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A few things off the top of my head after seeing this. About the business model: 1) The interface seems almost like anywhere.fm (albeit less polished), which

A few things off the top of my head after seeing this. About the business model: 1) The interface seems almost like anywhere.fm (albeit less polished), which was bought by Imeem, which itself is rumored in a lot of debt right now. 2) The "sharing" aspect of the service kinda reminds me of playlist.com, which means if you gain any traction, you'll have lawsuits from the record companies Regarding the technical aspects: 3) Back to the interface, the "play" and "rewind" buttons..etc looks badly aliased and ugly, I think it would have been better if you copied itunes more completely like anywhere.fm did. 4) As a fellow flex developer, I'm sick of seeing flex being used for simple applications like music players, you really don't need the 200+k framework code for something simple like this. It just adds to the loading time. 5) As I mentioned before, the interface doesn't seem polished, you have kind of "aqua" styled button but other parts of the interface uses the default flex Halo theme, it doesn't seem very coherent together. 6) I'm sick of seeing the default flex loading screen, do something more interesting like fotoflexor or picnic.

nick007 17y ago
thanks for the advice... especially about the buttons and loading screen. those will change soon.
- ktharavaad 17y ago
  NP. upon reading my comments again, I sound quite mean and nasty in my citique, sorry about that, its because I spent the past 10 hours in flex builder =P A few more things that I would like to point out after playing with it a little more. Usability issues 1, In the "Add playlist" screen, the "enter" key on the keyboard should press the "ok" button. In flex, you can easily do this by setting the defaultButton property in your TitleWindow. Likewise, the escape button should press the cancel button for you. likewise for your "edit playlist" screen 2, I dont like the java uploader, Why not use a flex based one like the rest of your app? Minor UI stuff 3, Your aqua scrollbar seems to be taken from http://www.scalenine.com http://www.scalenine.com , but it doesn't have the nice "rounded" arrows that the real aqua scrollbar has. Ideally, it should be something like this, with both the rounded corners and the "swimming animation" underneath: like this: http://kpicturebooth.com/temp/aquascroll.swf http://kpicturebooth.com/temp/aquascroll.swf * disclaimer, I made that and I might write a tutorial on how to skin this. Other things 4, Are you using Flex RSL? at the moment, it doesn't appear so. That will speed up the load time by a lot.
  - nick007 17y ago
    thanks again for the feedback. you definitely know your flex (this was the project on which i learned flex from scratch). 1. good advice on the enter key stuff. 2. the uploader actually does more than just upload... it fingerprints songs. i'm sure it could be done with flex. however when i first tried to do so i started running into a lot of security issues. and so i ditched it and went with something more familiar, with the justification that a user only uploads a handful of times. but, yes, this needs to be redone in flex. 3. good advice. one thing that i haven't been able to figure out (and it looks like your example doesn't have it either) is how to let the mouse's scroll wheel activate the scroll bar. any ideas? 4. no i'm not. thanks for the tip
    - ktharavaad 17y ago
      2. A good way to do fingerprinting would be to use the flash player 10 API which allows you to process local files before uploading them. 3, for mouse scroll, look here: http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=138 http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=138 Contact me directly if there's anything else, I think I'm clogging up this thread too much =)

nick007 17y ago

thanks for the advice... especially about the buttons and loading screen. those will change soon.

ktharavaad 17y ago
NP. upon reading my comments again, I sound quite mean and nasty in my citique, sorry about that, its because I spent the past 10 hours in flex builder =P A few more things that I would like to point out after playing with it a little more. Usability issues 1, In the "Add playlist" screen, the "enter" key on the keyboard should press the "ok" button. In flex, you can easily do this by setting the defaultButton property in your TitleWindow. Likewise, the escape button should press the cancel button for you. likewise for your "edit playlist" screen 2, I dont like the java uploader, Why not use a flex based one like the rest of your app? Minor UI stuff 3, Your aqua scrollbar seems to be taken from http://www.scalenine.com http://www.scalenine.com , but it doesn't have the nice "rounded" arrows that the real aqua scrollbar has. Ideally, it should be something like this, with both the rounded corners and the "swimming animation" underneath: like this: http://kpicturebooth.com/temp/aquascroll.swf http://kpicturebooth.com/temp/aquascroll.swf * disclaimer, I made that and I might write a tutorial on how to skin this. Other things 4, Are you using Flex RSL? at the moment, it doesn't appear so. That will speed up the load time by a lot.
- nick007 17y ago
  thanks again for the feedback. you definitely know your flex (this was the project on which i learned flex from scratch). 1. good advice on the enter key stuff. 2. the uploader actually does more than just upload... it fingerprints songs. i'm sure it could be done with flex. however when i first tried to do so i started running into a lot of security issues. and so i ditched it and went with something more familiar, with the justification that a user only uploads a handful of times. but, yes, this needs to be redone in flex. 3. good advice. one thing that i haven't been able to figure out (and it looks like your example doesn't have it either) is how to let the mouse's scroll wheel activate the scroll bar. any ideas? 4. no i'm not. thanks for the tip
  - ktharavaad 17y ago
    2. A good way to do fingerprinting would be to use the flash player 10 API which allows you to process local files before uploading them. 3, for mouse scroll, look here: http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=138 http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=138 Contact me directly if there's anything else, I think I'm clogging up this thread too much =)