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.
Well this appears to not be choking on my ~50,000-song library on external storage, so it already passes Test One. Will certainly be putting it through its paces, because almost every other music player on the Play Store is awful in some way or another.
Thank you for the recommendation. 👍
[edit] Actually never mind, I'm not sure if this is because of the app or because my shitty underspecced phone keeps booting it out of RAM, but it wants to process the entire media library every single time I launch the app and I can do nothing else with it while it's busy with that. Player's literally unusable for me, sad to say. 🤷♂️
