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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noobdeagle:
its not for streaming, its for audio tunneling. audio is handled by the DSP chip directly and not by the cpu so the cpu should be able to stay in deep sleep while audio is playing.

you can find more information in the 4.4 dev docs or google 'android 4.4 audio tunneling' atm its only supported on the nexus 5 but its going to come to other devices in time.

Oh and google play music here, the interface is the best imo and with all access you cant really go wrong.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigballa:
Google music because I pay for the subscription. I like it better than power amp
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobyman7035:
new player its nice and small DFX music enhancer PRO
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jesamyn:
Tried Shuttle+ because this was the first I'd heard of it, and I like a 'no frills' app that looks good and lacks annoying quirks. ;) I'm really liking it. It just does what I need.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pard0ned:
Ditto! Great app! Fits perfectly in the android look. Also a great helpful dev. No problems here, and is my default music app of choice.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerikss:
Does anybody get forceclose in Shuttle+ when select rescan library?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermassi:
Poweramp is the best fort me
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alchimia:
I'm using Sony Walkman, very beautiful! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2477165
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagaetch:
I do in 4.4. I don't think I did previously.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuki86:
I would reconsider using Google Music, because you don't need to manage your music at two places - your phone and computer.

Build and manage your music library at google and you don't need to worry about syncing your phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HTCore:
Consider using GoneMAD Music Player. I'm wondering why nobody have mentioned it yet. Very customizable, lot of options, simple interface, theme support, light weight, folder support and great service.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iTzGavin96:
music app

"Now playing" is my favorite, lite + payed version (well worth the 1 dollar) it has a beautiful screen effect much like google nows card ui when shuffling amongst your songs
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paddington:
I use Play Music. I will admit, I haven't really played around with any other music apps. Play Music does what I need it to do, and as others have mentioned, it automatically uploads any songs I download to my computer, so I don't have to do any manual syncing. I do wish it had a better widget, though. The widget is very ICS-ish. I'd prefer something lighter, like in the style of the Google Now cards. I always ran my Nexus 4 with transparent status/nav bars with white icons, so Kit Kat doesn't look any different than my N4 with AOSPA. I am hoping Google will finally update the Play Music widget to match that lighter look soon.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] littleguevara:
Another PowerAmp user here, wouldn't use anything else, for about 6 years now on no less than 20 devices
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobyman7035:
Dfx pro enhancer

Via my NeXus 5 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Molitro:
I've been a power amp pro user for years now, and doesn't look like it's gonna change any time soon.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GUGUITOMTG4:
No one mentioned JetAudio Plus.

JetAudio plus for me and many on the net is better than Poweramp/Player Pro sound quality-wise and EQ features.. The version 3.5.0 is worth to try. Sounds awesome with my Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nursemaned:
I Love uberplayer
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AliLaPointe:
Other player

Is it possible to use another app to play the files from google music that are stored offline? I would love to be able to use a better equalizer as google play doesn't get loud enough for me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimHate:
Definitly going to recommend you NexMusic !
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] persianrisk:
n7player is excellent.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxsanioutlawxx:
I'm currently using Winamp Pro.. Works for me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterwick:
I have found that PlayerPro, as well as, Google Play Music, does not support .m4a (Apples Lossless format) on the Nexus 5. I am not sure if this is an Android 4.4 or Nexus 5 because .m4a plays fine on my HTC One X w/ PlayerPro.

PowerAmp supports .m4a on the Nexus 5 but I prefer the interface of PlayerPro over PowerAmp. Shuttle is nice interface, similar to Google Music w/ the card style, however, it too does not play .m4a.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nooktablet:
I'm currently using musixmatch 'cause of the beautiful full screen with lyrics interface.

Might switch to google play music when I have finished uploading my entire music library. Still don't get how they can't match the songs that they do have but upload it instead.

- shuttle+ is like google play music. Simple but more features.

- gone mad for the extreme customizators. My favorite feature is smart playlist

- n7 for people who like beautiful album art interface and good EQ
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el6006:
Any apps that can play wma files? Thanks
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
Neutron player. Best sounding player I've tested ( I've tested a lot) . Unfortunately it looks awful though!

Sent From My Nexus 5 Powered By Franco Kernel
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vissionary:
Agreed. I have unlimited data so that's all I use.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobyman7035:
besides faux sound app is there something that makes the speakers louder? very low crappy speakers

Via my NeXus 5 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babalonius508:
Yeah you definitely can with GMusicFS. It syncs your Google Music up with any music player. Its great. Worth the money.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.bergmann2:
do you guys now if every mp3 app is using this new thunneling thing to save battery while listening to music or is it only play music which uses this feature?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] showofdeth:
HikiPlayer pro! It's a very nice bare bones folder based music player with a nice, customisable minimalist UI. It also recognises album art in any given folder so no more ugly app downloaded album art!

Also, you can customise the look, feel and sound. It really is a nice app :)

I would also like to say that I make no apologies for the Jackie Brown OST!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snott:
Don't wanna be a google fanboy but play music is really fine, you have a nice cover on your lockscreen while playing music, an equalizer, and for myself no problem with my bluetooth car radio, with poweramp or others app it was always playing the music for a mili sec before i had to re hit the play button.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbeaguilar:
I tried out shuttle after reading this thread and I love it so far! The only problem I've found is that it force closes anytime I try to change the artist picture through edit tags option. Really hope this gets fixed as some of the pictures are random.

Aside from Shuttle, I'd definitely recommend Apollo, it's nice and simple. Also I've used playerpro for over a year but for some reason it just seem outdated to me, especially the lockscreeb widget. Still that is a great choice. I would probably choose Google Play music (for local files) over any of these if it had more options (ways to add cover art/ artist pictures) but I've found Shuttle, which has a similar look and should have these features working.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daLareid:
I'm also curious about this, which app supports audio tunneling DSP for battery efficiency? is it Google Music?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iOStoAndroid:
JetAudio for me, I bought the plus version
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AGiLiT:
WARNING: This one is not for everyone. It has a unique interface that requires a bit of a learning curve to adapt to, it is still in a very active beta development cycle, but it has some crazy functionality that is not present in many other players, including the abiltiy to play multiple file formats, play what's on your phone plus what's in your cloud (including Google Play and Subsonic, Shoutcast, 8Tracks, and SMB)), ability to use Viper DXP, the abilty to calibrate the equalizer to your headphones or listening environment. and more that I'm probably not thinking of.

I give you: XenoAmp. It's in Google Play also.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr Tone:
I don't see the mediaserver process when I play music from Google Play Music. I do when I use other applications.

As far as I know mediaserver used to take care of audio playback. Since it doesn't start up when Google Play Music is used I have to believe it can be used as an indicator to whether an app supports audio tunneling DSP.

Or I could be completely wrong.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.bergmann2:
Testing that today. But I can confirm that media service starts while using shuttle+.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 7 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k.bergmann2:
It starts on my device also while only using play music :(

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dez93_2000:
Anyone who was a long-time poweramp user end up switching to something else, most notably shuffle+? Had a look at shuffle+ and the interface looks a lot better, but poweramp's greatness (for me) is the ridiculous list of features and tweaks. Do we know if shuffle+ supports pause/resume on headphone removal/reinsertion? Any other cool poweramp stuff shuffle+ hasn't got which i might miss?

Cheers!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wizardfingers:
It does

Link to the app?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoglog:
I'm ok with the stock google music app for now. Seems to work decent for local content.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iTzGavin96:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.underwood.now_playing2 it sounds like crap compared to other players but is sexy :laugh:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildpig1234:
I have poweramp on my N5 but i seem to have a problem. if i have the pause with phone call enabled, whenever i dial a number, the poweramp app would just quit instead of pausing. I can uncheck this and the app would stay up with music playing if i were using the phone speaker or if i have a headphone plugged into the n5. For bluetooth, as poweramp is set to always pause with phone, the app would quit and there is not a way to stop it. Seems to me there is some sort of bug with poweramp and/or google dialer. Plz confirm. Thanks..

Beside poweramp any other app with all these three: 1. lockscreen suppport 2.playlist queue from file list by folder 3. multiple playlists?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QWIKSTRIKE:
I use Rocket Player, and I like the ease of use for playing/pausing/resuming when calls, and headphone jacks are utilized. It as a lot of featurs like lock screen interaction when the device screen sleeps, 5 or 10 band eq, and I like the set your favorite song as a ringtone feature!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eckless:
Good topic...I keep changing music players myself.

Biggest problem for me has been finding music players that correctly interpret the "Album Artist" tag (and not just the "Artist" tag)...I've found that GoneMad does it well, and (surprisingly) so does Google Play.

PowerAmp does everything, I'm just finding it too confusing to be honest. That's the problem with apps that do everything.

I'm currently with Google Play -- it does my "Album Artist" tag, has no problem with the .ogg files I feed it, it's simple, pretty, and works.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wildpig1234:
so no one using poweramp on their n5 has any problem with it quitting if they set it on pause music with phone calls and make the phone call?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Globespy:
+1

Was a long time user of PowetAmp, but since moving to PlayerPro (paid version with DSP pack), there's no going back.

Much nicer interface, better album art intelligence and better sound quality.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanP47:
I've been searching for one that can sort the songs by album artist correctly and also offers a 1-5 star rating system, unlike the thumbs up thing in Google Play Music. Tried a fair few, currently using GoneMAD Music Player which does both of these things. The UI could be better, but that's not a big deal. Now I just need a way to sync ratings and play counts etc. from my iTunes library. Going to try iSyncr, I hope it works with this music player!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaywalker23:
I'm using the latest version on the website, and private internet access vpn but the playstore still says pandora isn't allowed in my country. Is the market enabler working for anybody else?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dia_naji:
What are you're temperatures on the nexus 5 ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slickromeo:
The Nexus5 does not heat up as much as the Nexus4 does. This is a MAJOR WIN, in my opinion.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kevkid:
Got that right, my n4 would get so hot sometimes that it would start to "melt"( the case would expel some fluid... Possibly oil or something my silicon case for it when I used the wireless charging.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sluflyer06:
Usually mid 20s to mid 30s including wireless charging. Doesn't seem to get very warm.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Wireless charging on my nexus 4 would get too hot, uncomfortably hot, Nexus 5 is much better using the same nexus 4 charging orb
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wellers:
Although mine isn't getting very hot it does seem to run warm when not doing a huge amount.

Think I need to put it through its paces to see what happens.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] motoxxxx:
I haven't see it past 100°f
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dia_naji:
If you look at the temperatures of the nexus 4 and nexus 5 their temperatures are almost the same. It's just that the nexus 5 does a good job of cooling it down
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Birkhoff92:
nexus5

checking with kcontrol to me the CPU is between 38 and 40 degrees. I installed bricked kernel to knock on. it's normal?

Now after 1 hour the temps are at 30/33 degrees C°
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sultan.Alkhuzaie:
Hi

i am wondering if i can flash AOSP based roms after i flashed the MJ5 rom with the bootloader
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoopva:
This new bootloader (MJ5) not raise warranty bit so i think you can flash it using twrp or cwm
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sultan.Alkhuzaie:
even if i revert back to MI6 base

thank you for the reply
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoopva:
You on stock mj5 with se linux as Enforcing ?

I'm on JoelDroid MJ5, with SeLinux Permissive :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sultan.Alkhuzaie:
i on joeldroid with SeLinux Permissive . what is the point
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoopva:
means its knox free...

i was on mj5 bootloader and now im on stock rom 4.1.2 DMG1 and stock rom MG1 have bootloader , means i downgraded ROM+Bootloader, Hope my phone bootloader won't be locked to 4.1.2 .
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moliro:
42252255 236

+1

ive been changing roms on almost a daily basis, ditto v1 and carbon aosp using twrp backup and restore... im on dmb2 bootloader and i was wondering if can still do the rom switching if i flash a new bootloader... will the bootloader downgrade if restored my carbon aosp? thus i cant switch to ditto v2 if wanted to....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Knake:
Nicely done...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocopete5243:
Our phone system at my job sends voicemails as WAV attachments through our Exchange server when someone leaves a message on your extension. Even up to when I was on my Galaxy S3 I've had to install a third party audio player that supports WAV files to play these.

I recently discovered that Kit Kat (4.4) now plays these WAV attachments natively. I and two of my fellow IT teammates all purchased the N5 on release day but while both of their N5s will play them as expected, I get a popup that says "Sorry, cannot open this file". I tried a factory reset and only installed apps that weren't audio related, but still get the same message. Anyone else able to open WAVs or getting this error? How would I troubleshoot this? I also tried resetting all app defaults in the app manager to no avail.

Thanks in advance for any help with this. Minor annoyances are usually the ones that eat at me the most.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spotdog14:
All of a sudden my phone has started doing this. I use to work fine with just Play Music installed and would just play the wav file from the email screen but it doesn't do it anymore.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phazerorg:
This just started happening to me as well. Just minutes ago I went to play a voicemail I received through my Exchange email and had the same result. I even tried saving the .wav file but nothing will open it. I could probably install an audio player that will handle wav files, but I'm pretty sure this previously used to work fine.

Has anyone else experienced this, or have any ideas?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spotdog14:
Its the same sort of thing for me as well, even if I download it it won't play. I think and this is only me guessing but its probably something to do with an update to Play Music since that is the only thing that has changed on my phone since it stopped working.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phazerorg:
It looks like others have noticed similar things, such as here on a Motorola phone: https://forums.motorola.com/posts/fe2e143972

In that thread, two people reported that rolling back Play Music (and Quickoffice?) fixed the problem, while one person said that didn't fix it. I just tried it myself and still have the same problem after going back to the factory versions of Play Music and Quickoffice.

I also found that Google officially doesn't even list wav files as supported by Play Music: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1100462

It looks like people are just installing other media players that will handle wav files... but I liked that I could play them directly in the email without even having to open another app...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spotdog14:
I don't even have Quickoffice installed. I have tried a few different music players but for some reason they don't like to play it from within the email app.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda_fanboy:
I have this problem too with the copy of my voicemail that is delivered via MMS to Hangouts (see my thread here). Play Music and VLC just won't play them. Installed MX Player which opens and plays them without issue.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffott:
.WAV Issues

I am a new N5 owner, and have the same issue. This was my first major disappointment with the phone, coming from a N4. My N4 handled .wav voice mails native in the mail app, which I was excited about, coming from a HTC One S where I had to download each attachment and play it in an alternate app. I feel like I have moved backwards. :confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] floepie:
I have noticed for a very long time on my N5. In fact, not sure it was working from the very beginning. When trying to pick the WAV as attachment in Gmail, I'm presented with the native picker only a couple XBMC remote control apps. The odd thing is is that if I select that WAV from a file explorer app, such ES File Explorer, it presents many more apps with which to play the file, including Google Play Music itself, which then is played flawlessly in Google Play. I wonder why the native app picker doesn't present you with all the music player apps that are installed.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phazerorg:
Mine definitely used to work... I was very surprised today when I found it didn't work anymore. I've had my Nexus 5 for over 3 months and I'm positive I've listened to voicemail email attachments during that time. Not sure what's up with this, but I'd really like this feature back...

I tried MX Player and many other players... some will open the file after saving it, but I couldn't make any work from email. Tapping on the attachment just says "Couldn't play the track you requested."
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daystrom:
Sad to see this go too. I was playing .wav files through the native gmail app as well until just a few days ago. Now I get no app installed to open this file.

Ended up buying Wav Player by Dennis Lockshine. This app will play within the gmail app.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenf00t:
Same here on my nexus 5. Already had this issue back in december ended up fixing it when I rooted and reinstalled everything. Now the problem is back again.

---------- Post added at 02:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:11 PM ----------

Just bought Wav Player. Works great. Not a free fix but for $0.99, well worth it.

Thank you
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffott:
Just uninstalled Play Music App updates in settings and was able to listen to a .wav voicemail for the first time.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cc16177:
I have the same issue and I didn't always have this problem... I'll try the app mentioned above.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phazerorg:
I tried this the other day, with no luck. I even cleared the Play Music cache, rebooted, wiped cache and dalvik cache in TWRP, still nothing. After seeing your post I decided to just try a .wav voicemail again and now it actually works... I haven't changed anything since the other day. Really strange. I've disabled automatic updates to Play Music and will just leave it be for now, since this is working again...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] floepie:
For those for whom removing updates does not work, could it be that you're running a custom ROM or have a Gapps package with an update to the app that can't be reverted back to the version with which WAVs can be played from Gmail?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelsonlee96:
So I've been putting off my nexus 4 - 4.3 update off for a while, but now that I want to update, I can't seem to do it. I'm given errors when updating about verification and such. Can someone give me a step-by-step process to update to 4.3 please? Thank you. I am on 4.2.2 right now and i have have rooted my phone.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
be sure to update your recovery first. also, 4.3? many of us are on 4.4 :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelsonlee96:
and how would i do that :S
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
oh fun :p

via fastboot or the flashify app.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelsonlee96:
and after i do that, i should be able to update to 4.3, then 4.4?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
yes. but you can just update to any 4.4 rom right now, skipping 4.3. just remember to clean flash, wipe data.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelsonlee96:
sighh sorry for all the questions... but could you possibly walk me through that instead? :(
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
no, im at work, sorry. just download a rom, gapps, and supersu 1.65(make sure they are all in your storage). boot into recovery, make a backup. wipe data(factory reset), then flash the rom, gapps, supersu 1.65. then boot up.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nelsonlee96:
if i do this... how will i maintain all my apps and data?