Music player optimized for speed and simplicity? - Indeed.
Odyssey Music Player offers a fast, streamlined Android listening experience designed to handle large music libraries with ease. It combines a responsive UI, built-in file browsing, and Material-based themes with practical playback features like a homescreen widget and lockscreen controls. With a long-running presence in the MUSIC_AUDIO market, it shows steady adoption, marked by 10,000+ total downloads and 81 in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Fast, responsive performance for large music libraries
Built-in file browser and straightforward library organization
Homescreen widget and lockscreen playback controls
Colorful Material themes for a customizable look
Feature depth is more limited than some rivals (basic playlist management and basic search)
Lacks advanced playback features like offline mode and a comprehensive equalizer commonly found in competitors
About Odyssey Music Player
Odyssey Music Player is a music & audio app developed by Gateship-One.
Download Statistics
Odyssey Music Player has been downloaded 22 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 81 times.
User Ratings
Odyssey Music Player is rated 3.90 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 150 ratings.
App Information
Odyssey Music Player is FREE to download. The APK download size is 5.83 MB. The latest version available is 1.4.0. The last update was on May 20, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Odyssey Music Player requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play October 2016.
Description
The main focus of this project is to create an music player that is optimized for speed (even with large music libraries).
* For support for this application please open an issue at our GitHub repository ( https://github.com/gateship-one/odyssey ) or use the given email address *
It's main features are a fast music library (artist, album, file browser).
Features: * Responsive UI * Album/Artists/Tracks library * File browser * Basic playlist management * Bookmark support * Homescreen widget * Basic search functionality * Colorful Material based themes * Lockscreen control * Simple Last.fm scrobbler support ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adam.aslfms ) * Artwork downloading for artist/album images (Fanart.tv, Last.fm & MusicBrainz)
This music player aims to be very fast and responsive even for large libraries (> 20.000 songs). To accomplish this we try to follow the Material design guidelines as close as possible with multiple colorful themes.
This music player works best with accurately taged music libraries. We recommend tagging using MusicBrainz Picard.
Cover images shown on screenshots used with permission from Carbon Based Lifeforms ( http://carbonbasedlifeforms.net )
This software is free software, licensed under the GPLv3 or later license. The source code is available on GitHub ( https://github.com/gateship-one/odyssey )
Recent changes: * Remove option to load artworks directly from files.
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Please add option to exclude audio files that are less than a user-specified length of time, such as less than 60 seconds. All of my Ringtones are in the music list, and I don't want to see or play them.
★★★★★A Google user· Dec 19, 2016
Nice Small and functional player. Best of all, it allows to browse and play directly from file system. Well done!
★★★★★A Google user· May 18, 2017
Gapless, open source, small fast and light, excellent music player
★☆☆☆☆Hùng CL· Feb 9, 2018
Thanks for your response. But I would like old functionalities. The new ones which I dislike are: (1) New version plays random files in different folders. Old version played files only within folder I tapped the first file. (2) While one file is being played, I need to double tap other file to make it play. And that results in 2 same files in current playlist. (3) Those 2 are weird features. I use this app only because it doesn't change my lock screen wallpaper. My Sony Music app works like a normal player. The only thing I don't like about the Sony Music app is: it changes my lock screen wallpaper while playing files. If you're not supporting normal behaviors (like most players) I would keep 1 star and find new app. I'm sorry.
★★☆☆☆Forrest O'Heeron· Jan 8, 2024
I want to like this, but have to find something else. It has 'queues', 'playlists', & 'bookmarks' What it thinks each is different from what you think it is. Simply adding a song to a playlist is not intuitive and has unnecessary steps. Removing also. I don't know what 'bookmarks' are. There is only a FAQ for instructions and that doesn't take you far.
★☆☆☆☆Frankie Wren· Nov 2, 2018
Sadly shuffle functionality is just a pipe dream and a lie. This app shuffles whatever album a given track is from, rather than shuffling the playlist like it should. The rest of the app is 10/10, just brought down by this bizarre issue. To repeat: the app cannot shuffle a playlist. It will repeat random songs and occasionally bug out altogether. This is not an app you can use to listen to your music smoothly, it has MAJOR technical issues preventing smooth playback.
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Trust & Safety: Requested permissions include network state, internet, foreground service (and related data sync/media playback), read external storage, read media audio, wake lock, and a dynamic receiver permission not exported. The app is licensed as GPLv3 or later with source code available at https://github.com/gateship-one/odyssey, indicating an open-source, community-tested approach. These permissions align with typical media playback and notification needs and do not imply exposure to unrelated sensitive data.
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