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3.0 WIP 18: Add To Playlist, Sleep Timer, Improved Drag and drop and more

For a large portion of the time since the last post, I worked on redesigning the data access portion of GMMP which doesnt really have much to show off visually but I will briefly talk about it.  In the first WIP post I talked about the complex metadata view customization 3.0 will provide.  Now playing and all the metadata lists let you customize how they will look and what metadata they will display.  This was working pretty well for the layouts i had set up for demo purposes, but there was a problem of being able to get all the necessary data in order to populate the metadata views.  I had a bunch of hard coded database queries that were good enough to get some screenshots, but would not completely if i would add a lot of other fields to show.  An example would be in the track list I believe it previously only showed the trackname and time.  What if i wanted to also show the artist?  Well previously i would have had to either make the track query more complex by joining with the art

3.0 WIP 17: Landscape Support + Jump To Time/Playing + More

There is a lot to show off this update so I will get right to it.  WIP 17 brings landscape support plus a few other things.  The majority of the views are the same as the portrait version except for now playing and the album details view.  That is not to say more landscape specific views will not be coming in the future.  Lansdcape Now Playing: The now playing view is one of the most important views in a music player and I felt GMMP 2.x did not full take advantage of the space as well as it could have.  In 3.0 there are a bunch of changes.  I do plan on having additional Now Playing layouts (like one that users the blurred album art as a background and one that doesnt bleed through the toolbar/status bar) but they will come at a later point. In landscape there will be 2 extra button slots that you can use.  In the image above I included a fullscreen / immersive mode toggle, and a direct button for the queue (instead of having a FAB).  As mentioned before, these buttons will