Artwork Priorities

GMMP will look for artwork in various different locations. This page shows the order searched.

Album Art

Folder the music files are located in. Filenames with an image extension are looked for in the folder in this order: front, cover, folder, any other image. (IE: folder.png)
Embedded artwork. Each file in an album is searched for embedded art and the first one is used
GMMP's image cache. Typically /storage/gmmp/albumart is searched. This only contains previously do downloaded art
Online. Various online album art apis are used to find album art

Note: Embedded art can be given the highest priority by enabling it in the settings. Advanced artwork settings -> Prefer embedded art

Artist Art

The parent folder of the music files location will be searched if it contains the artist's name in the foldername. Image files are searched for in this order actual_artistname, artist, folder, any other image. IE: (/Music/311/311.png and music file is located in /Music/311/Grassroots/song.mp3)
The older of the music files location will be searched if it contains the artist's name in the foldername. Image files are searched for in this order actual_artistname, artist, folder, any other image. IE: (/Music/311/311.png and music file is located in /Music/311/song.mp3)
GMMP's image cache. Typically /storage/gmmp/artistart is searched. This only contains previously do downloaded art
Online. Various online album art apis are used to find artist art
[Manual scan only.. will be fixed in the future] Album art associated with the artist is chosen

3.4.5 Release / Preview of 3.5

3.4.5 was just uploaded to google play and should be rolling out over the next few days. Changelog: 3.4.5 (2023-08-29): Added Dutch translation Fixed crash editing rules in rule groups Disable IAP donation options if Full Version Unlock has not been purchased to prevent confusion Other changes since 3.4.0: Added Finnish translation and updated other translations Added donation options to the purchase settings area Fixed crash when trying to bookmark / unbookmark currently playing song Fixed Finnish not showing up in the language select Fixed other various crashes Fixed issue where rating or editing tags could potentially split the album Fixed some of the lists/grids not refreshing after changes 3.5 Preview I've been working on some new UI options planned for 3.5. So far I've finished a new gradient background option for now playing. There are 2 different styles (linear / radial) with 2 different color sources for each. One source will take from the theme colors, the other st

3.4.9

More fixes. Check out discord for info on the 3.5 alpha. 3.4.9 (2024-02-14): Fixed tab navigation returning to the wrong view on screen orientation change Fixed queue not being focused on the playing track sometimes while using tab navigation 3.4.8 (2023-12-21): Fixed backup/restore intent receiver not working with IAP unlock Fixed crash sorting playlist contents

3.4.0

Plans for 3.4 changed a bit when google announced they will be hiding apps on newer versions of android if they dont target the newer sdks. GMMP always tries to target one of the more recent versions of android, but the unlocker has no need for that since its essentially just a license key. As of May 1st the unlocker will be hidden on newer versions of android to those who have not already purchased. Because of this, the focus of 3.4 was to get in app purchases working to allow users to buy the full version after May 1st. There is a new 'Purchase' section in the settings where the unlocker can now be purchased. One other change in 3.4 is the support for the Android 13+ media controls. They changed around how to customize them, so that is reflected in a new 'Media Controls' section of the settings. The language can also be changed for just GMMP via the system settings The changelog itself is fairly small but I did a large update of all the libraries / dependencies t

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