Vanilla Music

After all these years, this is still the best music player available for Android. Vanilla absolutely wrecks the competition, all while being Free and Open Source. No other music player offers the level of flexibility in regard to library management, and no other player matches Vanilla's stability and consistency. I've tried so many others, but always end up back here, because while it's not flashy, it's exactly what a music player should be on a mobile device.

This app has completely bizarre behavior and collection organizing principles. It loops around the end of albums. It puts all files without an album tag into one mega album, regardless if you had selected a specific artist. For an open source project, it has practically no customization. This thing really needs some polish. Whoever designed it clearly wasn't thinking of use cases or preferences other than his own. I was hoping to replace BlackplayerEX with this. Alas, I must keep searching

Almost perfect, but with one major burr. On the whole, Vanilla is a very fast, very light, and very clean media player. I really, really like it, and if my music libraries and tastes were a bit different, it would be perfect. However, it does not handle compilations well; it treats all contributing artists as independent artists, instead of grouping it all under the album artist! It's the only major issue I've had, but it's why I can't give 5 stars. Still really good, just not for my library.

I'm not a fan of Google Play Music, and Vanilla Music is a great alternative, with lots of features you've come to expect. It has custom playlists, browsing by artist, album, or song, and gives you direct control of the play queue. It's everything I want in a music player without all the bloat of Google Play. If you're looking for a clean and simple music player, give Vanilla Music a shot!

Offers proper file browsing. The accelerometer use for changing songs is very useful, just stamp your foot (phone in pants pocket). I did have to deduct some stars. It should be easier to find the equalizer for one, then there was the issue of it not remembering it's settings and now it just doesn't work at all anymore. Just noticed it's failing to play half of the (mp3) songs last added (VLC plays them just fine).

Literally the only damn music playing that ACTUALLY let's you whitelist/blacklist in a way that makes sense. I download a lot of files and I'm so sick of manually having to add a blacklist rule for every new thing I download. Vanilla let me whitelist one folder (SD card/Music) as the only place to look for songs. I've been looking for this. It's perfect. Tons of other options too. BUT I CAN'T SET IT AS MY DEFAULT PLAYER. VANILLA IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS A MUSIC PLAYER. SO I STILL NEED ANOTHER APP.

This app has been my preferred mp3 player for many years. However my on new phone (LG-V35 Thinq running Android 8.0) the app won't start. I select Vanilla Music as the player I want to use and nothing happens. It still works great on my old phones (HTC One M8 & Samsung devices). I would gladly rate it a 5 if it would work on my new phone. In the meantime I continue to use it on my old phones and hope for a fix to this issue.

It's an app for people looking for a straightforward experience, no mocking around. If you have a big library and don't like the idea of music as a service, this app is great. Pros: -Super straightforward, no quirks or gimmicks -Clean, fast and mostly intuitive UI -It works with external DACs and lossless formats -Add free and open source! Cons: -Some features are not very easy to find -Tag reader can be a bit buggy -No streaming funcionality (only reason that I think it's a 4 star)

Its the best overall lightweight music player I could find in playstore. Also no ads ! WOW. Few things I would love to see changed are icons (they need to be more modern and with a bit of edge roundness) and the album arts, they should also be a bit rounded at the edges. Also the notification style should be changed (use the stock ui style or make a smaller notification style)

The app is great as usual, but may I suggest that you add an option to warn overwriting a playlist, especially when full synchronization of playlists is enabled. I've had several precious playlists completely wiped out due to Vanilla music overwriting these playlists files with nothing due to unrecognized/modified/updated filepaths of the audio files.

Poor implementation While the interface is clean that's all it has. It's difficult to add songs to playlist, you have to hold down for each and every single song. When in a playlist you can't add songs. If the app is smooth is playing in the background and you close from the top it continues to play.

Its got advanced settings that might be a confusing at first. Folder inclusion/exclusion was messed up during reinstall but the faq on the website came in handy. Not sure if a bug or i didnt get it totally right how to refresh library after deleting song from device so gives error message on deleted song trying to be played. Things that could be added- widget customization: transparency and rounded edge options

I had been searching for a while now for a lite music player. I am SO GLAD I discovered Vanilla Music Player. Its download size & app size is small & has album cover art along with other features you wouldn't expect from an app its size. I love it

Got no problem with other features.. But i gave 4 stars cuz it Could've been better if i can create my own playlists.. So far, I've been trying a lot of times to create a playlist.. But it only shows the playlist's title but there's no songs in the playlist even though I've add songs in it..

The app's good in all of its features and design. But for a mounth I've been struggling to make it scan my music files, so I reinstalled it from F-Droid several times with no results. Until I found out that the player is also on G. Play (and installed it from there) that bug, I suppose, let the app to scan my files / dissapeared.

How did they pack so much into 1.5mb?!? "But you at first ony gave it four stars?" Had to. Navigation has a bit of a learning curve and all albums loaded with the same random art on my older Android 6.0.1 tablet; HOWEVER, just installed it in my LG G5 and all is as it should be, including the album art. Dude! Sweet!

I've been using the old version called "mp3 pro player" from 5 years back and it was just ENOUGH!! simple UI and quick and never needed to know there was a setting menu until today when I found the publisher name and here I am.. So glad.

This is the best Music Player. I can have custom playlist with orders I can set however I want, scanned through all types of music (not just randomly DIDN'T scan music I wanna play) and no ads. I'll recommend this to anyone that didn't have Spotify.

Super light weight, easily the most efficient audio playback app available. Speedy. Plenty of useful options. Background play. No ads AND no unnecessary permissions. I guess you could say it's perfect?

Replaygain does not work. I applied album ReplayGain to my files using Foobar2000 on pc, but when I play these files on mobile using Vanilla Music, there is no change in volume. Other than that, no issues at all.

The best music player I have yet found, and it is free and open source! Beautiful in its simplicity, but still highly configurable. I have been using this now about three years and haven't even thought about searching for a new player.

All time from my first smartphone i use this app when it was named "music pro". i'm glad that i find its new release. it is really simply. it allows play music in my folders order and has no unnecessary functions.

Easy to use, does exactly what it states and no invasive permissions nor does it need constant internet access once downloaded. I've used it on Android Kit Kat and the app had no trouble finding my music.