I'll buy Winamp Pro for Android when...

[raphtx]

I'm a huge fan of Winamp, have had it installed on my PC since version 2-something so that's a while ago and I'm so happy to have it on my Android phone now.

While I understand that some features may be costly to port to Android, the Pro version lacks some critical features that would make me want to pay for it -- and conversely if it had the features I'd buy it without questions.

The 3 features I'm really missing are :
- library view by Album Artist
- magic views just like in Winamp for PC (including the ability to create views by entering a query like "artist begins 'Mozart'")
- an efficient way to deal with new music

Now the first 2 ones already exist in Winamp for PC and so it's "only" porting work.
The last one requires elaborating : what I mean (and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this case) is that when listening to new music, what's complicated is to remember what you liked and what you don't when it comes to finally deciding what you are keeping because you'll want to listen to it again. Ratings are probably the beginning of the solution, even though a simple flag "keep this" would be enough. In any case there are 2 things we need to be able to do :
(1) setting the flag : this must be possible both by conventional touch (I believe Winamp already offers an interface to "touch and rate" while playing) but most importantly there should be an option to set it automatically for cases where the phone is out of reach (driving or hidden in the pocket) using a simple rule like for instance : if 'next' is pressed during the track then don't keep, otherwise if 'pause' is pressed before 'next' or if the track runs its length then flag for keeping.
(2) exporting the flag : a way to batch delete all the tracks that haven't been flagged "for keeping" from the device (optionnally exporting the list of deleted tracks to a text file s that there's a log).

I'll happily buy Winamp Pro -- or the first music app -- to offer all those 3 capabilities !

Cheers