USB Audio Player PRO

High quality media player supporting USB audio DACs and HiRes audio chips

USB Audio Player PRO

App stats

Version: 7.0.4.1 (Last updated: 2024-11-18)
Creation date: 2013-12-24
Price: 7.99
Permissions
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • send sticky broadcast
  • allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception
  • full network access
  • change your audio settings
  • draw over other apps
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • Google Play license check

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App summary

High quality media player supporting USB audio DACs and HiRes audio chips found in the latest phones. Play up to any resolution and sample rate that the DAC supports! All popular and less popular formats are supported (beyond the formats that Android supports), including wav, flac, mp3, m4a, wavpack, SACD ISO, MQA and DSD.

This app is a must-have for every audiophile, bypassing all audio limits of Android. Whether you use our custom developed USB audio driver for USB DACs, our HiRes driver for internal audio chips or the standard Android driver, this app is one of the highest quality media players around.

Since version 5, the app now includes a MQA Core Decoder (in-app purchase required). MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) is an award-winning British technology that delivers the sound of the original master recording. The master MQA file is fully authenticated and is small enough to stream or download, while also being backward compatible.

The MQA decoder will unfold the MQA stream from 44.1/48kHz to 88.2/96 kHz and can also be combined with USB DACs that feature a MQA renderer (e.g. AudioQuest DragonFly / iFi) for further unfolding to even higher sample rates.
Please visit http://mqa.co.uk for more information about MQA and https://www.extreamsd.com/index.php/mqa to read more about MQA inside the app.

Features:
• Plays wav/flac/ogg/mp3/MQA/DSD/SACD ISO/aiff/aac/m4a/ape/cue/wv/etc. files
• Supports almost all USB audio DACs
• Plays natively up to 32-bit/768kHz or any other rate/resolution your USB DAC supports by completely bypassing the Android audio system. Other Android players are limited to 16-bit/48kHz.
• Utilizes HiRes audio chips found on many phones (LG V series, Samsung, OnePlus, Sony, Nokia, DAPs etc.) to play HiRes audio at 24-bit without resampling! Bypasses the Android resampling limits!
• Free MQA decoding and rendering on the LG V30/V35/V40/V50/G7/G8 (not G8X)
• DoP, native DSD and DSD-to-PCM conversion
• Toneboosters MorphIt Mobile: improve the quality of your headphones and simulate over 700 headphone models (in-app purchase required)
• Folder playback
• Play from a UPnP/DLNA file server
• UPnP media renderer and content server
• Network playback (SambaV1/V2, FTP, WebDAV)
• Stream audio from TIDAL (HiRes FLAC and MQA), Qobuz and Shoutcast
• Gapless playback
• Bit perfect playback
• Replay gain
• Synchronized lyrics display
• Sample rate conversion (if your DAC doesn't support the audio file's sample rate, it will be converted to a higher sample rate if available or the highest if not available)
• 10-band equalizer
• Software and hardware volume control (when applicable)
• Upsampling (optional)
• Last.fm scrobbling
• Android Auto
• No root required!

In-app purchases:
* Advanced parametric EQ from effect vendor ToneBoosters (around €1.99)
* MorphIt headphones simulator (around €3.29)
* MQA Core decoder (around €3.49)
* Feature pack containing UPnP control client (stream to a UPnP renderer on another device), stream from Dropbox and add tracks from a UPnP file server or Dropbox to the Library

Warning: this is not a generic system-wide driver, you can only playback from within this app like any other player.

Please have a look here for a list of tested devices and more information on how to connect a USB audio device:
https://www.extreamsd.com/index.php/technology/usb-audio-driver

For more information on our HiRes driver and compatibility list:
https://www.extreamsd.com/index.php/hires-audio-driver

The recording permission is optional: the app will never record audio, but the permission is required if you want to directly start the app when you connect a USB DAC.

Please contact us by email at [email protected] to report any issues so we can solve them quickly!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AudioEvolutionMobile
Twitter: https://twitter.com/extreamsd

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Excellent sound quality and audio performance
  • Good library management
  • Works well with high-end audio devices and DACs
  • Improvements over time with updates
  • Responsive customer support
Cons
  • User interface is convoluted and unattractive
  • Playback issues, including freezing and decode errors
  • Inconsistencies with displaying album artwork on car displays
  • Problems with playlists and adding recent songs
  • Crashes or locks audio output to the app
Most mentioned
  • Sound quality
  • User interface issues
  • Playback problems
  • Customer support responsiveness
  • Integration with streaming services like Tidal
User reviews
Sound quality is top-notch! All I can ask and I'm not sure it could be done is for vertical artwork to be supported more. Even if they could be fitted better on the sides to fit that would be great. The color matching is basically perfect and I'm happy I bought this player!
by Tommaso Russo, 2024-10-25

This is definitely my favorite music player ever. It has only improved vastly over the years, and shows no sign of stopping. I use it with Tidal, since my phone doesn't have much storage for offline flacs.. Sounds great with my hd650s! If I had to nit pick.. I've found that contacting the developer or going to the online forums is the best way to get/give help and suggestions. Definitely worth the money to me!
by Michael Manzanares, 2024-10-04

Finally found one that works. I tried the rest, wavelet was one but you have to go into the phone with an emulator and change permissions. blah Another experience was boom but I coulnd't get 24 bit to play through it. This works out of the box. I cost a few but well worth avoiding the frustration of the others. My ciems play mids really accurately. This sounds a little muddy to me. I adjusted that right out with the EQ. I am tempted with the other features that require in app purchases.
by Dean Dake, 2024-09-17
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