What does everyone do with their tunes?

[MotleyG]

@Dick_Harpees

I keep them on microSDs, and SSDs on computers and backup drives. One day it will all be lost. It gets worse with every pass.

That's what backups are for, especially with personally curated music libraries that are often unique to each collector. It doesn't matter if you have 25 files or 846k, if you lose something special. I have multiple backups, including portable drives that are not regularly left connected to any computer, in case, you know...

@Dick_Harpees

The Musicolet player which is hands down the winner for listening to a personally collected music collection, now is crippled by Google's Scoped Storage.

I don't think this boils down to Google's scoped access. It has created a few headaches, but many other Google app music players have worked with or around it. I've left some thoughts about several apps that I use regularly here.

Android Media Players

There are many players on the Android platform, but almost all use the base Android APIs and media library that limits their functionality and performance that don’t make them much different than the stock player other than cosmetically. One player app that breaks from this trend and I have been using for some time is GoneMAD. It builds its’ own database library, and key to me is that it supports the use of sort tags for Album, Artist, AlbumArtist, and Composer. It also supports multi artist an…