jetAudio – the premium music player hits Android with plenty of audio effects & controls!
by Paul Wilks
Jun 14, 2012 10:19 AM –
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jetAudio is a well-presented, feature-rich and slick audio player. Already a hugely popular music player for Windows computers, jetAudio is now available on Android. Including a wide variety of effects and detailed aural control, this is the ultimate app for music and sound connoisseurs.
Price: Free, ~$1.99
Tested on: HTC One X
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Awesome variety of controls: 10-band equalizer, Wide/Reverb/X-Bass effects, Cross-fading, Fade In/Out effects, Balance Volume controls, Speed Control and AGC!
- Great UI!
- Intuitive controls!
- Sleep timer!
Cons
- Doesn’t support BBE effects.
- No landscape mode.
Features:
jetAudio is a premium music player for people who take their sound seriously. If you laugh in the face of BeatsAudio and shake your head at an equalizer than ‘only’ features 5 bands… jetAudio might well be the solution for you. It has been available for download onto Windows computers for a while now and it’s diverse range of controls has proven to be very popular. Now available on Android, it brings much of that customisability to your mobile device.
The UI looks great- smooth, responsive, professional and detailed. Thankfully, despite the wide range of effects to tweak, it never becomes overbearing and remains quite a simple-looking player with the effects discreetly hidden until you look for them. The effects can be spotted in a kind of short-cut panel above the album art display. There are six small icons: Mute, Equalizer, SFX Settings, Timer, Browser settings, plus a switch which displays volume and balance levels.
I like the fact you can skip to the next track by simply flicking your finger. It’s intuitive and simple to perform, superbly user-friendly. The 10-band graphic equalizer is a nice beast too, providing a staggering 36 different pre-sets which includes 4 spaces for user-created profiles. The app doesn’t support BBE effects which seems to have really annoyed a lot of people in the Google Play Store. I think for the average to serious user this shouldn’t be a massive deal as there is such a variety of other options available, but genuine purists will probably continue to have a problem with this void. The only other niggle as far as I was concerned was that the display is portrait mode only, it doesn’t support a landscape view. This isn’t a huge problem by any means, but it might put some people off.
jetAudio comes in either a free ad-supported version or a Plus version without the ads. It’s neat, slick, feature rich and certainly a mark above most other music players in the Google Play Store in terms of functionality. It’s not perfect but if you’re looking for a replacement media player, this might just be a viable option for you.
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jetAudio – In-play view
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jetAudio – In-play view 2
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jetAudio – Rock preset
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jetAudio – Tweaks
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jetAudio – Heavy metal preset
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jetAudio – SFX settings
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jetAudio – Sleep timer
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jetAudio – Rebuild media library
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jetAudio – Widget
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jetAudio – 36 different equalizer presets
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jetAudio – Preferences
Usefulness:
With such a wealth of sound settings available in the app, this is certainly for the user who takes their music seriously and like their sounds ‘just so’. It’s incredibly useful for music lovers and people who like to be in control of their sounds. With the inclusion of a sleep timer, there will of course be other useful applications for jetAudio over apps that do not include this feature.
Ease of Use:
jetAudio, despite the variety of options available is simple to use and highly intuitive. Menus are discreet but open up nicely when you want to make adjustments. Tweaks occur in real time so you can hear the difference immediately.
Frequently Used:
This will always depend on how much you listen to music. Considering jetAudio is an app that is feature rich- perhaps aimed at people who take their music very seriously in terms of rich sound-quality, I think it might be something people use very regularly, certainly on a daily basis.
Interface:
The interface is really nice to look at. It’s responsive and fast, looks professional and very polished. It sadly doesn’t support landscape mode, which is a shame, but this aside it works very well.