Moving from Symbian to Android: Let the music play

With Symbian 3, there were not many choices for music player software. You really only had the default "Music" software. And even if you could find an alternative music player that offered a similar feature set, you were likely not able to set it as the default player due to Symbian's frustrating "our default apps are better than yours, nyaaaah" attitude.

There was nothing wrong with that Symbian 3 music player. While it was basic, it did have a lovely cover-flow feature (quite iPod like, actually), and good support for many proprietary CODECs.

As soon as I started the Samsung Music Player on the Galaxy S2, I thought to myself "well, I'll be looking for another music player very quickly". The default player is a steaming pile of excrement. I can't really put it any other way, without using stronger language.

In my quest to find an immediate replacement for the player, I chose WinAmp. It is free, it is not that shiny, but it does the job much better than the dookie that is the Samsung Music Player. If you like to use WinAmp on your PC, you'll likely love the fact that you will be able to wirelessly sync your music to your Android phone.

For a really excellent summary of players you can use on Android, check out Joshua Goldman's CNET post: Best Android Music Players. I'm not going to repeat them all here because Joshua has said it all really. For those who want the tl:dr version, choose PlayerPro, PowerAMP, or Audiogalaxy.

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