I just use VLC
Auxio seems to be most simple and reliable, but I really adore the ui of Gramophone
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.akanework.gramophone
It’s not perfect though, they’re still working on it. For some reason the meta data for album art for some or the albums/tracks in my library doesn’t get picked up properly, I need to open open a bug report about it. But that issue is present in many players I tried, so I’m not sure if there’s a shared library they use that doesn’t like the way I’ve tagged those files, or if I just did something wrong in tagging them.
And playlist support is currently not finished- I have a small library so thats fine with me.
Auxio, my old iPod, and the music tagging tool I grabbed off fdroid, all handled those files with no issues though, so auxio seems like a great tried and true, simple pick :)
I vaguely recall metro and retro being fairly good experiences when I used them, but it was a ways back and I wasn’t listening to local files as much. I believe metro is a fork, most people here prefer that one so I’d go with it if retro is even still around
Edit: yeah metro even let’s you edit meta data from within the app, doesn’t see album art for a given song, I hit edit to add the album art and the editor already sees the album art for it no problem despite the player having no art for it, I replace the album art with a newly downloaded file and hit save, the album art is still not recognized lol
If anyone has suggestions I’d be happy to hear them, I’m newer to keeping a local music library
My notes from last year when I was looking for a music player. Still using GoneMad.
All in all, decided to try GoneMad for a while. Top 3 were: GoneMad, Musicolet and Omnia.
Omnia player
- Used it for years. Great one.
Odyssey
- Can’t move songs up and down in the playlist.
- Connected to Wikipedia - pretty cool.
- Has share current track. Nice.
- Uses android equalizer.
- UI nothing to write home about.
Mucke
- No folder view, just artist and then it shows all of the metadata from artist & album artist fields. It’s messy.
- Nice sleek UI.
- Has a homepage. You can set it to throw album/artist/playlist of the day from your library.
- No EQ.
Musicolet
- Crashes on start occasionaly.
- Has a bunch of options in the UI, unlike Odyssey & Mucke. That makes it more messy.
- Sleek modern UI.
- Has 31 band EQ.
- Sleep timer as well.
- Has share current track. Nice.
- Has audio cutter, set as ringtone, play speed & pitch, tag editor and move to folder directly from the app.
- Has RG calculator as well.
- The best widget.
GoneMad
- Has 10 band EQ, and RG (replay gain).
- Auto DJ with diff. settings
- Custom media controls.
- Tag editor.
- Has effects, limiter, pitch correction, bas boost, amplifier. Very powerful looking.
- Has folder view.
- Practically every button & gesture is customizable.
- Has its own sound engine.
- Developer is very active and replies to questions promptly.
Vinyl
- Has folder view, lyrics, tag editor, set as ringtone and share track.
- No EQ, Uses system one.
- UI customizabel as all of them.
- Has Replay Gain.
- Can’t move songs up/down in the queue.
- Sleek and modern looking.
I use Musicolet because it works well with Android Auto.
Sadly I haven’t seen any F-Droid apps that work as well.
I’m using Fossify Music Player for locally stored MP3s, it works fine for me
I can’t find any that recognize “Album Artist”.
Even ones that claim they’re for serous music collectors and curators. It strikes me as kind of insane this is such a rare feature in local music players. Am I that much of a werido that there only 3 players I can use at all, none on FDroid? It annoys because some have great looking, nice interface. But my collection looks like a disorganized insane mess with them.Haven’t tried it, but Metro claims to have album artist support
It does!
Hasn’t been updated in a couple years. But I’ll use it for a while.
Remember this?
I use ultrasonic to play music on my phone.
My first ever mp3 player was from this brand.
I was looking for the model I remember that came out first. I was out of highschool and at the time, the smallest devices were mini cassette recorders. Eventually I bought a Samsung mp3 player because it was thr only one with a single AA that you could use rechargeables on.
At some point later I bought the USB rechargeable version:
That’s the last player before just moving to music on my phone.
I had this one
Before moving to the 120gb Zune (which was actually criminally underrated, once you did the registry edit to allow you to drag/drop files and skip the Zune Media Player thingy on pc that is).
I would love to find a currently available dedicated mp3 player that takes up to at least 1tb microSD, maybe an e-ink screen, and bluetooth and 3.5mm audio jack.
My favorite audio player is Auxio
Rhythm? Can’t find it: https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Rhythm
I see it on the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo, but not F-Droid repo.
It’s probably some malware
Metro, because it allows tag editing in app.
I’m using Phocid, it was the first one i found and i can’t complain so far
I wanted a music player that allows deleting songs. The only one I found was CuteMusic.
If it wasn’t for that feature, I would be using Vanilla Music.
Symphony, its awesome but sometimes it doesnt grab album artwork which is a big ass pain.
I’m currently using Vanilla Music which is ok in some ways and annoying in others. There was another one I tried that I didn’t like but idr which one it was. There are a bunch of others that I haven’t tried. I only have a few music files on my phone, so it doesn’t matter much. On my laptop I just use mplayer from the command line. I haven’t ever felt much need for fancy graphical players. I’m old enough to remember physical CD’s and cassettes. It wasn’t a big deal then and it still isn’t.
