Rn I’m using Metro, app has a bit of bugs, music stops randomly even after setting battery optimization to unrestricted and hasn’t been updated since April 2023. What do y’all suggest?
I’ve been using Auxio for a few months since I finally moved on from Vanilla Music https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio
+1 for Auxio! 💙
Auxio is awesome
Can confirm! Ive been using it for a couple of months now and it seems quite stable.
Thx!
+1 for Auxio. Been using it nearly a year now, no issues.
VLC is the goat here, no?
vlc works pretty well, but for some reason it cuts off the first 1-2s of any first song i play
Sure it’s not just the bluetooth phones, or your amp / speakers waking up from power save?
ahh that seems like the culprit, thanks. just weird that it doesnt happen with antenna pod or newpipe/ tubular for example
After using Metro and Vanilla for ages, I switched to Gramophone. Looks pretty and I find it intuitive. Also has great support for media change detection and does m3u playlists (that I rely on heavily) very well.
Do you need a simple player, or do you also need it to connect to a local network?
You should be able to find a ton of active, simple players.
But good luck if you need network support. I couldn’t find any that worked well, featured caching, and were actively maintained. I bit the bullet and purchased Symfonium, and have been happy with that.
Metro is a discontinued fork of Retro Music Player, which was updated only a few months ago.
I use Ultrasonic with my Navidrome server and it’s fine, but I really wish I could find a player that would replicate the old itunes style Genre -> Artist -> Album selection flow. The Genre tab in most players just gives you a list of songs, which is not helpful for large libraries.
