When comparing CloudPlayer vs Musicolet Music Player, the Slant community recommends CloudPlayer for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for Android?” CloudPlayer is ranked 19th while Musicolet Music Player is ranked 24th. 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.
Specs
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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 Free, and no ads
You can optionally support the developer and pay for pro features, but the free version isn't missing any core features.
Pro Fully customizable
Pro Android Auto support
Pro Simple way to switch play-modes
Intuitive options to decide what to do when song or "queue" ends.
Pro Built-in tag editor
Pro Plays popular audio formats and relatively obscure audio formats
Supports many audio formats natively, as well as all formats supported by the system decoder of the Android device in use.
Pro Respects privacy; works offline
The app doesn't include the Internet permission, so no user data can be sent to the app author.
Pro Has good playlist manipulation capabilities for adding and reordering songs
You can multi-select songs to add to a playlist, and you can use your finger to drag one or multiple songs to the desired position in the playlist, for example. There is also a command to insert a selection of songs into the current playlist after the current song.
Pro Supports the use of up to 20 playlists simultaneously (called "queues" in the app)
Also allows saving unlimited playlists for later use, and playlists can be exported as external .m3u files.
Pro Can display embedded song lyrics and external .lrc file lyrics, including synchronized lyrics
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.