Feedback for dev107

[bla]

Hi !

I would to congratulate about the quality of the dev107 !
Very stable, very nice. Well I love it !

If interested, please find below my feedback :)

* the playlist

1. the add button shows load CD for, well, plain music CD.
This morning, I wanna to listen to an mp3 cd.
So, I inserted it, fired the player and did add/load CD.
And it emptied my current playlist.
And I do understand why: the inserted CD was not a plain CD,
but a data cd with mp3 on it.
Well, I guess, a better solution would be to detect the data cd
and propose the user to choose a folder on that CD :)
Or list the first level of folder in the Load CD/<drive>/ menu.
Everything but not emptying the playlist :)

2. When a playlist file (not located in the playlist folder)
is dragged and dropped on the playlist,
the playlist file doesn't appear in the add/load playlist submenu.
It would be nice to add a reference to that new playlist,
or ask the user if he wants the playlist to be copied/moved to
playlist folder.

* the media library

4. double clicking on any node of the media library tree replaces
the current playlist with the content of the node.
The very first time, this behaviour is very disturbing !
You may loose your current playlist very easily
Maybe a confirmation dialog for the first timers would be a
good idea.
But maybe, it's just me :)

5. the playlist editor is quite hard to spot
(though very nicely done) : the raise/close button is quite
mysterious for new users. I think that feature deserves
its own button with media library, music browser and so on.

* General UI

6. Maybe I missed it, but it's not possible to dismiss the music
library to use the bottom space for, say, only the playlist.
It seems that the left pane (library, browser or video) is
mandatory.


Keep up the good work, guys !

Bla.

[bla]

The reason why I don't use winamp5 is its terrible library : I'm not a mac user, I hate the three panels navigation, in fact I prefer a hierarchical navigation
And the media library you propose is very nice, allowing the two !

Finally, I reckon that the browser should integrate better with the preference dialog to show the downloadable skin preview : on the screenshot, the preference dialog does overlap the preview page.

For small resolution screen (ie for laptops), it's a little cumbersome to have the list of the available skins and the preview.
By the way, the download skin dialog is great ! So much easy than winamp bad web site : keep up the good work !!

Well, I think that's all for now :)

I really love what you have done and I'am eager to see the new release !
Kudos, guys !

[Solon]

* General UI

6. Maybe I missed it, but it's not possible to dismiss the music
library to use the bottom space for, say, only the playlist.
It seems that the left pane (library, browser or video) is
mandatory.


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nope, it's resizeable, infact if you double click the separating bar inbetween the two it will minimise itself for you, which is very cool.

[acozz]

That doesn't work for me in large mode.

[Solon]

It is possible if you click the raise button you can make it any size you like, all the way up to the top of the ML. I'll admit that finding the resizing arrow can be quite hard though.