Folder Player (Free): What's New?

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(July 2024) 5.27

New: Dedicated skip seconds buttons for tracks
New: Album name in folder play mode
New: Hiding sdcard path in top header for brevity
New: Sleep timer display
New: High contrast option
New: 3rd option for large fonts
New: Play Next queue: queue auto start
New: Play Next queue: Option to keep playing in the same folder after end of the queue
New: Play Next queue: now sortable with new UI
New: Play Next queue: stop at the end setting
Updated: German translation
Fixed: "Play Later" position glitches
Fixed: Empty screen in Android Auto
Fixed: Missing queue counter button when using bottom menu option
Fixed: Autoplay option skips tracks on app start
Fixed: Menu start button skips tracks
Fixed: incorrect sleep times for non-EN locales
Fixed: M3U files missing in older Androids
Fixed: Other various stability issues

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(Feb 2024) 5.22

Added: bitrate info when playing tagless
Added: webm format
Added: showing file names in queue
Added: customizing "skip" interval in seconds
Added: sleep timer button shows current sleep state
Added: Adding folders to playback queue
Added: Seek feature in Notification and Android Auto
Added: 1 min option for Skip, 10 min option for Sleep
Added: Support for individual Language config via "App Languages" phone setting
Added: Setting for screen unlock in battery mode
Fixed: deleted folder kept on the screen
Fixed: play-delete mode: missing popup
Fixed: playlist anomaly when skip to 1st item
Fixed: autostart playback glitch
Fixed: switching tracks loses play position
Fixed: .nomedia file for subtree playback
Fixed: Queue: playback continued from wrong track
Fixed: Active track may jump to wrong track after delete
Fixed: Italian translation
Fixed: playback stops after hitting phone home button
Fixed: disappearing queue button
Fixed: Removed legacy sorting feature from settings
Fixed: Family Link sleep mode, when app continues to play silently instead of pausing (This may fix some Android Auto problems as well)
Fixed: Various Android Auto adjustments and other fixes
Fixed: Hiding "Reading" message popup for folders opened fast
Fixed: Android Auto - track time formatting and empty framerate replaced with bitrate
Fixed: "tracks found" message not dismissed in some situations
Fixed: extra "skip" action at the end of playlist breaks UI
Fixed: switching to other track while playing seeks to the position of the previous track

(June 2023) 5.04

New: Tagging and adding tracks to queue from inside search results
New: "True reshuffling" of folder trees. Maximize distance between tracks from same dir to minimize occurance of tracks in the same folder going one after another.
New: Two widgets (3x1 and 5x1) with back button
New: Sort button moved from settings to top menu
New: "Favorites" section in Android Auto
Fixed: XFading uses logarithmic volume change to improve experience
Fixed: Losing app state after phone restart
Fixed: Link to app store
Fixed: Potential "non-responding" errors
Fixed: anomalies with voice commands in Android Auto. Sometimes tracks would restart instead of resume.
Fixed: anomalies in "Open With" functionality - sometimes file would play several times
Fixed: the problem when user had to close the app multiple times. Typically triggered by search.
Fixed: Missing Exit button in notification (Android 13)
Fixed: Deleting Folders is back. For Android 11+, media files are deleted BUT folder technically remains in place while hidden in the app.
Fixed: Some shuffled tracks forgotten after restart
Fixed: import\export of tags for newer Android versions
Fixed: Android Auto: names of the tracks were incorrect for long track lists
Fixed: No pause on phone call
Many other smaller fixes for edge cases

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