tortoise-legacy vs Jockey

tortoise-legacy

Android music player (by zelenyhleb)

Android music-player

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Jockey

A music player for Android focused on simplicity, performance, and design (by marverenic)

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tortoise-legacy		Jockey
	Project
1	Mentions	3
8	Stars	356
-	Growth	0.6%
1.9	Activity	0.0
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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tortoise-legacy

Posts with mentions or reviews of tortoise-legacy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-24.

I tested all FOSS music players and concluded they're all imperfect
14 projects | /r/fossdroid | 24 Dec 2021

Tortoise keeps crashing, it's unusable.

Jockey

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jockey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-01.

Open source YouTube client with Google login support?
2 projects | /r/opensource | 1 Jan 2023

I would suggest ymusic.io which is a fork of https://github.com/marverenic/Jockey
Are downloads ment to be unlocked cuz i aint paying for premium [other]
4 projects | /r/Vanced | 27 Jan 2022

They are leeching off the open source project Jockey for free. Jockey authorizes this abhorrent behaviour with their Apache license, which is beyond me.
I tested all FOSS music players and concluded they're all imperfect
14 projects | /r/fossdroid | 24 Dec 2021

Jockey crashes and can't jump to a timestamp in certain songs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tortoise-legacy and Jockey you can also consider the following projects:

Eleven - CyanogenMod/LineageOS Eleven music player

harmonoid - 🎵 Plays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy. Playlists, visuals, synced lyrics, pitch shift, volume boost & more.

MusicPlayer - A music player with pretty ui/ux design.

TimberX - Material theme music player that works across all form factors (phones, wear, auto, cast, assistant) and uses latest tools (Kotlin, Architecture components, Room, Databinding)

AudioSpeedUp - Android app developed for fun during lockdown. With this simple app you can play audio files, such us WhatsApp voice messages, in background at custom speed.

vanilla - Vanilla Music Player for Android

APlayer - Android Music Player

RetroMusicPlayer - Best Material You Design music player for Android

android-noad-music-player - Noad Music Player for android. Available on Play Store.

music_player_lite - An elegant and lightweight music player for android

utsu - Vocal synthesis frontend