I use the Amazon Music app for a lot of my listening, as it's obviously the only way I can listen to the stuff included with Prime.
However, for anything else (ripped CDs, stuff I've bought elsewhere) it's a bit shit - the main issue is with albums I've bought from Amazon. Both GvF albums - I have the mp3s downloaded to my phone, through the app, but I always get some missing songs, some downloaded twice, and some that are greyed out.
I used to use Google Play Music but that's gone now, replaced by YouTube Music which isn't particularly great, and is constantly pushing me to buy stuff.
Any recommendations for a one-off purchase, ad free music player?
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If you want more - media library management, etc - then mediamonkey is what I eventually settled on. Free version is fine too.
I'll give Media Monkey a try, cheers
When they change it to youtube player.. Man that thing was awful.. When playing tracks on Android auto there would be like a 20 second gap between the songs.. It hated you using your own MP3s
After searching I found one called Black Player... And its excellent and works with Android auto really well too. By a company called Fifth Source I think. (theres a paid and a free version). Works perfectly with my offline MP3 library. And I just have the free one.
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I guess I should look at some of the alternatives suggested above and also consider going back to the purchase album download, and upload to my library approach to buying and playing music.
Not using YTM for ripped CDs but then most things that I might rip are on there anyway.
Now we have a regular UK family account for Spotify so my kids can use it on their phones and smart speakers. The sound quality is good despite it just being compressed. But I find the apps are annoying on phone and desktop - lacking features, features removed, and pushing crap like Jo Rogen at me when I'd rather turn all podcasts off (I get my casts elsewhere).
I like Deezer a lot. The apps are better than Spotify and there's the option for CD quality without bullshit snakeoil MQA that Tidal is peddling. I occasionally pay for a month of HiFi from Deezer.
Yes, the obvious play icon at the top of the screen defaults to random play. But, if you tap and hold on the item you want to play (ie album, track, playlist, whatever), then a row of little icons appear at the bottom of the screen, which add the selected item to a "now playing" list.
Play now / play next / play last and then add to playlist.
It would be handier if that play icon could be configured to play (in order) or random play depending on what you wanted to do, but I've never found a way to do that.
Thanks @TTony
I used MediaMonkey for ages, but I found Blackplayer worked better for some things, like editing metadata, adding artwork to older files that didn't have it, etc.
What I really want is an app that can manage* podcasts *and* music, but I haven't found one yet.
*Yes, I know any old audio player app can *play* podcasts, I mean one that can download them too.
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