Night Player

Night Player
Android BETA v0.0.5

Description

A free, full-featured music player designed primarily for the bedside (sleep timer with auto-fade), but also for the car (includes a "big button" interface), listening to audio books (you won't lose your bookmark when you select a different playlist), podcasts (skip ahead and back by the number of seconds you set), and much, much more (note the extra "much"; it must be good!) .

A simple note-taking feature allows you to jot down those brilliant nocturnal ideas without leaving the program. A "song-mark" feature allows you to save the current song and time with a note. The shuffle mode and current song location is tracked for each playlist, so you can resume a playlist where you last left it.

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Report bugs and suggestions to me at nightplayer@mikeberro.com. Please do not publicize this site without my permission.

No artists were harmed in the making of this app. If you think you can create art that might be useful for this program, please let me know!

Special Features

Set the sleep time as desired. A progress bar shows how much time is remaining.
Volume lowers as the sleep time is approached.
Song scrubbing; use the bar to move to anywhere in the current piece.
When the piece is longer than a time you set, the next and previous buttons change to skip ahead and back by times you set. Long-tap does a real next or previous.
Play order, shuffle mode, and current song and position maintained for each of your playlists.
Volume control.
Export playlists as web pages.

Tips and Tricks

Tap-hold the Sleep button to restart the sleep timer.
Tap the album art on the main page to switch to the song-details page.
On the song-details page, tap the album art to toggle between pause and play. Long-tap to go to the next song.

Installation

You must set your Android device to accept apps from "unknown sources" before it will install.

Download or copy the "NightPlayer2.apk" file to your Android device (v1.6 or later). Run it (use a file explorer and tap on it), and it will self-install. Updates are installed the same way.

v0.0.1 (28 Oct 2011)

Initial beta release.

v0.0.2 (02 Nov 2011)

Added volume control. The song timer bar can be changed to a volume control using the menu. The volume only affects the player, and is remembered, whether the volume control is shown or not. It also affects the timer bar in the Song Details display.
Made the Play, Next, and Prev button labels bigger and prettier.

v0.0.3 (03 Nov 2011)

Added more info to the Song Details display; date added and file size. Slightly re-organized the display.
Made the playlist text prettier and easier to read.

v0.0.4 (11 Nov 2011)

You can now play, pause, and choose a song from the Song List screen. Current song is always highlighted. Song List screen also honors the selected background, and shows the fast-scroll thumb if the playlist has more than 31 items.
Fixed album art and info occasionally failing to immediately update when returning to the main screen.
Song list opens so that current song is displayed.
Added first-time popup help to more screens.
Added "Export Playlist" to settings. You can send the list via Email, or save it to your SD card as a formatted web page file. (Note: The email app you use may truncate the list).

v0.0.5 (16 Nov 2011)

Moved the "Big Buttons" button next to the "Songs" button, as they both go to a different screen.
Prettified the font on some more buttons, and made some of them two lines of text for clarity.
Increased the font size of song time.