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Cool in principle, but the usability and latency of the app are ruining it for me at the moment. Still I'm sure these will be fixed. Would be good to get some r

Cool in principle, but the usability and latency of the app are ruining it for me at the moment. Still I'm sure these will be fixed. Would be good to get some recommendations in there somehow too. For reference, just annoying me at the moment are 1) menus on side are barely noticeable, 2) menu on side is hard to click, 3) when trying to click menu I end up clicking outside the app more times than not due to latency on show 4) not obvious how to navigate app, 5) whenever I click anything it may or may not happen, and may happen 30 seconds later while I'm doing something else, 6) I'm not sure if the Download button is working, nor where it is downloading to if it does. On the plus side, when I did eventually get a song to load it played the correct song so could be a cool YouTube alternative.

yamalight 15y ago
Thanks for your feedback :) 1-4. ok, that seems to be the biggest problem, everyone is not happy with it >_> 5. hm. can you provide more precise example? may be even create an issue in github? 6. it's not implemented yet, sorry. will be enabled in next update :)
- nopassrecover 15y ago
  1-4, I'd suggest just leaving the left menu up all the time for now as a stopgap until you can play around with some new ideas (e.g. I might then start with a smaller menu / expanding to bigger on hover, rather than just a hint of purple). The UI looks pretty cool, but it has to be usable. I think there's a search box too, as it popped up now and then. I'd try making that always visible for a bit and see what people think. I think 5 is perhaps a latency issue, and because there's no feedback when things are happening it seems non-responsive For instance, if it's buffering a song ready for playing, a progress bar or even a spinning circle would be nice, rather than me clicking Play a few times because I'm not sure what's happening. Likewise, when I click a song to open up the "Play or Download" right menu, nothing tends to happen a lot of the time, and I'm not sure if it has ignored my clicks, or whether it's just doing it's thing and catching up (I suspect the latter). Ideally, if you can open up the right menu (the Play or Download one) as soon as I click a song, even if you then have to do loading stuff before play works it would seem more responsive. Just remember the user needs feedback to know something is happening. Regarding download button, perhaps "grey it out" for now, and put a "coming soon" near it or something? Anyway, these are nitpicks that are easily fixed, I think the app itself is a pretty awesome effort.
  - yamalight 15y ago
    okay, noted. thanks a lot for this piece of feedback :)

yamalight 15y ago

Thanks for your feedback :) 1-4. ok, that seems to be the biggest problem, everyone is not happy with it >_> 5. hm. can you provide more precise example? may be even create an issue in github? 6. it's not implemented yet, sorry. will be enabled in next update :)

nopassrecover 15y ago
1-4, I'd suggest just leaving the left menu up all the time for now as a stopgap until you can play around with some new ideas (e.g. I might then start with a smaller menu / expanding to bigger on hover, rather than just a hint of purple). The UI looks pretty cool, but it has to be usable. I think there's a search box too, as it popped up now and then. I'd try making that always visible for a bit and see what people think. I think 5 is perhaps a latency issue, and because there's no feedback when things are happening it seems non-responsive For instance, if it's buffering a song ready for playing, a progress bar or even a spinning circle would be nice, rather than me clicking Play a few times because I'm not sure what's happening. Likewise, when I click a song to open up the "Play or Download" right menu, nothing tends to happen a lot of the time, and I'm not sure if it has ignored my clicks, or whether it's just doing it's thing and catching up (I suspect the latter). Ideally, if you can open up the right menu (the Play or Download one) as soon as I click a song, even if you then have to do loading stuff before play works it would seem more responsive. Just remember the user needs feedback to know something is happening. Regarding download button, perhaps "grey it out" for now, and put a "coming soon" near it or something? Anyway, these are nitpicks that are easily fixed, I think the app itself is a pretty awesome effort.
- yamalight 15y ago
  okay, noted. thanks a lot for this piece of feedback :)