RockOn - Music Player

[LazyGenius]

all riiiiight! another dev joins the community. welcome my friend, welcome.

[fabrantes]

Alright guys, a new version is available for download at the website:

http://abrantix.org/files/RockOn.apk

Whenever you have the time to try it out please share the outcome. I'm confident that at least one bug was solved (Matthias was kind enough to send me the log of one the crashes... not sure if he is this board, anyhow big thanks). Let's if that was the bug that was preventing other people as well.

Other bugs...

1. It was mentioned that the UI showed different art from that that was actually being played. This might happen if you added music to your sdcard shortly before starting the app (and thus removed and inserted the sdcard in the phone). This should occur rarely and will be fixed in future releases. Anyhow after Android's internal MediScanner has finished reading the sdcard the app should work with no problems...

and missing features...

1. The lock-in of the album on the album list in the right... this is maybe something to implement in the future as well, however im not totally convinced. So far I have looked at the album list really as the browser for your music (so you can move it freely while music is still playing). Maybe something similar to after X seconds of you stop moving the album list, the list scrolls back to the position of the currently playing album, could be added. What do you think?

[konzern]

downloading right now

[Shel]

and missing features...

1. The lock-in of the album on the album list in the right... this is maybe something to implement in the future as well, however im not totally convinced. So far I have looked at the album list really as the browser for your music (so you can move it freely while music is still playing). Maybe something similar to after X seconds of you stop moving the album list, the list scrolls back to the position of the currently playing album, could be added. What do you think?

Thanks for this program! Just downloaded it, and I'm checking it out.

I personally would like to be able to use the images of album covers on the right to scroll through my music collection, and see what songs I'd like to hear next.

As it is (unless I'm missing something...), if I scroll through the album images, and then tap on one of them, the player changes to that album, so there's no way to see the songs on each album, without changing to that album. I'd like to be able to browse songs, while continuing to listen to the song I"m currently listening to.

Also, RockOn has now quit twice, while listening to songs. It seems to play for about five, six minutes, then simply cuts out and stops playing. Just an FYI.

How about play lists? Ideally, it would be GREAT if, while listening to a song, I coud scroll through my music and add random songs to a playlist, and either save the playlist for future listening, or simply use it for that particular time.

Notification bar- Should have a play symbol, along with the current song playing, and if/when user brings down the notification bar and taps on the song, it should take you immediately to RockOn.

Hope you don't mind my suggestions, if anyone agrees or disagrees, feel free to chime in.

GREAT start! Thanks again for what's looking like a very nice music playing app! I'll have NO PROBLEM paying $2-3 or more for this program!

[konzern]

ok so i downloaded this and its stuck like on an endless loop of "loading album art"

[Shel]

ok so i downloaded this and its stuck like on an endless loop of "loading album art"

It initially took about 15 minutes for it to get all of my album art work. It obviously depends on how much music you have on your memory card.

Be patient. Once it has the art, it won't need to do that again, until/unless you add new music, and then it should only take a few seconds to find the latest music you've added.

By the way, I don't see where to find what version number I'm using. How do I know if the latest update is newer then what I have ?

[fabrantes]

Thanks for the feedback. For the continuous loop of album art that might be because the phone is without internet connection... is it? If it has internet connection then it should be somehow quick (1 minute maybe depending on the size of the library) - it just needs to download the missing art from Last.FM...

@shel thanks for the suggestions. I like the hold the album and see which songs are there while still playing the same song, will be adding that in the near future.

As for playlists they are a bit further down the road, I haven't quite thought enough on how to integrate them in the UI, but will keep it in mind.

Cheers

[konzern]

Thanks for the feedback. For the continuous loop of album art that might be because the phone is without internet connection... is it? If it has internet connection then it should be somehow quick (1 minute maybe depending on the size of the library) - it just needs to download the missing art from Last.FM...

@shel thanks for the suggestions. I like the hold the album and see which songs are there while still playing the same song, will be adding that in the near future.

As for playlists they are a bit further down the road, I haven't quite thought enough on how to integrate them in the UI, but will keep it in mind.

Cheers

going to try it again, i do have internet connection, hmmm it still did the same thing it was on "loading album art" then just force closed

[fabrantes]

My experience is not more than a few minutes but of course it depends on the size of your library and also the speed of the internet connection (if you can do it over wifi that would be the best). 15 minutes seems a bit too much - you have a really large library... or a really slow connection :P.

Also, if you want you can press the back button to dismiss the dialog and try immediately the app. The album art fetcher will continue to process and will reload you album list when it finishes.

No version info at the moment I will be adding something shortly.

As for it stop playing music after a few minutes I believe it is out of my control. Android automatically closes background apps when other apps need memory, so if you are using other apps intesively android might close RockOn. But I will investigate this, maybe there is some parameter I can set in the media player service that makes it the last program to be closed...

thanks again for your feedback.
Cheers

[Shel]

fabrantes
Don't want to add to your "To Do" list, but this is a biggie... probably needs to be added before you release to the market....

Need to have app pause music when a call comes in, and restart when the call ends. I just had a call come in, and music was blasting in the background while my caller tried to speak over it.

Again, NOT a complaint, I realize this is a work in progress, and really appreciate your feedback on this forum, but allowing calls to pass through, while pausing the music seems like a biggie.

Thanks! Great work so far... can't wait for the updates!