Musicolet. it does everything I need for local mp3s. and SomaFM for streaming.

VLC has been great on graphene for a year or so but recently started having issues playing over bluetooth in my car. Tried a few open source options from FDroid but wound up going back to Omnia (Sandboxed play store) for now. No more playback issue for a few days now.

Seemed to happen when I got Graphene’s Android 17 update, but I can’t say for sure it was that. The issue I have with it currently is that playback audio cuts out in the car, but the screen still indicates it’s “playing” - track time still ticking. I’d have to tap to pause and tap to resume to bring it back, and it would only last a few minutes before doing it again.

I think it’s likely less VLC’s fault and more likely an Android 17 thing.

The open source apps I tried worked a peach, but didn’t let me use the car’s (Honda) menu to browse music or select albums. Most of the ones I tried didn’t even appear as options while trying to use the car to change what music I was listening to.

Booming Music worked the best for me. I tried Rhythm, but last time I used it, it slowed down my phone and drained the battery.

An issue that both have is that they don’t read metadata of WAV files.

I’ve been enjoying fossify music player. My main issue is that the sorting is based on metadata, and not folder structure, but other than that, it’s a solid music player.

It doesn’t have any lyrics, though, which is not helpful for what you’re looking for

Auxio for local music, Morphe for YT and YT Music w/o ads. YTDLnis to download songs and videos.

Pulsar+

Musicolet because of the multiple queue feature

SicMu Player for local files

SimpMusic for streaming

both should be on f-droid

You might be interested in Rush, which detects music from your “now playing” and displays the lyrics beautifully.

Then you can use whatever local player you like for your library and have great lyrics experience regardless.

If you end up setting up a home server with navidrome or similar, Chora has the best lyrics search and display. The website also mentions local playback, so it may meet your need, although I’ve never used it that way.

It’s been a while since I’ve used a local player, but the best ones I’ve found were Oto Music (closed source), which has very good lyrics search and support, and Booming Music.

PixlePlayer also looks like a promising new option.

Musicolet

I self-host my music with Navidrome, play it with Tempus on Android.

VLC

Just VLC. I don’t stream music and most of the stuff I listen to have no lyrics so it works fine as-is

Auxio

Foobar2000