Poweramp adds Powerstream, an HTTP streaming feature for online radio

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If you are a long-time Android user, from perhaps the Gingerbread or even Froyo era, then you definitely have heard about Poweramp. Poweramp is one of the oldest and still updated music players for Android, that has been around for as long as the OS has been around. Over these years, the very concept of music on a smartphone has evolved from being primarily focused around locally stored content to now increasingly revolving around online streaming service. As a music player, Poweramp has largely resisted this evolution, but the app has now had to adapt to accommodate the changing needs of the current generation consumer. The newest update to Poweramp, namely update 846, adds Powersteam, an HTTP streaming feature that allows the music player to stream online radio.

Poweramp’s Powerstream function can be seen as a middle ground between sticking with strictly-offline music playback and providing a full catalog of online music like Spotify. Instead of venturing into the streaming business itself, Poweramp is leveraging existing online radio services by allowing users to stream them using the Poweramp interface.

The complete changelog since our last coverage up to build 849 is provided below:

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new No Reshuffle option

new Alternative Font option: The font is scalable according to the device text size settings

added new fonts for widgets

Audio info dialog improvements

new 5 stars (menu/lists only) option

new Icon options

various small tweaks for Android 10

balanced output support for FiiO

Hi-Res support for iBasso DX150

Hi-Res support for Xiaomi A3, Redmi K20 Pro

Hi-Res support for Redmi Note 8 Pro via new MTK Hi-Fi variant

multichannel DTS/DCA support

external storages support for ChromeOS and few other polishings

new Also use for (playlist/artist/composers) option in Album Art dialog: Allows selecting image for the category

experimental support for http(s) streams in m3u playlists: Streams are visible in and playable from Playlists/Most Played/Recently Added/Recently Played/Top Rated/Low Rated/Queue categories. Tag Encoding option is used for non-unicode stream metadata.

new Network Stream Timeout option

new Always Use UTF-8 for .m3u option

improved split-screen layout for the main UI

selectable sorting in Add to Playlist

new Emulate Media Stream (for Hi-Res output) option

lyrics search via QuickLyric

new Navigate to the Folders option

translations updates

The new update is not yet live on the Play Store but you can download it from the Poweramp forum by clicking on the link below. You can also check out our in-depth review of Poweramp 3.0.

Download Poweramp 3.0 from Poweramp forums