Neutron Player App for Android

Sometimes DLNA takes a while to kick in. Have you left it? Initially I mean. My amp sometimes takes a few seconds to recognise my external hard drive going into the route for instance.

 

Thanks for starting this thread. I just downloaded the app earlier this week and would love to see some settings/tips.

 

I'd configure the crossfeed to alleviate that normal hard left right pan effect of headphones. IMO, the crossfeed is good in Neutron.

 

Forgive me if this is obvious, but have you joined your home wifi access point with your phone?

 

Been using this for ages on Blackberry Playbook and Android. To be honest the settings are staggering. I just pushed everything to max. I'm surprised this isn't the music app de jour around here with all the tweaking it has. Plus it gets masses of updates.

How many? Well it still gets almost monthly updates on the Playbook...that's been defunct for around 18 months. Shows commitment by the developers.

 

Neutron user here too, it is great!!

 

I'll be honest with you in that I don't have a full understanding of all the functions it has. For the Playbook its usually for a bit of background music through the tablets speakers (not too bad actually) or into a larger speaker setup through the headphone jack. I have switched a lot of them on and off and the difference in general are very subtle as you would expect.

 

Maybe we just need a few folks here to give this one a good road test and post up their findings?

 

I love this app. I have an LG G2 which can play hires, but never really felt the benefit until I got this app. I use crossfeed on my headphone amp so I don't use it in the app. There are still many features I haven't even tried yet - I need some time off to just sit at home and try everything.

I will also note that the support they offer on their site is quite good. I had trouble figuring out how to turn off the auto-play feature & couldn't find anything. I emailed the address on their site and had a response within hours with instructions.

 

I use this app but I find myself having to undo all the tweaks that I fool around with. I've worked with the pre-amp and EQ and sometimes I end up getting what seems to be a great sound and then when I move on to another title it sounds distorted and I have to zero everything out again. I've lately just resigned myself to running everything flat.

This isn't a criticism of the player, it sounds great, but obviously I'm not too swift with the settings!

 

A timely thread, in my case, as I've been messing with my Android phone recently (Samsung Avant, in my case). The sound out of this thing is pretty mediocre and I tried the eval of that Neutron Player and wasn't too satisfied with it. Decent controls and setup, but just not enough tweaking to get this phone to sound acceptable to me. Not the app's fault of course.

So far I've settled on Rockbox for Android. The pros are the ridiculous amount of tweaks on this thing and it actually makes my phone sound pretty good. Better than most of my dedicated MP3 players, actually. But the con is that the interface needs major tweaking as well so it's not a "it just works" situation. Think Linux - a lot of messing around to make it do what you want it to do.

 

I press the gear at the top to go into Settings, and then touch Reset Gain and EQ.

I suspect that perhaps this app is a bit too much for the devices it's being used on!