Folder Player

Peter Shashkin

About this app

Already organized your music in folders? Folder Player gives you direct access to your audio library since 2010 :)
Folder Player is FREE (NO Ads, NO in-app purchases!), minimalistic but powerful alternative music player which uses folders to play music or audiobooks.
Play directories the same way you play individual audio tracks.

Longer Story:

Folder Player is a freeware which knows how to play whole directories. It can browse and play individual files, folders, or full folder trees.

Why another music player for Android?

There are many great mp3 players out there. If you're happy with them, you probably don't need another one. But chances are, you have the same problem as I had before I created this app - you tried many players, and your mp3 tag-based access to your music still too cumbersome, because your world defined - yes - by folders.

Is Folder Player a solution?
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If you need advanced capabilities of a desktop player - Folder Player is probably not the right fit.
This player focuses on things that really are important: browsing and playing music on a portable device, and that's exactly what makes this app stand out.

You can learn more, or leave your feedback at http://folderplayer.com

If you like the player - it is important to rate this app - here is why:
More people rate it -> more people see it -> more feedback -> more updates

(by the way, same applies to other apps you like, rate them too!)

Other features include:

- integration with Bluetooth headphones
- Android Auto
- integration with last.fm (via scrobbler)
- pauses during phone calls and navigation speech
- sequential and random play
- configurable settings
- Equalizer
- Double press headset button to skip track
- Search
- Temporary playlist "Play Next"

I would like to thank all the fans of this app, for your feedback, donations, and translations.

Ratings and reviews

Hi, I found something that might be a bug.. Installed this on redmi note 13 5g with hyperos 2.0 (android 15). The equalizer works, but the bass booster and virtualizer both fail. I checked on old redmi 8a (android 10) with same version as above it works perfectly. Apart from small things above, this is still the best and safest music player because it has no ads and no need for network access. I use this as the default player replacing the standard phone app. Thanks 🙏

The designers of this app never stumbled upon the idea that a "folder player" should be able to jump to next subfolder after finishing playing songs from the previous one. While it's possible to make a list of subfolders (albums), they cannot be played. What a sad joke.

I've had this installed on every smart phone I have ever had since my first in 2010, (I hadn't realized it's been my go-to music player for 14yrs!) I'm from the old windows era, long before streaming existed, when the best way to get music was Napster, and play it on WinAmp. So I've always had music sorted by folder, not playlist, and I just like clicking "Play folder." Naturally, I wanted that on my smartphone. And Folder Player has been the king for nearly 20yrs! So easy a caveman can do it!

What’s new

3 new features and 7 fixes sponsored by fans of Pro version :)

See https://folderplayer.com/whatsnew-free.html for the full list