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> The interface is really clean, the app has many useful features and honestly, the whole UX is smooth and intuitive. It is smooth, but I disagree with clean/i

> The interface is really clean, the app has many useful features and honestly, the whole UX is smooth and intuitive. It is smooth, but I disagree with clean/intuitive. I just installed it for the first time and the comments I have: - The first screen (now playing?) has a big "Musicolet" branded square filling most of the screen (where missing album art would go), and a small "Musicolet" fuzzed out in the background behind the tiny media controls. I can't find any way to adjust the size of these media controls, though I did manage to change it so tapping on the album art will play/pause a song, so not the end of the world. But immediately puts to rest the claim of it being clean/intuitive/well-polished in my opinion. - The tab to the left of that seems to be a queue - filled with my library on random? Seems fine. - The tab to the right is library view. I keep mine well organize, so that will be handy. - The fourth tab (dot in a circle in a circle?) looks like album list. Change to list view, that's better. Lots of different sorting options - great! I want it sorted by date but wait.. now it doesn't show me artist? maybe I can change the settings ... nope, I can either show album-artist, or album-year, but not album-year/artist. There's lots of white space on the second line, showing both year and artist would've made this tab useful. - 5th tab, artist - duplicate of library view in my case. - 6th tab - label/genre, useless as I don't manage this tag on my files - 7th tab - i don't know what this is - 8th tab - search, oops this isn't a tab. the button is tab sized, but I can't swipe to it like a tab. Larger button would help. - 9th (not a tab) - settings. Go to change interface - oh I guess the 7th tab was playlists, and despite it not looking useful to me I can't push it below the line to hide it. > I'll go as far as to say I've never seen a music player software on Windows or GNU/Linux that is as well-crafted as this. (Clementine[1] comes close but sadly it seems it's not maintained anymore). I think Foober2000 on windows is at least as well-crafted as this (and looks similar to the shots of Clementine on that page). I currently use foobar2000 on android. It also has significant shortcomings, but I will likely continue to use it. But musicolet looks promising so I'll keep my eye on it and see how it develops (foobar mobile has seemed unchanging since I first installed it 3 years ago).

ducktective 6y ago
> I can't find any way to adjust the size of these media controls I don't think there is any app which allows you to do so. Still the settings dialog has lots of options (more than alternatives). I've heavily customized (minimized) Musicolet one time. Now I only have 5 tabs which I use the first 3 (playlists, now playing and folder-view). The most important features for me is "search in queue" in playlist view itself (the narrow bar below). Also it is nice that it auto-generates the "most-played musics" in a separate playlist with counts of each item beside. Maybe the default settings and layouts is not clutter-free but at least it allows the user to de-bloat and customize to his liking.
- SECProto 6y ago
  I guess it's not that I expect the "play" button size to be adjustable, rather I think it should be prioritized (larger) than other buttons. The play button is the same size as each of the three shuffle option buttons. After spending a while removing stuff (blurred album art in the background particularly, plus a few tabs, and unnecessary options) I like the interface more. Was getting a bit of stuttering on bluetooth when driving earlier, hopefully that stops. I think what I like most is that I can adjust id3 tags etc in-app, for multiple files at the same time - it feels like a real computer program, instead of more typical cell phone crapware.

ducktective 6y ago

> I can't find any way to adjust the size of these media controls I don't think there is any app which allows you to do so. Still the settings dialog has lots of options (more than alternatives). I've heavily customized (minimized) Musicolet one time. Now I only have 5 tabs which I use the first 3 (playlists, now playing and folder-view). The most important features for me is "search in queue" in playlist view itself (the narrow bar below). Also it is nice that it auto-generates the "most-played musics" in a separate playlist with counts of each item beside. Maybe the default settings and layouts is not clutter-free but at least it allows the user to de-bloat and customize to his liking.

SECProto 6y ago
I guess it's not that I expect the "play" button size to be adjustable, rather I think it should be prioritized (larger) than other buttons. The play button is the same size as each of the three shuffle option buttons. After spending a while removing stuff (blurred album art in the background particularly, plus a few tabs, and unnecessary options) I like the interface more. Was getting a bit of stuttering on bluetooth when driving earlier, hopefully that stops. I think what I like most is that I can adjust id3 tags etc in-app, for multiple files at the same time - it feels like a real computer program, instead of more typical cell phone crapware.