Music Folder Player - Folder-based music player & features

Music Folder Player is designed for those who prefer not to categorize their music by artist, album, track, or playlists. If organizing audio files in folders suits your style, this player might be just what you need.

Additionally, it offers a variety of unique features.

• Material Design

• Continuation where you last paused. It remembers the last position for every folder.

• Option to display folders as a 'flat' list for smaller music collections.

• Option to view folder hierarchy similar to a file manager for larger libraries.

• A virtual folder to hold your favorite songs.

• Playlist functionality.

• Four customizable seek buttons, ideal for navigating through podcasts or audiobooks.

• Equalizer:

- 4 adjustable settings

- 8 preset options such as Bass Booster, Vocal Booster, and Party setting

• Virtual room and reverb effects.

• Playback speed control with pitch correction (available for OS 4.2+).

This feature allows you to adjust the playback speed for podcasts or audiobooks, though it’s not recommended for music.

• Pre-amplifier: Enhance the volume for audio recorded at low levels (available for OS 4.2+).

• 432 Hz playback mode (available for OS 4.2+).

• Car/Sports mode with large buttons.

• Control volume and balance using a two-finger gesture.

• Undo feature: Reverse actions if you accidentally activate a button or change tracks.

• Options for shuffle and repeat (hold down on the play/pause button).

• Ability to delete and rename files (long press on the file).

• Sleep timer functionality.

• Headset control for button presses (double and triple clicks).

• Search for files and folders.

It’s important to clarify that this application functions solely as an audio PLAYER, not a DOWNLOADER. If you are looking for software to download music, this app will not meet your needs; it only manages audio files already saved on your device.

Rest assured that any 'adware' alerts from antivirus programs are unfounded—this player is not malicious software. The notifications stem from the fact that the player displays ads; however, the full version does not contain such ads.

For permissions and further information, kindly refer to the Frequently Asked Questions section on the official website.

Frequently Asked Questions

This section answers the frequently asked questions.

Please have a look here before you send me a mail.

Question: Version 3.1.x does not longer run in background for a longer time. Why the hell did you do that?

Answer:

In the new version of the app, this happens because Google forces us app developers to target Android 12 or newer for app updates. For apps that are targeting Android 11 or 12, a very strict "battery optimization" is automatically active, which causes that an app cannot run in the background for a longer time. Android terminates an app after a certain time (depending on the settings) if it is not running in the foreground with the display turned on.

When you started the new app version 3.1.x for the first time, you have seen a dialog regarding battery optimization settings. The dialog also contains a warning that not following the recommended changes, it will likely lead to problems. What you experience sounds like one of the problems the dialog was warning about. You can go to the Android app settings and disable the battery optimization for the app manually. Alternatively, un-install and re-install the app. Then follow the steps shown in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waqBgpeP9eo

There are also other options in the general Android settings that can cause an app to be forced to quit. These can be found in the battery options of the phone. Very often this is called "Power Saving". The following page provides hints for different manufacturers: https://dontkillmyapp.com/ Another similar website is this one: https://www.geekdashboard.com/stop-android-killing-apps-background/

As a last resort, you can download the old version of the app from here:

https://zorillasoft.de/download/MusicFolderPlayer_free_v2.6.4-4426400-release.apk

If you use the payed version, please send me the Google Order Number via email.

Question: What the hell changed in Version 3.1.x?

Answer:

Let me share some general words about the new version of the app.

It took two years to implement all the changes Google requires for apps targeting Android 11 and newer. This is basically a newly developed version of the app. Google is forcing app developers to target Android 11 or newer which has some dramatic consequences. File and folder access is now extremely restricted. The only exception to this are file manager apps which can still access all files and folders without restrictions. Scanning and reading files and folders is now 70 times (not 70%!!!) slower than before. I worked really hard within the last two years trying to mitigate all of that, but there will surely be cases where not everything works out of the box immediately. Please keep in mind that the old version of the app was developed continuously for 11 years and therefore all kinds of issues were addressed there. It will surely take a while until the new version has reached this level as well.

I ask for your indulgence during this time, as it was not my idea to introduce all these restrictions, but Google's. I'm just a hobby developer, working on that in my spare time, but I assure you, I'll do whatever I can.

Question: After updating to version 3.1.x, I don't see files in some folders.

Answer:

Google thought it was a great idea that apps targeting Android 12 (which Google is forcing us app developers to target as of today) should only be able to "see" the files which are indexed in the Android media data database (unless the app is a file manager app). Apparently this is not the case on your device. I can't do anything on my end to fix this.

Usually this happens because there are files with the name '.nomedia' in a folder. This tells Android not to index the folder and all sub-folders. All files in such folders won't be visible to the app. You need to remove all ".nomedia" in all of the folders (including parent folders). Please be aware that these files are "hidden" because of the dot at the beginning. Not all file managers show such files by default.

In all cases you have to restart the phone and wait a while for Android to rebuild the database. This can take up to 15 minutes or even longer if you have a an extremely large number of files and folders. After that, the files should show up.

If not, please try a clean re-install of the app with the following steps. Please don't skip any of the steps, even if you think it doesn't make sense.

1) Clear cache and data of the app in the Android app settings

2) Un-install the app

3) Reboot the device

4) Re-install the app.