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
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
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.
Edit: Realized Omnia’s not working in that way now either. Guess I’m changing albums by touching the phone for now.
I self-host my music with Navidrome, play it with Tempus on Android.
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.
PixelPlayer also looks like a promising new option.
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.
Musicolet because of the multiple queue feature
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
Pulsar+
Neatly ordering stuff how I want it to.
Pulsar+ for my local music library.
Qobuz for streaming.
YT Music patched thru the Morphe app (new revanced)
Foldplay, and it looks like it has a lyric option.
Just VLC. I don’t stream music and most of the stuff I listen to have no lyrics so it works fine as-is
Auxio for local music, Morphe for YT and YT Music w/o ads. YTDLnis to download songs and videos.
AIMP is pretty good. I’m not audiophile tho.
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.
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.
