Pulsar Music Player

Full featured mp3 and audio player with Chromecast and Android Auto support.

Pulsar Music Player

App stats

Version: 1.12.10 (Last updated: 2024-11-15)
Creation date: 2015-09-08
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:
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • modify system settings

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App summary

Pulsar Music Player has long been one of the best music players on Android. It is an offline audio player without advertisements. Its gorgeous user interface matches every single detail of the material design guidelines.

Pulsar contains almost every necessary feature to fulfill all of your musical needs including: gapless playback, lyrics display, crossfade, play speed adjustment, tag editing, last.fm scrobbling, Chromecast, voice command, Android Auto, equalizer, music visualizer, audio balance, ReplayGain, sleep timer, etc.

Pulsar is the ultimate audio player on Android, with millions of downloads. It has been translated into 36 different languages.

Key Features:

✓ Gorgeous user interface and animation with material design.
✓ Manage and play music by album, artist, folder, and genre.
✓ Smart playlists with most played, recently played, and newly added tracks.
✓ Automatic sync missing album/artist images.
✓ Fast search across albums, artists, and songs.
✓ Resizable home screen widget.
✓ Gapless playback support.
✓ Play speed adjustment.
✓ Crossfade support.
✓ Replay gain volume normalization.
✓ Built-in metadata tag editor (mp3 and more).
✓ Display lyrics (embedded and lrc file).
✓ Sava/restore playback position (useful for podcast and audiobook).
✓ Music visualizer rendering.
✓ Chromecast (Google Cast) support.
✓ Google voice commands support.
✓ Android Auto support.
✓ Disable car auto play on Bluetooth.
✓ Sound balance adjustment.
✓ Last.fm scrobbling.
✓ Various colorful themes.
✓ Free of advertisements.
✓ Sleep timer.

Pulsar supports standard music file types including mp3, aac, flac, ogg, wav and etc.
If you cannot find your music in Pulsar, please click the “rescan library” menu item from the action bar to rescan your device.

Pulsar audio player has a complete online user manual, click here:
https://rhmsoft.com/pulsar/help/help.html

If you can help to translate this mp3 player to your native language, or there is any mistake in current translation, please contact our email: [email protected].

If you run into any issues or have any suggestions while using this mp3 player, please feel free to contact us: [email protected].
You can also share your comments to the Pulsar audio player thread on xda-developers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-pulsar-music-player-t3197336

Thanks for using Pulsar Music Player!

Album and artist images used in the screenshots are licensed under Public Domain License:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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
  • No intrusive ads
  • Good organization of music into albums and artists
  • Direct metadata/tag editing
  • Easy to use interface and overall intuitive
  • Compatible with Android Auto
Cons
  • App crashes or fails to respond at times
  • Issues with track order and playlist restoration
  • Inability to hide or exclude certain files from the library
  • No rewind or fast forward feature for podcasts
  • Problems with auto-downloaded artwork being incorrect
Most mentioned
  • App crashes or won't play songs
  • No intrusive ads
  • Tag editing issues
  • Difficulties with organizing albums and tracks
  • Inability to sync properly with cloud services like OneDrive
User reviews
I can finally get rid of Blackplayer! Blackplayer had been a pain in the scroat for a long time, but there wasn't another player with an interface I liked. Didn't bother looking again until the BSOD equivalent for a player appeared ("error loading track" for all songs). Pulsar found all the songs on my phone REALLY fast. It even pulled a track I edited to combine two live tracks into one long song. Pulsar only recreated half of my Blackplayer playlists, but that's a minor quibble.
by Ron Carnes, 2024-11-21

Worked great for 4 years, but now the app crashes and will not play any songs. If you pick a song, the app will show it playing but the music won't play and it crashes or won't respond. I have tried restarting my phone, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, I have tried everything and nothing fixes this.
by No More Cheese Dip, 2024-09-27

Good music player, but incomplete for Windows users. Pulsar supports Windows playlists (WPL) and M3U. However, it can't read music in OneDrive. It also can't understand genres for songs with more than one. For Windows users, these have been features for years and are essential for syncing and enjoying music on both Windows and Android. Would also be nice if it had an option to only list artists that have albums, so, say, every Christmas compilation doesn't spawn 30 artists each with 1 song.
by GraniteStateColin -, 2024-09-16
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