Phonograph Music Player

Karim Abou Zeid

About this app

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.

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 all 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
- ...

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/

Ratings and reviews

Really enjoyed this for about a year. When I got a new phone, suddenly the app was clipping off the endings of songs so I thought I'd try reinstalling it. I did, but now I can't edit any themes without downloading a "pro" version, which apparently does not exist. So...off to another music player, I guess.

I've loved this app for years for being able to just play my music. Lately though it's been super glitchy. Songs randomly stop playing when I don't have the app open on my screen, the lock screen widget doesn't update the songs right away and when it does, the play button doesn't change to a pause while playing so sometimes the volume will cut out for no reason and I can't tell if it's paused or being annoying. Can't use the play/pause in the standard widget either. I don't know what's going on.

The only reason I downloaded this app is that, at the time, it was the only one that let me use MY OWN playlist files that I create on my computer. I have a mild case of OCD and need to do things my own way. Unless I'm missing something, it appears that the latest update has removed that ablility so I'll be searching for another music player - again. sigh.

What's new

More fixes for Android 11