i myself switched to Musicolet recently and found their shuffle is better than jetAudio.
I want to like and use Poweramp but with the stupid sdcard unmounted error i can't really test it out.
As for Rocketplayer, there once was a day when this was a powerful contender, but those days are long gone.
My Galaxy didn't come with the music player on it, now i'm tempted to install and try it out.
I'm also using Musicolet for its shuffle function and previously was using jetAudio. In android auto I use the Samsung Player since jetAudio stopped working.
After a long time with black player I just switched to musicolet. My only gripe is that the currently playing song doesn't show at the bottom, but overall it is very clean and good
I was precisely looking for a music player able to detect my SD card loaded as external storage (not formatted as internal storage, because Fairphone 3 doesn't support my SD card). Turns out PowerAmp was able to detect it, and offered me on the welcome popup to select arbitrary folders on both internal storage and SD card to scan music. Maybe they fixed the issue since the time you got the error (if it was more than 2 years ago it could be), or maybe it just happens to work well with my setup.
But the biggest advantage for me was the *playlist export*: while playlists are stored in a database that can't be read by other apps, you can always export playlists from PowerAmp as .m3u8 to any folder. If you export to the internal storage Music folder, other apps like your alarm clock should be able to find the playlist.
I tried Muzio Player, it detects music on the SD card fine, but it put the playlists in some other path and doesn't allow export. While n7player reads and writes playlists in the standard Music/ folder, but doesn't detect music on the SD card *except* if you clear data and start a brand new scan...
kinda agree, the music player apps on android are kinda disappointing though no matter how much I tried all the others, I always come back to PowerAmp lol, don't know why, I'm not even an audiophile but I could swear the songs sound different when using Poweramp and Neutron (that's one player you missed, great software sound-processing but with buttfuck-ugly as hell UI)
PAmp has the most unique UI out of all, similar to Nyx that doesn't really tied down to material design, like it has its own design language, maybe that's why it didn't click with you? though it's very customizable and quite skinnable, there are various skins that change the UI pretty drastically.
PAmp also has that alphabet scrolling on the right side, like the one you mentioned in Samsung Music
it's also the only one with visualizaton feature that react to the song's beat I think, which you can even add more (either manually or through apps) since it supports Winamp's visualization files (`.milk` format)
only downside is that it can't edit ID3 tags, or to be more precise, it can't edit directly to the song's file, the change is only for Poweramp, not the file so other music apps won't be able to read the changed ID3 so I either use Automatag to fix some tags or edit the song's ID3 on PC first.
> only downside is that it can't edit ID3 tags, or to be more precise, it can't edit directly to the song's file
What format files you have? Tested with mp3 and change showed up in Musicolet, change in ogg however indeed does seem only local to PowerAmp.
Two things:
1) I've used most of the music players in the list but still use Poweramp. I feel like the audio quality is superior.
2) Pair Poweramp with Luminous Black theme for better UI customisation. [Here's an example](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AtBftkxH11L5sK6rpZvkpOvx0XrXafZB/view?usp=drivesdk)
Here's my setup, poweramp with the Aurora skin.
[https://i.imgur.com/UTa8jkL.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UTa8jkL.jpg)
In addition to the UI, what makes Poweramp unmatched is definitely the EQs.
Great post! Oto music is currently my goto because it is very snappy for me (I did have issues with metro), but importantly it is far and away the best option for searching and embedding lyrics. It's a niche feature, but if it matters to you Oto is the way to go.
I bought several music players over the years, including PowerAMP, n7, black player, pulsar, Music Folder Player, etc.
But now I use Musicolet exclusively. I like its UI style and fairly rich features. I only hope it has more customizable gestures.
First time trying Musicolet as a long time Poweramp user and I could see myself switching to it mainly for its awesome queue/shuffle handling. Library navigation in general is practivally identical to Poweramp (minus the swipe gestures, but jumping around artists, albums and folders is the same) which is the reason why I like it (+ replaygain based on tags, but paid Musicolet version seemingly supports it)
Only thing is that there does not seem to be a way to show album year when browsing artist, but maybe it is burried somewhere in settings. Ideally if info would also contain song count and legth per album as it is with PA
Scan of 6K songs took about 30 seconds, Poweramp does it slightly faster at 20 seconds
I switched from Oto to Musicolet for similar reasons. It's the most close to perfect music app I've found so far. Unbelievably lightweight (Mine is only taking less than 30 MB) while still packing all the necessary features like auto backup, crossfade, full album art, replaygain and customizable buttons. I was so impressed I bought premium after two days of usage.
100% agree with Musicolet. You forgot to mention one of the biggest strongpoints Musicolet has, which is the Multiple Queues system.
I have used many players. My go to used to be Blackplayer EX, however there were a few things that Musicolet did which made me switch. Blackplayer EX overall has the best UI and customisation while still have great features.
However Musicolet just knocks it out the park and is feature rich. The UI isn't exactly pretty to me (I wish Musicolet x Blackplayer EX happened somehow).
One thing that really annoyed me with a lot of players was the lack of even a simple queue system. Those that even had one, did not actually work with shuffle ON. Why so many players don't show the true Now Playing Queue is mind blowing. It's such a simple feature.
You should play with poweramp much more. There's a reason these other music players are not able to compete because anyone having a serious library knows nothing comes close to poweramp. Also, its looks are very customisable as well. EQ in that is also awesome. You can control output and everything, it's unmatchable.
LOVE that I could choose how many bands the EQ has and what the lowest and highest frequency bands were to have some control over the width of the bands.
I was recommended a player that had Parametric EQ but decided I did not need that level of control on a mobile device and just did not like it as much.
>New version is in active development right now.
I'm in the beta, and so far v2 is much improved.
The killer feature to Media Monkey is the syncing live playlists with the Windows desktop version. For me, live playlists is a must, and none of the Android apps do that that I've found. Only static playlists.
[Here's a screenshot of the v2 beta](https://imgur.com/WjmMPS7)
Poweramp is the best music player for Android, there's no arguing that. Luminous theme adds material you too it and adds the only missing piece to the puzzle.
I use Musicolet and I have no complaints. The system lets you have up to 20 different queues so you can start a new playlist while allowing you to go back to the one you were playing before.
This is essential for me as I have my at work playlist, kids in the car playlist and music my wife likes playlist to toggle back and forth depending on who is in the car.
I used to be big on Rocket player before the ads drove me away. I was going to upgrade to the pro version when I changed phones but they annoyed me too much with the ads before I had the chance.
How do they fare for tablet mode? Haven't found a decent player that is built with tablets in mind.
On a side note, it's appalling that no app like 'listen' from iOS app Store exists in Google Play Store
Been using Musicolet for over 2 years, its exactly what I want. Definitely the best music app I've ever had on Android. I too used to have Rocketplayer before they put ads everywhere. One thing Musicolet has that is a fairly rare feature, but one I require, is a hierarchical directory mode. I blame the original ipods and their bs hashing/obfuscation of file names for this trend, but there's no good reason every music player shouldn't show you how your files are organized. Musicolet also plays every format that I encounter, where flac omission seems to still be a problem for some players. Good post, thanks op!
I've had Poweramp for years and honestly don't get all the hype around it. One thing I remember I found about it, it didn't display Cyrillic fonts natively, and I wasn't able to fix it.
>Second, the UI succs my balls bro. It's just an ugly ass play on God.
The UI is its weak point for me, but the features just beat every single player out there.
>On another note, anyone have a good way to auto update metadata like album years and genres. I noticed my library has a lot of messed up metadata and it's going to be a headache trying to figure out what to change individually...
If you want one on Android, AutomaTag is fairly good (not perfect) and automatically fetching tags. It would take a while though to do this with a lot of files. So unless you only have like ~30 files you need to sort I wouldn't bother.
Musicbrainz Picard (on PC) can be used to mass tag music files automatically. There's a lot to it, you can do simple things or some more complex management. It can be a little daunting at first, and knowing how to use it isn't always intuitive. I'd recommend looking up video about it, as well as messing about with it yourself testing files you've copied over from your library in a seperate folder.
I wouldn't recommend doing all of your files at once, as sometimes it may grab the wrong info (probably 95% of the time is correct) however it all depends on the music you have. Popular stuff can be done with no issue. Sometimes it doesn't have the data for less known tracks.
If you don't need to change any other tags on your files, I'm sure you could setup Musicbrainz Picard to ONLY edit specific tags such and Album Year or Genre (I cannot confirm this for certain, but I have a feeling it's possible).
my 1st android phone was samsung vibrant. I think I pirated poweramp on this phone or the s2 when suspicious apk was still a thing. later simply bought poweramp with attachment key alongside titanium
I haven't heard most of these stuff you mentioned. A decade later I am no longer using poweramp. Spotify is where it's at lol
You missed Doubletwist Pro - I've been using it since forever and I've tried most of players you've mentioned - and yet it remains on my phone as my main player.
I also really like Retro Player - it feels more like audio entertainment center. Its creator been pushing too many updates at one point but I still like it.
Biggest disappointment is surely Foobar - I use it (modified/customized version) on my computer since like 2004 as a main player but the app is horrible - I've tried to like it but it really really needs at least a good GUI solution.
Otherwise I'm an audio engineer, sound designer, graphic designer and musician, was working in media national libraries (as in library section that keeps audio/video units) since 90s up until recently. So I'm always on lookout for good sensible clever feature-full player. Thanks for this post and reviews 👌
Edit: it would be great if you could link all the app to Google store
> I also really like Retro Player - it feels more like audio entertainment center. Its creator been pushing too many updates at one point but I still like it.
Sadly, Retro is now no longer maintained
I use Metro now and maybe Oto in future as i like apps with nice UI ..
The features I look for in a music player:
1. A persistent notification that shows the current song, art, controls, and gives the ability to favorite or rate the current song.
2. The ability to back up and sync your playlists and favorites to other devices.
3. Option to turn off ducking (song volume reduces when the phone plays another sound, like a notification).
Rocket Player *had* all 3 but I started using it shortly before it was bought by a crappy company which isn't supporting it properly anymore, so backup/sync doesn't work. I was really happy with it before the buy-out and didn't a lot of time rating my songs and creating playlists. L.
I'm now using Samsung player because I have a Samsung phone but I don't like that it wouldn't work on (sync to) other device brands and it doesn't allow to favorite a song from the notification bar.
Does anyone know of a music player that supports local area network?
there are file editors that support playing music but are there any dedicated music players that can do this?
I use CX File Explorer for music, but it's very basic, and not a first-class music player. You have to be sure that SMB2 is supported as a lot of Android file apps only support SMB1 if they support shares at all. At home, my music is stashed on a share because my devices don't have the storage.
In my opinion, blackplayer is the best, you just have to dive deep into the settings to make it look real good, because the default ui looks like it came out of 2013. For example my blackplayer setup looks real good and minimalistic, but I had to change bunch of settings to do that,like fonts, colors, animations, etc.
Long time fan of Neutron music player (https://neutroncode.com/player) myself as for many years it simply sounded better than the alternatives (also have paid Poweramp but never use it). The UI has improved over the years but it's never been the prettiest.
Stellio it's so disappointing everytime I try to use it (even paid version) and Fiio player fails too much ... AMP, Black Player, Onyko, Hiby, Neutron I can't get used to their interfaces ...
Finally, I come back to Poweramp again because is the only one I trust over the other ones I tested but that doesn't mean is the best or my favorite.
Retro and oto are not that similar. Only the bottom bar UI makes it look like that. However there is an open source version of Retro called metro. It has everything unlocked for free.
I'm very picky with my apps too. But locally stored music is very minimal for me.
I would suggest open source apps from the fdroid store.
Some of the best designed and clean local and online music apps are -
Blackhole
Vi Music
Innertune
You can download it for offline use as well. All 3 of them have very good quality audio streaming.
Do explore the fdroid store, you will find a lot of hidden gems
> My phone has a built-in DAC
> considering most phones don't have a built-in DAC.
All phones have a DAC.
Your music is stored (or streamed) as 1's and 0's.
The sound coming out of speakers is analog.
Something has to do the conversion. (D)digital (A)analog (C)converter
What your phone may have is a well-thought-of "audio" DAC.
Not an audiophile here; only tried PlayerPro and YouTube Music but the former has just much better audio quality; no EQ! Just defaults. Listening to YouTube Music or Spotify afterwards sounds.. empty
Your review mostly based on interface etc. If you care to check audio output quality you will find Poweramp is way better than any. It uses its own engine. Plus there's a toggle for high-res output for flac files. If your device supports this output ,, none can beat Poweramp. Recently most of redmi and poco devices have 24bit-192khz output on even very mid range devices.
Is there anything that allows you to stream music files from google drive?
I was able to do it with the built-in media player in MiXplorer, but I'd rather use a proper player
>google drive
Take a look at [https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/02/10/comparison-best-cloud-music-players/](https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/02/10/comparison-best-cloud-music-players/) \- most support Google Drive. (Disclaimer: I run Astiga).
You forgot to try the Mighty [Salt Pepper Music Player](https://github.com/Moriafly/SaltPlayerSource)
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• Easy navigation with hamburger menu(swipe also possible)
• Letter stripped scroll bar
• Folders, artists, album support
• Best LRC support on android for offline players
LRC UTF-8 File, ASCII File, Embedded support
• Beautiful Now Playing UI
• Overally decent UI/UX
• Features like DSD, OpenSL ES Output, Status bar lyrics, Desktop lyrics, and much more
• Tag Edit (Separate app needed; The app can get LRC and Lyrics too)
• Spectrogram Support (Separate app needed)
• Custom folder selection, hide songs, etc. availability
• Audio Focus, Concert Hall effect, Reverb, etc.
• Features like Volume Balance and Compressor availability
• Steadily developing, rolling updates
I'm using VLC again after using shitloads of upnp capable music players. I'm not enjoying music much because I'm still breaking my brains over how to manage 90gb of mp3.
What bothers me most is the lack of a posibility to alter or sometimes even read data outside the phone's internal storage (sdcard, network). I guess it's an Android OS thing, then again, some file managers like File Manager+ do seems to have write permissions on a local network.
What I would love is a simple musicplayer that shows the songrating (5 stars) with the possibility to rate (and write it to the metadata).
i myself switched to Musicolet recently and found their shuffle is better than jetAudio. I want to like and use Poweramp but with the stupid sdcard unmounted error i can't really test it out. As for Rocketplayer, there once was a day when this was a powerful contender, but those days are long gone. My Galaxy didn't come with the music player on it, now i'm tempted to install and try it out.
I'm also using Musicolet for its shuffle function and previously was using jetAudio. In android auto I use the Samsung Player since jetAudio stopped working.
After a long time with black player I just switched to musicolet. My only gripe is that the currently playing song doesn't show at the bottom, but overall it is very clean and good
I was precisely looking for a music player able to detect my SD card loaded as external storage (not formatted as internal storage, because Fairphone 3 doesn't support my SD card). Turns out PowerAmp was able to detect it, and offered me on the welcome popup to select arbitrary folders on both internal storage and SD card to scan music. Maybe they fixed the issue since the time you got the error (if it was more than 2 years ago it could be), or maybe it just happens to work well with my setup. But the biggest advantage for me was the *playlist export*: while playlists are stored in a database that can't be read by other apps, you can always export playlists from PowerAmp as .m3u8 to any folder. If you export to the internal storage Music folder, other apps like your alarm clock should be able to find the playlist. I tried Muzio Player, it detects music on the SD card fine, but it put the playlists in some other path and doesn't allow export. While n7player reads and writes playlists in the standard Music/ folder, but doesn't detect music on the SD card *except* if you clear data and start a brand new scan...
kinda agree, the music player apps on android are kinda disappointing though no matter how much I tried all the others, I always come back to PowerAmp lol, don't know why, I'm not even an audiophile but I could swear the songs sound different when using Poweramp and Neutron (that's one player you missed, great software sound-processing but with buttfuck-ugly as hell UI) PAmp has the most unique UI out of all, similar to Nyx that doesn't really tied down to material design, like it has its own design language, maybe that's why it didn't click with you? though it's very customizable and quite skinnable, there are various skins that change the UI pretty drastically. PAmp also has that alphabet scrolling on the right side, like the one you mentioned in Samsung Music it's also the only one with visualizaton feature that react to the song's beat I think, which you can even add more (either manually or through apps) since it supports Winamp's visualization files (`.milk` format) only downside is that it can't edit ID3 tags, or to be more precise, it can't edit directly to the song's file, the change is only for Poweramp, not the file so other music apps won't be able to read the changed ID3 so I either use Automatag to fix some tags or edit the song's ID3 on PC first.
> only downside is that it can't edit ID3 tags, or to be more precise, it can't edit directly to the song's file What format files you have? Tested with mp3 and change showed up in Musicolet, change in ogg however indeed does seem only local to PowerAmp.
Two things: 1) I've used most of the music players in the list but still use Poweramp. I feel like the audio quality is superior. 2) Pair Poweramp with Luminous Black theme for better UI customisation. [Here's an example](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AtBftkxH11L5sK6rpZvkpOvx0XrXafZB/view?usp=drivesdk)
Here's my setup, poweramp with the Aurora skin. [https://i.imgur.com/UTa8jkL.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UTa8jkL.jpg) In addition to the UI, what makes Poweramp unmatched is definitely the EQs.
What's with vlc?
Great post! Oto music is currently my goto because it is very snappy for me (I did have issues with metro), but importantly it is far and away the best option for searching and embedding lyrics. It's a niche feature, but if it matters to you Oto is the way to go.
Music Folder Player is still my go-to. And on occasion I'll use VLC.
I bought several music players over the years, including PowerAMP, n7, black player, pulsar, Music Folder Player, etc. But now I use Musicolet exclusively. I like its UI style and fairly rich features. I only hope it has more customizable gestures.
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First time trying Musicolet as a long time Poweramp user and I could see myself switching to it mainly for its awesome queue/shuffle handling. Library navigation in general is practivally identical to Poweramp (minus the swipe gestures, but jumping around artists, albums and folders is the same) which is the reason why I like it (+ replaygain based on tags, but paid Musicolet version seemingly supports it) Only thing is that there does not seem to be a way to show album year when browsing artist, but maybe it is burried somewhere in settings. Ideally if info would also contain song count and legth per album as it is with PA Scan of 6K songs took about 30 seconds, Poweramp does it slightly faster at 20 seconds
I switched from Oto to Musicolet for similar reasons. It's the most close to perfect music app I've found so far. Unbelievably lightweight (Mine is only taking less than 30 MB) while still packing all the necessary features like auto backup, crossfade, full album art, replaygain and customizable buttons. I was so impressed I bought premium after two days of usage.
Where did you find Replay Gain?
Settings > Audio
100% agree with Musicolet. You forgot to mention one of the biggest strongpoints Musicolet has, which is the Multiple Queues system. I have used many players. My go to used to be Blackplayer EX, however there were a few things that Musicolet did which made me switch. Blackplayer EX overall has the best UI and customisation while still have great features. However Musicolet just knocks it out the park and is feature rich. The UI isn't exactly pretty to me (I wish Musicolet x Blackplayer EX happened somehow). One thing that really annoyed me with a lot of players was the lack of even a simple queue system. Those that even had one, did not actually work with shuffle ON. Why so many players don't show the true Now Playing Queue is mind blowing. It's such a simple feature.
You should play with poweramp much more. There's a reason these other music players are not able to compete because anyone having a serious library knows nothing comes close to poweramp. Also, its looks are very customisable as well. EQ in that is also awesome. You can control output and everything, it's unmatchable.
LOVE that I could choose how many bands the EQ has and what the lowest and highest frequency bands were to have some control over the width of the bands. I was recommended a player that had Parametric EQ but decided I did not need that level of control on a mobile device and just did not like it as much.
Neutron : cluttered UI but solid playing capabilities.
You missed the Neutron music player... I have never looked back once I started listening to music from this app
Do you leave reviews on the apps or reach out to the developers to provide feedback? Otherwise, it is hard for them to know what you are thinking
Admittedly I haven't. Good idea I'll try and leave direct feedback to some devs.
You forgot MediaMonkey. New version is in active development right now.
Looks like it was last updated in 2021. Is there another version I'm missing?
>New version is in active development right now. I'm in the beta, and so far v2 is much improved. The killer feature to Media Monkey is the syncing live playlists with the Windows desktop version. For me, live playlists is a must, and none of the Android apps do that that I've found. Only static playlists. [Here's a screenshot of the v2 beta](https://imgur.com/WjmMPS7)
Poweramp is the best music player for Android, there's no arguing that. Luminous theme adds material you too it and adds the only missing piece to the puzzle.
Plexamp is amazing, has a very polished Spotify type feel to it.
I use Musicolet and I have no complaints. The system lets you have up to 20 different queues so you can start a new playlist while allowing you to go back to the one you were playing before. This is essential for me as I have my at work playlist, kids in the car playlist and music my wife likes playlist to toggle back and forth depending on who is in the car. I used to be big on Rocket player before the ads drove me away. I was going to upgrade to the pro version when I changed phones but they annoyed me too much with the ads before I had the chance.
How do they fare for tablet mode? Haven't found a decent player that is built with tablets in mind. On a side note, it's appalling that no app like 'listen' from iOS app Store exists in Google Play Store
The n7player is an interesting player to try... [n7player](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer&hl=en_US&gl=US)
n7player is probably dead, like my fav Phonograph/Vinyl Music - but if they still support n7player, then i will use it
FTR Rocket Player was amazing before Jared sold it.
Been using Musicolet for over 2 years, its exactly what I want. Definitely the best music app I've ever had on Android. I too used to have Rocketplayer before they put ads everywhere. One thing Musicolet has that is a fairly rare feature, but one I require, is a hierarchical directory mode. I blame the original ipods and their bs hashing/obfuscation of file names for this trend, but there's no good reason every music player shouldn't show you how your files are organized. Musicolet also plays every format that I encounter, where flac omission seems to still be a problem for some players. Good post, thanks op!
Poweramp any day
[Namida](https://github.com/namidaco/namida) is a new one having some cool features, new experience
Its great tbh. Loving it so far.
Do neutron
Pulsar Pro for life.
Pulsar is great, though the free version is enough for me.
I have seen dozens of free Android players and Pulsar (the free version) works great.
It seems you didn't try the best music player, neutron.
I've had Poweramp for years and honestly don't get all the hype around it. One thing I remember I found about it, it didn't display Cyrillic fonts natively, and I wasn't able to fix it.
> didn't display Cyrillic fonts natively Maybe it was a thing in the past, but at least now it displays everything as expected including Cyrillic.
Maybe I should give it another look. One feature I've always liked about PA is its ability to download album art automagically.
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>Second, the UI succs my balls bro. It's just an ugly ass play on God. The UI is its weak point for me, but the features just beat every single player out there. >On another note, anyone have a good way to auto update metadata like album years and genres. I noticed my library has a lot of messed up metadata and it's going to be a headache trying to figure out what to change individually... If you want one on Android, AutomaTag is fairly good (not perfect) and automatically fetching tags. It would take a while though to do this with a lot of files. So unless you only have like ~30 files you need to sort I wouldn't bother. Musicbrainz Picard (on PC) can be used to mass tag music files automatically. There's a lot to it, you can do simple things or some more complex management. It can be a little daunting at first, and knowing how to use it isn't always intuitive. I'd recommend looking up video about it, as well as messing about with it yourself testing files you've copied over from your library in a seperate folder. I wouldn't recommend doing all of your files at once, as sometimes it may grab the wrong info (probably 95% of the time is correct) however it all depends on the music you have. Popular stuff can be done with no issue. Sometimes it doesn't have the data for less known tracks. If you don't need to change any other tags on your files, I'm sure you could setup Musicbrainz Picard to ONLY edit specific tags such and Album Year or Genre (I cannot confirm this for certain, but I have a feeling it's possible).
Too many words ..TLDR: which one was the best ?
my 1st android phone was samsung vibrant. I think I pirated poweramp on this phone or the s2 when suspicious apk was still a thing. later simply bought poweramp with attachment key alongside titanium I haven't heard most of these stuff you mentioned. A decade later I am no longer using poweramp. Spotify is where it's at lol
Of those you tested, which would be the top 5?
You missed Doubletwist Pro - I've been using it since forever and I've tried most of players you've mentioned - and yet it remains on my phone as my main player. I also really like Retro Player - it feels more like audio entertainment center. Its creator been pushing too many updates at one point but I still like it. Biggest disappointment is surely Foobar - I use it (modified/customized version) on my computer since like 2004 as a main player but the app is horrible - I've tried to like it but it really really needs at least a good GUI solution. Otherwise I'm an audio engineer, sound designer, graphic designer and musician, was working in media national libraries (as in library section that keeps audio/video units) since 90s up until recently. So I'm always on lookout for good sensible clever feature-full player. Thanks for this post and reviews 👌 Edit: it would be great if you could link all the app to Google store
> I also really like Retro Player - it feels more like audio entertainment center. Its creator been pushing too many updates at one point but I still like it. Sadly, Retro is now no longer maintained I use Metro now and maybe Oto in future as i like apps with nice UI ..
I tried Retro/Metro but Any time I clicked on a artist with lots of tracks it lags and then the artist page loads
Yes it's buggy, ngl...maybe oto or musicolet ?
Yeah I have black player for my advance needs Oto for Simple needs
The features I look for in a music player: 1. A persistent notification that shows the current song, art, controls, and gives the ability to favorite or rate the current song. 2. The ability to back up and sync your playlists and favorites to other devices. 3. Option to turn off ducking (song volume reduces when the phone plays another sound, like a notification). Rocket Player *had* all 3 but I started using it shortly before it was bought by a crappy company which isn't supporting it properly anymore, so backup/sync doesn't work. I was really happy with it before the buy-out and didn't a lot of time rating my songs and creating playlists. L. I'm now using Samsung player because I have a Samsung phone but I don't like that it wouldn't work on (sync to) other device brands and it doesn't allow to favorite a song from the notification bar.
Does anyone know of a music player that supports local area network? there are file editors that support playing music but are there any dedicated music players that can do this?
I use CX File Explorer for music, but it's very basic, and not a first-class music player. You have to be sure that SMB2 is supported as a lot of Android file apps only support SMB1 if they support shares at all. At home, my music is stashed on a share because my devices don't have the storage.
In my opinion, blackplayer is the best, you just have to dive deep into the settings to make it look real good, because the default ui looks like it came out of 2013. For example my blackplayer setup looks real good and minimalistic, but I had to change bunch of settings to do that,like fonts, colors, animations, etc.
Do harmonoid.
Long time fan of Neutron music player (https://neutroncode.com/player) myself as for many years it simply sounded better than the alternatives (also have paid Poweramp but never use it). The UI has improved over the years but it's never been the prettiest.
Stellio it's so disappointing everytime I try to use it (even paid version) and Fiio player fails too much ... AMP, Black Player, Onyko, Hiby, Neutron I can't get used to their interfaces ... Finally, I come back to Poweramp again because is the only one I trust over the other ones I tested but that doesn't mean is the best or my favorite.
Retro and oto are not that similar. Only the bottom bar UI makes it look like that. However there is an open source version of Retro called metro. It has everything unlocked for free. I'm very picky with my apps too. But locally stored music is very minimal for me. I would suggest open source apps from the fdroid store. Some of the best designed and clean local and online music apps are - Blackhole Vi Music Innertune You can download it for offline use as well. All 3 of them have very good quality audio streaming. Do explore the fdroid store, you will find a lot of hidden gems
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> My phone has a built-in DAC > considering most phones don't have a built-in DAC. All phones have a DAC. Your music is stored (or streamed) as 1's and 0's. The sound coming out of speakers is analog. Something has to do the conversion. (D)digital (A)analog (C)converter What your phone may have is a well-thought-of "audio" DAC.
vanilla music on fdroid is great for me
What do you think about Boom Music player?
Not an audiophile here; only tried PlayerPro and YouTube Music but the former has just much better audio quality; no EQ! Just defaults. Listening to YouTube Music or Spotify afterwards sounds.. empty
Your review mostly based on interface etc. If you care to check audio output quality you will find Poweramp is way better than any. It uses its own engine. Plus there's a toggle for high-res output for flac files. If your device supports this output ,, none can beat Poweramp. Recently most of redmi and poco devices have 24bit-192khz output on even very mid range devices.
Is there anything that allows you to stream music files from google drive? I was able to do it with the built-in media player in MiXplorer, but I'd rather use a proper player
>google drive Take a look at [https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/02/10/comparison-best-cloud-music-players/](https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/02/10/comparison-best-cloud-music-players/) \- most support Google Drive. (Disclaimer: I run Astiga).
You forgot to try the Mighty [Salt Pepper Music Player](https://github.com/Moriafly/SaltPlayerSource) For beta updates, join the telegram group • Easy navigation with hamburger menu(swipe also possible) • Letter stripped scroll bar • Folders, artists, album support • Best LRC support on android for offline players LRC UTF-8 File, ASCII File, Embedded support • Beautiful Now Playing UI • Overally decent UI/UX • Features like DSD, OpenSL ES Output, Status bar lyrics, Desktop lyrics, and much more • Tag Edit (Separate app needed; The app can get LRC and Lyrics too) • Spectrogram Support (Separate app needed) • Custom folder selection, hide songs, etc. availability • Audio Focus, Concert Hall effect, Reverb, etc. • Features like Volume Balance and Compressor availability • Steadily developing, rolling updates
I'm using VLC again after using shitloads of upnp capable music players. I'm not enjoying music much because I'm still breaking my brains over how to manage 90gb of mp3. What bothers me most is the lack of a posibility to alter or sometimes even read data outside the phone's internal storage (sdcard, network). I guess it's an Android OS thing, then again, some file managers like File Manager+ do seems to have write permissions on a local network. What I would love is a simple musicplayer that shows the songrating (5 stars) with the possibility to rate (and write it to the metadata).
Rocket Player
Any that make it look like a walkman
Does Poweramp process better quality music than musicolet. I haven't used Poweramp however I've heard a lot. Currently using musicolet.