As of yet, Vanilla adds all the content of the SD card to its playlist, including ringtones and podcasts, which I wouldn't like to hear during a music session. The "Filebrowser home" has no effect on the library's behavior. Please allow the user to select which folders will be added to the library.

With betterbatterystats in have monitored that vanilla music sometimes was still active after unplugging the headset while phone was locked like it was still playing but muted in background.

When scrubbing over a song, the audio is all jumbled and sounds awful. It seems as though Play Music doesn't seek within the stream until the scrub is finished and continues playing while the scrub is happening.

This metabug collects crash-reports for vanilla music.

Hi, first off thank you for keeping this app alive it's a great app and you have done an awesome job!.

I have been using the latest Miui V5 for a while now and this app has been almost a complete replacement for the stock music app, the only problems I have found are to do with using the miui lockscreen and widgets. Vanilla works out of the box with the miui lockscreen music controls but there is no album cover art showing. Is there a way I can help you to fix this at all? I can't code or build/edit apps etc to save myself but I would really like to be able to fully replace the stock miui music app with this one.
Maybe even make the feature a part of your donate app as an added bonus would be cool.
Also Vanilla doesn't work with the stock miui music widget (but that I personally don't care about as I prefer the vanilla widgets)

once again thank you for your hard work! and if you can find a way to fix this minor thing it would be great and I'd love to help in any small way I can as I know Miui is not the easiest to work with.

Ray. {Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100}

Hi, wouldn't it be more aesthetically pleasing if WidgetD would display a default album art rather than simply leaving the album art transparent when there is no album art found? Half my albums don't have art, so I end up with a strange looking widget.
Not a major problem, but....still ;)

I'm not java/android programmer, but I've looked at the code and it seems like a relatively easy fix. Line 113 in WidgetD.java is where the action is happening, if you'd like to take a look.

Hi, first of all, thanks for the great app. Specially the ability to populate playlists by pointing to a directory and it just recursively adds all songs in subdirectories.

However, ever since I've used it, the lists every so often goes blank so I have to readd them, which isn't much problem so I hadn't submitted a bug report until now (when I accidentally deleted all my songs when pressing "Add to playlist..." and slipping my finger to "Delete").

I have my songs in the External SD card, so that might have something to do with it. But the songs stay in the same place and I rarely remove the card. I don't know how the playlist works but I imagine that this behaviour could be easily avoided.

Adding a file with [ or/and ] in it's name to the favorites (only?) fails.

Hi,

Thanks to all developers of this marvelous app, I'm using it every day. But I have a problem. Sometimes vanilla can't play files, mostly because they are corrupted. Here is a good example of what I see : http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/26/1372460992-screenshot-2013-06-29-01-07-09.png
My problem is when vanilla met a corrupted file, he stop to play music, instead of going on the next music of my playlists. Can you make something that force vanilla to go to the next music when he try to read a corrupted/missing file ? That would be great.

Have a nice day :)

KaitoKito.

vanilla simply refuses to play certain songs that are perfectly valid mp3/ogg/aac/flac files! (that play on the 'native' android (jellybean) player)
One (public domain) example can be downloaded here: https://soundcloud.com/maisnon/song-of-storms

Please add "Play from here" action in long tap actions list and default actions in Library Screen.

The TITLE tag of my OGG files is being ignored and the filename is shown instead (might be a scanner issue that appeared in JB since Play Music does the same; worked fine in ICS).

Is there a possibility to have playback controls strip while in library view? If not, would it be possible to add it with some option to switch it on/off in the future?

Btw, the player is really great.

It'd be nice to see album art on albums at least. Songs would be nice as well. (Some albums are just more distinctive by the art).

Please add ability to hide tab bar when only one tab is used.

The "Now playing"/music control widget on the lockscreen does not display the Artist, only the TrackName and Album (one the same line, without scrolling).

It's apparently not a problem of space, as there seems to be sufficient space above the TrackName to display the Artist.

Expected behaviour :

• first line of the widget displays the artist
• second line displays the track name followed by the album
• if any of these lines is to long to fit onscreen, scroll back and forth to display it

Phone :
Samsung Nexus S I9023
CyanogenMod 10.1.3-RC2 (Android 4.2.2)

I have often seen the issue where playback randomly sputters for a fraction of a second.

I typically use Vanilla daily during my walk back home from work for ~45 minutes. During this session, I've noticed that playback often sputters randomly.

The sputtering happens for a very short duration (from a fraction of a second to upto maybe a second), and playback resumes immediately after. It is however very distracting when it does occur.

On rare days, I'll have no sputters. Most days, i'll notice it at least 2 times during my 45min walk. Both, the number of occurrences & the time when an occurrence hits during a session, seem random to me.

I noticed that you had faced a similar issue with the original codebase:
https://github.com/kreed/vanilla/issues/76

Looking at the current code in PlaybackService.java, I see that you haven't made 'THREAD_PRIORITY_AUDIO' the default; its now using 'THREAD_PRIORITY_DEFAULT' instead of the original 'THREAD_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND'.

I was thinking of making the change to 'THREAD_PRIORITY_AUDIO', and compiling it myself, but I was wondering why you didn't make the change yourself. Did you face any issues with 'THREAD_PRIORITY_AUDIO' ?

Since this might also be buffering related, would it be possible to provide options to select the buffer size?

FYI, I'm running Vanilla v0.9.20 installed via Google Play on a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300). Its running the stock Samsung ROM XXEMA2 with Android 4.1.2 & kernel 3.0.31-836582.

Do let me know if you need any more information.

With my music files, I see songs listed twice. That is to say, each artist is listed once, as it should be. But if I open an artist, either (1) each album is listed twice, and the contents of both are correct, or (2) each album is listed once, but the songs in it are listed twice. It appears to be the case that when I have the whole album, (1) applies, and when I only have one song, (2) applies, but sometimes the opposite.

One obvious question is whether I have two copies of the music on my phone, but given the size of my library, there isn't enough room for a duplicate copy of the library, so ... no.

Is there some symlink somewhere that's making the program feel like the same file exists in two different places? I haven't created any, but I haven't checked to see if any were.

This problem came about when I upgraded cyanogenmod in mid November, or sometime around then. I don't clearly recall, unfortunately.

Same behavior happens every time (for example, even after a phone reset or an app defaults reset).

Version 0.9.15 on cyanogenmod 10-20121208-NIGHTLY-i9300.

It would be nice to restyle the notification and make it like one in Play Music or Apollo.

normally when i press the button on my headset the vanilla player pauses the song. when i press it two times the player switches to next song. When i lock the screen and press the button one time the song pauses. But when i press it two times, the player nearly never switches to next song. About 1 time out of 10. I think it's not a lockscreen problem as the double click works for other players as expected when the screen is locked

Since the accelerometer only triggers the action when music is playing, there is no way for the music to be resumed after pausing.

Play Music fades in and out instead which is much less jarring

My artists tab is showing a bunch of songs and albums that aren't on my phone. If I try to play any of them it says "Failed to load song. It may be corrupt or missing."

I want to clear the library so that it's only showing music that's actually on the phone. I've tried refreshing the library through the settings menu, clearing app data through my phone's settings, reinstalling the app, and none have worked.

When fading out after the idle timeout, the volume peaks a bit then fades. I recently added ReplayGain to all my music and hadn't noticed this before. This also occurs when the volume is at max.

Please add ability to use main status bar at the top, because all the other controls are concentrated at the top.

Hi,

the player is really nice and works like a charm, but a menuoption to quit the player would be nice. By now its only possible to pause the song and then kill the player.

It would also be nice to have a queue button in the main player window to show the songs that are in the queue instead of pressing the menubutton and then select the queue menu entry. It would also be nice to have a possibility to rearrange the songs in the queue and to delete individual songs instead of deleting all songs after the current song.
Implementing the queue as a virtual playlist would be a good idea - this would provide the functionality.

Vanilla Player needs an option to sort first by album name, then by track number. Currently there is only album>track artist>track number, which is nonsensical for compilation albums with many different artists.

Other than that, I'm very happy with the app :-)

I really liked this feature in the previous versions. I set the notification to always show which kept the service running almost always, so whenever I wanted Vanilla Player to play I just plugged my headphones and it played.

Hi,

I have CM10 (no taskkillers installed that i know off ;) ) and vanilla music. At least a couple of time during the day vanilla music just stops playing. No errors, no nothing. It's always half-way a song. I first thought the songs were corrupt but i can actually listen to the complete song if i forward to the next song and then backward to the then current song...

gr,S.

I really love the player interface and the perfect gapless playback. I only wish that the albumart that the music player uses is NOT from the thumbnails generated by the media scanner which are really low quality. When I delete the folder where they are stored, the player renders the album art correctly, until the media scanner generates new thumbnails at the next scan. A thumbnail view for the Albums view would be really nice too, but that will need to use thumbnails for faster load, and even then it will probably not be as snappy as it is right now. So if possible, maybe just force the player to NOT read the thumbnails from the media scanner. It seems to read folder.jpg directly from the files just fine.

Possible bug. Under Settings -> Playback Screen -> Swipe Up Action (and Swipe Down Action) doesn't work when set to 'Toggle Controls'.
Just to be clear, the setting does get set, but when you swipe up or down on the playback screen, nothing happens.

Motivation: i would like to start vanilla Player from another app on certain events. Vanilla player then should start playing automatically. I know your app can run as a service to react on headphone connected to start playing but that is not that versatile. Thank you.

Android is stupid and seems to resize cover images.

Vanilla Music should have an option to read cover.jpg / album.jpg images from the parent directory.

There should be a config option to set a default folder (-> file browsing).

Starting at /sdcard each time the user opens the filebrowser does not make much sense.

The art is taking maybe 60% of the height of the notification bar. Mimicking Play's notification would be superb (double height with large controls) since things are a little squished.

I added ~100 songs to my phone last night and hit "All Songs" in the "Songs" tab and the queue order looks /awfully/ familiar to what it was before I added the songs (the popup said that 1200+ songs were added to the queue and there are only 1200+ songs in the queue, so it doesn't look like only the new ones were tacked onto the end of the playlist).

When viewing the queue the information displayed is the song name and album name.
It should also show the artist name.

Multi select to add and remove albums, tracks, and artists to and from playlists would be nice. As an added bonus, listing the playlists the songs of some grouping are a part of would be nice (including a "songs not on a playlist" listing). Dedupe and sorting would be great as well.

(Feel free to split this bug; phone tapping sucks :/ ).

Subject.

first, amazing app, by far the best, beats every other app on simplicity, style and no lag.

only I noticed, whenever listening music, and browsing at the same time, (like clicking on report issue link in playstore) the music stops playing.

and on my htc one v, lockscreen widget doesn't show up.

device: htc one v

and. once again, amazing app.

and beware of my grammar and typos,

a happy dutchman on his phone

I think it makes more sense to use the path in filebrowser`s status bar like this:

Classical |X Bach |X

Instead of:

storage |X emulated |X 0 |X Music |X Classical |X Bach |X

when home at /storage/emulated/0/Music

Hitting the 'back' button in the folder based navigation should take us one folder level 'up'.

Hi there, and thanks for this awesome music player that does everything I'm looking for so far (ReplayGain, FLAC, stops when headphones are plug off, etc.) ! ;-)

However, I've noticed that if I receive a notification (text message, e-mail, etc.) during playback, the music will stop, notification sound will play, the music will resume again.

Example :
1- music plays
2- music stops
3- notification sound plays
4- music resumes where it stopped

I'm not sure if that's a desired behaviour (it makes notification sounds more audible) or a bug, but it really breaks the music enjoyment for me. What's more, when using my road navigation app (OsmAnd, of course :-) ), music playback will NOT resume after direction is spoken up.

Example :
1- music plays
2- music stops
3- "After 200m, turn right"
4- ... nothing ! I have to manually press play again.

Wishlist :

• Keep playing during notifications
  OR
• Lower music volume during notification. I believe the default Android 2.3 music player had such an option, and I found it pretty nifty (called "volume ducking", IIRC). :-)

Phone :
Samsung Nexus S I9023
CyanogenMod 10.1 (Android 4.2.2)

I'd like to add the ability to create custom tabs. For example, a user can add a tab for the mood tag by creating an entry for the MOOD field. The user can then customize that tab's "structure", such as Mood>Songs or Mood>Artists>Songs, etc. The problem is that Android's built-in tag reader is lackluster, to say the least. Thus, I would need to integrate a third-party ID3v2 library, but I'm worried that this might create problems for the project. I'm new to GitHub, so I don't know how this all works. Forgive me if I come across as being pushy or something. I'm just enthusiastic. :-)

Between songs, there seems to be a hard break. An option to fade songs together would be nice.

Currently if you want to stop playing after the current song, you have two options: Clear the queue or be ready to hit pause when it finishes.

A "stop after current" option would be very useful here. Obviously it should also be available as a gesture.

There should be a sort-by-date|added option

When selecting the arrow on an album or artist, back needs to be hit twice to return to an unfiltered list again. Maybe an "X" or something to clear the filter can be done?

There is no open source player dedicated for audiobook as of yet.
Vanilla player could easily double up as a audiobook player.
Audiobook players are essentially no different from music players except they have the following features, which can be provided and enabled via the settings menu.

1] Button in the playback interface to enable a 15 second quick-rewind
2] Checkbox to remember last folder/playlist , playlist position and playback position on app close.
3] Checkbox for automatic start play
4] Checkbox to auto quick-rewind 15 seconds on automatic start play.
5] With availability of NFC tags and phones that support NFC tags, one feels the need to toggle the state of an audiobook player via a widget, NFC tag or via a smart action based on other profile or proximity detection.
6] Usually audiobooks are stored as sound files for book chapters under a single folder, recognizing the playing order from filename, tracknumber is nice, and can save time over listening to several books. However, books once listened to are usually not listened-to again and would be deleted, and so a means to not commit permanently into media index. A good playlist editor can allow a user to sequence the chapters in the right listening order.
7] fetching book information is nice but not essential.
8] A book listening history is also nice but not essential

Currently Vanilla music player 0.9.23

• opens the last file played.
• Files in a folder can be enqueued
• only files later than current position in queue can be cleared
• current queue cannot be edited.
• does not automatically start playing
• when play is pressed a file (current position in queue) is played from its start

An open-source app called mort player is advertised. Its source however seems to be not available.

Some player apps come in both a audiobook version and music version. Though they are basically the same player, they can be installed as separate apps. The apps have different default settings set conveniently to listen to music or books.

It would be nice to have a persistent service (= seperate app) to launch vanilla if the headphones are plugged in.

After this we could remove the 'shaky' headphone-detection feature in vanillamusic itself.