Slant community chat on DiscordPro Straightforward interface
You simply browse through the folders on your Dropbox and select which folders or songs you want to play or add to the playlist. Play controls along with album art and track title are always available at the bottom of the screen. Tapping on album art or track title will open up the play queue al...
Pro Can precache next song so you don't have to wait for it to buffer
By default the app will load the next song in queue into cache while the current song is playing so there's no downtime between songs. You can turn off this behaviour in settings if you want to and you can adjust cache limit if you're worried about filling up your device.
Pro Includes a floating widget that allows you to access music controls from anywhere
You can have a small circular widget that floats atop any app you have open. When you tap on the widget it will open music controls. The floating widget will stick to the side of the screen, but you can change which side and at what heights it will stick to. And you can change the position of the...
Con Won't organize your music for you
Beat deals with files and folders. It won't organize your music based on things like artist, album, song, genre or composer automatically.
Con Not a looker
The app uses a mismatch of styles and strong colors.
Pro 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,...
Pro 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.
Con Cloud storage streaming is a premium feature
The killer feature of CloudPlayer is not available in the free version of the app.
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.
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