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
I self-host my music with Navidrome, play it with Tempus on Android.
Have you used Tempo? Is Tempus better in your opinion?
I have. Tempo is a bit abandoned. Tempus has momentum and android auto support.
Thank you! I’ll try it out
This is the way.
Auxio for local music, Morphe for YT and YT Music w/o ads. YTDLnis to download songs and videos.
Just VLC. I don’t stream music and most of the stuff I listen to have no lyrics so it works fine as-is
Musicolet. it does everything I need for local mp3s. and SomaFM for streaming.
VLC
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
Foobar2000
Holy hell I thought you were joking - I didn’t know there was an Android version of foobar!!
I like Symfonium, don’t know if it has lyrics search though
Poweramp is nice (and a paid application) but it’s russian so it may not appeal to everyone.
Because of the spyware?
Only thing I’ve found that handles large libraries, it has it’s own engine to index songs, whereas the Android one bugs out on large (5K+) libraries in my experience (a while ago). On gOS it recognized as paid if you left Play Store up for a week (couple years back now), has been fine ever since, even though I removed play store and Poweramp’s network permissions.
Plexamp.
Metrolist , Riplay ,monochome
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
I use Metro (link goes to f-droid) which does something with lyrics. I don’t use that feature so I’m not sure if it searches for them or just displays them if they’re embedded in the file.
Good player though, doesn’t look like it escaped from the noughties. Local files only, no streaming.
