I want my Samsung Galaxy S to be synchronized with my PC.
#HOW TO USE MEDIA PLAYER FOR ANDROID WINDOWS#
It's obnoxious as fuck and I can't even remember or give a shit why Google did this.I use Windows Media Player to manage all my mp3s and playlists. I use F-stop which, when I open it, has to scan the device for new images and videos first because it can't just load them like it and every gallery app could on previous versions of Android. So you have to open the drawer in the Files app to pick another gallery app. This is especially annoying because hitting the More button brings up the Files app which refuses to show any videos on the device, only images, even though Twitter can accept video. Twitter for instance can't see anything in the camera folder so it shows me other things I have saved but never any photos or videos that have been taken. Every app seems to struggle with finding pictures on your internal storage.
#HOW TO USE MEDIA PLAYER FOR ANDROID ANDROID#
Random thing though: I hate the way Android 11 handles storage now.
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Amazon Music will just close itself after a few minutes of not playing anything and it's notification controls will just disappear entirely until it's reopened. Podcast addict will stick around as well and stay available under the extended notification shade. If you reopen the app and hit play the player comes back. Spotify works as it should: The player appears and stays until you dismiss it. I just hate how inconsistent it is across apps. This is so complicated to explain it's ridiculous, and I had to spend a few minutes of careful testing to fully parse out all these behaviors.Īll in all, I feel like they fixed something here that wasn't broken, added a superfluous option in settings that made something simple into something complex, and overall decreased my podcast listening enjoyment. The only drawback of this solution is that it is still possible to (accidentally) dismiss the player without first pausing the media, which will once again relegate the player controls to the fully-extended shade. But this will put the media player back in the notification shade. If the media is paused and player is dismissed, the only way to get it back is to restart the media from the music or podcast app. Cuh-ray-zee.ĭisabling the "Media player in Quick Settings" option partially fixes this issue by making everything behave a bit more similarly to Android 10 and earlier. To get the controls to re-appear in their normal location, you have to fully extend the notification shade, long-press on the controller, "hide the current session," and then restart the media from the music / podcast app. It also means the media controls do not appear on the lock screen, which is particularly annoying. I can only access it by fully extending the notification shade, which takes two gestures. What I don't like is that if I pause, say, a podcast, dismiss the media player player, and then restart that podcast several hours later, the player will not re-appear in the notification shade. When this is enabled, the media player will re-appear if the notification shade is pulled all the way down (two swipes), even if the media has been paused and the player has been dismissed. There is also a "Media player in Quick Settings" option.
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Previously, you would have to pause the media before the player could be dismissed. Since Android 11, it's been possible to dismiss the media player from the notification shade even if media is actively playing.