ArmAmp Music Player

Wiktor Adamski

About this app

ArmAmp is an audio player designed to be as easy to use as a desktop application. It includes basic features found in desktop players but almost impossible to find in mobile players. Also it allows advanced playback control hard to find even in desktop players, like ability to set exact frequency in every equalizer's band.

Features include:
* Uses FFmpeg for decoding, meaning that it supports almost all audio file formats including mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, opus, real audio (*.ra), windows media audio (*.wma), monkey's audio (*.ape), musepack (*.mpc) and many more.
* Reads playlists: m3u, ram, pls, xspf, asx, cue sheet.
* Plays local files, files on remote filesystems, and any web stream including Shoutcast radio stations.
* Built-in file browser with:
- access to audio files on a local storage, Samba, Dropbox, Google Drive and WebDAV servers (WebDAV is supported by several clouds, for example Yandex.Disk, 4shared),
- bookmarks for easy access to often used folders.
* Gapless playback:
- for audio formats that natively support gapless playback,
- for gaplessly encoded mp3,
- for any mp3 option to remove silence.
* Replay gain.
* 10–band equalizer with ability to set exact frequency, width and gain for every band.
* Preamp, postamp.
* Balance.
* Reverb - 5 different parameters can be used to set preferred sound.
* Speed effect.
* Pitch effect.
* Tempo effect.
* Crossfeed effect.
* Fade in and fade out with configurable time.
* Sleep timer.
* Can be controlled using:
- main window,
- headset and other media buttons (supported actions: play, pause, stop, next, previous),
- buttons in notification area,
- widget,
* Last.fm:
- built-in scrobbling (no separate scrobbling app is necessary),
- love track,
* Displays Shoutcast/Icecast stream information.
* Bookmarks:
- single song/stream or whole playlist can be bookmarked,
- audiobook mode - current playback time can be bookmarked.
* Playlist sorting:
- by file name,
- by tags,
- easy manual control.
* Automatic playlists containing favorites or random songs.
* Shuffle - as long as it's possible it will not repeat songs. Also whole playlist can be randomized with a similar effect.
* Tags viewer with automatic encoding detection.

Ratings and reviews

The player is great overall (coming from an audio nut), but the parametric Eq is hardly usable if you don't know what you'll be getting.. had to use formulas to calculate and verify the Eq results. The Width here is 1/Q. The Libs need to be updated to ones which provide upsampling to more bit depth and rate, most phones support it nowadays. Also to beautify it a little with the Now Playing screen, and this would be the player to beat.

I can't do without this app on my phone because am a man of music. This app brings out the beauty in music, the pitch, tempo, reverb, just woow!!. I was sad before when it was not updated but now am greatfull to the developer. Good work!

I've used enough Android players to know two things that seem pertinent here. One, there is no "best" until you control for whatever variables matter specifically to you and then rate along those lines you just created. And two, just because you've done all that doesn't mean you're "right" to apply your standards elsewhere as if everyone automatically thinks what you do. Why all this? Arm Amp is a clunky-GUI'd workhorse that can make your music stop conversations with its power and clarity. 👂

What's new

2024.04.20:
- improved integration with android and other apps
- added "Repeat 1" option
- the current playlist is backed up more often