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Still does not display any result, even with a play store link, even after uninstall/reinstall. 4.1.1. With sandboxed play services.

Hey all, I'm new to the forum and glad I found this thread, Aurora has been driving me nuts! After an MP3 player app named Musicolet. It stopped working a few days ago, and went to reinstall it, but now can't get to it from the Aurora store.
Reinstalled FDroid and Aurora, neither helped. Found a site that has the apk file for the app, but none of the new or even older versions work, saying "incompatible with this device" - weird, when I've had it installed without issue before.
This seem like something to do with Aurora, or something else as well?
Thanks!

    Aurora's disposable accounts getting rate-limited, which is why search won't work. There are open issues about it on their issue tracker. Nothing we can do on our end unless they sort it out.

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    StevenShortly what you need to do is in app drawer long press on Aurora store, tap on App info - Open by default and add play.google.com. Then go to Vanadium and do a search "Google Play Musicolet" and open the play store link from results. It should open in your Aurora store app. Install from there. Oh, before you do that make sure that you uninstall the Musicolet app, to make sure that it is a fresh install.

      [deleted] You're a genius! I've not gotten so far as to install the app, thank you! Now Musicolet at least is installed, but its opening only as far as the splashscreen. I'm guessing that's something to do with the app then.... has there been any updates to the GrapheneOS that may be the issue? The Musicolet app is pretty small and by default has no network update, so it never updates itself, so I'm hesitant to think it's that... but it well could be

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        StevenShortly I know this may sound funny but have you tried Total Commander? It is an exceptionally good file manager and it comes with a built-in audio player (plays video too) which is like a very no frills folder based music player but it does the job for me and I love it to bits.

        https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander

          [deleted] haha oh wow I did not know this 🤣 just added YouTube links to NewPipe. Excellent

          [deleted] Hey Sarge, "open by default" opens a window showing the option to add play.google.com and market.android.com. However, the window does not allow me to select either!?

          Any help here? (P7)

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            I can not verify this at the moment but have you guys by any chance sandboxed Google Play installed and perhaps opening links assigned to Play Store? Try to remove association there first.

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              Yes I did. So I removed the association from Google Play and I was able to assign them to Aurora. However, when I search for an app nothing I try comes up, even though it exists there

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                DANG!! YOU DA MAN, SARGE! THANKS!
                That freed it up, and now Aurora store (4.1.1) works as in the past. I do have to kill it and restart it before each new download.

                HoarseMan try AS 4.1.1 and kill/restart it a few times. I got AS from F-Droid

                [deleted] I don't stream any music, I have a old school MP3 collection, so I need to do stuff like sort genres and authors, playlists, etc. I might try Total Commander as a waypoint, while I wait for Aurora to be fixed and see if that fixes Musicolet. Thanks man!

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                User2288 Because development has been taken over by other developers, and the main developer is not around to sign new releases.

                F-Droid builds and signs apps themselves, so that's why it's being updated there. It's not an ideal situation.

                The main developer has shown their face to say they're around, but they're apparently not around enough to sign new releases.

                  I plan to move from /e/OS to GrapheneOS but the fact that there's no properly working privacy-focus app store holds me back. Has anyone tried installing the open-source App Lounge from /e/OS on GrapheneOS?
                  https://doc.e.foundation/app-lounge

                  I'm using it on /e/OS and it works great. The only thing I'm missing there is that it does not show release notes when updating apps which is something Aurora does.