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I was using winamp as my music player and although it was a significant improvement over the stock music player, there were still some annoyances. The biggest issue I had was that when I'd scroll through the albums in the library the app would freeze up every 10 albums or so. Extremely annoying. Also, if you enable the lock screen during playback, you still need to clean the stock lock screen after you clear it.
The other day I downloaded the trial of PowerAMP and I'm very impressed. I don't have the album scrolling problems I had with Winamp. The lock screen allows you to bypass teh android lock screen so that is more convenient, and even better, the lock screen has a bunch of controls on it that winamp didn't have. With Winamp you have play/pause, prev track, next track. Power amp allows you to FF or Rew, skip to next o previous folder, repeat, and shuffle. It also displays the album art much better. You can also rewind from teh start of one track back through the previous track, something I've missed since I moved from CD's to MP3's. Playback isn't gapless but the pause is very short.
For settings, there is a 10 band eq with preamp control. You can save custom eqs and have them apply exclusively to headphones, bluetooth, etc. There are tons of customization options, it is intimidating at first as was navigating but now that I've gotten used to it I like it more than winamp.
The trial lasts 2 weeks and the app is about $5. I don't usually get paid apps but I'll make an exception for this.
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