Aurorum: Free Music Player

A music player that plays your files and nothing else.

Most free music players are a delivery mechanism for advertising, and most paid ones want a subscription for playing files you already own. Aurorum does neither. It reads the audio on your device, plays it, and has no ability to do anything else.

It is free permanently. Not a trial, not a limited tier, not free-with-an-upgrade. There is nothing to buy inside it.

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

Aurorum requests no internet permission. It cannot send analytics, cannot check for updates, cannot load an advertisement, and cannot report what you listen to, because the operating system will not let it open a socket. This is not a policy you are asked to trust — it is a property of the application you can verify.

It also has no account, no cloud library, no streaming, and no recommendations.

PLAYBACK

- Gapless playback for albums that were mixed to run continuously
- Crossfade with adjustable duration
- Playback speed control without pitch distortion
- Volume boost beyond the system ceiling for quiet recordings
- Full background playback with lock-screen and Bluetooth controls

SOUND

- Parametric equalizer with per-band control
- Presets, and your own saved curves

LIBRARY

- Playlists, favourites, and hidden tracks for things you do not want appearing in shuffle
- Album art read from the files themselves
- Sort and browse by artist, album, or folder

PERMISSIONS, AND WHY

- Read audio files — to find and play your music. Nothing else is read.
- Foreground service — to keep playing when the screen is off.
- Notifications — for the playback controls in your notification shade.
- Bluetooth — for headset and car stereo buttons.

From Golden Physics Project.