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2010-09-29
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Thank you very much for your comments and feedback, it is very much appreciated! 
The playlist problem seems to be on Spotify's end, and in my own experience the problem also seems to be related mostly to shared / collaborative playlists.
The jittering could be related to pulseaudio, I have also experienced it sometimes (mostly during multi-tasking). It is however true that the music playback should receive highest possible priority (and I am constantly trying to optimize QSpot).. The crashing is also under investigation, and hopefully it will be possible to fix the problem in the openspotify library in the near future.
It would indeed be possible to add at some point support for predictive buffering, i.e., QSpot would wait until enough data is available to be able to play the track with minimal interruption.
Playlist management will require changes to the library, but I will definitely investigate whether it would be possible to add, as I think it would be a very useful feature to be able to create / edit playlists.. As I mentioned in a prior thread post, addition of offline mode has certain copyright problems.
The playlist problem seems to be on Spotify's end, and in my own experience the problem also seems to be related mostly to shared / collaborative playlists.
The jittering could be related to pulseaudio, I have also experienced it sometimes (mostly during multi-tasking). It is however true that the music playback should receive highest possible priority (and I am constantly trying to optimize QSpot)..
The crashing is also under investigation, and hopefully it will be possible to fix the problem in the openspotify library in the near future. It would indeed be possible to add at some point support for predictive buffering, i.e., QSpot would wait until enough data is available to be able to play the track with minimal interruption.
Playlist management will require changes to the library, but I will definitely investigate whether it would be possible to add, as I think it would be a very useful feature to be able to create / edit playlists..
As I mentioned in a prior thread post, addition of offline mode has certain copyright problems.
Originally Posted by zillertal
QSpot is a great piece of software, thank you! My experience & comments of the previous version a month ago and before (no Premium at the moment):
- Sometimes it loaded only 2-5 playlists in the start - restart helped often
- Music jittering sometimes, even when not doing anything with the phone. Swappolube & other tuning would probably help on this. Maybe renicing some processes could help? If music is played, it should be one of the highest priorities.
- Crashed sometimes in the middle of a song
- Buffering works mostly well, but when connection is bad and buffer gets empty, then it plays the song 0.5sec at a time, stops, 0.5secs more, stops, etc... So a better way would be to wait until at least a bit more of buffer has been filled (the whole song even). The buffer keeps the song in compressed format, right? Memory consumption explodes otherwise.
- I'm not sure if these are implemented: Playlist management (add/remove songs to playlists), Starring of songs, Loading playlists to offline mode (this would be a real killer feature)
- Support for different bitrates is very good! 3G is not available on the road
- QSpot looks very good and the usability feels very good!
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2010-09-29
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Happy to hear that the new version works well for you, thanks a lot for the feedback! I will look into adding playlist management features to a later version.
I will look into adding playlist management features to a later version.
Originally Posted by mece
I must say I'm VERY impressed by the new version. Starts smoothly, everything seems to work as it should, and now that the album view is implemented I'm almost set. Add playlist features and it's done
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2010-09-29
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what needs to be done for this to hit extras testing?
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2010-09-29
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Originally Posted by mele
i getting this error too ("Error:Cannot connect to the Spotify backend system.") , but only with wifi.
Hey!
Whats with this backend error? Is it fault at Spotify servers?
With 3G connection login working ok.
Any solution?
Z
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2010-09-29
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Thanks for putting so much effort into this client, love it! I have a suggestion which I thought about today. I always hold my n900 with my left hand and using my right hand for the pen (when needed) so what would be really nice is if u moved the album art to the right side instead of the left (dont remove it! ) because then you would be able to switch, pause and browse songs with your left hand only.
Just a suggestion.
/J.
Last edited by akerblad; 2010-09-29 at 15:50.
) because then you would be able to switch, pause and browse songs with your left hand only.Just a suggestion.
/J.
Last edited by akerblad; 2010-09-29 at 15:50.
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2010-09-29
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Backend error is related to problem to initiate connection the the Spotify server / service. It is possible that it could be some temporary intermittent problem. Do you get the problem even after trying to restart QSpot and relogin? I tried myself to login in with the latest version, and i worked without problem.
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Originally Posted by zetagi
i getting this error too ("Error:Cannot connect to the Spotify backend system.") , but only with wifi.
With 3G connection login working ok.
Any solution?
Z
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2010-09-29
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A good question.. I think it would be nice to still add the artist browse functionality, and try to fix the main issues with the library. What is your opinion?
I think it would be nice to still add the artist browse functionality, and try to fix the main issues with the library. What is your opinion?
Originally Posted by Dave999
what needs to be done for this to hit extras testing?
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2010-09-29
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Thank you for your feedback! It would definitely be possible to move the albumart to the right side and the track list to the left. And possible make it user configurable..
It would definitely be possible to move the albumart to the right side and the track list to the left. And possible make it user configurable..
Originally Posted by akerblad
Thanks for putting so much effort into this client, love it! I have a suggestion which I thought about today. I always hold my n900 with my left hand and using my right hand for the pen (when needed) so what would be really nice is if u moved the album art to the right side instead of the left (dont remove it!
Just a suggestion.
/J.
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