Musicolet. It's a free music player app. It let's my organize all my music (downloaded onto my SD card) and play it without ads. I ended up spending $5 to get the premium version for crossfade and other features. Originally found it after my student discount spotify +Hulu plan ran out. I canceled spotify and use the lowest tier of Hulu ($2.15 per month with a student discount) now. Way cheaper than paying $10+... Source: 7 months ago

KitKat was so good that I'm still rocking it on a NoteⅣ for offline maps and music in my car even though there are newer official updates available from Smasnug: https://i.imgur.com/AhYJSYP.jpg The newest version of Musicolet still supports it! https://krosbits.in/musicolet/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Yeah I do similar, I actually use musicolet to listen to my offline music library (https://krosbits.in/musicolet), an android app that is just offline, no ads, no network permission at all, nothing. It does the job very well and it does not mine any data or show any ads. I highly recommend to give it a try (I assume you use android?). And to add, while it is free and I could have continued just fine not paying... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Musicolet is hands down the best music player I've found on Android and it's fully featured for free https://krosbits.in/musicolet/. Source: almost 2 years ago

I use Musicolet for Android (https://krosbits.in/musicolet/); so far the most complete music app. Source: about 2 years ago

For people who like to watch with subtitles, VLC currently doesn't support streaming to chromecast with SRT subtitles.. There are several issues for it and I believe support is slated for the next major version of Chromecast, but not sure when that will be. The typical "workaround" is to reencode the video file to include the subtitles directly, but that sounded like too much work, so I hacked together a static... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Videojs is superior to basically everything. It's also open source... Source: over 1 year ago

Another option is looking at https://videojs.com/ with the Vimeo video file links. Source: over 1 year ago

I am woring with HTML - I managed to download a (m3u8) video. By inspecting the webpage (videojs.com). Source: over 1 year ago

Now, to display the HLS stream to viewers, we’ll use HLS.js, which we installed earlier. For more UI customizations, you can check out Video.js, which uses HLS.js internally. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago