NP screen animations

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Issue description:

The NP screen animations do not run very smoothly. I never really look at that for long, which is why I did not really notice that before

The marquee stops for a split second when the time and progress bar are updated. The time updates do not really correspond to clock seconds - sometimes they go faster, sometimes the pause longer for a moment. This happens with or without marquee.

Is this a performance thing of my device (Galaxy A51)?

Screenshots:

I sent a screen video via email (subject: “NP screen animations”).

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This is with the last version?

The player can refresh at a lower rate than 1 per second so it’s normal that sometimes a value can jump, I don’t think that this is really important.

But the lag is not normal yes :frowning:

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Yes, that is with 0.9.15. The NP mini player shows the same behaviour, btw.

I also think that the “jumpy” seconds are not so much of an issue, and I probably would not have noticed if it was not in sync with the marquee lag.

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Does it lag when paused too ?

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Well, I wanted to say no, but I made a demo video I sent to you (“lag demo”), which shows there is a problem especially with long lists. I managed twice to crash the app by scrolling wildly through album lists. One crash is on the video. It seems there is quite a lag when loading the thumbnails.

Edit: in normal daily use, I do not really recognise that lag. But what caught my attention is that when the app is started, there is a little lag in setting up the home screen. You can see that on the video, too. I did not notice that in the beginning/alpha phase, but it is like that for some time now.

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The quality of the video makes it hard to really see what is going on :slight_smile: Specially without seeing the touches.

I was more asking about the now playing lag when the media is paused.

For the home content it’s quite normal to have a small delay, specially since you have filters, the app starts faster now so the content is visible before the queries and everything is up on your device.

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Yeah, the video was shrinked to fit into the email. But what you can see is how long list scrolling stutters at 0:30 and 1:30, and especially at 1:40 where the screen freezes for a couple of seconds.

But regarding your original question: when I pause playback, the marquee animation runs smoothly, so it seems to have something to do with the time / progress bar update.

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This seems fixed in 0.9.16.

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@Tolriq I already noticed yesterday that the issue with the laggy marquee animation is back, so it must have been reintroduced with 1.1.0 or earlier. It is still present in 1.2.0.