Android Mp3 Player: 5 Best Apps

MixZing is one of the most advanced players for your smartphone. If a fan of recommendation-based music search like Last.fm, Pandora or iTunes’ Genius feature, then this app is meant for you. Built with a clean interface, the app supports video bookmarks to resume playing wherever paused, clear and accurate album art and most importantly, recommendations from your own library based on the current song. MixZing creates a library through its recommendation engine as soon as music starts playing. Hit the queue button in upper right corner to peek into the list. The green plus sign permanently adds a song while the red “x” removes it. Other recommended tracks that aren’t in your library can also be accessed by hitting More -> New Music. This starts playing similar track previews being played before.

Designed to cater to all the needs of a music lover, this app lets you get, share and talk about music and lyrics. As you start playing music, TuneWiki comes up with a small box of lyrics, in karaoke-style. It can be viewed in full screen or hidden through menu options. Its YouTube integration allows you to view the current song just by hitting video button in the Now Playing view. Thus, you can straight away view live music, videos and bootlegs. The app also supports Last.fm and Shoutcast for frequent radio users, with Last.fm scrobbling to your radio account. However, the most important feature of the app is the TuneWiki community. View, follow or share with other TuneWiki users on its local map, or even search music and lyrics.

With a complete set of customizable features, user-friendly and convenient controls, this app supports a wide range of formats, including FLAC and APE. Meridian supports star rating system through which you can filter song library below a certain level. Its supports for gestures eases music playback as a left/right swipe can skip ten seconds of the audio or up/down can change track. Its PlayQ, rthre than playlists, can handle a mix of videos, music, folder, artist or album. Other features inherent in the app are ID3 editing, On-The-Go-type playlist from the Now Playing window, Last.fm scrobbling and a toolkit to rescan SD card and clean media database.

PowerAMP, a powerful music player for Android users, is ready with its next major release and a free update for all using purchased PowerAMP Full Version Unlocker. The app supports a wide range of formats, a nice feature for true music-geeks, including mp3, mp4/m4a (including alac), ogg, wma*, flac, wav, ape, wv, tta, mpc, aiff. With four desktop widgets and two different lock-screen widgets, music playback becomes much easier even when your phone is locked. It has separate bass and treble adjustment, dynamic queue, crossfade, downloads missing album art, crossfade and gapless features.

Though, in the beta development phase, the app comes with great features, good visual appeal and a generous amount of functions. The player displays your music list in the form of a cube, so you can swipe up and down, spin it around and scroll it through various albums. Once you start playing a song and tap another song or album, it is automatically lined after the current one. Some recent changes include a new and updated notification icon to match 2.3+ themes and RTL text support.