Some requests for the next version...

[tobekdb]

After using GMMP for a few weeks now, I've got it set up pretty much the way I like it. There's various other features already requested like lyrics support that I'm eagerly awaiting, but here's some requests I haven't seen elsewhere. A number of them result from my listening habits - I tend to listen to whole albums track by track, rather than picking and choosing tracks from different albums.

1. Option NOT to reformat text from tags. Particularly an option not to remove leading zeros from track numbers and not to change capitalization (like on the Genre tab).

2. On the "Playing" tab, have an option to disable or hide the repeat and shuffle buttons. I never use these, and it's annoying for me when I accidentally click them.

3. On the "Queue" tab (formerly "Playlist"), have an option to show the track number rather than the queue position.

4. Also on the "Queue" tab, have the ability to group by album, maybe even with the possibility to show/hide the individual tracks. Along with this the ability to move albums as a whole up or down the queue, and to remove albums as a whole from the queue.

5. On the Artist tab, at the top (artist) level replace the scroll bar with a #-A-Z jump bar. Have the option to show the number of albums for each artist on the right instead of the number of tracks.

6. On the Artist tab at the Album level, have the option to display the genre of the album instead of the duration (length). All the tracks of an album have the same genre tag in my collection, but I guess there would have to be some way of handling multiple genres from different tracks.

7. On the Artist tab at the Album level, have the option to hide "All Songs" and only show the list of albums.

8. On the Artist tab at Track level, be able to click on the album header to queue the album.

[GoneMAD]

1) Prefs -> Scanner -> Open Scanner -> Uncheck Format artist/album tags. That option is off by default so any formatting done would have been because you turned that on. The tags are left alone otherwise. Track numbers are stored as integers (or at least the tagging library used extracts them as integers) so gmmp does not remove any leading zeros intentionally

2) Prefs -> Now Playing -> Show Seek Buttons will switch it to a more traditional [previous, seek back, play/pause, seek forward, next] layout

3, 6) I'd eventually like all the views to be as customizable as now playing. Its most likely a long way off due to the complexity of the task

4) This is actually something I had thought of when I first started working on gmmp. I mostly listen to whole albums at a time

5) Are you aware of any libraries that have a jump bar like you describe? There is nothing in the android sdk like that that i know of

7) That easy enough that i'll probably include it in one of the next few updates

8) Good idea, im not sure why i havent done that already

As for the immediate plans for gmmp

In the 1.4.x updates I'll be adding some improved resampling code which will allow for sample rates higher than 48khz to be played (which really only applies to flac users who have 192khz 24 bit files) and the widget code needs to be rewritten (its pretty laggy)

1.5 will be adding lyrics support, tablet optimizations, and playlist creation improvements

[tobekdb]

Thanks for the speedy reply. Good that some things are already there, just my ignorance holding me back.

1. I have the format tags option off. I've only seen the capitalization change on the genre tab, whereas it's OK on the other tabs, so maybe it's to do with the way text is displayed on the genre tab? Regarding track numbers if the GMMP db stores them as integers, then the only way to show leading zeros is by a change or option in the GMMP UI I guess.

5. The music player that came pre-installed on my Galaxy S3 has a jump bar, here's a screenshot:

Attachments:

[GoneMAD]

imgur.com/a/kMUK8

it seems to leave the formatting alone for me. Anyway if you come across a specific file that it happens to you can just email it to me and I'll take a look

[tobekdb]

On the Genre tab any capital letter that follows a "-" or "/" is being displayed as lower case. On Playing tab, capitalization is as in the tag.

[GoneMAD]

interesting.. i'll take a look at it

[GoneMAD]

Jan 6, 2013 21:54:46 GMT -5 tobekdb said:

After using GMMP for a few weeks now, I've got it set up pretty much the way I like it. There's various other features already requested like lyrics support that I'm eagerly awaiting, but here's some requests I haven't seen elsewhere. A number of them result from my listening habits - I tend to listen to whole albums track by track, rather than picking and choosing tracks from different albums.

1. Option NOT to reformat text from tags. Particularly an option not to remove leading zeros from track numbers and not to change capitalization (like on the Genre tab).

2. On the "Playing" tab, have an option to disable or hide the repeat and shuffle buttons. I never use these, and it's annoying for me when I accidentally click them.

3. On the "Queue" tab (formerly "Playlist"), have an option to show the track number rather than the queue position.

4. Also on the "Queue" tab, have the ability to group by album, maybe even with the possibility to show/hide the individual tracks. Along with this the ability to move albums as a whole up or down the queue, and to remove albums as a whole from the queue.

5. On the Artist tab, at the top (artist) level replace the scroll bar with a #-A-Z jump bar. Have the option to show the number of albums for each artist on the right instead of the number of tracks.

6. On the Artist tab at the Album level, have the option to display the genre of the album instead of the duration (length). All the tracks of an album have the same genre tag in my collection, but I guess there would have to be some way of handling multiple genres from different tracks.

7. On the Artist tab at the Album level, have the option to hide "All Songs" and only show the list of albums.

8. On the Artist tab at Track level, be able to click on the album header to queue the album.

Next minor update (1.4.3) which should be early next week will have:

1) The genre capitalization will now only happen if "format tags" is enabled in the scanner (a rescan will be needed)

7) Genre and Artist tabs can now hide 'All Songs' and 'All Albums'

[agaranda]

Hello and thanks for your excellent player.
Two requests:
1) As I grow old I perceive some frequencies louder in an ear than in the other: would be possible separate eq for each channel?
2) Crossfeed similar to that in neutron player.

[GoneMAD]

i believe i have the per channel eq somewhere on my todo list (fairly low on it tho). The equalizer processing is already done per channel so most of the work would be the UI changes and the interfacing with the eq processor

i'll put crossfeed on the list if its not already there.. from what i know about it.. its fairly complex so it would be a fairly major task. I have the tasks for the next 3 major releases already planned out so i cant really look into it until that work is done

[agaranda]

Thank you.