This app was mentioned in 20 comments, with an average of 1.50 upvotes
I organize my music by folder, and I don't need anything fancy. I just want a dark theme and a play button. I really hate music apps that try to sort by genre and artist, I have hundreds of songs, and no 2 are by the same artist. So this one does exactly what I need it to do, without bullshit. Don't care about cover art, or gimmicky crap like social media. Just play my music and don't blind me while you do it. A++ love this app!
It's fun to be different. I prefer apps that nobody knows about, so they can learn and see that there are alternatives to the ones that are so mainstream. One that I'm fond of is this music player that is super clean, very minimal, and works nicely. Sadly it hasn't been updated in a long time... but it works nicely the way it is.
I organize my music the same way as you and I searched for a long time to find this. It's ad free and does exactly what you want.
I don't like how most music players sort the files on the phone. If you prefer a folder based view (just like you select files on your PC), I highly recommend Clean Music. It comes with a simple UI and is not very performance hungry.
I've never had music stored on the internal storage - only the SD card. I had a 32 GB card before and just got the 128 GB. I've had it skip occasionally but now that I think about it it hasn't happened for a while - maybe since the last update, but I'm not sure. I don't use the built in music player (Mix, I think?). Used to use Google Play Music, so maybe that was the problem. Right now I use a combination of Shuttle+ for songs/albums and Clean Music Player for mixes or one-off podcasts since it supports playing from directories with .nomedia files and can remember playback positions. Neither one of those have stuttered recently.
Maybe go the other extreme? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myskyspark.music
I vote for clean music player love it!
Black player doesn't seem to support music organized in folders.
I use clean music
Clean Music Player (unmaintained but still works): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myskyspark.music
Wittex: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stewit.wittex
Foldplay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pnhdroid.foldplay.q
Simple Music Player: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer