Notices

Madman, I don't know if others are having my problem. Many of my MP3 songs have screwed up tags so that for "Title" it displays "Track 14". Can you add to "Preferences" a box that causes the "Title" to display the file name instead? Also, if that box is clicked, could you remove the "Artist" and "Album" columns? Thanks!

I have 0.6.0~beta4-1. It took me a while to figure out how to work with Playlists, so I'm going to post what I discovered here. Forgive me if this is incorrect / obvious / covered elsewhere in this thread.

CREATING A PLAYLIST
1. Go to menu / Playlist and tap on "New Playlist" (bottom option if there are many)
2. It should give you an opportunity to enter the name of the playlist.
3. You can tap and hold on the name of the playlist to either add files to that playlist or change the name of the playlist or delete the playlist.

MY WISH LIST (Madman, feel free to cherry-pick / ignore as you see fit):
* Rename the item menu / Playlist / New Playlist to "Create New Playlist". Otherwise, if you create a bunch of new playlists and don't edit the name, you have multiple items called New Playlist in the same menu & it's confusing.
* If I tap & hold to rename a playlist, that name change isn't reflected in menu / Playlist until I restart YouAmp.
* Rename the "Add" option in the playlist's tap and hold menu to "Add Tracks" or something to clarify that you're adding to that playlist rather than adding a new playlist to the system.
* If I choose "Add" twice, the second "Add" doesn't remember what folder I was in for the first "Add". Remembering the folder would be nice.
* It would be nice to be able to add files to a playlist from within YouAmp. For example, browse or search to display a bunch of tracks, highlight a bunch of them, tap and hold, choose Add to Playlist and then choose the playlist (either via a submenu or a separate dialog).
* It's not obvious that I can tap and hold on the playlist name. What about putting your little down arrow icon next to it for a pull-down menu? Perhaps the first few options could be Add, Rename, Delete, but after that you could just list the other playlists.

thanks for the good suggestions. I have noted them on my todo for youamp and will certainly come back to them, the next time I work on YouAmp.

you can already add single tracks to the currently selected playlist using the hold and tap menu for tracks. Unfortunately hold-and-tap somehow conflicts with multiple selection - so you have add tracks oneby-one-right now...

A sad day for me and YouAmp! It wouldn't read music from my new 32GB flash drive!

Longer story:
1. A while ago, I got an ativa 4GB flash drive and an OTG USB cable. I plugged these into my N810. File manager recognized the USB drive &, when I pointed YouAmp to the flash drive (saved preferences, restarted YouAmp), YouAmp read music files from it.
2. Now, I've purchased a Kingston Patriot 32GB flash drive. I plugged it in using the same cable. File Manager recognizes it. MediaBox reads music from it. But when I point YouAmp to it, the next time I start YouAmp it updates for just a few seconds and then I'm looking at a blank music library. :-(

Perplexing. I would really prefer to use YouAmp b/c it's so much more straightforward than MediaBox. All MediaBox's bells & whistles will waste time for me and make my wife hate my N810 even more. But right now I'm stuck.

I just downloaded 0.6.0. When I start it it continually displays "Updating database" - which never goes away. I can preform some functions, but it never lists any of the music in the directories I select and hence can't do anything useful with it. Too bad because it looks like a nice player without all the extra fluff.

George

In "Preferences", "General" choose a folder for "Music Folder" that actually contains music files. First click on the drive or memory card, then click on "other" to choose a folder. All of my music are mp3 files and I have no problems with version 0.6.0.

Yep, that's what I did. I selected Browse and drilled down from there and nothing shows up. The other players I've tried have no problem listing my mp3 files.

Also why does it continually display "Updating database" at startup?

George

When I "browse" the "music folder" I do not "see" any individual music files. After I click on "close" I get the "Updating database" message.

Oh, well then how do you select a file to play?

George

When I run the app, all of my songs show up below the "Title, Artist, Album" heading. The first song is highlighted and I click on the play button. All songs are played, one after the other.