Playing and Organizing Music Files

Open a resource with music on the main screen and tap a track in the file browser. The audio player opens and starts playing.

The screen shows the album cover, the track name and details such as size, format and sample rate, a progress bar you can drag, and the playback buttons. A small spinning vinyl record in the corner tells you at a glance that music is playing; it stops when you pause.

When the track ends, the player moves on to the next audio file of the same folder. Swipe left or right, or use the next and previous buttons, to skip.

Most music files carry their own cover picture, and the player shows it right away. For files without one, the app can look the cover up online. Go to Settings, the Media tab, section Audio playback, covers and visuals, and turn on Search audio covers online. It is off until you turn it on.

The app then asks three free music catalogs in turn - iTunes, Deezer and the Cover Art Archive - and shows the first good cover it finds. Two more switches appear below: Search only on Wi-Fi (on by default, so no mobile data is used) and Save downloaded media data locally (on by default, so each cover is fetched only once).

When no cover can be found, the screen does not have to stay empty. In the same settings section tap Visualizer when no cover art and choose one:

• Black background - nothing moves.
• Music note + pulse rings - a music note with rings pulsing around it.
• Breathing bars (15) - soft colored bars rising and falling like an equalizer.
• Wave & Particle Animation - flowing waves with drifting particles.
• Visualization (MP4) - one of several looping video clips. The clips are not part of the app; the first time you choose this, the app offers to download them.

Instead of an animation you can also show your own photos: turn on Show random photos during audio playback, tap Select Photos Source and choose a resource with pictures. A different photo from it appears for each song. See Creating photo slideshows to let the photos change during a song.

Open the three-dots menu and tap Lyrics. The app searches the internet for the words of the song, using the artist and title stored in the file or its file name, and shows them full screen. Tap the close button to return to the player. The text size follows the Text Settings you use for translations.

To hear another version of the song or explore the artist, tap In YouMusic on the command panel or in the three-dots menu. The YouTube Music app opens with a search for the current track. If YouTube Music is not installed, a short message tells you so.

Tap the cast button Cast to.. on the command panel and pick your Chromecast or smart TV from the list. The music plays on it, and the phone becomes the remote control. The same button sends photos, GIFs and videos too; see casting and broadcast.

Files from a network folder or cloud storage are first copied to the phone and then sent to the Chromecast, so the first seconds may take a moment. The phone and the Chromecast must be on the same Wi-Fi network.

A download folder full of unsorted songs is easiest to clean up by ear. While a track plays, tap Copy to.. or Move to.. at the bottom of the player and pick a destination folder - for example "Keep", "Car" or "Delete later". The player continues with the next track, so you can sort a whole folder in one listening session.

How destinations are set up is explained in Copy, move and delete files.