What is your favourite music player for Maemo 5?
 

Luckily, we have quite a choice here.
What does your favourite music player have over the alternatives?
Pros & cons?
I've used MediaBox for quite a while because of the option to select a folder as a playlist, because that's the way I want to manage my music collection (i.e. not meta-data/tag oriented, but by folder structure), and because of potrait mode of course.
The UI is problematic to me though, so I'm looking for a better solution.
With auto-rotation enabled, it keeps switching between landscape and protrait if held in an oblique (slightly tilted) position, and takes quite some juggling to make it calm down, which is a nuisance. Also the slider at the margin is not sensitive enough, and very often does not react.
What are your experiences?

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I'm using Symfonie, which is simple and also can play from folders. It also supports screen rotation (auto or manual).

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The default player. It's the only one that I've found usable with 5000+ songs and it scrobbles tracks to Last.fm.

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default player, why cause save more battery life

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The default media player is the one for me as:
4000+ songs
last.fm scrobbling, although I am sure others have it.
AVRCP works best with this player alowing control of music from my bluetooth car stereo and headset.
And most of all, the big button that plays randomly from the whole library.

I would use OMP, but it is very slow shuffling between tracks with a large library.

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Open Media Player. All pros from default one + enhanced features + it's open, ffs.

Yea, Open Media Player is not finished yet, but I will be, and I take openness over "finished" anytime.

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I use Symfonie because it is easy to handle and it also has got an equalizer (but still, I don't listen to music on my N900 that much because there is not enough bass).

I also tried Someplayer which also has some nice features - however, I don't know what all the symbols stand for, so it is a bit difficult for me to handle it.

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Definitely Someplayer ( http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70405 )

I need the ability to play from folders and in addition to that, Someplayer simply has the best, most natural sound quality of all the players that I have tested (including the default player and Symfonie). It also features (among many other things) an equalizer, although I never (have to) use that.

The player is a bit tricky to get started with, but once you get the hang of it, it actually is not really difficult to handle.

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Default player for me as well, no issues and can't really think of any killer feature I'm missing.

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default player i tried someplayer and it was great sounded good, but still prefer default for it's userbility

still wanting gapless playback but i'm sure i heard it's not possible :(

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instinctiv is pretty good but lacks the search option and a bit not that well developed but it works good. mediabox is pretty good as well. but i use default player when i want some quick music. but when im in the mood to listen hardcore then mediabox or instinctiv

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the stock media player

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stock player by default and rockbox when i need gapless.

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i use default because it can be controlled by bh-504 bt headset. and listen through speakers with symfonie.

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Rockbox
+play from folders
+gapless playback
+equalizer

-no portrait
-UI could be better

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Just the stock player. I find the usability pretty good. Do miss gapless playback, but it's nothing major, unfortunately tons of standalone mp3 players are missing that feature, so I frequently encode my mixes as a single file.

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wow rockbox i've never heard of it cheers Drekkie you've made my day :D

unmet dependencies :(

off to read the thread

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I can't believe only one person said Rockbox
It's the best audio quality player by far on N900
Quality only comparable to Foobar2000 for Windows

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Rockbox all the way, my library is +4000 songs and I can scroll from 1st to last in seconds, something that takes an age on the stock player.

Also I find the random, much more random than the stock player. For some reason the stock player always seems to play some tracks loads more than others (which it shouldn't when the library is so big)

As mentioned previously the UI could be better, but I believe the project is still bing worked on ( and you create your own)

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Rockbox is not in extras and some people just don't install apps from devel repo.

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So what exactly does "not finished" mean in this case? Is it stable, with the standard functions working normally, or is it rather not ready for user Joe Average?

Right, everyone, when pointing to an app that's still in devel, please add that information would be super nice, it's a big time saver for users who take the applicable warnings seriously

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:)

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Does that have EQ and gapless playback? :D ;)

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Rockbox for now.

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i say the standard media player is the best it the only one that i have used that has gapless audio even under really high cpu load.

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If you mean "doesn't stutter" when the screen rotates or you switch tasks, I'm with you. I really like Someplayer, but the stuttering is too annoying. I guess it has something to do with not using the MAFW back-end that the standard player uses.

So I've been using the open-source version of the stock player in order to get a working portrait mode.Much easier to operate in portrait at the gym and in the car.

That one does not stutter because it uses MAFW just as the stock player does. It isn't quite feature-complete yet (e.g. no category view for videos yet), and there is no deb yet so installation is "for geeks only" but works great as far as the actual playing of music.

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SomePlayer!

Love It

1. I can change the song's names stray from the app
2. I can create as many playlist as I want
3. I have Equalizer !
4. I can set timer when I'm listening and feel sleepy
5. I Can change setting from the app (different colors, swap songs with volume rocket, Many languages added
6. Portrait/Landscape Support

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Funny how non of you mentioned "Instinctiv"

+Identify songs
+Knows what songs you like and shuffle songs for your mood
+Portrait only
-i dont know if there were cons :/

really lovin its UI, its simple when im driving <~ most of my time listening to music is in the car

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.. not portrait only!!!...

- not finished
- publisher stopped supporting long time ago

was my favorite music player, but i have too many problems with its performance, so using open media player now.

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Definitely Rockbox, nothing that is even closed to it's league when comes to quality and functionality, yet not the most finger-friendly design.
I use this as a song recognizer, though I missed Shazam badly.

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Rockbox !!

Separate treble/bass control (interligent gain management= no audiable distortion even if you select very high gain values)
Equalizer
Not heavy on cpu usage.
Very high quality.

Ui not vey attactive(sort of boring)

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its depends on situation, for listening to podcast i prefer nqaap or easyplayer that reminds last position when i close this program. but for everyday usage i choose default one

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Over the past few weeks it became OMP. Now that its development is speeding up, it is increasingly becomes the most potent IMHO.

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Which media player works well with AVRCP?
..lite on the battery would also be nice.
Oh, and perhaps a desktop widget?