Hi, hope I can ask here. I’ve been using vlc for android as my music player but it really struggles after 5k local songs surprisingly so I’m looking for an alternative. The main problem I have is that after switching to the user account that has my local media, vlc refreshes and clears my playlist and I’m at the point where it’s becoming a bit frustrating. I already tried the majority of music player apps on fdroid but they all have issues with the metadata (no album art, unknown genre, etc…). Any help?

Edit: If it matters for troubleshooting, I’m running grapheneos and use vlc on a seperate user profile where my local media is located.

Edit #2: Phonograph plus seems like my best option rn but feel free to give more options to help others

    • Extras@lemmy.todayOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah was gonna use the non google service version but since the licensing is kinda strict it would be my last resort

  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Auxio is kind of a beast. It does an initial cache on load and periodically, but then handles everything blazing fast after that. And it is the only app of recent times that’s both open source and has the layout I want (old Google Play Music/Zune/iTunes Mobile layout).

  • Quintus@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I personally use Phonograph Plus although it has it’s own share of issues. The best one in my opinion was Vinyl Music Player but it had some issues with SD cards.

    • Extras@lemmy.todayOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah vinyl music player looked promising but it did suffer reading my metadata sadly. I’ll look into phonograph plus, appreciate it

    • Extras@lemmy.todayOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Alrighty just tried phonograph plus and it checked every box thanks again. Storage scope was messing with the genre metadata for some reason but sincs its on another profile I’ll just grant it permission

  • ikiru@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Have you tried Retro Music?

    I like it and got it in an attempt to move on to something more aesthetically pleasing than VLC, but I just ended up going back to VLC.

  • HowShouldIKnow@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    When choosing a music player I went with an favorite from my dial-up days, Foobar2000. It’s pretty no frills… and I couldn’t find Winamp.

    • mranderson17@infosec.pub
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ll be honest, I did not expect to ever hear another person mention Foobar2000 ever again. And now to learn they have an android app!!! Hmm, may have to use that for a bit just for nostalgia sake.

  • unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org
    21·
    1 year ago

    I use AIMP. It’s available for PC also. It’s like what Winamp would be had development continued, and it’s pretty great

    Edit: I’m pretty sure it’s not open source, but that’s very low on my personal list of priorities, tbh