Hi, hope I can ask here. I’ve been using vlc for android as my music player but it really struggles after 5k local songs surprisingly so I’m looking for an alternative. The main problem I have is that after switching to the user account that has my local media, vlc refreshes and clears my playlist and I’m at the point where it’s becoming a bit frustrating. I already tried the majority of music player apps on fdroid but they all have issues with the metadata (no album art, unknown genre, etc…). Any help?

Edit: If it matters for troubleshooting, I’m running grapheneos and use vlc on a seperate user profile where my local media is located.

Edit #2: Phonograph plus seems like my best option rn but feel free to give more options to help others

  • southsamurai
    1•8 months ago

    Well, I can say that it’s worth it. Once you tweak the settings a little for your device, the only thing that sounds as good is neutron, and neutron is a hot mess ui wise. If you use a device that has its own on board “hi res” hardware, there isn’t anything that’s going to sound as good, even usbplayer pro (which is better if you want bit-perfect playback only, but it doesn’t seem that’s your priority) or neutron.

    Mind you, this all assumes that you’re chasing “better” sound in the first place. See, android’s native sound processing is what most players will use. There’s only a handful that do anything else at all. And it’s that sound processing that’s going to be your main limiter in chasing an ideal.

    If you aren’t going to care about any of that, then literally any player on fdroid is going to sound the same in general (the last I went through them anyway). So you’re picking by ui/ux, which is a different thing entirely. Now, I prefer poweramp’s ui as well, it really is laid out almost perfectly for my wants.

    The licensing for non-google usage isn’t onerous imo. Nor is it particularly expensive.