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[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION]

Thanks.

I understand this might be an unreasonable request, but can we get a smart playlist feature similar to sensme in the near future?

Also when it downloads album/artist art does it write directly to the tag or does it keep a separate database like playerpro et all? Pls respond
[Android Apps and Games] Trinomad:
Sorry, OK, perhaps also my English is a problem, next try:

Apollo uses the "Artist"- Tag oft the song to create the Artist-column oft the Front screen.

I suggest to use the "Album-Artist" Tag oft the song instead.

Reason: At least I search for an artist that I would Mike to hear- and after that I decide about the album.Having a lot of individual Songs without an Album makes the Artist column too crowded.

To give the user a choice would be the besteht solution.
[Android Apps and Games] braddavidson602:
Good App

it looks good app. I will give a try to it,
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
It's meant to be lightweight, not heavy big player that takes a lot of resources :P

There's no Album-Artist tag. Those are all the tags of a mp3 file:

Either way, you can select an artist and then choose between his albums and tracks by swiping from left to right.
[Android Apps and Games] scofield119:
Guys I'm on stock ics. Which version I have to download?

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[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
Don't get me wrong, but isn't there a tag called Album Artists? :eek: It's the 8th entry shown in your picture...
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
None as it won't work yet. Sorry man :(

For the future - just read the first post. There's a changelog with bolded version number of the latest version.

Actually it might work as it does work on SOME ICS devices. There's a problem with mediaserver on some other ICS roms.

You got me man xD I was pretty sure that such tag does not exist at all, yet it actually does. :D

Allright, so please try to explain to me why would you need sorting by this tag instead of going to artist list and choosing album from there?
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
Maybe to avoid something like this:
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
It would be nice to have all songs from a specific artist listed, independent of the fact that there is a "feat. XY" in the Artist tag. I do put those "feat. XY" into the Artist tag (and a lot of people do so, too, I guess), whereas the Album Artist is tagged without the "feat. XY". Therefore Apollo is listing each file with such a "feat. XY" as a separate Artist.
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION]

I see. I guess that would call for a stand alone app that could generate the playlist and then throw it back to Apollo for playing.

Some more questions:

1. Does Apollo keep its own database for album/artist images or does it write directly to the IDV2/3 tags of the files?

2. Is there a way to keep the Apollo notification high priority so it is always on top of other notifications (and thus maximized)?
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
1. Unfortunately it does use it's own database (the phone's database actually). I'll try to get it to write tags directly to the files.

2. Yeah, I can set whatever priority I desire, but that would cause other notifications to be under it like text messages and stuff - those are pretty important. It's currently set on the default priority. It's an ongoing notification thus only more important notifications than those get above it (text messages, gps navigation, this sort of stuff). I might be wrong though. Please show me what other notifications get above it and I might change the priority.

Currently: .setPriority(Notification.PRIORITY_DEFAULT)
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION]

I just encountered a problem where genres stay empty after I edited some tracks to change their genre values. Tried clearing data but they're still there. How do I fix?
[Android Apps and Games] Sigi_cz:
But make it option, don't write anything into my mp3 files without asking :)
[Android Apps and Games] Duhfeg:
I think what olokos means is to have a separate tab for Album Artist. Album Artist is a tag that's made for organization.

Example:

Song 1

Title: Keter

Artist: An

Album Artist: AcuticNotes

Song 2

Title: Yesod

Artist: An feat. RyunosukeKudo

Album Artist: AcuticNotes

Say you want to listen to both songs together. When you go to the Artist tab, Keter falls under An while Yesod falls under An feat. RyunosukeKudo.

To remedy that issue you could create a tab called Album Artist so that you can listen to both songs under AcuticNotes without having to create a separate playlist.

Google Play Music uses the tab Artist for Album Artist, but when you play a song it will show the Artists rather than the Album Artist
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Reboot/sd rescan that should already happen and I have no idea why they did not disappear by themselves.

Well, I'm not editing your tags for you, but you do it by yourself, so I expect YOU to know what you are doing :P
[Android Apps and Games] AssassinGEO:
Hey guys.

I'm on touchwiz 4.3 ROM now,and I want to install this as a system app,because if I install this player as 3rd party app,I can't access sound modes (ex.: cafe,rock,pop). Can I install it by naming it as a stock MusicPlayerWT.apk,pasting it to system/app,setting right permissions and then have an access to modes?
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
Make a system backup and try it yourself. But I'm not sure whether this will work, but likely this will not work.
[Android Apps and Games] AssassinGEO:
Didn't work. Is it really not possible to make stock equalizer work with 3rd party music players?
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
Hmm, in case your phone is rooted, you may use Titanium Backup Pro to modify your music player to become a system app.
[Android Apps and Games] AssassinGEO:
Well,I already made it as a system app and it shows as red one in titanium,but still nothing. Will titanium fix that?
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
I don't know, haven't tried it out for Apollo, but it works for other apps. Remember to backup the app first :)
[Android Apps and Games] AssassinGEO:
Didn't work =(

But as I understand,it's possible to have modes unlocked in 3rd party apps. Any good (smooth and fast) and with themes player you can recommend? :)
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
I even deleted Apollo's data to no avail. The genre remain empty.
[Android Apps and Games] Portgas D. Ace:
You may have a look at Pixel Player. Another smooth (but still Beta) music player for Android, which has its own equalizer.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2799141
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Let me know what's the name of the equalizer, both displayed and the .apk file name and I'll check that.

Well, what I meant is rescanning your mediaserver. Download THIS and run it once, then wait a while and you'll be good. :)
[Android Apps and Games] AssassinGEO:
Guess it's that. =) Samsung stock equalizer.
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION]

Thank you, but the empty genres persist. New tracks appear as they should, but the empty genres do not go away.

I'm running the latest unoffical SlimKat on a Z1 Compact if that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I'd apprecieate if you could send me some screenshots about

Please do wipe /cache and /dalvik-cache in the recovery. This won't be nessesary later, I just want to know where the problem is.
[Android Apps and Games] AssassinGEO:
Here.
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
I did the following:

>clear Apollo's Data

>uninstall

>rebooted to recovery

>wiped cache and dalvik

>rebooted

>let stand for three minutes for Android to scan SD

>ran RescanSD

>installed Apollo

>empty genres still there

Is it possible for a conflict to arise because of a previous, uninstalled music player? I installed Apollo before uninstalling PlayerPro and in fact the PlayerPro folder is still present currently.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Well, that might be possible. Please try deleting it and report back. Thank you for all your hassle in improving this player. :)
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
No problem. So I did all the same steps with the addition of the removal of the PlayerPro and Mediago folders before doing the other steps. Problem still present.

Alright I found the solution in the form of a three year old app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sais.mediacleaner&hl=en

Now I can finally use Apollo as my daily driver.
[Android Apps and Games] fishstik:
Awesome job with this! Hope to see further development. Couple of bugs to report:

- In a playlist, dragging a song to re-order upwards so that the list scrolls results in a crash. No crash for downwards dragging.

- Also, Next/Prev while paused auto-plays the track (should be kept paused)

- Some issues with the widget on lockscreen (4.2+). The widget kind of disappears after doing an action.

Keep up the good work! :good:
[Android Apps and Games] ctap001:
Bugs:

1. Track title does not correspond to artwork when switching through multiple tracks in the lockscreen (album art switches though)

2. Album art download is not consistent in downloading

Feature request: disable album artwork display on lockscreen.
[Android Apps and Games] dantemudjin55:
Folder support in the next future?

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[Android Apps and Games] Toruk.Makto:
+ Just place the songs in your folders

+ name the folders which you want

+ use below app :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.djsoftware.playlistmanager

Boom. You'll see the magic in your playlist.

Hit THANKS, if it was helpful. :)
[Android Apps and Games] dantemudjin55:
Thank man...awesome trick

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I'll check this Playlist issue.

It should play if you press next/previous as you most propably want to listen to the music if you skip tracks.

Which widget you have this problem with?

1&2 please show me so examples. Visual examples preferably.

I'll think about this last thing.
[Android Apps and Games] fishstik:
Across all music players I've used, whether on a phone, desktop, old-school hi-fi stereo or otherwise, the play/pause state of the song is always preserved across track changes. It's just how it always has been.

All the Apollo widgets have the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
What do you mean that it kind of disappears then?
[Android Apps and Games] fishstik:
Try these steps to recreate:

Be on 4.3 AOSP-based ROM

Add any Apollo widget to the lockscreen widgets not as the default (right-most) widget

Play a song

Press the Pause/Prev/Next button on the lockscreen widget

The widget then disappears and the lockscreen appears blank until you touch something, then it displays the default widget.
[Android Apps and Games] niecraz:
Need help. I already used apollo about 3 months. Now i got problem with this app. Everytime i try to open apollo always force close.

I tried to reinstall then wipe apollo data and cache. Last i wiped data and cache on recovery mode but still force close.

I don't know how to fix it. Anybody can help..

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
You're probably on android 4.0.4. There's some problem with Apollo and android 4.0.4 on some devices and I can't figure it out. :(
[Android Apps and Games] xorgx3:
Hi,

At first thank you for your work. This is probably the best free android music app.

I have a several ideas of features:

1.Swipe to change song(exsist in your todo now)

2.Now if we disconnect headphones music stops playing, but apps not close. It will be great if I can choose behaviour after disconnect headphones cable.

3.Apollo own lockscreen(something like for example poweramp).

4.Playing music from catalog, not by "artitst", "genre", "album", but from specific directory.

What do you think about that?
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
1. It already is in to do, that means that I'll do this when I'll be able to do that.

2. What's the point of this? Android also handles ram differently so if it stays in ram, then it's good as it's not chewing up any resources if nothing is playing.

3. Will need a lot of coding which would make the app heavier and on android 4.3+ you have lockscreen widgets so I don't really see the point, but it is indeed a good suggestion. :)

4. It has been mentioned lots of times and now I actually came up with an idea how to handle this (I'm not saying that I'll do it right now, but I do have the design idea for it).

BTW. New release coming somewhere at the end of the month with more improvements. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
Just to let you know, the only thing i miss is lyrics. And well, folder list is nice suggestion.

Otherwise your app is very good :)

Just to know, i guess that if google play music make lyrics, it would be easier to you, put the features in apollo?

As google app are open source, so you can get the code..?

If so.... Do as i did (put 1star >=) in comment for play music, asking for lyrics in player ) would raise chance to have the features? xD

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Do you mean the lyrics? I'm actually keen on doing this, but it'd be a big thing to do and I'm not that experienced yet. I'm also on holidays until the end of this month with no access to any PC.
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
Yes, lyrics :p

And i would know, if google play music make it, will be easier to you, right?

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[Android Apps and Games] Sandivisi:
Naah, will wait!
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Well, not really as Google play music is a closed source app.
[Android Apps and Games] SpyrusTheGreat:
On Cyanogenmod 10 nightly build (smultron - xperia mini) i had constant crash when browsing on artists with mobile data uploading.

To me seems a memory leak with two many artists to update.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Please try to give me some more information on this.
[Android Apps and Games] SebaKL:
Quick question regarding "Folder View". Just out of curiosity, if any of you would be kind to enlighten me.

Why is the "Folder View" such a rare feature among Android players ? Having a folder with over 200 mp3s

of varies artists (best of Indie Rock 2013), creates almost as many "Albums" and "Artists" in the list. Having

few of such folders, make the list endless and sorting the music is so much hassle.

It is probably my favorite feature of my previous Samsung devices, which I dearly miss, now that I moved to Cyanogen

powered OnePlus One. I did find some players in the Google Play, but their interface is not really appealing.

Anyway, it's not a matter of life or death. I'm just curious.

Have a nice day ./ evening ahead

With best regards

Seba
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I think that's because it's not that easy to do this. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Toruk.Makto:
For the time being Read post #282. Hope it helps. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] mayankneil:
What about material design..?? Waiting for it so much,...
[Android Apps and Games] SebaKL:
Thank you very much for taking the time to entertain my post. This tool was indeed utmost helpful and organized all my folders into playlists pretty much automatically. It will definitely do for now :)

Once again, thank you and have a great weekend ahead. Whatever left of it, that is :D

cheers

seba
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I'd have to make a separate apk just for Android L which seems pointless as it's only available for nexus L at this point and it wouldn't work for anything else than android L. After it's released, sure, I'd love to make it happen. Actually I already have tried it out and there's no issue at all with it. Go a few pages back and you'll see a screenshot of this player with some bits of material design. I belive it'd still be in the most thanked posts in this thread.
[Android Apps and Games] BFMSAND:
A better Idea would be to make an apollo android l / material design as there are some playstore designs to download and especially the holo ones or ubuntu or ios7 one look good.

Android L design would be so cool
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
If I were to make this Apollo with material design then you would only be able to use it on android L. No other android version. It won't be done until android L is released. End of story.
[Android Apps and Games] BFMSAND:
I think you missunderstood me.

I mean when you look in the apollo settings you see the design point there, when you tap it you come up with the normal apollo theme but you can download themes ( like for cm11 themes) in the store just for use with apollo.

These themes dont depend on what android you have, its just a theme/design, Thats what i meant with that somebody (or you) should just make such apollo theme in material/android l design.
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
And i think u no undestod him xD

theme just copy some aspects of android L; but never can lock as it, becouse new android L use different api for a new way to create design in more level, for particular kind of effect and animation, and interactive design.

A theme would be a waste of time.

Wait for him, to do a android L version will be very better :)

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Exactly. Even if I were to do what he was talking about then it would still work only for Android L.
[Android Apps and Games] TulsaDavid:
Hola olokos, this is your semi-annual re-re-request for (1) a playlist export/import, (2) feature to carry my barbells up to and down from my attic, and (3) *new* automatic toilet paper dispenser. All the others can wait.
[Android Apps and Games] BFMSAND:
I understood you well enough but let me explain again.

I know to make it for android l would be a waste at moment because it hasnt released official.

But for guys like me (and i think many others), it would be cool to even just have a apollo theme that makes apollo look like material/android l without the need of the api.

For example:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnexushd.apollo.holoCM&hl=de

This is such theme i'm talking about, there are many thinks possible just like with the cm themes.

I hope you understand me now.
[Android Apps and Games] dipaolnv:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION] thank you for putting this app out there! I've been looking for a great music player for CM11S and this certainly fits the bill!

One feature request I'd like to see is a multi-select option for the songs view, and a menu option to "Add all to playlist".
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I'm testing a new version. It might be buggy and there are some errors to fix before the full release yet. I'd also would like to try the "beta distribution" feature out from the crashlytics. If you want a beta release of the upcoming Apollo release then PM me your e-mail (PM instead of posting e-mail here to avoid spam and to keep it safe from some people)
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
Can i know, what is new on it?

And istall beta would "upgrade" my actual normal version?

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Pretty much all that was in 1.3.1 + tag editor + fixes + improved cache + improved images
[Android Apps and Games] hcasquet:
[MENTION=4300205]olokos[/MENTION] Man, I've been using your revised Apollo for some time, as system app, and it's working great.

The only thing that i would say that it's a problem, at least for me, it's that the seek bar is so thin, i have problems with my big fingers :laugh:

I have a Galaxy S3 Mini, which is 480x800 display, so, it's a little problematic. Will it be possible to make it at least a couple px bigger? on its width of course xD

Thanks for your work.

PD: PM Sent, i will gladly try your new version.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I'll think about it. On a side note, why have you bought a "mini" device if you have a big fingers? :P
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
Mmh, i have problem with it.

I use a cm11 modified and more light, with apollo yet istalled.

I cant istall your beta... But also found out, that i cant istall your last version.

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Obviously, apk signature is different. You have to uninstall the previous Apollo.
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
Already tryed... But still give problem.

Also found out all relative file and deleted them.

I dunno why, maybe becouse its a system app.. :?

But i no think so

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Just use root explorer and delete /system/app/Apollo.apk

reboot

install mine, doesn't matter if it's on /system or in /data ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Frecciablu(2):
Ok, now all work.

New function are all ok.

This time made wipe cache and dalvik after delete and rebooted

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[Android Apps and Games] niecraz:
no Sir.. i used Ressurection Remix Kitkat 4.4.2.. i had problem with media storage app. so i used wipe data/chace..

now back to normal.

thank you sir..
[Android Apps and Games] michael-oc:
Till now all is working as expected . Need folder support though :d
[Android Apps and Games] LeroViten:
+1 to this. ☝?

It'd be the greatest improvement! ✌?
[Android Apps and Games] hcasquet:
Hey, your new version is coming along nicely, i've tried the tag editor, and it's been working great.

BTW, the S3 Mini was given to me for work use, so i have to keep it around at all hours, so my music is on it.

I have another one, an ancient Galaxy Nexus (revitalized with CM11) that i keep and use for Facebook, Twitter, occasional browsing or playing, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] Sami Kabir:
I'm using Apollo v1.3 for quite some time.. and so far, everything is working as it should. But my only compliant is that I use Shuffle and Repeat all the time but every time I close the app, both these options get turned off.. and I have to turn them back on.. It gets a little annoying because I listen a lot of music when I'm outside.

I hope that I'm not the only one who's facing this problem and I also hope that you can do something about this.
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Thanks, I'm sure it will also work perfectly on your Galaxy nexus with CM11 ;)

Please give me some steps to reproduce that or more preferably try to catch a logcat with that happening :)

I'm very happy to say that the beta version gave me no crashes at all so far out of 11 beta testers :D
[Android Apps and Games] Sami Kabir:
Haha, now even I can't reproduce this problem. Anyways, I found another way..

1. Play a song

2. Make sure shuffling is turned on

3. Go back (while the song is playing in background) and tap on another song

Now, when that song is playing, shuffling will get turned off. I hope that I succeeded in explaining this..

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
I actually consider this a desired behaviour because if you switch the shuffling on then you actually just want to play random songs, tapping on a particular song lets the player know that you don't want random songs anymore :P
[Android Apps and Games] Sami Kabir:
Oh.. So it's a matter of personal preference then.. :p

I noticed that in some music players, tapping on a different song (while shuffling is on) plays that song and then it either retains the "shuffled playlist" and continues playing from there OR generates a new random playlist.. Will that be possible for you to add it? (No pressure, just a small request)

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[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Please explain it more precisely :P
[Android Apps and Games] olokos:
Just released a new version with all the latest fixes and changes under the hood, the feel of one track ending and another starting is just amazing! Beta testers, get it! :)