Folder Player (Free): What's New?

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(July 2026 - upcoming) 6.01

Major release v6. The app rewritten to support a new media Android playback engine for better compatibility and flexibility. This opens up opportunities for new features in the future.
New: support for m4b files
New: Settings reset button
New: 100% translation coverage for all supported languages (finally!)
New: Sorting mode - reverse alpha
Fix: Internal volume control layout and positioning
Fix: "Where Am I" positioning for "fixed top menu" mode
Fix: Android Auto not remembering last position
Fix: Replay Current bug
Fix: crash when activating ReplayGain
Fix: Autoplay within m3u folder
Fix: better release of Audio Focus for other apps on the device
Fix: widget dimensions on some devices
Removed: playing mp4 files. Bending to absurd Google demands. (Note: may or may not work in Free version, depending on when you're reading this and Google's mood)

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(Feb 2026) 5.37

New: Setting to hide "previous" button in the phone's notifications
New: "Where was I" now works with tags and search results
New: In search results (or tags view), tap on track name, jumps to track's folder
New: Auto-continue to the next track in the folder after the track, which was invoked from 3rd party file manager, finished playing
New: In-app volume control slider which you can activate in settings
New: Search now includes folders too
New: "Spread out" audio control buttons for easier operation
Change!: "Next" button for "repeat one" mode now switches to the next track instead restarting current
Change!: Music does NOT stop when app swiped from the task manager, to comply with common Android best practices
Fixed: More reliable Equalizer operation, especially for bass boost and virtualization
Fixed: When list is very long, tracks were added to the queue without tags
Fixed: removed excessive warnings about lock screen
Massive translation updates
Various stability improvements

(August 2025) 5.35

New: Volume boost in settings (with option to disable)
New: "Recently played tracks" in the app home screen
New: Arabic translation
Fix: Sorting anomalies for some file names
Fix: Android Auto performance improvements for long lists
Fix: Less aggressive audio focus locking to play well with other apps
Fix: Some scrollings may cause track position to jump (when touched progress bar)
Fix: Equalizer screen layout fixes on some newer devices
Fix: More reliable "Exit" procedure
Fix: More reliable tag export with file exported with txt extension
Fix: Massive stability improvements

(April 2025) 5.32

New: playing within search results
New: option to see entire folder tree time progress
New: setting to pause during navigation sounds instead of "ducking"
New: setting to show "time remaining"
New: Support for folder tagging.
New: xFading option: skip immediately
New: "Play Next" Queue: Option to keep playing in the last track's folder after end of the queue
New: Auto adding new files to current track list
New: More custom speeds
New: Option to keep playing after Bluetooth disconnect
Fixed: Larger search input
Fixed: Navigation voice settings
Fixed: Some files make dirs look empty
Fixed: setting to disable xfading when skip
Fixed: disappearing (top) notification in some situations
Fixed: layout adjustments (overlap) for transparent system toolbar mode
Fixed: (un)shuffling while playing folder
Fixed: Many updates to xFading and tagging
Fixed: WhereWasI button resulted in displaying filenames instead of MP3 tags
Fixed: Auto opening of home dir would not work in some cases
Fixed: Next folder autoplay would skip 1st track of the next folder
Removed: yellow stripe to indicate saved playlist for a folder
"sdcard" renamed to "internal sdcard" to avoid confusion
Translation updates across most languages
Mahor stability improvements

(July 2024) 5.27

New: Dedicated skip seconds buttons for tracks
New: Album name in folder play mode
New: Hiding sdcard path in top header for brevity
New: Sleep timer display
New: High contrast option
New: 3rd option for large fonts
New: Play Next queue: queue auto start
New: Play Next queue: Option to keep playing in the same folder after end of the queue
New: Play Next queue: now sortable with new UI
New: Play Next queue: stop at the end setting
Updated: German translation
Fixed: "Play Later" position glitches
Fixed: Empty screen in Android Auto
Fixed: Missing queue counter button when using bottom menu option
Fixed: Autoplay option skips tracks on app start
Fixed: Menu start button skips tracks
Fixed: incorrect sleep times for non-EN locales
Fixed: M3U files missing in older Androids
Fixed: Other various stability issues

(Feb 2024) 5.22

Added: bitrate info when playing tagless
Added: webm format
Added: showing file names in queue
Added: customizing "skip" interval in seconds
Added: sleep timer button shows current sleep state
Added: Adding folders to playback queue
Added: Seek feature in Notification and Android Auto
Added: 1 min option for Skip, 10 min option for Sleep
Added: Support for individual Language config via "App Languages" phone setting
Added: Setting for screen unlock in battery mode
Fixed: deleted folder kept on the screen
Fixed: play-delete mode: missing popup
Fixed: playlist anomaly when skip to 1st item
Fixed: autostart playback glitch
Fixed: switching tracks loses play position
Fixed: .nomedia file for subtree playback
Fixed: Queue: playback continued from wrong track
Fixed: Active track may jump to wrong track after delete
Fixed: Italian translation
Fixed: playback stops after hitting phone home button
Fixed: disappearing queue button
Fixed: Removed legacy sorting feature from settings
Fixed: Family Link sleep mode, when app continues to play silently instead of pausing (This may fix some Android Auto problems as well)
Fixed: Various Android Auto adjustments and other fixes
Fixed: Hiding "Reading" message popup for folders opened fast
Fixed: Android Auto - track time formatting and empty framerate replaced with bitrate
Fixed: "tracks found" message not dismissed in some situations
Fixed: extra "skip" action at the end of playlist breaks UI
Fixed: switching to other track while playing seeks to the position of the previous track

(June 2023) 5.04

New: Tagging and adding tracks to queue from inside search results
New: "True reshuffling" of folder trees. Maximize distance between tracks from same dir to minimize occurance of tracks in the same folder going one after another.
New: Two widgets (3x1 and 5x1) with back button
New: Sort button moved from settings to top menu
New: "Favorites" section in Android Auto
Fixed: XFading uses logarithmic volume change to improve experience
Fixed: Losing app state after phone restart
Fixed: Link to app store
Fixed: Potential "non-responding" errors
Fixed: anomalies with voice commands in Android Auto. Sometimes tracks would restart instead of resume.
Fixed: anomalies in "Open With" functionality - sometimes file would play several times
Fixed: the problem when user had to close the app multiple times. Typically triggered by search.
Fixed: Missing Exit button in notification (Android 13)
Fixed: Deleting Folders is back. For Android 11+, media files are deleted BUT folder technically remains in place while hidden in the app.
Fixed: Some shuffled tracks forgotten after restart
Fixed: import\export of tags for newer Android versions
Fixed: Android Auto: names of the tracks were incorrect for long track lists
Fixed: No pause on phone call
Many other smaller fixes for edge cases

See updates archive