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Basic Usage of Audio Player

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Rello edited this page Jan 24, 2019 · 39 revisions

The Audio Player is divided in three main sections:

  • The hideable navigation on the left hosts the selector for the graphical view at the top, the dropdown for the various category filters among them, and the settings at the lower edge.
  • The main view hosts the display of the audio files dependent on the navigation selection and the soundbar with the player above.
  • The hideable sidebar on the right hosts the metadata tab, the ID3 editor tab (separate app in development), and the playlists tab as well as the cover, the full file path, and the cklickable favorites star. A future extension, for example, will be the lyrics tab.

Navigation / Selection

  • Playlists
  • Artists
    • Default playlist sorting: Album –> Disc –> Track
    • Special feature: if more than one album, the number of albums of the selected artist in the table header
  • Album Artists
    • Default playlist sorting: Album –> Disc –> Track
    • Special feature: albums of an album artist counted instead of tracks
  • Albums
    • Default playlist sorting: Disc –> Track
    • Special feature: DISCNUMBER and TRACKNUMBER of the selected album as a special table column
  • Titles
    • Default playlist sorting: Album –> Disc –> Track
    • Special feature: all tracks of the music library in one playlist
  • Genres
    • Default playlist sorting: Album –> Disc –> Track
  • Years
    • Default playlist sorting: Album –> Disc –> Track
  • Folders
    • Default playlist sorting: Album –> Disc –> Track

Sidebar

To open the sidebar with additional information and actions about a track, move to the end of the line of the corresponding track in the playlist and click on the three dots. Instead of the overflow menu in the Files app, the sidebar with the cover art and the tabs opens on the right side.

Metadata

The following tags are listed on the metadata tab (empty tags are hidden):

  • Picture
  • Title
  • Subtitle
  • Artist
  • Album Artist
  • Composer
  • Album
  • Genre
  • Year
  • Disc
  • Track
  • Length
  • Bitrate
  • MIME type
  • ISRC
  • Copyright

Lyrics

To be developed …

ID3 Editor

Playlists

The playlists tab lists all the Standard Playlists that contain the selected track. Click on the trashcan to remove the entry from the respective list. It is currently not possible to remove more than one track from a playlist at a time.
"No playlist entry" indicates that the selected track is not an entry in any Standard Playlist.

Create Music Library

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Scan for New Audio Files

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Reset Music Library

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Playlists

Hint: Click or tap the column header to reverse the sort order (except the length).

Smart Playlists

Smart Playlists are created automatically. You can also add entries to the Favorites in the Files app.

  • Favorites
    • Entries in playlist: number of favorites
    • Default playlist sorting: Title in ascending order
  • Recently Added
    • Entries in playlist: 100
    • Default playlist sorting: file_id in descending order
  • Recently Played
    • Entries in playlist: 50
    • Default playlist sorting: timestamp in descending order
  • Most Played
    • Entries in playlist: 25
    • Default playlist sorting: play count in descending order

Playlist Files

Stream URLs

Playlist files with stream URLs contain streaming audio of Internet radio. The URL must end with an extension of a registered MIME type (.mp3, .ogg).

Local playlists

Audio Player is compatible with M3U playlists with relative file paths (relative path compared to the location of the m3u file; no absolute paths)

Standard Playlists

To create, edit, or delete a standard playlist, change the navigation dropdown to Playlists.
By using the "+" button, a new playlist is created and its name has to be entered.
When a standard playlist is selected, icons right to its name allow to change the name, sort or delete the list.
Titles can be added to a standard playlist either from the graphical album view or from Smart Playlists. Please select the album view, then set the dropdown to playlist or select a playlist from the selection in the sidebar. Then drag and drop files from the list to the required standard playlist. The playlist will raise its counter when the file was dropped.

Play Audio Files

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Supported Audio Formats

  • FLAC
  • MP3
  • MP4
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • Opus
  • Waveform Audio

Supported Playlist Formats

  • M3U
  • PLS

ID3 Tag Editor

The ID3 tag editor was outsourced from the main app into the separate Audio Player Editor app for later development. At this time there is no release of the editor available. It is highly recommended to use an external editor, for example Mp3tag.

Search Integration

Audio Player is integrated into the standard search of your cloud.
The search can be initiated from within the Files app and the Audio Player app itself via the default search field (click on the magnifier in the upper right hand corner) and will show the results in the "Search results in other folders" section, starting with "Audio Player - ...".
The search input is validated against titles, artists, and albums within your scanned library.

Title and album results will both direct you to the corresponding album, pre-opened within Audio Player. Artist results will direct you to the artist category selection.

Depending on your usage of Audio Player – category selection or graphical album view – the searched album will be pre-opened accordingly.

The search does not provide any automated playback of any kind.

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