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[solved] looking for an mp3 player (android) (piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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edit: thanks guys! i found vinyl does everything i want: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.poupa.vinylmusicplayer/

i have a rather large music library on sd card (~250gb and well over 10k tracks) so i am looking for a player that is able to handle that. so far i been using vlc player because the last time i was looking for a player i came to the conclusion it was the best option for a library this large. most other players would hang or slow down considerably with that many files. the only other player i have used for a while was auxio and i was quite happy with it but an update broke how it handles files and now it keeps forgetting my library and has to rescan everything whenever i open the app.

my problem with vlc now is every time i add some files to the sd card it needs to rescan every single file, which takes quite a long time. i hope there is maybe a player out there which would satisfy my needs:
-is able to handle a large library
-is able to apply replay gain
-has a dark mode
-doesn't need to rescan everything whenever i add a new album to the sd card

in case you have a recommendation for a case like that please LMK, thanks!

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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I used Vanilla Music years ago. Not sure how it holds up, but it's available on F-Droid.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I use Musicolet, I haven't had any complaints so far.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    was gonna suggest auxio but you're already using it, now I don't know what to do. did you try taking any steps to fix it?

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know if this supports what you want but give Phocid a try, you scan library manually (it's not scanned every time you open the app) and it has folder view (the main reason I'm using it), so you don't need to change the metadata. It replaced VLC for me, might work for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I use Phocid and its good but it has this thing that drives me insane. Default behavior is when you select a song to begin playing it as a playlist. But if you search it treats the results as a playlist. Ok fine I can long press the song and add to queue.

    But I change the default behavior to select a song being add to queue there is no option to long press and play as a playlist. Am I using it wrong or missing a way to use the app properly?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago

    When I long press any item it allows me to select multiple items (depending on a category it can be a song, album, artist etc), from there you get a popup and do what you want with the selection (play the selection now, create new playlist from selection, add to the curreny playlist etc.)

    I agree, the default behavior depends on which category you have selected. My usecase is pretty simple, I usually just go to a directory I want and play everything from there (usually while driving) and skip what I don't like, so I never really thought about it.

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have a library bigger than yours, I've tried many apps on f-droid an year ago and so far the only that seems to be able to handle my library at all is Music Player Go.

    It takes like 15 seconds to open, but after opening it works fine, however, it doesn't support replay gain.

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I have around 11k files on my phone's sdcard, and while the interface is not that polished, Fossify Music Player has been able to handle my library quite ok.

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Foobar2k?

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    In VLC go to more then settings then uncheck Auto Rescan

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    • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I been using Auxio, never had problem. (50GB size)

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I gave up on dedicated players and put Symphony on my phone. You can probably use a dedicated graphene or android device and do the same. Symphony is on F Droid.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know about the rescan requirement you have, but Symfonium handles my very large Jellyfin music library (and supports local libraries and many other libraries as well). Has good equalizer options including volume boost and very good native theming that supports dark mode and material you. Paid app but very well worth it if you listen to lots of music on Android. I've been using it for years and it's regularly updated, I'm very happy with it.

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    • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Is SD card a hard requirement? Did you try internal storage and did that fix the problem?

    A "music player" here plays twp roles: filesystem handling and audio playback. Have you considered dividing the jobs to multiple applications? For example, get a playlist manager, and have it call the music player with "next track" in order.

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    • [+] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    but i have my library on my phone, why stream it?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    So you don't have to rescan every time?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    But then you need to stream it every time, which is more frequently.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    I mean yeah, it's basically "build your own Spotify." Also, you get to free up that space on your SD card, little side bonus.

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