So my Rockbox players are getting old, crusty, and slow and Rockbox for Android is dead so I started looking around to see if there are any Android apps that can actually replace Rockbox. Rockbox is amazing so I have a pretty stringent set of requirements. I'll be ok with either one app for both or one app for music and a separate one for audio books/podcasts.
In case you're unfamiliar with Rockbox, this will entirely for playing local files. No streaming at all.
UAPP is popular around here for it's ability to bypass the system mixer but that's not super important to me and I couldn't find a demo version to check out it's other options.
In case you're unfamiliar with Rockbox, this will entirely for playing local files. No streaming at all.
- UI - Simple UI with the ability to turn off all album artwork. I think the visuals detract from the music.
- Sleep Timer - Sleep timer to stop playback after a fixed amount of time regardless of what's left on the queue/playlist. Bonus points for restarting the sleep timer on receiving user input.
- Bookmarking - Automatic bookmarking of position in audio book/podcasts.
- Auto Rewind on Pause - Automatically go back 20 seconds or so on pause so I can remember the context in audio books.
- Shuffle Entire Library - Ability to load the entire music library into one shuffled playlist. Must exclude audio books if a single app is used for both.
- Compressor - This is super useful. Great for music in a noisy car. Great for podcasts because quality of production is often inversely correlated with the quality of content. Great for super low volume background music while falling asleep.
- PEQ and Crossfeed.- Bonus points but not strictly necessary since my Qudelix 5K can handle it for now.
- Database and Folder Browsing - Must have tag database for browsing music and have folder browsing for picking books/podcasts.
UAPP is popular around here for it's ability to bypass the system mixer but that's not super important to me and I couldn't find a demo version to check out it's other options.