Thank you very much for your kind suggestions about Neutron!
Let me answer to your points.
1. Yes transparent layer is a kind of safe-lock which is automatically activated if user does not interact with UI for about 1 minute. It protects buttons from accidental pressing. To remove it you press on layer and drag away to any direction out of screen. If layer is hidden for about 50% it will be deactivated. Also if music is playing and layer gets auto-activated it will be colored with different colors depending on music frequency spectrum - just to look fun
2. It is crash bug and it was fixed already (I hope it was this bug). Here is dev snapshot, could you check if your bug exists: http://neutronmp.com/download/dev/Neutr ... 030511.apk
3. The additional play-list functionality you described is planned! You are very correct about what needs to be added to make play-list more convenient, than you for your thoughts. By the way, play-list database is normally located in /sdcard/Android/data/com.neutroncode.mp/neutronmp.db and it has open format of SQLite database, so everyone can even write advanced playlist editor which would connect to this database and edit it. But yes, Neutron shall provide standard functionality similar to what you descried and it shall be done in next releases.
To delete Playlist: if you press and hold finger on Playlist entry for about 1 sec there dialog window will appear automatically. For now only one button in the window - Delete.
4.
> The track duration timer can be trimmed to display only minutes and seconds...
Well, displaying milliseconds was the design goal as professional audio devices usually count milliseconds as well. Moreover shown numbers are real and are produced with latency of 33 milliseconds. The precision of audio seeking is 1 audio frame if audio codec allows that.
> How about adding another equaliser bar (middle frequency).
Neutron's equalizer is classic and represents 4 bands: Low, Mid-Low, Mid-High, High. It supports user-side adjustment of Center/Cut-off Frequencies and Mid bands support tuning of Band Width. EQ tunning UI is under development and will be release in next versions so there you can adjust Mid bands to the sounding you like. Currently bands can be adjusted by editing neutronmp.db directly:
settings table:
SETTING__EQ
1 2.70000005 200.00000000 0.53999996 500.00000000 1.00000000 0.26999998 3000.00000000 1.00000000 2.56999993 6000.00000000
Here we skip 1 and following this order:
LowGain = 2.70000005
LowCutoff = 200.00000000
Mid1Gain = 0.53999996 ...
Mid1Center
Mid1Width
Mid2Gain
Mid2Center
Mid2Width
HighGain
HighCutoff
> and move the 'Shuffle, loop, fade and pre amp' buttons a little to the right
It will harm UI for displays smaller than 480x800, because rescaled UI elementes become closer and closer to each other.
Best regards,
Dmitry.