Few improvements on the UI: Favourites, playlists, folders

Feature description

Hey Tolriq! First of all, I think you’re doing a great job here! Your app is amazing and is what I was looking for.

As a Product Designer and user of your app I’ve noticed that sometimes is very techie-oriented and UI feels noisy, so some things could be improved. During this time I’ve been used it, I missed a lot of times the same things:

Problem solved

  1. I can’t differentiate between songs and folders: Specially when both have covers and have nested folders + songs on the same parent folder.
  2. Favourite songs is a pain: I need a lot of taps / clicks to add songs to favorites, but I can’t which of them are my favorites, which would help me a lot when I have a super long list…!
  3. Adding songs to playlist is hard: I also need a lot of taps / clicks to add a song to a playlist. I know there are a few ways to do it but they always fail to me (no errors or feedback received, just it doesn’t work). I only can do it by clicking on the 3 dots, then select the option to add to a playlist and then the . I was wondering if that could be a more prominent adn easy action to do.
  4. UI not focused on important info but technical one: Sometimes there is usless information (as a song listener) like the song size and modification timestamp while what I need when listening songs is other more important information like the artist name.

Brought benefits

  • Simpler UI
  • Interface focused on user actions needed instead of technical info
  • Shorten flows and interactions to main actions done
  • Important information on the specific moment it’s needed

Other application solutions

  • Spotify does something similar for songs (not folders are they only manage playlists)

Device type

Phone

Additional description and context

I have done some improved wireframes to illustrate it. Of course, you have the data and you will know better which actions are more used, etc. so you will improve it even better!

Happy to support on any follow-up questions. Keep the great job!

Screenshots / Mockup

I searched existing feature requests

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Do not use file mode. File mode is a raw file access meant to show raw data.

I’m using your app because it is the one that allows me to navigate thru both, my filesystem and playlists: I have some folders that to me are my playlists, so that’s why I need to reproduce an entire folder.

I am “migrating” thousands of songs from Spotify so I just need to spend tons of hours configuring playlists and favourites songs, which is simply exhausting and is easier to reproduce an entire folder.

Still, the issue with favourites is on every mode (songs, playlist, albums…). I simply can’t manage my favourites songs.

Use smart playlists ? That can actually build playlists from a path :wink:

You can configure everything, change the swipe gesture to toggle favorite, change the additional display information to favorite for example.

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