Native Music Player Is Driving Me Batty!!

[deserttopping]

ok, i'm beyond bugged with this thing.

issues:
1- can't select / disable folders to play music from. the iQuran app has loaded my SD card full of Quranic verses, which is great--y'know--if i want to hear Quranic verses, which i don't when setting my music on "shuffle."
2- there's *no* side tab alphabetical scroll-y thing, like there is in the dialer contacts. do i really want to waste my time scrolling down to "M" or "S" or "Z"? no, i do not. yes, i know i can open the keyboard.
3- can't simply tap on an artist / album that's playing and go to my files by that artist or on that album. but i *can* buy something from Amazon: yay. this is elementary. argh.
4- no "settings"? of any kind? i can't even show remaining play time instead of elapsed play time? but there's a devoted "use as ringtone" button??
5- i'd really like to edit all the id tags for the many, many "unknown artists" in my library. can i do that w/ the music player? no.
6- just to add insult to injury, almost every time i open the music player, a completely different song from what i was last listening to is cued up.

ok, just to be perfectly clear, i don't see why the *native music player* can't be more user-friendly and feature-rich. i know there are 3rd party apps that will do some of the things i mentioned above. i can't believe this wasn't updated by rc33.

thank you in advance for reading this tirade.

[crazythunder]

i bet the jitterbug has a better music app. the android one is kindergarten like.

[LazyGenius]

ok, i'm beyond bugged with this thing.

issues:
1- can't select / disable folders to play music from. the iQuran app has loaded my SD card full of Quranic verses, which is great--y'know--if i want to hear Quranic verses, which i don't when setting my music on "shuffle."
2- there's *no* side tab alphabetical scroll-y thing, like there is in the dialer contacts. do i really want to waste my time scrolling down to "M" or "S" or "Z"? no, i do not. yes, i know i can open the keyboard.
3- can't simply tap on an artist / album that's playing and go to my files by that artist or on that album. but i *can* buy something from Amazon: yay. this is elementary. argh.
4- no "settings"? of any kind? i can't even show remaining play time instead of elapsed play time? but there's a devoted "use as ringtone" button??
5- i'd really like to edit all the id tags for the many, many "unknown artists" in my library. can i do that w/ the music player? no.
6- just to add insult to injury, almost every time i open the music player, a completely different song from what i was last listening to is cued up.

ok, just to be perfectly clear, i don't see why the *native music player* can't be more user-friendly and feature-rich. i know there are 3rd party apps that will do some of the things i mentioned above. i can't believe this wasn't updated by rc33.

thank you in advance for reading this tirade.

its not only the music player... have you heard the quality of the g1's music with regular headphones? it kinda sucks and it doesnt get that loud either...

[deserttopping]

its not only the music player... have you heard the quality of the g1's music with regular headphones? it kinda sucks and it doesnt get that loud either...

yes. grr. although i can make it plenty loud w/ skullcandy earbuds, but the background hiss is very noticeable.

[constellanation]

if you don't like it why don't you get an iphone!



sorry i really couldn't resist dt!
but your right the native music player is really poorly done. let's start a petition! or maybe that should be our attempt at learning coding? hahaa that would be interesting.

[deserttopping]

oh, man. i'd hate to see my attempt at coding a music player. but since google is a large, publicly traded corporation of smart developers who i've learned to expect great things from, i couldn't help but vent about this one. if the battery in my mp3 player didn't need replacing, i probably would've just let it go.

[Dixie]

if you don't like it why don't you get an iphone!

That one is still cracking me up... it's just coming from CN that makes it all the funnier

[constellanation]

desert I think if we put our heads together to make a music player app it would end up like this!

which when I think about it, not to bad really!

[deserttopping]

or this! the discs are dishwasher-safe! we are techno wizards!

[constellanation]

or this! the discs are dishwasher-safe! we are techno wizards!

that could be the beta! or trial version!
if they wanted to get the upgrade they could call us on our phone line and pay for it!