How the two compare
They are developed separately as independent applications. Their features overlap but are not identical, and settings and data are not shared. The table below lists the actual difference in each row.
Describes the currently released version of each app. Past changes are in the version history.
| Feature | Windows | Android |
|---|---|---|
| Library management | Searches title, artist, album, composer, lyricist | Searches title, artist, album, folder |
| Large libraries | Smooth with a million tracks (measured) | Smooth with a million tracks (measured) |
| Equalizer | 18 bands, 11 presets, save your own by name | 10 bands, 11 presets including a custom slot |
| Audio effects | Bass, reverb, echo, chorus, vocal removal | Bass boost, virtualizer, spatial audio (where the device supports it) |
| Speed and pitch | 0.5×–2.0× speed, −12 to +12 semitones, independent of each other | 0.5×–2.0× speed, −12 to +12 semitones, independent of each other |
| Audio output | WASAPI shared / exclusive (bit-perfect) | System output |
| DSD playback | DSF decoded in software (DSD64/128/256, 44.1 kHz family) to 44.1 kHz PCM; works with any sound card | Not supported |
| Lyrics | Full-screen lyrics, karaoke highlighting, translation line, swap the two languages | Full-screen lyrics, karaoke highlighting, translation line, swap the two languages |
| Lyrics editing | Built-in editor, shift the whole timeline | Built-in editor, shift the whole timeline |
| Edit metadata | Database mode / disk mode | Written back to the audio file |
| Format conversion | To FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AAC, MP3 or Opus; batches supported; the original file is left alone | Not supported |
| Playlists | Smart playlists, recently played, top rated | Custom icons, independent playback mode |
| Shuffle | Weighted by star rating | Weighted by listening habits; every track exactly once within the range, resumes after restart |
| Themes | Four (dark / light / midnight blue / amber) | 6 accent colours + dark mode |
| Interface languages | 15 (including Italian and Dutch) | 15 (including Indonesian and Vietnamese) |
| Sleep timer | 15 / 30 / 60 / 90 minutes | 15 / 30 / 60 minutes, custom, or end of current track |
| Background playback | Keeps playing when minimised | Background playback, lock-screen controls, Bluetooth and car media keys |
Both have 15 languages, but not the same 15. The full lists are in the technical details below.
Technical details
CX'Music (desktop)
C# · .NET 8 · WinUI 3 · NAudio · SQLite + FTS5
- The audio pipeline is a chain of custom ISampleProviders (a hand-built DSP chain on top of NAudio): decode → 18-band equalizer → effects → time/pitch shifting → volume → WASAPI output
- Playback position uses the number of samples WASAPI has actually consumed as its single source of truth, avoiding unreliable hardware seek positions
- DSF parsing and DSD → PCM conversion are implemented in pure C#
- Paged virtualisation with keyset pagination. Scrolling and search were measured on a synthetic library of a million tracks and no stutter showed up; that library has no cover art and no large files, so what was measured is the list and the query themselves.
CX's Music (mobile)
Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Media3 (ExoPlayer) · Room · Hilt
- Shuffle uses Efraimidis–Spirakis weighted sampling without replacement, so every track in range plays exactly once
- The permutation is persisted to the database, so it resumes after the process is killed by the system
- A virtual queue window keeps only 50 tracks in the player while backing a library of a million
- Embedded lyrics are read from ID3 SYLT/USLT, Vorbis Comment and MP4 atoms
Full interface language lists
- CX'Music (desktop)
- 繁體中文 · 简体中文 · English · 日本語 · 한국어 · Español · Français · Deutsch · Português · Русский · Italiano · Nederlands · Ελληνικά · العربية · हिन्दी
- CX's Music (mobile)
- 繁體中文 · 简体中文 · English · 日本語 · 한국어 · Español · Français · Deutsch · Português · Русский · Bahasa Indonesia · Tiếng Việt · Ελληνικά · العربية · हिन्दी
They differ in exactly two slots: the desktop version has Italian and Dutch, the mobile version has Indonesian and Vietnamese. The website itself offers 17 languages — the union of both lists.