daneren2005 wrote:1) If you want to look at a certain artist, I feel you are better off searching for said artist, clicking the artist, then using the Show all media menu option under the overflow menu. This should make it possible for you to search through all their songs more easily. I mean, I can just increase the number of songs returned in the search, but it seems like there is no number I can set it to that someone wouldn't possibly just need it higher. It seems like for that particular use case you are better off just accomplishing the same task in a different way.
2) I'm not going to add it to all menus, simply because many of them are already way too filled as it is. I tried to add it to all of the top level menus, and if I forgot one let me know and I can add it. What I can do for you though, is add it to the pull out menu one. If you notice when you pull out the drawer the menu changes (per Google's advice, though it never made much sense to me). I can add it to that menu since right now it only has exit anyways.
3) Every once in a while someone has said that this happens, and I have personally never seen it. You just gave me another peice of information though, that it happens when you use Play Next. I never use that functionality, so it makes sense that I would never see it. With that additional information I will look over the code and see if I can figure out how to stop that. Now that I know the trigger I should be able to figure it out, thank you. Edit: Yep, with that extra tidbit it wasn't hard to find the source of the problem.
4) Never heard of this before to be honest. I will take a look at it and see if I can figure out why this might be happening. When you get to happen next, mind sending me a log right after? I imagine it's throwing a error, and the order of events in the logs might help me figure out where it is going wrong.
5) You can go into offline mode. You should be able to see only what is on your phone that way. Also, it automatically removes songs from your playlist that aren't downloaded so you can use your playlists like that too.
1) I didn't even know the Show All Media option existed in the overflow menu! That should solve all issues and does for the White Stripes. But when I search James Brown, choose the artist, choose Show All Media, it still just shows one album, while I know I have 15 albums where he is tagged as the artist. Same thing with the Black Keys (it doesn't even list "The Black Keys" as an artist option, just "Black Keys", but all my mp3s are tagged "The Black Keys.") -- it shows 3 albums when I select artist and choose show all media, not the 10 albums I have. I assume same thing with other, too. All my tags should be pretty consistent, I use Bliss.
2) The Queue menu! That's probably where it's most useful and not there. Also if pressing Shuffle just would shuffle play the playlist rather than reorder it, it would probably be better and more consistent with expectations.
5) Offline mode shows nothing for me, which is why I assumed it didn't work. My only option then from that screen is to use Search, which when I search for anything I get a Null Pointer Exception. When I got to Library, I see some things that are on my phone, ordered almost randomly by folder name, some with a higher level folder, some with their direct folder. Library would be an easier view if sorted by ID3 tag not folder structure. When I go to playlist and play one that has all songs that are all downloaded, it plays some songs, chokes and stops playing on other songs (I sent a log where it wouldn't play Midnight City despite it having been downloaded). Offline mode is somewhat unpredictable.
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it would be nice if just playing a song didn't clear the queue. I don't know, I prefer my queue not being erased unless I actively choose to do so, it's easy to accidently clear your queue with a missed button touch which is easy to do on a phone. But that could just be how I use things.
Thanks for the quick response!
