Fossify Music Player 1.0.0 released

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 191 points – 4 months ago

Obligatory note for those that haven't read/retained the news: Simple Mobile Tools was sold to ZipoApps - an Israeli company that specialises in buying and monetising popular apps.

Fossify is the fork of the Simple Mobile Tools repos, and they're gradually getting through each app and re-releasing them under the new name.

Thanks for sharing. Nice.

Looking forward seeing it on F-Droid. https://search.f-droid.org/?q=fossify&lang=en

I use Obtainium to install directly from the repo.

Interesting option. Didn't know this was possible.

Yeah - it's pretty capable, actually. Regexes and stuff, to make sure you get the exact APK you want.

I'll give this one a go. I was on PowerAMP for years ever since I got my first Android phone, a HTC Hero on Android 1.5! Recently I changed to Musicolet. I don't think it's open source, but it is privacy focused, as it doesn't have any features that access a network.

Any reason to try something something else than VLC?

Not necessarily, and I tend to find VLC is still the better media player.

I was sharing more for the interest of those that were using the original Simple Mobile variant, and were waiting for the forked version to be released.

Thanks!

I used VLC in the past but switched to the simple music player after having too many bugs and crashes with VLC on my phone.

Plays flac. Hopefully the player will be able to output to external DAC bypassing Androids resampling machine (in the future).