A Few Requests

[tathagata]

Hi, everyone, I've just got a few things that I hope might be implemented in GMMP. My apologies if any of these have already been posted or are already in the app and I've just missed it.

The ability to have multiple metadata items on one line on the now playing screen, so fewer lines are needed for those that like a lot of data displayed (For instance, track position on the left, filetype info in the center, and the next playing track on the right, all in one line
).

An option to remove the media controls (play/pause, next/previous, etc.) if gestures for those controls are enabled
, in order to make more room on the now playing screen for metadata and album art (An option to remove the progress bar might be good too, for some users).

An option for a notification that looks more like the Google Play Music notification.


An option to add the progress bar to the notification
(Not sure how feasible this one is, but it would look really nice, IMO.)


An option for a grid view for albums lists, preferably with a way to adjust the grid size.

Gapless for opus
files. This might belong more in the bug section, but there's a tiny gap when playing gapless opus albums.

Chromecast support might be cool, though that's not a particularly big one (for me, anyway).


Sorry for all the requests, I just thought I'd try to help my favorite android music player be even better. 

[GoneMAD]

Mar 20, 2014 2:13:48 GMT -5 tathagata said:

Hi, everyone, I've just got a few things that I hope might be implemented in GMMP. My apologies if any of these have already been posted or are already in the app and I've just missed it.

The ability to have multiple metadata items on one line on the now playing screen, so fewer lines are needed for those that like a lot of data displayed (For instance, track position on the left, filetype info in the center, and the next playing track on the right, all in one line
).

An option to remove the media controls (play/pause, next/previous, etc.) if gestures for those controls are enabled
, in order to make more room on the now playing screen for metadata and album art (An option to remove the progress bar might be good too, for some users).

An option for a notification that looks more like the Google Play Music notification.


An option to add the progress bar to the notification
(Not sure how feasible this one is, but it would look really nice, IMO.)


An option for a grid view for albums lists, preferably with a way to adjust the grid size.

Gapless for opus
files. This might belong more in the bug section, but there's a tiny gap when playing gapless opus albums.

Chromecast support might be cool, though that's not a particularly big one (for me, anyway).


Sorry for all the requests, I just thought I'd try to help my favorite android music player be even better. 

-You can setup now playing lines however you want. You will want to look into creating custom lines if you want multiple things on the same line

-You can hide the playback controls. Its not technically an option but there is a gesture for "toggle media controls". Turn on that gesture.. do the gesture.. and the media controls will be gone. It used to be one of the default gestures but too many people were accidentially hiding the controls and not knowing how to get them back

-There are a few notification settings available to change how it looks. Prefs -> General -> Notifications (notification style set to simple is a bit cleaner looking)

-Progress bar in the notification area is not possible as far as i know. Notifications dont have access to all the UI elements as a regular app does

-Grid view is planned for gmmp 2.0

-Opus gapless is a bug i've known about for awhile, however its not something i can easily fix. ffmpeg does all the opus decoding so the bug is actually with ffmpeg.. There was a similar bug with ogg about a year ago (it used ffmpeg as well) and in order to fix that i had to implement the ogg decoding library myself and bypass ffmpeg. Whenever i get to updating the opus codec i will probably do the same thing.. since it does have a good license to it

-I recently bought a chromecast so its something i will be looking into. I am not exactly sure how easy it would be to implement (it might not be too bad but I'm not sure if its possible to include all the same audio features as gmmp.. like replaygain, crossfade, gapless, etc)

[tathagata]

Thanks for the reply, sorry it took me so long to reply back.

-I know about setting custom lines, but I was thinking something more like one item aligned to the left, another one separately aligned to the middle, and another one to the right. For instance, right now I have multiple items separated by a "|" symbol using a the customizing options, but I feel that having the different items aligned separately on the same line might look cleaner. Hope that makes a bit more sense, it's kind of difficult to describe.

-I checked the gesture option you mentioned, but it also removes the progress bar. Is there a way to remove the media controls while keeping the progress bar?

-One thing I forgot to ask about previously is if you could add a way to organize by both Artist and Album Artist at the same time (like the way XBMC does it, if you're familiar)? Like, if an album's Album Artist tag was different from the Artist tag, both would appear in the list.

Thanks again!

[GoneMAD]

-okay yea i get what you are saying. While that would be nice i dont know of an easy way to program something like that and have it look good on a single line

-The progress bar is part of the media controls UI area.. so no not at this time

-That is the behavior by default. The scanner populates the album artist with the artist if there is no album artist tag. The artist tab lists album artists by default (prefs -> artist / album artist to toggle between)

[tathagata]

Ah, I see. That all makes sense, then. I need to take another good look at all the settings.

Anyway, thanks again for your responses, and great job on the app. I look forward to where you take it.