Monday, June 11, 2012

ZPlayer 3.2 coming up!

Home screen with random tiled album art





30 comments:

  1. Just found and bought the app, really like the layout, and the features. I see that your under a lot of development and that is great. Just wonder if there are any plans to implement any of the following:

    1) Landscape view
    2) a way to limit file folder search so that certain folders don't appear
    3) a way to manual input album art
    4) support for google music offline (downloaded) tracks

    again love the work, thanks for the app.

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    1. Hi there, the landscape view will not be coming to this application. It is a pain to deal with device rotation changes and background images changing, and memory all at the same time.
      Currently, all the queries done in ZPlayer tries to select only "music" tracks, changing all queries to point to a folder would need a whole rewrite of all queries, which I can't invest time in.

      Manual album art change is coming very soon. It was to be added with the current update, but missed it.

      Google music is closed, and has no API's for me to use. So until Google music has a public API, Cloud based music would not be happening.

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  2. I love this player so much, can't wait It looks greate,

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  3. i love the app...just awesome ! the best out here...but i would like to see the lyrics as wel ..so any updates on that ?. download lyrics online and play it alongside the song..? the app would be complete if its done so..
    cheers

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    1. Yes, the lyrics support is available, but the database of lyrics I am using is not very large, so only popular tracks currently have lyrics. I am still trying to get more data sources.

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    2. i don get the lyrics even for the most popular songs!...where do i enable the lyrics feature? and how do i see the lyrics..? can i use custom lyrics for songs that arent found in the database?

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  4. Hey, I appreciate the continuing great work on this app! But there's a terrible bug thats been ongoing. I can't pause/stop shoutcast radio stations once they've started to play! :(

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    1. I do not have any reports of this error. And it seems to function fine on more than 3 devices I have tested with. Can you provide me with more details. Thanks

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    2. Sure! I am on a T-mobile Sidekick 4g, running android 2.2. Is there any other information that would help out?

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  5. it's a great app but in older versions the background image file was easy to find and change or edit, now they are located in other place and diferent file name, please please make it back like before

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    1. Hi there, the background images can be updated directly from the application, there would be no need to do it manually.

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    2. I know it does and i love it, but when I don't like some back mimage I download one from my pc and change it. like 30+SECONDS+TO+MARS. file, as example it was easy to do it, now the back image has a name like 12767836.zpl .......u get my point?¿?¿?

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  6. The player chash too much in my LG Optimus Black, especially when I try to add a podcast. It's any known issue?

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  7. I wrote you two emails yesterday:

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    Hi! Sorry for this mail but i've got a problem i cannot solve.
    I have an HTC HD2 with a Nexus HD2 rom on it and i've been using version 3.1.7 without any problem at all; but when i upgraded to 3.2.0 and now to 3.2.01 the player keeps crashing everytime i select the artist option from the menu!
    Tried disabling background images to see if the problem was related to that and still crashing. Have you got a fix/explanation for this?

    Anyway, thanks for your wonderful work.
    Waiting for reply.
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    Sorry, it doesn't really crash it says (in Italian) "L'applicazione Zplayer si è arrestata in modo anomalo" (that is something similar to crash and it's difficult to translate that for me) and then it brings me back to the main menu screen (the one with music/shoutcast/etc options)
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    Any issue?

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    1. Hi Alessio, I have not been able to identify this issue. Did you install the application via apk or from Google play store?

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    2. Play store! I really don't understand why it does crash. On my dad's stock galaxy sII it's the same. Could it be that is something related to italian translation (added from version 3.2)? Anyway, now i'm using 3.1.7 and it's ok! If you don't know what the cause might be, i'll keep zplayer without upgrades.

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  8. zplayer 3.2.01 ---> "image changer" ?¿?¿?¿ where is it??? I cant find it!!!
    in older versions background images were stored in this path:
    mmc/sdcard/data/wp7p/bckgnds
    named like "30+seconds+to+mars" (named like the name of the artist)

    now they are in:
    mmc/sdcard/data/zplayer/cache
    with a name like "1274749548.zpl"

    why u changed that??? so when I upgraded it, backgnd images for each artist got lost in the app and I have a hughe list of artist in my library and i don't always have data connection.
    U made a very nice work with this upgrade but that's a -1 so please please hope you fix it very soon because zplayer is my top 1 android app

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    1. Hi there, the changes were made to better manage zplayer cached files. The option of manually editing zplayer cache files is a messy process, but I provided the option to change it from the application's now playing screen(data/wifi connection) required.

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    2. It would be nice from you to reply to me, even to say "I don't know this problem, find an issue on your own".

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    3. well just sayin the cache files were good before just where they are....thnks man
      AND just a idea I got....it would be great and so nice that the app have some "coverflow" in the home screen (in historu and new screens)

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  9. I don't understand how u change album art or see lyrics, as these two are supposedly available

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  10. Please add ability to scrobble with Simple Last.fm scrobbler. This missing feature is deal breaker for me.

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  11. After 3.2 upgrade
    it shuts down when i turn on wifi.
    i'm using android 4.04 ver.
    it seems like it crashes when it downloads
    songs info and albums
    plz fix this...

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  12. Please add musixmatch lyrics that would be awesome

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  13. I'd much rather a fast update patch to stop it from force closing whilst we await a proper re release (if it ever comes)

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  14. Hi, I'm experiencing a force close with the latest versions. The last working is 3.1.7. It happens when I have my data or wifi on and open an artist. Might be related to the background images or something. Please fix. Xperia Ray

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  16. Hello - How can I remove ghost genres? I uninstalled and reinstalled the apk but they are still there. I deleted all my music and reinstalled only one CD and there are a bunch of nonsense genres there that I want removed? Whats the path to find whats remembering these so I can delete them? Otherwise this is awesome!!!!!

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  17. Does zplayer work with external storage? Also, can it handle multiple external sources? Im using a Tohiba Thrive with a 128gb SDHC card plus I can add up to 3 more cards via the usb ports. So far I cant get the app to work properly. If it doesnt crash, the player will play some random tune instead of the selected one. Im currently using the demo. Would love to buy this app but so far the demo has been a bust. Can you help me. Thanks.

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