Audio Player improvement ideas

[axel-rank]

• In the main window of the player there is no stop button (only pause) which resets to start.
• It is only possible to go forward or backwards while playing...should also be possible when the playing is paused.

[Kilian-Perisset]

Hi,

Effectively,
@tobiasKaminsky, @jancborchardt @AndyScherzinger what do you think about enhancing the audio player (at least the notifications part) by something user-friendly with :

• Controls in notifications (BACK / PAUSE / NEXT)
• Picture of the song/album if available via ID3v2 data
  ?

Thank you

[AndyScherzinger]

@Shagequi sounds fine to me, reading cover art from the mp3 file is already implemented in the activity. Also looping in @ezaquarii who rewrote the activity part.

[AubinF]

Hi, I am a great fan of being able to play music & audiobooks in the android app! Thanks for the great work.
There are a few features I believe would make the music experience really great, though I am not sure how much development is needed:

1. play next track automatically (please! please!)
2. being able to use bluetooth device to pause/resume playback (and ideally skip/go back a few seconds)
3. a button to shuffle tracks in music folder/subfolders/playlist
4. sometimes switching to a different app and coming back to nextcloud app restarts playback from the beginning :/

Thanks !

[ezaquarii]

This could be implemented and the service already has support for playlists. However there was never a product decision to use, insisting on "keeping things unchanged".

Perhaps it could be revisited.

[AubinF]

Hi, thanks for your quick reply. This sounds promising ! Surely I am not the only one who wished these features existed. I know it is possible to use subsonic/ampache players as a workaround, but it seems a shame that basic features like these are not available directly in the NC app. I wish I knew java so I could submit a pull request! Anyway, thanks, I hope the subject gets back on the table soon :)

[AndyScherzinger]

Implementing this would be just fine with me and I guess also with @tobiasKaminsky - yet for availability reasons neither me nor Tobias would have the time to implement it - can't tell if you would have the time and motivation to work on it @ezaquarii

[AubinF]

Hi @AndyScherzinger I totally understand. I have tried using a subsonic player (connected to the music app on the server side) and it worked great. I thought I had a nice solution... until today. The upgrade to NC26 kills the Music app, so annoying. Looks like Music is an Owncloud app, so I am not sure how much effort the developers can afford to spend to keep it compatible with NC :/

[AndyScherzinger]

@AubinF it is a community app, so I would expect it to be compatible with Nextcloud 26 some time in the not so distant future.

[ezaquarii]

• can't tell if you would have the time and motivation to work on it @ezaquarii

Possible. You can contact me via email.

[parneet-guraya]

1. play next track automatically (please! please!)

2. being able to use bluetooth device to  pause/resume playback (and ideally skip/go back a few seconds)

3. a button to shuffle tracks in music folder/subfolders/playlist

4. sometimes switching to a different app and coming back to nextcloud app restarts playback from the beginning :/

Hi, @AubinF for 3 and 4 I already pushed the PR here #13467. for 1 and 3 we just need to scan all the media in the current directory from where you started your player and pass those files so that it can create a playlist hence you can surf through tracks I will see what I can do.

[joshtrichards]

Related and some overlap: #1038

[AubinF]

1. play next track automatically (please! please!)

2. being able to use bluetooth device to  pause/resume playback (and ideally skip/go back a few seconds)

3. a button to shuffle tracks in music folder/subfolders/playlist

4. sometimes switching to a different app and coming back to nextcloud app restarts playback from the beginning :/

Hi, @AubinF for 3 and 4 I already pushed the PR here #13467. for 1 and 3 we just need to scan all the media in the current directory from where you started your player and pass those files so that it can create a playlist hence you can surf through tracks I will see what I can do.

Very cool, thank you