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What are people usong as thei music player app nowadays? (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

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I have been using Lollypop on my phone for about 2 years now. I have tried a few other apps but nothing worked quite as well for me as Lollypop.

That said, I still have a lot of gripes with Lollypop. Rather than complain about it, though, I'd rather hear about something new.

The last time I went looking for a new app was in 2023. Is there anything new in 2025 worth checking out?

My wants:

Large-ish local library (350gb) and I want it to load/scroll through fast. Lollypop is quite slow here.
I really prefer the UI to list artists, open one, then list albums, open one, then list songs. Too many apps list all your albums, or all your individual songs, and I hate this.

Edit: I guess I need to specify, I am looking for Linux-native apps. A few of the suggestions so far have been Android, and I am not seeking to run anything in Waydroid for this.

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[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

I like using Gapless, though I'm a sucker for GTK4 apps and I'm not sure it has the artist -> album UX you're looking for.

[–] qpsLCV5@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

i'm having some decent success using cmus and a tiny wrapper script to save some typing.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 1 points 13 hours ago

i keep my music organized on-disk so that each song is placed at <artist>/<album>/<track-number>-<title>.flac. then i just use any file browser (e.g. rofi, or portfolio) to navigate it, and when i select a song it opens in mpv. i installed the playlistmanager mpv script so that when i open any song, mpv queues everything else in that folder (so if i open track 01, the default behavior is gapless playback of the whole album). i also installed the uosc script, which provides a UI that's much friendlier than the default IMO.

i find i prefer configuring just one media player and then using that for everything (music, audiobooks, videos, podcasts, etc). then for example when i decide i want to cast music to my TV, i only have to solve that once, and not separately for casting youtube, local videos, etc.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Old reliable VLC for all media.

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This, I would trust to be fast, at least. How is it on mobile, though?

[–] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect. I use VLC installed via Fdroid as my primary Android music player. The only thing I could never get to work was displaying Album art, but I stopped caring enough to fiddle with it for such a trivial thing long ago.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

Album art shows up for me no problem on VLC

[–] lemmysam@lemmy.ml 0 points 12 hours ago

https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio available in F-Droid.

[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 0 points 18 hours ago

Dont know how it performs on such a large collection, but can recommend Fossify Music Player.

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Music-Player