Musicolet has been my “go-to” offline music player after searching for a few years. It can handle big libraries, shows album art, has different shuffle options, and more.
The way you can switch between albums and playlists without losing the last position is amazing and I don’t understand why not all players has it
Musicolet is awesome but I wish its UI were more fancy.
Doesnt sort in alphabetical order correctly (aka ignoring words like “the” at the begining of of artists names) even tho all my music has sorting tags and it doesnt show every album art, for some reason, even tho all my music has album art embeded :c
The ui is pretty, like most forks of metroplayer, but I will stay with Gonemad (although not foss :c)
I loved Pretty Good Music Player and am since then looking for a good FOSS folder based player. For now I’m using Foldplay.
I went into the offline mobile music player rabbit hole recently too. I tried like a dozen and personally I think none of them are sufficient, including Symphony.
The most important functionality for me is queuing e.g. how it works and how easy it is to use and it’s just a horrible experience for virtually every player. So disappointing 😣
It’s too bad that the F-Droid releases are far behind. I do not install from Github to prevent against proprietary dependancies.
Then there’s me who installs VLC and calls it a day. I mean… It does the job perfectly fine.
I’m moving out of online music services so trying to find something good
VLC is awesome. Rcently started getting frequent updates too.
MPV is another nice one. Tried it out recently. The user script option seems very cool: SkipSilence, SkipChapters etc.
VLC for vids and audio I want to watch normally and MPV for ones where I want SkipSilence(Got used to that feature thanks to Newpipe and Pipepipe)
Off topic slightly but for music VLC for Android is even better compared to its desktop sibling for the same purpose. I mean VLC for desktop will play anything and I dont deny how powerfull it is but afaik:
- it doesnt rescan automaticaly for added and removed music like a watchfolder.
- No native dark mode yet, yes a ton of dark mode themes, but they all are geared to video and lacking the medialibrary with album browsing.
Bit indeed for Android its super.
Looks nice, but no album shuffle though 🤔
My favourite is SicMu Player. The name sucks but it’s the best and lightweight folder base music player for me. Quite customizable as well.
It is really good. Seems to be abandoned now though?
Last version update is from 30 March 2023. It doesn’t follow Android UI and has its own, works without a problem. I see no problem here, as long as it works. At least for Android 14, should be fine for 15 too.
Pretty nice one but requiring A9+ is not the best thing.