When comparing CloudPlayer vs Neutron Music Player, the Slant community recommends Neutron Music Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Android?” Neutron Music Player is ranked 11th while CloudPlayer is ranked 19th.
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Pros
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
Pro Lyrics (.LRC files, metadata).
Pro Developer seems dedicated to add support for allot of external amplifiers / DAC's
Pro Constant updates by dev. to keep project upto-date
Pro Sound quality
This player is all about the sound quality. It sounds noticeably better than players such as PowerAmp.
Pro 32/64-bit audio processing (high quality HD audio).
Pro Supports large media libraries
Pro Hardware and Preamp volume controls
Pro Graphic EQ mode with 21 common presets
Pro Active app development/improvement with a responsive and friendly developer.
Pro Output to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderer (up to 24-bit, 768 kHz
Pro UPnP/DLNA media server.
Pro OS and platform independent decoding and audio processing
Pro Parametric EQ
In a parametric equalizer, each filter cuts or boosts a range of frequencies. Each filter has three controls:
1). frequency: the center of the frequency range to be cut or boosted
2). gain: the amount of boost or cut
3). Q: the "sharpness" of the boost or cut, with higher Q meaning a narrower filter
Cons
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.