Hi,
Thanks for the quick message back. I’ll refrain from being sarcastic. There truly are too many options (in a positive way) in the app and the feature/bug listing here is also exhausting :). So I’ll just quote below and add some screenshots / mock-ups to keep things productive.
Therefore please add an gesture swipe up/swipe down to quickly open/close the active queue. Pressing the tiny queue button at the top of now playing is hard when driving.
I found the swipe up gesture setting (it’s not next to the double tap / long press - maybe group them together). And it does open the queue, but unfortunately sometimes it also registers the other gestures such as next track (horizontal swipe) or just tap/pause when doing so. So because of this when I swipe up I also sometimes either pause playback or jump to the next song. Maybe you can look into the sensitivity of the swipe up gesture or priority vs. the swipe left/right and tap. I added a button to open the queue ad-interim.
Also the queue management itself is overcluttered with many graphical elements. Make the queue editable only when user wants to do so via a toggle. Otherwise queue is great at quickly finding a new random song in the current list without searching for one specifically.
Sidenote: I also noticed a glitch, when disabling the additional track information for lists (default is indeed duration), duration still appears in the queue list, but next to the artist name now.
I also made you a simple mockup (last screen on the right) with a cleaner GUI for the queue. You can add the white equals(move item symbol) when user long presses an item. You can also remove the three dots as they are not necessary (long press does the same thing). The equals should disappear again after double back (1 back to close the mini menu from long press, 2nd back to make the move equals disappear). Maybe also move the clear queue floating button next to the smart radio one. + there is a small white dot at the end of the mini-track progress bar.. for some reason). You can also play with the borders since the extra elements are gone now.
Please add search as an option for double tap/long hold on album art.
Here I tried to add it from double tap or via a button, but there is no search media library option.
AlbumArt does not register well if I have multiple files with the same Album Name but from different artists. Each file has a image embedded, but if this happens then all files with the same album title get the first file’s album art. There should be an option to force albumart retrieval from each file.
This one you were also right, there is an option to prefer embedded art if I select the media library and (big AND) resync. Oddly a sync was queued, but it was not triggering. I force closed the app process and ran it again and it synced automatically this time. Before setting the “Prefer track thumbnail” it randomly picked a file (probably the first it found with that album name) and used that AlbumArt for all other files that had the same album name.
Thanks. App looks cool. I can make it super minimalistic. I like that aspect.
