@codl oh! i figured you might have tried it basically first so i didn't mention it, but i think vlc does that
it has both an artist list, and it pulls metadata about things like cover art if you have none of that locally
you can even toggle how it handles artists in audio settings
@codl oof, yeah. i've got nothing
it's too bad the android music player landscape is kinda gnarly. i imagine the "not 44.1KHz? lol let's crackle" bug in android itself doesn't help matters at all