Looking for offline Android music player

July 8, 2023 7:52 AM

I have an older Galaxy that I’d like to use for an offline music player. Music will be stored on an SD card; songs will be transferred from a Windows computer to the SD card. The only feature I really want is random play mode; I want to be able to press an icon and the player chooses and plays songs in random order. I have no desire to create a playlist. I’ve tried several apps, but nothing seems to work without creating a playlist. Does anyone have any recommendations?
posted by coldhotel to Technology (10 answers total)

Just checked my copy of VLC on Android. There's a big 'shuffle' button on the 'audio' tab that shuffles and plays from my entire library. That sounds like what you are looking for.

VLC on Google Play - Direct APK Download - Various source codes for the app.
posted by ewan at 8:24 AM on July 8, 2023 [5 favorites]

Rocket player will let you shuffle across all local music
posted by kbuxton at 8:35 AM on July 8, 2023 [1 favorite]

Musicolet is probably the greatest music app I've every found. You can click on the music folder, choose shuffle and off it goes.
posted by Webbster at 8:50 AM on July 8, 2023 [2 favorites]

Seconding Musicolet. There are a zillion options though.
posted by Nelson at 9:32 AM on July 8, 2023 [2 favorites]

PowerAmp will do this. It was one of my absolute favorite apps until I switched to streaming.
posted by so fucking future at 11:27 AM on July 8, 2023 [2 favorites]

Nelson and Webbster are right. You've got tons of options, and the one you want to pick is Musicolet.
posted by mhoye at 11:40 AM on July 8, 2023 [2 favorites]

The stock Samsung Music app on my last 2 Android phones (Galaxy S7 and Galaxy A52) does this.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 4:47 PM on July 8, 2023 [1 favorite]

Vanilla music does this.
posted by deadwax at 3:46 AM on July 9, 2023 [1 favorite]

I use Vanilla as well.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 8:58 AM on July 10, 2023

nth-ing PowerAmp. I live with PowerAmp, shuffling through all songs on my 400GB SDcard to pick the next album to listen to -- on shuffle.
posted by k3ninho at 11:53 AM on July 12, 2023