Folder Player
Use Folders instead of playlist!
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Android App Analysis and Review: Folder Player, Developed by Peter Shashkin. Listed in Music & audio Category. Current Version Is 5.32, Updated On 16/03/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Folder Player. Achieved Over 2 million Installs. Folder Player Currently Has 18 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.0 Stars
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.
We are currently offering version 5.32. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.
We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.
It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.
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
See https://folderplayer.com/whatsnew-free.html for the full list
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Recent Comments
Josef E.
Great Player, outstanding performance. Very intuitive to use, and the sheer amount of features is really great. When running on LineageOS I have the issue of the player being in the foreground when unlocking via print, and it refuses to close on its own. This can be worked around by just going up the folder hierarchy and thus exiting the player to come back to your unlocking mask, after wich everything works as normal. Not a problem in itself though, just an inconvenience. 5 stars nontheless!
Olli
Developer seems a bit shy (or 'lazy' haha, just kidding) listing all features it has so this one almost slipped under my radar while searching for a folder based player with some specific additional features (they are listed on the linked homepage but seriously who goes to homepages while browsing through Play store? :)) *folder bookmarks, *remember where you stopped listening within a bookmark, *tags ('playlists'), *includes files in sub folders (I know not all so called 'folder players' do that), *auto play next folder (pro feature), *sleep timer, *very clean design (subjective of course), etc. Good job, I think I've finally found my player of choice (plan to buy pro version soon).
Peterson
Hi, I found something that might be a bug.. Installed this on redmi note 13 5g with hyperos 2.0 (android 15). The equalizer works, but the bass booster and virtualizer both fail. I checked on old redmi 8a (android 10) with same version as above it works perfectly. Apart from small things above, this is still the best and safest music player because it has no ads and no need for network access. I use this as the default player replacing the standard phone app. Thanks 🙏
Error Null
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!
Bruce Bradford
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.
Frank Van der Horst
.The adviced fix was not available till i cleared data&cache... Troubles from long term users 😜 I never saw them before, now available. Not sure how to disable. Reinstallation didn't work (even after reboot) Clearing the data& cache seems to have done the trick. Last year i would have given this app 5 stars, sadly a new android update really messed up. Any folder, first song okay. Second song no volume!! Tap 15 second forward or backwards.. volume is back With fast support fixed! 5 star
NorfKhazad
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.
L Riley
Was great before the update. Had a few little niggles like not maintaining display orientation. Now it always sits on the lock screen and dominates in Android Auto blocking out other apps, even if I don't start it from boot. Most of the update is great, but these two issues have made it a huge pain, and have lead to uninstall. Look forward to another update to fix these. Need a simple player that just works on folder path and not metadata tags (I like to organise by my own folder names)