If you’re like most people, you probably have a collection of music scattered across the web from different services, especially if you’re prone to only buying one song. It can be a pain to have multiple services installed to listen to the music you want, so exporting the MP3’s to your device is the next best option.
Need a slick app that can play standalone MP3’s without a lot of hassle? Depending on the features you want, here are the best Android MP3 player apps available in the Google Play Store.
PowerAmp
If you have a large library of local media to play, you want tons of control over how it sounds, and the ability to play many file types, this is your app. Poweramp doesn’t have any of the streaming capabilities, but it’s the best music playing app.
DOWNLOAD: Poweramp
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.4
- Downloads: 5M – 10M
BlackPlayer Music Player
BlackPlayer is a Free elegant modern local music player. It’s easy to use and one of the fastest out there. Supports the standard local music file formats such as MP3, WAV, OGG. Built-in equalizer, bass boost, and 3D surround virtualizer or option to use an external equalizer.
DOWNLOAD: BlackPlayer
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.5
- Downloads: 5M – 10M
doubleTwist
This gorgeous app is a music player, podcast manager, and it can sync with iTunes. That last feature is especially useful for any Mac Android users. Double Twist can also AirPlay music and videos with an optional in-app purchase. If you’re looking for a well-designed app to play music this is one of the most stunning ones you will find.
DOWNLOAD: doubleTwist
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.3
- Downloads: 10M – 50M
Pulsar Music Player
Pulsar is intuitive, tiny and full featured music player with material design. Manage and play music by album, artist, folder and genre. Smart playlists with most played, recent played and newly added tracks. Automatic sync missing album/artist images. Fast search across albums, artists and songs.
DOWNLOAD: Pulsar
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.6
- Downloads: 1M – 5M
Google Play Music
Google Play Music combines all of the common music functions into one app: playing local media, streaming from the cloud, purchasing music, and streaming. Users can upload up to 20,000 of their own songs to the cloud and listen to them anywhere, or get access to the full Google Play library for $10 a month.
DOWNLOAD: Google Play Music
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.9
- Downloads: 1M – 5M
Shuttle Music Player
Shuttle Music Player is an intuitive, lightweight and powerful open source music player for Android. It has a built-in 6-band equalizer with bass boost, gapless playback, lyrica, automatic artwork downloading, tons of theme options, and light and dark modes.
DOWNLOAD: Shuttle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.3
- Downloads: 1M – 5M