SicMu Neo

SicMu Neo

Simple, full-featured, file-based music player

Mira Alpmann Local Media Player Multimedia

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Description

SicMu Neo is a lightweight, full-featured, file-based audio player with a simple to use UI and low resource footprint. It is especially well-suited for large music libraries organized in folder structures.

Installation Note:
After a fresh install it might be necessary to go into the settings, scroll down and trigger a media scan. This will take at most one minute. After restarting the app, your music should appear.

Features:
* Song grouping by artist/album or folder structure
* Multiple shuffle modes, multiple song repeatition options, A-B looping, set playback speed
* Shake the phone to skip a song (after enabled)
* Light: starts in sub-second time and runs with no delay for music libraries with >1K files
* Audio metadata reading
* Filter by and edit star ratings
* Notification with sound control
* Scrobble support via third-party apps
* Sleep timer (turn of music after X minutes/hours)
* Multiple color themes (dark-red, dark-white, white)
* Supports virtually all audio formats (mp3, ogg, flac, wav, ...)

New in this fork:
* Search
* Advanced album art loading (You have an Album.jpg file? It will be considered.)
* Album art zooming
* Individual mono/stereo settings per audio output
* Radio shuffle mode (Random song order, starts first song selected at random point in the song)
* More options in long press menu, e.g. search on Genius.com or YouTube.com
* Changed the audio backend to the modern ExoPlayer, causing less RAM usage (220MB prior vs 135MB now)
* Ability to read comment metadata fields
* More translations (most notably Spanish)
* Basic accessibility support
* bugfixes

What’s new (2.5.0)

Version 2.5.0
* Recordings now show up in the list
* Fix list glitching after deleting a file
* Fix translation

Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
2.5.0 current
eaaab95fc5ef60ef…
2026-07-01 2.3 MB API 26
2.4.7
d5a96ca9892ec114…
2026-06-09 2.3 MB API 26
2.4.6
2338a0760e59a829…
2026-05-24 3.0 MB API 26

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Prevent sleepingKeep the device from going to sleep.
  • Read storageRead files on the device storage.
  • Write storageCreate and change files on the device storage.
  • Full file accessAccess all files on the device.
  • VibrationControl the vibration alert.
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
Show 1 more permissions
  • sicmu.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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