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Stoic Joker:
I'm looking for recommendations on an Android music player that is straight forward and simple to use for old people. Something that folks either have, will, or did give to their own grandmother. So no 20 questions during launch, tiny assed buttons, or anything much more complicated than a 1970's portable radio.

Desired "Features":
One click, and music comes out. Period. No updates, offers, survey questions, feature hints, or music trivia.
Shuffle entire library option that keeps going from session to session until turned off by force.
Some sort of extremely idiot simple search for and play X option - That then keeps going until - honestly I'm flexible on this one.

Thanks In Advance,

Stoic Joker

BGM:
Try Musicolet.
With this app, I set it to a folder and just push play and it will pick up where you leave off. 
So, I just open it, and then push play and that's all.
It has soooo many options, though, I don't know all of them.
It doesn't have any ads.  Also, and you'll like this, you can simply touch the cover art (great big area) to play/pause.
It doesn't have popups and no surveys or questions.  You can toggle shuffle.
I never use the search.

There's another called Voice, but I can't find the link for it.
Mortplayer is quite nice, but it crashes when you change folders if you use a newer Android.

VLC is okay, but can be annoying.

I've tried all sorts of music players and audiobook players.

For audiobooks I use Pocketbook Reader - it remembers where you leave off and you can use it for both ebooks and audiobooks.

panzer:
Homer Player - an audiobook player for the elderly and visually impaired:
https://msimonides.github.io/homerplayer/

Target:
pulsar player looks like it could be a contender

Just been playing with it and it seems to tick a lot of your boxes

its tough cos everything these days is targeted at users who want all sorts of trivial functionality (not like when I was a boy...)

Stoic Joker:
Try Musicolet.With this app, I set it to a folder and just push play and it will pick up where you leave off.  So, I just open it, and then push play and that's all.
-BGM (January 21, 2021, 04:11 PM)
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From description: 2. As this app doesn't have internet permission, It can't have any feature that uses internet.

(Forced Honesty…) Now... that does sound promising.. :D


pulsar player looks like it could be a contender

Just been playing with it and it seems to tick a lot of your boxes

its tough cos everything these days is targeted at users who want all sorts of trivial functionality (not like when I was a boy...)
-Target (January 21, 2021, 11:12 PM)
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Yepper, that's what scares me. I'll checkout Pulsar when I get a chance.


Thanks Guys!

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