Audio player for PulseAudio's simple protocol module
4.96·189 reviews·10,000+ downloads
About Simple Protocol Player
Simple Protocol Player is a video players & editors app developed by kaytat.
Download Statistics
Simple Protocol Player has been downloaded 21 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 130 times.
User Ratings
Simple Protocol Player is rated 4.96 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 190 ratings.
App Information
Simple Protocol Player is FREE to download. The APK download size is 1.75 MB. The latest version available is 0.5.9.22. The last update was on July 19, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Simple Protocol Player requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2014.
Description
This is a media player that will playback the audio streamed by PulseAudio's simple protocol module.
The idea is to watch videos from XBMC running on Ubuntu, but with the audio on an Android phone.
For Window's users, a utility has been published on github that will allow the same functionality.
Please see much more documentation at the app's website http://kaytat.com/simple_protocol_player.
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Nice, but a bit choppy I wanted to use my phone as an external "sound card" because my laptop's headphone jack broke. It is much easier to use this app by adding a dummy (module-null-sink) sink to PulseAudio and setting module-simple-protocol-tcp to record its monitor source, so the phone appears as an output in e.g. Gnome. The sound is sometimes choppy even over USB tethering (RNIS). Unfortunately, my phone doesn't seem to support ADB reverse port forwarding, but I guess it could improve the latency a bit.
★★★★☆Al Jazz· Jul 2, 2021
I replaced PulseAudio with pipe wire and streaming still works flawlessly. However when my phone screen is off the app stops after a while despite whitelisting its battery usage on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
★★★★★Roz Ponyfagov· Oct 26, 2023
I'm so glad it is available for free, without ads. Easy to connect to linux with pipe wire/pulse.
★★★★★A Google User· Jun 23, 2015
AWESOME WORK!!! I can use this to play audio from a cheroot I set up on my android phone! No lag, no choppiness, just epic. Probably because I'm playing a local stream I set up with PulseAudio inside the cheroot but still.
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