Ampache Mobile 0.8.0

The big addition to 0.8.0 is a playlist viewer.  With the start of some editing functionality, eventually it will allow you to build, edit and save playlists on your server.

Version 0.8.0 (Beta) (03/14/2010)

NOTE: New application name space, no longer using com.palm.ampachemobile, the API is mature enough to move to com.ampachemobile. This means 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 can coexist. Transfer account settings and delete old app.

• New Feature: Playlist view added to now playing screen.
  • Application saves last view state between sessions
  • Swipe to delete

    

  • Drag to reorder
  • Buffer and playback indicators  
  • Tap Header to toggle view
  • Coming with Ampache 3.6, ability to save a now playing list to the server
• New Feature: Added configuration for auto stall recovery, per account. Default:Off
  • Turn this off if you are having issues with songs restarting
• New Feature: List Jump: tap the header on a page with dividers to bring up a Selector to jump down in the list. No more scrolling forever.
  • Currently on Artists and Albums Lists
  • Long lists can take awhile to populate the drop down, be patient
• New Feature: New splash screen when app starts
• New Feature: Volume Keys: instructs webOS that the application wants music volume, allows changing of music volume prior to starting playback of music
• Improvement: Added drag to reorder accounts in preferences screen.
• Improvement: Requests which result in no information from the server now display a useful message allow the user to retry the request. Formerly these messages were mistaken as Unicode errors.
• Improvement: Request confirmation for preferences screen when playing music
• Improvement: About... now shows server information

  

• Bug Fix: Downloading indicators broke with webOS 1.4
• Bug Fix: Simplified AudioPlayer class due to improvements made in webOS media handling
• Bug Fix: Fixed alpha divider in artists view.
• Known Bug: Ampache 3.5.4 broke stream all songs. Requested fix, slated for Ampache 3.6. Added error message.

Ampache Mobile 0.7.0

I'm really excited about this release. Hope everyone likes it as much as I do.

Version 0.7.0 (Beta)

• New Feature: Now Playing
  • Any list of songs can be enqueued onto the end of the current playlist
  • Tap and Hold a song to add just that song
  • Delete the now playing list from any scene
  • TODO: Build a playlist editor to remove items from a list

 

• New Feature: Random Music 
  • Shuffle all Songs NOTE: This is using an documented method from the Ampache Server and does not allow for retrieval of song information.
  • Random Album Selector cover-flow like to allow random browsing
  • Artist, Albums, Songs of the moment lists

• New Feature: Redesign of progress indicator for loading content, works the same as the web browser and you can cancel while loading at any point.
• New Feature: Added the ability to e-mail the xml from problem tracks with corrupted tags to enable easier debug
• Improvement: Auto restart stalled stream after 20 seconds of stalled state.
• Improvement: Optimized all images included in the ipk making for a much smaller download.
  • NOTE: If you are using the included backgrounds you will need to reset
    your settings.
• Improvement: Modified all icons to have the same look and feel.
• Improvement: Spinner on now playing scene is now in the command menu and not covering up the cover art.
• Improvement: Made restarting a partially downloaded list optional, button click continues download
• Improvement: Removed all scene transitions makes the app much faster
• Improvement: Fixed the buffering indicator
  • Can now move the slider outside the buffered part of a song and it will start the download from the point you dropped
  • If the start of the buffer has been deleted by the audio service it will now be displayed
  • Fixed the issue where it would resize itself and make the now playing screen jump around
• Bug Fix: Added code to remove bad characters resulting in "Unicode error" on the application side

Announcing the Ampache Mobile Blog

I'm a huge consumer of RSS feeds so I thought I'd create my own to let people know about news concerning Ampache Mobile and it's development.

I plan on announcing releases here as well as other fun stuff regarding Ampache and streaming music.