I can't do that, on windows, or linux. I loved the experience that evince on ubuntu gave me for comics/manga some years ago (what I want: continuous pages, no menu or scrollbar visible, centered, fixed width, variable width, scrollbar on edge hover to show progress), and nothing that I've tried comes remotely close.
I was able to come close with HTML + CSS so I am partially content.
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A recent big failure of mine is to find a music player on F-Droid, to listen to albums, that
- is capable to play a song,
- is capable to seek in the song
- doesn't need access to every media file ever on my phone, only the actual file (either by popping up the file chooser, or the file is opened from an another program)
I've checked at least 15 of them, and I think it is possible. I've found multiple examples that can do two (video players that don't need access to every file, can go forward/backward but refuse to play songs, also music players that don't need access to every media file, but can't jump to a position). I eventually had to give up on this one.
I'm pretty sure VLC (from f-droid) does what you want. It might prefer to have full file access, but you can just deny that and just open files from a file browser or whatever.
Is it working for you? It is not working for me, it keeps demanding permissions. It might be something specific to my phone, but also unlikely, since there are video and audio players that can play videos and audio without any permission at all.
Just be aware, that music player without file access won't be able to traverse/list directories, so playlists won't work. This is a limitation of any file-picker based file access (e.g. flatpak applications on linux, accessing files via portals have exactly the same limitations). As the sibling comment says, it is possible to run vlc this way, but be aware of the limitations.
I don't have "2 buttons" on the screen titled "Permission not granted", and no file dialog. Also not working, when asking VLC to play the file from another program. Must be a bug or incompatibility somewhere. Also this must be the reason why I wasn't able to find a music player on F-Droid then :| Thank you for checking!
I can't do that, on windows, or linux. I loved the experience that evince on ubuntu gave me for comics/manga some years ago (what I want: continuous pages, no menu or scrollbar visible, centered, fixed width, variable width, scrollbar on edge hover to show progress), and nothing that I've tried comes remotely close.
I was able to come close with HTML + CSS so I am partially content.
- - -
A recent big failure of mine is to find a music player on F-Droid, to listen to albums, that
I've checked at least 15 of them, and I think it is possible. I've found multiple examples that can do two (video players that don't need access to every file, can go forward/backward but refuse to play songs, also music players that don't need access to every media file, but can't jump to a position). I eventually had to give up on this one.