Once Ampwifi connects to the Winamp® server it will display information about the currently playing song and the current playlist. Ampwifi also allows you to browse and search your music library. It uses a simple interface divided into four distinct tabs: Now Playing, Playlist, Music Library and Search. Note that you may only see the first three tabs because the Search tab is hidden until you perform a search. See the search section for more details.
Pressing a song title will play that song right away. Long pressing a song title will bring up the following context menu:
- Play now - Plays the selected song right away.
- Remove from playlist - Removes the song from the playlist.
- Move to top - Moves the song to the top of the playlist.
- Move to bottom - Moves the song to the bottom of the playlist.
- Stream to device - Streams the file to your device. For details, click here.
Music library
The Music library tab allows you to browse your entire music library and add songs to the current playlist. This does NOT use Winamp's media library but instead uses AjaxAMP's media library replacement. Folders have their title in bold, appear brighter than song titles and end with a slash.
Pressing on a folder name will set that folder as the current folder and reload the Music library tab to show the files in that folder. To return to the parent folder you can press back button. Another way is to press the top most row (0...) which is always a pair of dots (in Windows/DOS the ".." means "parent folder"). Alternatively, you can select the Parent (..) menu option. If you're at the top most folder you will not see the row (0...) nor will the Parent (..) menu be available.
Pressing a song title will enqueue the song to the end of the playlist. Long pressing a song OR a folder will bring up the following context menu:
- Play now - Clears the playlist, adds the file or folder to the playlist and begings playing right away.
- Enqueue next - Inserts the file or folder into the playlist immediately after the song currently playing.
- Enqueue at end - Adds the file or folder to the end of the playlist.
- Stream to device - Streams the file to your device. For details, click here.
NOTE: The above context menu applies not only to songs but to entire folders, including the parent folder; the top most row (0...).
Caution: Adding a folder to the playlist adds ALL subfolders as well, so you should be careful with this feature. When adding the top most row (0...), the current folder will be added to the playlist, including any subfolders.
Search
The Search tab allows you to search AjaxAMP's media library. This tab may not always be visisble, but you can always get to this tab by either pressing the search button on your device or by selecting the Search menu option.
To perform a search simply enter a word or phrase in the edit box and press either the return key or the search button. The search results will be listed below. Folders have their title in bold, appear brighter than song titles and end with a slash.
Your searches can use the asterix (*) as a wild card character. For example, if you were to search for l*ve you'd see results with love, live or leave.
Press a song title to add that song to the playlist. Press a folder to switch to the Music library tab to view the contents of that folder. Long pressing either a song or a folder will bring up the same context menu as in the Music library tab.
Once done with search you can hide the Search tab by clearing the search text field and then either press the search button or select the search menu option.
NOTE: There is a bug in AjaxAMP that may cause it to crash if you search for a phrase with a large number of matches (in the thousands). Searching for words like "the" or "and" are discouraged. If AjaxAMP does crash, you may need to restart Winamp®. Unfortunately I am unable to correct this bug as I don't have access to the code.