Astro Player Beta

Andrew Terekhine · Mar 25, 2010

Astro Player is a media player with audiobooks and podcasts support. AP has advanced bookmarking functionality. It introduces several unique features like fast playback, equalizer, and non-unicode tags support. Moreover, it shows lyrics, supports scrobbling, album art, has convenient file browser with play folder option. It's still in beta and could be unstable. Any suggestions or opinions are welcomed!

New thread in "Android Apps and Games": http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7268951
Download: http://www.astroplayer.com/download/Astro Player Beta.apk

2010-07-16 1.40
Playlists: add several files or folders
Fixes in the music browser
New actions: fforward/rewind 1min, 2min, 3min, 15sec, custom
New skin TestSkin.xml has been created

2010-06-25 1.39
Album/artist browser
Stability fixes

2010-06-25 1.38
Stability fixes

2010-06-20 1.37
Lock screen widget with gestures and album art
WVGA screen and quit button fixes
Stability fixes

2010-06-04 1.35
Overall speed improvements
Audio stuttering fix
Background mode fix
Multiple covers per track
Stability fixes

2010-05-15 1.34
Stability fixes

2010-05-08 1.33
Hotkeys, buttons, actions organizer
Fetches missing album art
Podcasts improvements
New landscape design
Stability fixes

2010-04-10 1.32
Menu organizer fixes
Stability fixes

2010-04-03 1.31
Menu items configuration
Fixed long delay between tracks
Tags instead file names in the playlist
Adapted new design for Droid

2010-03-23 1.30
Widget fix
Loading screen fix

Christopher3712 · Mar 25, 2010

Initially it looks good. I'm still going through it and will edit this post i'm sure. The first thing I noticed was your directions on how to add files. Anyone with common sense would be able to figure it out, however, for those that can't figure it out- you need to darken the text. White instruction text on a light background is hard to read. Other than that, so far so good!

Andrew Terekhine · Mar 25, 2010

Thanks, Ok it will be addressed in the coming build. We have no such issues in other skins: e.g. menu > more > select view > main view.

PanzerGeist · Mar 25, 2010

Just installed. Initial impressions are good.
The UI when the screen is rotated 90 degrees is a bit off-putting (ran that way for five minutes before re-orienting and getting the WAY pretty interface).
EDIT: Just read your reply about other skins. Fixed my issue. I'm retarded.

I dig it. More to come and I use and abuse it.

xaueious · Mar 26, 2010

I'm been looking for an audio player that displays lrc lyrics. Otherwise some basic tag editing out be a nice touch as well.

alabasta10 · Mar 26, 2010

There's a lot potential in this player and what it can do when it is fully developed, I love the equalizer, I think, one of the first, if not the first music player that offer eq that works!

but some presets are always welcomed to be more user-friendly.. just my 2-cents

Andrew Terekhine · Apr 4, 2010

Christopher3712 said:
Initially it looks good. I'm still going through it and will edit this post i'm sure. The first thing I noticed was your directions on how to add files. Anyone with common sense would be able to figure it out, however, for those that can't figure it out- you need to darken the text. White instruction text on a light background is hard to read. Other than that, so far so good!

It's fixed in #31

el_smurfo · Apr 4, 2010

Why does it need location and phone state permissions? I think I'll stick to the stock, non stalker player.

Andrew Terekhine · Apr 4, 2010

Phone state (READ_PHONE_STATE) is used for handling the headset button (we don't handle it while incoming phone call)
Location (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) is used for ads

Andrew Terekhine · Apr 4, 2010

xaueious said:
I'm been looking for an audio player that displays lrc lyrics. Otherwise some basic tag editing out be a nice touch as well.

lrc lyrics and tag editings are on the way.

el_smurfo · Apr 4, 2010

Andrew Terekhine said:
Phone state (READ_PHONE_STATE) is used for handling the headset button (we don't handle it while incoming phone call)
Location (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) is used for ads

Thanks for the clarification. I wish every dev listed out the exact use for each permission request.

Tried out the player and it's great. I tried "Music Folder Player" many times but it never worked properly with CM (wouldn't populate the playlist). This app creates a playlist from my default music folder and play them as designed...

Andrew Terekhine · May 9, 2010

Astro Player's new version 1.33 is now available.
Changes:
Hotkeys, buttons, actions organizer
Fetches missing album art
Podcasts improvements
New landscape design
Stability fixes

el_smurfo · May 9, 2010

Does it still cut out and/or stop playing when you switch to another process such as gmail?

Tyler1981 · May 12, 2010

Hi,
I can't seem to search my music via Artists or Album, am i being stupid ?

Most likely i am.
It just lists all songs in Alphabetical order according to Artist name.
I do like it though, works well on my HTC Desire, no bugs so far, screen works well, landscape and Potrait. Artwork is correct. HTC Headphones controls work. Will play more with it later tonight.

iVisionX01 · May 12, 2010

I can't seem to get m3u playlists to work.

ptronius · May 12, 2010

When I added my music folder, I noticed that it lists all the invisible Mac-related metadata files that start with ._ If you could hide those files, it will keep folks from trying to play them - it looks like it might be locking up the player if I try to open one of them.

ehb224 · May 12, 2010

The fetch album art function does not always fetch the correct art if there is more than one .jpg present. I have some folders with both front and back album art and it has been selecting the back album art. All the other music players I have tried have selected the correct .jpg or have an option to change the art. Is the program looking for a certain filename such as "folder.jpg" or "albumart.jpg"? Also, is the program able to fetch art from the internet? I have not been able to do so. I have only had art show up in folders that already have it present.
Other than that the player is excellent and I love the EQ! However, I second that presets would be very nice to include and get people started, as would giving frequencies for the EQ bands instead of just "High" and "Low" if this is possible to achieve.
Hope these suggestions are useful to you to improve what is one of the best media players I have tried (and I have tried every one that I can find!)

iHaos · May 12, 2010

Thx great app !
Also be cool if you made reset to dafault button in equalizer settings.

r3s-rt · May 13, 2010

Very nice. Two thumbs up, friend.

As for the lyrics option, is there a way we can have them to be possibly read from a txt file on sdcard? I'm just assuming you're going to use it with a website, of course. However, a lot of music, heavy metal for example, commonly lacks lyrics online.

Just a suggestion, and should be easily enough implemented.

Still, very nice application. =]

Andrew Terekhine · May 13, 2010

iHaos said:
Thx great app !
Also be cool if you made reset to dafault button in equalizer settings.

It's already there: Eq screen > menu > Reset

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