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GoneMAD Music Player (Trial)
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Tag editor
GoneMAD features a built in tag editor that has mass tag editing support.
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No fade
There is no fade to pause or play when starting and pausing tracks.
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Assortment of widget sizes
There are 2x1, 2x2, 4x1, 4x2, and 4x4 widgets.
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User-customizable music scanner
Rather than scanning for music automatically (and possibly including ringtones, alarms, etc. in your music library), the user can choose which file folders GoneMad Music Player checks for music and exclude folders with audio files that the user doesn't want in their library.
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Support for a large assortment of file types
GoneMAD features support for aac(mp4/m4a/m4b), mp3, ogg, flac, opus, tta, ape, wv, mpc, alac, wav, wma, adts(4.0+), and 3gp(4.0+).
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Vast assortment of options
From call handling to headset preferences there are so many options built into GoneMad that there is something for everybody.
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Excellent folder browser
GMMP's folder browser can replace filenames with the artist name and the name of the song, shuffle within a folder, repeat within a folder. It also allows you to add the entire contents of a folder to a playlist with only a few taps.
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Phonograph Music Player
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Highly customizable player
Unlike other Android media players currently available, Phonograph Music Player can allow users to customize their player with more than 100+ colors.
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Free
This app is completely free without any ads. However, there is a donation option available.
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Integration with Last.fm
Phonograph Music Player supports integration with the official Last.fm app, which allows users to scrobble the music they are currently listening to.
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Build-in tag editor
Phonograph Music Player comes with build-in tag editor that can allow users to edit the MP3 tag / metadata.
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Auto retrieve artists images
Phonograph Music Player can automatically retrieve images of artists directly from Last.fm.
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Shuttle+ Music Player
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Lyrics display
Shuttle+ Music Player can auto find and display the lyrics to songs.
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Buttons may be difficult to view in album view
The search, favorites, and options buttons can become obscured by album covers in album view.
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Gapless playback
Gapless playback is built in to the app.
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Multiple themes
There are multiple themes to choose from including black, white and blue themes.
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Sleep timer
There is an included sleep timer built into the app.
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Voice search
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Multiple widgets
There are 2x1, 4x1, 4x2, and 4x4 widgets available to use that are color customizable.
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Free version available
There is a free version available for users to download.
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Notification controls
There are included notification controls where the user can pause, play and change tracks from the notification pull down.
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Lockscreen controls
There are included lockscreen controls where the user can pause, play and change tracks from the lockscreen.
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BlackPlayer EX Music Player
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No ads
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Have to buy it
Not support full.
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ID3 tag editor
Can edit metadata for supported music formats.
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Buggy crossfading
Crossfading interrupts the background equalizers & sound mods if enabled.
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Heavy customisation
Name's Blackplayer, but you can customize it to your colour, your taste, your preferred interface.
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Gapless + crossfade
You can listen uninterrupted music without any silence in the middle.
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Shuffle playlist
You can shuffle any album or folder & make it a playlist & continue listening until you finish it up.
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musixmatch Music Player Lyrics
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Buggy
musicmatch appears to be having problems with scanning tracks, its floating lyrics as well as its push notifications.
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Huge lyrics library
With millions of songs in its database already musicmatch is readily becoming the IMDB of music lyrics.
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Intuitive interface and design
musicmatch offers an easy to navigate interface that is also a joy to look at and understand.
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Dsub
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Can manage and play Podcasts
Dsub has built in Podcast management as well as a player.
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Cannot change layout
There is no current way to change the layout of the Dsub player.
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Chromecast support
Dsub supports Chromecast for any device on Android 2.3+.
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Poweramp
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Highly customizable
It offers a selection of themes and allows tweaking pretty much every aspect of the player UI, menus and the status bar. It even allows adjusting the zoom level of the album art among many more settings.
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Only free for 15 days
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Great equalizer effects
PowerAMP offers hands down the best software equalizer available in an Android music player. There is a noticeable difference to the sound when using lossless files and PowerAMP's equalizer when compared to any other player in the Play Store.
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No DLNA compliance
A missing feature for PowerAMP is DLNA compliance. So sadly that means no streaming of audio from home networks or site lockers.
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Compatible with many file types
PowerAMP is compatible with mp3, mp4, m4a including lossless alac, flac, ogg, wav, tta, wma, ape, and wv files.
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Navigation is awkward, does not follow Android material design guidelines
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Bevy of features
With built n features such as sleep timer, lyric finder, tag editor, gap-less playback tweaks and options and advance features such as wakelock options, PoweAMP is one of the most user customizable music players on the Play Store.
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Only plays one cloud file at a time (unlike CloudPlayer)
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Sound quality is fantastic with many adjustments
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Only plays from the cloud via the cloud
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Free 15 day trial
PowerAMP is free trial software that allows one to use the full features of the app for a limited amount of time.
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Variety of Polished features
After a total overhaul to 3.0, the overall quality of the app went up.
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Has the best variety for shuffle I've ever seen
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UI overhaul for beta users
If you sign-up for the alpha - beta of the application in the playstore, you can experience the new UI design of the app.
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Languages:
30
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Open
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Hi-Res Output (where supported by the device)
Audio Codecs:
mp3, mp4/m4a/alac/aac, ogg, opus, wma, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff, dsd (dff/dsf), mka, mpga, tak, flv (audio), and other formats
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Player FM
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Web player
Functional web app that shares settings with Android app.
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Next played episode is wrong sometimes
On some podcasts when an episode ends the player "jumps" to the last episode or even to an entirely different podcast.
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Seamless offline support
Latest episodes from Subscriptions and Play Later are automatically kept offline.
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Discovery
Can follow whole topics and search individual episodes.
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Cloud sync
Subscriptions and favorite topics sync across devices and the web.
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Best online support
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No ads
This shows a responsible attitude about in-app ads.
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Musicolet Music Player
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Free, and no ads
You can optionally support the developer and pay for pro features, but the free version isn't missing any core features.
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Not open source
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Fully customizable
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Android Auto support
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Simple way to switch play-modes
Intuitive options to decide what to do when song or "queue" ends.
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Built-in tag editor
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Plays popular audio formats and relatively obscure audio formats
Supports many audio formats natively, as well as all formats supported by the system decoder of the Android device in use.
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Respects privacy; works offline
The app doesn't include the Internet permission, so no user data can be sent to the app author.
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Has good playlist manipulation capabilities for adding and reordering songs
You can multi-select songs to add to a playlist, and you can use your finger to drag one or multiple songs to the desired position in the playlist, for example. There is also a command to insert a selection of songs into the current playlist after the current song.
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Supports the use of up to 20 playlists simultaneously (called "queues" in the app)
Also allows saving unlimited playlists for later use, and playlists can be exported as external .m3u files.
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Can display embedded song lyrics and external .lrc file lyrics, including synchronized lyrics
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Platforms:
Android
License:
Proprietary
Website:
https://krosbits.in/musicolet/
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AIMP
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Multiple audio codec compatible
AIMP supports a huge list of audio formats and several playlist types.
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Not open source
AIMP is not libre / open source software, so development is closed and lead by the AIMP staff only.
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Useful audio library
AIMP can play, manage, and filter music stored in the whole computer or specified folders. It is able to read metadata from music files' tags and perform real-time searching out of it.
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Buggy, bloated and obfuscated options
Seems to hang when adding a large number of files.
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Internal updater
AIMP updates using its built-in updater, so you don't have to visit AIMP's website and download the whole installer every time a new version is available.
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Cluttered and confusing interface
The interface is very busy and not intuitive so it can take awhile to become familiar with it. The skins don't conform to specific design standards so they often have different behaviors. You can read more about it here.
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Lightweight skinning
Even with lots of skinning options, AIMP is lightweight and works on the smallest computer.
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AIMP "Help" only in Russian and English
AIMP's "Help" included in the software itself is only available in Russian and English.
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18 band equalizer + 22 presets + preamp
AIMP has an 18 band equalizer (which is manually customizable), plus 22 presets by default [user can add his/her custom presets]. It also includes a +15/-15 dB preamplification.
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Russian content
Supporting this is also supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Multiple other features
AIMP has many more features including: dither, anticlipping, customizable hotkeys/shortcuts, customizable player's user agent string, access to Favorites audio files and playlists, rating for tracks, tracklist export, optional temporary information bar with track info every time a track begins, volume normalization, ReplayGain support, volume fading between tracks, and more.
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BEWARE FRAUD, MALWARE, TROJAN, BACKDOOR
Download only from the actual aimp site
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Mini Player support
AIMP can be maximized, restored, sent to the tray, or switched to Mini Player for your convenience.
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Among the best audio quality for Windows audio players
AIMP uses the BASS library, which provides one of the best audio quality of all currently available music players for Windows.
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Multiple playlist management
AIMP can manage multiple playlists by a tab system, similar to web browsers.
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Tag Editor + Audio Converter can carry out a multitude of tasks
AIMP has two tools for further music management. Tag Editor lets you add album art to audio files, fix metadata to individual files or to all files included in a folder, rename filenames, complete tags from filenames and viceversa, and more. Audio Converter lets you convert an audio file into another format (for instance, from FLAC to M4A). You can choose quality parameters, renaming of files, and output paths for converted files. Audio conversion supports multiple core encoding, so if your CPU has four cores, you can convert audio using 1, 2, 3, or 4 cores.
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Supports audiophile-level playback quality
Other music players usually require separate plugins for this, but AIMP comes by default with the modern WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) audio output support thus providing purest sound output unadultered by the Windows mixer (in WASAPI Exclusive mode) out of the box.
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Delete files from player
Simple and good working ability to delete files right away from the player.
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Multiple languages available
AIMP is available in 36 languages, including: Russian, English, Arabic, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Spain), French, German, Italian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), and more.
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Built-in scheduler
AIMP has a scheduler which lets you stop playback, close the program, or turn off your computer at a specified time/period.
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Waveform seekbar
AIMP's seekbar features a waveform display of the entire audio file for easier navigation within the sound file. For example you can easily see where are the silences which is especially useful for podcasts and talked content.
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Icon sets available for download
The user can download icon sets for different audio formats.
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Allows for radio capture
AIMP can grab internet radios' audios and save them to drive, in real-time. You can save the streaming in its original format, or choose the codec manually [AAC, OGG Vorbis, OPUS, etc] and its bit rate. You can even save its CUE log and split files, if desired.
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DSP manager allows for sound effects
AIMP has a digital sound processor manager which lets you apply sound effects to the output audio in real-time. These effects include: echo, reverberation, Flanger, Chorus, bass, enhancer, speed, tempo, and pitch. It also has a voice remover feature for stereo audio files.
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Support for several WinAmp's plugins
AIMP supports several plugins originally designed for WinAmp. However, it also supports new plugins designed for AIMP itself. From visual plugins to extra codec support, YouTube playlists playback, Soundcloud playback, or spectrum analysing, these are a selection of supported plugins.
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Easy to use
Handsome design
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Platforms:
Windows, Android
Release Date:
January 13, 2020
Windows Versions Supported:
Vista/7/8/8.1/10 (64-bit)
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foobar2000
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Lightweight
Foobar2000 has a clean, minimalistic UI, small filesize, and is light on resource usage.
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Not easy to skin
Out of the box it looks like something out of win2000. It is also very difficult to skin for the normal user.
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Functionality can be extended with components
Foobar200 has over a hundred components to choose from that add UI functionality, decoding support for various formats, etc.
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Provides little in terms of hand-holding
Advanced tasks such as skinning and installing components may be a bit intimidating for beginners because they require knowing your way around the computer, not just the player.
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Supports a wide variety of audio formats
Foobar2000 natively supports MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, ALAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CD, Speex, Opus, and support for additional formats can be added with plugins.
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Outdated Plugins
Many, many plugins are outdated and not maintained for years, leading to stability issues with a lof of them. A rather complex SDK and missing sufficient documentation makes maintaining or creating new plugins unnecessarily hard. Getting to that neat GUI setup you've seen somewhere is probably impossible because of that.
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Plugins can be used to bypass Windows mixer to output a bit-exact signal
Through the use of a plugin (of which there are three popular ones), users can get bit-exact sound output straight to their DAC or soundcard. While not something every user will use, for audiophiles this is a pretty important feature.
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Locks files and folders, making it hard to manage them
Several parts of Foobar lock files and folders in a way that they cannot be file-managed (move/copy/rename/delete) easily in the program (and externally). With the waveform plugin it's even worse. Cannot delete a file until the waveform is fully scanned.
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Highly customisable
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Cumbersome start-up
Foobar2000 requires a bit of work to get it up and running.
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ReplayGain support
ReplayGain can be applied on a per album or track basis, allowing the user to set up an even volumed listening experience.
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The previous button doesn't work in random playback
You are unable to go back to a song when using random playback.
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Internal search is a beast
Foobar2000 provides an extensive search to look through your library. It supports special queries to only look for certain tags and other conditions and is incredibly fast in doing so even with over 20k of songs in your library.
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Breaks existing components every few updates
Makes it very hard to keep a customized version of Foobar running smoothly without worrying about non-working components.
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Advanced layout
The player has a layout-editing mode that allows for a wide variety of UI setups.
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Periodical unexpected shutdown
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Good quality
It was made in order to be as respectful to music as it can be.
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Not 'easy' as in plays stream services/ podcasts etc.
May be asking too much, this app is PERFECT for the 'hardcore'.
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Good compatibility with Windows Media Center IR remote controls and wireless mini-keyboards
Foobar works well with Windows Media Center IR remote controls with virtual mouse functions; also with wireless mini-keyboards.
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Can crash right after install
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Compatible with Microsoft Media Center (MMC) remote controls
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Fast monitoring of the folders
It has one of the fastest monitoring abilities. Only couple of seconds passes between adding a file into monitored folder on external NAS and it appearing in the library.
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Grouping by folder structure
Grouping files by folder structure is an important feature especially when files don't have proper tags.
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Variety of skins available
Foobar 2000 has powerful theming support. Browsing a site like DeviantArt will give you hundreds of skins (that have been made by other users) to choose from.
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Easily handles large music libraries
It has by far the best scanning of large music libraries containing couple of thousands of files.
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Built-in support for Windows Media streaming
Foobar2000 can natively play ASX/MMS/RTSP streams.
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Transcodes all supported audio formats
The converter component allows foobar2000 to convert from and to any file formats that the player is capable of playing back.
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The many add-ons (components) available
Includes dynamic range analysis, integrity checkers, equalizers, and visualizers, such as waveform, oscilloscope, spectrum, spectrogram (waterfall), peak and smoothed VU meters, and X-Y (Shpect Lissajous) displays.
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Random/Shuffle on an album basis.
I'm old enough to have a lot of music where whole albums are worth listening to. This is also essential when the composers created music where the flow from one song to the next is part of the art of the album. E.g. on Queen's ANight_at_the_Opera_, the first song -- Death_On_Two_Legs -- is a very hard rock song with very pissed off lyrics. The next is _Lazing_On_a_Sunday_Afternoon, which is a very lighthearted amusing song. The contrast is wonderful. Also many artists have one song flow into another and breaking them up by using random on a song basis really breaks the music. Plus shuffle prevents repeats until the entire playlist is done. If you want, you can select individual songs and the are shuffled as if they are the entire album. It's harder to describe than to do: configure play mode to shuffle albums If you're like me -- and I know I am: add library to list play But you can be more selective: select albums (or songs if you only like a few) do { play_the_shuffled_list(list); if (mood("not in for the current")) skip(); if (mood("change_the_list)) change_the_list(&list); } while !shuffled_off("mortal_coil"); die("happy");
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Lots of themes made by foobar users.
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MP3 player management
Users can easily send their music files to their MP3 device through the use of the right click menu when browsing their library.
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Platforms:
Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS
License:
BSD-2-Clause
Release Date:
December 31, 2019
Portable:
No
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CloudPlayer
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Elegant interface
The app has a clean material design UI that doesn't get in the way. It focuses on album art to make it vibrant and throws in small touches throughout that highlight the attention to detail. For example, the color of the name of the artist and title of the album matches the color of album art, etc.
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No gapless playback
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Supports lossless .flac playback.
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No crossfade
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Supports a custom lock screen.
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Cloud storage streaming is a premium feature
The killer feature of CloudPlayer is not available in the free version of the app.
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AllPlay and Chromecast support
Premium version of the app allows you to cast to AllPlay and Chromecast devices.
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Initial indexing can take some time
First time you start the app and connect it to you cloud storage account it will index all local and online music, pull metadata, album art, etc. At a rate of about 2-3 seconds per song the process can easily take a good while.
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Protects you from accidentally using cellular data
The app has a setting that when turned on will prevent it from using cellular data so you can rest assured that you won't accidentally rack up a phone bill even if your Wi-Fi drops out.
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10 band EQ
Premium version of the app has a 10 band EQ with 17 presets and PreAmp.
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Android Wear support
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Can sync playlists across devices
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Android Auto support
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TIDAL
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Amazing quality
The Tidal music streaming service has a maximum streaming quality of 1,411Kbps bit rate with FLAC-formatted lossless files. This is quite an upgrade compared to most music streaming services, which go at about 320Kbps bit rate.
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Songs may take some time to load
the Tidal music streaming service may take up to 10 seconds of buffering to load and play a song, sometimes even stopping a song mid-way to buffer.
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Pays artists more
As of March 2018, TIDAL pays the artists 2/3 more than Apple Music and 3 times more than Spotify, for an equivalent catalog and subscription price. (40M songs on TIDAL and Apple Music vs. 30M on Spotify, $9.99/mo for all 3). Napster is the only service that pays the artists more than TIDAL.
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No free tier
The Tidal music streaming service has no free tier available. Only a 7-day trial. While the trial is helpful for learning what the service has to offer, it may not allow for a complete picture due to the time limit.
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Discounted student subscription
Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account.
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Offline isn’t offline and mobile data is consumed in one song
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Awsome desktop app
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Hi-FI Can be expensive for some
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Built-in audio search
The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound.
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Military/veteran discount a BIG plus
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Get one-month free Hi-Fi (FLAC, 24-bit music)
Almost all if not most songs are 24-bit FLAC files, "Master" is an ever higher quality
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Platforms:
Web (Chrome only for HiFi), iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS
Number of songs available:
~60M
Offline download:
Yes
HiFi (9.99 US/Month):
Up to 1411 kbps FLAC/ALAC (HiFi)
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Spotify
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Huge collection of music and fast access to newly released songs
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music. The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
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Free account have lots of ads
If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else.
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Related artists
Helps to find new authors based on your previous picks
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Discovery is terrible
The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it.
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Client's functionality can be extended via third-party apps
Spotify desktop client allows for third-party apps. They extend the functionality of Spotify and many of them offer new ways of discovering music. Noteworthy apps include Moodagent, Last.fm, Swarm.fm, ShareMyPlaylists, The Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Shuffler.fm.
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Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
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Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
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Has a free version
A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music.
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Weekly Discover playlist uses a great algorithm
A playlist generated by Spotify based on your listening habits and released every Monday. The algorithm used by this playlist is great and stands out from its competitors.
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Platforms:
Web; Android; iOS; Linux; Windows; MacOS
Playlist Sharing:
Yes
User-Created Playlists:
Yes
Offline download:
Yes
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VLC
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Free, open source, and cross-platform
VLC is licensed under the CC-SA v3.0+ and available on Windows, OSX, and Linux with source code available here.
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Not really meant to be a music player
VLC is made to be a video player. Therefore, it won't carry out actions such as managing your music library.
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Simple to setup and use
VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.
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Lacks libraries and advanced music player features
VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.
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Very versatile and easy to use
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Absence of personalization
VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.
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Doesn't require additional codecs
Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
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Contains some insignificant but irritating flaws
Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.
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Tons of advanced settings
Besides basic configurations, video player has an extensive amount of adjustable settings.
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Doesn't manage your music library for you
You organize your music into folders any way you want. Want to play an album? Drag and drop. No tags, no confusion, no fluff. Easy.
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Can be almost completely keyboard-driven
VLC includes keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The video player can be controlled with simple and customizable keyboard commands.
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Surprisingly Lightest on Resources
Yes. Lightest. Even better than the ones known to be light. Both when playing music, only a single song or when playing a video. Either in terms of Ram and Cpu. Compared with almost all, including the ones from Windows like mpc-hc .. or light ones from Linux like Alsa Player, Audacious, SmPlayer .
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Can play every format video available (as of 2017)
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Includes Blu-Ray playback support
Blu-Ray playback support was added on July 13th, 2014. It allows playing back DRM-free Blu-Rays with the help of libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus.
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Supports a GUI interface and an ncurses terminal interface
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Can easily stream music across your home network from any device on the network
Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package
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Large amount of extensions
VLC has a large amount of extensions.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, AppleTV
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Google Play Music
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Pros
5
Cons
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Free no advertisements
Google Play Music is a free service for storing and streaming ones library that has zero advertisements in the interface as well as the playing music.
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Confusing to use
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Instant mixes
Google Play Music can make smart recommendations for playlist by the user just picking an artist or song they want recommendations formed from.
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No folder support
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Also offers streaming service
GPM can be used as a normal music player but also as a streaming service like Spotify.
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Want credit card info before using "free" service
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Plays from any source
Plays local music as well as from DLNA sources, so I can play from my home servers as well.
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Status bar not sensitive nor customizable
There is no way to go easily go back a specific amount of time (for example: Audible has a button that allows you to go back 30 seconds). The status bar could be more time specific. If you want to go back to a particular segment of listening, there is no way to know exactly where you will land. You have to do some kind of guessing and it is annoying. Lot of time wasted in searching in a blind manner.
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Upload library through browser
Google has added the option of uploading songs through the browser with the help of a Chrome extension download as well as directly through the desktop Chrome app.
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Quality only as high as 320kbps MP3s
There is no option to listen to lossless music, even if that is what the user has uploaded. The highest quality is 320kbps MP3s. If a lossless track has been uploaded and the user then downloads the track at a later date the file will also only be a 320kbps MP3.
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No way to start the app in ones library
The app offers no way to actually start up in ones library, either in the desktop Chrome app or the Android app. For those that only use this app for listening to their purchased or uploaded music this is pretty annoying as there s no real need for the front page of recommendations and activity. This doe snot necessarily need to be some social platform but just a way to listen to ones music, really the user should have the choice, especially if they are paying for this service through purchased music or their streaming service.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android, Wear OS
Free tier:
Yes
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
320kbs MP3
Offline Download:
Yes
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