| MixZing Music Player |
| Application Reviews - Free Applications |
| Written by Derreck Mayer |
| Saturday, 13 March 2010 14:12 |
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The stock Music Player for Android is competent but lacks a certain luster. In an attempt to find a substitute I came across a Free App, MixZing Music Player Lite. This App combines some nice features, similar to Pandora Radio, but also combines multiple features into a standard music player for Android phones.
Download this app on the Market here.
MixZing Lite is designed to take music of your choice, be it one song or an entire album, and then suggest other music much in the way Pandora does. MixZing not only suggests music you can purchase online, it also gives recommendations from your own music on the SD card. With that said, the suggest “New Music” only plays a short, 30 second preview. If you want the song you have to purchase it; however, this feature is still in beta mode so you can save the “New Music” you like in your shopping cart. MixZing Lite also allows you save playlists that you have made from the recommended songs list.
The first thing MixZing does is run through all of the music on your phone and catalogs all of the songs. This process can take several minutes depending on how many songs you have on your Android. It will ask you which folders you want to pull music from. After that you can begin enjoying your music and the adaptive playlists MixZing Lite has to offer. Once you pick a song it immediately pulls the album art up, which is great since the standard Android music player only shows album art that you already have on your phone. You’ll see a button between the “loop” and “shuffle” buttons, which shows how many song recommendations MixZing has come up with at this point. If you click on this, you will see these songs with two options, either a plus sign which will add the song to the playlist and lead to more recommendations or an X, which removes the song from the playlist and songs like it from the recommendations. At the top of the screen you will see two more buttons, an “i” on the left, which will give you artist, song and album information via Rhapsody. There is also an option to join Rhapsody Unlimited, for a fee. The button at the top right takes you to the playlist and the area in the middle of the top shows the artist with song information, along with album and release year when available. MixZing Lite also fully utilizes the orientation feature on the Android.
As of right now, MixZing’s new music is still in beta, meaning it might be competitive compared to Amazon MP3 or iTunes but there is no way to know for sure. Either way, MixZing Lite is a Free App in the Android Market that will help you build a strong playlists with you own music while showing the correct album art and even some interesting information about the music. I would recommend this App for anyone looking to upgrade from the native music App for Free.
Overall this is a strong music player that clearly has more features than the standard App that comes with the Android. If you have a lot of music of your own, then it is a great way to get new and exciting playlists, but if you are looking for music that you don’t already posses then be prepared to either pay for it on MixZing or go over to Pandora Radio.
MixZing was created by MixZing.
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