Winamp Android features/bugs discussion thread

[abugintheground]

Hi,

I'm new to android, and returning to winamp after many years (my destop setup has long been mac-based, sorry guys!). I'm using the winamp android player and liking it very much. A few quick things I've noticed (I guess it could be just me doing things wrong):

1. An album with two discs, ie. disc 1/2 and disc 2/2, does not sort correctly when in album view. It is as if the disc number field is being ignored.

2. Like nearly every other music app under the sun, winamp does not work correctly with regard to compilations/albums with multiple artists. The system, as I understand it, should work so that if an 'album artist' is listed, then the album appears as one, and that if it is marked as a compilation (this is in itunes) then the 20-or-so different random artists on said compilation do not appear under sorting by artist.

What are people's thoughts on these observations?

Thanks.

[abugintheground]

p.s. using tunesync to sync wirelessly from itunes, as winamp isn't available for mac as far as I'm aware

[MrSinatra]

when using winamp, it will sync properly afaik, if u have comp tags or AA tags. kind of hard to fault it if you use something else to sync it.

[Danielvago]

Winamp pro, not playing music

I just downloaded the newest version of Winamp for my HTC Desire android, and the first thing I did was upgrading it to "pro".

I have an issue:

It doesn't play music. One could say this is a pretty big issue.
I pick a song but the bar (that shows where you are in the song) doesn't move. I have tried to pause/unpause and move it around the song, as well as trying several songs.
I have also tried to restart my phone.

I also tried the stock music player and that works just fine.


EDIT:

I just re-installed it and now it works.

EDITEDIT:

Ok, the problem is still there. I just tried to play songs from an album and nothing would play. Then I went to another album, played a song and went to the first album whilst that was playing, and now it worked.

EDITEDITEDIT:

I just tried two things and couldn't recreate the problem.

1: Letting one song from one album play, and just going from song to song in various albums whilst the last song played = worked fine.

2: Doing the same, but pausing before going to a new song = worked fine.

I will come back if I encounter it again.

[GreatHeights]

update to v1.2 won't play files correctly

Ever since the update to v1.2 yesterday, some files on my Droid X2 are playing back with lots of static or otherwise poor quality. These same tracks are playing fine with the stock player. I tried uninstalling and redownloading the app, but it didn't fix anything.

[Sunnieboy]

Hi Also just updated to Android v1.2 on Asus Transformer Tablet,instantly crashes and sends report. Cannot seem to revert back to earlier version looks like major bug.

Regards Sunnie

[Benski]

Ever since the update to v1.2 yesterday, some files on my Droid X2 are playing back with lots of static or otherwise poor quality. These same tracks are playing fine with the stock player. I tried uninstalling and redownloading the app, but it didn't fix anything.

This is a known issue with the Droid X2 and M4A files. We're attempting to find the right fix, but there's no current ETA on a fix. Sorry about that

[Whalesdude]

I'm not sure if the fellow DanielVago has the same problem, (some light googling brought no results to my attention at first glance) but ever since the last update, my Winamp Android doesn't work at all. Occasionally, if I spam the play button, it'll play that one track and then not enable me to pause, skip, or even leave the screen. I've got 1.2, and a Bionic running gingerbread 2.3.4. I've tried a fresh install, I've tried resetting the phone and clearing out temporary files and such to no avail. I'm not quite sure what the problem is, but could it be due to the fact that I've just recently purchased Pro as well?

[sullysnet]

I upgraded to Pro today, I figured I should wait until all bugs are worked out before purchasing but how would I know if I had any issues until buying. So everything plays
fine so far and the quality is fine. One thing that I am totally confused about is why it
is not detecting my FLAC files and why doesn't it see the album art that is right in the
folder? I can play the files by going to the folder structure through Winamp but Winamp
detecting the folders in Albums/Artists it is not working (again no album art even when opening from folder view). Seems to me that Winamp automatically detects new folders
that you add to your library, so it should be detecting them. It's not...

Anyone else having this issue?

Gingerbread 2.3.6
Nexus One
all songs on sdcard flac and mp3's

thanks

I see this in the feature list (* Support for FLAC playback in Browse by Folders nav (lossless audio playback) why is it like this and do they plan to have it detect the files per what I feel is normal instead of browsing them?? Weird...

[Lokasenna]

I'm in the same boat as sullysnet and Danielvago - Winamp says it's playing, but there's no sound and the position indicator doesn't move. I tried all of Danielvago's suggestions (other than reinstalling, since he said it didn't end up fixing it) and none of them were able to help me.

Phone is an HTC Desire running the last Frogurt update, Winamp is the most recent free version.

[ingonab]

v1.2.2 skips tracks are *not* fixed

Some observations:
* Release notes weren't neglected this time. (At least the in-player one at Settings->About)

The problem:

Winamp 1.2.2
* Track skips fixed

Tracks skips are anything but fixed. It's actually behaving worse:

Start an album playback and use the forward and reverse buttons to skip. Why does it sort of "semi-crash" during the skip where the player kind of crashes and relaunches?? Are you guys for real? Is this by design?

This behaviour isn't reliable either and the player will eventually crash altogether.

Since v1.2 you guys have broken the way reverse skip works in other ways:
It no longer skips to the start of the current track when past that certain threshold. It now goes (or tries) to the previous track regardless.

My Android version is 2.3.4, if that has anything to do with anything...

I paid for the Pro Bundle and I feel betrayed, however if this is the only coding and testing quality management can afford, the project needs all the $4.99 funding it can get.

[navarretemarce]

Last Update BROKEN

Used to be my favorite app. but since the last update included the "fixed" the reproduction is simply bad . I am aware about the M4A files issue, but isnt the only one. Playback is now laggy and unreliable, files that used to sound great in previous version aren't now.
My hardware: HTC wildfire-S

My suggestion/request:

1.- Have you had a look to the new comments in Android Market? Could be nice to pay attention at that and make the the older version/downgrade available.

2.- Warn your users about the potential issues before offering the update


Until the new version is more or less stable me and many others would not even think about buying the pro. Which Ill be happy to buy if works like the previous stable version.

[o1160507]

Gapless playback is good but not perfect.

I upgraded to Pro for the reason of Gapless Playback. It works fine in 1.2.2, But I still find very tiny flaws between many tracks (operas & ballets).

HTC Sensation + AAC tracks on sdcard .

[Hawk]

I just bought the pro version for my Samsung Galaxy S plus, thinking Winamp would be a safe buy.

But it's freezing up ever time I try to play music. No matter what I do. Even when I start the music and put my phone away it freezes up after a few seconds.

[modarius]

I see this in the feature list (* Support for FLAC playback in Browse by Folders nav (lossless audio playback) why is it like this and do they plan to have it detect the files per what I feel is normal instead of browsing them?? Weird...

This.
I've been using winamp since years upon years. I got the app the first day i got my droid and it always worked fine. I'm big on flac and was disappointed that it didn't initially support it. When I saw the pro version I quickly jumped in and bought it. Unfortunately how I organize and listen to my music is mainly through playlists. The fact that I can only play my flac through browse folders is VERY, VERY inconvenient and misleading from what it said in the marketplace description. I basically updated my whole mobile library to flac, but now it's all screwed up cause of the lack of automatically detecting flac/putting them in their respected playlists. I hope this can be fixed in a new update so I don't regret dishing out the $5 :\