Tablet app design and function feature requests

I've sent the link to this thread to the support team at zidoo/ever solo, so hopefully they will implement some of these ideas in a future upgrade.

@mirror
Do you, or anyone in your team read through these threads? Just wondered as I've been spending a lot of time creating these examples and wanted to make sure they get seen by the firmware team

 

Suggestion for GENRE page layout....




1. Navigation Panel on the left to be collapsible.
2. Custom icons for genres
3. Spinning disc icon at the bottom. Option for simple silver disc as the artwork is too small to see anyway.
4. Option to scroll left/right as well as the current up/down (left/right works much better for tablet in landscape mode)

 

@mirror

Any idea when an update is due?

 

An update with your suggestions too, perhaps...?!?

 

I hope that at least some of my suggestions will be appreciated by other users. I understand that everyone uses their eversolo differently but hopefully most of my ideas are helpful.

I don't use any of the streaming services, I only use my A6 as a local file player so some of my suggestions may or may not affect other users.
All of the ideas in theis thread are really for the app as that's what I use 99.9% of the time, I never actually touch the A6 (not even to turn on/off) so I feel the user interface of the tablet app is the most important area to improve.

 

I would also like to see the running time, both track and total, displayed in the playlist view. And maybe an option for a shadow on the cover image.

 

As shown in the images above. When you click on an album cover it takes you to a screen where you can choose a track or play all. This then allows you to pull up the playlist screen as seen above.
I would like to see the option to go straight from the above "screen 1" to "screen 3" and just start playing the album. All of the info seen on "screen 2" is duplicated on "screen 3" anyway and if they
add some of the features I've requested an the above posts, there really is no need to have the extra step.

Basically, click on a cover and it opens up playlist screen and starts playback.

 

You can already do this in the streaming services, if you click the three dots in the bottom right corner of an album. But it is not possible with you own local albums (yet).

 

I don't use the streaming services. I purchased the A6 to play my own music, so all of my requests are really for local files displayed through the app.

My main question to you though is, how do you get your images to display with the option to view full-size here in the forums?

 

I use ‘screendumps’ from an iPad. After I click ‘Upload a File’, I click the ‘Full Image’ button. That’s all I do…

 

Thanks, I've just been using the little "image" option in the bar above the post area

 

@Eki Shaw @mirror

Could you tell me if the option to display multi-disc collections as a single cover in the album view will be added?
I have a 6TB+ collection waiting to be added and I need to know whether I'll have to rename/rearrange thousands of folders.
I currently have each disc as a separate folder inside the album folder. Will this be recognised in future update? (at the moment it just shows multiple copies of the same cover)

 

Would you mind sending some of these music files to us for testing? Thx

 

I'm just talking about standard multi-disc CD's. I have some collections with several discs and it seems silly having several covers all the same when it's the same album.

If I have for example a double disc set (The Beatles White Album) then I have....

folder: The Beatles • The White Album (1968)
folder: Disc 1
folder: Disc 2

The above "Disc" folders are inside the album folder.

This creates 2 separate covers in the album view as shown in my image a few posts back.
Also each "Disc" folder has to have a jpg inside or it appears with blank art.

 

Each disc is displayed separately like this

 

@Eki Shaw

Sending you an album to test via wetransfer

 

The only way around this is to just have ALL of the tracks in a single folder with the disc tags.
This will then only display a single cover and each disc is separated on the first track view. The playlist view just puts all the tracks in a single list.

I know this depends on how people organise their files. Most disc ripping software will create separate folders for each disc so it's not unusual.

Would be nice if the software could recognise Disc 1, Disc 2, or maybe CD 1, CD 2, and only display a single cover instead of multiple as seen above in the screenshot.

 

This IS how you tag multiple-disc albums... if it works on the Eversolo, I then see no problem at all with multiple discs albums.

 

Surely I'm not the only one to have each disc in a separate folder? When you rip discs they go into separate folders.
So, does everyone here just have a single album folder with (potentially) hundreds of tracks all bunched together?.... just seems a messy way of doing it

edit: so how do people number their tracks, do you just go 01. - 126. etc or have multiple track 01, track 02?

 

I do not know, at this point, how "others" do tag their library...
I only rip an entire CD to a single FLAC file + CUE. The FLAC file is tagged only using the following tags:
- Artist
- Album
- Date
- Comment (eventually used to specify LIVE / COMPILATION / EP / etc.)
- Track number
- Disc number (only if more than one)
- Total discs (only if more than one)
- Embedded album cover, 600x600, jpg format

The CUE file refences the FLAC and the tracks in it; and has the very same PERFORMER (Artist), TITLE (album) and track numbers.

In case of multiple discs albums, there is of course a FLAC and a CUE per every disc. Tagging is as necessary, with disc number and total in the FLAC only (the CUE file needs not to know what disc it refers to...)
The files are named: <artist> - <Album>[ - disc <disc number>].flac and <artist> - <Album>[ - disc <disc number>].cue
All the files of an album are in their own folder, so for example, The Wall by Pink Floyd (which consists of 2 CDs) is saved the following way on my disc:

/ Music / P / Pink Floyd / The Wall /
Pink Floyd - The Wall - disc 1.flac
Pink Floyd - The Wall - disc 1.cue
Pink Floyd - The Wall - disc 2.flac
Pink Floyd - The Wall - disc 2.cue

Maybe this can help someone get their library organized more consistently and cleaner.

Just my 2c