What are Reddit's favorite android apps in the category music and audio?

"Best" is a subjective term.

I like Musicolet . It's feature rich, has no internet permission, and ticks almost all boxes for me

I discovered Phonograph this week.

Without a doubt the best music player around!

It is material design as it is supposed to be, pretty and smooth animations (even Google Play Music stutters a bit on my nexus). It has the possibility to change album and song information and artwork.

It is still in beta but I haven't experienced any problems.

Oh, what could have been...

The closest I've seen to this concept is Phonograph Music Player.

So I used a lot of hard work, and a few voice training exercises.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/1ske7b/mtf_voice_training_regimen/

That's one helpful source.

Try move the resonance of your voice up, so that when you put your hand on your chest, it doesn't vibrate. To do this, you kinda need to learn to basically make your voice resonate up near your throat.

Another thing you need to do, is PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.

I recorded my progress using an app called https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer

This app is great, and it's also on iOS. It helps you see your realtime pitch, and what range you're hitting. After constant practice you should see it slowly creep up after 3-4 weeks of daily practice. My voice went from 120Hz to 250Hz after a lot of practice

I wish I could help more, but there isn't any magic solution, the more practice you do, the better you get at it.

I really like Phonograph. It is super simple, no fancy features, no ads. Just choose a song and play.

Linkme: Phonograph Music

Edit: The bot linked the wrong app because i messed up the name initially. Actual link

Phonograph formerly known as Gramophone - beautiful Material Design. Shuttle works as well but at the time it kept on crashing and gave me a bad experience. Phonograph even though Beta, it works flawlessly!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabouzeid.gramophone

Retro Music Player is a fully-featured player with an interface that's a cool mix of material and iOS design.

Simple Gallery is what I finally replaced QuickPic with. Light, simple, yet it can do everything I need, highly recommended.

try this music player, it is very beautiful and puts Google Play Music to shame

Edit: in terms of design. It only support local files, also. Edit 2: the app is still on beta so some features might not be there but it works really well.

I have been using Poweramp for about 10 years, and I still do. The level of customization and feature it offers is incredible. I have bought the full version almost immediately. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

I just found an app for you guys who have a broken speaker but dont wanna get a new device. SoundAbout let your audio through the earpiece https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix&hl=en . Works on my old S3 mini like a charm

My favourite music player is Retro Music Player. Simple layout, no ads, all the functionality I need from a music player (including editing ID3 tags)

You can get it here -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music

I’m not entirely sure how the app works on android, if it’s like the iOS app, then I’d imagine you can just redeem a code for six months free given to you by Verizon.

Phonograph is a beautiful music player. It even had 'colouring the notification bar' for marshmallow at least without the fading album art, which is now in Android O.

I specifically listen to audio books that I've already heard several times (I rotate through a dozen or so). If I listen to new books, I get invested in the story and end up staying awake. With old books, it is just enough to keep my mind from wandering, but not enough to keep me from falling asleep.

I use the Listen Audiobook Player on Android; it has a sleep timer that stops the book after 15 minutes unless you shake your phone to keep it awake (which then resets the timer). Costs ~$1.50, but it is well worth the money (plus, I think it was created by one dude, and he's really good about support and updates).

Listen Audiobook Player - the best dedicated audiobook player I have been able to find. Bookmarks, play speed, cover art, etc. Dev is very active. It is also great at organizing chapters/files to play in the correct order.

r/transvoice isn't a bad place to start. There are some people there who've been through speech therapy, and are happy to share. This is a decent resource as well. If something isn't working, don't be afraid to ask questions, or try a different approach. Also, download a pitch analyzer so you can visualize what you're doing. It really helps.

Edit: And yes, speech language pathologists are extremely expensive. Most people learn from others who've been to one.

Use this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer

I've been using it since August, managed to move both my minimum average and my maximum average way up by reading out textbooks.

On 2016-08-12, my measurements were:

• General Average: 117Hz
• Minimum: 86Hz
• Maximum: 192Hz
• Minimum Average: 98Hz
• Maximum Average: 137Hz
• Your range sounds mostly: male

By 2016-12-21, those had changed to:

• General Average: 198Hz
• Minimum: 164Hz
• Maximum: 284Hz
• Minimum Average: 178Hz
• Maximum Average: 224Hz
• Your range sounds mostly: female

I am a Data Analyst by profession so I love having access to these figures :D I should point out that I've cherry-picked my worst measurement (I never said I was a good data analyst) from when I started and the best recent measurement.

Back in March/April-ish I had a single professional voice lesson with GenderCare's voice therapist to give me the rough idea and structure to improve, and I've just kept that up without getting any more lessons.

As general advice, enunciate vowels more widely and clearly, and inflect upwards on vowels a lot more often. Cut out as much as bass as you can and read aloud or talk for as long you can while doing so. I practice using texbooks because fiction is a lot harder due to wanting to do voices and switch between narration and dialogue.

I find my voice is much better the next day if I spend 5-10 minutes practicing the night before, and it's a bonus if I can do it in the morning as well but I don't always have the time or remember. I didn't remember to practice last night or this morning, so if you knock 10-20% off my most recent measurement that's probably where I am right now.

Can I just mention that my preferred music app at the moment is Phonograph. It's by far the best looking player in my opinion, works flawlessly, and although it doesn't have every feature, it has a lot and allows a large amount of customisability.

Everyone here has said Smart. I personally prefer Listen Audiobook Player. But having used both I think they are very similar in functions and it's really just a personal; choice of liking one over the other.

For local music, try Phonograph (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabouzeid.gramophone). It's my go to music player app. It's got the best looking material design, folder support, and is constantly being updated

There is anApple Music App for Android on the PlayStore.

And there is a online player which you can open in any browser.

So you can play Apple Music from pretty much and device. Which ones do you need which are not supported?

I used many miscellaneous youtube videos for advice but didn't stick to their training. I used https://online-voice-recorder.com/ to record and playback my voice just to hear where I was at and then recently I got https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer&hl=en that to see if I was in the right vocal range ^_^, basically just lots of practice, slowly speaking higher and higher over time, keeping it as my normal speaking voice even when it didn't sound ok.

you mean this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabouzeid.gramophone&hl=en

It's nice but it means local music storage yeah I got 128GB phone but eh I play a lot of music i dont own via spotify or would like to via Google Music it looks amazing though

Material Audiobook Player is written in Kotlin and is open source.

Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiobook

Github: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/MaterialAudiobookPlayer

The poweramp app on Android has visualizations, just like the ones in media player.

Edit: link

I'm sorry you're upset by this, but don't lose hope! There are ways to change that result (EDIT: If you want to)! It also doesn't truly mean much given how many people don't fit an average so strict as this.

There's an app like this for android where you can track your progress, as well as analyze minimum and maximum range spikes, which I find is more affirming than just seeing an average measurement. It also has a progress tracker for vocal training purposes! I don't know if it's cross-compatible with other platforms, but it's called Voice Pitch Analyzer.

Link to play store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer

Hope this helps!

Phonograph is pretty good, it is open source too, but the developer seems to be no longer working on it. However, the app is already very usable at current state.

I prefer listen audiobook player it has loads more features and more configurable. It is 'material' inspired so it is not as material looking as material audiobook player. The app still looks great and is very stable as well.

Install SoundAbout. In the app, go to Connectable Devices/Wired Headset Settings/Wired Headset Microphone and disable it. Then the phone will never assume the headphones have a microphone and won't try to start voice search.

What's happening is that the jack in the G3 has really tight tolerances and this causes some headphone plugs not to line up properly in the jack, shorting the contact that is used for the button on headsets with microphones.

Also make sure there isn't any lint in the jack, because even a small amount of lint in the bottom of the jack can be enough to cause the wrong contacts to touch.

I think Musicolet might do what you are after in a limited way. I just checked and I can add tags and see them, but it will only let me use one tag to generate the playlist Play Store

It is ONLY for local media.

Obligatory Android link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer

I cannot guarantee the same dev wrote this app; but it should be mostly similar in function and usage. (With appropriate UX changes for Android) This app very likely has No Ads according to GPlay & the Exodus report

Exodus report: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/21883/

1 tracker, one notable permission; (Microphone, this app does exactly what it says on the tin)

Umm... Apple music is on Android.

You can use Apple music in a 100% supported fashion on a Windows PC, an Android phone, and stream it to your Amazon Echo. Where is the idea that you're locked to Apple products coming from?

I've been using this app for a few months. I went from deep and gravely to effortlessly feminine by just practicing with that app a few times a day. Endurance is a still a bit of an issue, but that just takes using it often and, since I'll be going full time soon, I'll be good there. The key is visualizing how pitch and resonance works. When you talk, feel where the sound is coming from and move it up and back. It's kinda strange, but that's the best way I can describe it. You should feel the source of your voice at the top and rear of your throat.

<strong>Retro Music Player</strong> is my favourite music player by far. I've been using it for the last couple of months and it's customisable and a beauty. I would choose it with my eyes closed over other options such as Phonograph.

<strong>Minty Icons Free</strong> is a nice icon pack. Round, Material Design-like, colorful and cute. I tend to quickly jump between icon packs, but I've stuck with this one for a long time.

Poweramp

Poweramp is an amazing music player, with many customizable themes and with the most recent update, a brand new UI. With the new audio engine that came with V3., you can now stream the music on your device or SD card with a much clearer, higher quality. With an output SL and high res quality output, the choice is yours in which way you want to listen to your music. Supports all qualities of music and even provides stunning visuals with the built in visualizer. The equalizer furthers your music experience as it provides crisp, clear, and amazing ways to alter your music, and even enhance it. Changing the bass is rather easy, and focusing more sound on one ear, couldn't get easier. With the new overlay on lockscreen, you no longer have to unlock your phone to change your track position, it's already there! With updates being made, poweramp is on its way to becoming the best music player. (Even though technically, it already is). With smart playlist you can view your recently added tracks and even play mp4s on your device. You can also change the scanner to your needs.

Happy streaming!

You're looking at the Unlocker app which just unlocks the app. You need to install the trial version as well. The trial app was updated one year ago but as u/R3DJOK3R1 mentioned a new version is in the works. You can also check out the Poweramp forums.

You need a good android music player that supports channel balancing.

I use and recommend Poweramp

You can change channel balance very easily via the advanced equalizer settings.

Just stumbled across Retro Music Player. Makes me wish I still kept a local music library on my phone. Probably best looking music app I've seen to date.

Hijacking top comment to gave a shout out to this music player app if you still haven't heard of it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.krosbits.musicolet

It's free and NO ADS. Can have lyric embedded, edit file tag, theme etc. A lot better than most paid music player app.

Retro Music Player. Based on Phonograph. It's a little buggy and the dev is changing the look of things every update, but it has very nice design.

Raising the volume with a software above 0dB will clip the output and sound like shit.

If your phone can't get loud enough with the M100 (103dB/mW @ 32 Ohm) your are in dire need of a new phone.

In case you still want mess up sound quality with software use Poweramp

Have they fixed the issue yet where when you have bluetooth speakers/headsets attached, notifications and ringtones will still play out of both the phone and the speakers?

Android has had this glitch since 1.0. If you have a headset attached, Google, it means you want all the audio to come through it, not just media-audio. Apple products don't have this problem.

I doubt it's fixed, and there are 3rd party hacks (Soundabout) to work around the issue, but a man can dream.

Listen Audiobook Player

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeandroid.listen

It's basically perfect. BTW, if you want to save space convert all your audiobooks to Opus. Holy shit, what an amazing format.

My audiobooks, all highly recommended:

• Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged (conservativism, 55hours!)
• Brad Branson - Evolutions (Happiness, confidence, dating)
• John Ratey - Spark (Science about mental value of physical exersize)
• Mark Manson - Models (best book on becoming an attractive/happy man)
• Nathaniel Branden - The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (happiness, self-esteem)
• Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (life lessons, philosophy)
• Sam Harris - Free Will (debunking free will, useful for emphaty)
• Sam Harris - Waking Up (controlling your own mind instead of letting it control you)
• Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy (summary of philosophy)

I can really recommend PowerAmp, been using for 5 years. Curently they are working on redesign, so if you don't like the normal look (which I believe is what you are looking for) you can enable beta testing on Google Play page and you can try that new fresh and modern look

Give Retro Music Player a shot. It has folder playing, a very nice and clean UI and the now playing screen has a volume scrubber.

Linkme : Poweramp Music Player, Poweramp Music Player (Trial)

I promise nothing comes close. Eq per artist/album, great head phone controls, customization and v3 is around the corner.

The bot only seems to be posting the unlocker, my apologies.

Google Play : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&amp;hl=en

I believe but don't quote me that you get a 15 day trial unrestricted, it may be 30 I don't remember.

Since you said the generic "smartphone" and not iPhone, I'm going to assume you're using Android. If that is the case, then you can use any music player to play music and at the same time use Listen Audiobook Player to play your audiobooks. Listen Audiobook Player has a setting that lets you disable the "audio focus" that normally is used to prevent two apps playing audio at the same time. In Listen's settings go to "Automatic Behaviors" and uncheck "Audio Focus".

Disclaimer: Listen Audiobook Player is my app.

Voice: a very nice open source audiobook player

iNaturalist: a big hobby for me, allows me to identify local plants, animals and more, and record them for science! It is well known but I don't think I've ever seen the app mentioned here.

So, you're looking for a Music Player?
If you can afford paying for an app, go for Poweramp or Blackplayer EX.

For free you can also try with BlackPlayer (free) and Vynil Music Player (is Just Phonograph but without any in-app payment.)

This seems almost identical to Voice Audiobook Player in both looks and features.

If you forked your code from it, you need to respect the GPL license it was released under. Most notably, you have to disclose that it is based on Voice and you have to release your source code under the same license.

Ooh, now it's my turn ʘ‿ʘ

Phonograph Music Player is a cool app for local music. It's not the most animated app in the world, but it is material design and has some appealing motion elements.

Retro Music Player is another good local music player that combines iOS and Material Design UI elements into a nice UX. It's still in beta, but it's worth checking out.

Hey,

What are you using to measure your pitch? 280Hz seems very high.

Have a look at an app called Voice Pitch Analyzer (Android. Don't know an Apple equivalent.)

My pitch averages around 217Hz.

Voice Pitch Analyser

iOS

Android

Having same problem on my Redmi Note 3. Phone is stuck in headphone mode. Some of my friends also experienced this issue with redmi note 3 or note 4.

I am using sound about, which is a very useful app for phones having this problem. You can create headphones on/off widget like this.

I am using it from past 7 months. I didn't replaced headphone jack because service centre guy told me that It might take 10+ days to repair. I decided not to repair it because soundabout is working fine for me.

Did you/Will you replace headphone jack?

I even bought Poweramp but simply can't use it in all its "Gingerbread-glory". Some praise its EQ, can't say much about it as I generally disable EQs System-wide.

Phonograph is also a very good and free alternative with constant updates. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabouzeid.gramophone

> Should I get one of the current Nexus models or will there be a new release later this year?

Wait for a month or two, they'll come around then. If you don't like the new ones, the older ones will get cheaper, of course :)

> How easy is it to get music onto an android phone (or specifically a Nexus phone) from iTunes?

I am not familiar with iTunes, but I think you can do it

• with Apple Music app
• by downloading everything and copying to device
• by downloading everything and storing in Play Music

Google play music was what I had to use for the first few weeks as my music player since it does play music from your phone. However, I've recently discovered an app called Phonograph.

I like it because it resembles the music player that came with the HTC One M8.

Look for it on your play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kabouzeid.gramophone&amp;hl=en

iTunes is a program that only runs on computers, not phones so it won't be available on Android. You can however get Apple Music on the Play Store.

I highly recommend the app Retro Music Player. it's the same functionality as GPM with extremely better UI design and feel.

Musicolet: * no ads * multiple queues * slick design * supports amoled themes * Tag editor * can move and copy songs in-app * equalizer * embedded lyrics support * can add shortcuts to albums and play lists to homescreen

Plus some more features I don't use but are pretty neat.

Apple Music exists on android, so you should be fine there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music&amp;hl=en

Everything else should transfer over just fine with Samsung's Smart Switch https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00061001/

The wall of text and detail is unnecessary for what you're asking. It's much easier to get support questions answered when you cut it down and get right to the point.

You have issues selecting the 'now playing' window, the exact song you want to play or sliding the time position back to the start?

Checkout Musicolet it's a free lightweight app with plenty of settings. I initially discovered it looking for a music app that could play by folder structure and remember last position on long tracks (podcasts).

there you go :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer&amp;hl=es

I miss this feature too! My inconvenient solution is to use an audio book player like Voice. If I wasn't trying to use open source apps more, I would go back to Podcast Addict.

Probably "voice pitch analyzer"? Its free and you just read out whatever into it and it gives you a score between male-androgynous-female.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer&amp;hl=en_US

Here is the Play Store link

Bit of advice, use a good external mic and only use the app when you're feeling stable enough.

Which app is this?

Edit: The app used appears to be for iOS. I found one on the Google Play Store called Voice Pitch Analyzer which seems pretty similar.

I just downloaded it and gave it a shot with my normal voice, and a shot trying to speak using a head voice. Images 2-4 is are my normal voice, images 5-7 are head voice.

I totally would not have thought my normal voice is as low as it is. It comes across as pretty nasal and high pitched. You can see the pitch of my voice dropping over time in the head voice attempt, and it sounded pretty 'trans', but I haven't trained my voice at all and I was just trying to keep my voice out of my chest.

I'm actually really good doing voices and imitations in general. I'm pretty sure I could push my voice entirely within the female range in short order, but it sounds pretty breathy in a way that I associate with men trying to do women's voices.

I'd actually be really interested in having some of my cis women friends give this a shot. I have a few friends who are over 6' tall whose voices are fairly deep and still sound unmistakably female. They are basically my voice goals.

Assuming you are on Android, I like Listen Audio Book Player. Mortplayer is also good.

Edit: D'oh... You clearly stated you have an iPhone, so I guess this isn't much use, but I will leave it in case anyone on Android has the same question.

Use soundabout. It allows you to choose audio output for each category. I have same problem with my redmi note 3. (It's been 3-4 months now). My friend also had this problem but luckily it disappeared after some days. May be headphone jack of RN3 is very sensitive.

Soundcloud also has widgets. Keep headphone widget & mic widget on your home screen so that You can change controls from easily. Don't forget to enable that autostart thing from security app. So that app can work in background.

Btw did ypu try restarting your phone when earphones are connected?

Hey all!

I wanted to share my voice progression using the Voice Pitch Analyzer. It's dropped to a passable level, and I'm really excited since my voice was a huge cause of dysphoria and being misgendered. I always thought my voice was low, but clearly not low in a passable way.

I've been on T for about 3 months and some change, and I like seeing progress in the form of data/measurements/numbers. Also, just putting this app out there for those who haven't heard of it (I saw it in an older /r/ftm thread.) who might like seeing data as well.

Have a good day folks!

Voice Pitch Analyzer

Android Link

iOS Link

For me, it's Listen Audiobook Player, which has the most natural-sounding audio speed changer options of any audiobook app I've tried, though there are probably other good ones out there too.

Well, Apple does support Apple Music on Android.

If Apple is going to support Apple Music on Alexa (despite competing against the Homepod), and they already support Apple Music on Android and Windows (despite competing against iOS and MacOS), why wouldn't they also support Apple Music on the Google Home? Clearly their goals with Apple Music are to get subscriptions, not to lock people into the Apple Ecosystem as they do with most of their services.

I'm not sure if it allows to take notes (maybe it does allow bookmarks) but there's this app: Listen Audiobook Player

and I know there are others because I went through at least 3 other apps before I stopped at this one (which is a payed one but seemed to have everything I wanted or could want). just search for audio book player or something like it on the play store and you'll find something. keep going until you find something that fit your needs

Musicolet Music Player

This is probably the solution you're looking for if I'm understanding you correctly. It lets you sort and organize by folder.

Here's a screenshot from the Play Store listing.

Android has Voice Pitch Analyzer though. iOS doesn’t have anything like that (well, except for a subpar clone for $14).

Edit: their FAQ says an Android version is coming soon.

SoundAbout App - Force audio playback through speaker/headphones

(So that music doesn't accidentally play through the speakers)

I once removed a headphone plug from my laptop using this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtjJ_9nfsU, was quite nervous but worked fine.
You can force the audio to come out of the speakers instead of the jack with an app like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix

I was using this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lilithwittmann.voicepitchanalyzer&amp;hl=en and it said I was in the male range, which confirmed what other friends were saying about me but I wanted something a bit more objective.

I agree with the consensus -- if you can find a Pixel, get that instead. Google's own stuff will be supported longer, will have less preloaded crapware, and is just widely recognized as being better software-wise, and the Pixel is among the best hardware this time around.

If you can't find a Pixel, hopefully someone else has an opinion -- LG and HTC have both made good phones in the past, but individual models vary. Read reviews.

> Can I get applications that allow me to sync my music or photos with Apples software (Photos or iTunes)?

Maybe look into Apple Music if you want to keep using iTunes and such.

You could also upload your music collection into Google Play Music -- if you're using your own music, this doesn't cost money. If you're willing to pay money for a subscription instead, still Google Play Music -- the subscription includes Youtube Red.

For photos, you almost certainly want Google Photos. The downside is that if you just install that on iOS and upload your photos from there, it won't necessarily get the full-quality versions, and it'll charge you for storage for the full-quality versions in general. But the compressed "high-quality" versions are still pretty good.

If you absolutely need to preserve the full-quality versions, you probably want to sync your photos to a proper computer, and you can plug in an Android phone and copy them over that way. The obvious downside is you kind of have to do this manually -- ideally, on Android, you want everything syncing to some sort of cloud service. Once you have that working, the idea of tying your phone to a computer just to transfer data seems archaic.

Love the aesthetic of Gramophone/Phonograph but missed the functionality and stability of Shuttle+, so I made a Phonograph-esque skin to run Shuttle.

The new material app drawer animations in Nova Launcher are also pretty nice.

• Nova Launcher swipe gestures: Up (opens music player); Down (closes music player); double tap (opens app drawer)
• Pie controls with Gravity Box

Kustom preset download link.

SoundAbout is rather useful, it let's you easily change the output of a sound stream. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.woodslink.android.wiredheadphoneroutingfix&amp;hl=en

You can do things like having the media output through the speakers, notifications output through wired headsets, and call audio output through bluetooth or whatever, great for the car.

Apple music is actually available on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music&amp;hl=en

Unfortunately there seems to have been a shit update to the app recently, causing crashes and shit, but give after a few updates it may be fine again

If I may make a suggestion, I've been using Voice Audiobook Player and have found it to be extremely reliable. Great feature set, and I love the fact it is fully open source with no ads/tracking BS in it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiobook&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US

Disclaimer: Not the dev, not affiliated with the dev in any way. Just a fan of the app.

Not entirely sure this would be a help but I found Automatag to be perfect for doing this, it usually can automatically find the tags for your file just by using the metadata, but if not you can manually input it and I believe it's a permanent change to the file's metadata as well. Could be wrong tho, here's a link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fillobotto.mp3tagger&amp;hl=en_US

congrats on ur progress! i used a voice pitch tracker too just so i could get a more concrete (i.e. not dysphoria-warped) idea of what my voice was actually like pre- and post-T. i found it helped me so much. which app are you using out of curiosity ?

an app i used that i really liked was voice pitch analyzer. not got a clue as to how accurate it is but i liked the graph it spat out as it had the dates at the top. managed to dig out a screenshot showing what the app looks like

Here's a link to the Apple Music app for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music&amp;hl=en

I've finally picked <strong>Musicolet</strong> as my winner. It lets me have multiple queues; and remembers where I had pause/stopped each music file. Thus, I can use it for both listening to music and audiobooks. I now don't need a separate app just for audiobooks.

One app I would definitely recommend for any music gurus is 'Retro Music Player.'

Just like a previous person said, I also had trouble finding a music player that didn't have ads, had a nice UI, and could tag songs properly. Retro Music Player fits all of those qualities.

The UI can be quite customizable, even without paying for the premium. You can customize the way all of your songs are displayed, the 'Now Playing' screen, the colours, pretty much everything. The artist pages also provide a lot of information, from the artists bio provided by last.fm to their profile pictures on the same service.

The only thing I wish the developer would add, is cloud music storage access. I have a Mega.nz drive full of songs, and have to download them to my device to listen. It would be pretty cool to be able to access or even safe these songs for offline use in the Retro Music Player app. Maybe even provide a website or something for it too.

Anyway, my app recommendation this week is Retro Music Player. :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=code.name.monkey.retromusic

I believe the premium is a price of $1.99

Poweramp (website)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&amp;hl=en

I haven't used this in a while on my Shield tbh, but when I did it worked pretty well with landscape mode.

This player supports MilkDrop visualizations (!!!), and has lots of settings for audio preferences (i.e. removes gaps). Highly recommended, both for mobile phones and other devices. It also works really well with external devices such as a USB DAC.

Most importantly is that you can choose not to use the library mode (indexing), and just browse/play folders directly.

1. full screen mode in settings - gives u a good gesture based navigation system.
2. use mi cloud it's very similar to icloud ( but has extras like accessing the messages & voice notes) .
3. bump up the animation scale to 1.5x in developer settings ( it's smooth out animations) .
4. most native miui apps are good, the music, video apps are not that great ( powerAmp and mx player are good altenatives) .
5. go through the setting one by one, you'll find tons of small tweaks that make the experience better.
6. if you have a windows pc get the "dell mobile connect" app u can get most of the features of the apple's ecosystem (notifications, calls, messages & media sharing)

Use Poweramp.Its dirt cheap It's got the feature you need & also supports hi res audio. If you have a decent headphone you will hear the difference ��

Check this screenshot

> Apple lowering price points and making it work on all devices is very unlikely

Making it work on all devices is already the direction they are headed, Apple already announced partnerships with Samsung, LG, Sony, and Vizio, and streaming services from Roku and Amazon to get it to appear on various smart TVs and streaming boxes. When Apple has a popular service like Apple Music, they do develop Android apps for them too.

We don't know prices yet (and neither did the author of this opinion piece), but we know how competitive the market is, and that new services launching this year to compete with Netflix will need a price less than Netflix’s monthly fee at launch (as Bob Iger confirmed about Disney+, despite the fact that Disney has such a huge library of movies and shows available.) Apple is cash-rich enough to afford big initial investments while maintaining a popular launch price, and will also be in a position to offer bundles where one monthly price covers Apple Music, their new Arcade+ video game package, and the TV+ streaming service.

To answer the question for Android users: Listen Audiobook Player is by far the best mp3 audiobook available. It costs like a dollar but it far outshines it competition--i.e. Mort Audiobook Player.

Take it from a guy that's dropped some $8,000 on Audible audiobooks.

Musicolet. Once you enable a setting called "Remember last position for all tracks", it will remember last position of each individual track.

Maybe an Audiobook player will fit your needs? Something like Voice Audiobook Player, would keep track of where you are at in the MP3 and I believe keep the last played at the top. Also it's open source, GitHub link

Hope it helps

Below are my recommendations:

• For tagging the files: Automatic Tag Editor

• Music players:

  • Phonograph
  • Shuttle
  • PowerAmp (new beta version available)
  • GMMD
  • Retro Music Player

• Organizing mp3/m4a files in directory structure (Artist/Album/Song): Mozr

There's no iTunes app for Android, but there is an Apple Music app. I don't use iTunes, but from articles I've found it seems like you can only access your iTunes library through it if you are an Apple Music subscriber.

If you are just looking to play the purchased files directly you have a couple options. You can download all your music through the iTunes desktop application and either move it to your phone manually or upload it to Google Play Music. If you want to keep using iTunes on your computer you can use doubleTwist to integrate with iTunes on your desktop.

If look is important then try,

• Retro Music Player

• Blackplayer Ex - Change theme settings and It looks better imo. Blackplayer ex has good customisations/features.

You can also try shuttle+ and phonograph.

Not free, but for $1.50 the Listen Audiobook Player has been my goto after trying quite a few of the free ones. I use it with AA every day and it works great, has lots of features https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeandroid.listen

If you insist on something free, the Material Audiobook Player (now apparently called "Voice Audiobook Player") was a close second for me https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiobook&amp;hl=en