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Music Apps Question

i use the stock music player, mostly because the tunewiki app/widget (especially widget) are ugly as sin and the buttons are too small.

the stock music player also integrates into my last.fm app; tunewiki has last.fm but it automatically scrobbles in the app, and i want to use the last.fm widget, which tunewiki doesnt' seem to integrate into (i may be doing something wrong there).

one thing i don't like, tunewiki seems to be opening on startup on me (even when the widget isn't on my home screen) which i don't like.

however, i love the idea behind tunewiki, hopefully they can get a good designer on board and stop it from running on phone boot :)
 
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Where will that folder show up? I created on my home screen (should I have created it somewhere else?) and it is not showing up in the "no name" icon folder on my Mac. Yes, I correctly mounted, unmounted etc.

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folders on your home screen vs folders on your SD card are different - when you create a folder on the home screen, you won't see it when you mount the drive to your computer.

mounting shows you the contents of the SD card, which you can imagine as an external drive, whereas the folders on your homescreen are equivalent of your internal hard drive on your computer (yes, this is a very strange but visually easy to understand similie).

so, you won't have to create anything on your home screen, just mount the phone to your computer, and on the "No Name" drive on your mac create a Music folder, and drag what you want in there.

it should automatically find them no matter where on the SD card you put them.

edit: you got it AND someone else replied while i was typing...darn! :)
 
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i use the stock music player, mostly because the tunewiki app/widget (especially widget) are ugly as sin and the buttons are too small.

the stock music player also integrates into my last.fm app; tunewiki has last.fm but it automatically scrobbles in the app, and i want to use the last.fm widget, which tunewiki doesnt' seem to integrate into (i may be doing something wrong there).

one thing i don't like, tunewiki seems to be opening on startup on me (even when the widget isn't on my home screen) which i don't like.

however, i love the idea behind tunewiki, hopefully they can get a good designer on board and stop it from running on phone boot :)

TuneWiki 2.0 will not run on boot. It currently runs anytime the Android Media scanner finishes scanning, so that it can synchronize the internal TuneWiki library with the Media scanner's list. The media scanner scans on boot. This will no longer be necessary in TuneWiki 2.0. In 2.0 we will have some UI refinement, but in the long term we will be changing the UI quite a bit, so keep an eye out.

Thanks for your feedback!
 
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TuneWiki 2.0 will not run on boot. It currently runs anytime the Android Media scanner finishes scanning, so that it can synchronize the internal TuneWiki library with the Media scanner's list. The media scanner scans on boot.


makes sense but... :) to me that sounds like it does run on boot then, even if it's not firing itself because the phone booted, the user experience is: phone boots, tunewiki is started :p

that's not to say i don't understand why, and thank you for the explanation, knowing what it's doing encourages me to install it again. if this was in the release notes i must have skimmed it; if it's not i'd suggest adding it? as it's the only reason i uninstalled tunewiki and now that i know the deal will be putting it back on the phone so i can keep track of updates for when the design of the widget is changed up some (the look doesn't bother me as much as the size of the buttons to be honest)

thanks for taking the time to jump into the thread with good info!
 
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makes sense but... :) to me that sounds like it does run on boot then, even if it's not firing itself because the phone booted, the user experience is: phone boots, tunewiki is started :p

that's not to say i don't understand why, and thank you for the explanation, knowing what it's doing encourages me to install it again. if this was in the release notes i must have skimmed it; if it's not i'd suggest adding it? as it's the only reason i uninstalled tunewiki and now that i know the deal will be putting it back on the phone so i can keep track of updates for when the design of the widget is changed up some (the look doesn't bother me as much as the size of the buttons to be honest)

thanks for taking the time to jump into the thread with good info!

Good point, it does basically run on boot. Don't worry though, just keep an eye out for 2.0 where we will no longer run on boot...it will include other changes that makes the background playback service shutdown much faster when your music is paused or stopped also.
 
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Good point, it does basically run on boot. Don't worry though, just keep an eye out for 2.0 where we will no longer run on boot...it will include other changes that makes the background playback service shutdown much faster when your music is paused or stopped also.

Awesome! Can't wait :) Is there somewhere to see a list of upcoming changes? The big one I'm concerned about is the design of the widget, I really like the simplicity and large buttons on the default music widget and the last.fm player. If not no biggie, I'll just wait with baited breath, as I really want to switch to TuneWiki. I already reinstalled it ;)
 
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