Folder Player v5.36
Peter ShashkinAbout this app
Developer Description
Use Folders as playlists :-)
Folder Player is FREE (NO Ads, NO in-app purchases!), minimalistic yet powerful alternative music player which uses folders as playlists to play music or audiobooks, supporting in-folder images as album art and playback of video formats using audio-only.
Longer Story:
Folder Player is a freeware which knows how to play whole directories. It can browse and play individual files, folders, or full folder trees.
Why another music player for Android?
There are many great mp3 players out there. If you're happy with them, you probably don't need another one. But chances are, you have the same problem as I had before I created this app - you tried many players, and your mp3 tag-based access to your music still too cumbersome, because your world defined - yes - by folders.
Is Folder Player a solution?
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If you need advanced capabilities of a desktop player - Folder Player is probably not the right fit.
This player focuses on things that really are important: browsing and playing music on a portable device, and that's exactly what makes this app stand out.
You can learn more, or leave your feedback at http://folderplayer.com
If you like the player - it is important to rate this app - here is why:
More people rate it -> more people see it -> more feedback -> more updates
(by the way, same applies to other apps you like, rate them too!)
Other features include:
- integration with Bluetooth headphones
- Android Auto
- integration with last.fm (via scrobbler)
- pauses during phone calls and navigation speech
- sequential and random play
- configurable settings
- Equalizer
- Double press headset button to skip track
- Search
- Temporary playlist "Play Next"
I would like to thank all the fans of this app, for your feedback, donations, and translations.
What's New
See https://folderplayer.com/whatsnew-free.html for the full list
Version Information
- Version
- 5.36
- Downloads
- 1M+
- Updated on
- Sep 26, 2025
- Released
- Jan 1, 2011
- Requires
- Android 8.0
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Folder Player users say on Google Play
I've had this installed on every smart phone I have ever had since my first in 2010, (I hadn't realized it's been my go-to music player for 14yrs!) I'm from the old windows era, long before streaming existed, when the best way to get music was Napster, and play it on WinAmp. So I've always had music sorted by folder, not playlist, and I just like clicking "Play folder." Naturally, I wanted that on my smartphone. And Folder Player has been the king for nearly 20yrs! So easy a caveman can do it!
Quite good. The only thing I'm missing is chapter support, i.e. an option in the menu where the FF button doesn't jump straight to the next file, but to the next chapter, if it's present.
works brilliantly on phone but when using in the car via android auto, it locks up and stops working if you use the shuffle function. A real shame because it was almost perfect for my needs.
Downgraded to 2 stars as the app doesn't work anymore, it keeps crashing my phone's UI on app startup, even after a complete uninstall, cache clear and reinstall. Otherwise this would be a 5 star app and was my go to for playing mysic.
The last update messed up my music files! JUST AFTER THIS LAST UPDATE! Meaning my whole music collection is on memory card but after the update this app wouldn't play all of my collection which it did before the last update. It now keeps goving No Audio files detected here for alot of tracks but when I use rival apps the whole misic collection shows.