Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
by fluoridation on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:40PM
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I do the same thing, and players (mostly on Android) that only support metadata-based browsing annoy me to no end. Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!
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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
by whoisthemachine on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:54PM
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> Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!
I see you don't know the challenges of disk access on Android for developers.
Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
by briHass on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:02PM
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I've been using Music Folder Player (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.zorillasoft...) for over a decade for this very reason.
I think Android has now made this type of player almost obsolete. Every app has its own file sandbox and apps must go through an abstraction for media that works poorly.