[Android Apps and Games] damdr:
Just began checking this app out (Galaxy S7, unlocked) and wanted to comment on the good aspects of the app, report problems (which I don't fully understand), ask a question or two, and make some suggestions (feature requests I guess).

First, this app has so much great potential, mostly because it ticks all the right boxes for what I want in an app. It looks nice, I like being able to browse by Album Artist, I like the potential of the Smartlists (I can't fully make work yet, see below) especially since you allow both AND and OR, and more. I currently use Gone Mad Music Player, which is quite similar, but I've not been happy with its Smart Playlists, completely. I hope you keep working on it and it progresses. I also like the Blacklist and Whitelist only because your app picks up a lot more media than I want.

So, up front, I'm having a few issues:

1. About 50-50, I start the app and if I switch to the Artists or Album tab, everything is blank. It's like I have no library, but I know that isn't exactly the case. The songs tab shows everything, but I'm not one to really use that tab in any app. If I force close the app and restart it, I can usually see everything in all the tabs.

2. Les frequently, the app just crashes and force-closes itself.

3. When browsing the Songs tab (I can't see in other places), it doesn't look like any of the song ratings are picked up (all the songs appear unrated). This is somewhat confirmed when I try to create a Smarlist that uses ratings. Since the app seems to think my songs are not rated, the lists that try to use ratings end up blank. I had actually tried to re-create a list exactly as I had in GMMP.

I suspect there is something funny with my library. I'm not sure if I should try to re-scan it. GMMP uses its own independent library, and I don't use any other music apps, so maybe there is something wrong with the way I'm trying to use the Mediastore since I don't use it typically. Maybe, I'll see if the default Samsung App works. I think this is the one aspect I would still like GMMP only because I can just specify the one folder I have for music.

Questions

In trying to figure the app out and Smarlists, can you explain how the rules are processed when using multiple rules and combinations of AND/OR? Is it just processing from top to bottom (Rule 1, Rule 2, Rule 3, etc) or does it try to follow all ANDs or ORs first, etc.?

For instance, if I wanted to make a list that was something like this (Artist 1 OR Artist 2) AND Rating > 4, how would I do that (or can I do that)? I haven't been able to try this because of the rating problem I previously mentioned.

Ideas

Finally, a couple of things that I would like to see:

1. Smartlists -- include genre as one of the tags to utilize. I like to make broad lists that include all the rock songs in my device or all the jazz songs in my device.

2. When browsing by Artists -- provide an option to just include an album cover as a thumbnail. I kind of hate that many of the artists thumbs are blank. OR, perhaps allow for those to be turned off completely.

3. When browsing with grids, it would be nice to have a couple of adjustments for grid size. I only see one size, and it seems a bit large on my screen. This isn't a huge issue, just a preference.

Anyway, I do like the app; I would pay for it once everything is worked out. I've not tested whether it works with Blue Tooth in my car. That will be one of the next things I do.

Thanks.