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Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by fluoridation on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:40PM (#43031000)
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!
Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by whoisthemachine on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:54PM (#43032503)
> 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 (#43032530)
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.

Re:DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player by gitaarik on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:42AM (#43034649)