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+Vanilla Music Player is designed to be simple and streamlined. The playback screen is clean and minimal. Music is played from a continuous stream of random songs from your music library with the ability for you to enqueue songs of your choosing.
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+Build using 'android update project --target 3' or the included Eclipse project.