Default music player for Note 8

[chanchan05]

If you haven't tried the Adapt Sound feature, give it a go. You may never use anything else after that.

Actually the Adapt Sound feature is system wide as far as I can tell. I don't have the Samsung Music Player on my phone but I can use Adapt Sound on Spotify (all my music goes through that now).

Also, you might love Samsung's new Sound Assistant app. Each media app can have its own separate volume from the system media volume, kind of how the volume on say, VLC on a PC is separate from the speaker volumes. And there are timed sound profiles and other stuff like adjusting the equalizer on a floating window:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.soundassistant

 

[ZHUERAM]

I use Google Play. Seems to work well with Google Assistant when I'm driving.

 

[Methos1979]

I agree with Iva.

My Google fanboyism drives me to love Play Music, and although it is my streaming player, when I really want to listen to music, it's the Samsung Music app and my trusty Samsung Level U Pro's when wireless, and studio-grade cans if wired. I was a PowerAmp user for years.

My former life as a performing musician has negatively affected my hearing. The Adapt Sound feature in the Samsung Music app is unlike anything else. It diagnoses my personal hearing imperfections and compensates for them perfectly. Of course, the Samsung Music app plays FLACS, my format of choice for when I am actually listening.

After a year of living with a Pixel, having these Samsung capabilities back (BT that actually works, Samsung Music app, Adapt Sound) is just awesome. Being without them living in my "pure Android experience" just plain sucked.

If you haven't tried the Adapt Sound feature, give it a go. You may never use anything else after that.

Thanks for the tip, Billy. Same here, chronic tinnitus and significant hearing loss from a military way-too-close call. Just set up the Adapt Sound - neat. Seems like it's going to be a big help across all apps that utilize sound. Hearing frequencies I haven't heard in years. Can't wait to try it out on a call!

 

[billykac]

Actually the Adapt Sound feature is system wide as far as I can tell.

Damn. You're right!

This AM I listened to news as I do every morning while I make my breakfast and I usually need to pair with a BT speaker to really hear it well.

This AM, not only did I notice that I didn't need the BT speaker, but the on-board speaker sounded amazing! So much better that I actually paused for a minute to make sure I was hearing such good audio.

Fast forward to just now, reading this forum and learning that Adapt Sound is system wide, it makes total sense to me now.

Bottom line, consider setting up Adapt Sound even if you are not an music-loving audio buff running FLACS into great cans. It just made my N8 sound awesome - to my ears!!

 

[chanchan05]

Damn. You're right!

This AM I listened to news as I do every morning while I make my breakfast and I usually need to pair with a BT speaker to really hear it well.

This AM, not only did I notice that I didn't need the BT speaker, but the on-board speaker sounded amazing! So much better that I actually paused for a minute to make sure I was hearing such good audio.

Fast forward to just now, reading this forum and learning that Adapt Sound is system wide, it makes total sense to me now.

Bottom line, consider setting up Adapt Sound even if you are not an music-loving audio buff running FLACS into great cans. It just made my N8 sound awesome - to my ears!!

If you're using wired headsets, you may also want to enable UHQ upscaler. For bluetooth it only works for Samsung cans though.

 

[Amele]

If you're using wired headsets, you may also want to enable UHQ upscaler. For bluetooth it only works for Samsung cans though.

UHQ upscaler is grayed out on mine. Do you have to enable this when your headphones are plugged in (I'm not somewhere I can test that at the moment)?

 

[chanchan05]

UHQ upscaler is grayed out on mine. Do you have to enable this when your headphones are plugged in (I'm not somewhere I can test that at the moment)?

Headphones should be plugged in. Only works with headphones though.

 

[KupKrazy]

I've used PowerAmp for so many years now... but years ago they talked about Google Music being integrated into it and they were working on it, but so far nothing. Also, they've been working on that beta version for how long now? I agree that it's the best sounding player for me and my local files - but my whole library is uploaded to Google Music so I do use that as well. I think PowerAmp really needs some updating but at least the quality is so good that it still is the go to player.

 

[pkguy323]

I use PowerAmp because of the incredible EQ it offers. The EQ on the Google Music Player and the Samsung Music player seems backwards. For the musician, PowerAmp provides the best sound on any Android device. Am really hoping they are able to pair up with Google Music but until then, I'll download all my tracks to the SD card and let PowerAmp have at them.

 

[Dan_B1979]

Poweramp for me too, won't use any other player now.

It's very customisable etc

iSyncr to drag music from iTunes onto my Note 8 and then Poweramp as the player

 

[Dooki]

I started using Poweramp again. still a great player but the interface is in dire need of an update. I have been using rocket player but it had been unstable for awhile.
I just wish there was a good music program that integrated with Ubuntu as I don't have a win machine anymore.

 

[Ayan Booyens]

I use Apple music though. It'll let me stream music I have stored on my MacBook, in addition to the subscription streaming.

I would just love it if I could use the magic side panel for Apple music but it seems no one has developed that yet ....sigh.

I had an iPhone for a while while waiting for note8 so already have the account and it knows all my favourite tunes etc so I don't wanna cancel my subscription

 

[anon(7901790)]

Just found out the default player is Google's Play Music, really? Just found something I don't like about my Note 8.

You can download any music app and make it default. I use Samsung Music.

 

[billykac]

Former PowerAmp user here.
I gotta say, Samsung Music is crazy good.

 

[jamezr]

Love Samsung music....works really well for me.

 

[j_hansen]

I'm using Google music player but I have whatever paid version as I hate banner ads and downloads go straight to the sd card if you select it as default, maybe other players can do the same but I've just gotten used to it now

 

[Dooki]

Love Samsung music....works really well for me.

Has Samsung music fixed the issue where it won't read m3u playlists and allows us to exclude folders. I have s crap ton of audio files I don't want on my music player.

 

[pchain]

Wow, I just downloaded Samsung Music because of this thread and I'm impressed. It is my default music app now.

 

[jamezr]

Has Samsung music fixed the issue where it won't read m3u playlists and allows us to exclude folders. I have s crap ton of audio files I don't want on my music player.

It seems to read my playlists with no problem. Not sure about excluding folders though...

 

[Dooki]

It seems to read my playlists with no problem. Not sure about excluding folders though...

Where are your playlists located?