InstaMusic
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A simple and beautiful music player.
Please give me comments, thank you a lot XD. Please aware that this is NOT a whole ZUNE style app! But a style that I think is the best for an music player app. Please don’t compare it with a ZUNE HD or ZUNE PLAYER APPLICATIONS.
Hot News!
InstaMusic Beta is Coming!
Application Description: (Download Place)
Android Market
AppBrain
BackBerry App World
Official Website:
http://nicholasworkshop.com
Development Blog:
http://nicholasworkshop.wordpress.com/instamusic
http://nicholasworkshop.wordpress.com
Features:
- Pretty tab menu.
- Music player basic functions.
- No more mis-grouping albums and songs.
- No more stretched images.
- Contain functions like shuffle mode and repeat mode.
- Player will pause when headphone is unplugged or when calling arrives.
- Instant play: random song will be played when headset button is clicked and InstaMusic is not started
Reviews so far that I found: (Thank you very much!)
- Instamusic Is A Minimal, Slick Music Player That You Should Download Now
Android Static (Jan 3, 2012) - InstaMusic insists it’s not a Zune UI music player, looks similar to Me
AndroidSPIN (Jan 30, 2012) - InstaMusic – Zune-Style Music Player for Android
Razzil.com (Feb 4, 2012) - InstaMusic – Beautiful Music Player For Android (Zune Player Style)
The Heat Web (Feb 5, 2012) - InstaMusic: A Free, Metro-Style Music Player For Android
AddictiveTips (Feb 3, 2012)
Changelog for InstaMusic:
- 10,000-50,000 downloads (Jan 22, 2012)
- 5,000-10,000 downloads (Jan 16, 2012)
- 1,000-5,000 downloads (Jan 8, 2012)
- 500-1,000 downloads (Jan 4, 2012)
- 100-500 downloads (Jan 3, 2012)
Version 1.4.2:
- Fixed crashing bugs.
- Fixed now playing screen layout misplacement.
Version 1.4.1:
- Fixed crashing bugs.
- Enhanced app performance.
Version 1.4.0:
- Fixed compatibility to Android 2.1.
- Add media location support for CyanogenMod users.
- Added favorite list and able to add song to it i now playing screen.
- Greatly increased media loading speed.
- Download album art if there are not album art inside the music file.
- Able to use full screen view for library, now playing screen, and lock screen player.
- Fixed some sudden stops.
- Able to renew artworks everyday.
- Refined and categorized settings.
- Added song list view and lyrics view in now playing screen.
- Fixed layout errors.
- Support Android 4.0.4.
- Enhanced app performance.
- Rewritten some layout elements.
Version 1.3.5:
- Fixed crashes caused by invalid song name.
- Fixed the suddenly music playing. (If it is still happening, turn “Dynamic Pause” off in setting.)
- Fixed crashes caused by large image processing.
- Fixed crashes caused by loading genre list.
Version 1.3.4:
- Fixed the headset clicking miscount mechanism.
- Updated the initial text in the manual input for media location to be the current setting.
- Added messages in setting to promote crash reporting.
Version 1.3.3:
- Added setting to allow manual input for media location.
- Added mechanisms to pause songs or lower volume while other applications are using the audio channel.
- Same letter with upper and lower cases will no longer be separated.
- Fixed freezing bug which caused sudden crash over a long time idle.
- Fixed crashing bug caused by some songs’ title with characters that cannot be lower cased.
- Fixed unexpected song playing if player is uninitialized.
- Fixed Conflicts when headset clicking to answer calls while song playing.
Version 1.3.2:
- Adjusted layout at artist biography.
- Fixed bug to show album background.
Version 1.3.1:
- Adjusted paddings at menu bar and notification.
- Fixed and not to play paused song after calling.
- Fixed to use the default repeat mode while shuffling all.
- Fixed the non-updating play button in lock screen player.
- Fixed some random closure.
Version 1.3.0:
- Added lock screen player.
- Enhanced performance while clearing cache.
- Added biography in artist page
- Debug mode enabling doesn’t require restart.
- Instantly enable headset control setting.
- Fixed and removed extra item in genre with no music inside.
- Music library will be opened when menu is pressed in now playing.
- Rewrote media filter system, allowing custom music location.
- Disabled secondary location.
- Fixed many bugs on pausing music while calling.
- Enhanced sensibility of seek bar finally.
- Fixed some more bugs which produce random closure.
- Adjusted library layout to remove some strange gaps.
Version 1.2.1:
- Fixed another crashing bug which contributes the random closure.
- More description in media filter setting.
Version 1.2.0:
- Click headset button twice to iterate next song.
- Click headset button triple times to iterate last song.
- Fixed crashing bug during background music playing, which caused the random closure.
- Horizontal now playing screen.
- Rewritten slider ui in the setting screen for better usage.
- Fixed headset button click miscounted due to plugging.
Version 1.1.1:
- Fixed the background not updating bug.
- Fixed the minor bug which caused the crashes.
- Slightly adjusted the layout for some pages.
Version 1.1.0:
- Redesigned launcher and status bar icons
- Instant play: random song will be played when headset button is clicked and InstaMusic is not started
- Fixed bug that no notification shown when song changes
- Added Playlist which synchronized android playlists (not editable for now)
- Added Artist list in album
- Added Artist list in genre
- Click headset button once to toggle pause
- Added setting to toggle headset control
- Added default mode for shuffle and replication in setting
Version 1.0.2:
- Clickable menu item
- Fix menu snapping bug
- nicholasworkshop.com will open when about is click in setting
- Wallpaper will not be cleared when cache is cleared.
- Fixed bug that background doesn’t load when song is first played.
- Added toggle in setting to toggle the library background visibility.
Version 1.0.1:
- Fixed music pausing bug
- Fixed bug to open now playing with no song
- Fixed bug such that music should stop after playing the last song
- Fixed minor bug that now playing screen will be opened when notification is clicked
- Fixed bug that the app crashed when back is pressed during song playing
Version 1.0.0:
- First release.
- Pretty tab menu.
- Music player basic functions.
- Contain functions like shuffle mode and repeat mode.
- Player will pause when headphone is unplugged or when calling arrives.
