vgmstream for Android OS by Lioncash at 9:01 PM EST on February 17, 2012
Hey all. Finally had time to post this (if you frequent the IRC, then this is old news to you).
I managed to get vgmstream working with a player on Android 4.0 and above. I don't have a lot of formats on me to test all of them, but for the most part from my experience, most of the formats -should- play back fine. The player is simply a fork of Droidsound.
The only formats I've heavily tested with are AAX, ADX, RSF and YMF. All of which I can confirm play back 100% fine.
If you want to use it or do whatever, everything is all open source and hosted here: Github Page
There is also a binary build in the downloads section for those that don't want to build it themselves.
If you do happen to use it and find some files not playing back, etc. Make an issue report on the Github page, or simply post in this thread and I'll see what I can do.
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Bug Report 2 [vgmstream plugin]Music stops before loop starts.
No SD card by fredg999 at 10:21 PM EDT on July 4, 2013
I recently got a Nexus 4 and installed this port of Droidsound using the latest binary package (May 22nd, 2012). However, since I don't have an SD card, the application cannot detect the music I am transferring to the system storage. Obviously, this means I cannot listen to any music but the Examples included with the app. Is there any way the app could have an option to search on the device's storage instead, or in addition to the SD card? (And if you can publish the binary build including such changes, that would be great too!)
I'm sure this app is worth being used, but I'm afraid I cannot use it much so far…
DroidSound-E sounds like a good upgrade to Kode54's original. The official page.
Also, this enhanced version doesn't have sorting by artist/albuml/genre (I wish it could respect semicolon (;) separators) yet. And, UI customization would be even nicer addition in the future.
Yeah... too bad the author is a serial GPL abuser. There used to be a GitHub repository, but it didn't receive any updates and only housed links to the built APKs presumably as a facade to appear open source. They deleted their repository not so long ago after being constantly called out for it.
The author being a serial GPL abuser... How?! You can send links for evidence of abuse, if available. Now I want to look for a really good alternative that also supports everything VGMStream, OpenMPT, PSF/SSF/DSF/NSF/VGM sequenced game music, etc. plugins can provide...
I don't remember what specifically, but I'm very sure there are GPL licensed libraries that it uses, yet Droidsound-E's own code hasn't been disclosed, and the author cuts off contact whenever somebody mentions it. Unfortunate, really.
But is ZXTune still updated? ZXTune doesn't do TXTH/TXTP at all. So I had no other choice save for DroidSound-E.
My personal wishes on the future of DroidSound-E by Katsur at 9:09 AM EDT on April 28, 2025
I know some of them can't be granted, but I really hope if DroidMJT could take responsibility sincerely. So, what do I wish for the future of DroidSound-E (and similar Android music player)? Let's see...
1. Matroska Audio (.mka, it properly supports and contains tags, not unlike MP3, Ogg and FLAC. It can also contain Dolby AC3, E-AC3, TrueHD, DTS) 2. More cover art formats supported (read: WEBP, JFIF, BMP... up to 4096x4096, which sounds ludicrous) and aspect ratios (such as 4:3 or 16:9) 3. More ways to explore audio inside my telephone (I prefer tabbed style. Album artist, track artist, album, genre, year, by folder, just to name a few), with improved sorting 4. More settings, such as artist/genre separators values. 5. Improved external tag support (useful for VGMStream) 6. More visualization modes (for example, spectrogram, oscilloscope, VU meter, OpenMPT pattern tracker, MIDI keyboard visualization) 7. UI & track information customization (sounds unnecessary)
Droidmjt refuses to add tag editing... and refuses to admit his mistakes... but what's the problem? I wonder if someone will make an feature-rich alternative to DroidSound-E.