by captainmcl » Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:39 pm
Until such capability is available (or until I learn about the existing capability that everyone else knows about and is laughing about as I type this here), here are some of my wish list items, as of build 0098. (And for context, I should start with "I love MMA! Already tons of great functionality, well-implemented. Keep it up! And I'll be happy to pay for the Gold version when it goes into production!")
Navigation
- Auto-playlists: recently added songs, most played, recently played
- Larger fonts all around -- this is hard to use while driving
- Larger album thumbs in lists -- maybe I'm just used to the default player. It looks like its thumbs are about 10% taller/wider than MMA
- Total counts in lists, i.e. in Artists or Albums or Tracks (Songs) -- when you scroll to the bottom of a list in my default player it shows, for example, "6987 songs"
- Scrolling -- I don't know the names of the interface features, but some apps have a scrolling "handle" (like MMA does), and some list the alphabet down the side of the screen, and you press the letter you want and then flick to get to where you want. I prefer the alphabet, especially for really long lists (MMA does not "show" the scroll while I'm moving my finger, so I go down a bit but have to let go in order to see how far I've gone. And in apps where it does show the scroll, it's just way too sensitive in long lists -- a tiny swipe jumps hundreds of items.) I don't know whether the two scrolling features can be used at once for the best of both worlds
- Thumbnail view -- scroll through albums, artists by thumbnail in addition to list view
Now Playing
- I expected Lyrics to be "pulled" up from the bottom of the album art, not the side. I expected side-swiping on the album art to skip tracks forward/back. (I only found the existing swipe-to-skip functionality by accident -- it was not intuitive to me)
- In a separate thread someone suggested a "Find more from same..." functionality, probably in the menu. I like that idea!
- Rating was not intuitive to me -- I'd rather see the current rating all the time (above or below the art). I was confused that rating was NOT in the Properties dialog
- Larger controls -- Play, Skip, Shuffle, Repeat -- again, most valuable when in the car
- Volume slider on the Now Playing screen -- maybe hidden with the Shuffle and Repeat buttons?
- Track count, i.e. 16 of 238 -- also maybe hidden with Shuffle and Repeat
Trust me -- the list of features I love is much longer than this! Keep up the great work -- you're making a lot of people happy!
Until such capability is available (or until I learn about the existing capability that everyone else knows about and is laughing about as I type this here), here are some of my wish list items, as of build 0098. (And for context, I should start with "I love MMA! Already tons of great functionality, well-implemented. Keep it up! And I'll be happy to pay for the Gold version when it goes into production!")
Navigation
[list][*]Auto-playlists: recently added songs, most played, recently played
[*]Larger fonts all around -- this is hard to use while driving
[*]Larger album thumbs in lists -- maybe I'm just used to the default player. It looks like its thumbs are about 10% taller/wider than MMA
[*]Total counts in lists, i.e. in Artists or Albums or Tracks (Songs) -- when you scroll to the bottom of a list in my default player it shows, for example, "6987 songs"
[*]Scrolling -- I don't know the names of the interface features, but some apps have a scrolling "handle" (like MMA does), and some list the alphabet down the side of the screen, and you press the letter you want and then flick to get to where you want. I prefer the alphabet, especially for really long lists (MMA does not "show" the scroll while I'm moving my finger, so I go down a bit but have to let go in order to see how far I've gone. And in apps where it does show the scroll, it's just way too sensitive in long lists -- a tiny swipe jumps hundreds of items.) I don't know whether the two scrolling features can be used at once for the best of both worlds
[*]Thumbnail view -- scroll through albums, artists by thumbnail in addition to list view[/list]
Now Playing
[list][*]I expected Lyrics to be "pulled" up from the bottom of the album art, not the side. I expected side-swiping on the album art to skip tracks forward/back. (I only found the existing swipe-to-skip functionality by accident -- it was not intuitive to me)
[*]In a separate thread someone suggested a "Find more from same..." functionality, probably in the menu. I like that idea!
[*]Rating was not intuitive to me -- I'd rather see the current rating all the time (above or below the art). I was confused that rating was NOT in the Properties dialog
[*]Larger controls -- Play, Skip, Shuffle, Repeat -- again, most valuable when in the car
[*]Volume slider on the Now Playing screen -- maybe hidden with the Shuffle and Repeat buttons?
[*]Track count, i.e. 16 of 238 -- also maybe hidden with Shuffle and Repeat[/list]
Trust me -- the list of features I love is much longer than this! Keep up the great work -- you're making a lot of people happy!