Apollo Music app by CyanogenMod now available in the Play Store

If you’ve ever used CyanogenMod 9 or CyanogenMod 10, you might have noticed the built-in music player, named “Apollo” that looked pretty cool, and had a lot of functionality to boot.

Well if you liked it, but arnt on a CM ROM anymore, here’s good news for ya: CyanogenMod has released Apollo over on the Google Play Store in both free and paid versions. Apart from the visually appealing UI, you also have a very decent feature set such as:

• Pin album, artist, genre, and playlist shortcuts to your Home screen
• Customizable themes and layouts
• Lyric support
• Mark songs as favorites
• Notification playback controls (Honeycomb+)
• Text and voice search
• Swipe between screens
• Automatic album and artist image fetching
• Headset controls
• Set songs as ringtones
• Lockscreen widgets (Jellybean 4.2+)
• Share currently playing music on Twitter, Facebook, and others
• 4 widgets
• Gapless playback
• Plays most music formats (MP3, AAC, FLAC, etc.)
• Drag & drop playlists and queue
• Lockscreen controls (Ice Cream Sandwich+)
• Local music management (edit, delete, etc.)

And lots more coming, including Tablet support, and Last.fm scrobbling among other features. Available in an ad-supported free version, or an ad-free paid version called Apollo+ for a low $0.99.