The equalizer is mostly because my portable headphones Westone UM3X have a rather uneven frequency response curve, and really do need it in order not to sound boomy with a big dip in the upper mids/highs. I mostly looked for three things: a well designed interface, with an easy to use library view, gapless playback, and a 7+ band equalizer. The players in the following list are among those that have their own sound engines and I was able to test. Most of them use the stock android engine, so none of these support gapless playback, and if they differ in sound quality it probably comes from their sound effects algorithms. I spent a couple of hours testing most of the popular players on google play, possibly more than 30. It was "officially" supported after 4.1, but it seems that every manufacturer does things their own way, even on different versions of android on the same phone. After I updated to 6.0.1 the gapless playback doesn't seem to function anymore. My phone Galaxy S5 used to have native gapless playback on 4.4.2 and 5.1.1, and many music players allowed the functionality with very little to no difference in sound quality, since most use the stock audio engine. At least our hobby manufacturers have the sense not to name 25 different sets of cans the same model number. Seagate has since discontinued this implementation and came out with a retooled line using the same name and model number (like Dell does with their laptops).
Seagate's first implementation had problems as it would show up as a device without a driver in Windows - and Seagate acknowledged the problem and admitted there was no driver for it and users would have to put up with the yellow error message in Control Panel or disable it. It could also be my old klunky Seagate Central NAS. When trying to open up a network audio file, android doesn't even give me jetAudio as an option, although it does work for local files or storage attached to my USB OTG cable. I'm probably going to have to hack a little. The Android version is curently unable to play from my NAS - although other apps are able to see my NAS as a huge hard drive. Not that many around head-fi prefer it though.
JetAudio has been my favorite player for years. Just give it a try and let me know.ENJOY YOUR MUSIC TO THE FULLEST.live our LIFE as it meant to be HEARD.PROPERLY, that is. Imagine, if you top them up with nice DAC.just one word."EARGASM" more polite, "HEARVEN" a good quality in-ear such as, monster turbine, akg, denon, sennheiser, brainwavz, audio technica, marshall, etc or if you wanna go cheap but without sound quality compromised, you can look for chinese one like soundmagic e10s, phrodi M201, etc.these are good for everyday or on the go even at home. To me, sounds are more important than others such as, options, text, album arts, etc.wouldn't mind if they provide them though. Set your preference & get to know each will be awesome.never really like poweramp, somehow.been with jetaudio/ttpod/onkyo since the beginning. Now, the BEST music player 4 android (my version, at least).
zip " so, root your phone first & install CWM recovery boot. Regardless, just give it a try.Īll installed in my smartphones & tablets. Just wanna let you guys know & share a few of my opinions.basically, they are all with advantages & disadvantages, not including preferences for each person. The best music players + audio engines for android.