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Malena Bower
I'm looking for a music app for Android to play music I have on my phone, with the usual albums, playlists, shuffle, and background play features, and with basic controls on the lock screen (pause/play and back/forward).
And no ads/tracking. I want this to run offline. And while I'd be willing to buy an app to play my own purchased music library, I can't stand the idea of having to look at (or worse, hear) ads to listen to music I've already paid for and is already on my local storage, not using someone's server. I want to be able to just open the app, find the album or playlist or song I want to listen to, and go -- not have to navigate around "subscribe now!" "You might also like..." and so on. (This means you, Amazon.)
I tried Simple Music Player a while ago and it was kind of buggy at the time, though I might take a look at it again. I've looked at the Play store and just about everything that might fit the bill says it has ads
Let's just skip to the self description from the Play Store: "Pulsar Music Player has long been one of the best music players on Android. It is an offline audio player without advertisements. Its gorgeous user interface matches every single detail of the material design guidelines."
You might try installing Termux on Android and then use the command-line media player called mpv on Termux (pkg install mpv). I like how even if you have a bluetooth keyboard (but it works with the screen keyboard, too), you can pause/play with the spacebar (or p), skip to the next track with enter, fast-forward/rewind with the arrow keys, q to quit, speed it up and slow it down with the brackets (and curly brackets), make the speed normal again with backspace, volume up/down with 0 and 9, and mute/unmute with the m button.
To shuffle, do mpv --shuffle myPlaylist.m3u or mpv --shuffle myDirectory (you can specify a filetype after that like mpv --shuffle myDirectory *.mp3). To go back and forth in the playlist, you can use < and >.
Using a Lua script in a file named test.lua, here's an example of its contents (what this does is make it so when you pause the playback, it'll print "It worked!" to the screen; this method is adapted from the example in the github link above):
There are no ads. It's free. However, it won't show controls on the lock screen; however, you might be able to find a way to configure something to make that work with the Termux:Tasker app. I'm not sure what Tasker is, but I think it's this app.
I routinely use Musicolet to play my local MP3/OGG collection in the SD card, organized in folders, without any hassle. It's free and very lightweight, doesn't have ads nor require any internet access; only asks permission for accessing local music files. Even has an property editor to change internal information of the MP3 files!
Good day, how will we be able to listen to offline music on our Fitbit with the Pandora & Deezer Deactivation end of March 2023? The reason of having a watch with music storage is so that we don't have to take our phone with during our exercise sessions.
I'll be looking to buy a small clip-on Bluetooth MP3 player on eBay when Deezer is turned off on my Sense. Then when my Sense eventually dies I will look for a secondhand Garmin Fenix (the proper sports watch I really wanted when I bought a Fitbit)
i have contacted the live chat 3 times now with no luck, I have been given two email addresses from Fitbit call handlers to make a formal complaint and the email addresses tell you to come on here which Fitbit ignore!
fitbit please could we have an urgent update, and compensation arrangements since your product is false advertising and not fit for the purpose in which it was sold. this service is not good enough and we are all very angry to say the least!
"Thanks for taking the time to share this suggestion about allowing Fitbit Versa 3 to support YouTube Music app. We rely on feedback like yours to help us develop products and features that we know our community wants to see. I'd suggest adding your comment and vote to this feature: YouTube Music App. If this suggestion receives votes from other customers and gains popularity, it will be shared internally with various teams at Fitbit. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs"
I bought a new Versa 3 in November when my old one died. I didn't want to buy the Versa 4 as it is reputedly still a work in progress (like all FitBits in their first year of release). I naively thought we would be getting new or better features as a result of the Google takeover (such as Google wallet) rather than being stripped of features we thought we had paid for.
I wouldn't mind if Google had provided an alternative music player app - I only subscribe to Deezer for my Versa and my wife's. As it is, this will definitely be the last FitBit I buy, following a Surge, Ionic and Versa 3 for me, Versa 2s and 3s for my kids, Charge 2/3/4 and Versa 3 for my wife over the last 7 years. The Pixel watch I was considering until the Deezer announcement; now it's 'so long' Google and FitBit, I don't trust you any more. It will be a Galaxy watch for me next time out.
I just dug out the box my Versa 2 came in - says right in the front: Store & Play Music, and on the side: Music and Workouts on your wrist... So - to me false advertising... I do hope that fitbit/google change their mind once all the people, probably most users, that are currently unaware of that planned "feature removal" end of March will also be "not amused" by that decision...
Fitbit has had 3 months to come up with an alternative solution. Instead It's completely removed. At Least I had time to set up my backup versa2 with Pandora and I won't sync it until we come up with a different solution.
For me, who enjoys pandora, I pull out my 10 year old nexus 5. Turns out, it does the same offline download that the Fitbit did. I consider a mp3 player, but I really don't want to go 20 years back in time and make playlist again and buy new music. I would rather keep paying $5 to pandora, plus we use it on other devices.
I found a cheap arm band to hold my now workout phone because my everyday phone is to expensive to use in that way. Once the price of smart watches come down to less then $100 and can do all that Fitbit did do, then maybe I'll consider upgrading.
I'm so upset that I can't listen to music while running without my phone. It's literally the reason I bought my fitbit sense. Went for a run this morning, and it was gone. Fitbit please do something to fix this.
Streaming music is convenient, but it also eats up your mobile data and can be a pain if you own lots of digital music. If you'd like to enjoy offline music on your phone, there are plenty of great apps available.
Many popular music streaming apps, such as Spotify and YouTube Music, offer the ability to download music for offline playback. However, we won't include those here, since they're primarily built around streaming.
You could embrace the perks of portable music players, but if you're all about smartphones, browse the mobile software below, perfect for online and offline entertainment. And you don't have to pay for a great listening experience. Let's look at the best free music player apps for Android first.
At first glance, AIMP looks a bit simplistic for a music player. Flat interface designs are popular, and AIMP's approach certainly follows this method of presentation. This is the entire point, though. This offline music app is straightforward; it plays your music and doesn't mess around with distractions.
jetAudio HD offers both free and premium versions of its Android music player. However, you get so much in the free version that most users won't need to upgrade. The only downside is that ads support the free version, but they aren't intrusive. As you can see from the screenshots, the ads live at the bottom of the screen.
Here's what you get: a 10-band equalizer with 32 presets, lossy and lossless support, effects like reverb and x-bass, playback speed control, automatic gain control, and more. The Plus version comes with a 20-band equalizer, a built-in tag editor, over a dozen widgets, and a few other convenience features.
Besides gesture controls, Impulse Music Player supports several useful features: a five-band equalizer with bass boost and virtualizer, gapless playback, cross-fade, metadata editing, automatic album art downloads, and more.
This offline music player is no gimmick; it's highly functional and definitely worth trying. Note that the free version of the app appears as "Music Player MP3 Player" on Google Play. The Pro version is Impulse; both are developed by Appmetric.
MediaMonkey is a great app for offline listening. It scans your local storage for any music before adding it to the library, so after a quick set-up, you should be ready to play your songs. It supports a wide variety of file formats, both lossy and lossless audio.
MediaMonkey Pro allows you to sync via Windows. You can even set up your home computer as a music server, which the mobile app can stream from. Do this at home and you won't eat up any of your mobile data, as it works over your Wi-Fi network. It's another great option alongside the best Windows music players.
Like most of the offline music apps here, PlayerPro has all the standard premium music player features. Thus, choosing one comes down to the interface. While most non-Material apps are ugly, PlayerPro's unique design is both attractive and satisfying to use.
If you're using an older device with outdated hardware, a lot of modern apps may frustrate you with poor performance. Pulsar strikes the perfect balance between a gorgeous appearance and lightweight performance.
While many free apps offer paid upgrades, you can use a truly free app indefinitely, without upgrading. You can even enjoy Android music players free of ads. Nevertheless, paid music players tend to be of higher quality. The following apps all require payment to use, aside from free trials.
Despite its outdated appearance, Neutron Player is one of the best offline music players available. If you're an audiophile, you'll immediately recognize that the audio from this app is of the utmost quality.
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