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Looking for a music player (for local files) (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking a music player focused on local media (stored in my phone's SD card)

I used foobar2000, but I found creating playlist incredibly tedious so I changed to VLC, which is ok, it let me choose a bunch of files and add them to a playlist, but both share the same problem. When I change my SD card for a new one I have to start from the scratch and create all the playlist again, and that's a pain in the ass

So I'm looking for a audio player that let me easily export and import the playlist I create

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is that when you change cards, the files are no longer in the same place. Even if you use the same file organisation, afaik, android treats it as though it's separate because I've switched cards back and forth, with each card being recognized properly, but not interchangeably despite being an exact copy, having copy/pasted from one to the other.

It you use a file manager like mixplorer, you can see that each card gets a unique identifier. You pull one, slap the next in, and the identifier changes. You slap the first one back, and it gets its original number.

That being said, most music players create and read playlists from media storage. So import/export is easy enough as long as the player has an import option at all.

Poweramp is my player of choice, and it will import system playlists manually. Most of the rest do it by default. Iirc, gonemad and jet do. Been a few years since I checked out the other big ones, but I recall it being a normal thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Poweramp is for me still the best alternative with the best file compatibility and tweaks to optimise your listening experience. Haven't found other players with the capabilities of Poweramp. It's also free to try and if you want to unlock it it's a single time purchase license which is very affordable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah, SD cards have unique identifiers, but I thought some apps could ignore it and just see it as "external storage". I'll check the music players, since they have trial periods