Android Music Pump XBMC Remote

2 bugs:
- Track numbers are displayed as something like 654391, 654392, 654393 etc for all albums
- MP3 files with multiple tags for genre are not handled correctly. They are seperated by ; as is sort of the standard for multi genre tagging. XBMC itself handles them fine, but Music Pump has issues.

Unfortunatly the genre issues is a dealbreaker that makes the program in its current state non functional for me. Other then that the program looks very slick, fast and full of potential!

(2012-06-27 20:16)misterpink Wrote:  Another poster asked about this, and I suppose this is related to the recent multi-room posts - any way to code in airplay devices as playback destinations other than the android device or xbmc?

I had a look at the airplay protocol a couple of moths ago but run into problems to get the reverse communication channel working properly with xbmc which is the only airplay devices I own. Therefore no airplay support is planned for the moment

(2012-06-27 20:23)mcage Wrote:  2 bugs:
- Track numbers are displayed as something like 654391, 654392, 654393 etc for all albums
- MP3 files with multiple tags for genre are not handled correctly. They are seperated by ; as is sort of the standard for multi genre tagging. XBMC itself handles them fine, but Music Pump has issues.

Unfortunatly the genre issues is a dealbreaker that makes the program in its current state non functional for me. Other then that the program looks very slick, fast and full of potential!

track number:
Hmm, these track numbers are returned by the json rpc interface, there is not much I can do about it. Are you actually using XBMC v11 "Eden" because this is the only supported XBMC version at the moment?

Genres:
This will be very complicated to fix, since my db schema does not support multiple genres. I wasn't even aware that people add multiple genres to their mp3 files using a ; as delimiter.

- Update with Movie and TV Show support available in the market!
- Added lockscreen control
- Added album sort order
- Rescan music / video library
- Artist albums
- many small fixes

(2012-06-28 00:09)Millencolin007 Wrote:  

(2012-06-27 20:23)mcage Wrote:  2 bugs:
- Track numbers are displayed as something like 654391, 654392, 654393 etc for all albums
- MP3 files with multiple tags for genre are not handled correctly. They are seperated by ; as is sort of the standard for multi genre tagging. XBMC itself handles them fine, but Music Pump has issues.

Unfortunatly the genre issues is a dealbreaker that makes the program in its current state non functional for me. Other then that the program looks very slick, fast and full of potential!

track number:
Hmm, these track numbers are returned by the json rpc interface, there is not much I can do about it. Are you actually using XBMC v11 "Eden" because this is the only supported XBMC version at the moment?

Genres:
This will be very complicated to fix, since my db schema does not support multiple genres. I wasn't even aware that people add multiple genres to their mp3 files using a ; as delimiter.

I reported the same error about track numbers some time ago. My guess was:
Another small bug: It seems that for tracks with 3 digit track numbers like 106, it somehow displays numbers like 65537.
In all other MP3 players the track numbers are fine, also in XBMC itself (Eden), only a problem with this remote.

Will try out the new version these days, hope that you go on with development as especially on android tablets a good remote does not exist so far!

The false track numbers are a bug in the json-rpc interface from xbmc. It seems that if an m3 file contains the cd number in the id3 tag a false track number is returned. Here is an example of the data I get back from xbmc. I will report this bug so that it will get fixed in the next xbmc release.

(2012-06-28 23:47)Millencolin007 Wrote:  The false track numbers are a bug in the json-rpc interface from xbmc. It seems that if an m3 file contains the cd number in the id3 tag a false track number is returned. Here is an example of the data I get back from xbmc. I will report this bug so that it will get fixed in the next xbmc release.

Code:

{
    "album": "Write About Love",
    "artist": "Belle and Sebastian",
    "duration": 273,
    "file": "/home/xbmc/Music/new/Belle and Sebastian - I Want the World to Stop.mp3",
    "genre": "Indie",
    "label": "I Want the World to Stop",
    "rating": 48,
    "songid": 18,
    "thumbnail": "special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Music/2/22e91d13.tbn",
    "title": "I Want the World to Stop",
    "track": 65540
},

looks actually that I can retrieve the track number by using "track modulo 65536" and "track / 65536" to retrieve the disc number

This app is way cool-- it's the first remote app I've ever tried. I don't own an android device, but I maintain/update a family member's aging HTC Desire. So while I was updating it to the latest Cyanogenmod yesterday, I took the time to check this out with our XBMC library. And although music is the one section of the library I still don't use yet (thus, I couldn't test the area where the app is most specialized), I can say the movies/TV stuff you recently added works pretty damn well!

Thanks for sharing your great work, Millencolin007. Repped! :-)

Tried the new version yesterday, much better and also TV and movie playback basically works.
My wish list for next versions:
-Remember last selected XBMC installation and automatically select it (so you don't have to connect manually each time you start the app)
-Have a music album view sorted by album artist (currently only sorted by album name, the artist view on the other side is useless for me as I have many various artists albums, so many artists with only one track). XBMC itself can also do that.

Bonus for the movies part:
-Support sets
-Support watched status, so you can only display the movies you have not seen

Besides that for now I am already quite satisfied :-)
Hope you keep up the good work!

Quote:Tried the new version yesterday, much better and also TV and movie playback basically works.
My wish list for next versions:
-Remember last selected XBMC installation and automatically select it (so you don't have to connect manually each time you start the app)

Currently you need one click on "Reconnect" since it reconnects to the last xbmc instance. So we are talking about one additional click. And every user wants some different kind of auto login: Login to default server, login to last server, login to a different server if you are on 3g network or wifi..

I was thinking about letting the user add a launcher shortcut which directly reconnects to the xbmc instance he wants.

Quote:-Have a music album view sorted by album artist (currently only sorted by album name, the artist view on the other side is useless for me as I have many various artists albums, so many artists with only one track). XBMC itself can also do that.

This feature is already there. Under settings you can change the "Album sort order" by artist or by album

Quote:Bonus for the movies part:
-Support sets

Will maybe add this later, but this is a low priority since I never use this feature myself

Quote:-Support watched status, so you can only display the movies you have not seen

This feature is also present. From the movie or tv show screens you can hit the dropdown menu on top right to show/hide watched items