N7player Music Player – Slick music player app with cool 3D interface
by Paul Wilks
Mar 15, 2012 9:53 AM –
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N7player Music Player is a rich and smooth music player for your Android device. It boasts an innovative 3D user interface and cool multi-touch features. You also get a neat graphic equalizer, Dolby surround sound, widget, lockscreen controls and a fantastically easy-to-use interface.
Price: Free (Only while in Beta)
Tested on: HTC Desire HD
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Great UI!
- Cool visuals and multi-touch functionality!
- Easy to use!
- Graphic equalizer and Dolby surround sound!
Cons
- Has trouble removing tracks once they have been deleted from your device.
- Equalizer settings a little hit and miss.
Features:
N7player, even though it is in Beta phase of development, is still a top music player that has huge potential. Arguably the Google Play music-app market is dominated by the likes of Poweramp and Winamp and perhaps Google Music if you have adopted that service. Alternatively, perhaps for people who prefer simplicity of settings, the native player in most ROMs remains a relatively coherent app in its own right. N7player then, enters an already busy and competitive Market. However, there’s something really rather special about it that I think will be more than enough to make people switch…
Lets try and look at what is most important about a good music player. I’m going to suggest that sound quality is arguably the most important as you’re going to spend more time listening that fiddling with the UI. Without any tweaking the sound is very good, but the app comes with a very neat graphic equalizer. Accessible by pressing menu, you can control reverb, use presets, alter bass levels in addition to toggling BassBoost and SRS. While this is cool, and means you can alter the settings to the kind of sound you prefer, I felt it was a bit hit and miss. Sometimes the sound changed slightly, other times it didn’t at all. You do need to be on Android 2.3 for this to work (which I have), but this was a little disappointing, still I would guess you have to expect small bugs in a Beta.
Where N7player excels greatest is in its UI. Not only is it incredibly smooth and fast- regardless of your library size, it has some very cool navigation options. My favourite was the plane of album covers. Depending on the number of albums you have in your library, you get a huge interactive wall of artist names which you pinch-to-zoom to see album covers. Tap on one and it zooms you into the specific album cover itself (or, like with the two Beatles albums I have, it shows all albums by that artist- see picture below). This presents a cool and innovative 3D zoom effect which looks very impressive indeed. You can also tap the specific album and it will unfold into displaying the cover, song list and play options.
I like the way you can also add tracks or albums to your current playlist, although this might be confusing as it’s not actually listed under Playlists. Also, once added, there seems to be no way of removing or replacing it. One last thing that I found bothersome was the way it didn’t remove albums I had deleted from my device. Instead they remain in this album cover plane. These points aside, and remembering this is, after all, a Beta release, I was massively impressed. I should also add that it downloads cover art, includes a lockscreen controller and two widgets. It’s very intuitive and easy to use, looks exceptional and provides lots of additional features. Once updated and released into Google Play as a full (and presumably paid version) I would suggest it will be a force to contend with.
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N7player – Welcome screen
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N7player – Cover-art wall, The Beatles
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N7player – Explore albums and tracks while music is playing
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N7player – In-album cover and list
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N7player – All tracks
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N7player – Album list view
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N7player – In-play view
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N7player – Catalogue menu
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N7player – Artist select
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N7player – Pane of artists, great fun and cool means of navigation
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N7player – Easy navigation
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N7player – Equalizer
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N7player – Equalizer, extra settings
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N7player – Album art download
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N7player – Lockscreen controls
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N7player – Widgets
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N7player – Customisable view
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N7player – Settings screen
Usefulness:
If you use your device as a music player, this is very useful. While being a competent and feature-rich player it also includes useful features like the lockscreen controls, widgets and cover art downloader. Closet karaoke fans will be dismayed to learn it doesn’t include a lyrics download tool, but for me personally this really isn’t an issue.
Ease of Use:
N7player is genuinely rich in navigational tools and using the app is incredibly simple. With such an intuitive user interface, everything is where it should be. Adding tracks to playlists is easy, as is creating new playlists. Skipping tracks and locating is phenomenally straightforward and can be performed by even the most technophobic of Android users. At the same time as this, it doesn’t patronize… there are heaps of options ‘under-the-hood’ for the more savvy.
Frequently Used:
Obviously this is down to personal usage and how much you use your device for listening to music. N7player, however, is brassy enough to be your primary music player, so could easily be something you use very regularly.
Interface:
The interface is very cool indeed. It blends acute functionality with innovative 3D visuals to create an environment that is actually fun to play with. There are places it perhaps needs polish, for example the equalizer seemed relatively un-themed compared to the rest of the app, but it is still an impressive and good-looking app to use.
Tags:
Albums,
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MP3 Player,
Music,
N7player,
PowerAMP Music Player,
Tracks,
widgets,
Winamp
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