For The Music Heads! A Good Music App Here

MixZing. It has a good amount of features, but is still easy to use. Recently, it's gotten a huge update, and is almost the ideal music player - and will be, once the advertising problem has been sorted out. The app's design was always fairly simple - and now, it's gotten a visual makeover. The help is gone, which is a disappointment, but it shouldn't be a problem for most people. The songs, artists, albums and genres sections are as expected. Also, when you choose an artist or a genre, you can choose what to see - albums, songs, or artists. Playlist management is decent, and there's an auto-playlist: recently added. There is also a file browser built in to find your media. Search functionality has been added. There are a couple of bugs in the now playing interface - mainly when you try to skip to a certain part of a song - but I expect that to be resolved soon. You can also do quite a few things with your songs. You can set a song as your phone's ringtone, but most importantly, you can manage your library from this app - you can edit a song's tags and delete songs. You can also get all sorts of information - a biography or the artist and song lyrics, as well as wikipedia, youtube, and google results. The equalizer in this app is one of the best I've seen - you can set how smooth it should be, and also apply the equalizer settings to certain songs and certain albums. Recommendations are something that only this app has. When you listen to a song, it finds songs from your library that you might also like together with that song. If you have it configured properly, it will even pay attention to if you skip to the next track or listen to the whole song, and customize your recommendations based on that. In my experience, this works best for pop music, but MixZing says it is continually updating their library. Anyone coming from iOS and who liked the Genius playlists should check this out. It now also has the Shoutcast online radio service, and you can get personalized station recommendations. A search function is missing, though. As with most music players on Android, it replaces you lock screen while music is playing. It has gesture controls and turns on when the music changes. If you're on Android Jelly Bean, you also get music controls in your notifications. There are also many settings, from customizing the app, to recommendations and music controls. The app doesn't run in the background when it's not needed, but when music is playing, it takes up about 20MB RAM, which is OK. Advertising is a big problem in this app - way too often, a video will play before you get to do something, with no way to get past it. Even though this is freeware, it's a big problem, and I can't recommend an app too easily that has advertising this intrusive. Overall, it's a very good app that has a good set of features, and that is easy to use.