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Having had Sony phones for ages, which all had an inbuilt music player, I now have a Samsung. Being an old school kinda chap, I have all the MP3s ripped from my old CD collection on an SD card, and want to be able to play them on my phone. Doesn't need many bells and whistles, but ideally free or cheap, no ads, and the ability to cast to wireless speakers.
Recommendations?
I have my music in a simalar way, and stored in folders (old skool) so needed a not so smart player. I used 'music folder player' for a while and that worked really well but it didn't play nice with my new phone so have switched to the imaginatively titled 'music player' (icon is a white music note in a purple circle if you do want to try it). Seems to work OK at what it does. Very basic but it happily reads the folders to play whole albums
I asked this question last year and was told Poweramp.
They were right. Get the paid version, its only a couple of quid and excellent. Even imports my iTunes playlists. I run a 125Gb card.
There is a free version so you can try it out.
Yeah, Poweramp. Though I lucked onto it early so haven't tried much else for comparison.
PowerAmp - it's good. No, it's very good!
The only app I've ever paid for and I'm a tight arse.
Double Twist was about the only one that I found that could cope with compilation albums and large music collections.
Can recommend pulsar. It's also free.
Poweramp does that easily enough.
I use poweramp too - more bells and whistles than I need, but can just use it to play things without using all its settings etc.
The only thing it doesn't do (seemingly like most other players) is allow my car to access the library, so you have to find a different album/playlist/whatever on the phone all the time, instead of on the car interface. I don't have android auto.
If anyone can recommend anything that does that, I'd like to try it out...
currently using Pi music player, which is nice and simple, but doesn't play with android auto, so have Auri Music for that.
VLC (Videolan) is ok, and works with Chromecast too.
Also VLC but I will check out pulsar and poweramp.
I have been running resonic on the pc for about a year now.
I'm currently trying out VLC and Pulsar. I tried Poweramp but getting music onto a queue was a bit fiddly. I really just wanted a google music replacement for SD card music and these two seem the closest. Still to check how good they are with Android Auto though, which is a major consideration for me.
Pulsar works with Chromecast as well should that be important.
Another Poweramp user. Well worth a few quid.
After google music went away I've been using Pulsar; it's okay but does seem to get confused regarding whether shuffle is on or not.
Are there any that can generate its own playlists? I used to use whatever the "make a playlist of songs like this" function was in google music, but I've just been playing individual albums or artists now, which misses a load of stuff...
I use Musicolet, works well for me.