Android music apps
4Since when you go through the whole mediocre Community there’s always somebody who knows something that you need to know. I’m moving again and looking to change some things in retirement to save money like not paying for Spotify Premium anymore and going back to streaming all the music that I really own. I have a really good actually Bluetooth speaker that I got in an IRK a while back and wanted to use it and I figured I could attach it to an old tablet or an old phone and stream all the cool music that are sitting in my onedrive.
However the few Android streaming apps that I have used for streaming that kind of music are pretty crappy. Remember when Windows first came out with Groove music and how we all liked it not so much for the music that they provided but for streaming our own because you can make your own playlist you could randomize things it was pretty productive to do things with at least it was to me. So I’m kind of looking for some suggestions of some Android apps that will do more than play them in the order that they are in on the list like alphabetical order cuz one drive sorts alphabetically or up by date but something that may randomize a list or created some playlist or whatever and it has to work with my Android phone or my Android tablets. Thank you all in advance
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I use Musicolet. TBH, I’m not sure about playlists, but its warnings are pluses for me:
Their data safety policy, even better:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.krosbits.musicolet
I like BubbleUPnP, but I started using it more for the DLNA/UPnP support. Looks like OneDrive is supported, but I haven’t used it for anything besides local files and streaming from a Plex server.
I’ve used Pulsar for years. It is free with no ads, well maintained, nice interface, and has no problem with a large collection (40k or so files.) I originally found it while looking for an app that supports Chromecast, which Pulsar does. But it is local files only as far as I can tell. I use an old Logitech Media Server solution for streaming which is great but most people won’t have tolerance for the initial learning curve and the ongoing care, and feeding required.
Back in the day when I had a collection of files I used n7 player and had the pro license https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n7mobile.nplayer had good and enjoyable user experience. Nowadays I just use apple music on everything.
Uploaded all my music files to YouTube Music. You can do shuffle on playlists, but there’s a limit to number of songs in a playlist (i thought it was 1,000 but seeing 5,000 when googling just now). App’s not great, but it’s conveniently ubiquitous.
weird quirk/feature: even with shuffle turned on, it will always play the first song in the playlist first.