Android - Play/Queue Entire Folder/Album

[rashly]

I have all of my albums in separate folders on my PC. In android, I don;t see an option to play an entire folder. When I want to play an album, I have to select every song and then hit play. In Android, I want to be able to hold down my finger on an album/directory and have a menu that comes up saying "Play All."

Is this possible to implement?

Thanks for your work. I love the app.

[p2ranger]

Once you enter into the album, press the select button. It will select all the files in that folder. Then press play. Not what you are looking for, but I am assuming you are selecting each individual file.

Jason

[rashly]

Oh, Ok. I didn't know that. That's what I was looking for. Thanks p2ranger!

[sindre_mehus]

Long-click to play an album has been implemented and will be included in the next release.

[cartoonmonkey]

I have a sparkly new Nexus One here, and the Subsonic app for Android is amazing. I'll be donating for sure.

One other feature suggestion, in the black space on the main page, a nice customizable icon for which server you're using, or at least some text describing which server you're logged into. ( say 3g vs Home wifi ) -swish swipe to select the server.

C

[sindre_mehus]

Good idea! I'll consider squeezing that in.

Thanks,
Sindre

[connor3485]

My suggestion is to make playback similar to the droids built in music player. when you search for a song or album and click on a song, it will play that song and all the songs following it...much simpler than the current system where you're required to select all the songs we want to play. I hope this makes sense! Really apprecieate what your doing sindre!

[alphawave7]

I have a sparkly new Nexus One here, and the Subsonic app for Android is amazing. I'll be donating for sure.

One other feature suggestion, in the black space on the main page, a nice customizable icon for which server you're using, or at least some text describing which server you're logged into. ( say 3g vs Home wifi ) -swish swipe to select the server.

C

Slighty OT, but I'm also using a Nexus One (GREAT PHONE!!)...does Subsonic pause/skip during the initial streaming/downloading for you, cartoonmonkey? The notification itself causes the pause/skip on my unit...very frustrating!

[jm9843]

Slighty OT, but I'm also using a Nexus One (GREAT PHONE!!)...does Subsonic pause/skip during the initial streaming/downloading for you, cartoonmonkey? The notification itself causes the pause/skip on my unit...very frustrating!

I'm seeing this behavior on my Nexus One as well. It only seems to happen on the initial download for the first song in the playlist. I haven't been able to observe it enough to know for sure, but I think it does a notification when the song first begins to play and then a 2nd notification for the same song when the download completes (while the song is still playing). It is this second notification that causes the skip in playback.

I also experienced a different issue recently, but it's only happened once so I can't say for sure what happened. Someone else correct me if I'm wrong but I think that in the event of a SocketConnection timeout, the incomplete song will play until the end of what downloaded and stop playback. Only then will Subsonic attempt to download the entire song again and the incomplete song begins playback again from the beginning. To make matters worse, it only retries the download once the incomplete song is "active in the queue." The song may be way down the playlist and Subsonic could or should have retried/resumed the download well ahead of it actually playing. If it were to do so, the user wouldn't notice that any connection problems had occurred.

It'd be nice if Subsonic supported a true "resume" in the case of a SocketConnection timeout (maybe easier said than done with transcoding) and a more robust pre-cacheing for playlists.

These issues are really only nuances that I can easily overlook because I'm enjoying the latest version of Subsonic on my Nexus One so much. But, it'd be nice if they were fixed so that it could be perfect.

[alphawave7]

I get a skip first after a few seconds of playback, then again approx. 15-20 seconds later (I assume the first song has completed d/l'ing), than another skip (I assume as it continues to d/l the second song), despite the notification still saying the title of the first song. I get a minimum of three skips on the first song. Usually, the rest play back flawlessly, because they have all downloaded to the phone, but skips return upon adding to the playlist. I think it may be an Android issue on notifications, and not sure SubSonic can work around them?

[jm9843]

I also experienced a different issue recently, but it's only happened once so I can't say for sure what happened. Someone else correct me if I'm wrong but I think that in the event of a SocketConnection timeout, the incomplete song will play until the end of what downloaded and stop playback. Only then will Subsonic attempt to download the entire song again and the incomplete song begins playback again from the beginning. To make matters worse, it only retries the download once the incomplete song is "active in the queue." The song may be way down the playlist and Subsonic could or should have retried/resumed the download well ahead of it actually playing. If it were to do so, the user wouldn't notice that any connection problems had occurred.

Ok, perhaps my speculation was incorrect. Today I observed a SocketConnection timeout for a track further down in the playlist than the currently playing track. The song that had the connection error seemed to resume downloading right where it left off immediately, so there was no abnormalities like I described before.

The only difference that I can think of is that I had my screen on this time whereas before, the Nexus One was in standby. Maybe a false alarm, or maybe the download resume/retry does not function the same in standby?

[jm9843]

I get a skip first after a few seconds of playback, then again approx. 15-20 seconds later (I assume the first song has completed d/l'ing), than another skip (I assume as it continues to d/l the second song), despite the notification still saying the title of the first song. I get a minimum of three skips on the first song. Usually, the rest play back flawlessly, because they have all downloaded to the phone, but skips return upon adding to the playlist. I think it may be an Android issue on notifications, and not sure SubSonic can work around them?

That sounds almost identical to my experience. I seem to have two skips for the first song only and then the rest plays flawlessly as you say. I'm not sure about further adding to the playlist, I'll have to experiment with that.

I'm thinking that Sindre should be able to track this problem down as the skips only seem to occur by Subsonic notifications and not notifications from other programs (like email, twitter, etc.). Also, track changes after the first song cause a notification with the new song title and it does not create a stutter in playback. Perhaps it's an issue of priority when downloading, playback of the downloading track, and a Subsonic notification is all happening simultaneously?

[alphawave7]

I get a skip first after a few seconds of playback, then again approx. 15-20 seconds later (I assume the first song has completed d/l'ing), than another skip (I assume as it continues to d/l the second song), despite the notification still saying the title of the first song. I get a minimum of three skips on the first song. Usually, the rest play back flawlessly, because they have all downloaded to the phone, but skips return upon adding to the playlist. I think it may be an Android issue on notifications, and not sure SubSonic can work around them?

That sounds almost identical to my experience. I seem to have two skips for the first song only and then the rest plays flawlessly as you say. I'm not sure about further adding to the playlist, I'll have to experiment with that.

I'm thinking that Sindre should be able to track this problem down as the skips only seem to occur by Subsonic notifications and not notifications from other programs (like email, twitter, etc.). Also, track changes after the first song cause a notification with the new song title and it does not create a stutter in playback. Perhaps it's an issue of priority when downloading, playback of the downloading track, and a Subsonic notification is all happening simultaneously?

I sure hope so! I wonder what Android phone he uses, and whether he sees or can reproduce the problem. Aside from this annoying hiccup, I simply adore Subsonic...I've been waiting literally decades for 'sonic ubiquity', and Subsonic delivers!

[sindre_mehus]

Hi guys,

I'll try to explain why there are occasional stutters when playing the currently downloading track.

Let's say that you start playing when 500kB has been downloaded. The Android media player will then stop after 500kB have been played back, even if the file has grown to 1000kB in the mean time. Hence, I have to reopen and restart the player at the position it was. This takes a few milliseconds and causes the stutter (and also the notification btw).

[breakerfall]

Any chance that can be rectified?

I love being able to stream all my music, but the stutter irks me.

Also, is there any way for me to make the android app work in jukebox mode?

Thanks!