• spacelord@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 days ago

    My notes from last year when I was looking for a music player. Still using GoneMad.

    All in all, decided to try GoneMad for a while. Top 3 were: GoneMad, Musicolet and Omnia.

    Omnia player

    1. Used it for years. Great one.

    Odyssey

    1. Can’t move songs up and down in the playlist.
    2. Connected to Wikipedia - pretty cool.
    3. Has share current track. Nice.
    4. Uses android equalizer.
    5. UI nothing to write home about.

    Mucke

    1. No folder view, just artist and then it shows all of the metadata from artist & album artist fields. It’s messy.
    2. Nice sleek UI.
    3. Has a homepage. You can set it to throw album/artist/playlist of the day from your library.
    4. No EQ.

    Musicolet

    1. Crashes on start occasionaly.
    2. Has a bunch of options in the UI, unlike Odyssey & Mucke. That makes it more messy.
    3. Sleek modern UI.
    4. Has 31 band EQ.
    5. Sleep timer as well.
    6. Has share current track. Nice.
    7. Has audio cutter, set as ringtone, play speed & pitch, tag editor and move to folder directly from the app.
    8. Has RG calculator as well.
    9. The best widget.

    GoneMad

    1. Has 10 band EQ, and RG (replay gain).
    2. Auto DJ with diff. settings
    3. Custom media controls.
    4. Tag editor.
    5. Has effects, limiter, pitch correction, bas boost, amplifier. Very powerful looking.
    6. Has folder view.
    7. Practically every button & gesture is customizable.
    8. Has its own sound engine.
    9. Developer is very active and replies to questions promptly.

    Vinyl

    1. Has folder view, lyrics, tag editor, set as ringtone and share track.
    2. No EQ, Uses system one.
    3. UI customizabel as all of them.
    4. Has Replay Gain.
    5. Can’t move songs up/down in the queue.
    6. Sleek and modern looking.
      • altphoto@lemmy.today
        2·
        2 days ago

        I was looking for the model I remember that came out first. I was out of highschool and at the time, the smallest devices were mini cassette recorders. Eventually I bought a Samsung mp3 player because it was thr only one with a single AA that you could use rechargeables on.

        At some point later I bought the USB rechargeable version:

        That’s the last player before just moving to music on my phone.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          2 days ago

          I had this one

          5620

          Before moving to the 120gb Zune (which was actually criminally underrated, once you did the registry edit to allow you to drag/drop files and skip the Zune Media Player thingy on pc that is).

          I would love to find a currently available dedicated mp3 player that takes up to at least 1tb microSD, maybe an e-ink screen, and bluetooth and 3.5mm audio jack.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I can’t find any that recognize “Album Artist”.
    Even ones that claim they’re for serous music collectors and curators. It strikes me as kind of insane this is such a rare feature in local music players. Am I that much of a werido that there only 3 players I can use at all, none on FDroid? It annoys because some have great looking, nice interface. But my collection looks like a disorganized insane mess with them.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Auxio seems to be most simple and reliable, but I really adore the ui of Gramophone

    https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.akanework.gramophone

    It’s not perfect though, they’re still working on it. For some reason the meta data for album art for some or the albums/tracks in my library doesn’t get picked up properly, I need to open open a bug report about it. But that issue is present in many players I tried, so I’m not sure if there’s a shared library they use that doesn’t like the way I’ve tagged those files, or if I just did something wrong in tagging them.

    And playlist support is currently not finished- I have a small library so thats fine with me.

    Auxio, my old iPod, and the music tagging tool I grabbed off fdroid, all handled those files with no issues though, so auxio seems like a great tried and true, simple pick :)

    I vaguely recall metro and retro being fairly good experiences when I used them, but it was a ways back and I wasn’t listening to local files as much. I believe metro is a fork, most people here prefer that one so I’d go with it if retro is even still around

    Edit: yeah metro even let’s you edit meta data from within the app, doesn’t see album art for a given song, I hit edit to add the album art and the editor already sees the album art for it no problem despite the player having no art for it, I replace the album art with a newly downloaded file and hit save, the album art is still not recognized lol

    If anyone has suggestions I’d be happy to hear them, I’m newer to keeping a local music library

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I wanted a music player that allows deleting songs. The only one I found was CuteMusic.

    If it wasn’t for that feature, I would be using Vanilla Music.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 days ago

    I’m currently using Vanilla Music which is ok in some ways and annoying in others. There was another one I tried that I didn’t like but idr which one it was. There are a bunch of others that I haven’t tried. I only have a few music files on my phone, so it doesn’t matter much. On my laptop I just use mplayer from the command line. I haven’t ever felt much need for fancy graphical players. I’m old enough to remember physical CD’s and cassettes. It wasn’t a big deal then and it still isn’t.