Minimalist Music Player by Muhammad Mohsen

This is an app that for me is unrivaled on Android for listening to spoken word content. Because of why it is so well suited for it, perhaps it might meet your music playing needs.

The problem for me with every single other app I've tried is that to seek forward or backwards you have to place your fingertip on a tiny bead; often times I fumble it and wind up well off course. This app is the only one I've come across with a very wide band that allows for easy and accurate seeking. In addition, like GrapheneOS, it's a clean uncluttered narrowly focused interface.

There's a github listing, but it's only available either through the Google Play store or Aurora Store. When I checked just now, I could find its listing in Aurora Store only through this precise search: 'mohsen.muhammad.minimalist'

Despite being on the Google Play Store, it's always been privacy focused. It appears the author is still maintaining it as the last update was earlier this month.

links:

https://github.com/Muhammad-Mohsen/minimalist-music-kotlin [only source code]
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https:// play. google. com/ store/ apps/ details?id=com.minimal.musicplayer&gl=US/

mohsen.muhammad.minimalist

Regarding a streaming service, I use Spotube. It’s great.

I haven't installed it on my new Pixel 8 pro yet, but one good one that I use for local files is Musicolet. It doesn't do any network connections or anything. To put new music on my phone for Musicolet to play, I just use Syncthing.

    Thanks for the replies, I'm currently giving Retro Music a go. It doesn't seem to have been updated in a while though??

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      James186 If you said what it is that you are looking for in an app, we might have a better idea what to suggest. +1 for SicMu, folder based player.

        I have Auxio and Symphony installed and really like the UI of them both, but they both lack gapless playback. I've been using Vinyl as my go to and it has everything I want and need to play FLAC files comfortably. It has a tack editor, album art grabber, and you could even add lyrics along with a myriad of other things. Auxio and Symphony also play FLAC but the lack of gapless playback is quite a bummer.

        I would recommend Musicolet (proprietary but the best imo) or Auxio (free) or Vanilla (free).

        While phonograph already was mentioned, I'd recommend my favourite incarnation/fork of it:
        https://github.com/VinylMusicPlayer/VinylMusicPlayer
        (Available on f-droid)
        Only pre-set I adjust is to disable auto-downloading images (before copying collection to the phone (and lyrics)), since all my FLACs are well tagged (including embedded cover art). At least earlier versions tended to overwrite my correct cover art with inaccurate online images.

          Anyone know a music player that properly plays 41khz and 90+khz files and not go through the 48khz resampling? Or how one and avoid the 48khz limitation?