The best Music App for Fairphone 6 and getting access to all my music files

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I’m a new adopter of the Fairphone 6 and I love it! It replaces a Sony Experia 10-4 and it’s such a step up. But my problem is a Music App as I use my phone as my MP3 player and greatly miss the Sony Music App which I cannot put onto my FP6.

I have downloaded AIMP but it’s not as good as the Sony Music app, not as user friendly. And it’s not picking up all my music from the Music file on the phone.

So, my questions are, can anyone recommend a better Music App and more importantly, how can I get over the problem of not all music being playable (it was all playable on the Sony Music App).

But, I love this phone, the concept and ethos and just using it!

Thank-you, Paul

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VLC perhaps? It can play audio as well.

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I guess you will have to try out a few to see what best fits your needs.

I have no experience with the two apps you mentioned but have used the following music apps for a couple of years each:

Poweramp (there was a big UI redesign with version 3 which I didn’t like but maybe that’s no problem for people who don’t know the previous UI)

Foobar2000 (I no longer remember the reason why I stopped using that)

jetAudio+ (my current app)

Edit: I use the app to play roughly 90 GB of music on my SD card (formatted as external storage) that mostly consists of MP3 files from various sources plus a couple of OGG or FLAC files.

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I’m happy with foobar2000.

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Thank-you Uppercase, I will take a look at VLC, Paul

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Thank-you Ingo, much appreciated, I will take a look at those Apps! I certainly like the idea of Jet audio if it can play a variety of files from different sources. Paul

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I’ll look at that one mc50, I’ll try a few to see what works best for me. Many thanks, Paul

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I tested a lot of apps and Auxio checks all the boxes for me.

It is free, open source, very stable & very user firendly. It supports all known formats, multitags, bluetooth (for car displays, ect.), Android Auto and replay-gain. It also lets you black-/whitelist folders.

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I tested quite a few and ended up using Poweramp Music Player and after the trial paid for the full version. Allowed me to play FLAC and the widgets are good too.

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I’m a happy AIMP user, for my phone as well as my PC :musical_notes:

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Thanks Adam, much appreciated!
Paul

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I tried Poweramp and a few others and found Musicolet worked the best for me with my F5.

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I’m very happy with Hi-Fi Cast which I’ve been using for several years. I think the main reason I chose it was because it can cast to a Chromecast device. Happy hunting and happy listening!

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Team Foobar here. I highly recommend it.

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Thanks Gordon, much appreciated.

Paul

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I personally use Symfonium. While I haven’t tried many of the other apps, it’s the best app UX-wise that I’ve seen for android. It supports local media as well as various cloud storage providers, subsonic, jellyfin and some other media sources (and configurable downloading and caching of your online library!). I use it with Navidrome & a download-all-music policy personally. Sadly, it’s not FOSS, but it’s a reasonable one-time purchase, has a 7-day trial and gets regular (free) updates.

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I use either Poweramp or Stellio

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Been using Symfonium for the last 24 hours of the back of this recommendation. It’s my favourite out of the apps on this thread. My only gripe is that I can’t find and use the playlists I’ve created within the app itself, or delete tracks whilst they play. I tend to dump everything onto the SD card, listen on shuffle and delete anything I don’t like.

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