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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 1, 2021 13:38:14 GMT -5
Thank you for all the hard work on the new version. When using Android's "Split screen" feature, most apps, including GMMP 2, will re-center and re-fit everything within the new smaller size of the app on the screen. I use split screen a lot when I'm driving, so that I can have a GPS one one side, and a Now Playing on the other. In the Now Playing view, GMMP 3 simply chops off half of the screen, when it comes to displayed metadata. No matter whether the metadata is set to align to "center" or "left", there's the same sized gap to the left of it that there was before triggering the split, causing most of the metadata to not fit on the screen. imgur.com/a/hOidGn4how small of a device is that? imgur.com/a/a2ggRKfGMMP does resize and scale but it can only get so small.. especially when you are using 4 lines for your playing info (those metadata lines will not scale). It picks which layout to use (landscape or portrait) based off the aspect ratio of the app area in split screen. What does your now playing look like fullscreen in portrait?
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 1, 2021 13:41:50 GMT -5
Regarding interpret covers: I have the option download covers automatically disabled. The descriptions says, it only effects album covers. I have album covers embedded in each file. I have enabled the option to use the embedded album covers (as of embedded in file). In the sub menu for the interpret covers is a button that let's me download interpet covers. I deleted my database, re-scanned it and tried this button with 3.0.1 again. I can confirm, the covers in the "interpret" tab are downloaded. However, the tab "album artists" doesn't show the covers from the interpret tab, instead all interprets have one of their albums as album artist cover. And I've figured out: all bands listed under "album artist" also use this wrong cover in the "interpret tab", too. i.e. the download seems to work. In Other words: artists not listed under album artists use the downloaded artist cover. Artists which are also listed under album artists use a random album cover as artist cover both in the album artist and the artist tab. Changing the album interpret cover manually, does work. album artist and artist are represented by the same entry in the database if the tags are identical and would share the same imagery if you are trying to use artist imagery on your storage.. your music either needs to be organized by Artist Folder / Album Folder / Album contents with the artist artwork file named artist_tag.jpg/png, folder.jpg/png, or artist.jpg/png (literally text artist) in the artist folder, or the album folder
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Post by frostbyte on Feb 1, 2021 13:52:29 GMT -5
Regarding Widget Size: I am using a Samsung S10 and configured a 5 columns 6 rows (5x6) home screen. The 4x1 widget is smaller than with GoneMad v2 and buttons are smaller, too. Though it's still useable. In fact the widget was nearly the size of the 4x2 it is for me now: imgur.com/tvdJYRgAlso, the space between the widgets is quite large (also larger than on your screenshot). They have some kind of margin/padding above and below. The same is true for the 4x2 widget. On the other hand, the other 3 widget sizes available for me (2x1, 2x2, 4x4) fit tightly, without extra spacing. imgur.com/a/fm3IOkYbtw, I don't use the 4x4 widget. Though, I wonder why the buttons in the 2x1 widget are larger than in the 2x2 and even 4x4 widget Those all look like i would expect. 4x2 and 4x1 are fixed vertical size because the layout scaling looks awful. After trying long enough to get it to scale better i just made it a fixed size. Screenshot with scaling: imgur.com/a/JhnNqLOOkay, don't worry about it. It's still useable. I only noticed that "my" 4x2 widget was thinner than before, also with smaller buttons. I had no idea that one can re scale these fixed size widget. Though it didn't help for my loved 4x1 widget I didn't want to rescale it, but use it's entire height available without the gaps. For the people who might want bigger buttons in the widget: The 4x2 and 2x1 widget have larger buttons. And if you increase the size of the 2x1 widget you can have gigantic buttons, as the button sizes are scaled with the widget :=)
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 1, 2021 14:11:23 GMT -5
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Post by frostbyte on Feb 1, 2021 14:39:06 GMT -5
Regarding interpret covers: I have the option download covers automatically disabled. The descriptions says, it only effects album covers. I have album covers embedded in each file. I have enabled the option to use the embedded album covers (as of embedded in file). In the sub menu for the interpret covers is a button that let's me download interpet covers. I deleted my database, re-scanned it and tried this button with 3.0.1 again. I can confirm, the covers in the "interpret" tab are downloaded. However, the tab "album artists" doesn't show the covers from the interpret tab, instead all interprets have one of their albums as album artist cover. And I've figured out: all bands listed under "album artist" also use this wrong cover in the "interpret tab", too. i.e. the download seems to work. In Other words: artists not listed under album artists use the downloaded artist cover. Artists which are also listed under album artists use a random album cover as artist cover both in the album artist and the artist tab. Changing the album interpret cover manually, does work. album artist and artist are represented by the same entry in the database if the tags are identical and would share the same imagery if you are trying to use artist imagery on your storage.. your music either needs to be organized by Artist Folder / Album Folder / Album contents with the artist artwork file named artist_tag.jpg/png, folder.jpg/png, or artist.jpg/png (literally text artist) in the artist folder, or the album folder No I want to use artist imagery that is downloaded by gmmp from the internet. I only use the embedded album covers (ID3), which works. I don't put any image files on my phone (double checked if they are hidden files). TL;DR: "artist imagery" for "album artists" is not downloaded from the web, but using a random album cover instead. For these "album artists" their wrong covers are also shown under "artists". Though other "artists" that are not an "album artists" anywhere in my library, actually use downloaded "artist imagery". So the problem occurs only with artists that are also "album artists" in the library. Within the following screenshot "Disturbed" is the only artist, that is also an "album artist" in my library. Its cover is not an downloaded artist imagery, but a random album cover: imgur.com/k0zxv6XThis is the same artist imagery as within the "album artist" tab. imgur.com/a/yNrHL3R(just an example, all the album artists are affected as you can see) FYI: On the filesystem my library is organized like this: album artist / album / songs. But the main logic is embedded in ID3: album artist, artists, album cover, release year, song name and so on. Basically I rely on the ID3 tags and gmmp does a pretty good job to use it properly
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Post by weeji on Feb 1, 2021 14:47:46 GMT -5
Thank you for all the hard work on the new version. When using Android's "Split screen" feature, most apps, including GMMP 2, will re-center and re-fit everything within the new smaller size of the app on the screen. I use split screen a lot when I'm driving, so that I can have a GPS one one side, and a Now Playing on the other. In the Now Playing view, GMMP 3 simply chops off half of the screen, when it comes to displayed metadata. No matter whether the metadata is set to align to "center" or "left", there's the same sized gap to the left of it that there was before triggering the split, causing most of the metadata to not fit on the screen. imgur.com/a/hOidGn4how small of a device is that? imgur.com/a/a2ggRKfGMMP does resize and scale but it can only get so small.. especially when you are using 4 lines for your playing info (those metadata lines will not scale). It picks which layout to use (landscape or portrait) based off the aspect ratio of the app area in split screen. What does your now playing look like fullscreen in portrait? Thank you for the quick reply! The device is 720x1520. Android 10. I don't expect the lines to scale, just to not have a bunch of unused space to the left of it. It's as if it thinks there's an invisible album art image to the left of the text (and above the text in portrait mode). GMMP 2 looked correct in split screen on this device this past weekend. Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong regarding the "album art" settings. I have it set to "off".
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 1, 2021 15:23:53 GMT -5
how small of a device is that? imgur.com/a/a2ggRKfGMMP does resize and scale but it can only get so small.. especially when you are using 4 lines for your playing info (those metadata lines will not scale). It picks which layout to use (landscape or portrait) based off the aspect ratio of the app area in split screen. What does your now playing look like fullscreen in portrait? Thank you for the quick reply! The device is 720x1520. Android 10. I don't expect the lines to scale, just to not have a bunch of unused space to the left of it. It's as if it thinks there's an invisible album art image to the left of the text (and above the text in portrait mode). GMMP 2 looked correct in split screen on this device this past weekend. Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong regarding the "album art" settings. I have it set to "off".
It looks like there is a mismatch in GMMP's UI code vs what layout android is actually picking. Its picking the landscape layout of now playing but the UI code is setting it up like its portrait. I made the assumption that landscape vs portrait in split mode like that is based off the aspect ratio of the app area, but its clear in the first screen shot you sent me that its not always the case. GMMP is clearly taller than wider in your screenshot, but its picking the landscape layout instead. I'll have to see if i can rework that logic to match the code with the layout that android picks
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 2, 2021 0:24:15 GMT -5
FYI i think i tracked down the majority of the scanner and art issues and hope to have an update in a day or 2.
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Post by harris on Feb 2, 2021 2:14:52 GMT -5
New to 3.0, some concerns. 1. You can't make the navigation bar at the bottom 2.You can't add folder to the navigation bar 3.When in folder tab, the artist tags are shown instead of actual filename.
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Post by dion on Feb 2, 2021 3:56:42 GMT -5
Even though Android removed the functionality for album art on the lockscreen, I used to be able to make my own "live wallpaper" with the KLWP app, which basically takes the cover of the currently playing song and sets it as the wallpaper. With GMMP 2, this worked great, but since 3.0, the KLWP app does not see the cover anymore when I'm playing music in GMMP. Did something change about the way GMMP broadcasts the album cover (I do have the setting turned on)? Other music apps do still work, it's just GMMP that has stopped since the update.
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Post by frostbyte on Feb 2, 2021 9:48:14 GMT -5
v3.0.2 - After rebooting phone the widgets are completly invisible. They will appear as soon as a song is played through the app - The start scan button does nothing. I've just deleted my database to troubleshoot the artist imagery problem. Now I can't import the music back due to no scanning
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 2, 2021 9:55:03 GMT -5
New to 3.0, some concerns. 1. You can't make the navigation bar at the bottom 2.You can't add folder to the navigation bar 3.When in folder tab, the artist tags are shown instead of actual filename. 1) correct. At some point i'll add the standard android bottom navigation but that was introduced while i was about 2 years into the rewrite of gmmp, i was not about to start over from scratch material.io/components/bottom-navigation#usage2) trello.com/c/2BQ2B0lK3) Yes you can. All views can display whatever you want (within reason as long as the view supports that metadata). Toolbar menu -> customize -> displayed metadata. I am pretty sure i put a preset in for just filename but it would be trivial to add your own. %fn% is the variable for filename gonemadmusicplayer.proboards.com/thread/1066/gmmp-3-custom-metadata-info
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 2, 2021 10:03:08 GMT -5
v3.0.2 - After rebooting phone the widgets are completly invisible. They will appear as soon as a song is played through the app - The start scan button does nothing. I've just deleted my database to troubleshoot the artist imagery problem. Now I can't import the music back due to no scanning yea i had another complaint about them being invisible after an up update too. This must be a phone specific behavior because i specifically tested rebooting and things always loaded fine for me. The widget is dynamically created but the phone needs to actually run gmmp's widget code for that to happen which it clearly isnt running in some cases. I'll have to put a default layout with the logo or something to just launch the app "The start scan button does nothing." Check your scan paths. The upgrade from 2.x -> 3.0 didnt correctly transfer them over (but it didnt convert the old database). I'd bet its either blank or one single entry that looks like its combining multiple folders together. Most art issues and scanner issues will be fixed in 3.0.4. In short the artwork searches start to lag the scanner to the point where it cant finish in the 10 min time before the operating system restarts the scanner.. where it restarts from the beginning (resuming where it was left off was bugged). Also depending on how fast your device was.. the initial scan artwork searches actually would execute too quickly so it wouldnt know where on the storage to look for the art. This why was picking up images in the music folders was so bugged. There was also a bug associating new music (or music in different folders) from the same album with the existing album in the database if the files didnt use the albumartist tag
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 2, 2021 10:16:57 GMT -5
Even though Android removed the functionality for album art on the lockscreen, I used to be able to make my own "live wallpaper" with the KLWP app, which basically takes the cover of the currently playing song and sets it as the wallpaper. With GMMP 2, this worked great, but since 3.0, the KLWP app does not see the cover anymore when I'm playing music in GMMP. Did something change about the way GMMP broadcasts the album cover (I do have the setting turned on)? Other music apps do still work, it's just GMMP that has stopped since the update. gmmp should broadcast everything the same way. KLWP should be grabbing any playing metadata and artwork via its mediasession which has been standard since android 5.0 (its also how art gets sent over bluetooth and some phones get the album art to show in the background of the lockscreen.. my motorola phones did they by default). When things die down i can take a look at KLWP as i am not familiar with it.. only know if its existence. If its developer is active it might be worthwhile to ask him GMMP specifically uses: developer.android.com/reference/android/media/session/MediaSession#setMetadata(android.media.MediaMetadata)developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaMetadata.Builder#putBitmap(java.lang.String,%20android.graphics.Bitmap) with the album art key developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaMetadata#METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ART2.x did this as well.
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Post by frostbyte on Feb 2, 2021 11:19:36 GMT -5
Indeed, the scan paths were cleared. I re-added them after 3.0 upgrade, right. As it seems, they were also deleted from the recent update 3.0.1 to 3.0.2. The invisible widget after boot issues happens with my Samsung S10. Thank you for the fast support
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