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

This player works well for me. I like storing music via folders, nice and organized. A MAJOR bonus to me is that it plays (virtually) any media file in the folder as audio. So, I can keep music videos where they would logically go (at least logical to me) and it will play them back as if there were straight audio. The only reason that I'm giving four stars is that it sometimes hangs, but this *may* be my files.... looking into this.

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!

I've been using this app as my music player for several years because it's simple and folder based rather than playlist (which I can't be bothered to make). Problem is about 4 months ago I lost the ability to display and begin playback of songs through it in Android auto. It worked fine prior to that, but now the only way to use it in Android auto is to start playback on my phone then open Android auto. I can then skip, pause and play using my audio controls, but not select songs on the screen.

What’s new

10 new features and 15 fixes sponsored by fans of Pro version :)

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