i have a rather large music library on sd card (~250gb and well over 10k tracks) so i am looking for a player that is able to handle that. so far i been using vlc player because the last time i was looking for a player i came to the conclusion it was the best option for a library this large. most other players would hang or slow down considerably with that many files. the only other player i have used for a while was auxio and i was quite happy with it but an update broke how it handles files and now it keeps forgetting my library and has to rescan everything whenever i open the app.

my problem with vlc now is every time i add some files to the sd card it needs to rescan every single file, which takes quite a long time. i hope there is maybe a player out there which would satisfy my needs:
-is able to handle a large library
-is able to apply replay gain
-has a dark mode
-doesn't need to rescan everything whenever i add a new album to the sd card

in case you have a recommendation for a case like that please LMK, thanks!

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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a library bigger than yours, I've tried many apps on f-droid an year ago and so far the only that seems to be able to handle my library at all is Music Player Go.

It takes like 15 seconds to open, but after opening it works fine, however, it doesn't support replay gain.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

thanks but replay gain is a must as my library is normalized. and it looks like it got removed from f-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.iven.musicplayergo/