I’ve been looking at some music players for Android, but so far they’ve all had bugs. Can you recommend something similar to Musicolet that’s available on the Play Store?
I use Phocid, maybe a bit too minimalistic regarding you used Musicolet. It is only available on F-Droid though.
- The metadata indexing (when the advanced metadata is activated) works wonders.
- UI is straight forward and simple and until now I did not encounter any bugs (LineageOS and e/OS).
- The folder structure is maintained and can be found under the “Folders” tab.
- Sound quality is good, way better than VLC (what I used before).
- Battery usage is, as far as I can tell, low
I haven’t been able to find something better than Music Folder Player.
I don’t know why it’s so hard for Android apps to just respect my folder layout and not clump all files together.
I really like Auxio.
I like Auxio, but I ended up keeping Metro, because it has built-in metadata editing for songs.
Does it have to be on the Play Store?
I recently started using the Fossify Music Player. It’s on F-Droid.
Fossify music player is also on playstore. It was one of the first I’ve tested but I can’t figure out how to separate the artists, it was a little buggy
I often have to force close the app to get it to play after pausing the music.
VLC has been working for me without issue for weeks.
On F-Droid Phocid is good
https://sunsetware.org/phocid/en
https://obfusk.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/en/packages/org.sunsetware.phocid/
VLC maybe.
Personally I use Music Player GO it’s on F-droid. It has useful features, also has built in equalizer similar to Musicolet.
I don’t use it but axio has been rock solid in my experience.
I like gramophone but it’s had some bugs, where auxio just has just done anything I’ve needed without issue when I was trying it out
I’m just fussy about user interfaces, and while axio is a quite nice material 3 ui, gramophone is more beautiful to me
I haven’t been able to move on from musicolete. The lyrics display and playlist handling is alluring. If you find something open source though, I’m all ears.
Second for Musicolet









