At present there is a huge demand for alternative full-featured music players, as some of them being paid apps in the Android Market. Therefore fully-featured Music apps have become hottest targets of competitors. We know well that CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) is most recent version of custom ROM based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. CyanogenMod ROMs have lot of customizable options such as its new Music Player App, which is developed by Andrew Neal from the CM9 team, presently called the CM9 Music player.
CM9 music app is loaded with rich customizable features than any other app and it’s available for free. Many of the functions of the music player are basically from stock Android 4.0 music player which lack customization and feature control. It has an ICS-style default interface, but comes with the option to download and apply skins, one of which replicates the looks of Google Music.
ALERT: The CM9 app is currently available for devices running CM9 or Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and higher. This won’t work for you if you are on any other version of Android, cross check your OS version by going to Settings > About Phone > Android Version and make sure it is 4.0.3 or higher.
Main Features:
- Purchase and delete tracks from within the app
- Sound enhancement options
- Shake your device to pause /play music or flip it to stop temporarily
- Search your music from anywhere in the app
- Share “Now Playing” track with all your social outlets
- Multiple attractive animations for transitions between tracks
- Widget support
- Themes support
- Gesture support
- Rich and custom notifications
- Drag & Drop queue and playlist
- Brand new full now playing screen
- Long press to enter your queue
- Custom lock screen and many more!!!
Pre-Requisites:
- Require a rooted device running Android 4.0.3.
- Create backup for the default stock Music player app, so that we can then uninstall it before we install the application.
- Install ES File Explorer or Astro from Android Market and enable root access in the app.
Download Links
Steps to download the CM9 Music Player App:
- Reboot your phone
- Transfer the CM9Music Player apk file to the root of your phones internal SD card by saving it to your computer via USB data cable.
- Launch ES File Explorer and enable Root Explorer access in its settings.
- Click “Allow” to the Superuser pop-up asking you whether you want to allow Root permission.
- Make sure that the”Mount System as writable” box is checked.
- Navigate to the file you copied to the SD card using ES File explorer.
- Copy it and paste it to system/apps.
- Exit ES File Explorer
- Now when you open the App drawer you will see the Music Player icon on your device.
- To install the theme, just download and install the apk from the link above. And apply the theme from within the CM9 Music player.
Now the CM9 Music app is successfully installed on your phone – check out the source link in the end of this post for more details and screenshots.Feel free to share your experience about this new Music app.
