SicMu Neo vs Vanilla Music
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
SicMu Neo
SicMu Neo is a lightweight, full-featured, file-based audio player with a simple to use UI and low resource footprint. It is especially well-suited for large music libraries organized in folder structures. Installation Note: After a fresh install it might be necessary to go into the settings, scroll down and trigger a media scan. This will take at most one minute. After restarting the app, your music should appear. Features: * Song grouping by artist/album or folder structure * Multiple shuffle modes, multiple song repeatition options, A-B looping, set playback speed * Shake the phone to skip a song (after enabled) * Light: starts in sub-second time and runs with no delay for music libraries with >1K files * Audio metadata reading * Filter by and edit star ratings * Notification with sound control * Scrobble support via third-party apps * Sleep timer (turn of music after X minutes/hours) * Multiple color themes (dark-red, dark-white, white) * Supports virtually all audio formats (mp3, ogg, flac, wav, ...) New in this fork: * Search function * Multiple sources for album art (metadata, fallback to longest filename prefix match for .jpg and .png files in the same folder) * Per-device mono/stereo settings * More options in long press menu, e.g. search on Genius.com or YouTube.com * More translations (most notably Spanish), basic support for screen readers
Vanilla Music
Music player with a simple interface similar to the stock music player. Supports browsing by folder, queueing, shake-to-skip and more. Supports the same audio formats as the stock music player since the system media APIs are used. This is a fork of https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kreed.vanilla which is no longer being developed by its author. We keep that in the repo as it supports Android versions below 4.0.3.
| Feature | SicMu Neo | Vanilla Music |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | MusicMedia PlayerVideo | MusicMedia PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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