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GoneMAD Music Player 3.0 Alpha 19

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Alpha 19 marks the end of the alpha barring any major bugs.  All future updates will be via the google play store.  I will post when the beta has started with instructions on how to sign up.  I am planning for the beta to start right around the start of the new year.  I want to give this alpha some time to get tested since I will have to remove the main bug reporting tool before posting on google play due to the GDPR.  Google play does have its own bug reporting but its not as good as fabric.

Art Updates

I made some improvements to the art searches and also updated the scanner to run an auto search if no artwork is detected on the device.  To prevent hammering the search providers, I limited the queries to 1 artist/album a second, so large collections will take a long time to fully populate the art.

App Shortcuts

Android 7.1 (i think) added the ability to add app shortcuts to the icon on the homescreen.  GMMP now has 3.  Play, Shuffle All, and Search.  Play and Shuffle all allow control of gmmp without opening the UI, and search will launch gmmp right at the search screen.


Album Shuffle

I also added a new playback mode called Album Shuffle.  Instead of filling up the queue with every single album shuffled up, Album Shuffle works a bit like Auto-DJ.  It will populate the queue with 5 albums and will continue to add albums as albums are finished.  Album Shuffle also overrides Play Next/Prev album (and next/prev album by artist).  If you use those gestures, album shuffle will skip to the next/prev album already in the queue.  Album Shuffle is available only in the library menu and will overwrite whatever is in your queue.  Toggling shuffle when in album shuffle will revert playback to normal mode (where it will cycle between normal/shuffle/auto dj)


Album Shuffle Indicator

Queue now has 5 albums in it after selecting album shuffle



3.0 Alpha 19 (2019-12-17):

New:
-Added folder search for artist art (folder must contain artist name to be searched)
-Album art will now be used if no artist art is found
-Added options in the settings to download missing art (album and artist)
-Added 3 app shortcuts: Play, Shuffle All, and Search
-Added album shuffle (available in library menu)
-Added play next/prev album in queue when in album shuffle mode
-Scanner will now auto search for artwork for newly scanned artist and albums

Improvements:
-Added additional logging for file read/write errors
-Art selector "none" option now shows the letter placeholder
-Improved how multi selected items are highlighted
-Art selector UI will now incrementally load search results instead of waiting for all results to return
-Improved rxjava related error handling / reporting
-Letter placeholder background color is now a random interpolation between the primaryColor and primaryDark
-Updated libraries
-Art searches now filter out "feat whatever" from the artist name

Fixes:
-Fixed crash when trying to remove context menu on folder view
-Fixed other various crashes
-Fixed case insensitive sorting issue that some users experienced
-Removed gifs from image search results
-Removed now playing from side navigation menu in split view
-Fixed letter drawable not resizing correctly when grid size is changed
-Toolbar back arrow should no longer revert to the drawer menu icon when resuming the app
-Other various fixes

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