It for some reason would include media that is on a folder that's not supposed to be music (for example, Ringtones, Recordings folder in the Music folder, Notifications, Alarms, etc), and since there's currently no way to ignore certain folders from being scanned, that would be absolutely annoying (especially me with over 500 ringtones (don't ask))

Here's an example:

I don't know if it can be done or not, but it would be amazing if either or both of those features could be added.

If I use the "change artist cover" from the menu, I can select a new image, it is applied to the artist, but as soon as I leave the page the artist image disappear and is not shown anymore, I have to select it again and again.

The apk is not reproducible.

diffoscope.zip

Could you please take a look? Thanks!

What feature would you like to be added?

Hi, I'd like to have the functionality to Invoke playing music files with this music player directly from other apps like the explorer.
This file does not necessarily have to be added automatically to the database.

Why should it be added?

I like exploring my file explorer and I wish it had the option to play files directly.
Instead, I have to use YouTube Music, which is pre-installed, but doesn't allow background playback or to use another app with a similar functionality which would make this app obsolete.

Examples

This is a screenshot of the explorer with the menu where I think the app should be shown

App Version

SimpleMP-Beta-1.8.0

Bug

Unsure if this is a bug or a feature request. The app drains the battery on my Pixel 7 on Android 14. Not serious drain but noticeable. Even if I'm not using the app, often, I'll see the sync notification icon appear. That gives me the impression that the app is constantly working in the background which eats away at battery life. I'm not concerned with heavily optimizing the application but if it's always working in the background, that might not be the best behavior.

For a start, a setting for changing the sync process would be helpful. For instance, having the application only sync upon opening or upon manual request. For somebody like me, I can go weeks or months before I add new media and require a sync. Once syncing is resolved, as the app is developed, general optimizations may improve battery over time. I'm not concerned with battery wear as I use the app. Just the battery wear while the app is in the background not playing audio.

Granted, I am new to the app, so I may need my phone to get used to running the app or perform more tests.

Many of my albums are structured in "alphabetical" order inside the file structure: e.g. 01 - title or 01 - artist - title .. The simple audio player does not regocnize those and and seems to follow something else, maybe the time stamp? Also one of my albums has been splitted into two.

Hey,
Great app, wish there was a way to donate!
Would it be possible to add a "Sort by artist" option to the album view?
Cheers!

Every time I reload songs the app is crashing. Was like that before, I just forgot to put it up n issues.

It would be great so that instead of requiring full reload, new songs could be added after refreshing the list. Androids default file manager sorts audio files seamlessly.

Seemingly random but quite often crashes after the song is done playing. I suggest skipping the song if it has issues playing, instead of crashing and adding some reporting with tracing or helpful info to aid in case other crashes happen in the future.

Description

I have installed SimpleMP and gone though the initial setup, granting all requested permissions. Android is reporting the app to be not responding, despite functioning correctly.
My phone is a Sony Xperia 10 IV (Model XQ-CC54).
My Android version is Android 13.
My App version is BETA-1.3.1.
The issue occurs both by installing from the Google Play Store as well as the APK from Github.

Screenshot

Request

Is it possible to suppress the pop-ups, as they seem to be incorrect?

Setting any time to be filter doesn't remove any songs from the list.

As far as i know the icon is not Material You and there is no option to change that.

I can't start the app as it crashes on startup.

I checked catlog during the startup animation and it does set data sources but it seems pretty slow.

After a couple of minutes I seem to run out of memory/ ram and the launcher becomes unresponsive with the app ultimately crashing.

Music folder contains 7,322 items, totaling 49.36 GB with a mix of flac and mp3.

I would appreciate if there is also the Titel and artist of current song and maybe the cover in foreground service. Tested on API 29

Add Folder View and the ability to hide specific folders (so the song/albums are also hidden in the other tabs)

Songs come to a hard stop when they end. If listening to an album where songs transition into each other, the immersion is broken. :(

Making the next song instantly play when the previous song ends would be a good start. Having the ability to customize the crossfade time between songs could be even better.

This is lacking android auto compatibility, is it planned or too complicated ?

What feature would you like to be added?

Similar to Spotify, a sleep timer where after a set amount of time the music will automatically stop

Why should it be added?

*A popular feature that (hopefully) shouldn't be too hard to implement *

Examples

first of all ur app looks good. but the apk size is more than expected.
as compared to other open source music players such as auxio, zen, symphony and many more out there.

Cannot go to the previous song if there's a deleted song between current and previous.
Example: (desired song) => (deleted song) <=> (current)
I suggest deleted songs are removed from the list instead of just skipping to next one.

Hi,

I'm doing a self-promotion here :)
Please ignore/close it if you are not interested.

Would you like to use the wavy-slider in your app?
I think Android 13 uses this kind of slider for its media controls.

Demo.

Currently only dragging works, and it's not really intuitive (took me 3 weeks to find out). I suggest tapping is added as an option to open the page.

Simply spamming multiple (2-5) reload songs causes app to crash, couldn't catch with the debugger, but there should be a safeguard against spawning multiple as it doesn't make sense to have them.

Dragging top one song just removes the next one instead of the expected swap. Dragging any other song works as expected.