Cool in principle, but the usability and latency of the app are ruining it for me at the moment. Still I'm sure these will be fixed. Would be good to get some recommendations in there somehow too.
For reference, just annoying me at the moment are 1) menus on side are barely noticeable, 2) menu on side is hard to click, 3) when trying to click menu I end up clicking outside the app more times than not due to latency on show 4) not obvious how to navigate app, 5) whenever I click anything it may or may not happen, and may happen 30 seconds later while I'm doing something else, 6) I'm not sure if the Download button is working, nor where it is downloading to if it does. On the plus side, when I did eventually get a song to load it played the correct song so could be a cool YouTube alternative.
Thanks for your feedback :)
1-4. ok, that seems to be the biggest problem, everyone is not happy with it >_>
5. hm. can you provide more precise example? may be even create an issue in github?
6. it's not implemented yet, sorry. will be enabled in next update :)
Awesome app. I've been thinking of an app like this in the back of mind for a while. Since I'm usually too cheap to buy music, I often hit youtube to listen to specific songs, but it's always a bit of a pain to listen to music that way. This should make things much easier :)
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After playing with it for a little bit, I've got some suggestions:
- Not the most intuitive interface...took me a little bit to figure out where some things are.
- Since the songs are mostly streams from various sources, things can be slow...could use some sort of feedback when a user has activated an event or clicked a button
I'm finding Youtube great for listening to music. It has a bunch of features I never used for video, that I do now for audio like playlists.
When active listening I love the serendipity of listening to a song and having 10 semi-random choices to jump to, plus the ability to read the comments and find out about covers or other versions or other artists to check out, definitely the best place to find new music even if it's not ideal for syncing with iPods.
I've also got it hooked up to XBMC so that I can route the playlists through my home theatre setup.
thanks for the feedback :) I've already been blamed for UI almost by everyone, so I'm absolutely going to look for ways to make it better :D Indication for actions is a good idea, I'll think about it, thanks :)
The author seems to be Russian; I don't understand why it doesn't dip into vk.com music database. It is vast, and combined with well-groomed metadata databases from other services, it would rock.
There are apps which do - for example, "last.fm free music player"
it's done completely using actionscript 3 and adobe flex. if you remove all stuff like file downloads you can run it in browser, but for it to work as a desktop app air is a must.
Two comments/suggestions 1) Not very intuitive interface - on aspect of navigation, can't figure out how to get back from screen to screen. 2) Maybe adding support for playing songs from filesystem as well will be good.
I hope so. I mean, app itself only searches the web for public sources. I assume you cannot really call this piracy or pirate software since it doesn't hacks anything :)
my top feature request: playlists! and i think you need to increase feedback for the user. e.g. when i click 'play all' i see nothing that tells me that the click worked and that it will begin playing in a few seconds.
[+] [-] nopassrecover|14 years ago|reply
For reference, just annoying me at the moment are 1) menus on side are barely noticeable, 2) menu on side is hard to click, 3) when trying to click menu I end up clicking outside the app more times than not due to latency on show 4) not obvious how to navigate app, 5) whenever I click anything it may or may not happen, and may happen 30 seconds later while I'm doing something else, 6) I'm not sure if the Download button is working, nor where it is downloading to if it does. On the plus side, when I did eventually get a song to load it played the correct song so could be a cool YouTube alternative.
[+] [-] yamalight|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jwingy|14 years ago|reply
<Edit> After playing with it for a little bit, I've got some suggestions:
- Not the most intuitive interface...took me a little bit to figure out where some things are.
- Since the songs are mostly streams from various sources, things can be slow...could use some sort of feedback when a user has activated an event or clicked a button
[+] [-] ZeroGravitas|14 years ago|reply
When active listening I love the serendipity of listening to a song and having 10 semi-random choices to jump to, plus the ability to read the comments and find out about covers or other versions or other artists to check out, definitely the best place to find new music even if it's not ideal for syncing with iPods.
I've also got it hooked up to XBMC so that I can route the playlists through my home theatre setup.
[+] [-] yamalight|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] harph|14 years ago|reply
Hopefully you'll work a bit on the user interface, as others have mentioned. Good luck!
[+] [-] yamalight|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] guard-of-terra|14 years ago|reply
There are apps which do - for example, "last.fm free music player"
http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Last.fm+free+music+player+users
[+] [-] yamalight|14 years ago|reply
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I'm not sure if it is a good thing to rely on since it seems to be laggy and Linux support was discontinued: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime#cite_n...
[+] [-] yamalight|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] moondowner|14 years ago|reply
Two comments/suggestions 1) Not very intuitive interface - on aspect of navigation, can't figure out how to get back from screen to screen. 2) Maybe adding support for playing songs from filesystem as well will be good.
[+] [-] yamalight|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] chrischen|14 years ago|reply
Echonest also provides an mp3 search via its api.
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[+] [-] fidrelity|14 years ago|reply
my top feature request: playlists! and i think you need to increase feedback for the user. e.g. when i click 'play all' i see nothing that tells me that the click worked and that it will begin playing in a few seconds.
keep it going!
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