When comparing Poweramp vs Plex for Android [$4.99], the Slant community recommends Poweramp for most people. In the question“What are the best Android apps for streaming to Chromecast?” Poweramp is ranked 2nd while Plex for Android [$4.99] is ranked 3rd. 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 Well-designed inferface
Organized and easy to learn interface, without feeling crammed on phones or tablets.
Pro Cross-platform
This client app works no matter if your server is running Windows, Linux, or from a Mac.
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.