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GFD @GFD2/22/2024, 11:17 PM

software recommendation: Auxio, a local music player for Android

a few months ago i decided i was sick of the music player app i had been using, so i scrounged through every open‐source Android music player i could find and compared all their features. i decided they were all bad, but that Auxio would be good once it got some updates (the developer had been busy with a high course load). it has those now! some of the features i was looking for:

gapless playback, added in v3.4.0 which was released 5 days ago
1‐height widgets, also added in v3.4.0
this is the only Android music player besides VLC that correctly renders the album title “░█░█░░█░█░█░”
replaygain support
playlist export and import
black OLED theme
per‐song album covers look to be slated for v3.5.0

making software recommendations has a high ratio of potential helpfulness to effort, so some day i’d like to make a full directory of personal recommendations.

#Auxio #software recommendations #free software

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me @littleampton2/23/2024, 12:19 AM

As someone who's literally never happy with any music player, thanks, I'll check it out :)

inbtwn @inbtwn2/23/2024, 2:16 AM

this is good, but i also really like mucke, a player on the f-droid store that is similar to this but has a few more features i like, such as being able to like and auto-skip songs (why don't more music players have this???). neat, though!

GFD @GFD2/23/2024, 3:24 AM

huh, so that one does have users. mucke actually did also render “░█░█░░█░█░█░” correctly, but it otherwise had one of the lowest scores for my criteria: no replaygain, no widget, no black theme, development looks inactive… and i believe i found its UI and in particular its playlist functionality to be far too clunky to make up for the lack of playlist importing.

though, mucke at least wasn’t one of the few i just immediately crossed‐off for a blocking issue. like, there was one called “AntiiQ” where i was so put off when trying to use it at all that i didn’t even bother evaluating its features and just logged it in my comparison document as “utterly abhorrent UI”.