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Add to SafariWhen comparing Poweramp vs CloudPlayer, the Slant community recommends CloudPlayer for most people. In the question“What are the best Android apps that can stream music from cloud storage services?” CloudPlayer is ranked 1st while Poweramp is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose CloudPlayer is:
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.
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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 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.
Pro Supports lossless .flac playback.
Pro Supports a custom lock screen.
Pro AllPlay and Chromecast support
Premium version of the app allows you to cast to AllPlay and Chromecast devices.
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.
Pro 10 band EQ
Premium version of the app has a 10 band EQ with 17 presets and PreAmp.
Pro Android Wear support
Pro Can sync playlists across devices
Pro Android Auto support
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 No gapless playback
Con No crossfade
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.
