If you're a music enthusiast looking for a robust and versatile music player, Poweramp stands out as a top choice. This Android app seamlessly plays local music files and radio streams, supporting a wide array of formats including Hi-Res audio, making it suitable for both casual listeners and audiophiles. Even in its 15-day trial version, Poweramp offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to elevate your music experience.

The core strength of Poweramp lies in its powerful audio engine. It supports hi-res output to ensure the highest quality sound, making your music sound richer and more detailed. The app includes a custom DSP, featuring an updated Equalizer, Tone, and Stereo expand, along with unique Reverb and Tempo effects to craft your perfect soundscape.

One of the standout features is the Direct Volume Control (DVC) mode, allowing for powerful equalization, bass, and tone control without distortion, even at high volumes. Internal 64-bit processing ensures smooth, high-fidelity audio, while AutoEq presets and configurable options provide extensive customization for the listening experience.

The app supports various formats such as opus, tak, mka, and dsd dsf/dff. Additionally, it can stream radios and playlists in .m3u format, with features like gapless smoothing for uninterrupted playback and replay gain for consistent volume levels across tracks.

Poweramp offers a sleek, modern UI that balances functionality with aesthetics. It includes visualizations such as Milkdrop presets and spectrum analyzers, providing a dynamic visual accompaniment to your music. The app supports synchronized lyrics and plain lyrics, enabling you to sing along effortlessly.

Customization is a breeze with two built-in skins—Light and Dark—both featuring Pro Buttons and Static Seekbar. Moreover, extensive themes and third-party skins are available on the Play Store, allowing you to personalize your listening interface down to the finest detail.

Widgets with advanced customization options, lock screen controls, and visualization support (including third-party downloadable visualizations) make Poweramp a flexible and engaging app to use daily.

Poweramp includes a multiband graphical equalizer supporting up to 32 bands, along with a parametric equalizer mode for fine-tuning frequency bands individually. Other audio enhancements include stereo expansion, mono mixing, balance, reverb, and system MusicFX support (if supported by your device).

You can enjoy Android Auto and Chromecast integration for seamless playback across devices. Additional features such as crossfade, gapless playback, and lyrics search (via plugin) further enrich the listening experience.

Poweramp also supports playlist importing and exporting in formats like m3u, m3u8, pls, wpl, and manages album art downloads, artist images, and tag editing, enabling a fully customizable music library management.

This app requests various permissions to operate effectively, including access to your storage, network, Bluetooth, and system settings. These permissions enable features like background playback, cover art downloads, Bluetooth device control, and notification updates. Despite the permissions list sounding extensive, they are essential for delivering a comprehensive and high-quality music experience.

Overall, Poweramp: Music Player (Trial) offers a feature-rich environment that appeals to audiophiles and casual listeners alike. Its customizable interface, extensive format support, and advanced audio controls set it apart from many other players. Although this version is a 15-day trial, it provides ample opportunity to experience its high-end features. Whether you're at home, commuting, or working out, Poweramp ensures your music sounds stunning and plays flawlessly. Once you try it, you might find it difficult to go back to other music apps.