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Add to SafariWhen comparing CloudPlayer vs Astiga, 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 Astiga is ranked 6th. 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 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 It's cross-platform
Astiga has a web version, an official app for Android, and an implementation of the Subsonic API which makes it compatible with most Subsonic clients. This means it works on pretty much any internet-enabled device you can think of.
Pro It's private
The developer of Astiga, elsten software, really cares about user privacy. They don't collect any data without user consent, making this a truly-private service.
Pro It lets you stream your own music
Astiga lets you stream your own files from cloud storage.
Pro It's independent
Astiga is a service made by independent developer elsten software. It's not owned by some big corporation, and he's not out to siphon money from your wallet at every possible opportunity.
Pro It supports a wide variety of cloud storage providers
It supports Google Drive, Dropbox, MEGA, Yandex.Disk, OneDrive, and many more. There's a lot of support here.
Pro Cloud storages
Supports Mega, Google Drive, Drop Box, onedrive, box, yandex and others.
Pro Casts to Chromecast
I can play music via my TV's inbuilt Chromecast feature, or directly to any TV plugged into a Chromecast.
Pro It's free and doesn't run ads
It doesn't play ads while playing music(which would be annoying)
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.
Con It is subscription based
You have to pay it periodically, if you want to change the music library(basically, if you want to synchronize the library from the drive)frequently and can't wait to update the playlist before the time interval ends between each synchronization.
