I’m about to activate a Galaxy Note 8. And get a large MicroSD card. Finally… I’m going to ditch my beloved iPod Touch and use my new phone to play my music to my headsets.
There are dozens of music players. Is there a native one to Android that I will find satisfactory? When I import my many many songs, will I need to organize on the phone after I do so? ( Onerous to say the least )
I seek a player that has the same relative ease of use that the iPod offers. Also, reasonable Equalizer capability.
When I had an Android I used djay Pro, because I liked having a lot of stuff to mess around with, but it’s probably way too much music player for most people and I don’t know what the current versions are like.
VLC is the best media player. It plays everything, is available on all modern OSs, and has a consistent UI across all those OSs. VLC will find all your media files (on android) and you can then browse them in various ways like directory, artist, etc.
In addition, I like 1by1. If you have music organized into folders, 1by1 will just play everything in a directory in alphanumeric order (unless you switch it to random). With 1by1 you don’t have to make playlists or make sure every mp3 has meticulous and consistent metadata. Not sure if 1by1 is in the Play store, you may need to sideload it. There is a windows version as well.
I just use Play Music, the native player from Google. I uploaded my music from my computer to Google’s cloud, so my music follows me from device to device. It will also play any music you have loaded on to an SD card.
Agreed with Doctor Jackson on Black Player. I liked it so much, I upgraded to the paid version.
Disagree with cochrane on using Play Music – I always had a heck of a time getting it to only search my library rather than all of Google Play. That’s why I switched to Black Player.
I think Black Player is superior to VLC in terms of organizing your music logically.
Rocket Player. I sprung for the paid version, but there’s a free version as well. I tried a bunch of players but stuck with Rocket Player for it’s dynamic, rules-based playlists (there may be others with this feature, I haven’t looked lately). For example, I have a playlist that contains songs that haven’t been played in the past 90 days. When a song gets played, it automatically drops off the playlist until 90 days later, so I’m always getting songs I haven’t listened to for awhile.
There are also lots of little things about the interface and the way it organizes things that I like, too. No one thing I can point to and say “This!”, but more the way the aggregate works together as a whole.
I subscribe to Google Play Music. You can upload your personal mp3s and stream them, or play them from an SD card. It also has all the same functionality of Spotify, Apple Music, et. al.
I switch between Black Player (free) and Musicolet. The nice thing with the latter is no permissions and it’s just a good basic player for music housed on your phone.
I also use Google Play Music for the most part, but I don’t use any of the streaming features and have it set to play “downloaded” files only (including MP3’s copied to the device and anything downloaded from my Google Music library, though I only use the latter when it has problems reading the tags from the MP3’s).
I recently discovered Musicolet which allows you to have multiple queues, and lets you edit tags (which you can’t do with the Google Play Music app). I use that when I want to listen to something outside of the queue already set up in Google Play Music, and I can fix tags if I had missed something before copying it to the phone (“bonus track” is NOT part of the song title!). I would definintely recommend it if all you need is something to play local files on the phone.
I use Pi Music Player. It meets all my needs and was free.
My only complaint was that the random functions seems to not be truly random, it seems to favor recently played tracks which turns into a vicious cycle if you leave it on random frequently.
I was mostly using Google Play Music, but since I subscribed to a YouTube Premium account I usually just go to YouTube and play whatever I want. With the Premium service, you don’t have to keep the screen on YouTube so you can turn off your screen or use the phone for other things while you listen to music.
It’s a good set-up. I can Shazam something I like to find out what it is, and then I can just pull it up on YouTube.
X-plore has a file manager, image viewer and audio/video player all in one. It’s my favorite Android app.
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It’s very similar to windows. Open a folder, the files are listed, and click on a audio or video file.
Or right click on a folder and select play. It will play all the media in the folder
X-Plore sounds like it is designed the way I think. Assuming I can import all of my iTunes MP3 files it will probably appeal to my brain to use this application.
That said, the YouTube account idea also has an awful lot of Merit!