2 Best Poweramp Music Player alternatives in 2021

Bhagi K
Written by Bhagi K

Poweramp Music Player (Trial)

Powerful Music Player for Android

Headquarters : Russia
Parent Company : Maksim Petrov
Rating :
4.4 from 1345189 ratings
Investors : -
Download : Google Playstore

Poweramp is a powerful music player for Android. Poweramp v3 is a major update focused on the new Audio engine, UI, and navigation. • new Audio engine: • support for hi-res output (where supported by the device) • new DSP, including updated Equalizer/...Poweramp is a powerful music player for Android.

Poweramp v3 is a major update focused on the new Audio engine, UI, and navigation.

• new Audio engine:
• support for hi-res output (where supported by the device)
• new DSP, including updated Equalizer/Tone/Stereo expand, and the new Reverb/Tempo effects
• internal 64bit processing
• new configurable per-output Options
• new configurable Resampler, Dither options
• opus, tak, mka, dsd dsf/dff formats support
• gapless smoothing
• 30/50/100 volume levels (Settings/Audio/Advanced Tweaks)

• new UI:
• visualizations (supporting .milk presets and spectrum)
• new "wave" seekbar, can be also static via Skin options
• Light and Dark skins included, both with Pro Buttons and Static Seekbar options
• new notifications
• new menus, panels, popups, dialogs, etc.
• as previously, 3rd party skins are available (v2 skins are not compatible)

• new navigation:
• pull down or click album art to go to the current playing list
• as previously, swipe album art for the next/previous track, drag more for category
change (applies also to the bottom miniplayer)
• use bottom miniplayer to return to the main ui or to change tracks
• swipe left/right from lists for fast return
• pinch-zoom in lists
• long press on item for the selection menu

Key Features:
- plays mp3, mp4/m4a (incl. alac), ogg, wma, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff; V3 also plays opus, dsd (dff/dsf), mka, tak, flv (audio)
- 10 band optimized graphical equalizer for all supported formats, presets, custom presets
- separate powerful Bass and Treble adjustment
- stereo eXpansion, mono mixing, balance, tempo control, reverb, system MusicFX (where supported by the device)
- Android Auto
- Google Assistant support
- Chromecast support
- m3u/pls http streams
- unique Direct Volume Control (DVC) for extended dynamic range and really deep bass
- crossfade
- gapless
- replay gain
- plays songs from folders and from own library
- dynamic queue
- lyrics support, including lyrics search via plugin
- embed and standalone .cue files support
- support for m3u, m3u8, pls, wpl playlists, playlist importing and exporting
- downloads missing album art
- artist images downloading
- custom visual themes, lot of skins available on Play
- widgets with many selectable styles, advanced customizations
- lock screen options
- Milkdrop compatible visualization support (and 3rd party downloadable visualizations)
- headset support, automatic Resume on headset and/or BT connection
- scrobbling
- tag editor
- audio info with detailed audio processing information
- ultra fast library scan
- high level of customization via settings

* Android, Android Auto, Google Assistant, Chromecast are trademarks of Google LLC.

This version is 15 days full featured Trial. See Related Apps for Poweramp Full Version Unlocker or use Buy option in Poweramp settings to buy the Full Version.

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Common Questions/Answers for Poweramp:
Q. Does my Poweramp v2 purchase include Poweramp v3?
A. Yes, it does.

Q. How do I disable visualization?
A. It's disabled by default, can be enabled/disabled by first left button right under cover or in Settings / Visualizations.

Q. Seekbar? Titles on cover? Other UI tweaks?
A. Please use settings / Look and feel / Skin and set built-in skin options as needed.

Q. My songs are missing from folders/library/playlists.
A. Please ensure you have all your folders with music actually checked in Poweramp settings/ Library / Music Folders.

Q. Amplified basses are distorted over Bluetooth.
A. Please review Poweramp settings / Audio / Direct Volume Control (DVC) options.
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Alternatives

Explore these hand-picked list to see what the people around the globe are using as alternatives.

1. AIMP

AIMP for Android is light version of AIMP audio player for the Android OS

Headquarters : Russia
Parent Company : Artem Izmaylov
Rating :
4.5 from 405982 ratings
Investors : -
Download : Google Playstore

ATTENTION! 1. App does not have built-in music library and uses old school playlist-based approach to music playback 2. App may works incorrectly on devices based on M.I.U.I or E.M.U.I firmwares. Please, report about all bugs into our forum: http://www.aimp.ru/f...ATTENTION!
1. App does not have built-in music library and uses old school playlist-based approach to music playback
2. App may works incorrectly on devices based on M.I.U.I or E.M.U.I firmwares.

Please, report about all bugs into our forum: http://www.aimp.ru/forum/index.php?board=141.0 or write mail to support.

+ Supported formats: AAC, APE, DFF, DSF, FLAC, IT, M4A, M4B, MO3, MOD, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPGA, MTM, OGG, OPUS, S3M, TTA, UMX, WAV, WEBM, WV, XM
+ Support of Android Auto and custom Car PCs
+ Support of OpenSL / AudioTrack / AAudio output methods
+ Support of CUE Sheets
+ Balance control
+ Playback speed control
+ 29-band graphic equalizer
+ Sleep Timer

+ Themes: custom themes support
+ Themes: built-in light, dark and black themes
+ Themes: an ability to customize theme hue
+ Themes: support of night / day mode

+ Bookmarks
+ User defined playback queue
+ Automatic detection of tags encoding
+ Album Arts support (from tags / from file folder / from the Internet)
+ Multiple playlists
+ Smart-playlists based on folders
+ Internet radio
+ Lyrics support
+ HTTP Live Streaming

+ An ability to cross-fade tracks
+ An ability to down mix multi-channels audio files to stereo
+ An ability to down mix audio files to mono (optional)
+ An ability to register playing track as ringtone from player
+ An ability to repeat playlist / track / playback without repeating
+ An ability to control playback from notification area
+ An ability to control playback via gestures in album art area (optional)
+ An ability to control playback via headset
+ An ability to switch the tracks via volume buttons (optional)
+ Volume normalization using replay gain or peak-based normalization

+ An ability to delete files physically
+ An ability to sort files by template / manually
+ An ability to group files by template
+ An ability to search files in filtering mode
+ An ability to share audio files

+ An ability to add to playlist only chosen files / folders
+ An ability to play files from the File Manager applications
+ An ability to play files from Windows shared folders (only v1 and v2 of samba protocol are supported)

+ Integration with standard lock screen
+ Widget for the desktop
+ Widget for the notification area
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2. jetAudio HD Music Player

jetAudio is a free music player w/ 10 bands graphic equalizer and sound effects

Headquarters : USA
Parent Company : Team Jet
Rating :
4.4 from 163656 ratings
Investors : -
Download : Google Playstore

jetAudio is the highest rated and most downloaded media player on CNET.COM and now you can listen to same high-quality sound on your Android phone using jetAudio. -- Sound Effects & Visualization plugins -- * Crystalizer * AM3D Audio Enhancer (http://www.am3...jetAudio is the highest rated and most downloaded media player on CNET.COM and now you can listen to same high-quality sound on your Android phone using jetAudio.

-- Sound Effects & Visualization plugins --
* Crystalizer
* AM3D Audio Enhancer (http://www.am3d.com)
* Bongiovi DPS (http://www.bongioviacoustics.com)
* Visualizations
(Sound effect and Visualization plugins will be sold separately through in-app purchase.)


It plays almost any type of digital music files you have (.wav, .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .m4a, .mpc, .tta, .wv, .ape, .mod, .spx, .opus, .wma* and more) and, it provides a very high quality sound with various effects and enhancements such as Wide, Reverb, X-Bass.

It comes with 32 equalizer presets that will provide a wide array of listening experience.
For those who would like to customize their own sound experience, it also allows 10/20 bands graphic equalizer and other advanced playback functions including playback speed control, crossfading, AGC and much more.

It can play music via Wi-Fi from shared folders on local home network. It works with shared folders from Windows, USB drive attached to router or Network drives (NAS).

Free Basic version provides same features with Plus version except advertisements and some features.
To enjoy full features of jetAudio, please purchase Plus version.

-- Features for Plus version only --
* 20-bands graphic equalizer
* Tag Editor (MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A)
* Display lyrics in tag (Unsynchronized lyrics)
* 3 lock screens
* Pitch shifter
* Precise playback speed control (50% ~ 200%)
* Light Gray/White theme for browser (Plus only)
* Grid mode for Artist/Song/Folder/Genre browser
* Adjust FF/REW interval
* Expanded notification bar (for JB)
* MIDI playback (using jetAudio WaveTable MIDI synthesizer engine)

-- Features for Basic/Plus version --
* Play music via Wi-Fi from shared folders on local home network
* Can choose between 3 List modes or 10 Grid modes for layout style
(In Basic version, layout style can be chosen in Album browser only)
* 14 app widgets : 4x1 (#2), 4x2 (#3), 4x3 (#3), 4x4 (#3), 3x3, 2x2, 2x3
* Find on YouTube
* Last.fm (requires official Last.fm app)
* X-Wide, Reverb, X-Bass sound effects
* AGC (automatic gain control) to avoid volume fluctuations between tracks
* Speed control from 50% to 200% (pitch adjusted)
* Crossfading, Gap-less playback
* Fade-in/Fade-out
* Repeat A<->B
* Browser and play music by artits, albums, songs, playlists, genres and folders
* Balance/Volume control
* Sleep timer up to 24 hours
* Flick up to post what you're listening to on Twitter
* Flick down to show Now Playing
* Flick left/right to play next/previous
* Lock screens
* Headset button control (Bluetooth headset)
- press to pause/resume
- double/triple press to play next/prev
- long press to mute or TTS (time, title)
* Bluetooth headphone button control
* Send track information via Bluetooth AVRCP 1.3
* Multi-select function (Delete/Add to playlist)
* Keep screen on, Lock orientation options
* Shake to play next/previous track
* Supporting formats:
MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A, MPC, TTA, WV, APE, MOD (module formats S3M, IT), SPX, OPUS, AIFF
(WMA may not be supported on some devices. Please check your device specification for WMA support)

(If you want to localize jetAudio for your language, please contact jetaudio@jetappfactory.com for more information)
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