Tablet Interface in Rocket Player

According to Google in its Android Developers Blog post in April this year, tablet optimization is growing quickly and the opportunities for developers to design specifically for tablets has never been better!

With these things in mind JRT Studio is proud to announce its first phase of tablet optimization in Rocket Player!

Rocket Players initial tablet optimization focus's on showing you songs without a modal dialog.

We would love to hear what you think of the initial tablet optimization, please drop us an email at MusicPlayer@JRTStudio or on Twitter and Facebook. 

Rocket Player 2.1 - New Themes, New Features

Rocket Player 2.1 now has three new free themes to go along with its growing list of free features!

The new themes focus on the primary colors already released in the Play Store (Red, Blue, Purple) but with a flat black theme!

Themes

Holo Blue

Dark Red

Dark Purple

These themes are already available the Play Store and will be coming to the Amazon Appstore soon.

Holo Blue
Dark Red
Dark Purple

Features

Rocket Player 2.1 also brings us lyrics support for embedded lyrics as well as lock screen options return!

Embedded Lyrics

Lock Screen options (Return)

We decided to bring back lock screen options based upon the response we received via email and reviews from listeners and supporters from our 2.0 release.

We hope our listeners enjoy these new themes and features in Rocket Music Player.

Keep rocking with Rocket Player!

Rocket Player 2.0 Released!

Rocket Player 2.0 now available on Google Play! The new version features:

• Personalize Rocket Player with purple, blue and chrome downloadable themes
• Flip through your tracks faster than ever with new album art gesture support
• Shuffle smarter with a new algorithm
• Add a playlist to another playlist to save time
• Save the “Now Playing” playlist as a new playlist to keep permanently
• Customize your lock screen with the new lock screen widget (4.2+)

We have not forgotten our Amazon Appstore listeners and supporters. 

Rocket Player 2.0 is not yet available in the Amazon Appstore. Amazon is currently reviewing the update and the new theme apps.

Lastly, for our Google Play users, we apologize for the constant app updating. However, we are committed to fixing all of the issues we can. Thanks to all those that have contacted us with different crashes and issues.

Rocket Player 2.0 Is Now In Beta

Today we are releasing Rocket Player 2.0, our free android music player, to the public via the XDA forums. At this time, Rocket Player 2.0 is still a beta product, but we'd love your help in testing it. In return, you will get early access to our rockin' new features such as the purple and blue themes, gesture support and more.

For a full list of the new features and to help us test the beta, please go to the XDA forum page.

Google Keep Is Tabled Optimized.

I find this a little humorous and a little maddening. Neither of my Android apps, Rocket Player or iSyncr have ever been featured in the Music & Audio section of the Play Store, despite being top 15 paid applications. When I was at Google I/O last year, I asked for feedback and was excited that wheels started turning at Google. Unfortunately, I was told that iSyncr needs a tablet optimized interface to be considered for getting featured. Fair enough, I thought. Then I see Google featuring their own app, Keep. Doesn't it look optimized to you?

Am I whining a little bit here? Sure. Is Google being fair here? No way.

-Justin

Fix it February

Rather than put off our Spring cleaning until Spring, February has been declared as "Fix it February" here at JRT Studio.

Check out the recent updates to JRT Studio applications.

iSyncr for PC (4.0.6)

iSyncr for Mac (4.0.6)

iSyncr Desktop (PC - 4.0.9)(Mac - 4.0.5)

Rocket Player (1.7.1)

Rocket Player Unlocker (1.0.3)

For those of you keeping score out there that's (8) new versions released from JRT Studio in a little over a month and a half aimed at improving customer experience and of course providing the features our supporters have requested!

 NEW Feature: Rocket Player Search Support (1.6.0)

 NEW Feature: Rocket Player Folder support (1.7.0)

Got an issue with a JRT Studio application or a feature that you'd like to see? Send us your wish list!

We've already heard from several of you, but we want to hear from everyone who has been syncing, listening and supporting us! Please reach out to us on these social platforms, or please drop us a correspondence via email.

Cheers!

Rocket Player Missing In Play Store

Update 2/12/2013: After updating Rocket Player to 1.7.1 today, it seems the Play Store is allowing tablets to install Rocket Player once again. I have no idea why and still have no reason from the Play Store team.

Update 2/6/2013: The Play Store team got back to me, and said "Our records indicate that your app is currently published on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrtstudio.AnotherMusicPlayer If you're still having trouble, please let us know and we'll be happy to assist you further." Obviously, they have yet to read an actual sentence of my email explaining that Rocket Player has suddenly stop showing up as available for tablets. Hopefully the canned responses will end soon and they will begin looking into the issue.

2/5/2013: Rocket Player is not showing up in the Play Store for tablets at this time. I am convinced the issue is on Google's side. I didn't update any filtering parameters for Rocket Player during this update. I have contacted Google about this issue on 2/5/2013. I'll update this post when they fix the issue so that everyone can enjoy this update.

The better news is.... Rocket Player got an awesome update to version 1.7.0 today. This update adds two great features. Feature one is a folder view. You have been asking for folder view. So I added it. As this feature is brand new, I want to hear back from you about what you think of it. The second new feature is the ability to select which folders Rocket Player will scan for new music. While the defaults should do you justice, it is no longer a deal breaker if they don't! Just update Rocket Player to scan where you store your music.

Cheers!

Justin