What is AwesomePlayer? In looking in my logs I see AwesomePlayer running. I am currently not playing any media, so I'm wondering what it is, and why it's running. My device is a Samsung Galaxy S3.
AwesomePlayer is the built-in media player, part of Android's media playback engine.  It's also referred to as the Stagefright player.

You may be seeing the player's entries in the log while not playing any music or videos, because it handles all media playback, including ringtones and notification sounds.