eMusic vs Music Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eMusic
This app allows you to store, manage, and play your music collection with unlimited cloud storage. Enjoy a free music download daily and discover new artists. Members can save on millions of indie, jazz, and classical tracks.
- Free daily music download
- Unlimited cloud storage
- Offline playback
- Browse millions of tracks
- Advanced search options
- Wish List bookmarking
Read full descriptionHide full description
Download the new and improved eMusic app and (re)discover what it means to love music. Store, manage and play your collection on any device, for FREE, with unlimited cloud storage. Plus, get a FREE music download every day from a trending artist. Discover new favorites: Every day there’s a hot new editor’s pick for you to download and own for free. That's 365 free tracks a year! Plus, with an eMusic membership you can save up to 55% off retail on over 26 million of the best Indie, Jazz and Classical tracks. Rediscover your favorites: Take your entire music collection with you, wherever you go. Upload an unlimited number of tracks and play your music across your devices– for free. The new eMusic is a complete digital music discovery and listening experience – perfect for the collector that values music ownership and supporting their favorite artists through the purchase of music. Free features: • Free daily music download – A free music download every day from a trending artist • Free unlimited cloud storage for all your music – upload & store your entire collection • Play favorites from your collection anywhere you go, even while offline • Browse over 26 million tracks with detailed artist bios • Advanced search options and discovery tools, including search by music label • Bookmark favorite tracks using Wish List • Connect up to 3 devices Member-only benefits: • The best prices on music – Save up to 55% off retail • Sync and play your entire music collection across your devices • Ad-free, uninterrupted listening • Connect up to 10 devices Need help? Email support@emusic.com
Music Player
Experience your music collection with intuitive gestures and powerful playback features. Organize songs by artist, album, genre, or folder, and enhance sound quality with built-in effects. Customize playlists and enjoy a stylish, user-friendly interface for offline listening.
- Play music by albums, artists, songs, playlists, folders
- Supports popular music file formats
- Notification status controls
- Customizable playlists
- Bass boost & Virtualizer sound effects
- Built-in musical equalizer
- Customizable UI skins
Read full descriptionHide full description
There’s no doubt that listening to your favorite music not only lights up your mood but also brightens your day. Music is a vital part of everyone’s lives and people rely on music, whether it’s during the morning commute, a workout or a party or while cooking a meal, taking a shower, or even folding the laundry. With this amazing app, you can easily experience your music collection like never before. The app allows you to tap, swipe, drag, touch, and shake so you will feel close to your beloved songs. Music player is not only based on artists or albums. Music Player will guide you find all the music files in seconds. The best music player and media player! Music player can quick to search and access your music library directly, show you tracks by artists, albums, genre, playlist and the music folder structure. Key Features: • Support all the most popular music file formats. • Browse and play your music by albums, artists, songs, playlists, folders. • Support notification status: show play/pause, skip forward in notification status. • Custom and save your Playlist. • Improve Sound Quality - Bass boost & Virtualizer effect MP3 player is a must have music player for everyone . This elegant application makes your music experience super cool. create your own playlist with this ultimate mp3 player. MP3 Player has built-in musical equalizer, which can give you the any music feeling you want. Use MP3 Player to enjoy playing high quality songs and offline mp3 music, personalized customization your MP3 player. You can listen local songs and audio from your offline music library. Powerful and Fast Mp3 player, Music player with elegant design. Music player lets you manage all your music files quickly and easily. This audio player supports almost all types of mp3 , midi ,wav , flac raw aac files and other audio formats. The more attractive and intuitive User Interface combined with the crisp and clean layouts will give you the best user experience. Select background skins to make your player look more outstanding, and these also make your player get the next level experience. Add a new feel to your favorite music with the beautiful and elegant interface. It is developed to create a better interface and feel. It is a simple yet stylish music player / mp3 player. Simple interface, totally new design, professional and HQ sound effect, customized UI…Player Pro, bring you into a wonderful music world. Give you the most essential music sound effect.
Screenshots
Verdict
eMusic and Music Player both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Music Player's written reviews are positive against 35% of eMusic's. Music Player also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). eMusic's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (175 vs 9). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for eMusic against 4.1 for Music Player. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eMusic has 175 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 35% of eMusic's written reviews are positive against 67% of Music Player's.
eMusic ships an update every 3 weeks, Music Player every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eMusic | Music Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (175 ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 175 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | eMusic.com Inc. | Jogani Bhavesh Keshubhai |
Customer experience
eMusic
Music Player
Bugs and requests
eMusic
Reported bugs
41 issues- App crashes on startup
- UI out of place after update
- App crashes after update
- Hard to navigate after update
- Cannot click on now playing screen
Show 36 moreShow fewer
- Signing out says data will be deleted
- No internet connection error
- Cannot upload songs
- Search shows different songs
- No music plays
- App crashes
- Offline music doesn't work
- Cannot sign in on iPad
- Downloaded music doesn't play
- Cannot find any music
- App doesn't move with iPad
- Font too large
- Cannot upload new albums
- App tells me I have no music on device
- Wishlist unavailable albums
- App scrolling needs to refresh
- Artist pages show only 4 albums
- Volume slider bug on iPhone 5s
- Cannot play music through app
- Downloading music to mobile device doesn't work
- All downloaded music is gone
- Cannot purchase music in app
- Cannot shuffle play individual songs/albums/artists
- No shuffle for whole library
- Artificial gap between songs
- Indexing artists with 'the'
- No sensible navigation from now-playing screen
- Import error
- Recently purchased playlist empty
- App crashes after a minute or two
- Crashes all the time
- Took up all spare storage
- Shuffle doesn't work
- No way to pause/cancel download
- Crashes on startup
- Cannot paste into password field
Requested features
10 requests- Ability to delete songs/albums by marking
- Set cover for artist
- CarPlay compatibility
- Play/pause with headphones
- Show album name on lock screen
Show 5 moreShow fewer
- Add playlist cover
- Sort albums by release date
- Include album descriptions
- Bring back message boards
- Sort by genre
Music Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
eMusic
No in-app purchases
Music Player
No in-app purchases
