Symphony, One of the best open source lite weight offline android music player

Musicolet has been my "go-to" offline music player after searching for a few years. It can handle big libraries, shows album art, has different shuffle options, and more.
- The way you can switch between albums and playlists without losing the last position is amazing and I don't understand why not all players has it
  
  That sounds awesome! I might have to try that out for my archived podcast eps or audiobooks that aren't in an audiobook with chapters format already. Shit is annoying to lose my place just because I had friends in the car and needed to put on music.
- Musicolet is awesome but I wish its UI were more fancy.

I went into the offline mobile music player rabbit hole recently too. I tried like a dozen and personally I think none of them are sufficient, including Symphony.
The most important functionality for me is queuing e.g. how it works and how easy it is to use and it's just a horrible experience for virtually every player. So disappointing 😣
- I've been happy with Phonograph for queueing, nothing special but it seems very easy to use to me. Looks like tons of good recommendations on this thread I haven't tried out tho, definitely might be something better out there
  
  Phonograph commits the same sin as every other player in that swipe changes tabs and is therefore a total waste of a premium gesture.

Auxio is excellent. Has the UI I've been looking for for ages, can shuffle by genre, great queue system, etc.
Only part i dont like is that it has an unskippable modal at startup where it scans your library instead of doing this as an invisible async step in the background and displaying what it has as it gets it.
- I like that. Creepiest thing about VLC is that it does that even after you've killed it

Doesnt sort in alphabetical order correctly (aka ignoring words like "the" at the begining of of artists names) even tho all my music has sorting tags and it doesnt show every album art, for some reason, even tho all my music has album art embeded :c
The ui is pretty, like most forks of metroplayer, but I will stay with Gonemad (although not foss :c)

This is great.
Does anyone know something similar but this time for my navidrome online music ?
- Symfonium has been amazing! I don't know if it's open source but with navidrome, symfonium, and wireguard I've got all my music wherever I go.
  
  Thank you. I'll have a look

My favourite is SicMu Player. The name sucks but it's the best and lightweight folder base music player for me. Quite customizable as well.
- It is really good. Seems to be abandoned now though?
  
  Last version update is from 30 March 2023. It doesn't follow Android UI and has its own, works without a problem. I see no problem here, as long as it works. At least for Android 14, should be fine for 15 too.

Now if I just had a phone with 2tb of storage, then I could store my flac library.
- I got 6 months ago a s20ultra because spec wise was basically the same of a s24u for my use, i can buy a 2tb micro SD for 200€ if i want to.

AIMP cause I can set the equalizer specifically for each song and auto switch when the song comes up.

I loved Pretty Good Music Player and am since then looking for a good FOSS folder based player. For now I'm using Foldplay.