A first look at AIMP for Android
The music player AIMP is my program of choice when it comes to playing music or audiobooks on my systems. It plays the most important audio formats out of the box, supports streaming and ships with an incredible set of features.
The developer of the program has been working on an Android version of AIMP for some time now. It is available as an early beta release from a forum page on the official website and not yet from Google Play or any other app market for that matter.
You find the latest download here on this forum page. Note that downloads are currently hosted on Yandex and that you will be redirected to the website when you click on the download link there.
Installation of AIMP for Android is not as straight forward as installing apps from Google Play. Here are the instructions:
- Open the settings of your phone or tablet, and there the security preferences. Locate "unknown sources" and enable it. This enables installations from the SD card and other unofficial sources.
- Transfer the AIMP.apk file to your Android device. I have downloaded it to my PC, unpacked it there, connected the Android phone to the computer and transferred it to the download directory of the SD memory card.
- Open the default file browser on Android or any other file management tool that you use.
- Browse to the location you have transferred the apk file to and load it from there.
Aimp for Android
The player is bare bones right now. What you can do is add one, multiple or all files of a directory to its playlist. If album art exists it is displayed in the player interface.
You can swipe to the left to display menu options or to the right to display the playlist that is currently playing in AIMP. You can switch songs easily with a tap on the new song.
Audio continues to play in the background and you can go back to the player with a tap on the notification icon it displays on your device.
One interesting feature that it supports is the ability to load all audio files from SD as a playlist right away.
As you can see, there is not a lot to see yet. I did not notice any hiccups or issues, and not crashes at all even though the author warns on the download page that the application is not stable yet.
I do not really mind the bare bones nature of the player even though it would be great if additional features would be added to it in future versions. This includes an equalizer, support for Internet radio or options to save different playlists to access them again at a later point in time.
This is definitely a program to keep an eye on but not yet ready to be the prime music player for most users.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.