What's your music setup on mobile? 🎵

itsjpb

[deleted] shit idk i just tried to download it myself and i guess i'm in the wrong region too. think thats the only place they make it available sadly.

[deleted]

Spotify Lite is only available at 36 countries: https://thenextweb.com/news/spotify-now-has-a-lite-app-for-android-users-in-36-countries

Enviusd

Libretube and Hyperpipe which is just YT and YT Music.
I guess Spotify with just Discover Weekly too.
I used Spotify for years and still have a Subscription because of my family.

mmmm

Spotube is great!

Gray

rambleon I checked the link but making a donation does not appear to result in a paid version of the app, unless I am mistaken. The app author has a long explanation about how he is tied to Google and any deviation from their policy means a ban.
I see this a lot, I wanted one app from the UK, I offered and sent a silver minted coin from Australia, I got thanks for it, but I didn't get a paid app. - Google restrictions. I guess we all hate Google which is why we use GrapheneOS, and all this nonsense makes me hate google more.

AlanZ

unseenpolar
Poweramp.

Techtrest

Tidal HiFi + USB DAC Fiio KA5 + Wired Headphones

blackbrook

Kottonballs
This, except that when I buy new music I can almost always buy a digital flac download and skip the CD step. Presto, qobuz, bandcamp, are a few sources for downloadable flac purchases.

Until my recent switch to a new phone with GrapheneOS, I kept my music library on a 512GB microSD card in my phone, and used Musicolet as the player. Classical and Jazz play a large part in my music collection so a player that can search and browse by composer and other tags is important, and I haven't found anything that is nearly as good in an Android music app.

(I'm not sure what I'll do post switch...I missed the fact that this Pixel doesn't have a SD card slot, and I didn't go for a large enough amount of memory to just dump it all into the internal storage. I probably don't need to have my music collection on my phone right now anyway, and can play it from my laptop, or use my old phone when need be.)

[deleted]

I personally use Qobuz. Outstanding streaming service and high quality audio for most music they do have available. And considering the amount of music I listen to, it is more cost effective for me to stream my music rather than purchase it outright.

Waethorn

Apple Music with Earpods (NOT Airpods) and a USB-C adapter (I use the earbuds with a PS5 controller too, both on PS5 and on a PC). I tried ripping some CD's but the last good drive I had was a USB half-height Plextor external drive from and it died years ago. All you can buy now are those really crappy notebook DVD drives with slow speeds and really poor jitter correction, so the quality is arguably as bad as trying to rip an analog vinyl with one of those ION record players. When you have studios making making almost exclusively digital masters now, the quantization you get from digital compression (not to mention there's lossless compression) is far less quality loss than dealing with the analog world of either vinyl, or imprecise laser reading and spinning discs with surface defects, dust, and metal degradation. As soon as you leave the digital domain and use some kind of "real-world" analog physical media stuff, the quality drops are real. So I gave up on trying to maintain a library like that.

tjk

I have the WF1000XM4 and WH1000XM4 and I was very pleasantly surprised to see that gadgetbridge can actually control them very well! So no sony app required for configuring them.

Besides that, I have a lot of flac music that I torrented over the years. I wrote a shell script to converts a copy of all of the albums for my phone using ffmpeg to compress all the songs as opus @ 128kb/s and imagemagick makes a jpg cover image (I think you just call it folder.jpg or maybe cover.jpg and it doesnt show up in your media library). I was able to get several thousands of songs in high quality in only a few gb! I used auxio as a player.

More recently though Ive just been using spotify because I couldnt be bothered to fix all the tagging issues on my songs and I want to have shared playlists lol.

proclaim

VLC + WH-XB700 Extra Bass

Tryptamine

USB Audio Player Pro, with the Parametric equaliser and MQA decoding unlocked (I have quite a few local MQA files, and this is for when I play over Bluetooth LDAC, otherwise both my DACs are full decoders) playing rips from Tidal through tidal-dl (or sometimes straight from Tidal {HiFi}) + iFi Gryphon or iFi Gold Bar -> Campfire Andromeda 2020 or Dan Clark Audio Aeon 2 Closed.

Huzzah! True HiFi @ home or on the go! Granted this is $3200+ later... For over $5000 of value!

vvf69107

Oggyo auxio queue didn't work for me

here are some alternatives (all open sourced):

Local Music

Metro (best choice)
Features: folders, queue, sleep timer, speed, lyrics, equalizer and much more

Mucke
Features: intelligent shuffle and playlists

Symphony
Features: folders, queue, play button in a bad position

Music Player GO
Features: bad UI, Folders, sleep timer, speed, queue

Simple Mobile Tools Musicplayer
Features: folders

Other Sources

cross platform app for music streaming
Harmony
Features: queue, sleep timer, speed, lyrics, equalizer, radio and much more

illegal streaming/ downloads or YT Music
Musify

Youtube Music Client
Shuttle
Features: Paid, Cast, Queues, Folders, very basic

Dumdum

vvf69107 Simple Mobile Tools Musicplayer

SMT was sold out, use the fork (Fdroid / Github)

Tryptamine

Kottonballs out of this whole thread, I'm surprised that it's only you and me who replied with something other than "Sony XM4's," "Airpods" or "Pixel Buds."

Also, glad someone else has appreciation for iFi sources!

AlanZ

Why, Poweramp of course. The player has insane amount of functional and aesthetic options and it accommodates all of my thousands of FLACs nicely. Not a single tracker inside and you can buy it outside of Google Play.
Also, I rip my CDs using dBPoweramp on my Mac and buy FLACs on Qobuz and 7digital.

jrunck

I'm a music addict and have a huge digital (and physical collection). I play most of my digital music streaming from my NAS and I won't use a player from Google Play. Because of this only two apps meet my personal requirements: Neutron Player & VLC. They crush the competition when streaming music on a NAS and both do it with ease. Neutron Player also has settings for the best audio quality I've ever heard on any other app. The UI is ugly as hell and not great to navigate, but gets the job done by having ALL the needed settings available.

I always found Poweramp to be overrated and required a workaround to stream from a network. The workaround was incapable of handling my music collection.

Neutron Player can be purchased (without Google Play) or used for free: https://neutroncode.com/downloads

Clark

I have downloaded my music as FLAC files and play them via Metro. However I'd love to know how to compress them and retain as much quality as possible since it takes up a löf of space and Pixels don't have SD slots.

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