Music player recommendations

With lyrics support Folder play

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Still have to find an app who can sort albums by year properly (without mess with tags also).
- I noticed recently that Gramophone has a Dates tab, a list of years in increasing order that groups Songs together. So not albums exactly, but pretty cool nonetheless, it grabs a random cover for each year.
  
  Thx for let me know, I'll check that feature. Latest Auxio release seems to sort well album years, sadly the UI is pretty boring.

What is folder play?
- A music player which "just plays whatever is in a directory". Very handy for people having a media folder with artist folders and album subfolders. For the type of people, like myself, who focus more on tidy and disciplined storage of files instead of managing ID3 metadata etc
  
  Wait don't most players have such a feature?

Symphony github link It has nice UI, very polished and have folder view and lyrics support But there's a major catch, unlike other players, you will need to keep the app open in background
Gramophone github link Also have a nice ui, but not very polished. Absolutely usable. Have folder view and lyrics support
- "nice" ui..... its Material, how do you guys Like it? whats "nice" about Material???? (serious question, pls answer.)
  
  As an Android developer and as an user, I would prefer a standard and tested set of rules rather than reinventing everything. I know everyone have different taste, but I would trust an expert (someone who designed and defined Material rules) rather than my own judgement. Don't have an eye of a designer

I went from Spottube (which runs off Spotify) to Innertune (YouTube music) because Spottube crashed one too many times and I kept having to rebuild my library...it's not much but still.
I also like the UI and different listening modes.

I've been using VLC for folder based play of audio files. The UI is not ideal but it works well and the other apps I've tried didn't work out for various reasons. Unfortunately the Android Auto version of the UI doesn't have access to the folder browsing feature.
No idea if VLC has lyrics support for audio-only files.

Unfortunately not on F-Droid, but you can get it through AuroraStore, Musicolet.

I use Vanilla Music. It does folder play particularly in a way I want, where it adds the songs randomly into a queue, which shows me how many songs are left, lets me manually move them around, etc.
It also seems to have a lyrics search plugin, but I don't know if that means lyrics support in the way you want.

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