FLAC players for Android

[Stratmangler]

Yup

[WAD62]

Yup

...after listening to FLAC on my phone I've ditched my mp3s, I'll live with a smaller selection of FLACs, but it's a small price to pay for the improvement in sound quality, I've squeezed 44 albums onto a 16Gb card with a bit of space left for normal phone functions.

I think I first reported that powerAMP didn't do gapless, actually it does, perhaps when I first checked it I'd stressed it out by asking it to play a 24/96 track first.

It's working fine now, I tried andLess and it does play well too, I just prefer powerAMP's ability to give you a file navigator, so you can structure things in music/flac/artist/album structures, or you can view by artwork in a flat album name alphabetical order. It also gives you player control when the phone is 'locked', in the same way that winamp does.

The DSP effects and tone controls aren't worth having IMHO.

Anyway I've spent my £3 on it now so too late to go back

[Stratmangler]

I had issues with andLess playing AAC files - so I got rid.
Trying powerAmp now, and when I scan my library none of the flacs come up.
Which is a pain, as the player quite happily plays flac.

[WAD62]

I had issues with andLess playing AAC files - so I got rid.
Trying powerAmp now, and when I scan my library none of the flacs come up.
Which is a pain, as the player quite happily plays flac.

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately these players have to use the android media library, for some reason, and as yet android doesn't recognise FLAC, but probably it'll be a future enhancement.

Make sure your library is pointed to your FLAC collection, the default is Music, I've put my FLAC in a folder under music, and it recognises directory hierarchies.

when you select menu, there's an option for 'folderers/lib', on that next screen there're 2 options at the bottom, 'folder' & 'library', for flac set it to folders, at the top there're 2 options, one for a flat list of the albums in album name sequence, or the other is a hierarchical list of the folders, so if you can be bothered to store artist/album structures this is useful.

It puts it's own poweramp cover art file in each directory.

For the time being I think this is as good as we can get until android recognises FLAC at an OS level, but it's not too bad, particularly when one can only put 40 or so albums on the phone.

[Gmanuk101]

nice thread, cheers

[WAD62]

nice thread, cheers

Bit out of date now, but the SD replacement still holds true...

And there have been a few upgrades to poweramp in the meantime.

[Gmanuk101]

Bit out of date now, but the SD replacement still holds true...

And there have been a few upgrades to poweramp in the meantime.

well the phone has arrived and the 1st app I downloaded was this one, all paid for, so will have a blast later on.

now if I can get microUSB to USB B it will go direct to my standac otherwise it's hPhones straight to the amp

[RichB]

Radio paradise and last FM have nice android apps if you've got all you can eat data. And if you've not already downloaded Google's music manager and done the backup thing then you really should.