I’ve just installed the CalmMusic app. I’ve also inserted an SD card with about 27Gb of music. Directed CalmMusic to it, which was a very buggy experience. Now two hours later the scan process is at 2%. The phone became unresponsive in the process, but by holding the power button I did get some reaction from it (a rescue call attempt, which I aborted). Now I have access to my phone again, but the progress of scanning the music folder sits at 2%.
I’m about to give up. Is there any other music player worth recommending? It should work well on the e-ink screen. I would also prefer a player that doesn’t even try to scan all music to create a database, but simply let me navigate to my music directories and play the music files in there. Like in the good old days.
This is not something I’ve heard about before. I also do not know how many of the users of the app have that much music on an sd card so it probably hasn’t been tested well enough for that scenario. I will have to dig into wether this is an issue with how I’m crawling the files or a limitation with the sd card bus.
MP3 audio files copied into the Music folder, or loaded on a SD card work fine. I usually only load a few songs or albums. An 8gb card can hold over 1,500 music files.
Spotify music downloads go into a stupid protected mode that requires the app.
Sorry, I’ve not created a release yet. At the moment you’d need Android Studio to compile it yourself.
But if you’ll give me a few more days, I’ll create a release eventually. I think the only thing missing right know is support for Bluetooth (meaning stop music on disconnect and react to headset buttons).
I would prefer indexed if I had 27GB of music on my device. I am no math wizard but played 24/7 would take about 3.5 years to listen to every song once, assuming each song on average is 3 minutes - I may not live that long
It’s all about choice. I don’t want to preplan what I might want to listen to tomorrow and load that to the phone all the time, but be able to choose from my wast collection on a whim where ever I am.
And by the way, I think it’s 38Gb by now The 27Gb were just the properly tagged subset of my collection that wouldn’t end up under “Unknown artist”…
@MickeyKnox, may I ask, will this music app have seek i.e. 30 second rewind/fast-forward skipping options on the Now Playing screen? For some reason, virtually all players these days only use sliders, which is a terrible UI decision. Achieving any precision on a slippery glass screen is hard enough for the average person standing still, but trying to do so while walking/jogging is a non-starter. It also completely ignores people with motion/coordination issues whose hand/fingers are unsteady. (UI Design seems to be a dying art.)
My app doesn’t have a Now playing screen and no sliders. Only a button row at the bottom. And those include buttons to seek forward/backward by 5 seconds.
And I totally agree: sliders are a horrible UI. Well, I guess they have one thing going for them: they’re very intuitive.
There are no settings as of now and I’m not planning on settings for the moment. However, I could possibly be swayed to increase the seek amount to 10 seconds…
It just plays all the audio files from a directory.