DSub for Android

[mr_nobody]

How big is the playlist? I've certainly had delays when I have 1000+ song playlists.

[flvinny521]

Well it is quite a large playlist, over 4000 songs. I expect a delay when I am loading that from my server, but I had already done that and started playback in the prior session.

I will try to reinstall and go from there.

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[daneren2005]

Well it is quite a large playlist, over 4000 songs. I expect a delay when I am loading that from my server, but I had already done that and started playback in the prior session.

I will try to reinstall and go from there.

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Ah, yes, I can see why you might think that. On Android the only way to keep the playlists in sync between different sessions is to write it to a file. In between "sessions" the entire app is killed and everything wiped from memory, so I have to be able to reconstruct it from scratch. The larger the playlist, the more stuff has to be read from that file, and the longer it will take. I have read somewhere that serializing (the method used to save the playlist) is much slower then some of the alternatives, so I will have to look at changing how it's done so it will load faster, but no matter what it has to load from the disk.

[flvinny521]

Ah, yes, I can see why you might think that. On Android the only way to keep the playlists in sync between different sessions is to write it to a file. In between "sessions" the entire app is killed and everything wiped from memory, so I have to be able to reconstruct it from scratch. The larger the playlist, the more stuff has to be read from that file, and the longer it will take. I have read somewhere that serializing (the method used to save the playlist) is much slower then some of the alternatives, so I will have to look at changing how it's done so it will load faster, but no matter what it has to load from the disk.

With this in mind and being a bit more patient when launching the app, it seems like everything is working perfectly fine.

The only oddity I have found is that when a song advances, the BT position counter keeps going as if the previous song was still playing for another 12-15 seconds. The artist and title of the new track sometimes lag as well, but usually not as bad.

[daneren2005]

Ah, yes, I can see why you might think that. On Android the only way to keep the playlists in sync between different sessions is to write it to a file. In between "sessions" the entire app is killed and everything wiped from memory, so I have to be able to reconstruct it from scratch. The larger the playlist, the more stuff has to be read from that file, and the longer it will take. I have read somewhere that serializing (the method used to save the playlist) is much slower then some of the alternatives, so I will have to look at changing how it's done so it will load faster, but no matter what it has to load from the disk.

With this in mind and being a bit more patient when launching the app, it seems like everything is working perfectly fine.

The only oddity I have found is that when a song advances, the BT position counter keeps going as if the previous song was still playing for another 12-15 seconds. The artist and title of the new track sometimes lag as well, but usually not as bad.

Can you see if the same thing happens for GMusic? Sorry for continually telling people to do this, but without any hardware to test for myself, it seems to be the only way to determine whether or not it is a problem with my code or the framework itself.

[GJ51]

Windows Phone 8 is starting to look better all the time ... LOL

[daneren2005]

Ah, yes, I can see why you might think that. On Android the only way to keep the playlists in sync between different sessions is to write it to a file. In between "sessions" the entire app is killed and everything wiped from memory, so I have to be able to reconstruct it from scratch. The larger the playlist, the more stuff has to be read from that file, and the longer it will take. I have read somewhere that serializing (the method used to save the playlist) is much slower then some of the alternatives, so I will have to look at changing how it's done so it will load faster, but no matter what it has to load from the disk.

With this in mind and being a bit more patient when launching the app, it seems like everything is working perfectly fine.

The only oddity I have found is that when a song advances, the BT position counter keeps going as if the previous song was still playing for another 12-15 seconds. The artist and title of the new track sometimes lag as well, but usually not as bad.

I did find a way to speed up the initial load fairly drastically (my basic playlist seems to be from the 300-500 ms range down to 30-70 ms). It seems to be causing other issues at the moment, but I should be able to iron out all of the wrinkles in time for the next release.

[flvinny521]

Can you see if the same thing happens for GMusic? Sorry for continually telling people to do this, but without any hardware to test for myself, it seems to be the only way to determine whether or not it is a problem with my code or the framework itself.

I will give that a try sometime over the weekend and let you know if GMusic fares any better.

[mr_nobody]

Don't recall if this has been reported but in the current version, I'm having a problem where if I play an album from Recently Added it works fine. However if I back out from that album to the screen that displays all of that artist's albums and go into one of them and click play, nothing ever plays/loads.

[edit]: Oh, btw the same thing happens if when I'm on the screen with the artist's albums, I hit the shuffle button.

[flvinny521]

Can you see if the same thing happens for GMusic? Sorry for continually telling people to do this, but without any hardware to test for myself, it seems to be the only way to determine whether or not it is a problem with my code or the framework itself.

I drove my wife's car this weekend which doesn't show BT track data; give me some time to get back in my car and I'll test it out.

[daneren2005]

Don't recall if this has been reported but in the current version, I'm having a problem where if I play an album from Recently Added it works fine. However if I back out from that album to the screen that displays all of that artist's albums and go into one of them and click play, nothing ever plays/loads.

[edit]: Oh, btw the same thing happens if when I'm on the screen with the artist's albums, I hit the shuffle button.

I'm not sure if I am doing it right. Went to Recently Added, clicked Brand New Eyes, clicked back, clicked another Paramore album (Riot!), clicked play and it worked. Did I miss a step?

[mr_nobody]

Sorry I think I might have been having some network issues... Just tried both scenarios I outlined and they both worked.

[HeWhoIsLunchbox]

The equalizer stopped working. When I try to click on EQ on the now playing screen, I get a message saying "Failed to start equalizer. Try restarting." Restarting the app made the EQ button disappear completely. I then forced stop on the app. The EQ button returned, but I still get the error message.

EDIT: Rebooting my phone solved the problem.

[gaui]

Thank you for the latest update. Playlists are much faster to load.

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[daneren2005]

Good I'm glad it helped. Did it help at all for you flvinny?