• Vanilla Music Version (Settings -> About): 1.0.80
• Android Version: 9.0
• Phone vendor / model: Google Pixel XL (128GB)
• Application was downloaded from (use [x]):
  • Play Store
  • F-Droid
  • Other (Nightly Build)
• Did this work in a previous version?
  • Yes
  • No
  • NA / Don't know.

Description

When playing an untagged file before vanilla has gotten a chance to index it, the statusbar notification and vanilla application will show an empty title and empty artist for the track. Once vanilla has finished indexing the media library, the filename will be used as the title. However - it would be great for vanilla to just use the filename when tags are not available. When playing recently downloaded podcasts, it's inconvenient to index the entire phone's memory in order to show the filename in the statusbar.

#591 was opened and closed after the reporter realized he could reindex.. However this is not a good solution for the use case of a user wanting to open a newly downloaded empty tagged audio file in Vanilla
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Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Add an audio file with empty tags to your phone (download a Video using NewPipe for example)
2. Open the audio file in a file browser (or in the case of the NewPipe example, simply hit "play" on the downloaded file in "Downloads")
3. Select to open the file in "Vanilla Music Player" if its not the already associated default
4. Notice how both the Vanilla UI and the statusbar controls/notification do not display the filename at all
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Distinction (edit!)

Even AFTER the file has been indexed by Vanilla, vanilla will NOT use the filename if the file is opened from a File Manager or other application (such as NewPipe). The filename is only used when the file is actually opened from the Vanilla Music Player library itself