“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by blincoln on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:49PM (#43074031)

I'm pretty sure the paid version of PowerAmp for Android will do what you want, with or without explicitly creating a playlist.

I have many thousands of mp3s on my phone in nested folders. PowerAmp has a "shuffle all" mode that handles them just fine, as well as other shuffle modes. I've never noticed it repeating a track before I do something to interrupt the shuffle.

Earlier versions (>~ 5 years ago) seemed to have trouble indexing over a few thousand tracks across the phone as a whole, but AFAIK that's been fixed for awhile now.

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Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by TJSomething on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:31PM (#43074356)

I can recommend PowerAmp. I've been using it for over a decade and it's been pretty happy with updating my 20,000+ song collection and my 1,000+ song playlist that I sync with an graphical ssh/rsync wrapper (although I've actually been switching to an rclone wrapper, RoundSync, in the last few months).

My personal favorite feature that I got addicted to back when I was using Amarok in KDE 3 was the ability to have a playlist and a queue that resumes to the playlist when exhausted. Then I can listen to an album in order, and then go back to shuffling my driving music playlist when that's done.

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