I think every little bit helps. At least in my case, the media collection does not change that often, and I could use a few seconds of faster startup. Again I am only talking about this to be an option, and not the default behavior.
I agree , especially depending on what more is yet to come. However, these days I have found that there are many icons on the pull up that I hardly use, and at the same time, there are many frequently used ones, such as YouTube, that require two clicks.
How about a widget identical to the seek bar, right to the left of it ?
My point was , the app scans on startup, and then scans again on going to the artist view. That looked odd to me. But maybe you are saving effort by delaying a potentially time consuming scan.
Maybe you can have a special folder inside where all thumbnails are stored, and have a .jpg with the name of the artist with spaces substituted by dots or underscores. You can automatically pull from last.fm, or leave it on the user to supply their own pictures.
Another approach could be - in the Track Info view, you do not show the tracks on the left at all ! Instead show the albums . In the middle you show the currently playing album's cover-art by default, but if someone taps on the screen ( you have empty space on both sides of the cover-art), it goes to a scroll list with all track names in that album. This can timeout and go back to the cover-art after no items have been clicked on that list for a set period of time. Now, to switch albums, or to navigate through tracks in the currently playing album, the user does not need to go anywhere at all. If they want to switch albums, they use the left scroll. If they want to see tracks in the current album, they simply tap on the center.
I do realize this does not solve the problem of viewing tracks without playing them. I am just thinking out loud here, so not every suggestion is quite elegant I admit.
The way it works now is okay as well - but would it be possible to wrap around the text in the scrolling boxes ?
That is very generous of you and I am glad that I got in a lengthy wishlist without ticking you off I am motivated to provide you feedback because you have been updating your application much more often than the other apps out there, and that is indeed commendable.