I recently stopped using Spotify and other music streaming platforms. And I downloaded all my music. But I am not able to find a “good” music player for me.
I have tried VLC, PixelPlayerOSS, Musicolet, and Felicity so far.
Recommend me a music player.
Edit: the main feature I would like in my music player is automatic lyrics search
Blackplayer EX is one of the few apps I’ve paid for. Used it for maybe 5 years now, well worth the price whatever it was.
Poweramp. It’s easy to navigate and lets you modify the tags like artist, album, track number, etc.
If you’re on GrapheneOS, you can deny internet access and when your free trial runs out, just clear cache data and you can start your free trial over but that also deletes your playlists (but not the files).
I just bought the full version tho because it’s the best music player ever.
AIMP is pretty good. I’m not audiophile tho.
I use AIMP for my snobby lossless FLAC library.
i use it to play my offline files using smart playlists (all songs in rock or metal genre rated 4 stars or higher by me). it also has a view lyrics option that will either display the lyrics from the files’ lyrics tag or search them in a lyrics search service. it’s not free but i’ve more than gotten my money’s worth out of it
My use case is “just play music from the same goddamn SD card folder you’ve been using since the early 2010s and have just been copying it over to new cards ever since”, so VLC works quite well for me.
Musicolet
MUSICOLET RELEASE OR LET ME PAY FOR SOURCE CODE ACCESS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!
Seriously tho even with gramophone being super close to perfect for me, musicolet just is perfect
Yeah it’s been the best music player I’ve ever used for something like 10 years now
Simpmusic, Kreate or vimusic for yourube music clients. I use simpmusic bc I think the ui is nice.
Musicolet. it does everything I need for local mp3s. and SomaFM for streaming.
Musicolet because of the multiple queue feature
I self-host my music with Navidrome, play it with Tempus on Android.
Have you used Tempo? Is Tempus better in your opinion?
I have. Tempo is a bit abandoned. Tempus has momentum and android auto support.
Thank you! I’ll try it out
This is the way.
Auxio for local music, Morphe for YT and YT Music w/o ads. YTDLnis to download songs and videos.
VLC
Just VLC. I don’t stream music and most of the stuff I listen to have no lyrics so it works fine as-is
VLC has been great on graphene for a year or so but recently started having issues playing over bluetooth in my car. Tried a few open source options from FDroid but wound up going back to Omnia (Sandboxed play store) for now. No more playback issue for a few days now.
Seemed to happen when I got Graphene’s Android 17 update, but I can’t say for sure it was that. The issue I have with it currently is that playback audio cuts out in the car, but the screen still indicates it’s “playing” - track time still ticking. I’d have to tap to pause and tap to resume to bring it back, and it would only last a few minutes before doing it again.
I think it’s likely less VLC’s fault and more likely an Android 17 thing.
The open source apps I tried worked a peach, but didn’t let me use the car’s (Honda) menu to browse music or select albums. Most of the ones I tried didn’t even appear as options while trying to use the car to change what music I was listening to.
I’ve been enjoying fossify music player. My main issue is that the sorting is based on metadata, and not folder structure, but other than that, it’s a solid music player.
It doesn’t have any lyrics, though, which is not helpful for what you’re looking for
I’ve recently switched from Phonograph_Plus to Fossify, and it’s definitely a lot more stable if nothing else.
