Top 5 Music App for Android phone

Google Android phones becoming more popular day by day, as the latest report shows that Android marching ahead of iPhone in US.  Being an open source Linux Kernel and  many enthusiastic  developers can put Google phones ahead of other phones in coming months.  Below are the top 5 ( for me,  you may have different taste as there are a lot of applications ) music applications

Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio is the  personalized radio now available to stream music on your Android phone. Pandora already very popluar among iPhone users.  Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers. If you already  a Pandora user, just log in. Pandora on Android is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. You can create  new stations right from your Android phone along with the existing stations.

Enjoy all the stations you’ve created on the web – and create new ones right from your mobile phone. You can also rate songs using thumbs up and thumbs down, and bookmark favorite artists and songs. Pandora on your phone is fully integrated with Pandora on the web, so everything you create, rate or bookmark on the phone also appears the next time you’re back on the web.

You can download Pandora from the Android Market or from Pandora.com. You can also download and install from your phone. If you looking for further simple method then use one of the available barcode scanner apps on your phone to scan this QR code,

Shazam

With Shazam you can identify music tracks, store them, and buy them; plus you can learn more about the artist and connect to their My Space page. Shazam also support iphone platform and quiet popular in iphone users. The Shazam application enables you to tap into a vast database of 8 million tracks giving instant satisfaction for those times when you want to know the tune that is playing, learn more about the artist, buy the song immediately – or simply add it to your play list.

Features

• Tag music: identify music anywhere – whether it’s on the radio, TV, in a movie or in a store.
• Build your own soundtrack: see the list grow every time music is tagged.
• Get the music: go straight to the Amazon MP3 store to preview and buy.
• Music Videos: see related videos of the track on YouTube.
• Learn more about the artists: connect direct to MySpace band/artist page.

Shazam application is available for free and can be downloaded from Android Market on your phone in the following languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Latin American Spanish, Polish and Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional).

Subsonic

Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.

Subsonic is designed to handle very large music collections (hundreds of gigabytes). Although optimized for MP3 streaming, it works for any audio or video format that can stream over HTTP, for instance AAC and OGG. By using trans coder plug-ins, Subsonic supports on-the-fly conversion and streaming of virtually any audio format, including WMA, FLAC, APE, Musepack, WavPack and Shorten.

If you have constrained bandwidth, you may set an upper limit for the bitrate of the music streams. Subsonic will then automatically re-sample the music to a suitable bitrate.

In addition to being a streaming media server, Subsonic works very well as a local jukebox. The intuitive web interface, as well as search and index facilities, are optimized for efficient browsing through large media libraries. Subsonic also comes with an integrated Podcast receiver, with many of the same features as you find in iTunes.

RingDroid

Ringdroid is an Android application for recording and editing sounds, and creating ringtones, directly on the handset.

If you have an Android phone, just click on “Market” and search for “Ringdroid” to install it, or open the “Barcode Scanner” app and point to the QR code at the top of this page.

Features

• Open an existing audio file
• View a scrollable waveform representation of the audio file at 5 zoom levels
• Set starting and ending points for a clip within the audio file, using an optional touch interface
• Play the selected portion of the audio, including an indicator cursor and autoscrolling of the waveform
• Play anywhere else by tapping the screen
• Save the clipped audio as a new audio file and mark it as Music, Ringtone, Alarm, or Notification.
• Record a new audio clip to edit
• Delete audio (with confirmation alert)
• Launches automatically in response to the GET_CONTENT intent with a mime type of audio/ if any other application wants to pick an audio file – for example the “Rings Extended” application.
• Assign a ringtone directly to a contact.

Supported file formats right now include MP3, AAC/MP4 (including unprotected iTunes music), WAV, 3GPP/AMR (this is the format used when you record sounds directly on the handset)

Listen

Listen from Google Labs brings podcasts and web audio to your Android-powered device. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream. By subscribing to programs it will create a personalized audio-magazine loaded with fresh shows and news stories whenever you listen. In this release Listen is indexing thousands of popular English-only audio sources.