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Musicolet – Offline Music Player for Android

93 points by Lammy 6y ago

mamu95 6y ago
This has been my main music player app for the past 2 years. What I love about it is the offline nature of the app for security reasons and the queues feature.
ducktective 6y ago
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 maintained anymore). If you've used Xperia phones, it is similar to the Walkman music player [2]. [1] https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/ [2] https://www.gizmobolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sony-Walkman-8.4.A.5.4-1280x720.png https://www.gizmobolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sony-Wa...
- app4soft 6y ago
  > Musicolet is one of those no-nonsense and polished android applications that are becoming more and more rare these days. Is its source are open already?
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
  - ffpip 6y ago
    It is closed source, but if privacy is your concern, it does not attempt to access the internet. You can log connections to check this or just inspect the list of permissions it uses in Android settings.
- app4soft 6y ago
  > If you've used Xperia phones, it is similar to the Walkman music player In the age of Symbian, TTPod was a "Walkman music player" for Symbian.[0,1,2] [0] http://nyess-symbian.blogspot.com/2011/10/ttpod-music-players-symbian-s60v3s60v5.html http://nyess-symbian.blogspot.com/2011/10/ttpod-music-player... [1] http://www.freeware-symbian.com/ttpod-download-5869.html http://www.freeware-symbian.com/ttpod-download-5869.html [2] https://seclub.org/dn.php?d=5&r=1&c=32&fd=5435 https://seclub.org/dn.php?d=5&r=1&c=32&fd=5435
- vezycash 6y ago
  >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.
- autarch 6y ago
  It looks like Clementine is being actively developed again, but there are no new stable releases yet. https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
  - Lammy 6y ago
    It was also forked as “Strawberry” a couple years ago: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
- SECProto 6y ago
  > 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 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).
  - ducktective 6y ago
    > 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.
- vagab0nd 6y ago
  I use this. But I have yet to find a way to cast the audio to a Chromecast. Does anyone know how?
  - kawera 6y ago
    You need the premium version for that.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
  Musicbee is the most natural music player I've ever used. Never understood clementine. Music players are subjective.
excitednumber 6y ago
Great app
Krasnol 6y ago
Proper folder view: yes! It won my heart instantly. This option to chose a folder to search for is so obvious and useful too: yes, I do have a music folder....like every android phone out there and I do use it to put my music in.
jarenmf 6y ago
It is my default music player and I really love it! but I wish it had controls for the playback speed as I sometimes use it for podcasts or recorded talks.
- frissdiegurke 6y ago
  Well, it does have those nowadays. Take a look at the dots-menu above the track-position slider within the playback view. It is called "Play speed and Pitch".
- ffpip 6y ago
  > controls for the playback speed Click the 3 dots > playback speed and pitch https://images2.imgbox.com/22/8f/gICcStTu_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/22/8f/gICcStTu_o.jpg You can move this to the main menu by click the 3 dots> "Quick Access" Shortcuts> Tick the checkbox beside 'Playback speed and Pitch'
edhelas 6y ago
So it looks like offline is a feature now :D Damn I'm still happy to have my iPod and Rockbox in my backpack, 80gb of music, days of battery and a nice firmware to play Vorbis/FLAC/Opus :)
xoria 6y ago
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.
- alias_neo 6y ago
  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 https://github.com/flackbash/AudioAnchor
  - khimaros 6y ago
    you may also like "Voice", also on F-Droid.
    - alias_neo 6y ago
      Thanks, just installed, looks great!
raffraffraff 6y 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, 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.
- jsn 6y ago
  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.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
- LibertyBeta 6y ago
  Honest question, why kit just get a DAP like one of the Higby, FiiO, Shanking, or Xduoo devices?
  - raffraffraff 6y ago
    I got a DAP. The Shanling Q1. Sounds great and is an absolutely beautiful device. But it's heavy, and has the worst interface I've ever used on any music player. It's fucking awful. So it sits in a box on the shelf and I'll only ever take it out to show people how it's possible to get 90% of the way to brilliance and then totally shit the bed.
    - 6y ago
Causality1 6y ago
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.
- NathanielK 6y ago
  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.
sandreas 6y ago
Is there something like this for audio books?
- tbihl 6y ago
  Smart Audiobooks handles offline audiobooks in every format I've thrown at it. ReadEra is my recommendation for offline pdf/epub consolidated reader.
  - sandreas 6y ago
    Nice find. Thank you.
- rayrag 6y ago
  AudioAnchor
  - sandreas 6y ago
    This looks good, thank you :-)
- throwmusic2366 6y ago
  'Voice' is good and FLOSS. It's on fdroid. https://f-droid.org/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/ https://f-droid.org/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/
skeptronus 6y ago
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).
- crtasm 6y ago
  The site lists no internet permission as a feature - is that no longer the case?
alpineidyll3 6y ago
Musicolet is incredibly fast and capable with large libraries. I love it.
doctorwho42 6y ago
Am I the only one who looks at this and wonders; why not just use foobar2000? It has the same quality and stability on both android as on your desktops OS... And from what I can tell has most of the features of this but with a 15 year track record of stability (assuming you don't download an unstable third party add-ons)
- ropeladder 6y ago
  On my new phone (Android 10) foobar2000 can't play tracks without stuttering. Haven't found a great replacement yet, but... that's one reason not to use it.
  - doctorwho42 6y ago
    That's a bummer, still works on mine running android 10. But as we all know with phones, YMMV
lookalike74 6y ago
I have tried most of the more enduring Android music apps, and Musicolet is among the best 10-15 of them, ever. But they don't all have good equalization options. "Bass boost" is catchy and popular, but being able to adjust things like track gain, album gain, pre-amp & post-amp levels, etc... makes ALL the difference on your average Android. Despite it's clunky UI, ArmAmp has been my favorite for about a decade and it has those things plus individually tuneable EQ bands. (Also anyone who ever used Deadbeef - which is what I used before - should be able to cope with ArmAmp's UI.)
stonesweep 6y ago
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/ https://vanilla-music.github.io/
- someperson 6y ago
  Vanilla Music is the best FLOSS Android music player I've come across so far
- ffpip 6y ago
  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.
  - ffpip 6y ago
    *there were none
- khimaros 6y ago
  "Vinyl" is also great. simple and attractive interface. available on F-Droid. if network play is needed there's always VLC. combined with Wireshark and Samba, a solid personal music streaming setup.
- Jonnax 6y ago
  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
  - stonesweep 6y ago
    The submission is not an article discussing it, nor a Changelog with a new feature, a commentary about the app or other HN worthy discussion launching content - it's simply a link to a random app website. HN has guidelines saying don't use the site for promotion (we have Show HN for that), and as a reader I consider it spam and am calling it out as such. Replace the link with something better about the app (blog review? news? IP lawsuit? whatever works) and we're back on track.
mawise 6y ago
I wanted an offline wall-mounted tablet driving music for my living room so that I could (gasp) BROWSE my own music collection. I settled on Musicolet after trying a few other options. The one missing feature I wanted was some sense of music _collections_ concept in the interface so that my wife and I could browse each of our individual collections on the same device. Other than that I've been very satisfied.
ArtWomb 6y ago
Am just getting back into Android dev again, and the high perf audio api looks very versatile. Csound, Faust are also available. Software defined musical instruments are the end goal here. Oboe wrapper the underlying library. Coupled with Filament for PBR, am looking forward to exploring Android as a platform for real-time generative content creation ;) An update on Android's audio latency https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-on-androids-audio-latency.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-... Besides, the Processing IDE, does anyone know of any on-device Android dev env that could also potentially support visual development? Thanks in advance!
ffpip 6y ago
This is the best music app I've ever used on Android. Fast, , no ads, does not access the internet, great UI, low on resources and space used. One of the few apps I enjoy using on my phone. Many thanks to the developer for making a offline music player and not introducing ads in it!
cropcirclbureau 6y ago
Been using Musicolet for years, terrific.
T3ss3r4ct 6y ago
I prefer Poweramp a lot more. It has a compact list view (a must-have for me which also seems to be a rare feature) with a fairly smooth UI. It also has upto a 32-band EQ.
ComodoHacker 6y ago
Looks like AIMP (which I'm currently using) has every feature listed and more, but I'll give it a try.

93 points by Lammy 6y ago

This has been my main music player app for the past 2 years. What I love about it is the offline nature of the app for security reasons and the queues feature.

ducktective 6y ago

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 maintained anymore). If you've used Xperia phones, it is similar to the Walkman music player [2]. [1] https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/ [2] https://www.gizmobolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sony-Walkman-8.4.A.5.4-1280x720.png https://www.gizmobolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sony-Wa...

app4soft 6y ago
> Musicolet is one of those no-nonsense and polished android applications that are becoming more and more rare these days. Is its source are open already?
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- ffpip 6y ago
  It is closed source, but if privacy is your concern, it does not attempt to access the internet. You can log connections to check this or just inspect the list of permissions it uses in Android settings.
app4soft 6y ago
> If you've used Xperia phones, it is similar to the Walkman music player In the age of Symbian, TTPod was a "Walkman music player" for Symbian.[0,1,2] [0] http://nyess-symbian.blogspot.com/2011/10/ttpod-music-players-symbian-s60v3s60v5.html http://nyess-symbian.blogspot.com/2011/10/ttpod-music-player... [1] http://www.freeware-symbian.com/ttpod-download-5869.html http://www.freeware-symbian.com/ttpod-download-5869.html [2] https://seclub.org/dn.php?d=5&r=1&c=32&fd=5435 https://seclub.org/dn.php?d=5&r=1&c=32&fd=5435
vezycash 6y ago
>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.
autarch 6y ago
It looks like Clementine is being actively developed again, but there are no new stable releases yet. https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
- Lammy 6y ago
  It was also forked as “Strawberry” a couple years ago: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
SECProto 6y ago
> 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 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).
- ducktective 6y ago
  > 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.
vagab0nd 6y ago
I use this. But I have yet to find a way to cast the audio to a Chromecast. Does anyone know how?
- kawera 6y ago
  You need the premium version for that.
HeadsUpHigh 6y ago
Musicbee is the most natural music player I've ever used. Never understood clementine. Music players are subjective.

excitednumber 6y ago

Great app

Krasnol 6y ago

Proper folder view: yes! It won my heart instantly. This option to chose a folder to search for is so obvious and useful too: yes, I do have a music folder....like every android phone out there and I do use it to put my music in.

jarenmf 6y ago

It is my default music player and I really love it! but I wish it had controls for the playback speed as I sometimes use it for podcasts or recorded talks.

frissdiegurke 6y ago
Well, it does have those nowadays. Take a look at the dots-menu above the track-position slider within the playback view. It is called "Play speed and Pitch".
ffpip 6y ago
> controls for the playback speed Click the 3 dots > playback speed and pitch https://images2.imgbox.com/22/8f/gICcStTu_o.jpg https://images2.imgbox.com/22/8f/gICcStTu_o.jpg You can move this to the main menu by click the 3 dots> "Quick Access" Shortcuts> Tick the checkbox beside 'Playback speed and Pitch'

edhelas 6y ago

So it looks like offline is a feature now :D Damn I'm still happy to have my iPod and Rockbox in my backpack, 80gb of music, days of battery and a nice firmware to play Vorbis/FLAC/Opus :)

xoria 6y ago

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.

alias_neo 6y ago
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 https://github.com/flackbash/AudioAnchor
- khimaros 6y ago
  you may also like "Voice", also on F-Droid.
  - alias_neo 6y ago
    Thanks, just installed, looks great!

raffraffraff 6y 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, 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.

jsn 6y ago
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.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
LibertyBeta 6y ago
Honest question, why kit just get a DAP like one of the Higby, FiiO, Shanking, or Xduoo devices?
- raffraffraff 6y ago
  I got a DAP. The Shanling Q1. Sounds great and is an absolutely beautiful device. But it's heavy, and has the worst interface I've ever used on any music player. It's fucking awful. So it sits in a box on the shelf and I'll only ever take it out to show people how it's possible to get 90% of the way to brilliance and then totally shit the bed.
  - 6y ago

Causality1 6y ago

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.

NathanielK 6y ago
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.

sandreas 6y ago

Is there something like this for audio books?

tbihl 6y ago
Smart Audiobooks handles offline audiobooks in every format I've thrown at it. ReadEra is my recommendation for offline pdf/epub consolidated reader.
- sandreas 6y ago
  Nice find. Thank you.
rayrag 6y ago
AudioAnchor
- sandreas 6y ago
  This looks good, thank you :-)
throwmusic2366 6y ago
'Voice' is good and FLOSS. It's on fdroid. https://f-droid.org/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/ https://f-droid.org/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/

skeptronus 6y ago

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).

crtasm 6y ago
The site lists no internet permission as a feature - is that no longer the case?

alpineidyll3 6y ago

Musicolet is incredibly fast and capable with large libraries. I love it.

doctorwho42 6y ago

Am I the only one who looks at this and wonders; why not just use foobar2000? It has the same quality and stability on both android as on your desktops OS... And from what I can tell has most of the features of this but with a 15 year track record of stability (assuming you don't download an unstable third party add-ons)

ropeladder 6y ago
On my new phone (Android 10) foobar2000 can't play tracks without stuttering. Haven't found a great replacement yet, but... that's one reason not to use it.
- doctorwho42 6y ago
  That's a bummer, still works on mine running android 10. But as we all know with phones, YMMV

lookalike74 6y ago

I have tried most of the more enduring Android music apps, and Musicolet is among the best 10-15 of them, ever. But they don't all have good equalization options. "Bass boost" is catchy and popular, but being able to adjust things like track gain, album gain, pre-amp & post-amp levels, etc... makes ALL the difference on your average Android. Despite it's clunky UI, ArmAmp has been my favorite for about a decade and it has those things plus individually tuneable EQ bands. (Also anyone who ever used Deadbeef - which is what I used before - should be able to cope with ArmAmp's UI.)

stonesweep 6y ago

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/ https://vanilla-music.github.io/

someperson 6y ago
Vanilla Music is the best FLOSS Android music player I've come across so far
ffpip 6y ago
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.
- ffpip 6y ago
  *there were none
khimaros 6y ago
"Vinyl" is also great. simple and attractive interface. available on F-Droid. if network play is needed there's always VLC. combined with Wireshark and Samba, a solid personal music streaming setup.
Jonnax 6y ago
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
- stonesweep 6y ago
  The submission is not an article discussing it, nor a Changelog with a new feature, a commentary about the app or other HN worthy discussion launching content - it's simply a link to a random app website. HN has guidelines saying don't use the site for promotion (we have Show HN for that), and as a reader I consider it spam and am calling it out as such. Replace the link with something better about the app (blog review? news? IP lawsuit? whatever works) and we're back on track.

mawise 6y ago

I wanted an offline wall-mounted tablet driving music for my living room so that I could (gasp) BROWSE my own music collection. I settled on Musicolet after trying a few other options. The one missing feature I wanted was some sense of music _collections_ concept in the interface so that my wife and I could browse each of our individual collections on the same device. Other than that I've been very satisfied.

ArtWomb 6y ago

Am just getting back into Android dev again, and the high perf audio api looks very versatile. Csound, Faust are also available. Software defined musical instruments are the end goal here. Oboe wrapper the underlying library. Coupled with Filament for PBR, am looking forward to exploring Android as a platform for real-time generative content creation ;) An update on Android's audio latency https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-on-androids-audio-latency.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-... Besides, the Processing IDE, does anyone know of any on-device Android dev env that could also potentially support visual development? Thanks in advance!

ffpip 6y ago

This is the best music app I've ever used on Android. Fast, , no ads, does not access the internet, great UI, low on resources and space used. One of the few apps I enjoy using on my phone. Many thanks to the developer for making a offline music player and not introducing ads in it!

cropcirclbureau 6y ago

Been using Musicolet for years, terrific.

T3ss3r4ct 6y ago

I prefer Poweramp a lot more. It has a compact list view (a must-have for me which also seems to be a rare feature) with a fairly smooth UI. It also has upto a 32-band EQ.

ComodoHacker 6y ago

Looks like AIMP (which I'm currently using) has every feature listed and more, but I'll give it a try.