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Auxio stands out for me due to its beauty and implementation of Material You. It's gorgeous!
Unfortunately, it has an ARTISTS tag fetish and there's no setting to switch to preferring ARTIST.
But I maintain, it's beautiful
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.oxycblt.auxio/
Edit: For the record, nothing comes close to Musicolet!
very very cool! the UI is very nice and has the drag-to-reorganize the queue that is very nice. Unfortunately, it seems that is misses the ability to import a .m3u playlist...
Sorry to fail you 😩
Metro, gorgeous looking Material You themed Music player, fork of RetroMusic, but with all premium features unlocked. All common features you expect from a music player are included.
I tried literally everyone suggested here, and finally decided to settle with this one, it's so beautiful! thanks for the recommendation!
1)Auxio, a great minimal one https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio
I use VLC mostly
Harmonoid, powerful and flexible and customisable https://github.com/harmonoid/harmonoid
I find anrimians music player the best. I sync my music using syncthing. On the Laptop I have all the flacs and highres stuff, on the phone only the compressed ones (these are on the laptop too).
Most music players focus on albums and playlists, while I mostly want to use folders.
Its the red note icon, from F-Droid
Metro
A long journey that personally begin with shure+play, then discovered musicolet, then went foss with mucke. Now I'm with a BlackBerry Keyone, so I'm trying to maintain everything less resource eater possible : Vanilla Music
Doesn't have the playlist overlap functionality, but a good player is Symphony from f-droid.