Music on this phone

Requires Solomorph+ or the 30-day trial. The free tier still needs a Subsonic server — this page is about the door that turns your phone itself into one. We’d rather say that in the first sentence than let you find out after you’ve picked folders.

Turning it on

On the Connect screen, “This device” sits alongside every server you can type in. On the free tier it’s padlocked — tapping it opens the upgrade sheet, not the folder picker. Accept the trial or buy Solomorph+ and the padlock is gone.

Choosing folders

The picker lists every folder on your phone that actually holds music, largest first, with a track count on each. That order is deliberate: your real collection is almost always the biggest folder, and the one-track folders are the strays — so the list explains itself before you’ve read a single label, and the counts let you check rather than take it on faith.

Ringtones, alarms, and notification sounds never show up here. That’s Android’s own IS_MUSIC classification doing the excluding — Solomorph never guesses from filenames, so there’s nothing to manually deselect on first run.

Choosing nothing means everything, on purpose. Until you narrow it down, Solomorph shows your whole device library — narrowing to specific folders is something you opt into, never something that happens by default. An empty selection should never look like an empty library, so it doesn’t.

Keeping it current

Solomorph rescans on its own: opening the picker again, or coming back to the app from the background, both refresh what it sees. There’s also a manual “Look again” in the picker for whenever you don’t want to wait for either of those. What there isn’t is a periodic timer running in the background — Android’s own media index is already current the moment a file lands, so polling it on a schedule would just spend battery to learn nothing new.

The practical promise: plug your phone in, copy an album over, switch back to Solomorph. It’s there.

What this gets you

The ordinary app, not a stripped-down one — Home, the crates, the shelves, search, Now Playing, all of it, because a phone isn’t a special case here.

Two of Home’s shelves answer honestly for a phone-only library: what’s newest (by the date a file actually landed on the phone) and a shuffle-style suggestion shelf. Recently played and Heavy rotation stay empty. That’s deliberate, not missing — no play history is counted for local files yet, and a shelf that lies about its own title is worse than one that simply isn’t there.

What it doesn’t do yet

Local albums carry the plain Solomorph “no art” mark on every sleeve — reading embedded cover art out of the files themselves isn’t built. Expect every phone-only record to show it; that’s expected, not a bug you’re hitting.

If you also connect a server once local files are on, a record that lives in both places behaves differently than you’d guess — that’s its own page, since it’s the single most novel thing about how Solomorph handles a library now.

If a folder is missing from the picker

It holds nothing Android classifies as music — most often a folder of ringtones or notification sounds, or one the phone’s media index hasn’t scanned yet. Try “Look again” before assuming Solomorph missed it.