User guide
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This option will use the stock equalizer from your Android device and apply sound effects to songs in Vanilla Music.
Use the 'ReplayGain' written in file tag to normalize volume of tracks.
Set the volume of the playing track while a notification play at the same time.
If you tick the 'Keep playing on permanent audio focus loss' box, the current playing track won't stop playing if another media is played on the device (a video, music from another player...). The track will be played at the playback volume chosen above.
Allow you to display basic controls on your lockscreen (Previous - Play/Pause - Next), but also to respond to headset and Bluetooth devices buttons.
Play a 'beep' song when you change track by a double click on the Pause button of your headset.
Prevent music from being played through the internal speakers. You must plug something to your jack or connect an external Bluetooth speaker to play music.
Pause when the headphones are unplugged. Note that if you deactivate this option, the track will continue playing through the speakers even if 'External output only' is activated.
Always open now playing screen while starting Vanilla Music or when coming back to it.
Determine where basic tag (Title/Album/Artist) should be displayed : Above the seekbar on top, at the middle of the cover or at bottom.
Associate an action with a swipe up gesture on the cover.
Associate an action with a swipe down gesture on the cover.
Associate an action with a single press on the cover.
Associate an action with a long press on the cover.
Adjust the order and visibility of library tabs
Set an action by default while touching a track.
Set an action by default while touching a track inside a playlist.
Warp to the current playing track, album or artist (depending on which tab/library is displayed) on song change.
Warp to the current playing track in the queue on song change if the played song is outside the view. The playing track will be displayed at the top of the list.
Select a home directory for File tab. While navigating through your device in File tab, you can come back to your home directory by pressing the 3-dot menu > Home directory.
You can choose to always show the notification even when there isn't any track playing, or to show it only while a track is playing.
Choose an action when you tap the notification.
Display a quick notification in the notification bar each time you change a track.
Associate an action with device shake while a music is playing.
Vanilla can load .jpg or .png file to display it as a cover art for an album. If there are multiple images in a folder, the priority is for images named 'cover', then 'album', and otherwise 'artwork.jpg'. Note that a .jpg file will always be preferred over a .png file unless the png has a name with an higher priority.
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Load artwork from hidden folder
Try to load artwork from '/sdcard/Music/.vanilla/ARTIST/ALBUM.jpg'.
The default Android media library automatically import embedded cover art from audio files (generally saved in /Android/data/com.android.providers.media/albumthumbs/). Vanilla can load these images from the system library. Check this box if you want to display album art which come from the file.
Vanilla can load artwork directly from the music file's tag (e.g ID3 Tag) without going through Android media library.
Display the artwork of the currently playing track on the lockscreen
Disable the lockscreen when playback screen or library screen are displayed. Power button will directly open Vanilla Music instead of the lockscreen.
Keep the device and screen awake when Vanilla Music is visible. The screen won't be dimmed or off even if a timer is set in Android.
Pause music playback after a set time if no actions are done in Vanilla Music during that period.
Timer is restarted if you exit Playback screen or the app, or if you pause/play the music. Other actions in Vanilla (shuffle/random modes, show queue...) won't affect the timer.
Open Vanilla when double-taping the 1x1 widget. Widget actions will be delayed by 400ms.
Scrobble your playing tracks through 'Scrobble Droid' or 'Simple Last.fm Scrobbler' apps.
Emulate stock android music broadcast to make Vanilla Music work with external widgets and lockscreen.
Readahead the playing track. The track won't be read 'on the fly' but fully loaded at the beginning. It may solve some audio issues due to a slow SD Card.
If that box is checked during a library scan, tracks with the same album name will be separated in different albums according to the folders they are located in, and each album will have the exact same name. For example : if 10 tracks have the album tag "Sky", and 3 tracks are located in "Songs" folder while 7 tracks are located in "MP3" folder, then Vanilla will show two albums named "Sky", one with 3 tracks, the other with 7 tracks.
Vanilla has its own tag reader. By default (box unchecked), it is only used for Ogg, Opus and FLAC while other formats (mp3, mp4...) are read by android tag reader. Checking this option will use Vanilla's internal tag reader for any file format.
By default, Vanilla's media scanner only checks files which are indexed in Android's media library. By checking this option, it will scan each and every file on the device. It can help when Android's internal library don't update itself until a restart of the device for instance.
Note that whether the box is checked or not, only the indexed folders will be scanned.
This will delete all entries from the internal database and recreate a fresh database. Sorting options values will also be erased for Date added and Playcount.
Be aware that interrupting the scan by canceling it while this option is activated will reset "Hours of music played so far" number in statistics. If Vanilla is killed, not only will this number be lost, but some playlists might be erased.
Set at automatic Top playlist creation (Top 25, Top 50, Top 75 or Top 100).
You can choose to import and export .m3u files (full synchronization) or just to import _or _export those files. For further details, please go to the FAQ.
Choose a folder from which .m3u playlists will be synced.
if you encounter any problem with Vanilla music player, you can connect to Github and create an issue. To avoid duplicate issues, we highly recommend you to check the FAQ and existing issues (opened and closed) first.
No shuffle :
It plays the queue in the normal order.
Shuffle tracks :
It shuffles all tracks in the queue each time you activate the option.
Shuffle albums :
It sorts enqueued tracks by album and shuffles them.
No repeat :
It stops playing after the last track of the queue.
Repeat :
The queue is repeated endlessly.
Repeat current track :
The current playing track is repeated endlessly.
Stop after current track :
The current playing track is played one time.
Random :
At the end of the queue, totally random tracks are added gradually from your entire library. Shuffle mode will logically not work while random mode is activated.
Rather than pressing continuously those buttons to change Shuffle and Random modes, you can long press Shuffle/Random icon to quickly choose a specific mode :
Long pressing Play all button may be useful to do a batch-add of tracks to queue or to playlist. You can do it in any tab (Tracks, Files, Albums..) and it can be coupled with filters --> 
When you are in library screen, slide a little bit the now playing bar up to show controls, and slide it more to show the entire queue :
When your are in Playback screen (now playing), you can also show queue quickly by sliding controls up :
To remove a track from the queue without long pressing it, just slide left on the move grabber located at right. You can also perform this in a playlist while editing it.
If you (single) press the area above progress bar, you can view the album of the currently played track. It is a quick way to do the "More from... > Album" option.
