Android app feature requests

[vancamp]

I'm still hoping something easy can be done to scale album art correctly when the android player is in portrait mode. At least on my Droid X, it seems the album art is scaled to fit vertically, but that results in the horizontal being clipped on both sides.

[id628]

It's been a while since I wrote real code other than a few PERL scripts, but Voice Actions seem like they'd be easy to implement:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ ... ction.html

[stennie]

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.

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.

I don't know if this was just recently implemented, but under "Select Server", choose "Offline". You'll then see only your cached music.

My request is related to this: Could the "Shuffle Play" option be implemented for Offline mode as well?

[krantul]

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.

I would like to second this. I listen to some podcasts than run as long as 4 hours, so the current app makes this very tough on me.

[id628]

It's been a while since I wrote real code other than a few PERL scripts, but Voice Actions seem like they'd be easy to implement:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ ... ction.html

I would really love to have Voice Actions. Subsonic is perfect for this, just searching for music.

Any chance? (Yes, I'm a paid subscriber)

[sindre_mehus]

It's been a while since I wrote real code other than a few PERL scripts, but Voice Actions seem like they'd be easy to implement:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ ... ction.html

I would really love to have Voice Actions. Subsonic is perfect for this, just searching for music.

Any chance? (Yes, I'm a paid subscriber)

Cool idea! I'll see what I can do - gotta fix some bugs first.

Thanks for the heads-up!
Sindre

[sindre_mehus]

Check out version 1.7.3, it supports Voice Actions!

Sindre

[happy_red]

Sindre, any update on allowing a user to change the root directory?

[wesssider]

2 updates in 2 days! Great work Sindre.

[skyshock21]

- Option to not use offline caching at all

- Use the settings button for settings context menu since it comes standard on all android devices instead of using a settings UI element in the main app in the middle of the presentation screen. The current UI layout makes for a disjoint experience compared to all other Android apps.

- Remove "X" button in the top right corner which mimicks a desktop UI. Android is smart enough to know when to kill apps and when not to. The Home/Back buttons are much more suited for leaving an app behind and going to the home/previous screen. Or you could put such functionality under the Settings context menu if you used the Settings button to fall in line with most every other Android app

[tomos]

I posted this under a seperate thread, but this one seems active daily, so have reposted here:

99% of my music is stored on a computer that cannot be online for legal /protection issues etc. (I run a music studio) This computer is is networked to a PC running Win7 and subsonic.

I have mapped the drive containing all the music on the networked drive in explorer to the computer with subsonic - but subsonic won't see music on mapped drives, only local drives.

Is there any chance of fixing this?

Kind regards,
Tomos (Paid subscriber)

[NLclothing]

AWESOME UPDATE!

have a small recommendation though. After a song is found in the search, or added the the play list, would it be possible to get back to the album's directory of that song if you long press and bring up the menu?

Sorry if that was incoherent :/

[wesssider]

have a small recommendation though. After a song is found in the search, or added the the play list, would it be possible to get back to the album's directory of that song if you long press and bring up the menu?

I second that! As listed as one of my Android feature requests post

» add long-press option 'go to directory' on playlist tab

[evil-doer]

my biggest gripe with just about any music player on my phone is i need to take the phone out of my pocket, turn on the screen, unlock the phone, then press a button on the screen to skip to the next song. ug.

ive read that another music player utilizes the built in mic on headphones, so you can tap on it to pause/play, and double tap to skip to next song.

this would be AWESOME if you could implement this into subsonic. it would probably need an adjustable tap sensitivity along with the enable/disable of the feature.

[AmazingLarry]

- Remove "X" button in the top right corner which mimicks a desktop UI. Android is smart enough to know when to kill apps and when not to. The Home/Back buttons are much more suited for leaving an app behind and going to the home/previous screen. Or you could put such functionality under the Settings context menu if you used the Settings button to fall in line with most every other Android app

The "X" button is the only way to force Subsonic to stop downloading an album once it starts without changing the "Songs to preload" setting. During normal operation, I want it to preload an entire album, but there are times I'm playing a song or two and need to stop it from downloading right away for a number of reasons and I don't want to use a task killer to stop it. For instance, I'm using it my car, I arrive and go to a location with poor coverage and I don't want to download another 80MB with a poor signal and kill the battery.

I do agree that having it kill the program is a bit much, and it could be replaced with a "stop all downloads" button, but as-is it provides the functionality I really want.