Soul Searching vs Vanilla Music
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Soul Searching
Soul Searching is a comprehensive, powerful, and customizable music app for listening to your local music. A complete application: - Playlist creation - Support for multiple played lists - Played list management (play mode, adding, deleting, etc.) - Quick access system - Listening statistics (always stored locally only) - Synchronized lyrics (from the audio file or an external source) - Editing albums, artists, and songs (writing to audio file metadata) - Support for multiple artists for the same song - Search and sorting - Folder management - Adjusting the player volume A high-performance application: - Supports a large number of music while remaining fluid - Optimized logic for quickly performing complex tasks An application that reflects your style: - Several default color themes - Option to force a dark or light theme - Dynamic theme, based on the album art color of the song being played - Option to customize the application of the dynamic theme across all screens - Choice of the seed used to generate the dynamic theme - Customization of the player (swipe to change tracks, progress displayed in minimized mode, etc.) - Home page customization (tab to open at startup, visible tabs, display style, etc.)
Vanilla Music
Music player with a simple interface similar to the stock music player. Supports browsing by folder, queueing, shake-to-skip and more. Supports the same audio formats as the stock music player since the system media APIs are used. This is a fork of https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kreed.vanilla which is no longer being developed by its author. We keep that in the repo as it supports Android versions below 4.0.3.
| Feature | Soul Searching | Vanilla Music |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | MusicMedia PlayerVideo | MusicMedia PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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