The Amazon Music app doesn’t have a skip forward button, and it doesn’t resume playing when the headphones are plugged back in. Anyone got a better suggestion?
I have looked at dozens of Android music apps and they are all lackluster. The latest one I’ve found acceptable is Music Folder Player.
It has a lot of options, including “Resume after headset plugged”, and skip forward buttons. It also will show you the actual folder/file structure of your Music folder.
Thanks for the note about the skipping buttons being options. I had started to think they weren’t available, but I found them eventually.
The interface is a mess but there is a lot of functionality in there somewhere.
I use VLC.
Anybody know if there’s a music app that shuffles albums? Like, it plays a whole album in order from start to finish and then randomly chooses another album to play after the first is done? That’s something I’d really like, and it seems like it shouldn’t be that hard to code. It’s probably just not a feature in high demand.
Ya beat me to it!
This app plays music the way I like to listen – choose an artist and hear the catalogue from start to most-recent output [though I had to tweak my collection a bit to make that work]. I was previously on a Blackberry Curve (yes, ancient) and didn’t want to lose the tactile keyboard. This one app almost made it worthwhile to update my phone to the the Galaxy S6.
Now I’m just trying to get more volume out of the Sena 10 I’m pairing to it via blutooth.
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It’s amazing how many high-demand apps in crowded niches just repeat each others’ mistakes and faults, and the ones that break new ground (in features and ideas) are often crippled by horrible, alpha-test interfaces.
I use a similar one, called simply “Folder Player” -
Your suggestion looks similar and more feature rich, while this one seems to be simpler to use.
Certain albums lose the track order when copied to my Android, and then even with some of those I’ve bought off of Google Music, song titles get converted to special-character-gibberish, and that’s despite the fact I’m playing the music in the Google Music Player. And like the album shuffling ability suggested above, fixing it seems to be very much on the back burner. Given the state of the music market and the way that most people buy recorded music these days, is the very idea of the “album” passing away, as in a definite set of tracks meant to be played in a specific order?
You may want to take a look at the programs recommended here:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-music-player-and-organizer-android.htm
Some of those look very good. But now I have an even more demanding requirement: I’d like to find an app with what I like to call a repeating sleep timer; AFAIK it doesn’t exist so there’s probably not a standard term for it. The way the RST would work is this: You’d set the timer for 20 minutes, let’s say, and after 20 minutes of playing your music or pod cast, the playback would pause. Then you’d press the resume button on your headset, and the playback would continue for another 20 minutes. Then another pause followed by a resumption of the playback, so on for 20 minutes every cycle, until you are no longer awake to press the pause/resume button. In essence, the functionality is that the user has to signal the app that they’re still awake, in much the same way a bank’s website forces you to be active on it or else it logs you out.
The problem this solves is that I’m constantly falling asleep without remembering to pause the playback or audio stream, which then continues for hours and hours. Afterward, I’m often awakened by a particularly loud passage in the music/podcast; more recently there’s the additional issue of running down the battery in my Bluetooth headset.
From what I’ve seen nearly all streaming and playback apps have the sleep time feature, but it only works once.
I’ve tried VLC but it doesn’t seem to work as a music player. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to point it to your library and tell it to play the whole thing (or shuffle play.)
I’ve been using Shuttle Player for a long time. I generally only use my phone for music in the car, so I wanted an app with big lockscreen controls I could use without looking. However, in Android 4+ every app defaults to the same lockscreen so I switched to Shuttle because it was the best overall.
There is one thing I got annoyed with about Music Folder Player. My podcast player will pause when the headphones are removed, and resume when they are inserted again. If you pause the playback with the pause button, it won’t play automatically.
The admin (or whatever) for MFP says you have to exit the app entirely (kill it) to get it to stop playing when headphones are inserted again.
I don’t understand. If you pause the playback, why would you want it to resume automatically? Or am I missing something?
With the phone in my pocket, the easiest way to pause is to pull out the headphones. Put them back in, and the podcast resumes.
I’ve used Winamp for years and like it. Simple to use and intuitive.
Thanks for all these suggestions. I’ve been using the stock Android player (I think) and it’s problematic. When I go to an artist or album, it won’t let me go back to the main index. I have to reboot the phone. What a PITA.