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CloudPlayer
Apr 4, 2018
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Apr 6, 2018
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CloudPlayer

lahoof
Top Pro

Supports lossless .flac playback.

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lahoof
Top Pro

Supports a custom lock screen.

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

AllPlay and Chromecast support

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Premium version of the app allows you to cast to AllPlay and Chromecast devices.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Protects you from accidentally using cellular data

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Elegant interface

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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, e...
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

10 band EQ

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Premium version of the app has a 10 band EQ with 17 presets and PreAmp.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Android Wear support

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Andris Pelcbergs
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Can sync playlists across devices

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Android Auto support

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

No gapless playback

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

No crossfade

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Cloud storage streaming is a premium feature

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The killer feature of CloudPlayer is not available in the free version of the app.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Initial indexing can take some time

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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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Beat

Andris Pelcbergs
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Straightforward interface

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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 all...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Can precache next song so you don't have to wait for it to buffer

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

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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...
Andris Pelcbergs
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Customizable appearance

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Pro

Comes with a widget

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The app includes a simple square widget that shows album art, track title and transport controls.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Built in EQ

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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.
Andris Pelcbergs
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Can automatically download album art

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Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Not a looker

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The app uses a mismatch of styles and strong colors.
Andris Pelcbergs
Top Con

Won't organize your music for you

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Beat deals with files and folders. It won't organize your music based on things like artist, album, song, genre or composer automatically.
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