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[Android Apps and Games] KicknGuitar:
Mi gusta, senior.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5q8x40yhomzt51m/Xeno159dev-artwork_loading_test.mov

Android, 4.1.2

MUCH smoother than before (if I get my ass to record the official release so you could see what I mean), and actually responds to my quick swipe to scroll immediately. Swiping left/right through albums is very rough (The first 5 seconds of the video is me trying to but I cut the excess off since my hand blocks most the view).

however one thing this view (and the other) needs is being able to pull on a scroll bar (or invisible gesture which would act like it) which has that android pop-up alphabet window thingy, If one scrolls down just a little you tells you which letter you're in (A, B, G, Z, 5, etc) I have this in my contacts as wel as some other apps with loooonnnnng lists.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Odp: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.158 (29012013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

Your reactions mean, there's no animation visible! Because otherwise you'd either love it or hate it. On my device the covers look like very light things floating to the surface from bottom of a pool. Haven't seen kicknguitar movie yet.

EDIT - ok, i've seen kickinguitar movie. It does work as it should, thanks! And guess what - 4 Non Blondes is also one of the first in my library... Must be the number...

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[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
The covers that don't show - were they pesent in last "production" version?
[Android Apps and Games] AGiLiT:
Yes. I did a refresh and a total rescan; neither restored the artwork.

And no; I don't see the animations that are in Kickinguitar's movie.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
OK, that's some info.

What a pity. So it won't work on old d... Androids!
[Android Apps and Games] AGiLiT:
Here are some screenshots of album art behavior. Note in the first one, Billy Idol cover is missing. In the second one, a whole bunch of covers are missing. Sometime later, covers appear for those missing in #2. However, the cover on the second DJ Hell album is wrong - it should be the same as the first (they are part of a set and the same image was used to tag both discs. I suspect it has been pulled from the 'net. Billy Idol still hasn't reappeared.
[Android Apps and Games] BillyD325:
Wrong cover art

I'm having a minor problem but it still bugs me. I'm on 0.158. I have two artists with the same album name: "Awake" by Skillet, and "Awake" by Dream Theater. Up until now, there was no problem. Now, the Skillet version is showing the Dream Theater album cover (in Music view and in the playlist). It has the correct one in its folder, and the Deluxe version of the album (I have a couple of songs from it also) shows correctly. When I try to change it manually it only shows me variations of the Dream theater album cover as selections. Maybe this is related to the album art issues being discussed currently. I just wanted to bring it to your attention. It's not a big deal.

thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Surpsisingly that might be SQL logic problem. Thanks for the tip.
[Android Apps and Games] markk1995:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.158 (29012013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

Realised that the green now playing thing in playlist corresponds to the track playings place in the list not the track itself so if you delete tracks above the one currently playing the song which is "now playing" according to the green text changes
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Yes, there's still some bugs regarding fiddling with now playing list, but they'll be finally fixable after I'm done with current changest to internal structures.
[Android Apps and Games] markk1995:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.158 (29012013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

Sure you know but when you exit and reopen the last track played isn't paused. It goes back to the track at the top of the playlist
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Fixed in 0.159
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Almost done bringing back whole functionality, still missing shoutcast genres and fancy zooming. Maybe I'll publish current progress so you can enjoy fast scrolling in music view... And gather some feedback on forgotten/lost features :D
[Android Apps and Games] burdock:
cant wait for 0.159...
[Android Apps and Games] mpiekp:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.158 (29012013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

Any release is welcome ;)
[Android Apps and Games] BillyD325:
i haven't had that on the last couple of releases. It USUALLY comes back to the last track I played, with a couple of exceptions. Overall this app is great, even though I don't use any of the networking features that have been the hot topics for the last couple of weeks. Maybe I'll try it some time, but for now I love the smooth, gesture-driven UI and the sound calibration. I wish I could get Pandora and Slacker to sound this good on my phone.
[Android Apps and Games] markk1995:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.158 (29012013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

I think when you pause first time and exit and reopen it goes back to the song. But if you do it again it goes to the top
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
RELEASE 0.159

New: asynchronous loading of playlists

New: edited playlist saved on EACH change

Change: music view based completely on Android views + UIL

New: some internal logic for deciding which replaygain to use

Fix: purge not run

Fix: context menu for cover in music view

Fix: shoutcast and 8Tracks entries reloaded from playlists get populated with proper info

Fix: query view

What's not working:

- Fancy zoom in music view

- Shoutcast genres

Note: for shoutcast entry to be refreshed with bps info and so on it has to be added by this version of xenoamp, old shoutcast entries won't get updated, unless you edit containing playlist and supply verbatim name of the station in EXTINF.

Note: this release contains some more changes to vital structures. It took me week to bring XenoAmp back to working state after this change, and there are probably bugs. So don't hesitate to list them!
[Android Apps and Games] mothy1025:
v 159 is completely screwed i cant add default media directory when i try player force closes.when the playlist is pulled up i cant make it close only by pressing back button it closes but not by sliding down.
[Android Apps and Games] mpiekp:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

For me it's working great.

Sync is slow though, but loving the new cover pop on music view, but as always the killer feature is sound quality :)
[Android Apps and Games] amskhan1:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

How do I link it to my Google music
[Android Apps and Games] mothy1025:
did you installed over v 158 or clean install v 159
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

force closes everytime i try to set the default media folder.

also lags badly when browsing folders .

it seems every action that involves viewing or accessing folders is problematic.

widgets dont load albumart and dont open the main view.

albumart in music menu very slow to load.

all that after a clean install on ics 4.04 stock tw.
[Android Apps and Games] mothy1025:
v 159 it automatically downloads the album art how disable it.It is not using embedded album art.only downloaded ones are shown.i tried using disable internet features option but no use..

---------- Post added at 02:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:07 AM ----------

+1
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Thanks all for info, hopefuly I will get a lot bugesnse reports from you.

If it is slow for anyone else, please at least state your phone type, I can only guess that the phone I am using for tests is on the muscle side, and probably anything I run on it would run smoothly.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Are you sure? I'll try to check it but, I'm not sure if I have any embedded-art tracks. Theoretically it tries the tag before even thinking about downloading from the Internet! And inet download isn't able to bypass this pref switch... theoretically, I mean.
[Android Apps and Games] KicknGuitar:
NEEDS INDEX SCROLLING

Yeah, I found the technical term I was looking for earlier. 20,000 tracks with probably 800+ artists translates to scrolling hell. It'll take me a good 2 minutes to reach Z.

Nonetheless, so far so good. If I find anything I'll update ya.
[Android Apps and Games] AGiLiT:
Some quick observations:

I did an install over previous version (which was the interim test version). Scrolling is lightning fast in music view; of course I'm not getting the full animation effect. All cover art is appearing, although the one or two that picked up bad cover art in the previous test version still have those. I'll probably have to do a full deinstall / reinstall to get those back.

When going into track listing, the background is totally transparent so everything underneath comes through. It makes it really difficult to read the tracks.

I can't back out of track listing to music view. One tap of back button does nothing; second tap takes me to WPS.

If I set row grouping to 'don't group', it FCs.

'Who plays like...' dj is not working. It identifies the now playing artist, but doesn't pull any tracks.

'Never heard' dj opens to dynamic playlist.

No cover art in widgets.

If you're going to implement replaygain, it really needs to have the control settings available - turn it on or off; set by album or track, etc. That can be a back burner item on your to do list.

May be more later...
[Android Apps and Games] KicknGuitar:
Ditto. Log here.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Go to prefs, credentials, add google account, go to patheteque options, select "Sympathy for the devil". Google synchronized.

Downloaded covers won't get changed, you have to delete tem from cache to reobtain.

As for replaygain - since it's quite easy to discover if current playlist is album playlist, it automatically selects album gain in such case. Won't work for list made from multiple albums, though.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Thanks for valuable feedback. Sh!t hit the fan in following areas:

All [FIXED] mean "Fixed in 0.160"

mothy1025

[PROBABLY FIXED] i cant add default media directory when i try player force closes.

(couldn't replicate, but found potential problem, please tell me if it still FCs)

[PROBABLY FIXED] when the playlist is pulled up i cant make it close only by pressing back button it closes but not by sliding down.

(found such bug in file browser view, corrected. Tell me if there's another place that needs fixing)

[-] v 159 it automatically downloads the album art how disable it.It is not using embedded album art.only downloaded ones are shown.i tried using disable internet features option but no use..

Please send me a file with embedded cover that doesn't get picked!

bababar

[FIXED] also lags badly when browsing folders .

Local folders? Lags meaning it takes much time to list a folder?

[FIXED] it seems every action that involves viewing or accessing folders is problematic.

You mean FCs or something other? I've seen lots of FCs from playlist adapter, but no other bugs were caught by bugsense.

[FIXED] widgets dont load albumart and dont open the main view.

[-] albumart in music menu very slow to load.

On first run, downloading everything from scratch or precached album art? In standard Albumartist vs Album view or some other combination? Popping animation or just the general feel?

AGiLiT

[PROBABLY FIXED] When going into track listing, the background is totally transparent so everything underneath comes through. It makes it really difficult to read the tracks.

(I was doing it all wrong on Android 2.3.x, this time PROBABLY did it right)

[-] I can't back out of track listing to music view. One tap of back button does nothing; second tap takes me to WPS.

[FIXED] If I set row grouping to 'don't group', it FCs.

[FIXED] 'Who plays like...' dj is not working. It identifies the now playing artist, but doesn't pull any tracks.

[WE'LL SEE] 'Never heard' dj opens to dynamic playlist.

Probably caught track adapter bug again, as it works here.

[FIXED] No cover art in widgets.

Notes:

TrackAdapterForPlaylists doesn't receive proper notification
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
lags does mean much time but in most cases browsing folders both from the main view and when trying to choose a root media folder leads to fc of xeno, and i use only locl folders.

as for the albumart in music view, its only on first run ( after opting to scan the whole phone to prevent fc),and theres a constant network activity untill all albumart is loaded.

for missing albumart the picture of hillary and merill is a joke i guess?

what logging app can i use to further help on this? i cant play music with xeno and i really like to help make it stable again so i can use it.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
As far as I know, doing anything while filesystem scan is generally disencouraged. Several people told me that it almost freezez their phone, so maybe just wait until the scan finishes.

Network activity means, there are still covers missing and xeno is trying to pull them.

Hillary and Merill, whoever they are were probably pulled as last resort for some unknown album, by general internet query, it is run when all other civilised methods of obtaining albums fail!

Also if you care and can sacrifice more data, cover obtainer is pretty verbose when searching, so I could easily see if it's grabbing embedded covers from files, it will say following:

[OBTR] Searching for cover on filesystem:" + p.getPath());

[OBTR] Found cover image on filesystem:"

[OBTR] Found cover image in embedded tag:"+p.getPath()); (this one will visible in 0.160)

Just delete cached folders from xeno dir, and redo from start
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
i just tried what u suggested with minor changes : i uninstalled (so i can rescan my phone without fc) deleted only the cached albumart folder from the parent xenoamp folder, reinstalled and let the initial scan of the whole device finish. then went to music menu and... still the covers dont load immedietly but only after a few minutes of intense network activity. i know its all downloaded because some of them differ from the ones in the album folders and for the hebrew ones whos tags are not recognized it downloads random images as oppose to using the image from the folder itself.

i hope the bugsense u get will give you more insight, i will look for a log app that works on non rooted phones.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Odp: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

The question is what kind of covers do you expect? If any other than embedded in id3 i.e. In jpeg or png, then give me the name of cover file, maybe its non standard?

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[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
as for the the albumart i dont understand your question, if u mean by "non standard" that the album id is not recognized by the phone or app (gibrish ) maybe youre right,i have some albums not recognized by xenoamp and fixing theyre id tag didnt help ( not with an app nor manually).

just finished "torturing" my phone having it run through every fc and crash xeno related as possible .

attached is a logcat produces from alogcat app,hope it will meet your needs if not i will need to find out how to use it.

attached also some screenshots of what happens when i try to use the floating widget control.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
OK, definitely, what I would need is at least one tune tagged with hebrew letters, it doesn't seem like your tags are UTF-8 encoded (I guess the strange letters visible there should be Hebrew, right?)

P.S. Strangely, the log you attached has no "xeno" string anywhere! :)
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
tried two more options for logcat ,the first in the default brief mode the second in raw mode ,in both i used a log filter.

tell me if it gives you info that corresponds to the issues i reported.

i deleted the original one after learning it has much personal info.

isf not tell me and ill reproduce every log possible with this app...

as for the messed up tags, most of my music comes from a hd i ripped onto many years ago, i didnt rip albums for 5 years at-least.

ill have to rip most of it again to make sure this doesnt cause the albumart and tag problems.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Hmmm... seems these logs just lost unicode coding! It would be probably much easier if you've sent me one track with embedded cover + hebrew characters/
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
One more thing: currently I don't need logs of file browser FCing, as I've found the error, but need to rethink some logic to be able to fix it. Almost fixed now, but just to be on the safe side, it would be better to sit and think for a moment.
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
u mean u dont see any info regarding all fcs and errors u see in the screenshots i sent ?

i really think these are the accute problems not the albumart,because i cant work with xenoamp so albumart is irelevant.

if the alogcat settings are wrong ,can anyone here tell me how to use this app so i can extract the relevant info ?
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Actually I think next version will have these FCs under control, so don't worry, just wait for 160 and we'll see then, ok?
[Android Apps and Games] KicknGuitar:
Try Logcat.

Type in the keyword to filter the log (such as "Xeno").

Save to your SD or attach to blank (you can use the attachment to export the log to dropbox/Google Drive etc.)

If you know this, my apologies for sounding like a broken record.

Edit: Ssuukkaa, not to demand an answer but just to give me something to get all excited over, thoughts on adding the index scrolling? Any idea how long? Thanks. :P
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
thanx for the info,any help is appriciated because im clueless in android dev and testing, i joined this forum only because i love the superior sound of this app,far superior then any music player paid or free for any mobile os on any device !
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Well, as you see it is not as easy as Subsonic ;) Index scrolling sits on to do list for several months :D It's the last feature I have to implement to make xenoamp as it was advertised! But seriously - it's probably not a difficult feature, the problem is it is not very exciting, probably requires creating another widget, so I kept pushing it for later...
[Android Apps and Games] mothy1025:
Embedded art work problem

v 159, ssuukk i have attached a file with embedded art in it but that album art is not shown. xeno amp downloads new album art and it only shows the one which is downloaded by xeno amp not the embedded one. v 158 was perfect at this issue.i have attached the album art too which is embedded in the mp3.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Odp: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

Dont worry, if it worked before, it must be fixable.

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[Android Apps and Games] markk1995:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

The Problems on my phone (Sony Xperia s)

When I open the playlists album art flickers once then settles

In music view after clicking on one album, it takes 2 clicks to open any subsequent album

Also I think album artwork should be larger in music view, maybe 2 and a half albums should fit instead of the 3 and a half it currently shows

Some track names and track numbers are changing to the names and numbers of other tracks but keep the same file

Sort by alphabetical order isn't fully working

It seems to skip a track in the playlist quite often

Also maybe when you scroll faster album art appears faster as it would probably look nicer. In my head it seems this will be extremely hard to implement so just a suggestion for if I am wrong and it is easier than it seems
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Album artwork will be bigger, when I reintroduce pinch to zoom.

When scrolling fast, making albums appear faster would be a waste of CPU, as displaying albums is a pretty heavy task, it migt be that the cover is prepared to be displayed, when its view is already scrolled out of screen! So in this special case I just can say: no :D
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Well FCs should be fixed in 0.160, and overall experience with browser should be much more fluid now. Note though, that albumart is cached using hashed artist/album title, so bad encoding (non UTF-8) may prevent it from working as I expect...
[Android Apps and Games] bababar:
noted :good:

suggestion : when downloading albumart via the music menu>change icon , there is the option to choose icons in various sizes,it maybe a good idea to limit the size of the albumart that can be used in the app to save processing power.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Well, you see - it's not really allowing to choose size it just shows the size of original image, so you can imagine what quality it is. XenoAmp stores all covers as 100x100 on low DPI devices and 300x300 for all others.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Tested this file a moment ago, the cover was taken directly from embedded tag and showed immediately, without trying the internet, look:

02-12 15:16:53.605: D/XenoAmp(22541): [OBTR] Found cover image in embedded tag:/storage/sdcard1/My Documents/testy/Thazhuvudu.mp3

So if you still believe something is wrong I will have to see your logcat!
[Android Apps and Games] KicknGuitar:
Bummer. I'll still be 'round but using Xeno without index scrolling makes 20,000 tracks too painful to use daily.

I love Xeno enough to open it up and just use the search function to find me the artists (or use local filter since that has only 100 or so tracks.)
[Android Apps and Games] AGiLiT:
Re: [APP][2.3+] XenoAmp 0.159 (09022013) - A Slightly Different Audio Player

I was having the same problem with several albums. I had to do a clean install of the market version and install .159 over that to get album art displaying what was in the tag.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
Don't worry, index is a must (not to mention - Google and Subsonic will have directory browsing). Since it's the last missing feature, I'll add it when I'm done with fixing latest... improvements... Some work was made already, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

Btw, can you estimate how many albums or artists are there in your list?
[Android Apps and Games] KicknGuitar:
agh, I think 800~ but for the life of me I cnnot recall how I concluded on that figure. :silly:

Edit: I can tell you the album count, 2,527.
[Android Apps and Games] mothy1025:
ssuukk I have attached a full log.I am not really into log and all.So to my knowledge i have found some lines regarding tagging,covers etc and marked all those lines in red.Kindly bare with me.Kindly extract the rar file and go through the log.
[Android Apps and Games] ssuukk:
The logcat contains absolutely no cover obtainer activity. Let's just wait for 0.160 and we'll see then, ok?