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if you recently bought an Android phone and about half of all smartphone buyers lately did exactly that you know it's a Swiss Army knife of a thing but how are you with the music player that comes with it I'm Brian Cooley with the top 5 Android music players that'll make you forget how to even spell iPod courtesy of a list done by CNET's Josh Goldman number 5 is the Amazon Cloud Player this freebie is hot new stuff buy store and play the music from the cloud that's the internet or you can download the files if you like so 5 gigabytes of space is provided to you for free from Amazon 20 gig if you buy just one mp3 album from them now it's not that well developed as a player in terms of managing your music just yet but it's a healthy taste of where things are going number four is called mixing this guy has something akin to the genius technology you find in iTunes so it's kind of spooky how it can suggest music based on just a song or two you feed it it'll make and tune playlists that keep getting more and more like you the more you use it it also has built-in artist information of direct links out to YouTube videos of their music videos and also a graphic EQ and it's free but if you pay $5 the ads go away number three is tune wiki now in my view people are either music people or their lyric people and this apt is for the latter it'll show you time to paste lyrics subtitles while the music's playing while also getting the album art up there along with player controls you can drive it by voice as well through the Android voice layer and you can use it to map the locations of other tuned wiki users nearby so that whole spooky obsession with lyrics thing that you've got going on can we got someone other than just your former friends oh and it's free number two is called power now in spite of the title it doesn't just play death metal it's totally about quality sound with a man EQ that sweetens just about every audio format it plays just about all you can even set EQ per song which given the variable quality of most of our mp3s is a welcome feature bottom line power amp just sounds great five bucks but there is a free 15 day trial before I get you to number one don't think there are just five great audio players for Android check out Josh Goldman's full 10 app slideshow on cnn.com oh by the way if you have questions about using your Android phone as your in-car audio player check out the Android Atlas podcast that's at 2 o'clock on Thursdays that's 2 o'clock pacific at cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded 1 and he knows how to connect all the dots between cars and Android ok the number one music player we love for Android is called player pro the features what doesn't it have search download and save lyrics great tag editing 10 band EQ social network integration on I love this lots of really usable home screen widgets and different lock screen widgets with customizable control options so your phone really works and feels like a true-life I this is the do all player for Android it costs an odd four dollars and 51 cents but there is a free 5 day trial you're gonna love it and want to pay for great music players for Android just one more reason the smart phone will eventually eat the entire tech industry for more videos like this go to top-5 cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching you