Friends and family, or just 12 devices with unique accounts.

Instead of Fread, I would prefer Flare, which can also handle lists for Bluesky.

Happy to help. I've been using it for years and only recently bought the silver version to support the devs. I feel guilty waiting so long lol.

No other file managers come close.

You can even drag and drop files, either in the same pane/tab, or to different tabs.

If you didn't found out while testing it, yes it can open tabs.

See my comment reply to the other person who suggested this. It is astonishingly good. It's beyond perfect! Thanks.

Oh. My. God.
This is EXACTLY what I wanted and solo much more!! This guy has thought of everything. Not only grid mode but also gallery. Storage types more than I've even heard of!

There are like a thousand pathetic simple file managers on the app shops but this one never came up on my searches. Or I just didn't notice.

This app does everything and more than every other combined! And it performs FASTTTTTT!

Thank you! I'm gonna buy the store version to support the Dev, I just wanted to test it out. Exceeds my needs by orders of magnitude!

Thank you so much for the recommendation.

You could try MiXplorer. There's the full version of it on xdaforums or support the dev buying the silver version on google play. I haven't use the smb functionality but it says it supports it.

I will check it out, thanks!

If you don't mind a paid app check out MiXplorer. I haven't actually used any of the network sharing options, but they're all there and it has various file views. It's even better if your device is rooted.

I've actually only used it on a rooted device so your results may vary, but for me it does basically everything my desktop file manager can and is pretty customizable.

Also, if you're rooted there are modules available to, uh, test it fully with addons!

CxFileExplorer maybe

Unfortunately programs are built for the masses not “intelligence”.

I think you need to consider that the options you want are here and that the decades old VLC project respects your desires for customization more than you assume

There is such a thing as "intelligent defaults", though. I can't be the only one carrying around 10 GB of music on my phone. This will affect anyone in my shoes, and it was super annoying until I found the setting. Luckily that setting exists, but where's the setting to disable pull to refresh?

I'm allowed to be surprised, since this is the only media app for android but I've ever seen that refreshes the entire library every time you open it, or with pull to refresh. It's completely unheard of. Totally surprising.

Lock Interface should disable all gestures but is probably more effort than necessary

I haven’t had any issues remembering where I was last; it always shows my last played audio file

Turning off defaults is normal, not sure why you’re surprised you have to configure the app to your liking

I've been using this for a few days and it's pretty good, but not perfect as a music player. It sometimes forgets what I was playing when not in use, and I have to re-pick a playlist, and of course it loses my position in it when that happens.

I also tried it as a video player when tapping a video in my gallery app (Fossify Gallery) after I had recently used VLC for music, and it resumed the music instead of playing the video! Twice! I had to explicitly exit the app before it would play the video. (I realize Fossify Gallery has a built-in video player, but it's not very feature rich, and I was simply trying out VLC.)

I also had to turn off the feature for rescanning my library every time the app opens because that's on by default, and with my large music library and dozens of playlists, it would take literally 25 seconds to open every time. No idea why that's on by default when "Refresh" is one of only two options in the three-dot menu, easily accessible on-demand.

I also just learned, much to my chagrin, that you can accidentally pull down from the top to refresh. Another feature no one needs. Not for something that can take 25 seconds, and is right there in the menu besides. I can't find any way to turn that off.

not sure if it has your m3u8 feature but I'm using Auxio I find it snappier than vlc and its more granular about which folder I want to grant it access to and not just demands all file access

You planning on contributing?

AIMP is a solid piece of software, FOSS or not.

Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be open source. I'm only interested in open source software that can be installed from F-Droid.

AIMP.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

You are right, it is quite amazing. And very fast too, on my Pixel 4a (2020)

There's a version called syncthing-fork that is (I believe) still being maintained. Or at least as recently as a month ago when it last updated through f-droid.

Offline Translator is cool, but the description didnt do it justice. Its a combined OCR + translator app. So you can just take a pic of some random text or sign somewhere and it will translate and overlay the text on the image.

Voyager is my favorite Lemmy app: https://getvoyager.app/

For RSS I like Miniflux, it's a self-hosted server so it keeps your read/unread status synced across devices. https://miniflux.app/. The developer also has an instance that they host for super cheap: $15/year: https://reader.miniflux.app/

Do you SSH to anything? ConnectBot is an excellent SSH client.

A hero forked it and is keeping the fork up to date: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/wiki

Isn't the Android port dead? Or did someone take it up?

StartPage instead of firefox

Browser for a non-js webviewer. just so fast. the fastest.

Freads for mastodon rss bluesky

Blorb for piefed lemmy

Tubular for youtube peertube

MPV for music. click gear icon top right & 'play in background' to play stuff in background.