CyanogenMod’s Apollo Music Player Hits The Play Store

Apollo Music Player has been packaged into CyanogenMod builds for a while. They said it would hit the Android Market eventually, so we waited. We waited through two new Android versions and a rebranding of the Market to the Play Store to see this day come. Apollo is finally on the Play Store for everyone to use.

This music player is built to be as customizable as possible. It has theme support, customizable layouts, widgets, lyric support, gapless playback, and many more features. There are also plans to add more features like tablet support, customizable notification controls, sleep timer, and more. It’s exciting to see how far this could progress, as the search for the perfect music player will never end.

You can also teat yourself to the plus version, which removes ads and gives you quicker updates. Not quite sure how I feel about a paid CM app, but at $0.99, it’s absolutely nothing to fret. Hit the source links to download your preferred version and tell us how you like it!

Play Store: Apollo | Play Store: Apollo+ | Android Police

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ChrisCall 9 pts

I don't know how I feel about this. I think cloud based music services are the future. Most of the non-techie people I know are already using Pandora and Slacker and the like for the main music source during the day. Personally, with a large music collection I prefer using Google Music - Apple is heading in the cloud direction too. Does it really make sense to use locally hosted music on a mobile device? The only exception I could think of is if you have a really tight data plan - in that case it might make sense to host locally, but hasn't it already been shown that the general majority of mobile users isn't having that problem? 

Haloruler64 84 pts

 ChrisCall I prefer local music, personally. But with an 8GB Nexus 7, I can't afford to use local music. So Google Play Music it is.

ChrisCall 9 pts

 Haloruler64 The best thing about Google's music solution is that I can upload FLAC rips to the system, it will transcode them to 320kbps files during the upload, and then I can stream them at that rate or choose to use lower quality streaming and save my bandwidth. To make it even better the app automatically caches resent and common plays. 

 

We had a point where storage on devices was getting bigger and bigger, but now it seems that things are shifting to the cloud (which is depressing considering how cheap and small flash storage is getting), but if that's the trend...that's the trend I guess.

Haloruler64 84 pts

 ChrisCall I agree. Local storage, to me, is better, but that's not where the trend is going. Google Play Music is awesome though, for what it is