Anyone know of a good replacement for the Groove Music app for playing local MP3s?

[TheAsbo]

I've been trying to use Groove Music to play back the audio files that came with my textbook, which requires me to play and pause a lot, but it is extremely buggy and unstable for me. It has the most frustrating issues, of which I left a partial list in the feedback hub. I only used Groove because it's the default software for music playback on my SP4.

Does anyone know of software that can replace this, can snap to the right side, and also supports the keyboard button to play and pause?

 

[ven07]

Afaik any program can be snapped to the right/left

 

[TheAsbo]

I keep it really narrow, where it takes only a quarter of the screen. Some apps won't let me do that.

 

[Laura Knotek]

How about VLC?

 

[TheAsbo]

How about VLC?

VLC doesn't respond to my Surface's play/pause button.

 

[melhiore]

Try Core Music Player. It was recommended to me as replacement for Groove. I can not say it is perfect as I do not use it that long but so far does the great job laying local files...

 

[orlbuckeye]

I use Itunes because I have an Ipod. I know alot of MS users don't like Itunes but it works for me.

 

[AndyCalling]

Don't bother with the VLC MS Store app, it's still a work in progress (a bit like Windows 10). Download the desktop version directly from the VLC web site. This should work with your Surface play button.

 

[feorwine]

n7player, clearly made for mobile & a Little unwieldy (big fonts!), but it can be snapped.

 

[EspHack]

aimp 3

 

[LyricalNonsense]

Music Bee.
It is insanely customizable, lots of keyboard shortcuts, supports basically every format, cross-device syncing, and plugins for even more functionality.

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[920Walker]

Another vote for MusicBee desktop app. I haven't used it with touch but there are plenty of options to change control format. Perfect app for creating or fixing music collections (busted metadata) too.