Which Music Player?

Google Play Music? It plays local files fine and you don’t have to use the online gubbins.

Otherwise I would recommend Double Twist. But Play Music sees me through now.

Play music is free – and you get (I think) 20GB free to upload your music (which miraculously is in much better shape when you download it again!). I’m very set in my ways, all my music is organised in a folder tree and the app Folder Music Player suits me. I stumped up for the pro – either to support the dev or remove ads – can’t remember.

A lot depends how your content is organised and tagged, but for offline playback in accordance with how you organised it the player above is my weapon of choice.

Ah right – still plenty (for me anyway). I went though a slow, painful but worth-it exercise to tag all my music as I want it before uploading – using Mp3Tag – so that the music appears on Google Play like it does on my hard drive(s) and SD card(s). Then after upload – the google cap allowed me to do my whole collection – downloaded it again, replacing the originals and as you say “happy days” !!

I’m half way through a free 4 month trial of full (paid) Google music – don’t think I’ve used it once – which reinforces I don’t need it.

Yeah I know what you mean. I don’t use it (Google) as a player, but as a means of tidying up your ripped (etc!) music it is superb. You get everything held online (or saved back locally) in (normally) much better condition than you uploaded (or whatever it does) is.

So much depends on how you want to access your music, I’m happy with the player I linked above for local, and with Spotify Free for “surprise me”. I also get Amazon Prime Music which is OK – but not full featured, handy though and lets you keep a lot offline.

I’ve got the paid PowerAmp which does loads but not (that I’ve found) just open a folder of music (say where you have saved an album) and play it back in the order of the folder…..seems such a simple and logical think but most players don’t seem to want to do it….including basic players like stick Android and ES.

doctoryorkie wrote:

 @Robin Yes it’s a Samsung. There is an individual file player. No player (uninstalled?) though.  

on an out of the box S4 and S5 it’s called “Music” may have been installed not included on yours!

Try Simple Media Player.

I’ve not used his media player but have used a couple of his other apps before.

VLC on a PC is my choice too. It has some hidden strengths. However for some reason it has been emasculated in the phone version.

VLC usage is unfortunately not 100% intuitive. This link shows an easy way of making playlists.The gems are well hidden – be prepared to Google.

I agree BL, I think the phone versions of VLC  have all been emasculated. I guess the porting was not carried out with luv.

Poweramp was pretty good (not tried it for a while), but I found the free version either limited or ad-infested, or something (there was a reason I stopped using it, just my old addled brain can’t remember what it was).