived fascination and love-affair with Quasar is over..much like a drunken one-night stand where you eventually sober up and more clearly see what you dragged home. Looked really nice..but man there's a lot of bugs and issues.

Going back to my wife...YouAmp...if she will take me back :)

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How is the built in media player once ogg libraries are installed?

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One thing that I could never figure out in the built in media player was how to restrict it to only look for media files in certain directories/subdirectories. I kept ending up with music, podcasts, etc all jumbled up in it.

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Having tried all the others (except Quasar which I will now try) I'm using xmms, simply because its the only one which deos not distort Bass and can play continuously from one track to another without a horrific pause. Of course it has major downsides like being horrifically un finger friendly but the playback is my priority, I'd love to find another player that has it though.

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Almost exactly what I was going to say. And it's the only player (as far as I know) to have a proper equaliser. Just remember to knock the pre-amp down a bit to avoid distortion.

When I'm at a desk I always use it, but on the train or walking, I can't beat Canola's UI.

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Does xmms play, and easily handle playlists for, ogg files?

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I dont have much ogg stuff but I dont think so, as for playlists I've never had a problem but my needs are very basic, a filemanager system and clicking 'add to playlist' has always done me.

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FWIW, xmms is slightly more finger-friendly in double size mode (ctrl-d). And it does play .ogg files, but I don't know if any special tricks are required to include them in playlists. I also do not recall if I had to install any extra files to get .ogg support.

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Even though it's not really updated anymore, Kagu is still my favorite for music. It has a sleep timer which is great for listening at bedtime, it plays ogg vorbis files; and I find that of all the apps out there, it does the best job of finding album and artist art.

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It seems like you can 'oggify' many of the players (see link: http://ogg.garage.maemo.org/diablo.html ) including;
- built in Nokia media player,
- Kilikali,
- UKMP.

Here is Kilikaly playing Oggs: http://kilikali.garage.maemo.org/ima...ikali-v0.1.jpg

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Granted a very small population, but I find it interesting/surprising that the built-in Nokia Player is the most popular player even amongst such a savvy/adventurous group.

It must be better than what I remember :)

(My own sordid love-affair with Quasar continues...it's so darn pretty).

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Re: the Nokia Media Player, I use it just because it's there (i.e., laziness), has a clean & straightforward interface, and pulls in your music files (although this feature sometimes breaks). However, I just looked at YouAmp, and it has those things as well (except the laziness part). Hmm...

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My personal favorite on any platform is xmms2 and that's what I expect to see on the n900 as well ;)

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I find that xmms behaves very badly and is a pain in the neck to use* on my N800. Is there a different app called "xmms2" -- rather than "xmms" -- that is available for the NITs?

*For example, the windows insist on staying on top of other windows when other apps should have priority. (I also found that xmms sounds very good and plays and finds ogg files without problem.)

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I use mpd, mmpc, and sonata.

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I find that the built in player experiences the fewest glitches when also running maemomaper.
Probably the two most used apps while in the car. Probably half of my colection is ogg files and with the oggified stock media player I really notice very few unexpected pauses. My second favorite is ukmp just cause it had such cool features and was tactilly(sp) friendly

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I'm starting to feel very bad for GPE Audio Player and Kilikali.
Makes me want to install them to try them out.

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I recently uninstalled Canola, having found it slow to start up, and sluggish to respond. It was also difficult to do some things (e.g. add podcasts), and development seems to have stopped. I tried Kagu briefly, prompted by this thread, but I found the interface a bit confusing, and the functionality limited. I'm now trying out Mediabox, which looks promising.

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Nothing, or almost nothing, suits my needs anymore :( too much data to parse hence Winamp-like interface doesn't cut it anymore. None of the iTunes-like interfaces are good enough. amaroK 1.x was interesting, but I don't run KDE and don't like the 2.x roadmap. There is also the issue of integrating between different desktop (and mobile) clients. For now, I'm using Rhythmbox + PulseAudio, and I'm moderate content.

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for podcast-management give gpodder a try.

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xmms2 is xmms redesigned from the ground up. It's a client-server approach so has multiple frontends available etc.

I'm not sure if xmms2 is available for the NITs yet.

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Is there any reason console based players like moc and cmus wouldn't work in Maemo 5?

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Thank, yes, I am using that (the podcast config of Canola was just one of the UI issues that stuck in my memory), although it's not as easy to use as the S60 podcast application on my E51. For that reason (and the A2DP support) I mostly listen to podcasts on my phone.

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Panucci.

Has great UI for use in the car. Nice big buttons.
One of the best features is that you can skip fwd/back by 10secs with one button, and by 1min with another pair of buttons.

It has the great feature as well that when closed and reopened later it will remember which title was being played and where it was and will resume playing from that point. Great for long tracks like podcasts.
Love it.

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some player......

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open media player