[APP][4.0+] Pixel Player - Beta 1.0 (Music Player)

[kcrims]

Hello everyone!
This is my first app, so don't judge strictly please
bug report and suggestions are really helpfull and welcome

Pixel Player

Pixel Player is an highly customizable and lightweight but powerfull (and in continous developing) music player for Android.​

Features :
> Material UI - Android 5.0 inspired UI
> Folder Tab
> Customizable Colors
> Gapless Playback
> Hide Tabs
> Lockscreen controls
> Notification controls (Normal and Expand)
> Intelligent Queue Management (Drag & Sort)
> 3 different Widgets
> Headset button controls
> Equalizer (support DPS Equalizer and Bass Boost)
.. more to come !

To do :
> Translate in more languages : if you would like to help me, don't hesitate to contact me !
> Full Material Design
> New Features
> Bug fixing
> Suggestions ?

Download :

Check this post for latest version : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60147551&postcount=297

FREE VERSION (Rate it please )



PRO VERSION







Changelog:

Version 1.3.2.9 :
- New UI redesigned (Android 5.0 inspired), new Dark Theme (only for Pro version) and a lot of UI improvements
- Improved RAM consumption (Cache moved from memory to disk)
- Improved Widget and Notification control
- Added tutorial
-Preference to enable/disable Tint Status Bar (Android 4.4+)
- New Search feature
- Added feature to *automatically* download covers music (Settings -> Download Album Covers), disabled at default

Review:
Phone Arena Short Review
thanks in particular @CedArctic for his awesome review

Please consider this is a Beta and my first app, bugs could occurs
Suggestions and bugs report are very very welcome !
Enjoy !





Screenshot Attached:
more screenshots in play store link (screens are a bit outdated, in current application you can find more material design )

 

[Yeti12]

Positives: Really nice app for the first beta, I like the option to customise the Action Bar colour (and yes it's called action bar not title bar) and it's very fast and smooth, and it has a few nice features.

Negatives: At the moment is very unstable and crashes a lot as you leave the app, the app isn't translated to English properly (few phrases missing) and on an HDPI device colours for the action bar are cut off on the right side (I've attached a screenshot), maybe you can make it scrollable.

Keep up the good work! :good:

 

[AssaSsiNMiLeS]

Would be cool if you make your strings public so that the community can translate your app to other languages. Another thing is that I'm using Viper4Android equalizer and your app just creates a toast which says that I should restart my phone whenever I try to open equalizer settings.

 

[lukers123]

NICE!

Great idea..
i like the UI

feature request
-swipe to change tracks.
-english translation
-ability too search all.. you wont need to go to the artist section to search for artist.. like that..

bugs
-there are some songs/artist/albums that is not appearing when searched.
-some tracks doesnt appear on the artist/abum
-it crashes too



overall good app
keep it up


sorry for my english not my first language

 

[kcrims]

Thanks to all of you for trying my app, your feedback and report are really helpfull

At this stage it's clear it is too soon for a public release, but i would really appreciate if someone wants to help me testing the app so i can discover and fix bugs as soon as possible (when the app crash i receive logcat on my mail).

Positives: Really nice app for the first beta, I like the option to customise the Action Bar colour (and yes it's called action bar not title bar) and it's very fast and smooth, and it has a few nice features.

Negatives: At the moment is very unstable and crashes a lot as you leave the app, the app isn't translated to English properly (few phrases missing) and on an HDPI device colours for the action bar are cut off on the right side (I've attached a screenshot), maybe you can make it scrollable.

Keep up the good work! :good:

Thanks for your feedback, i really appreciate it I've tried to fix all the crashes and i've to work on the Color Picker windows (it's an external library) and on layout too.

Would be cool if you make your strings public so that the community can translate your app to other languages. Another thing is that I'm using Viper4Android equalizer and your app just creates a toast which says that I should restart my phone whenever I try to open equalizer settings.

My bad, many words was in italian language, i've translated the whole app (i hope ) in english. if someone wants to help me with the translation would be great
I need to work to implement Viper4Android support (at the moment the app only try to start the default android equalizer)

Great idea..
i like the UI

feature request
-swipe to change tracks.
-english translation
-ability too search all.. you wont need to go to the artist section to search for artist.. like that..

bugs
-there are some songs/artist/albums that is not appearing when searched.
-some tracks doesnt appear on the artist/abum
-it crashes too



overall good app
keep it up


sorry for my english not my first language

Thanks for your feedback too, i'll try to implement your request as soon as i fix this annoying bugs


This is the new version : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27858472/PixelPlayerPro_1.0.5.apk

 

[kcrims]

new version 1.0.6 update, a lot of bug fixing
I'm still searching for beta testers

Pixel Player 1.0.6 BETA

 

[sugarkane87]

Overall is good app, especialy the UI :good:

Sugestion:

1. add view options for artist and album ( list or grid )
2. can download missing artwork
3 fetching lyrics

Bug:

I think the color picker not yet fixed on HDPI device

 

[vishal91]

Good App liking it! when press on Equalizer Pixel gets stop

 

[kcrims]

Version : 1.0.7, more bug fixing !!
(still looking for testers, apps still unstable, hope to hunt down all the issues)
DOWNLOAD : Pixel Player 1.0.7

Overall is good app, especialy the UI :good:

Sugestion:

1. add view options for artist and album ( list or grid )
2. can download missing artwork
3 fetching lyrics

Bug:

I think the color picker not yet fixed on HDPI device

Thanks for your feedback man
I'll implement in order 2-3-1 after i'll fix all the bugs. The color picker windows is an external library developed by another dev, btw i'll try to fix it.

Good App liking it! when press on Equalizer Pixel gets stop

Thanks for feedback!!
I'm noticing that the equalizer behaves in a strange way, this is caused by a lot of different equalizer (stock, viper4android, CyanogenMod, xposed framework, ...), implemented in custom ROMs, I'm trying to solve this problem (some bugs were fixed in 1.0. 7, try it)

 

[redenjaja]

hope we can browse songs by folder.

 

[vashollow]

nice man! downloading now.

 

[72off]

Sugestions if you want to make this the N°1 Android Player

- YouTube search and play video
Including playlist support
screen off/other aplication playback ( I Use "Freddi yt player" for this)
Pin videos (or audio download) for offline use

- Buit in Album art downloader and mp3 tag editor (I use mp3dit for this)

- Lyrics grabber (I used to use "lyrics" for this (stopped working))
Just play a music and with one click see the lyric
Sync All option for offline use
Button on the app and also on notifications for lyrics.


So,here we have 3 difference apps that could be just one,(also some new features for them) plus the stock music player
And would be "revolutionary" for non advanced users

Congrats for theming, also good musical taste
Subscribing for this thread

 

[freitaz]

I downloaded your app today. It is very nice, with a cool interface. I liked it very much and will start to use it to see if I can spot some bugs.
I have a request. My phone is a Samsung with stock rom. I would like the app to have a lockscreen widget to control music, such as the one seen in one of your screenies. It is possible?

EDIT: by some random reason, the widget appeared.
The app keeps appearing in notification bar, even when it's inactive and don't playing music. Is there a way to get rid of this?

 

[eskorpiao112]

One sugestion:
Make a tab to see the music by the folders. The rocket player have this feature and it's only because of this that i use it. Seriously dude, add a tab of folders where we can see our music by folders and i will start using your app.

 

[freedomispopular]

Songs are displayed alphabetically instead of by their track order. That's a major negative for me.

 

[zenrev]

Feature request - smart shuffle = all songs until entire catalog is played, not the "random" shuffle nearly all players have, that cycles through the same songs over and over. The only player I've found that approaches this is just playlists. The shuffle Gods have long ago given up on us..

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[LifeAsADroid]

Looks promising, will definitely check it out. A couple of ideas or suggestions:

Does the player currently (or will it in the future) have the option to pull music from folders on cloud storage instead of on the device itself? It would free up a ton of storage space on our phones, for those that don't have much room for our massive playlists.

Also, is the album art downloaded and kept "post-song" in a file of some sort? If so, can the ability to enable or disable the album art download be added once the album art function is added in to the player? Again, just thinking of saving limited space 8)

EDIT: Also a big fan of suggestions of others! Swyping to skip forward or backward would be real nice feature, as well as the option of adding the lyrics to the app main page. An option for dark (Holo dark?) would be a nice touch as well.

 

[akshyat]

great simple interface

Loved simple interface. And loved the feat "hide small audio files "... notification sounds wont play . Great idea
One suggestion after using player for 10 mins.
Can we add indivisual songs to the queu rather than the whole list of songs is played when a song is selected from the "songs" tab. In my view user wouldnt want to play all songs at any given time, rather music depends on time or affect and .. so many artist or album have songs we want to listen to a particular time.

 

[iam_delan0]

Great for a Beta!

Suggestion: Add tab to browse music through folders and continuous gap-less playback would be great.

Cheers

 

[zxzyzd]

Man you've already made me regeert buying another music player on Google past just a week ago! The interface is great, it has play next which a lot of apps don't have, you have a 3x 3 album grid which I find way better than both a 2 picture wide grid and a list. Also, you seem to be the only one that understands that text may be larger /longer than you screen permits, and you make the text scroll which I've asked developers of every music app I've tried to implement and the way the queue slides out is quite nice. Maybe a mini tutorial on the slide out menu would make it a bit more obvious that you can do that for less experienced users. I like how solid Explorer does that: just one picture with an arrow showing where you can slide.
I've got 1 small request though:
a dark theme, I use an amoled screen so that would save energy for me

Keep up the amazing work!