Article~Due to the fact that most Google Android phones come with at least sixteen gigabytes of memory on board, enough to store thousands upon thousands of songs in MP3 format, they can be a great choice for playing music on the move. In order to play music on it, all you need are some headphones (or a lead to connect it to a stereo), some music apps and/or files, and you're away!
The media player that comes as standard with all Android phones is called, imaginatively enough, Music. As the name suggests, it only plays audio files, rather than being a combined audio and video player. With it, you can select music files by album, song, artist, playlist, or just set it to shuffle through all the music files on your phone. As you might expect from an app created by Google, the search function is fast, efficient, and rather helpful.
You can scroll through lists of music by sliding your finger down the screen, as you would with and iPod touch or iPhone, and you can set any song as your ringtone just by touching it and then selecting the requisite option from a menu. You can also view the cover art while a track is playing if it has been loaded into the right folder, and the app also provides access to Amazon's online music store so that you can buy new music on the move.
If you're a fan of the Last.fm music site, then you might be interested in an app known as Scrobble Droid, which automatically uploads the music you are listening to onto the Last.fm database, allowing you to access it anywhere. If you want to listen to said streaming website on your Android, though, you're going to have to download an app called LastFM Player, which gives you an Android-friendly front end for the site.
If you're one of those people that likes to read the lyrics sheet while you listen, then you should be sure to download TuneWiki, a media player app that automatically downloads the lyrics and cover art for the music you are playing from the fairly comprehensive TuneWiki database, and show you the lyrics in synchronisation with the song as it plays. If no lyrics are available, then you can add them yourself to the database. It's pretty cool, but the banner ads can be quite annoying, so you probably wouldn't want to make it your default music player.
Podcast fans will probably want to get a hold of the Dog Catcher app, which you can set to download podcasts only when you are in wireless range and connected to the mains, to save battery life and data costs. It also keeps track of the point you have reached with each podcast, so if you stop one to listen to another, it picks up where you left off when you return to it.
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