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Tips<br />
Tricks Hacks Apps<br />
Media and music<br />
Get more from your media files with these apps<br />
SunVox<br />
shows just<br />
how powerful<br />
Android can be<br />
VLC for Android Beta Price: Free<br />
Your device won’t recognise every file<br />
extension, but any media file you want to watch is<br />
catered for with this app. Instead of trawling through<br />
your SD card to find videos, be sure to use the app’s media library.<br />
TuneIn Radio Pro Price: £4.49/$6.99<br />
Featuring over 10,000 radio stations, listening<br />
to all the shows that are recommended to you might<br />
seem like a problem. But TuneIn includes a record<br />
function so that you don’t have to worry about schedule conflicts.<br />
iSyncr for iTunes Price: £2.99/$3.99<br />
Syncing your iTunes library to your device is<br />
easy to complete with the iSyncr app. The process is<br />
quick to complete and after transferring across, you’ll<br />
find all your songs and created playlists readily available to stream.<br />
VidTrim Pro Price: £2.50/$3.97<br />
Budding video editors will want to take<br />
advantage of the plethora of tools available in VidTrim<br />
Pro, from adjust clips to adding effects. Best of all, it<br />
includes a great tutorial system to help those new to editing.<br />
Vaulty Stocks Price: £3.09/$4.99<br />
Despite its odd name, Vaulty Stocks is a<br />
superb app for keeping your photos, videos and other<br />
media files from prying eyes. Doubling up as a gallery,<br />
it’s a one-stop shop for storing and viewing your media in private.<br />
Songo Price: £1.24/$1.97<br />
This simple music theory app is designed to<br />
help guitarists discover and group chords together. By<br />
playing your guitar with the app open, it will pick up<br />
the chords you’re trying to play and suggest improvements.<br />
BubbleUPnP Price: Free<br />
This app acts as a gateway for you to stream<br />
your mobile media directly to any DLNA-enabled<br />
product. It works in reverse too, with BubbleUPnP able<br />
to stream content from your TV and games console.<br />
YouTube Price: Free<br />
YouTube is still the undisputed king for video<br />
sharing. Recent updates have refined features, with a<br />
brilliant new pop-up video window addition so users<br />
can watch videos without needing to be in the app itself.<br />
SunVox Price: £3.89/$5.99<br />
Music creation tools don’t come much more<br />
advanced than SunVox, which not only works on your<br />
phone, but can also be synced with your desktop<br />
computer or iOS device so you can edit your tracks wherever you<br />
are or whatever platform your using. It’s very advanced, to say the<br />
least, and some of the<br />
software and tools<br />
available to you might<br />
leave you feeling<br />
baffled if you aren’t<br />
used to advanced<br />
audio creation tools,<br />
but any aspiring DJ will<br />
feel right at home here<br />
with what’s on offer in<br />
this top download.<br />
Shazam<br />
Encore<br />
Price: £3.59/$5.59<br />
If you’ve ever been<br />
caught humming a tune but not being<br />
able to remember the actual lyrics, the<br />
Shazam app is exactly what you need.<br />
By scanning a song while it’s playing<br />
with the Shazam app, it’ll provide you<br />
with the details of the song you’re<br />
listening and links to where you can<br />
purchase it online. It’s not infallible,<br />
but compared to the competition,<br />
Shazam Encore is by far and away<br />
the best music recognition app<br />
out there.<br />
Google<br />
Play<br />
Music Price: Free<br />
Play Music offers a clean<br />
and functional music player for all the<br />
music stored on your device. It can<br />
hold up to 20,000 songs in the cloud,<br />
which can help free up some of your<br />
device’s internal storage. The new All<br />
Access subscription services provides<br />
users with an extra 10 million songs<br />
and albums to explore. Best of all, it<br />
merges both your personal record<br />
collection and music subscriptions<br />
into one place so that you don’t need<br />
to switch between libraries.<br />
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