Winamp Android features/bugs discussion thread

[jsmith432]

I have an Android Nexus One and I am able to sync my playlist songs. But the playlists themselves are not being synchronized.

[dodendemise]

transcoding over wi-fi sync..

Am I experiencing a problem with a feature that should work or is it not possible to transcode when syncing over wifi? If not that would be a great feature to add because I like to downgrade the bitrate to save space so that i could have more songs.

[SeiferTim]

Running into issues trying to get songs onto my phone...
I have an LG Ally, but I doubt the phone makes a difference.
I gave up on the WiFi option for now...this is strictly over USB.

On my SD card, I have a Directory structure that looks like this:
/media/audio/music
../../../notifications
../../../ringtones

I have nothing in Music, 5 mp3s in notifications, and 1 file in ringtones.
I have the 5 notifications and 1 ringtone already setup on my phone to play for various things.

If I try to AutoFill, it tells me it's going to remove 6 files from my phone and lists these 6. It also seems to arbitrarily fill up my phone with songs I've rated at 1 or 2.

I can't seem to get AutoFill to a: grab songs that I like from my 12k songs, and b: leave the other files alone. I've tried setting up the AutoFill query, but nothing seems to work - I can't seem to say: "(type = 0 AND length > 30 AND rating > 2) OR (filename has ringtones OR filename has notifications)" meaning, only Audio tracks greater than 30 seconds I've rated higher than 2 or files that are in the ringtones or notifications folders. It either ends up saying "adding 0 and removing 0" or it still tries to delete my 6 sounds...

Any way to tell winamp that these folders are HANDS OFF?

[captainnapalm]

Having major issues with the Wi-Fi sync to my Nexus One. I have a large playlist that I sync to my phone, and as I envision using Winamp as my only syncing solution, I deleted all of the music off my phone in order for Winamp to put it all back on.

With doubleTwist I would generally sync overnight with my phone connected via USB to my computer, but as I am now using my phone as an alarm, Wi-Fi sync is a perfect overnight syncing solution.

The problem has become that the phone won't sync more than 12 songs at a time before failing out on the remainder of the tracks in the playlist. It generally syncs the first 8 tracks very fast, and then slows down to a crawl for the next 2-4 tracks and then fails out on the rest.

It doesn't always work to just re-initiate the sync either. It will generally error out after only 1 or 2 tracks on the second and subsequent attempts.

Anyone else having this issue?

[cyberyaga]

Bluetooth Controls Takeover

Love the new Winamp player for android. Wireless Sync is awesome.

My issue is with the Bluetooth controls. They work like they should, but I use other players like Pandora and Rhapsody. Once I enable "Headset Controls" on winamp, it takes over my entire phone's bluetooth playback controls.

I can be listening to Pandora or Rhapsody and I want to skip the next song, and there goes Winamp popping up and making a mess out of my listening experience. I have to go to it and stop.

This is a superb Beta App. And my music player of choice. Please make Winamp take control of the bluetooth controls when I'm actually using it.

Thanks

I have a Motorola Droid 2 running Android 2.2.2

[captainnapalm]

Had another issue last night with syncing over USB. As the Wi-Fi sync wasn't working, I transfered all of my music files using Winamp.

Seems that if you decide to let Winamp rename your files, it somehow overwrote my ID3 tags and removed the album art. I have diligently updated all of my mp3 ID3 tags using mp3Tag ensuring they all have album art embedded, however using USB sync, I seem to have lost all of it. Guess I'll have to resync my library yet again, perhaps with doubleTwist this time, until Winamp figures this out.

[captainnapalm]

Having major issues with the Wi-Fi sync to my Nexus One. I have a large playlist that I sync to my phone, and as I envision using Winamp as my only syncing solution, I deleted all of the music off my phone in order for Winamp to put it all back on.

With doubleTwist I would generally sync overnight with my phone connected via USB to my computer, but as I am now using my phone as an alarm, Wi-Fi sync is a perfect overnight syncing solution.

The problem has become that the phone won't sync more than 12 songs at a time before failing out on the remainder of the tracks in the playlist. It generally syncs the first 8 tracks very fast, and then slows down to a crawl for the next 2-4 tracks and then fails out on the rest.

It doesn't always work to just re-initiate the sync either. It will generally error out after only 1 or 2 tracks on the second and subsequent attempts.

Anyone else having this issue?

This seems to be an issue with syncing while the screen is locked. If the screen doesn't timeout, it continues to sync, but as soon as the screen is off, the sync fails.

EDIT: Nevermind, the sync was going well for about 40-50 songs, and then failed on the remaining 3000+ tracks.

[rkjunior]

First post. Long time WinAmp user -- love it over all others.. Psyched to see an Android app.. Here are some problems I've had.

WinXP
Clean Install
Sprint Samsung Epic 4g with 2.1

- Winamp would not recognize my Epic via USB until I went to close out Winamp, then I finally got the notification.
- USB Sync will create the file directory on my SDCard but receive "Transfered Failed" when trying to copy the songs
- Wireless Sync will not recognize the device. I click "Start Discovery" and it does nothing.

[imdangerous]

Got my Droid X with 2.2 recognized via wifi, but it always wants to sync my entire library, not just my playlists. I do not have an Advanced tab under preferences so I cannot specify where on my SD card to sync the songs. Autofill says it will transfer 0 songs. Is there something that I'm missing?

How did you get it to connect via Wifi. i have WIFI enabled on my droid x, and right click on devices and start discovery, nothing happens.

[imdangerous]

Installed on my PC and the connection was fine. for some reason my laptop won't connect. wonder if that is because it's WIFI as well.

[imdangerous]

did someone say there was a reg value that needed to be changed?

[badgaz]

Winamp for Android is working great for me except for one little bug I've had. Wireless sync suddenly stopped working (my device stopped being detected in Winamp when it was before) and I realised that I had to turn OFF Wireless sync on my phone for Winamp to wirelessly detect my device (so basically disabling it was enabling it and enabling it was disabling it)

Obviously it's not a big issue for me now that I know what's going on but may be worth looking in to!

[Nobody 005]

Sync failing

I cannot sync using either USB or WiFi with Winamp 5.59beta, latest update from Android Market. Regardless of transfer method, Winamp simply reports 'Failed' transferring to the device.

[albion01]

Lock Screen monopoly

I use three multimedia apps regularly, Google Listen, Pandora, and a Music Player. With all of those I am able to use the music controls on my lock screen. Until I installed Winamp the lock screen controls would control the last app I was using. Ever since I installed Winamp, it monopolizes the lock screen controls. Even after changing the lock screen controls setting in Winamp, when I press play or pause, no matter what app I am using, Winamp starts. I will change my poor review in the Market when this is fixed.

-Albion

[alanjrobertson]

WiFi sync refuses to work and battery life killed by WinAmp network access so have uninstalled, sorry.

Also found the lock screen controls nowhere near as nice as the HTC music player ones...