RockOn - Music Player

[JohnnyLicious]

Is it on, or going to be coming to the market?

I'm not sure i can email the dev and ask them also, let hope it does get to the market lol

i heard they could be charging for this app also.

[DesignDawg]

IMO, it still needs a lot of work before it can be charged for. After using it a little more, I have some cons to share: It doesn't gracefully let you out of the program to do other things. It would be nice to have a notification in the tray to let you know it's playing, what song is on, etc. like the other players do. When I try to go out to the desktop, I've had it crash on me a time or two, but otherwise, it will keep playing, just without notification.
Ricght now, the selection of the album is a one-way street, in that, you can select from the album list, and it will slide the current album out and the new one in, which is reasonably slick...but when you go past the last track in the album, or when you are in shuffle mode, when the player changes the album, it doesn't show the correct album on the right. In fact, it never seems to "lock in" on an album on the right. When you scroll, it just lands wherever, rather than "settling in" on an album. Really this app is emulating some things about Coverflow, but not quite implementing them all fully.
The share feature is sorta neat, I guess, but it seems a little gimmicky, maybe like it's just a bit of an easy feature to implement, because really, since this is a player of your own tracks, you're not really "discovering" any new music with the app. --So emailing your friends "Hey, you have to check these guys out!" seems a little unlikely. Nonetheless, it's a feature, and as long as it's not in there at the expense of leaving others out, it's nothing to complain about.
Lastly, the concerts feature is a novel idea. It appears to scan your music library for artists and give you concert dates for the artists therein corresponding to a radius you set around your location. I would assume this is why it needs course positioning (WiFi GPS) when you install it. The only problem is, it looks like it scans the entire music library. I have about 7 GB of music on my G1 right now, and after we got about halfway through the artists beginning with "B", I gave up. I imagine it would have been a neat feature, but without a way to limit the search, it's a real time-sucker. Perhaps it only needs to do the full scan once, after which it refers back to a database or something like a cache of artists to speed things up?
All in all, as I said before, it is a neat player with a lot of visual appeal and a lot of promise, but I believe it will need to be put into the market to really catch some legs. As for myself, this is something I would like to install form the market and allow the market to notify me when updates come out, to keep a close eye on it until it can replace MixZing as my default music app.

[JohnnyLicious]

new version is on their website

hope this fixes the force close

i still get it but im on magic firmware so im thinkin that is the problem

but yeah :]]

[Guiso0623]

Thanks for the tip. This app rocks!!!!

[XDViPeR]

I've just downloaded it, installed, and first run it crashes.. From the screenshots its looks pretty neat

[JohnnyLicious]

someone suggested to delete the Rockon folder on your sdcard

uninstall,
reinstall,
and launch

hope that works.

[deserttopping]

deleted the folder & reinstalled. still force closes at startup splash.

[fabrantes]

hey all,

I'm the developer of RockOn and guys let me say that I am really happy to see interest from the community on the app. I just posted the app yesterday and I was amazed to see this post on a google search just a few hours ago.

So,

1. Thanks a lot to Johnny for creating the post, we have exchanged a few mails already and I am going to take this night off to solve the bug that is preventing you (and others) from using the app. Anyhow, sleep is overrated :-).

2. Thanks a lot for your feedback, I am going to analyse all the ideas you guys have put on the table, and most of them I agree.

2.1 For instance the song playing in the notification bar is surely something I will be introducing in the next releases.

2.2 Dont give up on the concert feature just yet. I know it can take a long time to analyse if you have 8gb of music, but the first time is the hardest. In the first time you run it, it goes on to get all the info from Last.FM and this can take a while. the next time you run it, it will be faster. And I think this is a really nice feature... so give it one more try.

2.3 Sharing... right now this is a very basic functionality, just a plain email... I'm planning on evolving this somehow in the future but I am not completely sure on what would really make sense here... your feedback is most welcome.

2.4 Crashing... apart from the bug I am trying to solve now, the app still crashes every 10 or 20 times you open, rotate or close it... I am working also on fixing this but it is a hard to find memory leak problem.

2.5 Using the vol buttons to go to next previous... that would be an interesting feature. For a long time I though that having some real buttons to do common tasks would be really nice (I'd say that start/stop and next song are the most needed functions - and we only have 2 vol buttons).

2.6 This is for sure ongoing development and also I am planning to put this on the market in the next couple of weeks. Also, I plan to charge $1.99 when putting it on the market, but the free version will always be available on the website... this is my plan ATM but I am also seeing people's reaction. In the end I don't want anyone who likes the app not use it because of money... but I guess it makes sense to compensate all the sleep I have been missing...so, for having the market convenience $1.99, if you go through the web have it for free :-).

2.7 what else... did I miss something... looking forward to your feedback.

3. Ill be getting out a new version later tonight that will hopefully fix the force close bug that many of you have been having...

Cheers,
Filipe

[constellanation]

Hey that's really cool filipe! (Especially 2.6 keep us up to date on it here and we'll definitely throw you some feedback (and probably some cash) I'll give it a try soon as I put music back on my sd.

And welcome to a.c.

[JohnnyLicious]

Welcome to AC Filipe and yea still having problems but thanks for signing up on here and actually interacting with us users great job =D

can't wait for new updates

i wouldn't mind paying for this also. once this version is stable and all