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

  • Quintus@lemmy.ml
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    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.

  • ikiru@lemmy.ml
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    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.

  • stifle867@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    UPDATE: Sorry, this app is not open source. I completely didn’t notice the community. 100% my mistake. I have removed the comment but for reference the recommendation was for Musicolet.

  • unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org
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    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