Hi Sieghard, I was wanting a player to play albums in my dropbox app,
Billy
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: 29 January 2014 15:54
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: audio players recommendations?
Billy,
As Chris already pointed out, the Music app that comes with iOS will
play the entire album. You can view your music by Playlists, Artists,
Songs, Albums and there is also a More tab on the right where you
have options like Genres, Compellations, Composers and, if you have
Audio Book synced to your phone you have an Audio Book option here,
too.
If you select albums, you see a listing of all your albums in
alphabetical order.
At the top left is a Store button which takes you to the iTunes Store.
At the top right is the Now Playing button which takes you to the Now
Playing screen where the album art is displayed. If you go there at
the top right is a Track List button which shows you all the tracks
of the album that you are currently playing. You have your play
progress indicator which shows the length of the song and your
current position, this is a slider and you can flick up and down to
go forward or back by approx 10% jumps relative to the length of the
song. For example, if a song is 4 minutes long (240
seconds) flicking up or down will move forward or back by about 24
seconds.
At the bottom right above the home key is your volume slider, above
that are Play in the middle, Previous on the left and Next on the
right. To the right of the volume slider is a "Repeat" button which,
if you toggle it on will repeat the currently playing song. Flick
right on more time and you find a Shuffle All button at the very
bottom right which shuffles your entire music collection and plays it
randomly.
OK, now back to the album list.
If you swipe right from the Now Playing button, You are on a search
field.
You can double tap and enter the name of an album or part of a name
and the list of results is displayed. If, for example, you enter
"Greatest" you will see only all your albums which are "Greatest
Hits" albums.
Swipe right one more time and you are on the table index which you
can also get to by touching the very right edge of the touch screen.
Here you can flick down to go down the alphabet, so if, for example,
you were looking for the album "Lover Over Gold" from Dire Straits,
you could quickly flick down to "L" and now all the albums which
start with "L" are displayed. You can also double tap and hold, then
drag your finger down the table index and very quickly get to the
lower letters of the alphabet. Of course this table index is present
in many apps where you have large lists, like Contacts.
Flick right one more time and you are on "A", the first letter of the
alphabet and this is a heading. If you continue to flick right you
get the first album which starts with "A", in my case this is "Abbey
Road" by the Beatles. Note that "A" is a heading. This means you
could also turn your rotor to headings and flick down to get to "b",
"c", "D" etc.
Let's assume I want to list to Abbey Road. I just double tap on it
and the album opens.
The album name is now displayed as a heading across the top. On the
very top right is once again your Now Playing button which quickly
takes you back to your Now Playing screen.
Flight right and you are on a search box, here you could search for a
song although since most albums contain only 10 or 12 songs I find it
just as easy to drag my finger down the screen over the list of
tracks/songs and find it that way.
Flick right one more time and you are on the album art which
Voiceover says is an image.
Another flick right and you once again hear the album title as a heading.
Flick right and Voiceover tells me there are 12 tracks in this album.
Another flick right and Voiceover tells me the year thealbum was
recorded, in this case it is 1969.
Another flick right and you are on a Shuffle button. If you double
tap this only the songs from this album are shuffled.
Now another flick right will put you on the first song of the album.
If you double tap that song will play and when it is finished the
second song will play and it will continue to play the entire album
in order unless you pressed Shuffle.
Of course as soon as you double tap on Shuffle or the first song the
Now Playing screen will open with the playback controls.
If you did press Shuffle and you now check at the very bottom right
of the Now Playing screen, you will find that Voiceover tells you
that "Shuffle All" is "selected".
If you double tap the "Artists" tab you will see an alphabetical list
of all artists. Voiceover will also tell you how many albums and
songs you have for each artist.
The songs tab will show you all your songs individually in
alphabetical order, again you have a search box and table index.
I find the native Music app very easy to use and powerful. The only
thing I think should be possible is to delete entire albums or
artists. Currently this is not possible, however, you can delete
songs individually by flicking down on then and then double tapping.
The action rotor is active once you are in a song listing and you can
delete them just as you delete emails.
Hopt this helps,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Chris H
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: audio players recommendations?
Hi
but doesn't the music player on iOS do that? All I have to do is
double tap on track 1 and the entire album plays.
Regards Chris
On 29/01/2014 11:21, Broxi wrote:
Hi guys, I am asking about an audio playing app for my iPhone4s.
Mainly for playing mp3 music files, but it would be great if the
player could play a music album steraight through, and not single
tracks.
I'm not explain this too well.
What I would like to do.
I want to be able to double click on the album and it starts to play
from track one right through to the end.
The audio player apps I have seen so far, you have to play the album
one track at a time, Billy
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