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This looks like an advertising post to HN, here's a FOSS app instead which has been around for a long time: https://vanilla-music.github.io/
But also it's hosted by a Venture Capitalist Firm.
So even if it was advertising I don't see the problem
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).
This looks like an advertising post to HN, here's a FOSS app instead which has been around for a long time: https://vanilla-music.github.io/
This is a forum where people share what they've built. But also it's hosted by a Venture Capitalist Firm. So even if it was advertising I don't see the problem
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…
It is smooth, but I disagree with clean/intuitive. I just installed it for the first time and the comments I have:
- The first screen (now playing?) has a big "Musicolet" branded square filling most of the screen (where missing album art would go), and a small "Musicolet" fuzzed out in the background behind the tiny media controls. I can't find any way to adjust the size of these media controls, though I did manage to change it so tapping on the album art will play/pause a song, so not the end of the world. But immediately puts to rest the claim of it being clean/intuitive/well-polished in my opinion.
- The tab to the left of that seems to be a queue - filled with my library on random? Seems fine.
- The tab to the right is library view. I keep mine well organize, so that will be handy.
- The fourth tab (dot in a circle in a circle?) looks like album list. Change to list view, that's better. Lots of different sorting options - great! I want it sorted by date but wait.. now it doesn't show me artist? maybe I can change the settings ... nope, I can either show album-artist, or album-year, but not album-year/artist. There's lots of white space on the second line, showing both year and artist would've made this tab useful.
- 5th tab, artist - duplicate of library view in my case.
- 6th tab - label/genre, useless as I don't manage this tag on my files
- 7th tab - i don't know what this is
- 8th tab - search, oops this isn't a tab. the button is tab sized, but I can't swipe to it like a tab. Larger button would help.
- 9th (not a tab) - settings. Go to change interface - oh I guess the 7th tab was playlists, and despite it not looking useful to me I can't push it below the line to hide it.
> 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 maintained anymore).
I think Foober2000 on windows is at least as well-crafted as this (and looks similar to the shots of Clementine on that page).
I currently use foobar2000 on android. It also has significant shortcomings, but I will likely continue to use it. But musicolet looks promising so I'll keep my eye on it and see how it develops (foobar mobile has seemed unchanging since I first installed it 3 years ago).
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…
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I recently came across AudioAnchor for audio books, it's designed for audio books so it's functionality may be better for you. I've only used it lightly so far but it seems pretty good. It's also open source and available in F-Droid: https://github.com/flackbash/AudioAnchor
you may also like "Voice", also on F-Droid.
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…
Honest question, why kit just get a DAP like one of the Higby, FiiO, Shanking, or Xduoo devices?
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…
It looks like Clementine is being actively developed again, but there are no new stable releases yet. https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
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…
This looks like an advertising post to HN, here's a FOSS app instead which has been around for a long time: https://vanilla-music.github.io/