What are the best Dropbox Music apps for Android?

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Best Dropbox Music apps for Android	Price	Last Updated
-- CloudPlayer	-	Oct 15, 2018
-- Beat	-	Jul 25, 2018

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score 24 · Answer 1

CloudPlayer

Top Pro

Supports lossless .flac playback.

Top Con

No gapless playback

Top Pro

Supports a custom lock screen.

Top Con

No crossfade

Top Pro

AllPlay and Chromecast support

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

Top Con

Cloud storage streaming is a premium feature

The killer feature of CloudPlayer is not available in the free version of the app. See More

Top 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. 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

Top 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, etc. See More

Top Pro

10 band EQ

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

Top Pro

Android Wear support

Top Pro

Can sync playlists across devices

Top Pro

Android Auto support

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Beat

Top Pro

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 allowing you to adjust it. You can rearrange songs simply by dragging them and remove songs by swiping them away. A swipe from the left side of the screen gives access to shortcuts that allow you quickly jump between folders and a swipe from the right - to settings. See More

Top Con

Not a looker

The app uses a mismatch of styles and strong colors. See More

Top 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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top 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 widget at any time simply by dragging it to the desired place. See More

Top Pro

Customizable appearance

Things like theme, text size, placeholder images, list style, swipe animations and a bunch of other small tweaks can be made to the app to both change the look and feel of it. See More

Top Pro

Comes with a widget

The app includes a simple square widget that shows album art, track title and transport controls. See More

Top Pro

Built in EQ

The app has a 5-point EQ with bass boost slider and loudness toggle. It comes with a presets for various genres of music and allows creating custom presets. See More

Top Pro

Can automatically download album art

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What are the best Dropbox Music apps for Android?

2 Options Considered

CloudPlayer

My Recommendation for CloudPlayer

My Recommendation for CloudPlayer

Supports lossless .flac playback.

No gapless playback

Supports a custom lock screen.

No crossfade

AllPlay and Chromecast support

Cloud storage streaming is a premium feature

Protects you from accidentally using cellular data

Initial indexing can take some time

Elegant interface

10 band EQ

Android Wear support

Can sync playlists across devices

Android Auto support

Beat

My Recommendation for Beat

My Recommendation for Beat

Straightforward interface

Not a looker

Can precache next song so you don't have to wait for it to buffer

Won't organize your music for you

Includes a floating widget that allows you to access music controls from anywhere

Customizable appearance

Comes with a widget

Built in EQ

Can automatically download album art

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