Palm Pre Homebrew App of the Day: Music Player (Remix)

musicplayerremix_2009-22-08_150018_0The music player integrated into the Palm Pre is pretty good. I have a big music collection on the Pre and I enjoy listening to music whenever I can. The music player does have a few missing features that make using it more difficult than I’d like. That’s where the Palm Pre homebrew apps — currently numbering 160 titles — comes to the rescue. Music Player (Remix) is a solid music player that addresses the shortcomings of the Pre’s native player:

  • The “Now Playing” screen has a scrollable progress bar showing the current play time and time remaining. To skip to any part of the song, just drag the bar to the desired location in the song.
  • Did you ever find yourself several levels deep in the app and wanting an easy way to get back to the main menu? All you have to do is swipe the titlebar from right-to-left and you’re taken back to the main menu.
  • Sometimes when listening to a song, it reminds you of another favorite song from that artist. On the “Now Playing” screen, click the artist name, song name, or progress bar to bring up a list of the artist’s albums and songs.
  • When you have a huge song collection on your Pre, it takes a long time to scroll to a particular song, artist, or album. All you have to do is click the “ABC” button in the middle of the titlebar, and an alphabet list is displayed. Click on the desired letter and you’ll be taken instantly to that section of the song, artist, or album list.
  • Ever want to know when your favorite artist was born, or how many albums they’ve sold in their career, or even what school they went to? When viewing the “Now Playing” screen, open up the app menu and select “Wikipedia” to bring up their wiki page
  • The original Music Player app had a wonderful YouTube search option for both artist and song name; however searching for the song name can sometimes produce inaccurate results. Try searching for John Lennon’s “Woman” and most likely you’ll get a couple thousand results with “Woman” in the title. Now when you search for “song name”, it will search for “ArtistName SongName”

That “ABC” button is worth the price of admission for this app, which happens to be free. A big thumbs-up (or finger swipe) to the developer of this app.

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