Are You An Android?

Thanks! What was your major inspiration for the design and function? I’ve never seen a music app like this before. How long did it take for you to get to this version?

For such questions going for chat would probably be better, but answering this one.Well, apart from what I`ve already written in the thread (maybe even too much), the inspiration for both was lack of simplicity and plain boredom of current players, (yes, negative inspiration).

I took some of designs that came into my mind during a deep and joyful acid trip and tried to wonder how a simple line of text could work as an iterface to music control, at the same time thinking how this plain design could work as a triptoy itself. So I imagined lots of crossfading, fading, smooth scrolling, morphing and so on. The design slowly evolved, started with the idea of albums by a single artist put together in a line for fast browsing and instant track access, line led to matrix/sheet and that`s what you finally see.

My biggest pain was always playlist editing. Takes too much time. Requires you to make lots of redundant or unneeded clicks, directory surfing and fuzz. And I wanted to create playlists even in a state in which I am unable to tell sound from solid object.Another concept was to have everything in one place. I like reading lyrics. I like keeping my tags in order. I want to play tracks from networked storage without copying them. I want to listen to internet radio. And so on. So I took as much as I could and crammed into single application.

I don`t remember exactly, but it took me over half a year to get it to this state. This is my first such piece of code, first ever Java app (learned while coding) and of course – first Android app.