Phonograph Music Player

- May 7, 2017

Everyone

Music & Audio

Offers in-app purchases

( 29,693)

Phonograph Music Player- screenshot thumbnail

Description

Probably the best looking music player out there.

Material Design
The user interface matches every single detail of the material design guidelines to ensure Phonograph is an eye candy for you. The experience is even better on devices running Android Lollipop and above.

Easy to Use
No complicated or overblown menus but a familiar and clean interface.

Last.fm Integration
Phonograph automatically downloads additional information about your artists such as their images or biographies. When you install the official Last.fm app, scrobbling will work right out of the box too.

Dynamic Colors
The UI colors change dynamically to match the main contents base color.

Customizability
There is an inbuilt theme engine with many different colors to choose from.

Tag Editor
The tag editor allows you to easily edit the tags of your music files such as title, artist, album name (...) for single songs or whole albums. You can even either let Phonograph automatically download missing album covers for you (powered by Last.fm) or choose one from your internal storage.

And OF COURSE
- Phonograph has got all those standard features such as:
- Create and edit playlists
- Homescreen widget
- Lockscreen playback controls
- "Go-To Actions" such as jump from a song or an album right to its artist
- ...

Keep in mind that this is a beta, more features are coming soon

Licenses for the album covers used in the screenshots:

Credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/room122/
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/room122/3248118087
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/40985721@N00/
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/40985721@N00/7918133232
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wheatfields/
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wheatfields/3328507930
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Reviews

4.6

29,693 total

5 21,286

4 5,557

3 1,612

2 561

1 677

Michael Andersson

Minimalistic and colour theme can be adjusted. Intuitive and easy to use while not simplistic. Does exactly what is needed from a music player without getting in the way. All basic features without cumbersome bloat. Very well integrated Material look that actually works to the advantage of the player's usability rather than being something artificially forced on it. Can browse by folders, something that a surprising amount of players can't, which is a deal-maker feature for me. Recommended.

dingle berry

Works but has a problem which stops me from using it.. 90% of my album art will not show up. I tried clearing the cache. There needs to be a way to manually download album art. Its inconvienient because I like to pick the album with just a quick glance.. All in all it plays music well, i like the customability, but i would recommend you download this app and Pulsar, and see which one works best for you.

Divine Guardiano

What happen to ur newest update? I just downloaded a song after I updated this app, then when I searched the song, it did not appear in the "recently added "folder, even if I went to the destination file itself or turn off/on my phone, it's still won't appear. Can u please fix this bug or whatever the problem cause I honestly like this app, I've been using this for almost a year already. Sorry for the review I made above, I guess it's fine now, I'm still using your app, I'm loyal and I love it!

Adeola Okuboyejo

this app would be perfect if it actually detected album art properly and didnt have so much glitches in the library where albums are duplicated for no reason. i cant enjoy a music app if my library looks like a complete mess.

Aditya Kumar

Love this app, specially its colour changing UI as per the album art. As an improvement, bring the option to remove songs and clips from the library as it detects whatsapp audio too. Also provide the option to update artist image from gallery. Good work😊

The best music player I've found for playing my local collection. Interface is minimalistic yet full of features while following material design. I only had one issue where the tag editor won't work on m4a files downloaded using NewPipe, but that's not worth losing a star. Still works for other m4a files, among mp3s and the like.

User reviews

Michael Andersson June 25, 2017

dingle berry June 25, 2017

Divine Guardiano June 25, 2017

Adeola Okuboyejo June 25, 2017

Aditya Kumar June 26, 2017

June 19, 2017

Rohit Bijoy June 3, 2017

The best third party music player available on the play store. Very minimal looking and customisable application. The colours is really cool. Excellent application. I've tried all the other third party music apps, but nothing compares to this. I've tried pi player, black player, even stock google play music, OnePlus music app, not one is as comfortable as phonograph. The folders option is amazing. You can switch between the library view and folder view. Good job.

Miriam Rubinoff June 13, 2017

Simple, beautiful, and the sound is truly amazing! No equalizer that I've discovered yet, but it doesn't need it. Another top rated app that I tried didn't sound as good no matter what I did with the equalizer, and it also would briefly cut out if I moved the phone suddenly - not what you want if you're going to be listening while walking, jogging or traveling. I just can't get over how crisp and clear my music sounds!

Priyanshu Gogoi May 4, 2017

Excellent great app. Very minimal, clear, organized. Wasn't expecting something like this when I downloaded it. I have had generally bad experience with music apps, something is always missing. Specially with the looks. But this is great. I would love if there were an equalizer though I use a separate app for that anyway, and more widgets as well, like Google play has with the shuffle all music widget, or playlist shortcuts. Nevertheless, five star from me. Because it's freaking clean.

Naji Krayem May 16, 2017

Thank you very much this app is just great, nice design and very organized. The tag editor does not work on my Nexus 5 for some reason so it's kinda hard to brows my tracks. When I use the tag editor the track disappears from the app and seems to get corrupted in files. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Ryan Seltzer May 28, 2017

Really great looking app and well made but lacks a major feature I need; chromecast support. Also there is a persistent bug where the notification shows a pause button even when my music is paused and therefore makes it so I can't swipe away the notification

Jeff Lowe May 27, 2017

Sony Xperia Z5, Android 7.0. It's a very clean, user friendly interface. I love that last.fm is the source for downloading artwork. One thing I noticed was that every so often when it either moves on to the next song or I skip it, it will pause. Other than that, it's great. You've got some cola coming your way :)

ritar April 29, 2017

The most materialistic music player, ever. Animations behaves as they're supposed to do. Last.FM and tag editor are a little buggy, but except them everything works almost perfectly. One thing I want to request is exporting playlists. Recently I had to recover my phone and I had no way to keep my playlists.

Noah Eli May 7, 2017

App is beautifully designed. Sadly, it fails to do the one thing I really need it to. The playlist function is ultimately broken. I spent hours recreating playlists from Poweramp in this app only to have them duplicate and empty themselves upon each phone restart. That therefore renders this app unusable for me.

Kevin Sanchez May 3, 2017

I was going to write a lengthy true but I decided to keep it short and summarize it in a few points. 1. Great design and materialistic look, the UI is just amazing and the animations are eye candy. 2. It recognizes all of your songs in your library instantly, no need to go through menus and add them manually. 3. Easy to use and navigate, everything is well put together. Overall it's a great music player that should suit a lot of people's needs when it comes to playing music, and it's FREE which blows my mind. I do wish for it to have a version of ANDROID AUTO, the app just feels like it was made to be used with it.

MashpotMC June 26, 2017

All in all, an amazing, minimalist music app! My only suggestion is that A. For some reason, the artist art for MGMT is broken and crashes the app. This needs to be fixed as it can cause a lot of problems. And B. Perhaps the addition of a way to sort albums, for example, in artist alphabetical order, instead of album. That way all albums are grouped by artist in the list :)

Bhabesh Ranjan Dash June 29, 2017

Its my Favourite music player.. But some problems there needs fix.. 1st one is even my Song repeat is off.. It play again and again .. But in notification showing player is paused.. Another issue is album art.. Its not showing accurate album art.. If there is an image in same folder where song is present.. Then that image comes up with that song in player.. And another issue is.. If i delete any song through this player.. That song comes again after some hour or later.. Like its newly added song

Jack Cheshire May 20, 2017

Edit: Notification still having issues not swiping away. Slick, smooth and sophisticated - the audiophile's dream. Issues with Nougat on Samsung S7; notification no longer changes to the full accent colour bar.

Diptajit Paul June 5, 2017

I love this app,have been using for months.Just two suggestions. 1.Provide an option to filter out audio files less than a specific size/length.I dont want my whatsapp audios and recordings to apper in my song list. 2.Please add fade-out effect while play/pause a song.

Ian Mitchell June 14, 2017

As nice as this music player is, I'm having a bit of a frustrating time with it. It split the album Bloom into two sections because one had different metadata then the other. Now, the last two songs are the first two played. However, it is still a very full featured but minimal music player. It's easy to control and does what it says on the box.

Alexander Da Silva June 26, 2017

Function, no ads, and easy to use. Minor nitpicks with scrolling through long lists, and reorganizing playlists, but no lag for big lists and good customization of settings.

Nat Smith May 7, 2017

So I've been using this app for a while - easily the best music app out there. However, there's never a perfect app and I'd like to suggest a couple of improvements: - Android Auto support would be lovely - Cross-fade support - When adding a song to the queue, have it join after the songs you've added to play next, rather than at the end of the queue (like iTunes does)

Anthony Gonzalez June 28, 2017

Almost as good as some paid music players...this is the best the ui is simple yet very gorgeus and i like how they kept the system equalizer plz dont get rid off that option very good...keep making it better plz!!!

Radek Wojcik May 28, 2017

Needs a genre menu. Please incorporate and will give 5 stars!!! Edit: Albums with various artists aren't fully supported. Not all artists show up in "artists" tab and albums are labeled with the artist of the first track. Nonetheless its still the best music player. Fix this and I will give 5 and consider donating.

Zayn Ashraff June 3, 2017

Everything is so damn fine but one thing just ruins it.. If you rearrange your Playlist while a song in it is playing.. Then playing order of the whole app is affected.. Nothing plays in order anymore, it's like permanent random. 😕 Wish this could be fixed then a 5* no doubt.

Abhishek Jain June 4, 2017

I find the google music player useless. So thankfully after moving away from my Xperia I found dis app. All in all a very apt music player. Love d interface.

Kyle McDowall June 14, 2017

Finally found a great music player i liked but of course it had something wrong with it, when using the player i noticed my photos being put on the covers of music for some reason. It doesn't really affect the player but it is very annoying and can't see why you cannot release a simple patch for this problem.

Amaan Bari May 17, 2017

Favorite music app with two huge problems. For some music files, it freezes on the beginning so it sounds like the music is pausing and playing randomly. The other one is potentially dangerous, sometimes when i play a file, it jumps to Max volume for a very quick instant in the beginning. Depending on the headphones, it can cause a headache, my earbuds mainly give my ear drums a very nice shock that i definitely enjoy (sarcasm). If this could get fixed, that'd be great. And it's not the issue of the files, my computer plays the same files perfectly.

Kevin Soh May 27, 2017

I can't do clear playlist and play the folder with just one tap. I need to first clear the queue and then play next. Annoying.

Chase Pearson April 27, 2017

My biggest problem is the equalizer, why can't it use the same one as every other app? This one doesn't work and doesn't have genre specific presets. Other than that it's beautiful

Chad Quallo June 28, 2017

I would give this a 5 was it not for the bugs plaguing the tags editor. Tried to change the art and it worked but the app refused to save the artist name... It's really annoying.

KUPOinyourWINDOW June 15, 2017

The best music player for android. Highly customisable clean material design look. ❤️ Feature request: It would be great if you could disable/remove my top tracks and history (in the playlist tab). Some people like me just want to setup our own, and don't need to know what songs we've been listening to. Also if it could have a dark opening animation if you use a dark theme

GAURANG MHATRE June 9, 2017

I tried this app because I wanted a different sound and equalizer options than my default music app. But this app connects to the default equalizer only. Very disappointed with this. Ui looks nice and other options are great for a free app. But disappointed with the lack of independent sound modification options.

Gabriel Malizon May 11, 2017

The Tag Editor was working great before but after the update once i try to grab an album cover from last.fm and save changes the album cover disappears and everything i edited (title, artist, album) reverted. when i try to edit it again, the info i put is still there but when i save it, nothing changes. pls fix! thank you!

Rubin Johny June 8, 2017

Awesome app with an amazing UI! Love everything about it! Big fan of the developers... Just 1 thing can you guys add a more efficient way to re-order the playlist?? Like holding and moving the selected song up the order? That would be great

Mark Edwards June 28, 2017

Pretty good but... When I reboot my LG G5 phone, the Widget does not work until I select the app through the icon. This then activates the widget. Annoying.

Tiến Đạt Lê April 26, 2017

Please add ability to edit tags for files in external storage. My internal storage is so low I have to keep all my songs in Sd card, so this feature is pretty useless to me now.

Prithviraj D Jaguar June 9, 2017

It's a lovely app. Music playing is simple, ID3 tags can be easily edited, playlists csn be exported hassle freely. Must have music player even if you have other apps.

Luciano Pizzi May 22, 2017

Great music player. It would be nice to have an option to sort a playlist alphabetically. I have a problem with playlists, after a few days, every one I create disappears.