1. Poweramp
Poweramp is a real favorite. It offers a list of features long enough that we could sit here talking about it all day. But, if you're serious about your music, you should definitely take a look. Making that easier is the free 15-day trial. No barriers, just full access for that 15-days to see whether you like it or not.
And the chances are pretty high that you will like it. It has a much different visual look to something like DoubleTwist, but looks just as fantastic in its own way. Big album artwork in the "Now Playing" view, a crisp and clean layout and some pretty amazing customizations. Poweramp supports themes and has a bunch of tweaks you can make in the settings, so you can really create the music player you've always wanted.
With a ton of different files supported, a view to look through your folders, an equalizer, crossfade, gapless, and much, much more, Poweramp is definitely one of the best music players on Android.
2. DoubleTwist Cloudplayer
We've talked about DoubleTwist a lot around these parts and with good reason. DoubleTwist became a favorite of Android users that had deep roots in the iTunes ecosystem, and still is. The base app has been replaced on this list by Cloudplayer, a newer offering that looks great and has hooks into some of the most popular cloud storage services to deliver your music.
We're not talking about hooking into streaming services, either. Create your own cloud streaming library with your own music, a Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive account and DoubleTwist Cloudplayer. Access to these is unlockable via an in-app purchase, but the basic app is free. And the basic app will also play your lossless FLAC files.
That in-app purchase also unlocks Chromecast and AirPlay support and the equaliser tools to help you get the most from your music. And like the older app you can still use it to listen to radio and podcasts, too, as well as now having support for both Android Wear and Android Auto. A pretty well stocked one stop shop for all your audio needs.
Download DoubleTwist Cloudplayer (Free with in-app purchases)
3. Google Play Music
Not just a music player, but we have to include Google Play Music. While it doesn't have the deep customization or power features of something like Poweramp, it offers what many others do not; that huge cloud library for your own music. After all, without the music to listen too, what good is a killer music player?
That's not to say Google Play Music isn't a good music player, because it is. Being a Google product it integrates perfectly with your device – including the sweet lockscreen artwork. But the real value is in that cloud storage. It means you can take your music collection with you on whichever Android and iOS device you own. Sure, you need to offline some of that from time-to-time, but it's always with you.
Google also has its own store and streaming service built into the same app making it a superb one stop shop for all your musical needs. What it lacks in features compared to others it makes up for in convenience.
4. Shuttle Music Player
Shuttle is perhaps one you've not heard of before, but one that's definitely worth your attention. Where something like Poweramp is pretty heavy duty and has tons of settings and customizations, Shuffle offers a portion of that with a much more lightweight look and feel.
It comes with a sleep timer, gapless playback, a choice of a few different themes, built in equalizer and much more. And for the Materiyolo kids out there, it's pretty much perfect in how it looks. It comes in free and paid versions, but with the paid version just $0.99, it also represents fantastic value for money.
5. Equalizer+
The clue to a big part of this app is in the name. As with the other apps mentioned in this post, there's a pretty decent Equalizer built into this one. It's also a pretty solid music player, though to take advantage of everything it offers you will need to put your hand in your wallet.
On offer though is that 5-band equalizer with presets, bass booster, contextual search, a visualizer – which can be displayed on a second screen – fade and much more. The app is free to download, and you get access to the main equalizer controls for that, too.
6. Amazon Music
Google isn't the only provider on Android offering an all-in-one store, cloud and player solution. Amazon has its own thing going on and combines its Prime Music streaming service with its music store and a decent looking music player all in one. If you're a Prime subscriber in selected markets you'll have Prime Music and so you'll need this on your phone. Amazon also offers you a cloud locker, much like Google, to access music you already own on any of your devices, and the app will play anything you have stored locally.
It doesn't offer some of the techy stuff that audio nerds will find in some other apps on this list but it does give you lyrics. Sing along while you're on the bus to work!
7. GoneMAD Music Player
GoneMAD boasts over 250 customizations, so needless to say we're not going to talk about them all, here. Add to this over 1000 themes and what you've got is a music app that really can be tailored to suit your own personal tastes. On the techy front it boasts gapless playback, support for a whole bunch of formats including lossless audio, smart playlists, an equalizer, multi-window and much, much more. You can even go back to the old UI if you don't like how it looks right now.
The app is free to download for 14-days and after that if you like it and want to keep using it, you'll need to buy the full version. And you might just want to do that.
8. Rocket Music Player
Rocket is another hugely popular music player for Android with a bunch of good reasons to choose it. You've got a stylish minimalism mixed with a 5-band equalizer, folders support, Chromecast, video and podcasts and much much more.
That's just in the free app. If you upgrade to Premium you also get a bunch of different themes, support for lossless audio, a 10-band equalizer and a whole bundle of other features to perfect your audio experience.
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I just want a player that lets me play music from my SD card. The default Android player copies all my music to device storage, so I'm continually running out of space. Could someone recommend an alternative?
Please give Jukebox Music Player a try. This material design player is designed to function like the TouchTunes jukeboxes found in bars. Has 13 different ways to browse and search your music including by folders/genres/ratings/popularity. Has Last.FM scrobbling built it. Has a SmartDJ feature that picks and plays music from your library based on your ratings and listening habits.
PowerAmp for me... Minimal fuss.
1. The list, and especially the short reviews of each player, made me think of Consumer Digest -- the famous magazine where they compare apples and oranges by rating both on which has the most grape flavor. They mention that most of the apps aren't free, but only give the price for one of them.
2. Streaming is for kids whose parents pay their cell phone bill and for folks who spend all day with wi-fi access and a charger connected. Why would you want to eat battery power and data charges when a GB memory cards are so cheap and TB cards are now available.
3. The user name here is because this ridiculous system lets you log in with an account from other services, but demands you pick a different username -- and then won't tell you what the rules are for the username. It tells you letters, numbers, and single spaces or underscores, but if you choose a simple unique username that fits that format it still tells you it isn't valid without telling you why (I'm pretty sure my 5 character alphanumeric username was simply too short for their unstated rules, but I'm not sure because they WON'T tell you what the rules really are.)
I think that Streaming is more relevant and flexible right now than local music which is not bad anyway, but i usually have a good music player in my device in case I'm going somewhere without coverage for streaming. My only concern regarding a player is the look, the simplicity, equalizer bass boost and the last not the least how is the widget. I hate having a good player with an outdated widget design (skin, material design is awesome). Google play music is good i like the widget (material design ready) but lacks simplicity IMO, no equalizer (it's a deal breaker) and buggy at times. i guess RocketPlayer is the winner for me.
Spotify and Pandora, why weren't these on this list? They are really popular.
Phonograph is where it's at!
Where's my comment?
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I have an LG-G3, which is known for not having the best audio quality
Not willing to root my device (it's still under warranty and I have never done that before) I was looking for a player that could improve my listening experience.
I tried almost all the apps suggested here (article and comments). Poweramp and ProPlayer gave me the best results but still there is not enough amplification... I also tried some EQ apps with not much of a difference. In the end I kept the device player which I use in conjunction with GOODEV Volume Booster and DJiT Bass Booster.
Any other suggestions?
(I also would like to add that I am totally unhappy with Google Play Music, it is not a player anymore in the sense that it doesn't play the music stored in my phone. That is totally a downer.)
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Yeah, I like that Gonemad Music Player.
poweramp does not have network or cloud play option, something very imp in todays scenario ,,,,
I use PlayerPro for my musics. I don't stream much because at work on the shop floor signal is marginal at best. Enter 64 GB MicroSD and most of my MP3 collection.
Just try blackplayer. It is beautiful and sounds great and gives almost all the customizations for free. And the devs respond quickly.
I use GPM and MediaMonkey. I've used MediaMonkey on my PC for years and I use its built in server for DLNA streaming to my AVR. They also have an app that works well for syncing between devices and streaming over a network.
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Hmm, I wonder if I'm the only one here using the Poweramp v3 alpha L builds.
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PlayerPro!
Phonograph, It looks almost like shuttle but it is more stable
I have Verizon and a Galaxy note 5, my Macbookpro wont send my I tunes to my note 5. So, do I use Google music app or what? I have all the music I want on CD already, don't want to have to buy it from my phone or the net. I can't imagine the whole Led Z and Beatles and stones for free! so what to do to get CD's into Mac, then into Note 5.
Not one of these music players has anything like itunes smart playlists where you can use regular playlists as a source of music for your smart playlists.
I wish apps would take advantage of the "Ablum Artist" ID3 tag.
Looking for an Android music player that can play ONE song and then STOP until I hit the play button for the next song on my Playlist. Is there an app that has this capability?
Let's try Floating Web Browser, a multitasking browser that can use over other apps like popup window. It will save your time from switching between apps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.floating.web.browser
I'm surprised the Google Play music app made the list. I go out of my way to avoid it due to it's cluttered UI. I might give poweramp a try, but have no use for EQ. If headphones sound bad, I don't use them.
THAT being said, I prefer the stock HTC music player for it's easy UI and playlists. I've had many occasions where I'll have to come up with impromptu playlists or setup individual tracks for a performance, and the homescreen shortcuts play instantly. If an album is available on Amazon, I'll buy it there first so I can have the CD and put the tracks on the phone myself.
I listen to a lot of books on mp3 when travelling. One of the things I want to do is to to be able to pick up where I left off on the mp3. Do any of the media players allow you to do that?
PowerAmp can suck it. Been using it for years now, through two devices, and recently had an issue with my SD card (for tag editing). Emailed the developer and they pretty much told me that my issue couldn't be solved, because the only solution they sent wasn't a 100% cure. Been using Rocket Player, but that also has issues with tag editing. Apparently .wav files aren't supported for that. MediaMonkey isn't bad, and BlackPlayer EX isn't either, but that player has a weird stuttering issue.
I downloaded them all, tried them all, and the winner is... GoneMAD!!
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For me it's Samba Player. I have way to much music to fit on my phone or even on the free Google Play Music storage. So I keep it shared on a computer and listen to it using this app. Sadly because of these streaming services one day people will have no music at all, just streaming services. Big Brother will decide what music they want you to listen to. And for the poor will be simply no access to music.
For me it's Samba Player. I have far too much music to keep either on my phone or in Google Play Music free storage.
My favorite music apps are http://www.radiotunes.com/ , http://www.di.fm/ and http://www.jazzradio.com/ , all by the same service provider, you subscribe to one and you have access to all three, subscription gives you commercial free and higher resolution playback. All are accessible through the app store or on your PC.
Power Amp is great for playback of your own music as is WinAmp.
I Agree Any music Player
Shuttle Player FTW!
i use Radsone DCT music player for the sound ! this month they are going to add a new version for the sound engine and pixel player
WinAmp
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I really like Groove, although unfortunately it's not very good on Android right now. The only thing I'd want from the Android application is the swipe to open the hamburger menu gesture.
I have used Poweramp but my ringtones play amongst all my other songs. Can anyone tell me how to avoid this or which players don't do this?
Phonograph is my player of choice. Material Design all around, smooth animations and catches artists' images .And the icon is a vinyl/LP, which is a great plus!
And it's FREE!
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I use Google Play Music, but in the last few years it's focused almost entirely on the cloud aspect. It's become increasingly difficult to use this app for on-device only music.
I want a lightweight, no frills music app so badly I can't describe it. I want to make one myself, but idk how.
Spotify all day, premium is cheap and any song is yours to keep on app...
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Been using Rocketplayer happily since I first discovered it back in 2011. Have had no reason to turn back, it syncs with my iTunes perfectly including the playcounts back to my PC iTunes program (I'm OCD so playcounts do matter to me). Plus it quickly syncs seamlessly with my PC over WIFI. What's not to love?!
I use Stellio Player, I really like the design and the EQ + it has a Search in Folders built in and sort by date added view mode wich i really need
Stellio music player.
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Blackplayer
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Google Music's continued insistence on having playlists no larger than 1,000 songs means it will never be my go-to music app. Rocketplayer has been great and now with Apple Music available, all my local and cloud music is available pretty much any time.
I've been using playerpro for years but I wouldn't mind trying something new. Which one of these or one that wasn't listed would be a good place to start?
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Poweramp, hands down!
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Has anyone used Stellio and/or BlackPlayer EX?
I'm currently using stelio music player. It's the best music player out there.
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I buy a lot of my music from bandcamp, I generally just stream music from that.
Music from Sony,i think i will install this one on my Flex 2.
I just want to know what app doesn't pause when I get a notification, without having to just turn off notifcation sounds all together. That would be my dream music app.
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I've been using PowerAmp for a long time... BUT, I tried the BLACK PLAYER (EX version is the "pro" version) and I was really impressed about its performance and reliable menus. Very material and some sort of Windows player menu tabs. ;d You can give it a try aswell, also, EX version it's about 1 USD only...! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kodarkooperativet.blac...
I'm a truck driver and I go pretty much anywhere in the eastern half of the country and what I do is I have a verizon phone which I use as a phone and I have a t-mobile phone which is basically my entertainment center. I have unlimited data and I listen to Spotify, tunein, rhapsody, amazon, etc all day long. It's really rare that it won't work at all, although there are some dead zones like south GA, nw pa and such.
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YouTube music is fng awesome!!
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Shuttle+ is great. Chromecast support and customization level is amazing
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I wish Play Music didn't butcher my uploaded library.
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vlc player...
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BlackPlayer EX is by far my favourite.
When Sony decided to ruin their Walkman app with a horrible white paint job, I went in search of a player that didn't look like a circus tent. I've tried way too many and none of them was good enough. Then I tried BlackPlayer and it was just great. So much that I didn't bother at all paying for the full version.
Poweramp + google play for me
When I used to stream I used PowerAmp
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With root and a custom recovery the Sony music app is pretty good. With Chromecast and ability to download metdata, including album cover and tag info with support for several plugins. You can't go wrong. I'm on a Motorola device too. It's simple yet gets the job done. And with Viper4Android it's a great match.
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Gaana.
If you live in India.
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Quick question, has anyone noticed that their Androids playback music at a lower quality compared to any other type of phone, like blackberry or iphone? Hollow sounding, missing mid range frequencies. Just curious, both my Androids sound terrible when hooked up to speakers and I'm starting to wonder if it's terrible software on Android and see if I can track down a fix.
I want to try Power amp. I keep hearing good things about it. I do like Amazon's service but if your not a prime subscriber then it is very limited.
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I like PowerAmp. It was the first (and only) music player I've bought, and have been very happy with it. I'm sure the others are good, but I'm happy.
I wish Google would open up Music so I could use PowerAmp for the music I buy from them.
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I use Winamp.
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I'm very shocked no mention of Spotify, but in my opinion Spotify was one of the first to come to market and deliver is the best user interface experience as well as seamless streaming at least in my own personal experience.
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This is the Apollo music player from cynogen mod .. Called henry mp... Simple basic and just awesome
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.xorg.henrymp.backport
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Highly highly recommend you guys try out blackplayer. It's seriously the best player Ive ever used. Especially if you are anal about artist photos and album photos being correct.
Absolutely.
My favourite too, by far.
Oh and Poweramp is by far the best when it comes to album art selection.
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Poweramp and Spotify FTW.
The rest sucks.
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Shuttle is my favorite. I used to like other ones like Poweramp and playerpro,but I eased into the simplicity and decent material theme of shuttle.
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Neutron music player is great.
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Tidal for streaming. Much better quality than others. Subsonic for 'personal' streaming. Allows you to stream your music from your computer to any device. No need to download music to device anymore.
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Tidal is the cornerstone for shit.
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I use Apple Music...
*cue fanboy hating*
Too bad Google Music Player doesn't allow me to actually search for my music. For me that is the players one downfall major downfall. I can scroll for my songs in a list for. But searching my library lands me in radio land. It is irksome.
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Nothing and I mean nothing beats touchwiz music player. It's the golden spear or the tip of the spear or the gold standard......... Whatever
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Neutron player FTW. It's Not pretty but plays files that other players do not and sounds Killer.
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Been using Poweramp for years. Gonna try rocket player and see about the chromecast support. All my music is on an SD card.
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Poweramp. Kept trying others but always come back to it. Perfect for my needs and love the skins.
Need more music players with Sleep timers, far the only one I've found is TuneIn.
Neutron player has a sleep timer but haven't used that option
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90% of mine is streamed through Google Play Music, but for anything locally stored I wouldn't use anything but Phonograph. It looks like it was made as an in-built Android app.
I'm not sure why there's so many people on this thread complaining about streaming. You can download the music you like on any of the streaming services for offline playback. Do that on WiFi and you're all good.
Spotify for the win...
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I clicked on this article wondering if Poweramp would be mentioned. I've seen seminar pieces on other sites with no mentions of the app and was shocked. I discovered Poweramp when my old LG Optimus G was kinda a crappy music player. Poweramp turned it into a beast. Couldn't believe the difference in sound quality and volume. Full, rich music when I thought all hope was lost. The moment my free trial ran out I bought it. Two phones later, in still singing it praises. And my G4 has no problems with music. LG has stepped their game up in that regard. Google Play Music would be fine, but I'm devoted to Poweramp. It did right by me and I'll continue to use it until that changes.
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I got Poweramp for 9p on the recent offer. Can't argue with that.
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Whew this article has seen some life...
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I am using Musixmatch. Music player that could display lyrics. Just love that music player.
Playerpro!
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For those without money.. try Vanilla Music. Good array of features for free! Also works with ViPER Audio. Google Play music is also fine. If you have the old AOSP music player it works nicely with ViPER as well.
For those with little money.. try Blackplayer EX cost less than $3. Has all the basic features and some extras. I highly suggest trying it. You can get it for free with Google Opinion Rewards, that's how I did. I was looking for a music player with a lot of features for cheap and Blackplayer EX fit the description.
For those with more money.. Poweramp is really good audio wise with audio almost as good as ViPER. UI is pretty decent too, after getting used to it.
and....
Mediamonkey also has some features I like, like the ability to edit tags for several songs at once. I have a large music library, which is continually getting larger. So I find having the bulk editing a must. Syncs with the desktop version as well. I use the desktop version for all of my media management, it makes fixing broken and incorrect tags much easier and much faster.
For streaming.. NetEase music, a chinese app is also very good. It's like Spotify except it's completely free and better. Offline saving as an mp3 file in various qualities including 320kbps. Streaming also available as 320kbps. Music videos for some songs are available, and lyrics for many songs. Some lyrics even scroll with the song! This service is dying though as China is cracking down. An english version is available, but may have an issue regarding a forced update to the Chinese version.
I always keep more than one music player on my device, as sometimes they can go awry. For example, maybe display duplicates of your songs or displaying none at all.
If you have a problem finding your songs, ES File Explorer has a built in music player. You can also fix some problems with SD Scanner.
I think on huge thing missing from all these apps is the inability to play a whole folder of music. I don't see that option in any of them. And yet, it's perhaps the most common ways of sorting music using any file manager.
Poweramp can display folders.
I like PiPad Music, i found it on the google play store
Tried Doubletwist, tried Power amp. Neither allows me to select folders and then just play what's inside. I want a music app where I can tell the app what folder my music is it and it not showing me anything else.
But still sorting by artist, album as well as still allowing me to select a specific folder
Poweramp is perfect for audiophiles like me and its UI is well laid-out for easy access to basic functions which is a huge plus for an in-car music app. Heck, it has 4 different shuffle settings, even! The only feature it lacks (for me) is volume normalization, though Audacity takes care of that for me.
Power amp looks good, but won't allow me to select a specific folder to play. Just artists and albums
It lets me, not sure what settings you have. I can select folders at anytime.
I prefer the stock music player on my Galaxy S5 Active on Lollipop.
Be an audiophile, I'm stick with Neutron music player. Better than poweramp on the soundstage. It should be the best one
Agreed
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Nice thing
Just bought a Sonic Port VX but found no android app to use it with. Any idea?
i just tried PowerAmp it has their name on the screen for all songs not the pictures for songs and navigating is crappy
I like to have numbers on the screen if i am listen to a song i want to know what number it is among songs or number in album
most players do NOT have this
MyAudioStream plays and stream a lot of supported audio files. Being offline you can download the audio files and listen to them from the servers added.
Hey Bonnlyn! What's your take? Leave a comment.Am disappointed.Cannot even log in Google account and download any app.please help!
I can't believe Neutron was not one of the players. It is the only professional level music player on the Android platform in terms of audiophile grade sound quality and DSP processing features. None of the other music players even know how to correctly deal with something like accurate crossfeed for headphones, or have parametric EQ, or 3D sound processing. If you're an audiophile, this is the only player that will satisfy your needs on Android.
of course no mention of rocket Player or VLC, boo!
For me, the best sound quality would be (the rest doesn't really bother me) :
1. TTPod (awesome sound quality & free, but you just have to tolerate some chinese language in it)
2. Jet Audio Plus (pretty good, simple UI, good range equalizer)
3. Boombox Player/Boom Player now...
4. Neutron Player
5. N7P
Mostly, it will be no. 1 & 2...but really, once you get used to one particular player, you'll end up keep using it, most of the time anyway...oh, another thing is, get some nice sound engine into your droid system like : pureaudio, beats or viper and get yourself some high quality ear/headphone for your ears (AKG/Sennheiser/Soundmagic/Marshall/BeatsAudio, etc). Lastly, get at least 256kbps or even lossless songs collection and set your EQ properly or even keep it flat (if you like that sort of thing...)
Cheers...
MixZing is by far the best music player compared to the above ones. Also it is free including 10 bands equaliser.
Poweramp is the one for me, I've tried them all before, nrg, shuffle, about 4or5,now I'm on poweramp don't think I'll ever change, there's loads you can do with paid vers6,only couple o quid,
Which of these apps doesnt pause the music like the stock app? I know poweramp doesnt but which other ones?
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doubleTwist seems to ignore notifications and pause during phone calls.
Rocket Player allows you to select whether you want to duck (lower the volume) or pause during notifications/interruptions, and also allows you to pause during phone calls separately.
Neutron the UI is a bit lacking but love the customization of it, the tempo and pitch is rather quite fun. Think of it as Foobar2000 for your Android device.
N7 is not a bad choice: if it fixes its widgets to be resizeable (I can't resize it on LG stock to fit 5 columns instead of 4!). It recognizes Poweramp playlists I exported.
Currently using poweramp: the equalizer is useful to tone down some headphones and jacking up the music volume (some tracks/headphones become ridiculously soft or have this grating effect due to certain frequencies). I loved the wide support of file formats and the ultra customisable widgets (loving the font and the choice of Minimal 1 widget which is just words in a really minimal and sleek widget). It lacks a good Material theme which N7 offers though =/
N7Player!!! I love it's interface and equalizer, one of the few apps i actually bought.
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Might be a bit niche, but I have been using PlayerPro by BlastOn for a few years now, because as a performing musician, it has a feature where you can have it stop between songs. If there's another music player out there with that feature, I'd love to know, but the equalizer, virtualizer and lyrics display are great, i highly recommend it not just for performers but music teachers, presenters that need to be able to fully control the playback of their media. I like to have the ability to on-the-fly, change the next song, by having the pause I can also move around and not worry about the next song starting on me if I am away from my mic.
After I tried a lot of music players, found GoneMAD Music Player. It has almost every feature mentioned here, plus one I really love: track crossfading. Can anyone here mention another player that do crossfade?
PlayerPro has that, and you can control how long in MS the crossfade is, as well as if it is only in manual or automatic mode that the crossfade occurs, you can even set the length differently in each —manual or automatic— mode!
As far I remember this one: Very good design and many option for you to play with
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kodarkooperativet.blac...
Beam player (folder player) I want to play music by my folder and this is the best one.
I dont know why many other good players don't support Folder ??
I rate mediamonkey very highly. On the PC it gives unsurpassed control and when synced with android works really well.
one consideration that is never given by reviewers of music playing apps is Classical music. The structures of classical music are entirely different to the 8-14 tracks to 'Albumname' by 'Band A'.
e.g. Symphony, Concerto, Opera, Opus, Mass, Suite, Ubung etc, with another whole can of worms being opened up when you look at the artist field on ID3 tags of classical music.
It is much easier to search for the classical music you want to play by searching by COMPOSER rather than artist or album name.
Very few of the apps here even acknowledge the existence of classical music and only PowerAmp has the option to search by composer.
Sadly one down side is when correcting variations to any given field which we wish to as the basis for searching for what we specifically wish to listen to is that although PowerAmp does have the option to edit ID3 tags, it won't let you correct errors or the formatting of the 'composer', or 'genre' for that matter. e.g. JS Bach is not the same as Johann Sebastian Bach if you're looking for something specific, nor Vivaldi the same as Antonio Vivaldi.
Equally whilst one might be looking to play a specific symphony and have three performances of it on the phone the important thing is to find the work itself, without wondering what was in the text of the artist field part of the ID3 tag.
Although people who listen to classical music appear to be slightly in the minority, with clearly very few app developers being amongst them, many people listen to classical music as well as other musical styles so ignorance of the different organisational requirements of classical music listeners is an excellent way to frustrate a potential NON-purchaser for your app.
Naturally I purchased and use PowerAmp because it is the only music player which goes to any length whatsoever to make it possible to locate the music I wish to play. I would purchase an alternate should there be one, but there isn't, and I look regularly.
These all very cool apps. Thanks for sharing :)
The best all-time app was WinAmp before and even after AOL bought it for 30 million and then went bankrupt. WinAmp was FREE. WinAmp had everything you try to say these new apps have as if they are giving us something NEW. WinAmp was around since 1986 and worked on desktop machines with far less memory than your cell phone. A SMALLER FOOTPRINT MADE BY GIFTED C LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS. in fact, they destroyed the stable WinAmp to sell us crap when we already had a decent FREE music player. It was the updates that finally killed WinAmp on my Android Nexus 4, jellybean I think. Why should anyone EVER PAY to access music they already spent money on simply to get it downloaded from a cloud every time, and then pay some provider AGAIN for music one already owns. Essentially you had a free horse that had wide format support and played FLAC. Some idiot shot our free horse and now expects us to pay a fee to access music we already own. To suggest i should pay some premium for a 5 band equalizer is ludicrous and the douche-bags that made the decisions that killed one of the most viable programs ever developed are the same type's who ruin Wall Street and threw the US under a 306 Trillion dollar debt bus in the name of "better profitability." What a waste of capitol, time, and energy. Only the Iraq War seems a stupider use of resources.
I'm looking foform Android app that you can set to just play a songs intro, say first 15 seconds, to make my own quiz for parties. Does anyone know of such an app?
After trying almost 5-6 applications, i found Poweramp the best for my sony xperia. It has a very cool user interface and a powerful equalizer. Crossfading, cutsilence, gapless playback are very good. It is not very heavy on the RAM which is the best part.
Hi what up I'm try to get my Playlist back how do I do that
I like Google Play Music (with All Access) really well on the desktop in Chrome. (At least now that I 'restyled' it's plug-ugly face using the Stylebot browser plugin.)
And I've REALLY struggled to try to get GPM to work properly on my Android 2.3 phone, including several conversations with G's representatives, include voice cons. But it's hopeless. It can't install into SD (Originally it didn't even load your DL'd music into SD! What universe do they live in?) And it just keeps growing and growing until my phone runs out of room, going to its knees at 9-11 MB internal storage free. (And, NO, turning off onboard caching doesn't fix the problem at all, though it does mitigate it ever so slightly.)
GPM for the Chrome browser has the best queue management of any of the 6 on-demand stream services I've subscribed to over the last decade -- but its Android app is unusable on my phone. (And not that great on my Nexus 7 -- since the audio converters on the onetime 'flagship' are arguably below the quality of my cheapo LG refurb phone and certainly the audio on my cheapo Dell desktop.)
Try this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carloscastillo.damusic...
This is obviously paid placement from double twist: no 1?? no way: not unless you want itunes features: which android users dont generally need. its just not a good player in landscape of good players, its bottom ten, not at all top ten.When i read a review that starts as badly as this: dismiss the entire site: Bullshit product placement.
That's your opinion which you're entitled to. And no, it's not "bullshit product placement" nor are these apps actually ranked from 1 to 5. Nowhere in this post does any of those apps have a number rank next to them.
There are a hell of a lot of people out there who love DoubleTwist for what it does.
Is there a music player that allows you to share or send your music to other people across the country? thanks, in advance.
TEMPO ADJUST:
The only player with a useable tempo adjust is Maple. It's good, but not as good as the PC's WinAmp+Pacemaker plugin combo which remembers the tempo of each track.
Rocketplayer paid version has a tempo adjust but is totally unusable because it is buried in the settings under the "audio" tab --- as if you'd want your entire music collection played with the same % change in tempo. I am not aware of any other players that provide tempo adjust - which is critical for dancers and dance instructors, listeners of books and lectures, musicians and music teachers, etc.
PLAYLIST - SONG SHUFFLING:
For playing shuffled song genres, the best I've found is the combination of RocketPlayer with Auto Playlist. What I like is that it will take multiple playlists (e.g. made by Auto Playlist), and shuffle/bounce between the playlists on a song by song basis.
Media Monkey on the PC gives the best control over shuffling between songs - like based on number of stars, genre, etc. Unfortunately, Media Monkey on Android does not have all the playlist versatility found on the PC version. It's worth watching, assuming the android version catches up to the PC version sometime. If this happens, it has the potential to beat the Rocketplayer + Auto Playlist combo.
Media Monkey for Android that had the PC-version capability and that integrated the Pacemaker-Plugin function so that tempo is controllable and stored for each song would be supreme. But we are not there.
Check out Neutron has tempo and pitch setting.
I like Music Player (Remix). Great UI, easy to use, lots of useful features, sleep timer, album art retriever, lyrics display, and more. Check it out.
Rocket Player because iTunes sync.
The one thing that is missing from all of these is one that I want - a counter of where I am in the playlist or folder - "10 of 32". I use JetAudio Plus, mostly because it has that in the display. Silly reason, but it was important at the time I was deciding on a player.
Try IntelliPlay music player which has some magic gesture modes to control the music.
The interface is simple,awesome and cool...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shanij.intelliplay
tunewiki, and soundhound
Nexmusic+ been my go to music player for a long time, it's basically a downloadable version of Apollo Player and it works great
All good picks ! I would like to recommend our new free android application RingIt. You can take your music collection in mp3 and convert it into best ringtones - cutting and looping your mp3 files with high precision. Simple & powerful. If you like it please share it - thanks. RingIt is now available in GooglePlay https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qlapps.ringitmundial
Power Amp Socks.
You can use with External SD Card. It's only scans Internal.
MAVEN Music Player with its incredible 3D sound!
I used to use PowerAmp before, but after Google Music I converted to it... I think you guys forgot to mention that Google Play Music is the only app that you can use it with Google Cloud Music service...
I hope Google opens up the API so other apps might integrate it, I would love to going back to PowerAmp again with its easy to use UI and feature rich platform !!
n7 player, period.
poweramp
I use my stock GS4 music player. Has 14-band equalizer and saves my battery with its mostly black theme. Best there is in my opinion and it's free
PowerAmp or Apollo (lol) the only 2 I like and that I know can stream over Bluetooth
Wow, Winamp didn't even make the list! Guess I'm a little out of touch with the latest and greatest. Running Poweramp Trial right now. I doubt I'd go with Google Play Music, as I think it's a 15GB limit. My phone's 64GB expansion card is almost full!
Player Pro is the Best music player. Tried so many music players in the Play Store and i'm impressed when I tried Player Pro.
I prefer Inline Music Player
I've only seen like 2 other people on here mention it... but Spotify is was worth the $10 a month. All the music in the world I want, place them in playlists, then when I'm at home I make the playlist playable offline by downloading all the tracks so when I'm out and about even if my service is bad or if my data cap is running close, no worries.
My fav: ZPlayer. Had it for 4 years best of all. The best parts are; doesn't muffle the music like others, doesn't change the album art like Winamp, doesn't mess with the internet like Google Play, features bios on the artist.
I am looking for something a bit nicer on the main screen but until then....
I use Xperia Walkman app(Latest version from Z2) across all my devices...simple..elegant
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PowerAmp Pro, all day, urrrday. I've tried just about every recommended player out there, and the equalizer in this app is unrivaled.
It socks. Did you tried with External SD Card?
a new one that hasnt gained much traction is Beat. Search it on play, it also has ability to stream from cloud storage. top app for me.
Cubed (3) is the best by far.
PlayerPro
I agree! The Best Music Player for me.
I tried several apps after the music player app became Google Play Music, because no.
I really liked Rocket Player and paid for the premium. It's simple and it sounds great.
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You were a genius then, you're a genius now...well played, two year old me!
Unlocked Marshmallow Nexus 6 on Verizon. I'm a happy guy.
walkman is still the best in my opinion
What about a media player which specifically does NOT have an EQ in it?
As a mastering engineer there is little more annoying than having the life and bite taken out of a song by a poor piece of DSP. I'm used to using (well mainly analogue EQs, but...) digital EQ's which cost thousands, and still not always happy with how they sound. So a $1 EQ is going to sound frankly awful and do far more harm to the sound than help.
Are there any which just play the music without any "effects" or "enhancements" at all?
Any app you use on an Android that comes with a built-in EQ will also allow you to bypass it, and listen to the music in an "untainted" state, if you so desire.
Just set google play music to communicate with Viper for android. You'll get what you wish for. Just my 2 cents though
Local playback is certainly not dead. I don't want to upload all my music (mix of v0 mp3 and flac) to Google Music and have it convert to mp3 320. I also don't want to have to only cache a portion for offline use, I want access to it all everywhere I go even when offline.
To that end the 128GB SDXC card is what I have and use PowerAmp.
Just a shame PowerAmp STILL does not read standard star ratings so my PC syncd music lacks ratings unless I manually do them in PowerAmp.
Have yet to find a player as robust but with ratings reading :/
+1 on the local music. A lot of what I listen to isn't on any music service, and even if it was, I spend 90% of my listening underground with no signal.
And a heartfelt +1 on ratings, too. iSyncr + iTunes probably worked, but ... you know, iTunes. Apparently the new MusicMonkey android app will do it as well, but for vague reasons I just can't get on board with the desktop app.
This.
not only is local playback NOT dead, but suggesting otherwise seems bananas to me! maybe victims of powerful e-marketing?
'access your music anywhere' -- or you mean a 15GB subset of music, only where ever there is decent 3G/4G coverage (certainly not everywhere even in the country where u have service and costly to access when traveling abroad); music combed through by a company which prides itself on it's data mining capabilities (how is this a plus?!); and lastly to the detriment of battery life. Yeah... what's not to like about cloud... huh?!
if one has all their music in one place, say... mobile phone and then maybe at home, WHY would you want the music on any other device? Now that Sandisk has released the 128GB MicroSD, pffffft... cloud music can eat sh1t as far as i'm concerned; all the selling points of cloud to me are nonsense save a few limited piratical uses of dropbox/good drive et al. Cloud music storage is nothing more than a con by the shark conglomerate tech marketing companies to keep track of you, lol
Sheep, taking the bait of an intrinsically worthless service.
Anyway, picking a player is tough. PlayerPro was my go to, but it's memory leaks and lack of updates have proven unbearable. PowerAmp's interface in folder view looks terrible on a 4" device in landscape rotation (so much wasted real estate). Then, it seems to miss a slew of my media's embedded artwork, but neither are the worse problem. The worst problem (like so many media players) is the inability to sort by album artist. w/o this, any soundtrack, or multi artist album expands into 10+ individual artists that one has to scroll through.
N7 seems kinda neat, but heavy on the resources. Maybe I'll give WinAmp a whirl again.
Cmon man, try and review Neutron. The sound quality is the best out there!
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Neutron's sound quality is good, but the interface is just horrible. I'll use other music players until Neutron decides to fix that.
I've tried several, currently using Poweramp &/or Player Pro. What I'd REALLY like to find in a player is one with larger control buttons. Not just the ability to use larger fonts for my middle aged eyes, but LARGE buttons for my fat middle aged fingers.
Love love Z player and wouldn't change. Can't find a better easier player to use.
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I use N7 Player. Always works well for me.
I use Folder Player, I don't stream much music, I have most of the music I want on my sd card, organized into different folders.
What good is a music player that sounds bad? That's the problem with Play Music. For sound quality and online storage combined, Amazon music player is far superior. If you have and HTC phone like the M8, don't discount the built in music player. It's simple and must importantly sounds great right out of the box.
Armadillo, the other white meat.
I've been using PowerAmp for a few years and while I agree, it is awesome, I'm a little bored with it. Think I'm going to give the N7 Music Player another shot.
You may also try Solo Music Player...its nice and simple... :)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anjani.solomusicplayer
you will fall in love with it... :)
That should have so said "tunes" ffs...
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Meh, what happened to carting around six tonnes of vinyl?
Google Music ftw here atm. Synced my iTunes library plus all my backed up CD's (yes, and vinyl), and it plays flawlessly almost. The only part that gets on my tits is the shit the wife listens to and suddenly ends up in my library because she forgot to turn off the PC music manager before acquiring her tubes. Other than that, hoorah
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Hadn't heard of Shuttle before, paid my 55p, would have happily paid more
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has anyone tried jetAudio its my favorite
Me. I love the AM3D add-on. It really enhances sound.
I have doubletwist and Google play music at the moment and used power amp for a while, can't remember why I ditched it now,It was such a great media player .
Google music is best , all my music catalogue with me everywhere I go, when it was released in UK first I had my sister(UK resident) log into my Google so I could use it in Ireland.
Posed via Nokia 3310 smartphone
Using Apollo from Cyanogen mod!
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I have been a fan of Power Amp since day 1, just waiting on support for pinned to phone music from Google play music.
These look like excessively flashy crap to me, I just use MoboPlayer, I'm trying to play the music, not the app.
Poweramp is an excellent player but it does work for all phones. I use it on my Nexus 5 and it's great but on my HTC One XL it had poor audio quality
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Neutron and ZPlayer
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hi any one knows what are the headphone in the headline picture..
Yep, those are the first generation "Nergy" by Monster.
Thanks. I thought that the jabra rox was the first with magnets.. wrong!!
Poweramp since the first year on android. that was 4 years ago.
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Anybody use MixZing? I like it, but was wondering if it's worth trying one of these, or another...
MixZing is old news. I used it 3 years ago, but PowerAmp trumps it in every way.
right on, i'll check it out!
meh, it doesnt even handle video it looks like... fail. MixZing is my one and only media player. that's pretty nice to have.
my main is PowerAmp.. also sometimes use shuttle+. have jetaudio plus but haven't used it in awhile.
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Play Music and Poweramp for me!
Gone MAD Music Player!
Yes, yes, yes! I've used PowerAmp, Uber, Winamp, DoubleTwist and more, and Gone MAD is easily my favorite for the overwhelming configuration options. I love the gesture and screen tap configs - I swipe up/down for volume and double tap for play/pause. Simple stuff to be sure, but so wonderful in implementation.
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+1
For the longest time I was a loyal PlayerPro user, but switched to GMMP mainly to gain correct tag mapping (AlbumArtist) - and I haven't looked back.
Still love PlayerPro, and now that KitKat has apparently fixed the media library, my original reason is moot. But I've stayed with GMMP mostly because it sorts albums by year. I'm an album listener. Never listen to individual tracks.
Still looking for my true love, though. Need to sync ratings, and nothing out there seems to do that smoothly. Fiddling with MusicMonkey to gain that and easy wifi syncing, but something about the desktop app puts me off.
On a related note, MusicBee is the bomb.
Given that Google Play allows you to upload 20K songs to the cloud, for free, Google Play Music wins by default for me. When I buy new stuff, it automatically gets uploaded, at which point it's just there-- I can play from my phone or any of my tablets.
I do usually load some music directly to a device if I expect to be away from a network, but that's so few and far between that I don't bother to look elsewhere.
I just wish the player didn't crash so much- I've no idea what it's conflicting with, but I usually can't make it through the 30 minute commute to work without it hacking at least once.
I used Google Play primarily because of this feature, but found that it took forever to upload songs and many of them either didn't make it there, or did, but without any artist/track info. This is on a 150MB up and down network.
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I am currently using the default music app on SG4. Though it doesnt have all the bells and whistles as the other players it does what i need and thats play music. I been trying to find something that will allow me to synch my device directly with iTunes but thats more than just a dream...I know there are apps that will allow to you to synch your playlists, I was looking for the full experience. The only other thing I would say is that I been looking for an app that will allow me to download album art directly, if anyone has any suggestions for that....I'd be more than happy to hear them.
Thanks
Same here, have tried other players and end up coming back. The interface is so simple and like how all songs are displayed for the same artist and album unlike other players which I have to go back and select the next album.
Best for who??? Not me!! I don't understand what makes people think they can claim they know the "best ____ app" for everyone. There is no such thing. Now deflate your ego and move on, please!!
Oh please. That's why they asked for your opinion at the end. Besides, you know damn well what they mean by "best" so take your outrage elsewhere.
He's a major asshole/troll with nearly every comment he posts.
Doubletwist is just a fail, I don't get how it can be on a top five list and there is no mention of rocketplayer or winamp.
Because Winamp isn't even a thing anymore?
JetAudio Plus deserves a mention, especially once you get the AM3D add-on. Much better audio than PowerAMP and even Neutron Player which I tried.
Amazon MP3
Neutron Player
Outside of Google Play Music and Pocket Casts, I use Fusion; it gives me the ability to rewind and fast foward when I need it. The interface itself is rather clunky, but it does the job.
I'm very content with the stock music app on my HTC One
PlayerPro is usefull as wel.
None of those players are as good as Neutron. I tried poweramp and doubletwist and they still won't play 10% or more of my list. Flacs and bootlegs that I get off of archive.org/livemusic only play on Neutron. The sound is sick but the UI is not as good as others but I don't mind. Just my two cents.
Peace
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neutron is definetely the best. i have a fiio e18 kunlun dac/amp that also cAN POWER MY PHONE 3 TIMES OVER. NO OHtER MUSIC PLAYER HAS THE DOPE LANDSCAPE MODE EQ AND NOTHING ELSE AND SO MANY PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS. TAKE YOUR TIME, SET IT UP, AND YOULL NEVER LOOK BACK.
NOW IF YOU WANT A DEVICE THAT WAS STRICTLY MADE FOR ANDROID. YOU WANNA HEAR MUSIC SO CLEAR AND LOUD IT DOESNT SEEM POSSIBLE FIIO E18 KUNLUN. IT STRAPS TO PHONE ANY ANDROIND AND A 1.5 INCH WIRE GOES FROM PHONE TO DAC...DIGITAL AUDIO CONVERSION..! BECAuse all music is stored digitally and in a regular android phone .. even my s6 edge its stored digitally and comes out phone jack analog after being freshed. now have it refreshed and it leaves your phone through bottonm 1.5 inch looping data cable and this beautiful black macined perfect size all around... refreshes it a second time and plays it at no joke! 7 times the max phone volume and clarity. add neutron music player and a pair of beats in ear training head phones? absolutely sick!!!!!!!!!!!! best money i spent all year. djs all over the world use them in clubs they plug their dac/amp into tables then their phones into dac for headphone port.. you tell me? who is gonna know music best but worlwide professional djs. its a must buy period for all android devices phones, tablets whatever!
Hmm, ad on amp with more distortion than the leading phones...
If you are a college student, Spotify is the way to go. with wifi around campus (for me at least) and not having to worry about data with offline playback its a must for on $5 now that they have a student discount.
My only complaint about Play Music is the shuffle algorithms. My queue always just plays through my music mostly alphabetically, but with a twist. All the songs beginning with the letter "O" will play, but they won't be exactly in order. And there will be a random song begiing with an different letter thrown in the mix. Then the P's, Q's, R's, so on in the same manner.
lol. Yeah it's a bit frustrating, but for me when playing music in shuffle mode, it will sometimes play all the songs from one artist before finally moving on to other songs.
Sony's walkman is great
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Great review article! One issue that I think deserves mention is the big disadvantage of Google music. If you buy music from Google then you are strong-armed into using only their app to listen to those songs! I know that you can get around that issue with a convoluted process of copying files etc.
I feel that the ultimate music app would find ALL music on my device and display it in a consolidated list. Google is following Apple's lead with trying to keep users locked into their music player. This way of thinking goes against the very reason why I moved to an Android phone.
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You aren't locked in, just download the songs to your PC. And since I've been using their app, it does exactly what you mention: it found all the music on my device (whether on internal storage or SD card) and was able to play all of the songs.
Free: Rocket Player, Hiki Player
Paid: GoneMAD Music Player
+1 for GoneMad Music Player!
I use Google when I want to stream something I own that isn't on my phone. The stock Android app for books (so I can keep them queued up to the correct spot without losing it by playing music). And then when I want to really enjoy the music I use Poweramp. It makes my music sound much better than Google or the stock app. I have to say though, I'm going to give Music Player (Remix) a try after reading about the features listed by Dan above. The only thing I don't like about poweramp is having to use the back button multiple times to get back out of the song screen to albums, artists, etc.
I like Google Music because of the all access music and cloud support, this 2 features keep me from trying other apps.
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Dfx player pro
Posted from my 2013 nexus 7, yeah baby!
ZPlayer beats anything else I've used, including some of the players from this article.
I finally broke down and got ZPlayer after eyeballing it for close to a year. I really love the minimal look of the app but I stopped using after only one day. The problems I had were that my background images would disappear randomly and many time when playing a song I would just have a black background. Also, I wish it would let you manually edit artist pics for the background because I have a lot of international music and it just chooses random pictures of similarly named artists for the background. Really weird O_o
It doesn't have a now playing bar that easy to get to, the only way I can see what's currently playing when I am browsing my albums is to use the music keys on my Nexus 5. Worst of all, for such a beautiful app the widgets are very ugly and limited.
+1 I was wondering when someone was going to mention Z player! It's the music player that finally made me leave my Zune hd at home... love it. It's daunting but yes, you can edit album art. From main menus you scroll all the way to the left to xtras and edit your art there. You can even choose your own from gallery for "mix tapes" ie... my version of digital compilation playlists, lol. Yea, I got way too much time on my hands but I'm a little OCD with album art!
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So bad they don't offer a trial...
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I've tried many and Poweramp has been by far the best player for me!
What about easy DLNA casting? The stock music app on any of my girlfriend's current and previous HTCs has had an extremely easy 'play to' type button that I've yet to see implemented in other players, at least, obviously. I have to have a stand alone app to stream to my networked receiver at home. Any suggestions??
MediaMonkey for Android is still in beta. It has all the functionality of the aforementioned apps. Plus, if you use MediaMonkey to organize your desktop collection, you get the added benefit of syncing via wifi. Still a couple of bugs, it is still in beta, but is very close to being ready for prime time.
I bought PowerAmp yesterday :)
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Not yet fine enough to appear in top 5, but mediamonkey is feature packed and has wireless sync ability with its desktop client for getting music onto ur device.
I prefer the SiriusXM app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirius). It keeps me connected to all my favorites channels when I'm away from the car. Use it on my phone when out and about and tablet when at home. :)
This! This and DoubleTwist to switch between and I'm a happy camper.
I have to stick with Google Play because I haven't downloaded/bought a song in years. That concept seems so '2004'. I can stream whatever I want. Why do people buy songs? Pay $8/month for Play Music and listen to everything (ok, nearly) you want. My playlists are everywhere I log into Google. Upload whatever old songs I have.
This is how I feel. Since trying the free trial I haven't looked back.
Since subscribing to google play music I look at my 800+ piles of CDs and wonder what in the world I am going to do with them.
Amen! I have them all in a closet now. I want them gone but know that one day I may need them, for some reason even though they are backed up on my HDD and in Google's music cloud.
When I try to listen to a sample of a song it takes forever to start playing. Is it the same with the service? I don't have that lag with Spotify.
I usually can't even tell whether I'm playing a local song or streaming one, unless I have really poor cell service obviously.
Thanks, I may have to give it a shot. I want to use Google because that's where all my other music is located but I've been wary because of the lag with samples. I even get the lag when listening to samples on my tower on my home network.
Honestly, I have noticed that with a couple of samples I have sent to my girlfriend. The app is much faster.
I've actually wondered if what is happening is that the song downloads until it gets to the point where the sample begins and then starts playing. In other words the sample isn't an actual sample of the song but the entire song with only the sample portion playing. I wonder how many people are scared of Google Music because of it?
It probably does scare people away. But I can say with confidence the only problems I have with Google Music are phone problems on my side. My G2 is incapable of streaming more than a couple songs in a row.
'seems so 2004". Howzabout 1894? I listen to pre-war and early roots/blues, so about 70% of my music collection causes services like Google Play to go into fits. Thats why I love Rocketplayer and folder view, and no, that wasn't a typo. The oldest song on my SD card is from 1891 - wax cylinder to MP3 FTW :)
Are you ripping these yourself?
And when the services go out of business, and they will eventually, you'll have shit, and we'll still have our files.
Rocket player has been my go to for about 1 1/2 years
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Poweramp is the best option for more than 4 years.
I use the payed one and i think is offering lot of custom setup.
I use Google Music Player because I'm subscribed to the music there. My favorite player from the list above is PowerAmp (Looks great, amazingly responsive dev, sounds great) but because Google doesn't have any way for third parties to access their music, I stick with the Google Music Player. Hey, at least they updated the look of it before the subscription, or I'd still most likely be using Spotify.
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I've tried most of these and Rocketplayer is still my favorite. Power amp is nice too and probably my second choice.
poweramp nothing comes closer
Closer to what? :)
Closer to chin scratching elitist status. ;)
For me, I have loved n7 player for a long time on nexus 7s, both gens, and my HTC ONE X. Lately I have been liking rocket player on my LG G2. It just suits the look and sound I like.
Considering you only buy it once, and I bought mine in 2008, I'll accept being called an elitist :)
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+1 lol
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Agreed. Lockscreen is what keeps me coming back. Built in Android controls are OK but poweramp's is much better.
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I tried all of them and I came back to PowerAmp.
What about beats? Is that not good haven't tried it out yet got google play music
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My family tried out Beats because they're on AT&T and got a three-month trial free. It's nice if you know exactly what song/album you want to add to your library, but music discovery on Beats sucks. I'd switch and use one of their accounts for only $3/month ($15 ÷ 5 people) but All Access radio is how I find most of my music now. And $8/month isn't bad.
For years I avoided Apollo on Cyanogenmod, figuring it wasn't very good. When Winamp died, I finally gave it a shot. Nice player. But on my LG G2, only the stock music app has access to the proprietary audio driver that takes advantage of the fantastic audio subsystem. That stock player lacks some basic functions, like downloading album info, but audio quality trumps almost everything in my book. On a side note, Neutron can use the proprietary audio driver but it can't do so without herky-jerky playback.
I have a G2, give Orpheus a try.
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Your G2 plays music? WTF!
I mean mine tries... but no dice. I think it might be tone deaf or something. Which really sucks as I use my phone almost exclusively for music. My device has decided that I shouldn't focus on music as much.
MAVEN
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If you've got lower end headphones, Mavens virtual surround blows everything else out of the water.
N7 Player is the one for me. It syncs perfectly with my Chromecast too!
Been using N7 Player for a while. Good functionality and the addition of Chromecast support has made it great. The UI is always fun to play with and always looks fantastic.
Tried several, but keep going back to winamp, dead app or not, still my fav
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Me too. I like being able to pre-amp my tunes - it's the only way they sound loud enough through my big Sennheisers. =)
How about which player is the best for FLAC files?
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Neutron
search on it on Play store
the best i ve ever tried
Looks solid... I'll try it out
Poweramp
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+9000
Posted via my "Gift from God" Note 3, my "Blessed" iPad Mini 2, or my "Risen" Asus ROG"
+9001 but my Playlists get erased every now and then.
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Winamp.
Winamp
It whips the llama's *ss !
Kenny
we can't say ass on here?
Bro, I didn't see that coming... Lol
I also like winamp. It had the best sound (loud and clear, with detail) among all of the free music player, which dont let you adjust the equalizer. I use shoutcast (free) alot too.
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I've been using Winamp since the late 90's (on Windows) and on Android ever since i had to give up on WebOS (thanks HP ;-) and make the move to Android. It's a great player in terms of features and sound quality. I also like the SHOUTcast integration. It has been a bit unstable on the Samsung Note 4 so I guess it's time to try out some other apps.
How is Music Player remix not included in this list?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hedami.musicplayerremix
Instead of asking that...tell us why it should be :)
As the developer of Music Player (Remix), I'll give my point of view concerning what makes it stand out:
1) Several unique and useful features that no other music app provides including:
a) full-featured swipe-up widget (called "mini-player") accessible from within any app where you not only have basic controls, you can view/edit/reorder your playlist, choose another playlist, choose one of your favorites, scrub through the track, etc.
b) customizable notification when new songs are added to your device - tap it to play the new songs.
c) customizable shortcuts on the now playing screen where you can assign functions for one-tap access including (youtube song/artist search, save bookmark, add to playlist, download album art, download lyrics, save to faves, edit music tags, and much more)
d) And many more little touches like in-app album/artist/genre/composer wiki browsing, karaoke recording mode while viewing lyrics, automatic bookmarks saved in every song, playlist multi-add mode for quickly adding multiple items to a playlist from anywhere in the app with a single tap, etc.
2) Intuitive swipe-based interface - swipe from the left, right, and bottom edges of any screen in the app to access your music library, playlists, faves, auto-generated playlists, now playing list, equalizer, wallpaper/color customizations, and much more
3) Working on a big release (1.5.0) with Chromecast support and a bunch of other goodies. I've updated the app regularly since it was released over a year ago.
4) I've been a very active member of the Mobile Nations (webOSNation and AndroidCentral) community for almost 5 years. I interact with my users all the time here in the forums, on Twitter, and via email.
I'm going to go download now. Sounds cool
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And you should try it because Dan was one of the few people that tried to keep WebOS alive by providing useful, quality apps. Music Player (Remix) for WebOS was easily one of my most-used apps.
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