Music Playback

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Amcfy Music delivers a professional-grade music playback experience with rich playback controls, multiple playback modes, and high-quality audio settings. This chapter covers all playback-related features.

1. Basic Playback Controls

Overview

Amcfy Music provides complete music playback controls, including play/pause, previous/next track, progress bar seeking, and fast forward/rewind. Controls are located in the central area of the player interface for easy access.

How to Use

Play/Pause: Tap the play/pause button in the center of the player, or press Space (desktop)
Previous/Next: Tap the left/right switch buttons; use arrow keys on desktop
Seek: Drag the slider on the progress bar to quickly jump to any position
Skip ±5s: Tap the fast forward/rewind buttons; use Shift+Left/Right on desktop
Gesture Control: Swipe left/right on the mobile player to switch tracks

Notes

Fast forward/rewind depends on the current buffering state; there may be brief delays during online streaming
Seek precision depends on the track's total duration — long audio (audiobooks) may have less precise seeking

Use Cases

Quickly skip to the interesting part of a track
Rewind to hear a good passage again
Precise progress control using keyboard shortcuts on desktop

2. Playback Modes

Overview

Amcfy Music supports four playback modes for different listening scenarios.

Mode	Icon	Description
Loop	🔁	Continue playing from the beginning after the last track
Single Loop	🔂	Repeatedly play the current track
Shuffle	🔀	Randomly play tracks from the current list
Library Shuffle	🌐	Randomly shuffle all songs from the entire library

How to Use

Tap the playback mode button in the player to cycle through modes
The button shows the currently active mode icon
Default mode can be configured in player settings

Notes

In shuffle mode, some servers (e.g., Subsonic) may use different shuffle algorithms
Switching playback mode does not interrupt the currently playing track

Use Cases

Daily listening: Loop mode
Hooked on a song: Single loop
Discovering new music: Shuffle mode
Full library exploration: Library shuffle

3. Player Interface

Overview

Amcfy Music offers a full-screen player, mini player, and customizable toolbar for an optimized playback experience across different usage scenarios.

Full-Screen Player

Provides an immersive music experience, displaying high-resolution album art, lyrics, playback controls, and song information.

Mini Player

Located at the bottom of the screen, taking minimal space, showing basic information and controls for the current track.

How to Use

Switch to full-screen: Tap the song title area of the mini player to expand
Return to mini: Swipe down in the full-screen player or tap the minimize button
Gesture: Swipe up in full-screen to show the play queue, swipe down to hide

Notes

The mini player may be hidden in landscape mode; swipe up from the bottom to reveal
Desktop toolbar customization settings are saved locally and do not sync across devices