Pretty Good Music Player
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About Pretty Good Music Player
Tired of music players that take forever to start up because they're loading ads or trying to download stuff? Of music players that ignore Bluetooth controls, or stop responding after a few minutes? I was too, so I wrote this app!
The Pretty Good Music Player is an open source (GPL) folder-based music player with no frills. It's small, it's responsive, and it plays music.
Feature Details:
- Audiobook mode for resuming playback where you left off
- Notification controls
- The color theme and text size are now configurable!
- This player protects against accidental pausing when your phone is jostled and the headphone cord shifts. I added this because it was annoying when my phone was in my pocket and would auto-pause because the headphone cable was bumped.
- Plays .mp3, .m4p, .m4a, .aac, and many more types of audio files.
- Accepts play, pause, previous, and next commands from Bluetooth headsets.
- When you select 'All songs' for a given artist, the songs are ordered by album, not alphabetically.
- Automatically pauses and resumes when another app (e.g. GPS) needs audio.
- If another app needs audio for more than 30 seconds (e.g. a phone call), it does not automatically resume.
- "Repeat All" is always on.
- If you click "back" too quickly, it double checks that you want to leave before quitting.
Expected Folder Layout:
It's designed to work with artist folders copied from iTunes. That means it expects directory structure:
music/
artist/
/album1
/01 - First Song.mp3
/02 - Second Song.mp3
/03 - Third Song.mp3
/04 - Fourth Song.mp3
/album2
/01 - Another Song.mp3
....
Misc:
I've noticed that if I pause a song for an extended period of time, I need to press and hold the 'pause' button on my Bluetooth headset to get it to resume playing.
The full source code is available here: https://github.com/smithdtyler/prettygoodmusicplayer
The Pretty Good Music Player also has a Facebook page where I post information about coming releases and issues and enhancements:
https://www.facebook.com/PrettyGoodMusicPlayer
The awesome icon was designed by Emily Krueger of Vine Creative: http://www.vinecreativemn.com/
If you have any problems, please leave a comment with as much information as possible and I'll try to get a fix out ASAP.
Compatibility:
Bluetooth control tested with an LG Electronics Tone+ HBS-730 Bluetooth Headset
Legal Stuff:
Pretty Good Music Player
Copyright Tyler Smith 2014
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for a full copy of the GNU General Public License.
Reddit Stuff:
I post on Reddit as https://www.reddit.com/user/MythsBusted
The Pretty Good Music Player is an open source (GPL) folder-based music player with no frills. It's small, it's responsive, and it plays music.
Feature Details:
- Audiobook mode for resuming playback where you left off
- Notification controls
- The color theme and text size are now configurable!
- This player protects against accidental pausing when your phone is jostled and the headphone cord shifts. I added this because it was annoying when my phone was in my pocket and would auto-pause because the headphone cable was bumped.
- Plays .mp3, .m4p, .m4a, .aac, and many more types of audio files.
- Accepts play, pause, previous, and next commands from Bluetooth headsets.
- When you select 'All songs' for a given artist, the songs are ordered by album, not alphabetically.
- Automatically pauses and resumes when another app (e.g. GPS) needs audio.
- If another app needs audio for more than 30 seconds (e.g. a phone call), it does not automatically resume.
- "Repeat All" is always on.
- If you click "back" too quickly, it double checks that you want to leave before quitting.
Expected Folder Layout:
It's designed to work with artist folders copied from iTunes. That means it expects directory structure:
music/
artist/
/album1
/01 - First Song.mp3
/02 - Second Song.mp3
/03 - Third Song.mp3
/04 - Fourth Song.mp3
/album2
/01 - Another Song.mp3
....
Misc:
I've noticed that if I pause a song for an extended period of time, I need to press and hold the 'pause' button on my Bluetooth headset to get it to resume playing.
The full source code is available here: https://github.com/smithdtyler/prettygoodmusicplayer
The Pretty Good Music Player also has a Facebook page where I post information about coming releases and issues and enhancements:
https://www.facebook.com/PrettyGoodMusicPlayer
The awesome icon was designed by Emily Krueger of Vine Creative: http://www.vinecreativemn.com/
If you have any problems, please leave a comment with as much information as possible and I'll try to get a fix out ASAP.
Compatibility:
Bluetooth control tested with an LG Electronics Tone+ HBS-730 Bluetooth Headset
Legal Stuff:
Pretty Good Music Player
Copyright Tyler Smith 2014
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for a full copy of the GNU General Public License.
Reddit Stuff:
I post on Reddit as https://www.reddit.com/user/MythsBusted
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Add Hungarian translation
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Fix a couple error conditions for listing all songs.
Added option to play all files, recursive search for songs in an album.
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Fixed occasional pauses while playing.
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Added wakelock while playing
Improved my pause on disconnect behavior.
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Added application to music category.
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Corrected an error that caused the player crash on bluetooth disconnect.
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Corrected handling of upper case file extensions (thanks https://github.com/deveee!)
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Add Hungarian translation
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Fix a couple error conditions for listing all songs.
Added option to play all files, recursive search for songs in an album.
------
Fixed occasional pauses while playing.
---
Added wakelock while playing
Improved my pause on disconnect behavior.
-------
Added application to music category.
---
Corrected an error that caused the player crash on bluetooth disconnect.
---
Corrected handling of upper case file extensions (thanks https://github.com/deveee!)
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Version update Pretty Good Music Player was updated to version 3.3.3
Version update Pretty Good Music Player was updated to version 3.3.2
Version update Pretty Good Music Player was updated to version 3.2.14
Version update Pretty Good Music Player was updated to version 3.2.6
What are users saying about Pretty Good Music Player
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Love the simplicity and the minimal permissions, but it won't play WMA files.
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Best music player featuring a crying furry.
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Es mi reproductor favorito de audio en android, es rápido y sus gráficos son estilo material design, lo único que lo pudiera hacer mas perfecto es que lea los mp3s de google músic o spotify lists o podcasts
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Love the simplicity of the app. Can you put an option to change tracks by swiping the screen left of right. Thanks! (K.I.S.S rule- keep it simple stupid)
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It's not some fancy material holo yolo. It just works wonderful that's it.
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Needs some work. But still going to be my main player. Nice work saw on reddit.
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I would love an option to shuffle all music in the current folder (entire collection or artist). It would allow me to replace Shuttle as my main music player on an old, low powered device.
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Simple design, not perfect functionality. My issues are lack of in-line headphone control, and when unplugging headphones the music will continue playing for 2 seconds before stopping.
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Awesome light weight player! Liked it very much :-)) Have ask the features that I need
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Es mi reproductor favorito de audio en android, es rápido y sus gráficos son estilo material design, lo único que lo pudiera hacer mas perfecto es que lea los mp3s de google músic o spotify lists o podcadts
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Stumbled on to this at reddit. And I'm glad I did. The UI couldn't be any simpler and that's the way I like it.
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Get the jobs done, simple and lightweight. Very good.
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I love seeing more GPL stuff in the Play store and this is a sweet and simple as you could want, but a little more eye candy would not go amiss: * Album art from a scrobbler * Some more colours (black and white) * The white lines are a little thick and possibly unecessary * Some iconography to define the differences between folders and songs
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Needs some work. But still going to be my main player. Nice work saw on reddit.
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should be a button that says ”set this directory ” ... still not sure if I did what I wanted ... totally guessing ... and don't make me find a song to play, to start ... let me start playing from the list, and if I do, auto-shuffle ... and apparently it's still not that simple as it's now replaying the same song over and over, on shuffle ... uninstalling
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Very pretty ugly!
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It just keeps stop working when I click play its the worst music app ever! Get it fixed
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Super fast, no useless frills or spamware to get in the way. Also, from a security perspective, it has a nice small footprint and doesn't ask for resources it doesn't need.
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Very nice simple app, fwd/back icons are not showing up for me when pulling the app down from the top, but I can click in the gray area and it works. "Goodnight server room" link referred me here.