I have been using Lollypop on my phone for about 2 years now. I have tried a few other apps but nothing worked quite as well for me as Lollypop.
That said, I still have a lot of gripes with Lollypop. Rather than complain about it, though, I'd rather hear about something new.
The last time I went looking for a new app was in 2023. Is there anything new in 2025 worth checking out?
My wants:
- Large-ish local library (350gb) and I want it to load/scroll through fast. Lollypop is quite slow here.
- I really prefer the UI to list artists, open one, then list albums, open one, then list songs. Too many apps list all your albums, or all your individual songs, and I hate this.
Edit: I guess I need to specify, I am looking for Linux-native apps. A few of the suggestions so far have been Android, and I am not seeking to run anything in Waydroid for this.
13 Comments
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
Old reliable VLC for all media.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
This, I would trust to be fast, at least. How is it on mobile, though?
wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Perfect. I use VLC installed via Fdroid as my primary Android music player. The only thing I could never get to work was displaying Album art, but I stopped caring enough to fiddle with it for such a trivial thing long ago.
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
Album art shows up for me no problem on VLC
wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
On the Android app?
yonder@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
I like using Gapless, though I'm a sucker for GTK4 apps and I'm not sure it has the artist -> album UX you're looking for.
linmob@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
+1 for Gapless. My library is not nearly as large, but it's still plenty quick (no noticeable delay) with my 1 digit gigabytes library and IMHO the best native feeling media player on Phosh/GNOME Mobile.
It also does the Album -> Artist -> Song thing (which made me notice that I still have not fixed every error in metadata I managed to add to a part of my Library by blindly applying musicbraiz suggestions via Tagger, but that's just a me thing).
colin@lemmy.uninsane.org · 2 pts · 1y
i keep my music organized on-disk so that each song is placed at
<artist>/<album>/<track-number>-<title>.flac. then i just use any file browser (e.g. rofi, or portfolio) to navigate it, and when i select a song it opens inmpv. i installed theplaylistmanagermpv script so that when i open any song, mpv queues everything else in that folder (so if i open track 01, the default behavior is gapless playback of the whole album). i also installed theuoscscript, which provides a UI that's much friendlier than the default IMO.i find i prefer configuring just one media player and then using that for everything (music, audiobooks, videos, podcasts, etc). then for example when i decide i want to cast music to my TV, i only have to solve that once, and not separately for casting youtube, local videos, etc.
lemmysam@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio available in F-Droid.
JoeBidet@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
cmus
GeraltvonNVIDIA@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I use Jellyfin for all my media and on Desktop like on My Linux-Phone an APP called "Supersonic" to connect to my Audio-library.
I really like it on the desktop, but unfortunetly it isnt build for mobile-devices. But it runs under postmarketOS on My OnePlus6T and it does its job.
qpsLCV5@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
i'm having some decent success using cmus and a tiny wrapper script to save some typing.
joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y
Dont know how it performs on such a large collection, but can recommend Fossify Music Player.
https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Music-Player
BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y