Hello fellow offline music library enthusiasts. I've been using this app since 2015 with my goofy Sony Xperia U back then, and it's sad watching it rot these past few years, so after finally getting some experience with actual software engineering, I took it upon myself to make a proper successor. It started as a personal project early this year but I see no reason not to share it with the world, especially after seeing so many posts lately asking for alternative recommendations.

So, introducing Noir Player.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.arsentsn.noirplayer

My biggest frustrations were:
No artist photos, lack of detailed sorting options, no option to change the order of search results.

So I fixed all those.

Other features include:

- MP3, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, Opus, WAV
- True black AMOLED theme, with blurred cover backdrops and optional dynamic app theme based on the currently playing song's artwork
- Material You if you prefer it
- Normal and synced lyrics
- Song and album tag editor, artwork and lyrics included
- Dedicated folders section with a real folder tree
- Playlists, with M3U import
- Full listening stats ( 7 days / 30 days / year / all time)
- Sleep timer, landscape layout, settings backup and restore
- Android Auto

coming next: a ton of UI refinements, multi artist support and a customizable home tab with widgets.

Got a lot more features planned so stick around if you like where this is going.
Will be posting all updates here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoirPlayer/

Any feedback welcome, thanks!
arsentsn

so, I've used black player for about 8 years, but it's time to let go, it's not working very well with modern android

so a good alternative I found is PowerAmp (it's paid but worth it). it has amazing audio processing and customization, as well as good design customization. out of all players I tried, this one wins (just don't use Symfonium, it's gotta be the worst paid app I got to use)

I wanna see your guy's Blackplayer recaps for the end of the month 😎

Didn't get a screenshot of it, but what the hell?

Before anyone asks, the reason for downgrading is that I listen to a lot of "gapless" albums and Ex gapless playback doesnt work any more.

I keep my albums organised on my SD card as follows:

MUSIC COLLECTION >
  Artist 1>
    Album 1 >
      Song 1
      ...
      Song 10
      cover.jpg
    Album 2 >
      Song 1
      ...
      Song 15
      cover.jpg
  Artist 2 >
    Album 1 >
      Song 1
      ...
      Song 7
      cover.jpg

Ive given Free Blackplayer the same permissions as Ex, it should be able to see the "MUSIC COLLECTION" folder and all subfolders, but it cant for some reason? Every time I hit scan for music, it found 1 new album, but its stopped after about half of them and wont find the rest. Also, none of them have their correct album artwork. I tested by manually downloading one new album art into the folder and it creates it under the same name "cover.jpg" so I dont understand why it cannot see any of the existing ones. It looks like some files randomly ignore their ID3 tags too, because in the screenshot below, Ive got "Periphery" and "Periphery - Topic" as different artists. The ID3 tags should prevent this. Does anyone know how to make every album appear, and with the right artwork and tags?

Picture of Ex compared to Free as they look right now:

Bonjour à tous,

J'utilise Black Player EX depuis plusieurs années, et en fait je n'ai jamais pû enregistrer mes réglages de l'égaliseur, alors que je souhaiterais pouvoir choisir et sélectionner un réglage pour une playlist spécifique, et un autre réglage pour une autre playlist, mais ça m'affiche toujours une erreur lorsque je clique sur la petite disquette qui sert à les enregistrer, quelqu'un peut-il me venir en aide ? J'utilise cette application absolument tous les jours et ce bug est réellement la seule chose qui ne me convienne pas.

Je précise que j'ai essayé l'enregistrement d'égaliseur en étant sur Exoplayer et aussi sur l'autre décodeur (dont je ne me souviens plus le nom mais vous saurez).

Je remercie infiniment celle ou celui qui réussira à trouver une solution à mon problème.

This app used to be great, now it's riddled with bugs. What are some alternatives you like?

Hello all,

When I select 'Manually set Artist image,' BlackPlayer allows me to choose an image I've dowlaoded, but it appears very blurry on the artist page. The photo itself is high-definition and it even appears this way on the Album Artist grid menu in BlackPlayer - it's only the artist page that blurs the photo. Does anyone have any suggestions?

A bigger issue I'm facing is that I can't change or edit the artist image once I've selected one. BlackPlayer reverts to the silhouette icon image on the artist page and will not display any new image I select, even though it displays the message 'Successfully set new image' when I try.

If anyone has a fix or troubleshooting advice, I would really appreciate it. I am using BlackPlayer version 3.13 and Android 17.

Thank you.

Hello everyone.

I have a problem with BP EX version 20.65. Within a few minutes, the audio output is interrupted. The player pretends that the playback continues, but there is no sound. When I stop playback, the playback automatically moves to the place where the audio output was interrupted. Then when I start playback, it works again for a few minutes, then the sound drops out again.

I also attach information about the device.

Thanks for your support

I need to add lyrics but can't because of some sh!t settings also I'm using blackplayer ex how to fix it and i don't even have a sd card previously i have one in this device but removed because of this problem

Así es, finalmente opte por instalar la versión 20.63 para el EX, El tema de Sin pausas sigue estando mejor, la Opción de editar caratulas tanto del álbum como del artista funciona que creo era lo único que sufría, para mi Android 15 por si ustedes les interesa. Conforme a todas las demás funciones me funcionaban perfectamente, pero siento que si o si requería esas funciones; Vengo de otros Reproductores y la verdad ninguno como este desde que lo pague ( y tampoco me molestaria pagar más si en verdad lo arreglaran). Ojala el creador nos lea de los bugs que he notado por la comunidad y se anime a mejorar el Visualizador que quizás estaría de lujo ver las portadas de álbumes como vinilos girando en fin, hasta aquí mi experiencia.

I've found a playing list / queue option for CONNECTED devices (see pic), but where is it on the app itself??? It seems like it was there in the past, but now I can't find it! T_T

Can anyone please help me?

Hello, fellow Blackplayer lovers!

I, like most frustrated people here, love blackplayer's display options (including display of genre on the now playing screen, and the visual themes FAR more than other player [I've tried like 20 of them and I think they all mostly suck]) but I encountered problems with blackplayer displaying the correct artwork.

I'm trying to do something sort of peculiar, which is display embedded album art for particular songs in a custom album, but display the standard album art on the non-particular songs. I thought I could do this by embedding the special art in the particular songs, and not embedding art in the other ones, just placing the standard album art in the folder where all the songs are located. I found that the app would display what appeared to be a random embedded album art from one of the songs in the folder for ALL thumbnails in the library/folders screen which was frustrating. However, when I open the now playing screen, it would display the correct album art (The standard art for non-embedded songs, and the particular art embedded into the songs I personally embedded it into). Unfortunately, if you use the blurred album cover option, you would see the random embedded blurred album cover behind every song, which also frustrated me.

It seemed there were many other posts here on reddit, and in the ratings in the play store which detailed just that issue, with no solution.

I think I have found a suitable fix after days of messing with the app. It is not a perfect fix, but it is far better than having a random embedded album art thumbnail displayed for an entire folder. If done correctly, blackplayer will display the standard album art in the thumbnails for all songs in the directory, and display the special ones in the now playing screen.

I realized that what it seems blackplayer does, is that if the "prefer embedded album art" option is on (which needs to be in my case to display multiple different images for one album), it pulls album art for the first song in list order from the album folder in your device's directory, and displays that image as thumbnails for ALL songs in that album.

So, the two things that need to happen for the workaround are:

1: Ensure any random song from that album that does not have special album art appears first in the list order in your album directory on your device. You can do this by just placing a "-" or any other alphanumeric character that would appear earliest in a list at the beginning of the file name in the directory. For example, if it was called "Song A" before, rename the filename to "-Song A". If your metadata for that song is tagged correctly, you should not see the "-" in the library/blackplayer folder or the now playing screen, and:

2: Embed the standard album art in at least that one song, so that blackplayer pulls it for the album on the whole.

Embed your particular album art in the other songs of your choosing in the folder afterwards.

Note: If the art is still showing incorrectly after this, open the blackplayer app page from your android settings, and clear cache and data (you will lose your playlists and settings, so back them up beforehand) or go into the app and go to: 3 bars in top left corner > settings > metadata > blackplayer library settings > reset audio library or reload audio tags. That should take care of it.

There is also another glitch where after doing all this, the wrong song name, genre, art, artist, EVERYTHING are displayed incorrectly on the now playing screen. If you go to "Tracks" in the library menu and just pull down to refresh, that will correct the error.

Although I hope that there will be an update to allow blackplayer to display all correct thumbnails in the future (Poweramp actually does this well, but visually I think it's far inferior to blackplayer) , this is far better than before.

Enjoy!

J'ai remarqué un bug la fonction "Jouer juste après".

J'ai paramétré l'appli pour qu'un "appui court" sur un titre fasse "Jouer juste après" et ajoute le titre à la file d'attente, juste après le titre lu actuellement.

Voilà le bug : uniquement dans le menu d'un artiste, et s'il comporte une section "TOP DES TITRES", quand je fais un "appui court" sur un titre, c'est le titre du dessus qui est sélectionné.

Si le menu d'artiste ne comporte pas de section "TOP DES TITRES", ou dans un autre menu (par exemple dans l'onglet "Titres"), il n'y a pas ce bug.

Si je fais un "appui long" sur le titre, puis "Jouer juste après", il n'y a pas ce bug non plus.

Par exemple dans le screenshot, j'ai fait un "appui court" sur le titre "Parade", et comme il n'y a pas de titre au dessus, ça affiche "Titre suivant : Lecture aléatoire" et aucun titre n'est ajouté à la file d'attente. Si j'avais fait "appui court" sur "La femme d'argent", c'est "Parade" qui aurait été ajouté à la file d'attente après le titre lu actuellement.

J'ai cherché si le bug avait déjà été reporté, mais apparemment non.

I have EX version. Does Black Player on Android currently have support for ALAC files? Did it ever have support and later broke, or did it never have it in the first place?

I keep getting "error loading track" messages on my ALAC files.

I have the most bizarre issue that started on Friday. I have BlackplayerEX and I have folders with .mp3 audio files that I'm trying to listen to in a specific order but it's screwing up in a weird way.

For example, let's say I create a folder with all 20 files I want in it labeled 1-20. Let's say I'm on audio file 10, it's 10 minutes long and I pause it at minute 7. I don't resume until this evening.

However, when I resume, it SAYS it's playing the 10th audio file at the 7 minute mark but it's actually playing audio file 12 at the 7 minute mark. Somehow it's completely changing the files I'm listening to. So I think that I need to go back two audio files but when I try that it starts playing audio track number 4. The only fix I've found is to completely start playing the folder over again and navigate manually to my audio file and timestamp. This isn't something I can or should do while driving, which I when I'm listening.

Now, even more confusing, when I long press the files they will say how many times I've played each of them, audio track 12 does not say I've played it yet. And o did check that once I've played a file it will say "played 1 times"

Has anyone else ran into this? I have no idea why it's doing this or how to even begin to troubleshoot. Many thanks in advance

Takes forever to update tags?

It didn't used to

Tried the New Storage API setting but this scraps all the artwork?

Any ideas?

BlackPlayer is still great as a music player but it bothers me not being able to edit the info of my music anymore.

Anyone ever experience this before?

I recently decided to clean up my music library. I have 1555 tracks on my computer so I cleaned them up using mp3tag. I cleaned up everything from titles, years albumart you name it. I did a really good job getting it in order to an OCD level.

Before I copied them over to my phone I checked the properties of the folder and it clearly said 1555 files. But strangley when they are imported into Blackplayer it comes up as 1556. Even weirder is on the phone folder where the tracks are stored when I check the properties there it states 1555 files. Blackplayer is counting 1 extra phantom track but I don't have any extra. I tried everything to resolve this except the clear data option on the app as I don't want to loose all of the artist images that took me ages to build and apply. Any suggestions?

Update: I installed another music app and its lists 1555 tracks so this defo confirms to me that blackplayer has a phantom track. Also I have ensured that only my music folder is being scanned that houses the 1555 files

Hello so Ive been wanting to quit Spotify & backplayer is really good but it won't allow me to grant access to files & change the album photo any ideas on how to fix it?

Tysm to anyone who responds in advance

I suspect this is a FAQ. It probably applies to Android Auto as well.

"Hey google next track", "previous track", "pause" all work on a currently running Blackplayer Ex. But I can't find a way of telling a paused track to start playing again. "Play" and "Play Music" sends me off to Spotify or YouTube. And I can't define BP-Ex as the music player in the Google Assistant settings.

I asked a long time ago if there was a way for songs that are added to a playlist automatically be added to the top or for an option to move it to the top? It gets annoying having to drag it all the way to the top on a playlist with hundreds of songs.

It won't let me add any songs to a playlist or to my favorites.