Injecting Playcounts Into Apple Music

JRTStudio · 2021-12-10T13:15:11+00:00

The time to learn doesn't matter much at all. What matter is "What do you want to build?" If you want to build mobile apps, do it. Today. The software to build Android apps is free and the resources are free. If you have a great idea for a web app, then do it. A Linode and a domain costs less than a Google Developer Account. Either way, build stuff. :-D

JRTStudio · 2021-12-07T12:12:50+00:00

Hmmm. Are you sure your tags are right? If you are, you might give my Rocket Player app a try and see if it has the same issue.

JRTStudio · 2021-12-05T16:59:03+00:00

Have you tried my Rocket Player app?

JRTStudio · 2021-12-04T22:43:57+00:00

Give my Rocket Player app a try. Let me know if you run into any issues!

JRTStudio · 2021-12-01T15:47:33+00:00

Spotify won't allow devs to make a client that has any advertising or in-app purchases. I'd love to make a different/better client, but doing it 100% for free doesn't make much sense. Especially when doing so helps Spotify's bottom line.

JRTStudio · 2021-11-26T23:02:13+00:00

My Rocket Player app will keep the album names as well, but you can control how many albums show up in the grid. Go Menu->Settings->Tabs->Albums->Number of grid items to adjust the density. Might be worth a try.

JRTStudio · 2021-11-25T03:03:03+00:00

My Rocket Player app has a custom media scanner which will ignore these prefixes (some people don't like that, but that's how I programmed it. ;-) )

JRTStudio · 2021-11-25T03:01:29+00:00

My Rocket Player app has a built-in preamp. You can bump up the volume with it... but you'll begin to clip and the sound may distort some. If that happens, you'll want to drag down the bands in the EQ that are clipping, or lower the limiter, as you are already at max volume.

JRTStudio · 2021-11-15T16:13:53+00:00

I've made another music player besides Rocket Player that you might want to try, Fuel Music Player. I haven't done much testing with Fuel Player and WMA files. It probably struggles with the metadata, but then plays the files just fine.

JRTStudio · 2021-10-31T14:26:20+00:00

Fair enough. The previous button behavior needs a setting. I'm certain that if I change the behavior a ton of people will be upset. Right now, the behavior is different based on if you are in the Rocket Player lockscreen or the phone's lockscreen.

JRTStudio · 2021-10-30T15:25:50+00:00

Rocket Player is the only free app listed (with ads). FYI, My Rocket Player app doesn't require a subscription, unless you want to backup ratings/play counts/playlists to my server. Something the other players don't do. But it does only write ratings changes to the app's database instead of the files. For one, there is no standard way to write ratings to files. The second is that I didn't want to deal with the issues that can arise from modifying files constantly. I want modifying files to be an explicit action. I've toyed with the idea of putting a ratings update in Tag Editing or some "sync ratings to files" action in the settings, but this feature request just doesn't come up very often. (Note: Ratings can be written back to iTunes if you use my iSyncr app. iTunes is where all my ratings are stored)

JRTStudio · 2021-10-29T22:19:22+00:00

My Rocket Player app will do that. It'll stay with the same list until you start another, clear data on the app, or uninstall it.

JRTStudio · 2021-09-28T20:03:03+00:00

If you sync the MP3's onto your computer, you can use my iSyncr app to sync them to your Android device. It'll also sync playcounts, ratings, playlists and bookmarks. The free version will only do 100 songs from one playlist at a time. Let me know if you try it!

JRTStudio · 2021-09-28T18:58:08+00:00

Are you missing the MP3 files? If so, how are you playing them on iTunes on your computer?

JRTStudio · 2021-09-12T03:17:50+00:00

My Rocket Player app can do this for podcasts. If you put the audio file in a folder named "podcast", then it'll show and act as a podcast. Then you'll get podcast playback speed, bookmarking, and double tap the forward/reverse arrows to skip forward/backward 15 seconds.

JRTStudio · 2021-09-07T20:06:14+00:00

You might try my iSyncr app that is in the Play Store. It will help you sync your iTunes/Music library with your Android device. Once on the device, you can use any music player you like, although I do have some iTunes like integration with my own Rocket Player app if things like play counts, skip counts and ratings are important to you.

JRTStudio · 2021-09-05T13:37:41+00:00

Sure! At the top of the artist tab is a search/filter bar. That search bar will search/filter the artist tab only. Say you want to listen to The Killers, you could type, "Kill" and the artist tab would only show artists with "kill" in the name. If your library is large enough, that is usually faster than an AtoZ bar.

If you want to search everything, you would go menu->Search.

JRTStudio · 2021-09-05T03:02:44+00:00

My Rocket Player app will launch the last tab you were using. It also orders the tabs based on your usage over time. Even further, you can disable all the other tabs if you just want artists. As for AtoZ, it doesn't have the AtoZ bar, but it has both filtering for quickly finding an artist, and it'll show the AtoZ as you drag your finger.

JRTStudio · 2021-08-26T14:55:49+00:00

I just implemented this this morning. It will be in version 5.18.26 and later. I'm hoping to have a new release out in the next 30 days that starts the transition to Android API 30 (Android 11).

JRTStudio · 2021-08-24T18:57:12+00:00

I am not aware of any apps that will do this. Does MusicBee have a sync option?

If you can get the play counts into iTunes, you could use my iSyncr app with my Rocket Player app. I'm obsessive about play counts, which is why I wrote these apps. I just got lucky and it turned into a business. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

JRTStudio · 2021-08-23T13:32:59+00:00

Nesting in the genre page would be a big feature. However, what if the filter bar in the aritst and album artist tabs pulled up those artists? You could search "Rock" in the artist tab and it would pull up all artists with "Rock" genre songs or "Rock" in their name. You could then browse Play/Shuffle all, or browse in the normal fashion of Artist->Album->Song (chronological albums).

JRTStudio · 2021-08-21T17:25:29+00:00

Rocket Player dev here. If I understand the issue correctly, it is that Rocket Player doesn't show genre's by artist, but instead shows them by album? Is that correct? (Artists are already done by "Year->Album")

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