1.1 Feedback

great feedback

"You should disable the hardware menu key: None of the menu items (Shuffle, Jump To Time, Volume, Sleep) work while the screen is locked."

Wasnt aware the menu button did anything.. i'll definitely disable that

"long press of next / prev will change folders": I never use folders to select music. So while playing anything (chosen by tags) if I long press forward I will hear some "random" music since there is no "next folder". My current playlist is then gone and replaced by something else :-( The worst thing is: keeping back pressed will not bring me back to it. So maybe make that long-press-thing optional?"

yeah i can make that optional

smaller font sizes would be easier to put in.. but like you said im not sure if anyone would actually need that

"Maybe also ignor "A" (or even custom prefixes for other languages?) and not only with the artist but also genre, album and song."

there is a lot that can be done with this... im keeping it simple to start. Having it work for genre and album would probably work well, but for the song view that may slow things down a bit since it has to process every single entry before it can sort. A device with tons of song might lag even more when listing everything.

Yeah i can do a 4x1. I took another look at the 4x4 and it seems that some album covers show up smaller. The ones I tested with would take up at least half of the widget, but I just tried another album and it showed up fairly small. My intent was keeping the album art large, so there must be a bug

"You could add Jump To Time, Sleep and especially Volume control to the Customizable Gestures."

Would you just want the gesture bring up the dialog for jump to time/sleep?

"(Unrelated to the update: Shouldn't "Now Playing - Background" affect the current tracks Info text too?)"

That was meant for the space behind the album art. Older versions of the OS didnt display the gradient very well so the option was there to just make it black instead.

"Another minor thing: Could you change the text “Touch To Start” on the Widget (while the service is not running) to something like “Touch To Start GMMP”? Or better yet: show the usual player controls without any song info (“GMMP” as Track title?) and maybe the GMMP logo as cover. That way no words are needed to know what that widget does and how to use it."

I thought the gmmp logo in the center was enough to understand what it does The widget stuff will probably be reworked at some point. The reason why the "Touch To Start" shows when the MusicService is running is because the service needs to be started for the widget to work correctly. Since pressing the album art typically launches GMMP into now playing, I didnt want it to also start the music service. I've found giving something 2 different behaviors can confuse users. It's not the greatest design but it works for the time being.

I'll verify the icon meets the guidelines google set up. I think 2.3 handles things different than 2.2 and earlier. That might be why

oh so you would rather have a gesture to bring up the dialog instead of a "vol up" and "vol down" gesture? i could see swipe up and down being used to control volume

beta bug report

If i delete the file in the browser while it is playing, and summoned the menu on any other track (with the intention to press play), but not selected any item in the menu and the (deleted) track ends playing, the player hangs.

By the way, thank you for the delete function and for the option to control warnings.

p.s.
Maybe it is not hard for you to implement highlighting the playing item in filebrowser?

Yes, i deleted the currently playing file.
I think it would be good if the player automatically "play next" or "stop" if it's the last file...

Beta 2: www.mediafire.com/?zf8cskqd9gcottd

I fixed/changed some of the things mentioned in this thread. I'll get to some more before pushing 1.1 to the market and some of the suggested changes will be addressed in the 1.1.x patches.

Also I did not include any updated translations so be sure to check to make sure the language is complete on www.getlocalization.com/gonemadmusicplayer/ since a few more things were added in beta 2 that need translation.