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New feature banner

Along with the icon update, I figured the feature banner on google play needed to be updated.  So here is a preview of that.

1.4 Release Candidate

GMMP is now going into a heavy testing phase that will last a week or 2, so get the translations updated sometime during that period.  If you would like to see the updated translations in the app before the final release send me an email and i'll do a custom build for you. Release Candidate: Download RC1 Skins: Classic Red Classic Dark Blue Holo Black and White Holo Green Holo Dark Blue Holo Red Holo Orange Holo Yellow Holo Purple The images below show the customization now possible for now playing 1.4 RC1: -Fixed crash in 4.2 when trying to play back certain mp3 files -Selecting a smart playlist will now follow the "Playlist - Play on Select" preference -Updated Spanish and Italian translations -Fixed some instances where the seekbar would return to its original position for a split second right after seeking -Fixed jump to playing folder when "Start In Playing Folder" is disabled -Fixed some issues when trying to save tags to a

200,000 total downloads! + A look at advanced metadata customization

Today GMMP reached the 200k download mark on google play.  Quite an awesome feat for around 16 months of being on the market. I like to include screen shots in my posts so here are some screens of the advanced customization options for now playing that I am working on.  When choosing the displayed tags, you will now be presented with custom options along with all the presets.  Each custom line will let you choose an icon and custom text to display.   So if you wanted to have one line show Track Number. Artist (Rating), you would enter in: %tn%. %ar% (%ra%) It looks a bit complicated but I imagine the type of user who wants this level of customization will have no issue with it.

1.4 Beta 4 - Ratings + Smart Playlists

Smart playlists are finally here.  There will be one more update before it will be released on the play store and amazon. The last update will contain: -Some default smart playlists like last played and recently added -A way to persist ratings / playcounts when doing a reinstall or clear the database -Advanced customization to the metadata in now playing.  Example: %trackno%) %artist% - %trackname%  would display 1) Artist - Trackname on a single line -Improved resampling and support for sample rates higher than 48khz -Updated skins Smart playlists are saved to a file located in /sdcard/gmmp/smart, so they only need to be created once and can be copied to another device Download 1.4 Beta 5 Forum Thread Changelog 1.4 Beta 4: -Added smart playlists -Search will now AND each word instead of searching for the whole string ("all that" = "all" AND "that") -Shuffle cancellation enabled by default for play next and enqueue -Added so

1.3.22

It might be another few weeks before 1.4 hits the play store so here is a minor update fixing some minor issues.  The x86 version is also now updated (was still on 1.3.20 before) 1.3.22 (12/15/2012): -Fixed bug where the playlist view wouldnt update after removing a song -Fixed some crashes caused by bad audio files -Fixed context menu for filename search results -Fixed image selector crash when selecting gallery on a device without an image viewer

A look at smart playlists

I've just about finished up the smart playlist editor.  It is fairly straight forward and should be really easy to create complex playlists. As of right now there are 15 different categories you will be able to use to create the playlists. Example:

1.3.21

There hopefully will be no more issues with mp3s playing back in slow motion.  I stared at the mpeg header spec for about 4 hours last night and I believe the code should now skip over invalid headers when trying to find the properties (sample rate / channel count) of an mp3 file. 1.3.21 (12/1/2012): -Fixed issue where mp3 header information was not properly being read causing slow/fast playback -If a file does not have an artist tag but does have an albumartist tag, the scanner will use the albumartist tag for both -Fixed potential crash when updating notification with low memory -Updated czech translation