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Anyone migrate from PlayerPro to a FOSS alternative? (play.google.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking for a music player that will do a good job of loading album art. It all looks great in PlayerPro, but I tried Auxio and Aplayer but they didn't do a great job of pulling in the album art. Tracks were also incorrectly lumped together with mixed albums/artists.

Any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, the state of Android music players is not great. Currently I have two FOSS music players installed: Metro Music Player (the F-Droid version of Retro Music Player) and mucke. mucke has a ton of really cool features that improve the shuffle experience but it's actually worse than most apps at pulling album art. Retro/Metro has beautiful UI, and has pretty good features for customization, but lacks the cool features mucke has and is less stable. Both have more than one annoying bug, but it took me a while to find music players that had this few dealbreakers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the recommendations and for sharing your wisdom. I'll give them a shot.