poweramp

[dduckquack]

does poweramp work with d3?

[The DarkSide]

Is it android? If so it'll work just fine. None of use have it yet tho,...

[Setsunakute]

I am using it and it works quite decently. Performance is not stellar, partly due to the lack of NEON instructions into the CPU, and expect some slowdown issues while playing some tracks.
With large libraries, scrolling through the list is quite painful. I have approx 800 folders, but when you open the built-in file browser, the app scans for the cover art and meta data from the NAND/µSD and the player tends to be unresponsive.

[dduckquack]

10 band graphical eq on a cowon product would be porn, oh well

[dfkt]

I don't get what's all the fuzz about Poweramp - the EQ isn't that great sounding, it's not gapless, it has a cheesy WMP ripoff design, and so on... but maybe that's just me. I guess the stock Cowon music player on the D3 should have the better sound enhancements at least.

[kasrhp]

Poweramp is a very impressive player, don't get me wrong. But, I would not use that over any of the Cowon default players. It's far and away the best setup on any mobile phone (that Ive seen), but still isn't going to compete with Cowon and their enhancements.

I agree with dfkt, though not as harshly (I do like the looks)

[nodirectionhome]

Originally Posted by kasrhp

Poweramp is a very impressive player, don't get me wrong. But, I would not use that over any of the Cowon default players. It's far and away the best setup on any mobile phone (that Ive seen), but still isn't going to compete with Cowon and their enhancements.

I agree with dfkt, though not as harshly (I do like the looks)

I agree with this - mobile phones used to have abysmal music players - even the dedicated Nokia and Sony music phones were only just adequate. Poweramp improves on these in so many ways.

Of course I'd like a Cowon BBE app for android, or Rockbox.

[The DarkSide]

Originally Posted by dfkt

I don't get what's all the fuzz about Poweramp - the EQ isn't that great sounding, it's not gapless, it has a cheesy WMP ripoff design, and so on... but maybe that's just me. I guess the stock Cowon music player on the D3 should have the better sound enhancements at least.

The powerAMP app ads what 99% of all Android phones lack: A decent EQ and the option to raise the volume a notch or two. On a Cowon I think it's useless, as a Cowon has excellent SQ,...powerAMP just ends up being a redundant powerHOG. I agree, the Cowon media playback on the D3 itself needs no help.

[dfkt]

Well, this is probably the wrong thread for that, but I just got an Archos 32, and of course had to try every player under the sun (Poweramp, Winamp, Mixzing, and of course Rockbox). Besides Rockbox, which isn't yet useful/stable enough, the stock Archos player struck me as the most useful of all of them, which I found amazing. But I guess that's the difference between Android phones and Android media devices - on a phone with a plain audio player, Poweramp might make sense, but probably not so much on an Archos or Cowon. I think for such devices only Rockbox would be a real power user upgrade, once it's stable.

[The DarkSide]

Thanks for the info, as I plan on getting an Archos 43 or 70 soon.

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by The DarkSide

Thanks for the info, as I plan on getting an Archos 43 or 70 soon.

The 43 is in stock at Amazon....

[The DarkSide]

I waiting on a possible buy on an Archos 70 250gb,...

[kasrhp]

Originally Posted by The DarkSide

The powerAMP app ads what 99% of all Android phones lack: A decent EQ and the option to raise the volume a notch or two. On a Cowon I think it's useless, as a Cowon has excellent SQ,...powerAMP just ends up being a redundant powerHOG. I agree, the Cowon media playback on the D3 itself needs no help.

I'd bet 99% of any phones out there

Originally Posted by dfkt

Well, this is probably the wrong thread for that, but I just got an Archos 32, and of course had to try every player under the sun (Poweramp, Winamp, Mixzing, and of course Rockbox). Besides Rockbox, which isn't yet useful/stable enough, the stock Archos player struck me as the most useful of all of them, which I found amazing. But I guess that's the difference between Android phones and Android media devices - on a phone with a plain audio player, Poweramp might make sense, but probably not so much on an Archos or Cowon. I think for such devices only Rockbox would be a real power user upgrade, once it's stable.

Agreed! And tell those boys at Rockbox to get crackin!

[dfkt]

I can tell you this much, aka. what I spent all day on: http://anythingbutipod.com/forum/sho...postcount=4869

[Setsunakute]

I use it because it offers better performance than the stock music app (jumping to next track is faster, gap between tracks are shorter...), and can skip system media scanner in my case. And the 10+2 band eq is nice.
If the former would not crash and not lead to player overheating, I would rather stick with the default music player and use PAMP as an extra player.

But there is 2 major drawbacks that prevent using it as a default player at this moment : Back/next/play buttons don't work (can be fixed by remapping keys), and no Android Market access available; you can't sign in with your Google account to validate the license.