A major revamp for Poweramp has been released with a new audio engine, UI and navigation for this popular Android music player. With a rating from 1.25m users of 4.4 out of 5 on Google Play Store it is available to buy for $3.99 with a 15-day free trial before you need to commit to a purchase. Users who have already bought V2 are entitled to a free upgrade to V3.
The major new features include:
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
The trial version can either be downloaded from the Play Store here or from Poweramp’s website here.
The key features of Poweramp are:
- 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
- V3 has the new Audio Engine with Float32 internal sample format, Float64 DSP processing, up to 384khz sampling rates, selectable swr/sox resampler, multiple dither options, various per-output settings, and much more
- V3 adds tempo controls, reverb effect
- V3 supports Hi-Res Output (where supported by the device)
- unique Direct Volume Control (DVC) for extended dynamic range and really deep bass
- lyrics support, including lyrics search via plugin
- support for m3u, m3u8, pls, wpl playlists, playlist importing and exporting
- downloads missing album art and artist images downloading
- custom visual themes, widgets and advanced customizations
- V3 adds Milkdrop compatible visualization support (and 3rd party downloadable visualizations)
- headset support, automatic Resume on headset and/or BT connection
- scrobbling
- tag editor
- V3 adds audio info with detailed audio processing information
- ultra fast library scan
- Plus more – see Poweramp website here
