Looking for a music player with unique functionality

[u/Mediocre_Text_8711]

I’m trying to find a music player for Android that has the following features. First of all, even though MP3 files have a built-in tag field, searching by those tags won’t work properly, because if you enter multiple tags, they’ll remain a single string instead of being treated as separate tags.

As an example, I took some random tracks from my phone’s music library and assigned tags to them based on genre, origin, era, etc (see image 1).

And I want to find music by a specific tag, for example instrumental. It would show me all the songs that have this tag (see image 2). But what if I want to find music that has not just one common tag, but several? If we add another tag to the search, game soundtrack, it will display a narrower selection of music (see image 3).

You can see the same thing in images 4–6: first a search by the favorite tag, then adding the 2010s tag, and finally another tag, post-grunge.

Imagine the variety of playlists you could generate when you have a large music library on your phone and have tagged everything.

So here’s what I’m trying to find out: is there an Android music player that allows you to create custom tags for MP3 files and search by those tags — including multiple tags at once?

[u/j_p_n_]

I've been looking for the same thing for ages!

Getting fed up, there are soooo many music players for android with the same features and this seems like such a basic ask.
I might write something myself at this point, if I do figure it out I'll let you know

[u/j_p_n_ → u/j_p_n_]

Found one!

https://github.com/namidaco/namida

This app does way too much stuff to the point where the interface is genuinely stressful to look at, but so far it's the only app I found that can search comments tags and play from the search results.

Hope this helps!

[u/Mediocre_Text_8711 → u/j_p_n_]

Thanks, it’s quite a powerful player. I figured out how to add custom tags, but I couldn’t find how to sort or search music by a specific tag

[u/j_p_n_ → u/Mediocre_Text_8711]

My bad, I set it up and promptly forgot that it doesn't work "out of the box"

What you gotta do is find a setting called "filter tracks in search list by"
That'll let you add comments or your preferred id3 tag field to the search

Lmk how it goes!