Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

Greetings.

I'm looking for a good music player app for listening to music at the gym.

I've tried WMP with SPB MS 3.5 home screen controls, but they are too small to easily grasp while working out. Next I tried S2P. Better, but still not as easy as I'd prefer.

Is there a music player that can put a HUGE control pad on the screen with FF/next, REW/back, play/pause, and that can skip to the next song when I shake the phone?

S2P supposedly supports advancing to the next song by shaking the phone, but I tried it at home and it didn't work. The sensitivity was on a scale of 0-200, defaulting to 100. The lower, the easier. I lowered it all the way to 0, still no dice, and I shook the phone pretty hard. It would be a handy feature to have at the gym.

Also I noticed that my phone heated up quite a bit during my S2P tests. Does it have a known battery drain issue?

Is there anything better out there?

Thanks.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

Maybe you should check out Nitrogen.
There are many skins available for it as well.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

+1 for Nitro, try Manilla skin with it, u ll be one happy dude:mrgreen:

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

Other than the control buttons on the main Nitrogen screen, I actually like S2P better...but neither have a "genre" feature...I started by using WMP, but lately I've been using the HTC player via the "music" tab and it's not bad.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

i think ipod shuffles have the shake to play thing, might want to give that a try.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

So far the only player I've found to be close to acceptable is PocketPlayer, which is skinnable. But it costs $. WMP made me crazy, Nitrogen has no tag support, the other two didn't work much better. And PocketPlayer supports lyrics tags, which is awesome. Just remember to exit it fully when you're not using it, because it does use up battery.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

Thanks, but my home is an Apple (product) free zone. :-)

My TP2 has an accelerometer, I'd prefer to use it if possible.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

Thanks. I checked out Nitrogen and it looks promising. I'll install it before I head out for the gym today and we'll see how it works.

Does Nitrogen work with the HTC music remote? (The one where you can plug in your own set of 3.5mm headphones, it has prev/next, pause/play, vol up/dn, send/end buttons, a built-in mic, mute switch and hold switch, etc...)

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

S2P looked promising at first, but the on-screen control buttons look like they would hard to grasp when I am exhausted and sweating. (I like to push my workouts hard, and yes my phone is protected, a silicone case with screen protector.)

Also, in my tests, the phone heated up quite a bit while running S2P. I need my battery to last for a while, and S2P doesn't seem conducive to that.

Re: Good touchscreen music app? (S2P not quite there)
 

If Nitrogen does not suit my needs, I'll check it out. I'm not above paying for truly useful software. (That also applies to donating to Nitrogen's creators.)