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Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

#91
Good work, like it a lot! I've really missed having an easy-to-use queue in iTunes, it's great to see it put front and center.

A bit of (hopefully) constructive criticism:

I don't think you should add a whole album to the queue when I double-click on a single song; I expect just that song to go in the queue. I like that double-clicking an album cover adds the whole album to the queue though.

Support for podcasts is really important! I guess this is something you just haven't got to yet?

The things that would be a barrier to me leaving iTunes for this are podcasts, AirPlay & the iTunes store. If you had support for the first two and a bi-directional sync with the iTunes library, that'd be enough to convert me because I really like the experience of using this program & I think you've got a lot of things very right.

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

#92
I like the fact that the tabs have no icons, but rather large and readable labels. I do tire of everything being an icon these days and appreciate the effort you took to make them aesthetically pleasing.

I'd like it that when I add a song no more than the song is added to my now playing list. When I double-clicked a song it filled the whole thing with my library. Sometimes I want to play just specific songs and not their albums either. At least it's easy to collapse and remove all other albums.

I didn't find the welcome dialog out of place, though there needed to be a little more indication that they're buttons. (I'm fine but my mom would be totally confused over what to do.)

I'm not a big user of AirPlay or Podcasts, though I would probably use the latter feature more.

Keep up the good work. I already like Enqueue better than iTunes. You've definitely caught my attention! If you keep to a similar UI and don't bloat the application I'd probably even pay for it (which is really saying something because I'm a bit of a cheapskate).

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

#93

Fist impressions can never be reproduced, so I'm typing this as I go along: 1) Welcome dialog is... out of place. The design is not consistent with Apple UI guidelines, I can't tell the three options are buttons. 2) The cancel button on the welcome dialog looks like an odd man out. It's just floating there in the center, and I think the caption (cancel) is also something you can improve. 3) I think the now-playing th…

>No way to turn off Growl messages? Oops. You should be able to turn them off from the Growl preference pane. I was always under the impression that this was the recommended way to do things, the idea being to have a central place to control them. Now that full Growl costs money and people start using Mist (which as far as I know has no central pref pane to turn off notifications) I guess devs will have to start addi…

Can you provide a link to Mist? I can't seem to find it.

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

#96
It's great to see a new entry into the OS X music player ecosystem.

As a fan of "classical" music, may I make a couple of feature requests — which would actually make me switch from iTunes?

1. Multiple artist tag support. I want to tag tracks by orchestra, conductor, soloist(s), and to search by each independently. This would be a killer feature.

2. Grouping tracks by composition. The movements of a symphony are not "songs", they belong together by default, but it should be possible to select one separately from the others. This can be forced into iTunes by careful naming conventions, but first-class support for the distinction between "composition" and "parts of a composition" would be welcome.

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

#98
Nice. I was using VLC because there's no decent free player (until now) with FLAC etc. support. Global hotkeys worked after I set them in preferences (very nice, since I don't know how to set app hotkeys that work globally using Services keyboard shortcuts).

It seems quite usable as-is.

Request: use replaygain metadata (also, less important, create it)

Request: detect duplicate files (ideally, by actual audio stream, or file content exclusive of metadata, but with file content duplicates is fine too).

Request: sync ratings/playlists (handling different directory/filenames/metadata by hash of content?)

(less important): play order: random-avoid-repeating-last-N (not pure shuffle), repeat-one

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

#99

this is so awesome! my god i've wanted this for so long. i just want to make sure you know that you at least have SOME users (me) who really LIKE how you have handled preferences. I much prefer your implementation to other OS X apps. If you can improve on a formula, no need to stick with that formula. It's a philosophy that worked for Steve Jobs... Good f'ing work man!

> SOME users (me) who really LIKE how you have handled preferences.

me too, me too. it just makes sense that way.

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