dtsig wrote:Playing' at the top. On the bottom there is the
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If i press that it goes back to the album track list. Is this what we are talking about the 'Now Playing Playlist'?

Yes.

dtsig wrote:Also I have found no way to D&D anything. I can 'select' a track and then select the 'playlist' icon but I don't see any 'Now Playing' .. Oh my ... why am i so lost <sigh>

I don't know what you mean by D&D in this context. In that Now Playing list, you can drag tracks to reorder them. (No flick to remove, but maybe someday...)
You can't drag anything into Now Playing. You select a container or individual tracks: hold down the entry until the checkbox appears, then set your selection from the visible items, and press the Play or Play Shuffle or Play Last buttons.

I don't know ... i thought i read in an earlier post in this thread about D&D to a play list. Selecting works for me.

NOTE: i just reread the first post and i just misunderstood what it was saying.

Does D&D mean Drag and Drop? If so, where are you wanting to drag from and drop to?

Within the Now Playing list, you can drag and drop to reorder the list using the handles on the left edge, but you can only move one item at a time. You can't grab a chunk of tracks and drag them all at once.

If you want to drag and drop from, say, an artist track list to the now playing list, that is definitely not available. You have to use long tap and then the check boxes. It'd be a neat interface trick to be able to drag from a track list to the now playing list, but I'm having trouble visualizing how that would work.

Well I'll be a *&%$^&&*

Although I still can't find a way to D&D the rest is cool .. but there really should be a more intuitive way to figure it out.

Thanks BigInJapan ..

dtsig wrote:For 'Now Playing' playlist are we talking about ... If i go to album and click on the first song it goes to the 'cover' page an says 'Now Playing' at the top. On the bottom there is the
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If i press that it goes back to the album track list. Is this what we are talking about the 'Now Playing Playlist'?

Yes, that is the Now Playing list. It looks like your album track list b/c in the scenario you described, you queued one album to the Now Playing list. You should notice that it's slightly different than that album track list though in that you have handles along the left edge that you can grab to re-order the tracks.

To add more to that list, go back to the album browser, pick a different album, long press any track, use the check boxes to select a few tracks, and then tap the play icon with the clock on it. A message should flash indicating that you have added the tracks to the now playing list. Now go back to your player by tapping the album art or track name in the miniplayer at the bottom of the screen, tap that icon on the bottom left again, and you should see both the tracks from the first album you picked as well as the second group of tracks that you added.

dtsig wrote:If i press that it goes back to the album track list. Is this what we are talking about the 'Now Playing Playlist'?

Yes, that is the Now Playing Playlist.

This proves my point exactly. Yes, the functionality is there, but it is not intuitive.

Okay, i'm going to play the village idiot. I have wondered this a couple times since this thread started but just spent time on it and I have to ask .. where the heck is there a 'now playing' playlist in MMA? And how the heck would you d&d anything to a playlist? No matter where I look i see nothing about 'Now Playing.

For 'Now Playing' playlist are we talking about ... If i go to album and click on the first song it goes to the 'cover' page an says 'Now Playing' at the top. On the bottom there is the
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If i press that it goes back to the album track list. Is this what we are talking about the 'Now Playing Playlist'?

Also I have found no way to D&D anything. I can 'select' a track and then select the 'playlist' icon but I don't see any 'Now Playing' ..
Oh my ... why am i so lost <sigh>

There seems to be something of a paradigm in Android media players to have a basic split between the content browsing functions and the player functions, and the Now Playing list seems to be considered a component of the player rather than its own thing.

In Play Music, to see Now Playing, you navigate to the player first and then tap an icon to switch the middle section of the screen between the album art and the np list.

In BeyondPod, to see Now Playing, you navigate to the player first and then pull the np list down window shade style over top of artwork.

I've removed my other players lately to force myself to focus on MMA, but I seem to remember others having a similar approach.

Coming from MM desktop, this feels counter-intuitive. On the desktop, we access the Now Playing list in the same part of the interface where we access the Artist/Album/Genre browsers, the playlists, or whatever else. However, I like the idea of keeping MMA consistent with Android's design queues, so my vote would go toward not putting Now Playing on the main screen and leaving it something that can only be accessed through the player. I think there's a lot room for improvement in the visual design of how the Now Playing list is pulled up from within the player, but I think in Android, that's where it should be accessed from.

(Or, at least, that's what I think today.)

mcow wrote: Really? On my Galaxy Tab 2 7", there's room for another row, possibly for two. And there could easily be three or even four columns.

You must have young(er) eyes. I have set my display font size to max, so that I can use comfortably w/o reading glasses.

Barry4679 wrote:No open slot any more, and no space for an extra row on my 7" tablet (Nexus 7).

Really? On my Galaxy Tab 2 7", there's room for another row, possibly for two. And there could easily be three or even four columns.

What should the Now Playing screen display if there is no list? It makes some sense to me that there's no way to get there, since there's nothing you can do there. But I agree, it is a little confusing to not see it—until you expect that behavior.

michaelsoft wrote:

gpzbc wrote: Likewise, I think it would be more intuitive and user-friendly to have a "Now Playing" button on the home screen.

michaelsoft wrote:

gpzbc wrote: Likewise, I think it would be more intuitive and user-friendly to have a "Now Playing" button on the home screen. Yes, you can access it other ways, but I can't see any reason not to include it on the home screen. Everything else is there. And there is even an open spot for one more button.

No open slot any more, and no space for an extra row on my 7" tablet (Nexus 7).
If anything is queued to play, the micro player shows at the bottom of the home screen, which gives access to the full Now Playing screen.
Maybe not as intuitive as a Now Playing button, but is better featured as it gives direct access to track skip back/forth & play/pause facilities.
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gpzbc wrote: Likewise, I think it would be more intuitive and user-friendly to have a "Now Playing" button on the home screen. Yes, you can access it other ways, but I can't see any reason not to include it on the home screen. Everything else is there. And there is even an open spot for one more button.

I agree on the "Now Playing" button on the home screen. This seems to be an obvious feature. Right now it's hard to get to "Now Playing".

I'd also like to configure the icons on the home screen -- for example: I'd don't really use "Composers" or "Podcasts" so let me take them off the home screen.

Seems like swiping left/right on the home screen could be used for something -- like maybe going to "Now Playing"

MMA is getting closer all the time.

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Galaxy S2

I'm don't quite get what's cumbersome.

To add and replace, you just click some other tracks and MMA replaces the current NP list with whatever was double-clicked. There's no need to manually delete existing tracks.

To add without replacing, select the tracks to add and click Add to NP.

I agree that it could be more intuitive to have a 'clear' button, but I think that once the user starts using the product, she would find little need for such a button.

-Rusty

The workflow now seems cumbersome. If I load new songs to the Now Playing I have to manually delete the existing ones. I'd like to be able to load and add as well as load an replace. I didn't see a way of doing this.