User Rating4.03/5Meridian Player is an advanced multimedia player. Play video and music, with lyric/lyrics search, gesture control and extra information. Edit ID3 tags, ratings and threshold.
Price: Free
Meridian Player Android App is one of the best multimedia players for Android yet! Couples music player with video player, something not offered with the vanilla install on the T-Mobile G1 or Android phone. Meridian Player can playback the following formats: MP3, OGG, MP4, and 3GP. Gripe Alert: Android can’t successfully play MPG (MPEG1) files… this is an issue with the operating system… as this was the original universal playable video format before MP4 
Meridian Player can save playlists and features all the other perks you would expect from a multimedia player; Shuffle, Repeats, album artwork, etc. You can also play music/video from a folder on your SD Card.
Meridian Player shines in its usability improvements over the the Default Music player for Android created by Google. For example, to Pause/Play… simply tapp the album cover. When watching a video and you need to rewind/fast forward, simply swipe the video left for rewind or swipe right for fast forward.
Features rapid play and gives caution whether Meridian Player can play the video or not. All the videos we’ve tested played just fine (even the cautioned ones).
Moreover, you can edit your own ratings for songs and ID3 information. To do so long-press the song title, tapp “Edit ID3 Tag”
In the Android music/video player realm… this app is very useful because you don’t need 2 apps for one function (cough… Music Player & Video Player) 
Some might argue one of the usability features aforementioned are not intuitive as “Seeking” in video does not have the Seek Bar. Once you figure out how to swipe to seek, you’ll love it! (Or simply tapp “Menu” to get the onscreen Seek bar back)
Dependant on how often you listen to music or watch videos on your Android phone.
The user interface is simple and intuitive.
(4.0 out of 5)
Should you Download Meridian Player? Yes! One of the finer Multimedia Players for Android thus far!
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I like the gesture controls a lot in Meridian Player. I think the interface could use a bit of a face lift, though it doesn’t matter that much.
One of the issues I run into though is that half way through a movie I’ll get the message: This file can not be played (or something like that). I then have to load the file again, skip ahead to where it stopped and it’ll play just fine from there. Except sometimes the video will stop wile the audio continues. Very annoying. I don’t know if these are issues with Meridian Player or Android.
Also, what’s the reason for the lack of codec support? I’m told it’s an android issue, but what gives? Just annoys me that I can’t play things on my super smart phone which played just fine on my Nokia 2 years ago.
@anakin78z I totally agree with you on the lack of codec issues on Android… and yes it’s an Android lack. I’ve even heard the frustration of many developers about the poor Sound API, but hopefully that will improve. That’s why we were impressed with how Meridian Player turned out!
In a previous version of the player, it used to save a list of recently visited URLs (for rtsp streaming), in this version the list was eliminated and there is no bookmark function for URLs either.
I can’t get the ID3 editing to work, I have long pressed everywhere that a song title pops up, and the closest I get to anything is being able to search for that song in different places (like Amazon). A little annoying, but otherwise I love Meridian.
This is good but I think theres a problem with shuffle on a playlist. It played 4 out of 5 tracks by the same group. It wouldnt be bad but theres over 800 tracks on my phone. I have to keep turning shuffle on and off to get it working again
One way to get an almost completely random-like shuffle effect is to make a playlist or set to All Songs and play the list alphabetically (by song title). Works pretty dang good. (Just a work-around, I know)
before update very good … later update don’t work ……. force close
after update, i try to play video but it say ‘ sorry! the application meridian (process org.iii.ro.meridian) has stopped unexpectedly, please try again. Force close
no EQ settings. sounds like icepicks, even through headphones.
When’s someone going to come up with a decent no frills Android mp3 player with essential EQ settings? Or is there one out there that I haven’t discovered yet?
RIGHT????? I have been scouring all over for exactly that. ALL I want is an android music player that is exactly like the one built in, except it has an EQ. Is that so hard? Is there something missing in the android API that makes it impossible to do this as yet? Android 2.0 is out. WHERE is an equalizer?
Hello,
I love the player and use it for everything! Is there a possibility in the future for the ability to play .wax files?- like the ones used on classicalarchives.com -Used for streaming audio.
Tim
great player, like the fact its easy to find all my media files in one place!
Only chooses to play a random 50ish track off my playlist, Ive got over 1000 music tracks on my phone, plus it keeps force closing when i try to load the playlist
Super app for my Droid! I love it! Only negative is that there’s no sound when I play my 3g2 video files (everything else plays fine!)
It could use an editor… something to change artist, album and other info.
it has one, its the id3 info. go the Browser tab of Meridian, click and hold down the file, click on Edit ID3 tag. Unfortunately for me sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt
support for .wax files please! this would be the ultimate app if it had that!
Tim
Started to get disappointed with this, it only plays approx 70 tracks out of over 1000 on a playlist( I work nights, need music) and its normally the same 70ish tracks. Also started to freeze since the last update.
Hope you sort these out soon as Im relegated to default player on HTC Magic
I love the player, best one on the market ive tried thus far…. although i hate the fact that i had to edit incorrect information like misspelled artist names/titles and especially genre’s from music that i’ve downloaded, and now it will not change or refresh from the player… it still shows the old info! really annoying! if anyone can help, pls email @ elpoopoocabra@gmail.com
Sadly (as with the default app) there’s no support for multiple disc albums, having the first track from each of thirteen discs played before the second track of disc 1 makes it unusable.
And in reviewing, you missed mentioning (even casually) probably the REAL reason that Meridian is better than the Out-of-box Droid Media Player: it has GENRE! Granted, the only reason that genre is missing from the Android OS is merely a faulty line in the code (looking at the code, one can clearly see in the Music App section, the Genre model, with it’s incorrect references to basically non-existent code, where it should be “part of the loop”, but isn’t – fixed in 2.1.1, which of course is the build that will be pushed in less than a week out to Eris, Droid, then finally the Nexus One, and in that specific order, btw)
New version collect usage data
NO GO – good bye
Oh man,
THANK YOU JESUS OF NAZARETH. The “play by folder” is such a godsend!
Thank God he sent you to deliver us from the stupidity of the “non play by folder” crowd.
Cheers!
Why is it that…when I download a trailer or short clip that’s .wmv format, it plays for the first second then freezes? Freezes after the first second EVERY EFFING TIME!
That’s because Android doesn’t support WMV file types, and basically crashes when you try to play the format
FYI – MPEG1 was never the universal playback format. You mean MPEG2. Most MPG files are MPEG-2 format, not MPEG-1, as you state in your post. All DVDs are MPEG2 format straight from Hollywood, and when you rip them down, you just compress the bitrate used, if going to an MPG file, but it is still an MPEG-2, not MPEG-1, sorry.
Force close when i try to start application! any ideas to fix it???
Looks great when I open music files in my Android phone from SD card. But the scanning of SD card does not work: I indicate where the multimedia files are in the directory selection, and at the very beginning or when I click on “refresh” I get a “can’t access SD card” on the top of the screen and no scanning happens. Pity, because sound seems really great. This has made Meridian unusable for me.