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Recommend me an audio app for android? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just been using the audio player on ES File Explorer. It tends to forget all its state and has various other UI problems.

I'm interested in an audio player that will keep playlists for me, and remembers its state so I can resume playback. My main use case is to cue up podcasts for driving, so I want it to save my place when I don't finish listening to a whole episode during my drive. Saving my place in multiple playlists would be great too, like an audiobook and a series of podcast episodes would both have saved state so I could switch between them.

Ideally it would also activate playback whenever the phone connects to a particular bluetooth device - my car audio. The use case is I hop in the car, turn on my bluetooth receiver, and audio resumes without me needing to take the phone out of my pocket. Turn off bluetooth, playback stops.

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[–] Fake4000 12 points 10 months ago

Why not use a podcast manager like antennapod?

Sounds like it has all the things you are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

[Edit: This is comment more suited for music, not podcasts.]

I've tried a lot and I think VLC is probably the best I have found so far. It has the resume playback option:

(I also have innertune and newpipe to listen to songs online from youtube and.. spotify for some rare occasions.)

[–] small44 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Musicolet allows that with queues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Musicolet is my choice too.It’s not on fdroid, but the dev makes the apk available from their site

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Musicolet is cool, but it's not FOSS so will never be in F-Droid

[–] small44 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize that the question was asked in f-droid community until pwople mentionned it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Been there, done that 🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It seems that you want a Podcast player and an Audiobook player. I use two different apps for that : AntennaPod for podcasts and Voice for Audiobooks. You can use AntennaPod also for Audiobooks, but I like to separate the two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Retro Music will save where your music playing left off. I think it'll play movie audio too though I don't mess with that. AntennaPod will do everything you want very well but just for podcasts. Voice is a great Audio book player

[–] alphacyberranger 4 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure if it's helpful , but Vinyl and Vanilla are good mp3 players. Both are available on Fdroid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vinyl Music Player - Lightweight, simple, does playlist by filesystem structure, stable! You'd be surprised how difficult it is to find a music player that doesn't have a fancy schmancy playlist and just plays files in directories, that doesn't crash.

[–] ace_garp 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vanilla Music generally

Have been using VLC to play .opus playlists though.

OK, the above is for music files.

u/nobloat has the right answer for place saving in podcasts or audiobooks. Antennapod and Voice are very clean & polished.

[–] grillgamesh0028 2 points 10 months ago

I use AIMP, it does all of these things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I use vlc. But it does not create playlists that can be exported and then imported again, so I am making my own .m3u file