Best FLAC / lossless music player for Android
Short answer: for lossless on Android you need a player that decodes FLAC and WAV natively and doesn’t re-encode. Audify plays FLAC and WAV losslessly, free, with a 10-band EQ, gapless playback and folder browsing. It doesn’t play DSD.
What to look for in a lossless player
Formats that count
More detail on the full formats page.
Audify for lossless
Audify ticks the lossless boxes for free: native FLAC and WAV, gapless playback, a 10-band equalizer and folder view, all fully offline with no account. For most listeners with FLAC libraries, that is everything you need without paying for a specialist player.
Common questions
Does Audify play FLAC and lossless audio?
Yes. Audify decodes FLAC and WAV natively for full lossless playback, free, with no re-encoding. It does not support DSD, a separate niche format.
What is the best format for lossless music on a phone?
FLAC is the practical choice — lossless quality at roughly half the size of WAV. WAV is also lossless but larger because it is uncompressed.
Does Audify play DSD files?
No. DSD (.dsf/.dff) has no decode path. FLAC and WAV cover the vast majority of lossless libraries.
Play your FLAC library free
Audify Music Player · native FLAC & WAV · 4.5★ on Google Play
Sources
“FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.”Xiph.Org Foundation, FLAC
- FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec — Xiph.Org Foundation
- RFC 9639: Free Lossless Audio Codec — IETF
- Supported media formats — Android Developers
- FLAC FAQ — Xiph.Org Foundation