What is the best alternative to 9Cloud - Cloud Music Player?

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score 106 · Answer 1

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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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Variety of Polished features

After a total overhaul to 3.0, the overall quality of the app went up. See More

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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. See More

Specs

Languages:30

API:Open

Output: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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score 34 · Answer 2

Astiga

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It's cross-platform

Astiga has a web version, an official app for Android, and an implementation of the Subsonic API which makes it compatible with most Subsonic clients. This means it works on pretty much any internet-enabled device you can think of. See More

Top Con

It is subscription based

You have to pay it periodically, if you want to change the music library(basically, if you want to synchronize the library from the drive)frequently and can't wait to update the playlist before the time interval ends between each synchronization. See More

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It's private

The developer of Astiga, elsten software, really cares about user privacy. They don't collect any data without user consent, making this a truly-private service. See More

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It lets you stream your own music

Astiga lets you stream your own files from cloud storage. See More

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It's independent

Astiga is a service made by independent developer elsten software. It's not owned by some big corporation, and he's not out to siphon money from your wallet at every possible opportunity. See More

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It supports a wide variety of cloud storage providers

It supports Google Drive, Dropbox, MEGA, Yandex.Disk, OneDrive, and many more. There's a lot of support here. See More

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Cloud storages

Supports Mega, Google Drive, Drop Box, onedrive, box, yandex and others. See More

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Casts to Chromecast

I can play music via my TV's inbuilt Chromecast feature, or directly to any TV plugged into a Chromecast. See More

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It's free and doesn't run ads

It doesn't play ads while playing music(which would be annoying) See More

Specs

Supported platforms:Web, Android, and any Subsonic client - making it supported virtually anywhere.

Free tier:Free trial

Offline Download:Dependant on Subsonic client, in most cases yes

Casting:Chromecast

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score 250 · Answer 3

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. See More

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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. See More

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AllPlay and Chromecast support

Premium version of the app allows you to cast to AllPlay and Chromecast devices. See More

Top Con

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. See More

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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. See More

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10 band EQ

Premium version of the app has a 10 band EQ with 17 presets and PreAmp. See More

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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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score 34 · Answer 4

Cloudist - Cloud Music Player

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Has ads

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Updated regularly

It is developing and updating regularly. See More

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Very simplistic interface

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A lot of cloud options

OneDrive, Google Drive, YandexDisk, Box, Dropbox and even Spotify. See More

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Lack Chromecast support

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Free

It's all free. See More

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Offline Mode

Create playlist, make offline and listen without internet. See More

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FLAC supported

FLAC supported See More

Specs

Platforms:Android

Free tier:Yes

Selective downloading:Yes

Offline Download:Yes

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