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Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by xoria »

While I'd not call it "Music" Player for my purposes, I use it since a few years for playback of audiobooks and similar content for which a proper queueing feature is highly relevant.

It's been great for that, containing all the important features and proper queues. The few issues I had, I sent to the support email as bug reports or feature requests, and most of those have been resolved relatively quick.

So, not being open source (or at least source available) is the only remaining concern for me. Still, I'm happy to use it since there are only few mobile applications that have a similar no-nonsense style and still target power-users.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by raffraffraff »

When Google Play Music shut down I decided to buy a 128gb SD card and a Jelly Pro (tiny phone) to use as an MP3 player.

The battery life on the phone is shit, but since I only needed it for music, I could do something about that. I rooted it, added some automation: automatically launch music player and scrobbler on startup, activate airplane mode except when plugged in, add sshd service so I can rsync files to it, and turn the device off if music issn't playing for three consecutive checks (each 15m apart)

The only thing I need was a decent music player. I tried Musicolet, but it didn't suit me. For a start, it just doesn't work well on a small screen. Almost every piece of text was truncated. I also found that it didn't pick up media changes a lot of the time (eg sync a new playlist). I ended up going with phonograph because it's perfect on a small screen, has good controls and is really simple.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by Causality1 »

I like this app, but you really need to be able to play/pause from any of the tabs. If you're all the way over on the end it can take several seconds to get back to a screen with media controls. This becomes a problem if you need to quickly pause, such as when someone walks up and begins talking to you.

Overall I really love the power user features but the UI on foobar2000 is much better. Only having two tabs and always knowing how many presses of the Back button it takes to close the app is good. Having Artist/Title/Folder/Playlist/etc be buttons on one screen is faster than scrolling through separate tabs for each.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by jsn »

raffraffraff wrote: post #13

When Google Play Music shut down I decided to buy a 128gb SD card and a Jelly Pro (tiny phone) to use as an MP3 player. The battery life on the phone is shit, but since I only needed it for music, I could do something about that. I rooted it, added some automation: automatically launch music player and scrobbler on startup, activate airplane mode except when plugged in, add sshd service so I can rsync files to it, an…

It now has the option to avoid (laggy) Android media service framework, and to use its own scanner to detect media changes instead. That should be immediate.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by vezycash »

ducktective wrote: post #3

Musicolet is one of those no-nonsense and polished android applications that are becoming more and more rare these days. The interface is really clean, the app has many useful features and honestly, the whole UX is smooth and intuitive. I'll go as far as to say I've never seen a music player software on Windows or GNU/Linux that is as well-crafted as this. (Clementine[1] comes close but sadly it seems it's not mainta…

>I'll go as far as to say I've never seen a music player software on Windows or GNU/Linux that is as well-crafted as this

Media monkey is the best player ever. It's autodj feature virtually eliminates the need to create playlists. Think I should make a YouTube tutorial on configuring it.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by skeptronus »

Have been using it for more than two years now. Its clean and feature rich,while being lightweight and ad/tracker free. and it didnt even have internet permission until a recent update .So although I prefer FOSS alternatives, I still use this (with internet access blocked).
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