cover art in ogg vorbis

[Walen]

I am a fresh owner of a 10'' android tablet. As I had no real experience with the system I had to find suitable apps for all the tasks I intend to be doing. Strangely my quest for a functional, feature rich, PC like music player has proven to be more tedious than I had expected, as all the big apps seem to be aimed at it-must-be-simple users.

I have stumbled upon GMMP by accident yesterday. And I already know it is the app I will probably end up using. So my first point is: how come it is not mentioned anywhere noticable? Come on, it is easily top 3 music app out there, yet many people will likely miss out on it.

My main question is: I am in a process of converting my music library to ogg vorbis and finding a player that actually follows standards and displays cover art in this format is a bitch, regardless of platform. From what I have seen GMMP does a pretty good job dowloading cover art on-the-fly but somehow I failed to make it use the ones embedded inside ogg files. Is there any way to make it happen? Also is the problem android side or player side?

[GoneMAD]

"I have stumbled upon GMMP by accident yesterday. And I already know it is the app I will probably end up using. So my first point is: how come it is not mentioned anywhere noticable? Come on, it is easily top 3 music app out there, yet many people will likely miss out on it"

Imagine how frustrated I am haha. Every time i see a top 10 music player list i cringe because GMMP is much better than all but a few ever listed. Im hoping after i do some more UI/UX improvements it will get noticed a bit more.

As for embedded tags it might be the tag name you are using. If you want to send a file to [e-mail] i can take a look at it. There is also a possibility the embedded image is too large preventing it from being extracted

for xiph tags (ogg).. it looks like the 2 tag names looked for for album art is: METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE and COVERART

[Walen]

Hmm, after double checking I found that GMMP didn't display cover art because it wasn't embedded in that particular album. Oh well, I guess I will synchronize with my music library more often from now on anyway. (note to self: take 15 seconds to think about a problem before asking for help online)

This means that GMMP is the only program meeting all my requirements for a music player so I do not have to look any further. There are a few minor things I would fix in terms of UI (it clearly wasn't designed with big tablets in mind) but I can see it planned for the next release. Purchasing the app today.

Any plans of a desktop release by any chance? I am gradually evacuating from windows platform and haven't yet toyed with music players under *nixes. As I said good players are hard to come by.

[GoneMAD]

I would love to port GMMP to every OS but I just dont have enough time. The android version has taken me roughly 4000 hours of dev time over the last 2.5 years. I'd be able to port around 1/3 of the app to windows/linux fairly easily (the audioengine because its just native c++ code) but everything else would require a complete rewrite

if im ever able to quit my day job and work solely on my own projects this would be more likely to happen.. but as of now i dont have any plans to do any ports