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Hi Peter,

Thanks for creating what looks like a very promising music player for Maemo. I really like the clean UI, and when this application is completed, I can see that it will more than likely be my default music player. I have just over 3,600 songs (400 albums) at quite high bit rates on the main memory of my N900, with album art compiled mainly using MussOrgsky. I don't have a recent enough Mac to use the Insinctiv main application from your website, and have been using a WinXP netbook to administer the songs on my N900 via simple file transfer.

I've downloaded and installed the .deb file linked to in your post #59 and 'About' reports that I'm running v 0.3.14. EDIT: Downloading version from Ovi Store after reading (properly) post #59!!! EDIT:EDIT I'm switching back to the later version linked to in post #59 because it includes album art in listings

I've had it running for a couple of hours. As previously stated, I had already linked artwork to all of my music using MussOrgsky, but Instinctiv seems to be taking some time to either find it's own artwork, or index it in some way. I'm finding scrolling through the Albums list extremely laggy. Scrolling Artists or Songs seems much smoother. I'm pretty sure that Instinctiv has had enough time to work out all the album art now, but it is still really slow and the images gradually populate the album list piece-meal even after a re-boot.

As per previous posts, a voting system for features/improvements is a very good plan. It is also worth considering the option to vote both for and against the options. This will give a clearer picture of the demand for specific features. Some people here I note are either for or against an on-screen volume slider. I'm for it, because I am keen on multiple input methods, but I respect the opinions of those who are against.

The things I'd like to see are:

+1 for more sub-menu choices i.e. Most Played, Recently added, etc.
+1 for playlists
+1 for landscape mode
+1 for a widget ( I use the widget when driving on my 'in car' desktop )
+1 for 'cover flow' style album browsing
If I pick an album, I'd also like a 'More albums from this Artsist' choice.
If I pick an Artist, instead of a complete list of songs by that Artist, I'd like to first see the album choices before listing the songs.
If I pick a song from songs, I'd like to see a 'More songs from this Artist' choice in addition to the song picked.
When listing all the songs in an album, I'm not sure if it's worth showing the same album art next to each track listing over and over, it looks kinda' clumsy because you really only need one image.
Alphabetic listing places non-alpha numeric chars at top of list i.e. "( I can't get no) Satisfaction" is near the top of the list when it ought to be in the I's for India.
I strongly agree with a faster input method for alphabetic searching. I actively use the keyboard to search Songs, Artists, etc. with the built-in media player in landscape mode and would miss this feature if it doesn't reach your player.

Interesting thing I just did then. I was playing a song in single track mode from 'Songs' and then instinctively 'swiped' right to see what the next song was. Obviously, nothing happened, but does this point to another possible UI feature? On checking my (cough) Touch, I find that a right swipe returns me to the list of songs and a left swipe does nothing. A swipe of a song's album art while playing could reveal more info, lyrics, more albums, tracks, whatever, but it's worth exploiting for some feature or other.

This is a really good music player! Performance on Instictiv already rivals the stock media player and the UI is far better looking and user friendly. Will definitely become my main media player if it keeps improving!

Btw, I think earlier in the thread it was asked that people report the size of their music library, I have ~5300 songs.

As for extra features, I agree with what most of people have been saying, for me the priorities would be:

> Allow editing of which folders get indexed, right now my podcasts are getting mixed with my music;
> Add folder browsing, search, playlists, etc. anything that makes locating music easier;
> Enable hardware buttons when the screen is locked (through MAFW I guess);
> Keep improving performance! Scrolling through some lists gets laggy.

Right / left swipe.

Okay, I thought about this track left/right swipe scenario and I'd like it to bring a choice of:

Albums from this artist
Songs from this artist
More songs like this song (using your yet to be released algorithm)
Detailed track info including file location, size, file type, bit rate, etc.(with further option to edit album art, artist name, track name, album name, etc.)

Hi! I don't see in the version you posted the abbility to browse folders that you said it is fixed. Why? Why you are not sharing the latest version available, you said 0.9, if you wanna know what improvements should be done?
Nothing spectacular betwen this 0.34.1 and the one from OVI, maybe a little bit slower!

Guys, let's keep it constructive. Peter will release whatever he feels like is ready. Nothing else.

Again, for those who probably did not ready my post.

Up until now the only things I've been read was "I will vote against a volume slider" and "I dont want one". That's it. Care to elaborate why? There's space at the bottom, why not use it? And clicking the status menu from within Instinctive+in portrait mode takes too long if you quickly need to put the volume down.



Let's wait until Peter gets back to us and can tell us what he can include now and what he'll push further back before we add more "wanted features" to this thread.

If this "I want I want I want can we include release release release" continues his brain will be subjected to increased pressure and stress, so give him a break people.

@Andrew_b: Great input! A couple of very interesting ideas, cheers!

Been having problems running this myself.
Downloaded from Ovi Store, but when I run it it works fine up to the point where I tap on a track, then it shuts down. But at present it's shutting down as I start it.

I've been in contact with Peter via email, but I think I'll switch to using this forum in future. Maybe get a few more ideas.

First off, what is the latest version, and is that the one that's on OVi Store?

I guess when he said this was a "0.9" release, he meant that in general it is not yet a finished 1.0 release, rather than than referring specifically to the exact version number.

Mh. That's weird, no idea why it's doing that?

I'd suggest not overloading him atm, he's clearly developing the application further, and seeing that he's alone or working with a small team he most likely does not have the time to bugfix via email. In the future please post in this thread if you have issues.

here (a.deb): 0.3.xx
Ovi store: 0.2.14

Thanks for getting back Haus3r.

I'll give the deb file a go see what happens with that.

Just downloaded this deb now but can't test it yet. I am impressed that you are here on the forums Peter and actively seeking feedback. I saw the app on OVI a few days ago but wasn't sure how good it was going to be. After seeing there is a devel here working with us, I'll happily try it out.

Will give feedback when I am not in work and can listen to music.