CyanogenMod 9 Music app available as standalone application, Android 4.0 still needed

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  • January 17, 2012 at 5:53 am

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CyanogenMod 9 Music Player

CyanogenMod’s popularity lies in the fact that the ROM brings to Android a level of customization never seen before. The CyanogenMod team already let us know that they will be releasing individual parts of their upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich based CyanogenMod 9 ROM. First the CM9 launcher titled Trebuchet was made available as an APK file, and today you can download the CyanogenMod 9 Music app as a standalone application.

The Music app is extremely customizable; using a theme engine, designers can change every UI element in the app. If you’d rather have the familiar Android Ice Cream Sandwich look, you can download the ‘Google Music’ theme which is based on the latest version of the Google Music app. Within the application you can share what you are listening via social, set songs as ring tones, delete tracks and search. There is a drag-and-drop queue and playlist, a custom lockscreen, and shake and flip actions — you can pause your music by flipping the device face down, and you can customize the shake action to skip tracks for example. The app also comes with a number of custom widgets.
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Ice Cream Sandwich based CyanogenMod 9 pieces begin making their appearance

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  • December 29, 2011 at 7:44 am

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CyanogenMod 9 Trebuchet launcher for Android Ice Cream Sandwich

We’ve included Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as one of our favorite pieces of tech for 2011. The main reason Android made it to our shortlist and into our hearts is that because it is an open source project, third-parties are able to use it and build on top of it. If there is something more you want from you mobile OS, or you want to get rid of some annoying feature, chances are there is either an aftermarket ROM, third-party launcher, or an app to do that.

One of the most popular aftermarket ROMs comes from the CyanogenMod team, with support for a huge number of devices.The team has promised to release the updated CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012, and pieces of ROM are already finding their way to devices, showing us what CM9 will look like and be able to do.
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UberMusic player out of beta and into the Android Market

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  • July 30, 2011 at 3:03 pm

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UberMusic Android music player app

We’ve been covering this app, from LauncherPro developer Federico Carnale, since its humble beginnings; we’ve watched it quickly grow from alpha to beta and now its final built, UberMusic v1.0, has hit the Android Market.

We first fell in love with this Android music app because of its uncanny resemblance to the Zune and Windows Phone 7 music players. The app has grown however to be much more than just a copycat of Microsoft’s Metro UI; UberMusic is fully customizable with a number of skins, which you can download from the Android Market. Sure enough however the Zune/WP7 look is still available as the downloadable Metro skin.
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Zune and Windows Phone 7 styled music player for Android

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  • May 20, 2011 at 2:47 pm

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Zune / Windows Phone 7 music player for Android

We love the Zune’s stylish, flashy and efficient music player user interface which, by not simple luck, has been inherited by Windows Phone 7. Official Zune development might or might not have stopped, nevertheless it’s created something bigger and also quite a following. So, when we found out that it’s been ported into an Android music player we were pretty excited.

The application comes from LauncherPro’s developer, and although it’s still quite an early alpha build, we’ve taken it through its paces and its pretty smooth and really close both functionally and visually to the original.

UPDATE 1: Zune/WP7 styled music player shown running on Nook Color, images after the link.

UPDATE 2: Alpha 3 just released with many bug fixes and new features, link for download after the break.

UPDATE 3: Alpha 4 now out with widget support and playlist creation, link for download after the break.
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Winamp for Android goes gold brings a host of new features

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  • March 12, 2011 at 8:05 am

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Winamp for Android 1.0

After spending some time as a beta version, the world’s favorite multiplatform music app has reached version 1.0 on Android. We’ve been using the application since it first came out and the latest version offers tighter integration with Android and some well-deserved UI redesign.

Specifically the now playing screen has been streamlined and now there are also info and extras buttons giving access to bios, discographies, photos and the like. You also get additional overlaid track information at song changes and you can now swipe to change tracks.
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