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

#131
LOVE the interface! Simple library overview with a drag-and-drop playlist on the left side. Man, in times like this I wish I had a Mac!

Are there similar apps for Windows? Apart from foobar2k, which I kinda like but only use for simple playback (eg. search for specific album, then play it) than managing my library.

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

#132
post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All your points are subjective.

No, they're not. There are Apple-published UI guidelines, there are decades of User Interface research, and there are time-motion studies to back what I'm saying. FWIW, I've been paid thousands of dollars as an outside consultant to just look at an app provide my initial feedback. If it were just whimsical, subjective musings, I can assure that would not be the case.

I don't know you and what you say won't give you more credibility. Your points are subjective because they fall under theories.

Don't point them out like facts.

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

#133
Really like the simplicity of the app. I look forward to seeing how it copes with my massive external library which caused iTunes to choke (>1 minute to add a song to the library after a certain point).

Smart playlists are a must have feature, so glad to hear they are coming.

One thing that would be nice is if when you dragged a song from the library out of the window, the dragged items became references to the files (in the same way dragging an item out of Finder does). This would allow you to select a playlist, drag all the files out of it and drop them onto your iPod's library in the source list on iTunes, uploading those songs straight to it without having to worry about integrating that functionality into Enqueue itself. I'm not sure if it's possible to do so in Mac OS as iTunes itself doesn't do that, but I've definitely seen it done in Windows and it's extremely useful (e.g. finding a song in iTunes, dragging it out and dropping it on to an audio editor to open it).

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

#134
post #123

I'd buy this if I could use it as an MPD client.

There's always Theremin ( http://theremin.sigterm.eu/ ) although it hasn't been updated in a few years.

Yeah, that's what I'm using now.

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

#135
I was immediately won over by "FLAC", "Scrobbling" and "Speedy"! I've been struggling with iTunes and Songbird for a while now on OS X, and a replacement would be very welcome.

I've been enjoying using Enqueue for a day or so now. My only gripe so far is that I expected to see Play/Pause controls in the option-click/right-click menu of the dock icon. My keyboard's media keys just launch iTunes and I'd like an easy way to pause the music when on a different desktop to the Enqueue UI.

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