Doubtful, considering all the frames and controls in applications like this. And most non-adaptive apps don’t scroll completely on the L5, so you can’t reach everything. Most also don’t allow you to drag left or right to view the parts you can’t see.
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Which version of Lollypop? 1.4.5?
VVave from KDE Maui project might work
1.4.5-1~pureos+librem5.1
@amarok did you try your ancestor fork ? ‘clementine’ 
I would expect it to work fine in landscape (maybe not great in vertical mode)
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Just installed it, but it fails to launch.
Damn, I hope it’s just a missing lib, thx for the test !
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Where are you up to with this? You are a couple of months ahead of me.
I set the location as the top of the uSD card. What I really wanted to do is set it to a subdirectory of it but I couldn’t work out how to do that??
I wonder whether Reset collection actually resets some kind of metadata that Lollypop maintains in respect of the directories that it has scanned. I don’t think it deletes actual music files. At least it didn’t for me??
I wonder whether it takes some time to do an initial scan when you hit it with a uSD card’s worth of music. It seemed baulky and unresponsive, and then suddenly it was working.
Other than I don’t know what I’m doing (maybe I should install Lollypop on my desktop first), it seems to be working “OK”. I can scroll through albums and then scroll through tracks, and play a track. I’m not asking for much more than that.
Fumbling around I managed to get this to work. So I’m sure it’s PEBKAC, or whatever is the touchscreen equivalent.
I did it. In Preferences, Music tab, collection drop down menu, select “Other”, and then the SD card. You can browse the folders. Just it isn’t much responsive, so you need to tap multiple times in order to make a folder open.
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I really like Lollipop, but its cataloging back end is really clunky and causes the program to crash frequently. I think if it would let you control when you just want to import music, and when you want it doing stuff to make suggestions and playlists available, it would help not waste so much CPU and make the app far more stable.
I don’t say any of this to take away from the program or paint it in a bad light.
That said, I am curious how Museek works on the L5. My guess is, that won’t scale properly.
That is why sdcards are better to be formatted in ext4. Because if an app refuses to scan the sdcard you can always create a link from the main disk to a folder on the card and make the app think it scans the main disk.
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Seemed like VLC was working ok from thread here I was reading. It certainly functions as a more than adequate music player and it’s the only music player I actually use on my spy phone.
Lollypop has been working normally and retaining the location of my music collection without problems for some time now. In Preferences, under Collection, I select Memory card then my folder named Music. In the beginning I had to repeatedly re-select the location after returning to the app, but now it seems to remember.
Mine is formatted as FAT 32.
It may be that I just wasn’t giving it enough time to do this the first few times.
VLC flatpak works very well. The native app didn’t launch for me.
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I think that’s what I was doing wrong.
I threw 8 GB at it yesterday (a fraction of my collection) and I experienced zero crashes. Happy user. Any insight into what gives it difficulty? Is it number of files? Specific metadata? Container format?
Are you using it on the Librem 5 or on a Linux laptop or?
I’m really happy with it as well. Best music player I’ve used on Linux hands down. My music collection is about 24gb. Alot of it from iTunes, unfortunately. It could be a lot of things, but I noticed that something like Museek imported the library in all of 20 seconds and Lollipop takes a good 5 minutes, during which time, the app is pretty unresponsive.
This is on desktop.
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I would be reluctant to use ext3 or ext4, because the journaling will cause a large number of writes that can degrade the microSD card over time, plus writing to a microSD is slow. My recommendation is to use ext2 (which doesn’t have journaling) if you want to use symbolic links to the microSD card.
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Unfortunately, at the moment, I’m experiencing a lot unexpected shutdowns, because of bad battery level indication or for no reason. So I think it’s better to have a journaling file system as a basic insurance.
Yes you are right. Ext2 will be better suited to the task after abnormal shutdowns due to battery problems are sorted out. But I have a question. Isn’t the internal disk of the phone formatted to ext4? This is what I would expect. If yes, then what about degrading the internal disk?
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