I have poweramp, one problem I have is when on holiday with no internet connection is poweramp checks to ensure app is licenced, when it cant verify this it will not work. Not much good when you want to listen to some music when yo are abroad. Going to give this a try

This is one of the oldest and top players. I have used most other players mentioned above. Poweramp is good but if not on Wi-Fi, you'll never know when the license check by the paranoid dev strikes really. He does not so much updates, neutron player is by him too and same problems will be there as he moves on. Another good one is JetAudio plus paid version. What do all these have in common for me to use? They let me list music not by confusing playlist systems or whatever weird algorithm listing hundreds and thousands of albums & songs. They let me set a folder on my SD card (0MP3) as my music folder to show and start with at launch, then each artist or genre has a folder then inside each artist folder, each album has a folder.

The above mentioned plus this PlayerPro let you do that. In menu button, settings, music library, music folder: pop-up box appears & click top check box then navigate to your music folder and go inside and set it.

To browse by folder, or any other playlist, at homepage on launch, swipe right, you'll see under browser categories: browse by folder, and the rest.

In settings, look and feel, choose to download more skins, a few dark ones are nice like Carbon, kk, iOS.

For browse by folder default is list but for other playlists it's the bigger horrible "grid" look which is icon size. To change the other browser types icons grid to list, in settings, BROWSERS, click on LAYOUT for each browser type, change to list. Gives you much more on screen acreage than grid. OF course browse by folder is always list as said.

When you click on download more skins as mentioned above, you'll see DSP pack by the dev too, install it as improves quality and is free.

Has widgets too. From many players I've used, this playerpro, poweramp and jetaudio plus are the ones I use regularly. My advice, buy it while it's cheap for a short while. Google subsidises these sales of big names, might not be this cheap again. Poweramp dev designed and coded his app based on this good old PlayerPro which has a free version too but I think it's got ads. This is the original and probably still the best. Get it.

Thats strange as ​I've never had this issue with PowerAmp on my device.

Just wondering but compare to poweramp, is there much difference? Thanks

or neutron and black player (full versions).....prefer these to power amp. ....although it's all subjective :smiley:

I have poweramp, one problem I have is when on holiday with no internet connection is poweramp checks to ensure app is licenced, when it cant verify this it will not work. Not much good when you want to listen to some music when yo are abroad. Going to give this a try

I recently migrated to GoneMad having used PowerAMP for about a year, no reason, just fancied a change. For 10p (of survey earned Play credit) I think I'll give this a go now :wink:

Thanks OP!

Any support for AirPlay? Have paid for Double Twist on my partner's phone but looking for something for the spare

Downloaded the trial version to try this out. I like what I see so far, but wondering if the player has support to access NAS devices?

Very likely to buy this as it is a very good looking app and for 10p, you can't really complain.

Worth a punt for 10p. Heat added.

excellent player, very similar to the eleven player for cyanogen which stopped working on my phone so this is an ideal replacement. I hated poweramp the look and feel of it is awful IMO.
I know it's only 10p but you can download cyan apps then install eleven player from there if you want a very similar app for free :wink:

Stick to Poweramp, it organises your albums better - Half of my albums are split into their songs and not grouped together in one list! Got refunded even though it was only 10p. Cold from me i'm afraid.

Just tried it, not even worth 10p! Sticking to poweramp

It still uses the Android framework for playback. So it doesn't sound any different from using Google Music.

I faced this issue as well, if you have root and use Greenify, Amplify or a similar app then this is the cause.

Do not put to sleep or disable the PowerAMP Pro unlocker as it'll cause issue and ask you to reinstall etc.

Of course if you do not use any of the above then it's just a fault with PA :smiley:.

Imo better than poweramp.

one of my main issues with poweramp too. love it, but certain things just arent very intuitive.

for 10p, i'm giving this one a go...

Quick question, I use Google Play so is there any point going for this?

I find myself swapping between Poweramp and Playerpro from time to time I find Playerpro is easier and more intuitive to navigate, but I like a pretty homescreen widget and Poweramps is better.

Just bought thanks OP

Currently using Rocketplayer, anyone able to compare?

This is one of the oldest and top players. I have used most other players mentioned above. Poweramp is good but if not on Wi-Fi, you'll never know when the license check by the paranoid dev strikes really. He does not so much updates, neutron player is by him too and same problems will be there as he moves on. Another good one is JetAudio plus paid version. What do all these have in common for me to use? They let me list music not by confusing playlist systems or whatever weird algorithm listing hundreds and thousands of albums & songs. They let me set a folder on my SD card (0MP3) as my music folder to show and start with at launch, then each artist or genre has a folder then inside each artist folder, each album has a folder.

The above mentioned plus this PlayerPro let you do that. In menu button, settings, music library, music folder: pop-up box appears & click top check box then navigate to your music folder and go inside and set it.

To browse by folder, or any other playlist, at homepage on launch, swipe right, you'll see under browser categories: browse by folder, and the rest.

In settings, look and feel, choose to download more skins, a few dark ones are nice like Carbon, kk, iOS.

For browse by folder default is list but for other playlists it's the bigger horrible "grid" look which is icon size. To change the other browser types icons grid to list, in settings, BROWSERS, click on LAYOUT for each browser type, change to list. Gives you much more on screen acreage than grid. OF course browse by folder is always list as said.

When you click on download more skins as mentioned above, you'll see DSP pack by the dev too, install it as improves quality and is free.

Has widgets too. From many players I've used, this playerpro, poweramp and jetaudio plus are the ones I use regularly. My advice, buy it while it's cheap for a short while. Google subsidises these sales of big names, might not be this cheap again. Poweramp dev designed and coded his app based on this good old PlayerPro which has a free version too but I think it's got ads. This is the original and probably still the best. Get it.

Phonograph better! FREE too.

Is it me or music you purchase from itunes (.m4a) and no matter what ID editing software you use to edit the meta data, once you transfer your music on to your Google mobile it places the song in incorrect order. Every music app does this apart from Sony Music.

No problems with MP3.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll give it a go for 10p.

​the speakers your using will determine the quality of the sound, that and the source tracks quality. You can mess about with the equaliser settings on the apps to make it a but better but the app itself just plays the track like any other......

sounds good for 10p, however i have yet to find another android player better than rocket player.

heat

is it able to play flac files?

It plays flac m4a etc etc.

Problem with other free players is that in future they could ram loads of ads or pestering notifications or other strategies to monetise. With this, one of the best music players, you will get updates which are ad free etc.

Install the FREE DSP plugin after installing this too, as I said for more controls, it also increases the types of files it can play to over 30 lesser supported exotic filetypes, read desc. blurb:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerpro.soundpack&hl=en_GB

Skins, search Play store app for "playerpro skin":
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=playerpro%20skin&c=apps&hl=en_GB

tried and bought quite a few media players - incl poweramp. But for some reason always go back to PlayerPro - love it! and it is flawless. They have also, in v3, introduced really nice skins for the player which makes it very customisable. And the free DSP pack already mentioned. No complaints at all of the player for audio (video .. another story).

Interestingly palyer pro has 100,000-500,000 downloads but poweramp has 1,000,000-5,000,000 (so 10 times more) .. go figure!

hot, but I've tried a few players and always end up just using Google music.

What makes this better than Google Music or the Amazon Music app?

I use JetAudio over Poweramp, much cleaner and easy to navigate I find. Will give this a go though, always up to try something new.

I undrstand the point you are making, but I've seen paid apps with adverts too. You can't predict what these companies will do.

It's just mathematical statistics and probabilities. Most ad based or Other pestering methods are in free apps. Most big name top apps which have free versions keep ads out of their paid version and only have them in the free or trial versions, so does this dev, otherwise people buy another ad free app with their money.

Secondly the main danger with this app is if the dev himself died or similar. Finally it's the oldest music player amongst the big heavy hitters of its kind mentioned in this thread and most stable with regular updates and no nasty surprises, very stable dev and app. Personally can't ask for more.

Just got it.

Does anyone know if you can cast to Google Audio with this? That's my only issue with PowerAmp.

Why would you use anything but Foobar2000...

It supports most audio formats including Opus, supports replay gain and has it's own resampler and it's free with no ads...

Yes,

All music players lack real usability compared to the iPod and it's scroll wheel which was brilliant.

Music Player for me its a good player only one i use now.
You can get a free version but its got ads can't remember how much i paid for it but it wasn't much for a good app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=media.audioplayer.musicplayer

​I don't think it makes it useless, but can be annoying (mine always seems to happen on the tube, almost like it knows I can't get internet). Happens at random times - nothing for 2 months then twice in a week.

i have had problems with poweramp on my sony xperia x as well as z3, poweramp tends to crash on my phone. The music will keep playing but the buttons wont respond, i've had to force stop the app to actually stop the app from playing the music. Uninstalling and re installing the app dose not fix the problem.

anyway for only 10p i will give this app a try

Yes it does. Mine works on a plane,in a car, on the train. It does not alter the fact when I have been abroad the last couple of times, part way through the week it will not work.

There is a trial version which is the full version for 10 days, I believe. Give it a try first.

Really? So it doesn't work when it's on roaming? Hmmmmm.... that's a weird feature. But frankly I haven't been stop from using it anywhere before....

​ It's a very common annoyance on Poweramp, in fact it just happened to me while I was away for a few days playing music on my tablet with no internet access. The licence BS thing kicked in and that was it I was left with no music.

Poweramp licence check struck again yesterday for me on one of the phones. I think part of his algorithm to check includes a random factor. He rebadged and improved poweramp as Neutron app under another dev name. He will probably stop working on Neutron and rebadge it as something else next year. He does not have a good reputation. This PlayerPro @10p for life is a steal and also if JetAudio Plus comes up in a sale, get that too as it has browse by folder, big widgets, many features etc. Both of these are the best, free ones might start showing ads later.

cold. not Poweramp.

Having a play around with this - it doesn't seem to recognise my playlist files (m3u) - or rather, it sees them but the content is empty. Fine on other players, Poweramp, Google Music etc. Anyone know why?

Worth pointing out that if you download skins for this they do contain adds annoyingly. It surprises me none of these music players have decent moving colour changing graphics, would be a nice touch when mounted in the car. If I had the know how I'd design one myself.

​doubt it, never had any ads pop up. plus the whole point of cyan(ogen) is to debloat phones......

It says it does right there in the play store listing "contains adds"

Changed over to this but 1 day of using it it stopped unplayable track. Is there an option to auto skip unplayable tracks or im going back to poweramp very annoying

Best way is leave feedback in Play:Store app, and describe prob compared to poweramp and ask the dev to fix it in the next update.

​well as someone who has actually used it I can say I've not encountered any

bought and using it for this last few days

My only issue is, is there a setting I'm missing which when swiping to close the app it actually stops the playback also,

rather than going to the menu and selecting quit, only a minor issue, but annoying to me all the same :disappointed:

When pressing back button enough times inside the app, it exits the app to (Nova) launcher but for me the music keeps playing. It works fine and keeps playing after exit, whether I entered the app via a widget or the app icon. Pressing HOME button also exits the app to launcher and keeps playing the music just fine too. If probs, might be a conflict with some launcher or app that executes launcher function types.

Create a folder called music then put 2 folders inside called music and xmas respectfully. Playerpro lets you play all music in a specific folder so you can go out one folder to turn xmas music on dec 1st You can put playlists into folders and play just these very versatile. Wont touch poweramp now