When comparing AudioBox vs Astiga, the Slant community recommends AudioBox for most people. In the question“What are the best Android apps that can stream music from cloud storage services?” AudioBox is ranked 2nd while Astiga is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose AudioBox is:
Their cheapest package comes with its own 5GB in addition to playing anything you have saved to Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, SoundCloud and a few others.
Specs
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Pros
Pro 5GB of media optimized cloud storage for $1/month
Their cheapest package comes with its own 5GB in addition to playing anything you have saved to Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, SoundCloud and a few others.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro It lets you stream your own music
Astiga lets you stream your own files from cloud storage.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Cloud storages
Supports Mega, Google Drive, Drop Box, onedrive, box, yandex and others.
Pro Casts to Chromecast
I can play music via my TV's inbuilt Chromecast feature, or directly to any TV plugged into a Chromecast.
Pro It's free and doesn't run ads
It doesn't play ads while playing music(which would be annoying)
Cons
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.