So what’s everyone using to play their tunes on their Android devices? What’s good?

I have been using PowerAmp, 3 quid or thereabouts for the full unlocked version. Has been faultless so far apart from randomly recognising a couple of albums or not recognising them depending on how it feels that day. 9/10

+1 for Poweramp – seems easy to use, though I probably don’t use a fraction of its features, and hasn’t put a foot wrrong.

PlayerPro for me- it just works

Have Sony’s Walkman app which is the best quality. Rocket Player, Poweramp and Neutron are all good. However I like Google’s own music app as it ties in with their massive free storage and Spotify equivalent.

I use the standard Google Play music player, all the others like Winamp, Poweramp etc that i’ve tried have been needlessly complicated.

Poweramp (paid) was the best I used before Google Play’s 20,000 free song storage made it almost redundant. Still use PA for the odd thing I have in local storage.

Vanilla Music. Its an improved version of the default Android music player. Its free and pretty simple, works fine for me.

Google Play Music, all the music has been uploaded so it seems pointless to use anything else…

I’ve used both power amp & google play, for some reason I can’t work out google play doesn’t show up all the local music on my device so power amp is my player of choice.

Haven’t tried Sony’s walkman app – but if it’s the same as the one on my gf’s phone I’ll pass…

I use es explorer to play music from the network drive plugged into the router. Not found a better way yet.

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I use es explorer to play music from the network drive plugged into the router. Not found a better way yet.

Bubble.

The Walkman app is native on my Xperia Z. I’ve compared it to the others and it is obviously clearer. Google music certainly had the streaming advantage but the loss of quality is noticeable. Has anyone else compared audio quality of the different players?

Rocket Player….free version works great and I have nigh on 2000 tunes on my phone. Stick it in shuffle mode. Got bored of using Google Play Music Player and I didn’t like the interface. PowerAmp seems great so long as you buy it though why bother when Rocket Player is so good. One feature I love amongst others is that as soon as I switch on my bluetooth headphones the player starts. Saves an extra button push in the morning!

I’ve got all my music on my Mac and use iTunes as a player. I also use Spotify at home.

What’s the best way to sync an 8Gb playlist from iTunes to my Android phone?

Drag & drop?

Does DoubleTwist do that sort of thing?

Any good reviews for double Twist? Its website seems to say it’s quite good 😕

Player pro, until my sd card packed up, then google play music, now spotify (at least until my premium free trial runs out)

https://play.google.com/about/music/unlock/

google music manager will copy your whole* itunes library and then host it in the cloud for you to use from anywhere as well as sync back to other devices.

* 20,000 songs.

I thought Cloud hosting meant that every time you wanted to listen to a song you were streaming it.

When I’m on holiday I don’t want to be paying data roaming charges to listen to a track I’ve already got.

[b]as well as sync back to other devices.

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You can sync music to your phone, tablet, computer with most services for this sort of scenario.

OK, I’ll give it a try.