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Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by ducktective »

SECProto wrote: post #44
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…

> The interface is really clean, the app has many useful features and honestly, the whole UX is smooth and intuitive. 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…

> I can't find any way to adjust the size of these media controls

I don't think there is any app which allows you to do so. Still the settings dialog has lots of options (more than alternatives). I've heavily customized (minimized) Musicolet one time. Now I only have 5 tabs which I use the first 3 (playlists, now playing and folder-view).

The most important features for me is "search in queue" in playlist view itself (the narrow bar below). Also it is nice that it auto-generates the "most-played musics" in a separate playlist with counts of each item beside.

Maybe the default settings and layouts is not clutter-free but at least it allows the user to de-bloat and customize to his liking.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by Lammy »

soulofmischief wrote: post #49
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…

Try DSub and your own airsonic music server. Optionally open up cached files in foobar2k instead.

The version of DSub on F-Droid is unfortunately years out of date since the dev had to pull in some Google library for Chromecast support.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by ffpip »

ffpip wrote: post #33
stonesweep wrote: post #25

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/

Musicolet is much better than Vanilla Music in terms of UI and features. If privacy is your concern, Musicolet cannot access the internet. It does not have that permission. I use the app, and I have checked for connections it tried to make on startup. There were one.

*there were none

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by vagab0nd »

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 use this. But I have yet to find a way to cast the audio to a Chromecast. Does anyone know how?

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by [deleted] »

jsn wrote: post #15
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.

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Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

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…

> add sshd service so I can rsync files to it,

Google Play Music, apart from being a good local music player it's sync feature seemed to have been much sought after. With the app's removal, the local playback is addressed by apps like Musicolet but there is a need gap[1] for syncing local library and addressing it would be a great way to monetize such music player apps or perhaps even build a new one to address it?

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/179-upload-local-music-and-sync... (Disclaimer: I built this problem validation platform).

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by NathanielK »

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…

There are fewer apps designed for small phones. For my 4.6" phone with a large UI scale, I found foobar2000[1] very functional. It truncates even less than Phonograph and has high contrast themes.

[1]]http://foobar2000.com/get-android

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #56
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…

> add sshd service so I can rsync files to it, Google Play Music, apart from being a good local music player it's sync feature seemed to have been much sought after. With the app's removal, the local playback is addressed by apps like Musicolet but there is a need gap[1] for syncing local library and addressing it would be a great way to monetize such music player apps or perhaps even build a new one to address it? […

I just point my player app to a folder that syncthing manages.

Re: Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

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Post by NathanielK »

Causality1 wrote: post #14

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 alw…

What is wrong with swiping for the notification from anywhere to reach the media controls?

Foobar2k android is lovely, but it has quirks. If you use the "Shuffle albums/tracks" feature, then go back, there is no return. Reopening will reshuffle all the media again.

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