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[FEATURE REQUEST] Link function
Hi, first of all thank you for this fantastic app. After the beginning of the end of Black Player I went through all the applications on Google Play without finding what I was looking for but when I finally thought of Github that's where I found what I was looking for so thank you! Anyway, I digress, I would like to suggest a function that I have never seen on other apps but which I think could be very interesting: the Link function.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Let me explain: In some albums, there are sometimes songs that serve as an intro for the next song (For example: "Look Alive, Sunshine" is an intro for "Na Na Na" by Chemical Romance). The problem is that by adding two songs to a playlist and playing this playlist on shuffle, it's almost impossible to find the two songs one after the other in order. One solution would be to create a song with both, but that would distort the album. And then there are also those who like to play two or three songs one after the other because it's their little pleasure.
Describe the solution you'd like This is where the Link function becomes useful: it would allow you to join two or more songs together in a certain order and play them as a single song in a playlist, for example. So there should be a menu where it is possible to add music groups to playlists. If we push it a little further it could even work on a random reading of the album for example in mode if it has to play music B, music A comes before so that the two are played in order (well that is probably much more complicated and not the most useful I think)
Describe alternatives you've considered An extremely simple alternative would be to simply allow playlist B to be placed in playlist A while keeping the order of the songs in playlist B intact, even if playlist A is shuffled. The only problem with this solution is that we'd quickly end up with a dozen useless playlists. That's why a dedicated menu to manage this wouldn't be a bad idea. Or we'd need to be able to hide playlists.
Conclusion There you go, sorry for the long text and the mistakes (I'm not fluent in English). In any case, thank you for this amazing app that I'll cherish every day. If the feature interests you and there are any questions, I'm available, bye
Goodbye!
thank u so much and sorry for late reply!
so from what i understood, some albums have 2 (or more?) tracks that are supposed to be played in order, just as if they were 1 song, so when u try to add any of them to queue for example, they should all be added together, right?
if thats the case, it will be absolute chaos ngl, u have separate tracks but they dont act like separate tracks, the feature might look handy but considering the technical part this will be kind of a nightmare
some alternatives that looks better to me:
- manually merging the tracks (altho u said it will distort the album, it seems to be the only reliable way)
- .cue files: some players support playing cue files, but i think they are treated as a single entry too so it will have the same side effect above
do u know any player that has this feature? i checked black player but it doesnt seem to have it
ps: why is it a must to always include all linked tracks together? do u gurantee that u will always want to listen to them all in a row?
