Solid MP3 Player

A simple, native iPad MP3 player. Works entirely offline — no tracking, no uploads, no cloud. Choose your MP3s and start listening. Your music stays yours.

I had a collection of MP3 albums I'd gathered through the years and just wanted to play them on my iPad — in track order, without ads, without subscriptions, without an app trying to manage my whole music library or telling me to upgrade before I could actually use it. I couldn't find such an app, so I built one.

Solid MP3 Player plays MP3 files from anywhere your iPad can reach them - local storage, a flash drive, iCloud, a shared drive. Load a single album or queue up a mix from different folders. Sort your songs by track number, title, album, disc number, or shuffle them - or drag them into any order you like. Multi-disc albums show their disc numbers and play in proper disc-then-track order. Add or remove files anytime. Your file system is your song list.

Features: • Plays standard MP3 files with no conversion or transcoding • Shows CBR or VBR alongside the bitrate when it can be determined from the file • Embedded cover art display • Set your own artwork: long press the artwork and pick an image from Photos or Files. It applies to every song in the current list, is remembered between launches, and clears when the song list does. The image is stored by the app and never written into your files • Full track metadata: title, artist, album artist, composer, album, year, genre, track number, disc number, duration, bitrate, sample rate, channels, file size, and format • Six sort modes: by track number, by title, by disc number, by album, randomized, or custom drag-to-reorder • Disc numbers shown in the song list for multi-disc albums and box sets • Remove songs one at a time, or mark as many as you like - or Select All - and remove them together • Continuous and repeat playback • On-screen transport controls, with Control Center and lock-screen playback integration

WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE • No ads. No banner ads, no video ads, no ads anywhere. No nags, no popups, no "rate this app" interruptions, no premium tier waiting behind a paywall. • No internet connection required - nothing streams, nothing uploads, no account needed. No analytics, no tracking, no usage data collected. • What you play and how you use the app stays on your iPad.

YOUR FILES, UNTOUCHED Your MP3s stay exactly where they are. This app will never move, alter, rename, or send your files anywhere. The app remembers your last song list between sessions, but you're always in control.

BUILT FOR iPAD • Designed specifically for modern iPads - not a stretched phone app - and works in all orientations. • Long press for context menus, drag to reorder - works the way you expect an iPad app to work. • Control Center and the lock screen show a live position bar you can drag or tap to jump anywhere in the song. • Embedded album artwork displays automatically. Background playback keeps your music going when you lock your iPad or switch apps, and plays nicely alongside other audio apps. • Requires iPadOS 18.2 or later.

PURE MP3 Got a collection of MP3s from years past? This app plays them. No conversion needed, no format juggling - just your files, ready to go.

NOT A LIBRARY APP This is for playing albums and small collections, not managing thousands of songs. No syncing. No library to maintain. You manage your music your way, through your own files. If you've got some favorite MP3s sitting in a folder somewhere, this is for you.

SUPPORT Need help getting MP3s onto your iPad? Visit ChillyWindsDontBlow.com/#solid-support Questions or feedback? Contact me at support@chillywindsdontblow.com