Phonograph Music Player

Pascha

Great music app, looks nice and works well overall. However, there is a huge problem: if you connect to your PC using a USB cable and delete songs off your SD card, the app doesn't remove them from your library. You can't play them and you can't delete them (though it says you can), so they just sit there clogging up your library. Even uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't remove them, and this happens with the pro version as well. Fix that issue, and it's an easy 5 stars from me.

Sarah Prewitt

I've been using this app for a few years now and I think it's one of the best music players on Android which supports a lot of formats including FLAC as long as your phone itself supports Hi-Fi formats. Now with Google Play Music gone, I will be using this a lot more because I listen to all of the music I purchase offline anyways. I use streaming services solely for listening to new music and music discovery. If I like the song or album. I buy it to listen wherever I want including offline.

ellbee cee

Got this as an alternative for Amazon music and in general I like it. Some interface issues that aren't as intuitive as I'd prefer have me at 4 stars instead of 3. Unfortunately (probably due to amazon, let's be fair), music I purchase there can't be easily found on the device now, so I have to download to a computer, put into cloud storage, and then download to my phone so I can get it into phonograph. It's a pain, but not enough of one to make me switch back to amazon music.

Nicholas Remm

Great app, the interface is simple yet it has plenty of features. Edit: Lately, songs will refuse to play at all and I can't reproduce it consistently. It will try and fail to play every song in the current playlist until it reaches the end. I have to restart my phone for the app to play songs again (force stopping the app doesn't work).

A Google user

Works really well and has a great design! Although there's one bug with compilation albums - instead of listing them as various artists, it chooses an artist and lists it as that, and it inserts it in a really odd order (for example, it chose an artist beginning with 'p' and insert it under the 'a' near the top of the list. They are out of order like this throughout, and I think it's a system problem that compilation albums have). Otherwise it works great!

Sebastian Castillo

A fine music player app with great design and great widgets. There's a good deal of customization that anyone could get used to it. However, when playing an ogg vorbis file the volume goes absurdly loud and gave me a scare. It can't be controlled with the volume slider and behaves as if it's constantly at full volume, making most of my music unbearably loud for my ears. If it weren't for this, and the potential of other bugs, I'd give it five stars. Be sure to stick to MP3 with this for now!

A Google user

Great App, Poor Support. The interface is clean and works well. Nice touches like the tag editor are present although it won't matter and won't affect your sorting depending on the time type (FLAC or WAV files for example). This also hasn't been updated since January 2020. The update since hasn't solved the playlist issue (not being able to add songs to and edit playlists) which has been an issue for a while now.

A Google user

Such a nice app! So I am not one to say that something is perfect, but this fits my use case exactly. It works well by grabbing files off of my SD card and adding them to my library. When new files are added they are added in order and new songs playlist (something I like a lot personally). Fast scrolling is really great due the the large letters on the side the tell you where you are in the alphabet so you don't have to stop scrolling to read a title to tell how much further you have to scroll only to realize you have already gone past the song you want. And it's all free with out ADs. You can pay for the premium version or just compile it yourself. Not Issues at all with this program! 10/10

Robin Canfield

Mostly good. I've been using this music player for some time and enjoy how it works quite a bit. Since the last update though I've had an issue of new music isn't always pulling the album cover in the music folder, and when I go to add it in the Tag Editor the app crashes when I click save. So I have a growing collection of near-blank, grey albums in my list which is getting very annoying.

Godzillabrawler

Hell of a lot better than the default Samsung app, at least for me. I don't stream much audio and am using this simply to transition to using my phone from my old Sony Walkman, and so far it's exactly what I needed. Highly recommend! Note: If you're syncing music from your computer and are uptight about album art and tags, I highly suggest mp3tag on Windows as a companion. It makes my life so much easier.