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This is very nice at first glance. I liked the multitude of transfer options in VLC, but felt like the UI was too busy. Decoupled has most of the same transfer

This is very nice at first glance. I liked the multitude of transfer options in VLC, but felt like the UI was too busy. Decoupled has most of the same transfer options, but looks a lot more like an iOS app. One odd thing I noticed; I uploaded several directories of music using AirDrop, and every single file I uploaded shows up on the device with a corresponding 212 byte file with the prefix ._ mixed in. Does Decoupled add that? It makes reading the file list a bit harder.

tzahola 8y ago
That's called a resource fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork Those files contain out-of-band metadata for the given file. Now, for file systems that don't natively support resource forks (read: anything but Apple's own filesystem(s)), Finder insists on storing them as dot-underscore files. E.g. Mac clients are notorious for littering SMB shares with these dot-underscore files. As for why it's created when sharing stuff through AirDrop, from one Apple device to another, that's beyond me... I think it might make sense to hide these dot-underscore files from the file browser, along with .DS_Store and maybe thumbs.db (I'm not even sure whether modern Windows still creates thumbs.db). Will do it in the next version. Thanks for the feedback! I wanted exactly this iOS-native look & feel you're talking about. I personally don't like other apps forcing their designers' UX vision on me... A curated music library with quality artworks speaks for itself. I don't want my app to stand between users and their libraries :)
- Nadya 8y ago
  >I'm not even sure whether modern Windows still creates thumbs.db Just chiming in here to let you know it does. Quite at random it seems (at least that's what it feels like) - but it does! Also thanks for shedding some light on the mysterious ._ folder/files that get created for me when I use Beets (http://beets.io/ http://beets.io/)
tzahola 8y ago
FYI, I've just released 1.0.1 in the AppStore, which won't show the resource forks in the file browser anymore!

tzahola 8y ago

That's called a resource fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork Those files contain out-of-band metadata for the given file. Now, for file systems that don't natively support resource forks (read: anything but Apple's own filesystem(s)), Finder insists on storing them as dot-underscore files. E.g. Mac clients are notorious for littering SMB shares with these dot-underscore files. As for why it's created when sharing stuff through AirDrop, from one Apple device to another, that's beyond me... I think it might make sense to hide these dot-underscore files from the file browser, along with .DS_Store and maybe thumbs.db (I'm not even sure whether modern Windows still creates thumbs.db). Will do it in the next version. Thanks for the feedback! I wanted exactly this iOS-native look & feel you're talking about. I personally don't like other apps forcing their designers' UX vision on me... A curated music library with quality artworks speaks for itself. I don't want my app to stand between users and their libraries :)

Nadya 8y ago
>I'm not even sure whether modern Windows still creates thumbs.db Just chiming in here to let you know it does. Quite at random it seems (at least that's what it feels like) - but it does! Also thanks for shedding some light on the mysterious ._ folder/files that get created for me when I use Beets (http://beets.io/ http://beets.io/)

tzahola 8y ago

FYI, I've just released 1.0.1 in the AppStore, which won't show the resource forks in the file browser anymore!