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BlackPlayer EX is one of the best music players for Android devices, and as many drivers already know, it also includes support for Android Auto.
As compared to apps like Spotify and Deezer, BlackPlayer EX is all about your very own music, so you’re in full control of what to play, providing easy-to-use and straightforward features for managing a local library.
More recently, the Android version of BlackPlayer EX (running on the phone) 4received a new beta update that brought several key improvements, including a new top navigation bar that’s larger and cleaner than the previous version – if you don’t like this design, you can easily return to the old look in the Interface settings screen.
Then, BlackPlayer EX 20.58 BETA further refines the dark mode and adds slightly rounded corners, a new animation, and other minor visual improvements.
Beginning with this version, the application also comes with an option to show the filename as title when the folder view is users, as well as a setting to change the “Shuffle Play” action on the artist page to a different task, such as “Play” or “Add to Playlist.” There’s also more polishing for the playlist importing feature, improved sorting, and slightly larger bottom navigation bar icons.
There are obviously several fixes included in this release, so overall, the new beta should run a bit smoother on all Android devices.
Needless to say, this is still a beta for the time being, and this release is only available for registered testers. However, it shouldn’t take too long before they make their way to the stable version of BlackPlayer EX anyway.
Worth reminding, however, is that the improvements here are mostly aimed at the phone version of the app and not necessarily at Android Auto. However, BlackPlayer EX is still running pretty smoothly on Android Auto, remaining one of the best choices when it comes to playing your own music library when driving.
More recently, the Android version of BlackPlayer EX (running on the phone) 4received a new beta update that brought several key improvements, including a new top navigation bar that’s larger and cleaner than the previous version – if you don’t like this design, you can easily return to the old look in the Interface settings screen.
Then, BlackPlayer EX 20.58 BETA further refines the dark mode and adds slightly rounded corners, a new animation, and other minor visual improvements.
Beginning with this version, the application also comes with an option to show the filename as title when the folder view is users, as well as a setting to change the “Shuffle Play” action on the artist page to a different task, such as “Play” or “Add to Playlist.” There’s also more polishing for the playlist importing feature, improved sorting, and slightly larger bottom navigation bar icons.
There are obviously several fixes included in this release, so overall, the new beta should run a bit smoother on all Android devices.
Needless to say, this is still a beta for the time being, and this release is only available for registered testers. However, it shouldn’t take too long before they make their way to the stable version of BlackPlayer EX anyway.
Worth reminding, however, is that the improvements here are mostly aimed at the phone version of the app and not necessarily at Android Auto. However, BlackPlayer EX is still running pretty smoothly on Android Auto, remaining one of the best choices when it comes to playing your own music library when driving.
- NEW Top navigation bar. Larger and more clean. Switch back to old design in Interface settings.
- Updated Dark design of all (long press dialog) popup windows. Slightly rounded corners, new animation, changed background color, slightly narrower width.
- Added option to show filename as Title for the Folder view.
- Added option customize the top action in Artist page to be something other than 'Shuffle Play'. Long press on 'SHUFFLE PLAY' to change.
- Small improvement to Multi Artist when using "ft." as separator.
- Slightly larger bottom navigation bar icons.
- Small tweak to 'Classic' theme fix long duration tracks.
- Default Title font style changed to Bold.
- Fixed Fullscreen Visualizer background.
- Improved Playlist importing accuracy.
- Fixed empty Albums on Artist page when using Android Audio Library and Android 10. A bug in Android caused this issue.
- Re-added the alphabetical indexer for Composers.
- Improved sorting when using 'Force A-Z Sort order' and accents.
- Updated the Album grid design & animation when Manually selecting Album covers.
- The sorting of main 'TRACKS', 'ALBUMS' , 'ALBUM-ARTISTS' and 'ARTISTS' lists can now sorted even if 'Force A-Z Sort Order' is enabled, the sorting still does not ignore 'The' and 'A'. 'Force A-Z Sort order' will eventually be renamed to 'Ignore articles when sorting'. This is currently only for the BlackPlayer Custom library.
- Translation update.
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