
It is said to be vastly superior and capable of delivering HD (better than CD) over bluetooth when using HD sources. It is totally different than the psychoacoustic model used in MP3 and almost everything else. This is an awful example of what the codecs do, but after reading a few articles and papers on them it is the best I can do in a sentence. Support is built into Oreo, but phone makers don't have to support them.īoth are said to use a brand new method of 'folding over' of certain frequencies into lesser congested ones. To get the very best out of flac files to be sent via Bluetooth, you should try one of the two new codecs included into the new builds of Android and included in many newer Android phones. The player will be less important to the sound than how you transmit the music. Pi Music player (seems to be a re-skin as well, as are MANY of the new players out there)

Pulsar+ (clean and neat - think it is just almost a re-skin of the standard Google MP3 player. PlayerPro Music Player (I liked it and used it for years but it looks very dated now and has fallen off in features) I like it because it is great looking and is very intuitive to use.Ģ) Easy to bounce from Playlist/Genre/Artist pages.Ĥ) Is a nice looking app, with great looking playing now The team behind it seem to innovate much more than most and really keep polishing it up and trying their best to overcome the many hurdles and limitations that Google has with their music player setup. It has a very high level of customization and features. It is a paid app,but has a free version to try. There are a lot of links in the chain to better sound!īlackplayer EX (by FifthSource) is by far the best music player that I have ever used. It looks like newer phones have much better DAC chips. I'm starting to eye off what my next phone should be to provide better sound.

I think the Album Artist field would solve that in USB_APP though but would require more work on my part. I do prefer some aspects of USB_APP UI though but unfortunately, it didn't pick up a lot of my album art and didn't merge albums with the same name (with multiple CD's) into one Album, as PowerAmp does. But maybe that's just an EQ or Effects setting? They were both very clean but the spaciousness was different and some instruments were more pronounced. I spent a bit of time comparing PowerAmp 3 and USB Audio Player Pro last night and I could hear a subtle difference but couldn't decide which I preferred. I'm guessing that because I'm ripping my own CD's to FLAC I'm never going to get above 16Bit/44.1khz anyway? In that case, I'm supposing Bluetooth isn't my limiting factor for better sound quality for now.
