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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

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[–] unicornBro@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] enkille@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

gone mad music player

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

Simpmusic, Kreate or vimusic for yourube music clients. I use simpmusic bc I think the ui is nice.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AIMP is pretty good. I'm not audiophile tho.

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

I use AIMP for my snobby lossless FLAC library.

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

Musicolet. it does everything I need for local mp3s. and SomaFM for streaming.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I self-host my music with Navidrome, play it with Tempus on Android.

[–] Brownie@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you used Tempo? Is Tempus better in your opinion?

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have. Tempo is a bit abandoned. Tempus has momentum and android auto support.

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 days ago

This is the way.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You might be interested in Rush, which detects music from your "now playing" and displays the lyrics beautifully.

Then you can use whatever local player you like for your library and have great lyrics experience regardless.

If you end up setting up a home server with navidrome or similar, Chora has the best lyrics search and display. The website also mentions local playback, so it may meet your need, although I've never used it that way.

It's been a while since I've used a local player, but the best ones I've found were Oto Music (closed source), which has very good lyrics search and support, and Booming Music.

PixlePlayer also looks like a promising new option.

[–] HornyElf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I tried rush, it's pretty cool. But I guess I will stick with PixelPlayerOSS. It can search the lyrics within the music player app itself. Which is awesome. The only thing about PixelPlayerOSS I dont like is that it doesn't have a good album view.

[–] Jhogenbaum@leminal.space 3 points 2 days ago
[–] Frozentea725@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

Holy hell I thought you were joking - I didn't know there was an Android version of foobar!!

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago
[–] Sv443@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Auxio for local music, Morphe for YT and YT Music w/o ads. YTDLnis to download songs and videos.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Musicolet because of the multiple queue feature

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Just VLC. I don't stream music and most of the stuff I listen to have no lyrics so it works fine as-is

[–] newton@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago

Metrolist , Riplay ,monochome

[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I use Metro (link goes to f-droid) which does something with lyrics. I don't use that feature so I'm not sure if it searches for them or just displays them if they're embedded in the file.

Good player though, doesn't look like it escaped from the noughties. Local files only, no streaming.

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

VLC for local, Murglar for streaming because it allows me to save music locally.

[–] Micromot@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I like Symfonium, don't know if it has lyrics search though

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 3 days ago

Booming Music worked the best for me. I tried Rhythm, but last time I used it, it slowed down my phone and drained the battery.

An issue that both have is that they don't read metadata of WAV files.

[–] Edge004@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Twig@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

I've recently switched from Phonograph_Plus to Fossify, and it's definitely a lot more stable if nothing else.

[–] Float@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

SicMu Player for local files

SimpMusic for streaming

both should be on f-droid

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago
[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Foldplay, and it looks like it has a lyric option.

[–] AlexNorris@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Native one in miui 🙄

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

YT Music patched thru the Morphe app (new revanced)

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

After trying a few a settled with Metro on f-droid, I've seen a lyrics button or something but I've never tried to use it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.Music

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Pulsar+ for my local music library.

Qobuz for streaming.

[–] ItsAlwaysDNS@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

PixelPlayer has lyrics search and is MaterialYou themed.

[–] HornyElf@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, it does. But I dont like the album view in it.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Poweramp is nice (and a paid application) but it's russian so it may not appeal to everyone.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Only thing I've found that handles large libraries, it has it's own engine to index songs, whereas the Android one bugs out on large (5K+) libraries in my experience (a while ago). On gOS it recognized as paid if you left Play Store up for a week (couple years back now), has been fine ever since, even though I removed play store and Poweramp's network permissions.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 1 points 3 days ago

Because of the spyware?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 days ago

I use VLC on everything

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago
[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Vanilla Music.

https://f-droid.org/packages/ch.blinkenlights.android.vanilla/

It's fine for my purposes. I don't know what functionality you're missing with these other programs, though, so hard to say if it meets your needs.

[–] HornyElf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I want my music player to be able to search lyrics.