Android app feature requests

[fredx21]

I would love that also. To add to that, I'd like subsonic to remember the position of podcasts. I do not always listen to the full podcast and it's hard a few days later to find where I was when I stopped listening.

[partyk1d24]

One thing I would like to see is to add the download folder as a preference so you could direct it to your normal music folder instead of subsonic/music.

I actually downloaded the source code and added this functionality locally by using a DynamicFileUtil instead of file util then passing the preference from the SubsonicTabActivity to the DownloadService as follows...

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SharedPreferences prefs = this.getSharedPreferences(Constants.PREFERENCES_FILE_NAME, 0);
       String value = this.getResources().getString(R.string.download_location_name);
       String rootPath = prefs.getString(value ,"");
       FileUtilDynamic utilDyn = new FileUtilDynamic();
       if(rootPath != null && !rootPath.equals("")){
          utilDyn.setRootMusicFolder(FileUtilDynamic.createDirectory(rootPath));
       }
       DownloadServiceImpl test = (DownloadServiceImpl) DownloadServiceImpl.getInstance(utilDyn);
        return DownloadServiceImpl.getInstance(utilDyn);

This was a huge help for me and a relatively simple change. Not to mention removes some hard coded values that could be refactored into strings.xml anyway .

Good work so far though, I think the menus need a bunch of work no offense. If you would like any help or want to set up a branch for me to play on let me know!

Jackie

[insan3]

first of all: Great app love it.

Maybe I missed something but it don't think the android app has it. But it would be nice if you could select the folder the androidapp plays from. I have 3 folders with 3 different libaries (my own, my brother, party lib). Currently in the android app you can't' select one but you only see them all.

Another nice feature would be selecting numbers you want offline available

[herbivore]

Subsonic does have this feature!

You should look at settings/general/Articles to ignore on your pc... or maybe update your subsonic server to a more recent version (it's there since I use subsonic so I don't know when it's implemented). But the default setting have 'The' to be ignored.

I have the default Articles to Ignore "The El La Los Las Le Les" and still my folders are sorted alphabetically by first character putting all "The" listings under T.

How can you make this work?

[JohnnyRocketpants]

Would love to have the option to cache album jpgs art for offline mode.

[cactus88]

This has been posted before a while back, but to add my vote: my top request is to show all the search results in the Android app, not just the first 20. (Web interface reports all results.)

~ New, donating user. Love Subsonic! Thanks!

[NLclothing]

Another Vote for google voice search support!!

[atomjack]

Loving the app so far! But some requests:

1) Seconding the request from the previous page for being able to set what directory to save the files to.
2) A downloads section so you can check on the progress of the files downloading to your phone. Also, adding a notification during downloads would be cool (similar to how rdio does it).
3) An offline mode to only show the music you have cached on the phone. Useful if you're in the subway or just somewhere you don't have internet access.
4) Is there a reason the downloaded files have ".complete" added to the end of the filename? Seems like it could be pretty obvious since the partial ones have .partial added.

[blueguitarbob]

I've just upgraded from a G1 to a Galaxy S and Subsonic can't find my music on my sd card. This is because the Galaxy S has 8GB of built in storage and adds the sd card as a 'sd' folder in the file system of its storage.

Could you add a new feature to configure the root folder for Subsonic so I can point it at the new sd card location? I don't want to us the built in memory as it is smaller than my sd card.

If you need any info on file structures or someone to debug for you, give me a shout.
Thanks.

I don't fully understand this. Subsonic should save music on the SD card, no matter if it's mounted as "/sd", "/sdcard" or anything else.

In which directory is Subsonic saving files on your Galaxy?

Sindre

Sindre,

I also recently got a Galaxy S. The way that they do it is that it has a few gigs of app storage in flash, but the 8 or 16GB of device storage is an internal SD card (which is mounted on /sdcard). You can add your own, second SD card (accessible externally) to increase the storage capacity, and this is mounted on /sdcard/sd. I think that the request is asking for user-configurable storage location to be able to choose the user-added SD card rather than the internal SD card storage (which is the default Android SD card storage on the Galaxy S).

Thanks,
Andrey

I would like to second the request to configure the song cache directory. I have a Samsung Vibrant (one of the Galaxy S series), and I can confirm it mounts the external SD card as Andrey describes. I have 16GB of internal phone storage (which is an SD card) and a 16GB "external" SD card. For whatever reason, the phone mounts the external SD card under the internal SD card directory.

Internal card: /sdcard
External card: /sdcard/sd

Subsonic is storing cache to: /sdcard/subsonic

So, the Subsonic app is caching songs to the internal phone storage. I would like to be able to change that to /sdcard/sd/subsonic, which would be the external card.

As Android devices get more storage capability, I'm sure we will see more variety in directory hierarchies. Being able to configure the cache folder will be a very nice feature.

[fukid]

The android app is GREAT! thanks!!

[rox4]

First of all I'd like to thank you for this app and the subsonic program in general. I think is a great work.

I've been using the android app for a couple of weeks and I've seen that in offline mode I have problems in playing songs that are stored on a subfolder in the tree directory. I have distributed my song by genus. So in every genus I've got the artists and then the albums and the songs. In Subsonic I've just added the directory Music of my PC.

The problem is that I see the songs stored in all subdirectories but there isn't the green or orange symbol meaning that are stored on the phone.

In online mode I haven't any problem for playing those songs.

Thank you very much!

[c0mputerking]

I would like to be able to change subsonic storage location to the default Music folder too. However things work very quite nicely for now having the separate /mnt/sdcard/Music location and the /mnt/sdcard/subsonic/music locations.

Right now i use the /mnt/sdcard/Music for manually downloaded songs my favorites that i do not want removed.

I use /mnt/sdcard/subsonic/music as a sort of rolling 5G cache of random songs from my server.

The default android music player finds all the songs and does not care about which directory they are in. This is almost an ideal situation the only thing is that there is some duplication.

Example i put the great Tom Waits - Going Out West song in my /mnt/sdcard/Music directory for permanent storage. After some amount of time listening to shuffle that same song Tom Waits - Going Out West also gets added to /mnt/sdcard/subsonic/music bearable, but not ideal.

I have thought about moving the /mnt/sdcard/Music directory inside /mnt/sdcard/subsonic/music as my Music Player does not seem to care were the songs are located. However I am guessing the songs I wish to remain permanent might get overwritten since my cache is always full. I have also though about messing with file/folder permissions to prevent this from happening.

Has anyone given this any thought maybe some sort of feature to make songs in the /mnt/sdcard/subsonic/music directory permanent. Then i do not think i would even need to have a /mnt/sdcard/Music directory.

[the_slain_man]

Not quite sure how the cache folder limit should work. I have a Nexus One with the original 4 GB sdcard. Have limit set to 2 gb. Loaded up a playlist thats 5 gb. Then subsonic filled my sdcard.
Does it only work with a playlist smaller than the limit?

[Ortusdux]

Would it be possible to add a 'Cashed' music section under albums on the home screen? It would be great for when you are in airplane mode, watch your data plan, out of service, or the server is down.

[MitchV]

I'm in love with this Android app. Subsonic was already fantastic... I recently picked up a Droid X and this app was one of the reasons I wanted the phone.

I do have one request... I like to use large playlists and the Android "Shuffle" feature appears to shuffle my entire music collection, as opposed to shuffling whatever happens to be queued. Can Shuffle be restricted to queued items only?

Thanks again for the great software Sindre. I already donated for the Subsonic app and I will be donating for the Android app as well.

THANK YOU!!