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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

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
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- 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.

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
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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.