GoneMAD Music Player

I am in the process of writing an audio engine that will let me do a lot more things compared to the build in MediaPlayer class.  I'll be able to support more audio file types, and a bunch of essential features like  gapless playback, an equalizer, and crossfading once it is complete.  It is a fairly large task so that is why this release is mostly bug fixes. Download here Changelog: 0.18: (05/29/11) -Added .m4a to the list of supported filetypes -Added .jpeg to the list of supported image filetypes -Added new permission "android.permission.BROADCAST_STICKY" -Improved headset auto play/pause -Added "Loop Playlist" as a selection for (Playlist->On Playlist Completion) preference -New Preference (General->Headset Preferences->Prevent Sleep): Lets you set how long     the device should stay active to wait for a headset to be plugged back in -New Preference (Library->Song Actions->Queue Album On Song Play Action): When playing ...

I never really explained how the album art works, so I will do that now.  First off lets look at the preferences: Preferences -> General -> Album Art Preferences (near the bottom) -Auto Download Album Art: Check this if you want gmmp to automatically query google images and try to find the art for the album (Internet connection is needed for this to work) -Save in Lossless Format: Choose whether to save downloaded images as PNG or JPEG.  Lossless = PNG -Album Art Download Location: You shouldn't have to touch this unless you want to change where the art downloads to.  By default art will download to [external storage]/gmmp/albumart. If you want to, you can specify the path and override the default Preferences -> Now Playing -Show Album Art: Check this to enable the now playing view to show the art in the background Automatic Album Art Recognition: Here is the flow that the now playing screen uses when trying to find the art: 1) The database is scanne...

I discovered a pretty nasty bug that required me to change how the database gets accessed.  The performance should be the same but doing things while scanning should be a bit more stable now.  I also made some minor changes to the album art stuff to make it more efficient Changelog: 0.17: (05/22/11) -Improved file scan speed -Scan notification updates to show # of tracks found while scanning -Album art autodownloader will try another image if the first attempt fails -If album art download cannot find anything or is turned off, the track's folder     is scanned for images to use for album art -The local cache is checked for album art before attempting to auto download fixes: -Fixed issues with the database being locked causing a crash while scanning -Fixed issue where an album download timeout/error causes the now playing ui     to stop updating for awhile Download 0.17 alpha here

I just finished up the next version of gmmp and I am very pleased with the results.  The player is looking much more professional now that album art was added.  I sum up the new features in the change log, but the basic premise around this release was strictly album art. Changelog: 0.16: (05/20/11) -Updated Now Playing view to show album art and changed the metadata display -Added option to automatically download album art -Added manual album art selection that will look for album art using the following:     - Local Folder     - Bing Image Search     - Google Image Search -Added option to save images as PNG or JPG Download 0.16 Alpha here I downloaded a screenshot app for my thunderbolt so I took some screens on that instead of the emulator Screenshots:   All of the screens can be viewed here: http://gonemadmusicplayer.blogspot.com/p/screenshots.html

I'm finishing up the final touches of the next version which will include album art.  One of the features I included was a built in google image search to look for album art.  It was extremely simple to set up so I'd like to share some of the code.  I decided to use JSON as a return type for my queries and there are some simple free classes out there to parse the results here http://json.org/java/ The google image api documentation shows us how to do a simple query, so lets construct one. String search_string = "nachos"; String query = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/earch/images?v=1.0&q=" + search_string; Now do a http GET HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();   try {       HttpGet request = new HttpGet(query);               HttpResponse http_response = client.execute(request);    HttpEntity entity = http_response.getEntity();  ...

I posted earlier today with a screen shot of the view changes. Changelog: 0.15: (05/14/11) -Added album count and track count to artist view -Added year, track count, and album duration to album view -Added track number, track duration, album, and year to song view -Added preferences to hide/show extra stats mentioned above -Moved most of data querying to a background thread to not lag the UI fixes: -Fixed MusicService crash on null intent -Fixed crash on track change when the playlist view appears empty -Fixed issue where album year was not being scanned in -Catches sql exception caused by a locked database to prevent force close Download 0.15 alpha here

I'm finishing up improvements to the library views so they show much more information about the artist/album/song.  Here is what it looks like: If you select an album to view its songs, they will be ordered by track number.  If you are viewing all the songs, the track number is not displayed and the songs are sorted alphabetically. There will preferences to choose whether you want to see these extra stats or not.

Today I discovered this really neat library called acra which allows you to automatically submit error reports to me if GMMP happens to crash.  I added a preference to enable/disable the crash reports but please keep it enabled if you can.  If the program experiences a force close, a notification will pop up that will let you add any comments about what you were doing during the crash.  Once you hit the okay button an entry gets added to my crash report spreadsheet hosted on google docs (assuming you have an internet connection established).  This should really help me create a stable app. I fixed up most of the bugs I had discovered in 0.13.  Scanning should work now.  Here is the download link and full change log Download 0.14 : -Added crash reporting (acra 3.1.2) -Changed music service to switch to a background service if paused when closing -Auto Resume When Plugged preference added -Added button to show folder list of external storage to make...

In 0.13 I added two new features: Headset Plug Monitoring and Button Overrides. Headset Plug Monitoring With this option enabled, gmmp will automatically pause playback if you unplug your headset.  Doing this will trigger gmmp to listen for you to plug the headset back in and automatically start playback again.  This is the only case when the playback is automatically controlled.  If playback was already stopped/paused when you unplug, nothing will happen.  I coded it this way because I always hated when other apps would auto launch when I plugged my headset in, even tho I haven't used them in a day or two. Button Overrides This second option lets you use the volume buttons to advance the current track playing or go back to a previous track.  The overrides only take effect if you have music playing, otherwise they will change the volume.  Also due to the way the android OS is set up, the buttons cannot be overridden with the screen off, nor can it cap...

So here is the change log for 0.13 -MusicService changed to a Foreground Service -MusicService now uses PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK at minimum during playback -FileScanner uses PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK during scans -Added preference to set WakeLock mode during playback -Scanner sends notifications for start and completion -Refresh options menu option added for artist/album/genre/song that will requery the library -Added preference use the volume buttons to go to next/prev track (Only works when screen is on) -Added preference to use the power button to pause/play (Only works when screen is on && not on all devices) -All views (besides now playing) will return to now playing view when the back button is pressed -Preference for automatic pause/play on headset plug/unplug fixes: -Menu shows up in the artist/album/genre/song views -Fixed issue where you couldnt delete the database without a scanpath added -Scanner was ignoring files who's extension was not all lowercase The imp...

I mentioned in my earlier post that I had implemented support for Simple LastFM scrobbler and Scrobble Droid.  I also spent the last few hours adding persistence while navigating throughout GMMP.  For example if you are browsing the artist library and scroll halfway down to artists that begin with the letter M, then select an artist to view their albums.  Before when the back button was pressed, the artist list would start from the beginning.  Now the artist list will be in the exact same spot you left it (in this case over the artists beginning with the letter M).  The artist library view, album library view, genre library view, and browser view will now behave this way.  GMMP should also start back up in the last view you were looking at. Download 0.12 alpha here :

A month ago is when I started my experiment on creating a music player in a weekend.  It is crazy when I look back at some of those screen shots and compare it to the current version.  I have learned a tremendous amount about the android sdk and have really enjoyed working with it so far.  Besides getting native code to build, everything was very simple. At this point I consider the "core" of gmmp to be fully functional and stable, so I can now concentrate on adding some of the easier to implement features.  I was able to integrate in scrobbler support today in only a few hours.  Scrobble Droid and Simple Last.FM Scrobbler are supported and will be able to be enabled in the general preferences area.  There are a few minor unrelated things I would like to address and then I will package up a new build and put up a link.