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Overview


Navigation Drawer

Clicking this button will slide out a navigation drawer from the left and let you navigate to the other top level views of GoneMAD Music Player.  Note: swiping from the left to bring out the menu is disabled in now playing in order to prevent conflicts with the gestures.

Search

The search button will open the search view to find music in the app.  [Insert link to search help page]

Toolbar Menu

Menu that lists actions not available through gestures or media buttons.  Also contains the customize menu to configure how now playing looks.  See the customization section later on in this page for more detail.

Displayed Metadata

Metadata about the currently playing song.  What is displayed can be changed to one from a large list of presets or a completely customize display can be made using json.  Forum post on custom metadata displays.  More info.

Primary Media Buttons

The primary row of media buttons.  This row will always be displayed, but every button besides play/pause can be changed, hidden, or removed entirely.  See customization section for more detail.

Secondary Media Buttons

The extra row of media buttons that is enabled by default on most devices, but is hidden on smaller devices.  This row can contain up to 6 buttons chosen from a list of 20+ different actions.

Customize Menu

Accessible from the toolbar, this menu lets you customize the look and actions of now playing.

Buttons

Displayed Metadata

Customize the displayed metadata for each list or grid item.  

Gestures

Enabled Menu Options

Lets you choose which actions are displayed in the top level toolbar menu.  Note: Any action that is represented by a media button on now playing is automatically hidden.  Example: if you remove the shuffle button it will show up in the menu, but if you put the shuffle button back it will not display in the menu regardless if it is checked off.

Layout

Change between the 2 now playing layouts.  Note: some of the customizations are only available for Layout 2

Background

  • Album Art - Use the album art as the background
  • Blurred Art - Blur the album art and use that as the background
  • Off - Use the theme colors as the background

Background Configure

Gives you a live preview of the slider effects
  • Brightness - How bright the background is
  • Blur Radius - How big of a blur effect to use.  The larger the value, the more surrounding pixels are used for the blur.
  • Blur Downsample - Will down sample the artwork before blurring.  Example: a 800x800 image can be downsampled to 200x200 before blurring.  This can help achieve a smoother transition between colors.

Album Art

  • Sharp - Album art will display with right angle edges (basically a square/rectange)
  • Rounded - Rounds off the corners
  • Circle - Displays the album art in a circle
  • Off - Does not display album art at all

Time Remaining

This setting will change the total time by the seek bar to show the time remaining in the current track

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