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Music player that supports SD card?

CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Music player that supports SD card?

Mar 25, 2019

I have an Android One phone from Nokia, so it has only standard Google apps.

Google Music seems designed for buying music off the Internet. It can find my SD card, after a lot of taps, however it doesn't show album art even when I know it's contained in the MP3.

Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

I2K4 • Senior Member • Posts: 1,355

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Mar 25, 2019

I use VLC on all devices, it's the Swiss Army Knife for media playback, also good for phone video playback:

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

Update: reading comments below, very likely dedicated audio players have more for that, but VLC plays just about any audio or video file format you throw at it, and is cross-platform for consistency with desktops (incl Linux). It's a world of personal preferences and priorities. (A lot of my offline music was ripped from CDs twenty years ago on the old Microsoft WMA, that many current players don't even see.)

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Cariboo • Contributing Member • Posts: 729

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Mar 25, 2019

I just use a 3rd party File Manager app from the Google Play Store, which one should have anyway, as the default Google management has been awful up to v6, which I use. Many File Manager apps have music & video players built in & even sound equalizers built in. No need for a "special" music app if one doesn't need it to do streaming. Perfect for playing files from the internal or external SD card storage. And it's likely that one needs or could use a separate file manager app with better functions than usually come with the device.

I like the free Total Commander app as it has a tiny foot print but LOTS of features though it has a basic GUI (simple is good IME).

I also like MiX Explorer, also free (though one can buy add on featuers), & while quite small still, it is "prettier" to look at (I don't use it as much as TC).

There are others. Just check out File Mangers in the Google Play Store & or do a web search as some tech sites often review Android apps.

ES File Manager may come up often in a search & when it started, it used to be quite capable, but it went sideways at some point & sort of became like spyware, I have no idea if the bad press righted it or not, but I would personally stay away from it.

OP CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to Cariboo • Mar 25, 2019

Cariboo wrote:

Many File Manager apps have music & video players built in & even sound equalizers built in. No need for a "special" music app if one doesn't need it to do streaming.

Interesting! Do sound equalizers prevent under recordings (e.g. Aqualung) from being too soft compared to over recordings (e.g. Green Day)? That is a feature the iPod could have used.

I tried the File Manager built into Oreo but it doesn't show album art and is hard to navigate.

Thanks for the other ideas. I'm trying VLC too.

Sho-Bud • Contributing Member • Posts: 682

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Mar 26, 2019

CAcreeks wrote:

I have an Android One phone from Nokia, so it has only standard Google apps.

Google Music seems designed for buying music off the Internet. It can find my SD card, after a lot of taps, however it doesn't show album art even when I know it's contained in the MP3.

Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

I have been using PlayerPro for many years. It has many options. I don't know if it will show album art for song on a SD card, since all my songs are in the phone memory. There is a free version so you can try it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerprotrial

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OP CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to Sho-Bud • Mar 27, 2019

Sho-Bud wrote:

I have been using PlayerPro for many years. It has many options. I don't know if it will show album art for song on a SD card, since all my songs are in the phone memory. There is a free version so you can try it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbig.playerprotrial

Thanks Sho-Bud.

PlayerPro has a higher rating than VLC on the Android store, so it's worth a try.

TonyGamble • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,607

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Mar 27, 2019

I use PowerAmp, the paid for version.

It can use playlists or just simply folders.

It displays cover art if it is there or it can download it whilst you are playing.

There are masses of extra controls for tone, equalising, etc.

I have my whole music library of 16,000 tracks on my phone and I use an app called Station Playlist Creator to make playlists for a variety of moods. PowerAmp handles them comfortably but you could just put tracks in folders and get PA to shuffle them if you felt my way was overkill.

Any help?

Tony - London

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ernstbk • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,166

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Mar 27, 2019

CAcreeks wrote:

I have an Android One phone from Nokia, so it has only standard Google apps.

Google Music seems designed for buying music off the Internet. It can find my SD card, after a lot of taps, however it doesn't show album art even when I know it's contained in the MP3.

Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

I prefer Pulsar , or Casse-o-player

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OP CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

TonyGamble wrote:

I use PowerAmp, the paid for version.

It can use playlists or just simply folders.

It displays cover art if it is there or it can download it whilst you are playing.

There are masses of extra controls for tone, equalising, etc.

I have my whole music library of 16,000 tracks on my phone and I use an app called Station Playlist Creator to make playlists for a variety of moods. PowerAmp handles them comfortably but you could just put tracks in folders and get PA to shuffle them if you felt my way was overkill.

Any help?

Yes, thanks Tony. It isn't as high rated as some of the others, e.g. Pi Music Player, but it certainly looks full featured.

VLC is the editor's choice, whatever that means, but is not as full featured as PowerAmp.

OP CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to ernstbk • Mar 27, 2019

ernstbk wrote:

CAcreeks wrote:

Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

I prefer Pulsar , or Casse-o-player

Casse-o-player sure is unique in its tape cassette player design!

Pulsar has "replay gain volume normalization" which might be the most valuable feature I've never had in any music player. I'll report back on it, though not soon.

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Apr 8, 2019

through google play sd card is visible

OP CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to techrama • Apr 8, 2019

techrama wrote:

through google play sd card is visible

Yes, but as I said in my original post, it is not convenient because it requires lots of taps.

VLC is the solution I chose, and works well enough that I settled on it.

Harold123 • Junior Member • Posts: 29

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Apr 11, 2019

I also use VLC and haven't faced any issues yet. Works for me great!

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to techrama • Apr 19, 2019

techrama wrote:

through google play sd card is visible

Hope this helps, let me know if you still have the issue.

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Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Apr 22, 2019

CAcreeks wrote:

I have an Android One phone from Nokia, so it has only standard Google apps.

Google Music seems designed for buying music off the Internet. It can find my SD card, after a lot of taps, however it doesn't show album art even when I know it's contained in the MP3.

Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

Hi,

BlackPlayer is a very popular and easy-to-use Android music player.

OP CAcreeks • Forum Pro • Posts: 17,315

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

Jennifer-w wrote:

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Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

Hi,

BlackPlayer is a very popular and easy-to-use Android music player.

Thanks for the recommendation! It is high rated and "minimalistic" though with equalizer so worth trying.

I like the way many music players "discover" the SD card and in-built phone storage, allowing access by various criteria such as title, album, artist, and genre. That would be a nice feature for photo organizers. I wonder which ones do that?

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

Jennifer-w wrote:

CAcreeks wrote:

I have an Android One phone from Nokia, so it has only standard Google apps.

Google Music seems designed for buying music off the Internet. It can find my SD card, after a lot of taps, however it doesn't show album art even when I know it's contained in the MP3.

Any recommendations for music player? My SD card is full of music that my kids and I collected over the years.

Hi,

BlackPlayer is a very popular and easy-to-use Android music player.

If this player doesn't work, find a suitable one among the top 9 music players for Android : SoundCloud, Google Play Music, CloudPlayer, RocketPlayer, YouTube Music Player, Spotify Music, Phonograph Music Player, Shuttle Music Player, Poweramp

Rodolfo • Contributing Member • Posts: 798

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Jun 10, 2019

I haven't run into a player that doesn't support SD cards -just to encourage you to try them all, looking for other features you need. I've stored music only on SD cards for several/many years and have always found the software setting for that on various apps I've used, including those for subscription services.

I'll have to retire my Lumia 950 by the end of the year and have been starting to use Android since last year when I got a Sony XZ1 Compact. I've shopped for phones that have strong -to me- music and photo features. On the Sony, I have been using VLC satisfactorily, and I like that it plays a lot of WMA lossless files I have, which most others could not. I don't like that it doesn't have indexing, so that I have to scroll through all my songs to get to the one I want. With ~8000, it can be slow. Microsoft's own iterations have allowed tapping on the letter of the alphabet you're on to get an alphabet index and select an S, for instance, short-cutting the process.

This year I picked up an LG V20 phone, and also installed VLC. However, I tried and like its own Music app, which plays all my formats and has the Groove-like indexing. I don't know if that would be available for other phones. Look for the required functionality and Enjoy the Music!

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Jun 13, 2019

Poweramp, I had tried unlock version and after that, I decided to buy it. You can choose whichever folder display music file

Re: Music player that supports SD card?

In reply to CAcreeks • Jun 25, 2019

IF you are looking Best Android Media player app for 2020

Then follow the above post.

But if you won't to read the I suggest you use the MX player or Google Play music. Now google play music are really a awesome music player for android.

You can also play audio via mx player.

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