Hi we talked on Reddit and you asked me to come here with some sample files.
It’s been a long time since I tried out many Android local music players on settled on GoneMad. If I remember right, the only ones that really nail gapless MP3 have their own music player engines. I know that might be a bridge too far for what you’re doing. But thanks for your interest.
Anyhow, not only is your new app the smoothest I’ve seen for browsing music from Jellyfin, it’s the only one I see with a working function to download files to someplace outside of app storage. So I’m actually able to take files from my server and play them with GoneMad, if I like. It would be handy to make this location customizable to something other than the internal storage Downloads folder if possible.
Thanks for the files will test and report what I find.
For the downloads there’s no plans to change location thanks to Google f…g SAF on Android 11+ But next version will properly use folders like artist\album\song to organize the downloaded files.
And in the end if I can fix the gapless issue (Symfonik have a custom ffmpeg decoder embeded maybe it’s just forcing the engine to use it for mp3 too) then there’s no need to download to Downloads and you can just use offline caching.
ah yes i’m vaguely aware they recently made it harder for third party apps to access the SD card. Good job even having the option for your app’s cache.
Thanks again. I imagine your app already handles stuff like FLAC perfectly gapless. MP3s are a bit weird this way, I’ve read. And I got rid of any FLACs I had cuz I did some testing with good gear and my ears truly can’t tell a difference.
Thanks for your attention. How long is the trial good for btw?
Is “file on local storage” any different from downloading to local cache from Jellyfin, then hitting play? I did that (a couple days ago) and still had the hiccup.
Am on a Samsung A71 with Android 11 for what it’s worth.
No it’s the same, so the issue is about your device media codec and this can be solved by having ffmpeg handle it.
I just need to find a way to have the mp3 part handling optional as it will consume a little more battery.
Has all of this functionality been added? No matter if using the internal or external decoder one can still hear a small stutter between gapless mp3 files. The samefiles are played much smoother in e.g. Poweramp or AIMP. I don’t know what they are doing differently but it sound much better. I also tried all kinds of Equalizer and Dynamic Processing settings which also all did not yield the desired effect of no stuttering. Maybe one can figure out what Poweramp and AIMP are doing differently (better) and integrate it into symfonium as its UI is miles ahead of the competition.
But next version will properly use folders like artist\album\song to organize the downloaded files.