Howto chain playing Albums, Library Album view on gesture

[whirlwind]

Hi,

Using GoneMad 2.0.28 on Android 6.01

I am glad I came back to Gonemad, since version 2, the GUI is great and I absolutely love the configurable gesture. This is now my favorite music player.
I don't know yet how to configure it correctly, can you please help me to do the following:

Q1. Playing Album N+1 when Album N is finished
All my music library is perfectly tagged. Lets say I have 3 albums named Album1, Album2, Album3
In the library Album view, the 3 albums are listed in alphabetical order.
In Settings, Queue, "On queue completion", is set to "Play next Album"

My intent is that after Album1 is done, then the player will chain to playing Album2. In my case (40 albums), Gonemad pick the next album randomly and not the next one in alphabetical order. Maybe there is a logic to select the next album. But I think it would make more senses to select the next one in alphabetical order, because albums are listed that way. Is this possible?

Q2. Settings, Now Playing, Customize Gestures
"Single Tap Action" = Jump to Album

Currently Gonemad correctly display the Library, Album. However, it displays the content of the current album. Which is the same view than tapping on the title in the Now playing view.

What I would like to do is to browse all the albums (and not the content of the current album). Why? because it's more convenient that way. In particular because of the issue mentioned in Q1 above where Gonemad picks a "random" next album. I would like to review the albums and re-select another one.

So far, I work around by an extra tap. Once the content of the album is displayed, I do an extra tap on the "ALBUMS" header on the top to display all the albums.

My question would be:
Is there a shortcut gesture to display the list of albums in a single tap?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[GoneMAD]

play next album sorts all the albums by artist then album and will play the next album in the list. it is not random. Keep in mind it goes by artist and not album artist (not sure why i coded it that way)

"Currently Gonemad correctly display the Library, Album. However, it displays the content of the current album. Which is the same view than tapping on the title in the Now playing view."

tapping on the title does not jump to the album unless you set up the single tap gesture to jump to album. Anyway you want "jump to artist" or "jump to album artist". It will show all albums by that artist/album artist

[whirlwind]

What I would like to configure is:
- Single tap on cover
- Show all albums available in the library, sorted by album name ascending, regardless of the artist.

If it is possible, can you please show me how?

In my use case, the album is the important information. Although all my tracks are correctly tagged. I don't need any details about the artist.

[GoneMAD]

Holo or material theme?

Holo: reorder the views to have the albums tab right next to now playing and swipe left to immediately jump to the album view

Material: set album view to be the default view. You can just minimize now playing to go straight to teh album view

Album view has sort options.

However if you are asking for jump straight to the current playing album (like having the album list positioned to the current album) in the album tab, that is not possible

[whirlwind]

Oh wow, I didn't know there are different behaviour dependent on the Holo or Material. Just selected Holo Dark. And there is a permanent header on the top "Now, Album, Folder, Smart"

Hitting on Album show directly the Album View. And a tap on Now show "Now playing". No more need to fiddle with tap gesture. This is genius. You should have a nobel prize in design. Please consider my request Q2 as solved

However, as for Q1 (playing album N+1 when album N finishes) the way it is working now is chaotic. I have a feeling some albums are never visited. Following the straight forward design like you did for the Holo View, I think it would make sense to play the album in the same order as they are listed.

[whirlwind]

Hi Admin,

I have found a quite acceptable workaround regarding Q1 (playing album N+1 when album N finishes). I just created a playlist and added all the albums in the order I wanted. Now instead of playing from the album, I select the playlist.

Besides that minor issue, GoneMad is really good. I like it very much.

[GoneMAD]

Glad you figured out workarounds. I have no idea why play next album is chaotic for you. I explained the algorithm in one of my above posts.