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Add to SafariWhen comparing Poweramp vs TIDAL, the Slant community recommends Poweramp for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Android?” Poweramp is ranked 1st while TIDAL is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Poweramp is:
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.
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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Compatible with many file types
PowerAMP is compatible with mp3, mp4, m4a including lossless alac, flac, ogg, wav, tta, wma, ape, and wv files.
Pro 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.
Pro Sound quality is fantastic with many adjustments
Pro 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.
Pro Variety of Polished features
After a total overhaul to 3.0, the overall quality of the app went up.
Pro Has the best variety for shuffle I've ever seen
Pro 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.
Pro Amazing quality
The Tidal music streaming service has a maximum streaming quality of 1,411Kbps bit rate with FLAC-formatted lossless files. This is quite an upgrade compared to most music streaming services, which go at about 320Kbps bit rate.
Pro Pays artists more
As of March 2018, TIDAL pays the artists 2/3 more than Apple Music and 3 times more than Spotify, for an equivalent catalog and subscription price. (40M songs on TIDAL and Apple Music vs. 30M on Spotify, $9.99/mo for all 3). Napster is the only service that pays the artists more than TIDAL.
Pro Discounted student subscription
Tidal offers a 50% discount on monthly subscriptions for students with a valid university email account.
Pro Awsome desktop app
Pro Built-in audio search
The Tidal music streaming service mobile app has a built-in audio search, similar to Shazaam and Soundhound.
Pro Military/veteran discount a BIG plus
Pro Get one-month free Hi-Fi (FLAC, 24-bit music)
Almost all if not most songs are 24-bit FLAC files, "Master" is an ever higher quality
Cons
Con Only free for 15 days
Con 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.
Con Navigation is awkward, does not follow Android material design guidelines
Con Only plays one cloud file at a time (unlike CloudPlayer)
Con Only plays from the cloud via the cloud
Con Songs may take some time to load
the Tidal music streaming service may take up to 10 seconds of buffering to load and play a song, sometimes even stopping a song mid-way to buffer.
Con No free tier
The Tidal music streaming service has no free tier available. Only a 7-day trial. While the trial is helpful for learning what the service has to offer, it may not allow for a complete picture due to the time limit.
Con Offline isn’t offline and mobile data is consumed in one song
Con Hi-FI Can be expensive for some
