Folder Based Music Player

[supradude]

Using an S5 Active, the default music player splits my music albums up so I am looking for a music player that is more or less folder based.

A little more info; I have been using Windows Media Player for eternity and while it has its faults, I use it to tag everything (which can be frustrating trying to find the correct tag). As such, my music has been painstakingly tagged over many, many years with the correct artist names and albums. All of the music is also in their respective folders which are listed correctly per artist, album and song (i.e. 01 Song A, 02 Song B, etc.).

When I move the music (40.1 gb) over to the SD card on my S5 Active, it breaks down an artists album into multiple folders for the same album. In other words, it decided to make multiple folders on the SD card for the same album of an artist even though that is not how I have structured the files and it shows as such in the music player. Never had this problem on my HTC Evo V 4G. I do not mind the Samsung music player and I really liked the HTC player so a music player like that would be great. Hopefully I am making sense.

Here are some examples... don't judge.

 

[funkylogik]

I always organised my music in that way on my last phone (gs3) and the app PowerAmp always worked well enough for me mate but my collection maybe wasn't as extensive as yours but it has (had anyway) like a 14day trial period so give it a try
(PS.. I'm trying hard not to judge)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

 

[RazzMaTazz]

I also have been using Windows Media Player (WMP) since time began as my primary media organizer and have my music collection tagged like yours. I use MediaMonkey for Android (MMA) on my cell phone. It can view by folder (or artist, album, song, composer, genre).

You don't have to use MediaMonkey for Windows (MMW) on your PC, but if you do (and I do so only for PC-Android synchronization purposes), then MMW & MMA work together to provide the only complete PC-Android synchronization solution that I know of. The sync system puts a small database file in your phone's MediaMonkey folder which contains all of the tag information and playlists. If that database file exists from a sync, then MMA reads it instead of reading Android's often-problematic database. This is critical if:

1. You've used WMP to tag music (since Android doesn't always correctly read WMP-tagged files).
2. You have WMA song-files because Android can't read or write "Artist" tags on WMA files.
3. You maintain playlists on WMP that you want to play on your phone. (This system puts playlists on your phone that play the songs in your folders. Many other playlist-sync systems repetitively copy the playlist songs to a playlist folder, so several copies of a song may end up on your phone, wasting space.)

When I discovered MMA, I was so happy to have a total PC-Android sync solution that I wrote a long-winded post describing the benefits, including a link to another post explaining how to sync playlists, etc for Windows Media Player users. Here's a link.
http://androidforums.com/threads/me...-sync-solution-like-itunes-but-better.852296/

Before I used MMA, I used MixZing. It also has folder-based browsing. If you don't care about syncing from your PC to Android and you don't have any WMA music files, then MixZing might be a good choice. I posted about MixZing a long time ago. Here's the link.
http://androidforums.com/threads/mi...ast-radio-best-free-player-bye-winamp.727488/

 

[supradude]

Late reply, but I wanted to try out PowerAmp and MediaMonkey for a bit to see if I liked them and after playing with both, I have decided to go back to using the stock player from Samsung for now. If only it would read the music the same as Windows Media Player, or rather just read my music exactly as it is when transferred onto the miscrosd card. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Nidstang]

A little more info; I have been using Windows Media Player for eternity and while it has its faults, I use it to tag everything (which can be frustrating trying to find the correct tag). . . .When I move the music (40.1 gb) over to the SD card on my S5 Active, it breaks down an artists album into multiple folders for the same album.

Not familiar with WMP, and I also don't understand how the new folders are being created on your SD Card. If you copy over a folder structure from your computer to your SD card, shouldn't the folder structure remain intact? That's what happen when I move music folders using ES Explorer. If there are extra folders being created somehow, I am not sure that playing from folders will solve your problem.

Anyway, if it helps Rocket Player from the Play Store has a folder view and options to play from folder by long-pressing on a folder while in the folder view. There is also a setting (Settings | My Library | Album Grouping) that will favor files within the same folder as being the same album. There is a free version and a paid version of the app, but both have this functionality.