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Help finding Android music player - select music by folders
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:01 pm
Most of the music players want to read the metadata from your files and display based on Artist/Album/Genre/etc.
This doesn't really work for me, I have my music already sorted into folders for specific reasons and I don't need a program reorganizing it for me.
I don't think my needs are ridiculous, and I'm willing to pay a few bucks for a player if I have to.
Basically I have music separated based on who I'll be hanging around when playing the music.
I have a a few main folders Family, Mixed Rock, Other
In each of those main folders, there are subfolders of artists..in most artist folders there are folders for albums, and the music files are in those folders. Pretty straightforward.
I just want to be able to select one of the 3 main folders (Family, Mixed Rock, or Other) and have the music player shuffle and play from all music in it's subfolders.
To that end, I started searching...the first one I found looked promising, it was called MortPlayer. It SEEMS to have exactly the functionality I'm looking for, but I select a main folder, it even tells me that it won't play music from other folders, only this one, and continues to turn this folder green and the other folders red (perfect, right?). Except on 3 different attempts, after ONE song, it jumps to music in one of the other folders. It's as if the shuffle function is overriding the folder selection instead of shuffling within the folder selection.
Then I found Music Folder Player Free. Well that's pretty much garbage. You select the root and instead of listing by the folder structure, it lists only folders that directly contain music files (so I'm basically getting a listing of albums, not separated at all).
Does anyone have any good suggestions?
TIA
This doesn't really work for me, I have my music already sorted into folders for specific reasons and I don't need a program reorganizing it for me.
I don't think my needs are ridiculous, and I'm willing to pay a few bucks for a player if I have to.
Basically I have music separated based on who I'll be hanging around when playing the music.
I have a a few main folders Family, Mixed Rock, Other
In each of those main folders, there are subfolders of artists..in most artist folders there are folders for albums, and the music files are in those folders. Pretty straightforward.
I just want to be able to select one of the 3 main folders (Family, Mixed Rock, or Other) and have the music player shuffle and play from all music in it's subfolders.
To that end, I started searching...the first one I found looked promising, it was called MortPlayer. It SEEMS to have exactly the functionality I'm looking for, but I select a main folder, it even tells me that it won't play music from other folders, only this one, and continues to turn this folder green and the other folders red (perfect, right?). Except on 3 different attempts, after ONE song, it jumps to music in one of the other folders. It's as if the shuffle function is overriding the folder selection instead of shuffling within the folder selection.
Then I found Music Folder Player Free. Well that's pretty much garbage. You select the root and instead of listing by the folder structure, it lists only folders that directly contain music files (so I'm basically getting a listing of albums, not separated at all).
Does anyone have any good suggestions?
TIA
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Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:02 pm to Casty McBoozer
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This doesn't really work for me, I have my music already sorted into folders for specific reasons and I don't need a program reorganizing it for me.
So you stuck with the 1998 method of organizing your music I see.
ETA: doesn't it make more sense that that information about the file be encoded into the file instead of being encoded into the OS file system?
This post was edited on 5/23/14 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:06 pm to Casty McBoozer
Why not make a playlist of your different folders and then play the playlist instead of the folder?
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:08 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:
So you stuck with the 1998 method of organizing your music I see.
i feel his pain. sometimes you just have too much music to manage easily.
i think foobar will do what you need but it takes some time to get up to speed on customizing it.
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:17 pm to colorchangintiger
quote:
doesn't it make more sense that that information about the file be encoded into the file instead of being encoded into the OS file system?
I'm not arguing anything bad about the metadata being read from the songs to determine the artist/album/etc. I'm sure that's extremely valuable, especially to all the Hordors who can't navigate a directory structure.
However, without giving me the option of making selections based my folder structure, how would I tell the music player to play only the family-appropriate music?
quote:
Why not make a playlist of your different folders and then play the playlist instead of the folder?
Is there a way to create this playlist based on my folder structure, or do I have to individually select thousand and thousands of songs to add to the playlist. And what about when music is added to a folder? Will the playlist add it?
It seems like it would be pretty simple to just select a folder and shuffle music in it, but then I'm always the odd man out, wanting things to be simple and shite. On my Windows laptop, I just right-click a folder and tell it to play in VLC.
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:22 pm to Casty McBoozer
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On my Windows laptop, I just right-click a folder and tell it to play in VLC.
you're aware there is a VLC for android right?
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:27 pm to CAD703X
Kind of what I was thinking. A video player may do what he needs. Mob iPlayer I would try.
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:36 pm to Casty McBoozer
check out Media Monkey gold ?
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:38 pm to Kajungee
i use doubletwist
Posted on 5/23/14 at 1:49 pm to Casty McBoozer
I'm with the others suggesting playlists, the main reason being what do you do if you want the same song in two of your folders? Do you copy the file, or do you just pick the best fit for that song and don't worry about the other one?
Posted on 5/23/14 at 2:31 pm to Korkstand
quote:
I'm with the others suggesting playlists, the main reason being what do you do if you want the same song in two of your folders? Do you copy the file, or do you just pick the best fit for that song and don't worry about the other one?
Yes, I would copy the file if I needed it in two locations. 3 - 5 MB is nothing.
I'm not necessarily opposed to this playlist idea, but what's the process of creating / editing / adding?
BTW Media Monkey looks like it will do exactly what I want, but I will need the paid version to continue exploration by folder structure.
Posted on 5/23/14 at 2:32 pm to Casty McBoozer
Google Play Music app has a "playlist" option
Posted on 5/23/14 at 2:35 pm to Casty McBoozer
iTunes is your answer
Posted on 5/23/14 at 2:36 pm to biglego
quote:iTunes is never the answer, to anything.
iTunes is your answer
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