Android Music Pump XBMC Remote

Hey I love this app, it's looking great already, and it's nice to have a remote app that doesn't look horrible on my tablet. Although on the nexus 7 it doesn't use the tablet interface, which is annoying.

I also noticed that the TV show image never sows up on the now playing.

One more thing, you should include an option to stream a particular video to my android device. This would be much better than having to deal with upnp browsers...

I will add an option to force the tablet layout in the settings and try to find out why the nexus 7 does not get recognized as tablet. Does it actually still force close on android 4.1?

Tv show album art is not yet implemented in the now playing screen that is why you never see it ;-)

Streaming movies to the android device is currently not possible because the files sent by the xbmc webserver are not seekeable and thus fail to play on almost all android videoplayer I tried. Guess we have to wait until xbmc provides a seekeable url like the one returned for upnp.

Feature Request...

Can you add a browse function, or set alternative folders, so we can use the external AD which android does not index?

I love your app but it is a pita to use for local music... all other apps i have tried have the above feature but i would like to just use yours.

Thx

(2012-07-29 22:44)Millencolin007 Wrote:  I will add an option to force the tablet layout in the settings and try to find out why the nexus 7 does not get recognized as tablet.

I think the answer is that the Nexus 7 also uses the mobile frontend, so from a technical perspective it is no tablet but a large phone without phone functionality.

(2012-07-31 08:27)pigeldi Wrote:  

(2012-07-29 22:44)Millencolin007 Wrote:  I will add an option to force the tablet layout in the settings and try to find out why the nexus 7 does not get recognized as tablet.

I think the answer is that the Nexus 7 also uses the mobile frontend, so from a technical perspective it is no tablet but a large phone without phone functionality.

Every phone/tablet can be mapped into a generalized screen size (small, normal, large and xlarge). Normally devices >= 7 inch use xlarge but the nexus 7 seems to use large (devices <= 7 inch). That is the reason it does not pick up the tablet layout by default.

(2012-07-30 23:49)Livin Wrote:  Feature Request...

Can you add a browse function, or set alternative folders, so we can use the external AD which android does not index?

I love your app but it is a pita to use for local music... all other apps i have tried have the above feature but i would like to just use yours.

Thx

Sorry but I am probably not going to implement browsing by folders for offline data since this means a lot of work and changes and I am not sure how many people would really prefer using music pump to listen to their offline music when there are many good mp3 players out there. Well I am glad you prefer Music Pump ;-)

BTW: On most of my devices music also gets indexed from the external storage and the removable external storage.

Did you disable auto refresh music in the settings by chance? This would mean that new songs would not get scanned into the offline library and you have to long press on "Offline Mode" from the main menu to refresh the songs manually.

There is an update in the android market

New features:
- Added auto login (has to be enabled in settings)
- Added support for sending youtube links to xbmc
- Added option to send single files (music, video or image) from a file explorer to xbmc
- Added wake on lan ( Set the mac address in server properties )
- Added option to force tablet layout on the device (Nexus 7 was not properly detected as Tablet)
- Added simple Image browsing

Fixes:
- Fixed some force close issues in the album view for Jelly Bean users
- Fixed app widget in Jelly Bean
- Fixed some problems with album grouping/sorting ( Still displaying the last artist from a cd with more than one artist)
- Tons of other small fixes

Thanks for the update.
Have you taken a look at the file-extention problem? (As described here)
I am no experienced programmer, but shouldn't it be fixable within a few lines of code? Just check if the file is a m4a and append the file extention accordingly.

(2012-08-03 11:11)marvin1985 Wrote:  Thanks for the update.
Have you taken a look at the file-extention problem? (As described here)
I am no experienced programmer, but shouldn't it be fixable within a few lines of code? Just check if the file is a m4a and append the file extention accordingly.

Yes I had a look at it. I had set the file extension statically to ".mp3" for downloaded files. I didn't fix it yet because I am not sure if and how I should handle already downloaded files with the wrong extension. (Rename, leave them on the sdcard...).

I would suggest to leave the already downloaded files as they are. So the end users can either rename the affected files themselves via usb-mode or just delete those files and redownload.