Newpipe and Just (video) player have this function, but the former cannot play offline files and the latter cannot play audio files. I can rename the audio file to mp4 and play it in Just player, but it doesn’t have a background play option.

From what I’ve searched on the net, in both apps the feature us implemented from ExoPlayer. On F-droid, Auxio audio player mentions ExoPlayer, but does not seem to have the feature available.
Are there any foss apps that has the feature to Skip silence for audio files?

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    1. newpipe can play offline files I’m pretty sure

    2. there is an ffmpeg flag to skip silences though it hasn’t worked all that well for me. I don’t know whether any audio player apps try to use it. In the worst case you could do something awful like run ffmpeg on a PC or under termux to make a new audio file with the silences removed, and then play that under some other app.

    3. I don’t remember whether rockbox had that feature but I think efforts to port rockbox to Android eventually stalled due to technical obstacles. No idea whether newer Android versions could help with that.

    • donio@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      newpipe can play offline files I’m pretty sure

      Don’t think that this is true (unless we are talking about a fork that I am not familiar with). The FAQ has an entry on this and mentions that you need to use an external player. I use mpv and VLC.