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[Request] FOSS music player for Android, must allow importing m3u8 playlists. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by CamelCityCalamity@lemmy.world to c/androidapps@lemmy.world

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I've been using Pi Music Player, and I'd like to switch to something free and open source. The only feature I absolutely need is the ability to import m3u8 playlists from the file system into the app's own playlist database, in bulk. That is, it must be able to import /Playlists (or any folder that contains playlists) that point to local music on my phone, overwriting playlists of the same name it previously imported. This is how I keep my phone's playlists in sync with my PC's. Pi Music Player supports this. It also supports creating playlists on the phone and exporting them to a file, but that's less important to me.

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[–] CamelCityCalamity@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been using this for a few days and it's pretty good, but not perfect as a music player. It sometimes forgets what I was playing when not in use, and I have to re-pick a playlist, and of course it loses my position in it when that happens.

I also tried it as a video player when tapping a video in my gallery app (Fossify Gallery) after I had recently used VLC for music, and it resumed the music instead of playing the video! Twice! I had to explicitly exit the app before it would play the video. (I realize Fossify Gallery has a built-in video player, but it's not very feature rich, and I was simply trying out VLC.)

I also had to turn off the feature for rescanning my library every time the app opens because that's on by default, and with my large music library and dozens of playlists, it would take literally 25 seconds to open every time. No idea why that's on by default when "Refresh" is one of only two options in the three-dot menu, easily accessible on-demand.

I also just learned, much to my chagrin, that you can accidentally pull down from the top to refresh. Another feature no one needs. Not for something that can take 25 seconds, and is right there in the menu besides. I can't find any way to turn that off.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lock Interface should disable all gestures but is probably more effort than necessary

I haven’t had any issues remembering where I was last; it always shows my last played audio file

Turning off defaults is normal, not sure why you’re surprised you have to configure the app to your liking

[–] CamelCityCalamity@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There is such a thing as "intelligent defaults", though. I can't be the only one carrying around 10 GB of music on my phone. This will affect anyone in my shoes, and it was super annoying until I found the setting. Luckily that setting exists, but where's the setting to disable pull to refresh?

I'm allowed to be surprised, since this is the only media app for android but I've ever seen that refreshes the entire library every time you open it, or with pull to refresh. It's completely unheard of. Totally surprising.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately programs are built for the masses not “intelligence”.

I think you need to consider that the options you want are here and that the decades old VLC project respects your desires for customization more than you assume