VLC for Android

Keysen Markley

Almost as good as the desktop version. This app can play practically anything you need even without add-ons. Chief complaint is the shuffle function. Rather than taking all your music and making a shuffled playlist it simply grabs songs at random. Wouldn't be an issue but it doesn't then remove the song from future randoms and you will hear a lot of the same songs on loop regardless of the playlist size. Shuffle button also likes to disappear at random. No ads though which is a plus.

Jjedroc Chard

Not a great phone experience. It's too easy to lose the track you're listening to when the display mode changes. Also, trying to move the scrub bar near the ends is very difficult. +10/-10 buttons would be helpful there. Larger controls in general will be welcome. A big, controls only, no list, mode is desirable. The restart track dialog times out too fast.

Jake Crockett

Great app for watching video files, less great for listening to music. It doesn't seem to be able to just play each song in any sort of order (alphabetical, shuffle, etc) and it seems to auto remove all the songs off of the playlists I create. Still, a great option for watching video files nonetheless.

Vintage Classic Cars

Good but needs improvement. I'm using an older Android Samsung phone and the app would crash and shut down randomly. Either another app is causing this or VLC isnt responding and then crashes. Everytime I restart my phone or VLC media player closes it rescans media forcing you to wait for it to reload your library. It does this even with my newer phone I sometimes use. It gets annoying when you want to play some tunes and takes up to several minutes. Fixing album art is another issue.

Jeremy Phillips

The same serious issue remains. While using the fast forward/reverse bar inevitably the playback will freeze. At times the playing resumes on its own after a delay of several seconds. Other times it remains paused even after waiting more than a minute. I experience this with my two newer model Samsung devices REPEATEDLY. I don't have this problem playing the same mp4 files with other players. You've had years to fix this bug, and despite numerous updates--NOTHING!!!

Robert Chase

Utility outweighs awful interface. Need to be able to control (suppress) the scrolling of song names in the browser on mobile devices, for one thing! The design is poor and the interface requires too much attention. When opening downloaded clips with VLC, it isn't even visible among applications running in the background; starting it causes the clip to restart from the beginning.

Darius Juniper

It it's used to be a very good app both for video and music but since the last update it's been absolutely awful. The aspect ratio never stays the same it's always glitching, constantly changing the folders I give it access too, deleting playlists randomly and won't even play videos when you click on them properly. Sad that's it's gone so far down the drain.