A simple and good music player for an Android cellphone

On Android, I use BubbleUPnP as a control point for my UPnP servers and renderers. It also has a local renderer and can replay local files, I believe. I have not compared it to any other player but it is a very good application. If used in conjunction with MinimServer, it supports opening the booklet of the currently playing album. This is, in my view, a mandatory feature for UPnP replay. Unfortunately, very few UPnP servers and control points support it.

Maybe worth looking at Onkyo HF Player, I've played with the iOS version a little, but there is an Android app available too. It has lots of features you will want to either turn off or ignore, but it will play a good range of lossless and hi-res formats including DSD.

Pulsar.

Simple, effective, free, no adverts, does gapless OK, supports 24/192 files.

Works better with FLAC as it doesn't support metadata from WAVE files, but this is the only disadvantage I've found.
(For gapless via Chromecast, cast the screen rather than using cast from the app itself)

(The paid for version just adds odd features that I'll never use - like a graphic equaliser).

Thanks. I'll check and try the three. Just out of curiosity, in which format do you store your music on cellphones? FLAC? What else?

Thanks, M

FLAC.

I use FLAC, mainly because it's what I use on my Unitiserve, and if you apply maximum compression, it's still lossless, so ideal for portable devices. 

Max_B posted:

Thanks. I'll check and try the three. Just out of curiosity, in which format do you store your music on cellphones? FLAC? What else?

Thanks, M

FLAC but I virtually have no music stored on the phone. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with a 500GB drive on a SATA microSSD hat. The RPi is setup to act as an access point and runs MinimServer. On the go, I connect the phone to the access point and stream from the RPi wirelessly. I usually carry the RPi in my backpack, powered by a small power bank. That is the reason I have not bothered to install a player on the phone: I use BubbleUPnP and just select the local renderer instead of my home renderer. Best, nbpf

NBPF,

hats off! To you, for having conceived such a solution, and to myself, for having understood 95% of it.

Max

Max_B posted:

NBPF,

hats off! To you, for having conceived such a solution, and to myself, for having understood 95% of it.

Max

It is actually a straightforward setup, if you google "Raspberry Pi access point" you'll find detailed instruction for setting up an hotspot on the RPi. I just followed them step-by-step. I do not listen so much music via headphones but sometimes I take the RPi with me on a short trip. It is mainly my wife that takes it with her when she goes on holiday. Then she has (almost) all our music collection on the 500GB card and I do not have to transfer files to her iPhone, iPad, etc. She just connects to the hotspot and that's it. In a wired LAN, the RPi is seen as any other UPnP server. It also works as a renderer: just connect a USB DAC and you have a core replay system! Ciao, nbpf

More hats off...!

Ciao,

M.

You need to be wary of too many hats...

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.co....ge-deaths-draco.html

The best Android music player soundwise is the Neutron 64 bit imo...

http://neutronmp.com/

Huge posted:

Pulsar.

Simple, effective, free, no adverts, does gapless OK, supports 24/192 files.

Huge, thanks for the pointer to Pulsar -- like the OP I've been looking for a simple, fuss-free app with no ads. Pulsar ticks all those boxes and has a really nice UI. It's now my default player.