GoneMAD Music Player 3.0 Alpha Feedback

[GoneMAD]

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Be sure you have 10b installed. Thats a bug with 10a

[thesplund]

Can anyone become an alpha tester? FYI I have FiiO X5 iii with >600GB of storage across two SD cards and the player's memory - needless to say the library is big. I'm very interested in smart playlists and the 5* rating system, both which seem slightly restricted in one way or another in the current release, but I'm loving the current player despite these issues.

[GoneMAD]

Jul 5, 2019 8:12:00 GMT -5 thesplund said:

Can anyone become an alpha tester? FYI I have FiiO X5 iii with >600GB of storage across two SD cards and the player's memory - needless to say the library is big. I'm very interested in smart playlists and the 5* rating system, both which seem slightly restricted in one way or another in the current release, but I'm loving the current player despite these issues.

Yeah the apk link is in the first post. It installs alongside 2.x currently. Will go on the play store when it hits beta

[ew]

I have looked at the alpha and it is very exciting.

I have a question - my biggest use is via file browser navigation to an m3u playlist and starting the player in that way. Version 3 alpha doesn't seem to play the files the way the current version does.

I know that v3 alpha is not yet feature complete. Will this capability be added for V3?

Thanks again for the great product and great support.

[GoneMAD]

Jul 16, 2019 12:22:41 GMT -5 ew said:

I have looked at the alpha and it is very exciting.

I have a question - my biggest use is via file browser navigation to an m3u playlist and starting the player in that way. Version 3 alpha doesn't seem to play the files the way the current version does.

I know that v3 alpha is not yet feature complete. Will this capability be added for V3?

Thanks again for the great product and great support.

the file browser shows the playlists tho right?

Right now v3 will not play files that are not currently scanned into the library.. in most cases this is not possible to do anyway.. but playlists can reference files not added to the scanner/library. Its supposed to in a placeholder into the library and then scan the file later to allow playback.. however thats bugged but i'll fix it eventually.

In the meantime make sure everything you want to play is scanned into the library.

[ew]

Jul 16, 2019 13:49:17 GMT -5 GoneMAD said:

Jul 16, 2019 12:22:41 GMT -5 ew said:

I have looked at the alpha and it is very exciting.

I have a question - my biggest use is via file browser navigation to an m3u playlist and starting the player in that way. Version 3 alpha doesn't seem to play the files the way the current version does.

I know that v3 alpha is not yet feature complete. Will this capability be added for V3?

Thanks again for the great product and great support.

the file browser shows the playlists tho right?

Right now v3 will not play files that are not currently scanned into the library.. in most cases this is not possible to do anyway.. but playlists can reference files not added to the scanner/library. Its supposed to in a placeholder into the library and then scan the file later to allow playback.. however thats bugged but i'll fix it eventually.

In the meantime make sure everything you want to play is scanned into the library.

Thanks for the quick response.  It seems that I can select the playlist and see the files that make up the playlist, but it doesn't start that playback.  

I understand that it is still under development - I was kinda checking if this capability would be brought into the next version and it sounds like it is.


Thanks again

[GoneMAD]

not in the next alpha. sometime in alpha or beta. just make sure your music is scanned into the database and you should have no issues. If all your music is scanned in then try to play and generate a logcat and send it in gonemadmusicplayer.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-get-logcat-system-log-to-help.html

[ew]

Thanks - it seems like the first one plays. Then I can't figure out how to play a subsequent playlist. I don't see a play button (like I do on the album list for example).

[GoneMAD]

the 3 dot menu next to the playlist name in the playlist list has all the options to play, play next , enqueue, etc

[GoneMAD]

3.0 Alpha 11 (07/18/19):

New:

-Added some smart playlist validation to prevent saving invalid playlists
-Added ability to select album art using external image selectors / galleries
-Added new folder view sort options: Artist, Trackname, Track Num, and Rating
-Added tag caching to reduce the need to reread tags from storage
-Added progress bar indicator when saving album art
-Added support for TXXX rating tags
-Added complex smart playlist logic via smart rule groups

Fixes:
-Fixed writing composer tag
-Fixed reading multiple composer tags
-Fixed deleting composers when deleting the database
-Fixed deleting empty composers after editing composer tags
-Other various fixes

Downloads:
mega
mediafire

[GoneMAD]

3.0 Alpha 11a (07/22/19):

Fixes:

Fixed editing rules in groups
Fixed more issues with album artists in smart playlists
Prevent linking a smart playlist to itself when adding links to a group
Fixed crash when viewing a playlist with multiple entries of the currently playing song
Other various crash fixes

Downloads:
mega
mediafire

[GoneMAD]

3.0 Alpha 11b (07/29/19):

Fixes:
-Fixed jump to album artist
-Fixed crash when pausing activity

Downloads:
mega
medafire

[thesplund]

Hi. Latest Alpha (11b) seems pretty good apart from:

* the ability to pick an album when browsing an artist works for a while and then disappears until database reset - SONGS are listed but ALBUMS 'tab' is blank. (observed in 11, 11a and 11b releases - updating/overwriting the app doesn't fix the issue)

* App proves difficult to terminate other than killing the process. Once closed and in the notification area, a running song can be stopped but there is no way to close GMMP.

* it doesn't seem to scan sometimes - might the Android's Media Scanner process be preventing this if already running? (it's only a guess TBH).

Thanks for the Composer field by the way - I'm actually using it to pass recording type (ie Studio/Demo/Live etc) and star rating from iTunes (as MP3 rating tag isn't updated by iTunes) - most helpful.

[GoneMAD]

* the ability to pick an album when browsing an artist works for a while and then disappears until database reset - SONGS are listed but ALBUMS 'tab' is blank. (observed in 11, 11a and 11b releases - updating/overwriting the app doesn't fix the issue)

sounds like a problem with your device / storage. unless i can be given steps to reliably reproduce there is nothing i can do. The only time an album would disappear would be if all associated tracks of that album are removed from storage (and the scanner cleans it up by removing from the database)

* App proves difficult to terminate other than killing the process. Once closed and in the notification area, a running song can be stopped but there is no way to close GMMP.

The notification can be swiped away if not playing, but its the operating systems job to actually terminate apps/manage memory, not the user. This will not change.

* it doesn't seem to scan sometimes - might the Android's Media Scanner process be preventing this if already running? (it's only a guess TBH).

Android's media scanner picking up new tracks will trigger a gmmp scan. If you do a manual scan, it wont run into previous scans are finished. Auto scans run no notification and a manual scan will hide the notification if nothing new was picked up

[GoneMAD]

Also for the first issue.. when that happens exit out of the app. Reopen the app and go to an artist with no albums and then generate a logcat and send it in gonemadmusicplayer.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-get-logcat-system-log-to-help.html

I can see if there are any errors listed. It is quite possible that the right combo of data and album sorting break the database query