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Thanks for the feedback! 1,2: We don't have an editor. It's more "Evernote for sheet music" than "Dropbox for sheet music" for two reasons: a. score organizat

by fkefal 12y ago

Thanks for the feedback! 1,2: We don't have an editor. It's more "Evernote for sheet music" than "Dropbox for sheet music" for two reasons: a. score organization/management with cloud infrastructure. b. image processing (importing paper scores via the phone's camera) and OCR features that we're working on (not released yet). Which means it has intelligent features rather than just doing syncing of scores. 3: Those should probably become "Upload" and "Library" respectively. 4: That was a tough call. We wanted to communicate in the landing page that iOS devices are supported (through the web app). If we didn't put the icon, people would think that there isn't iOS support. 5: Got it. 6: Sorry about that, we fixed it. 7: We will probably add Esc as a way to exit the gallery. 8: I can see what you mean. 9: Can you elaborate? You can also try the zoom functionality in the single page view, it's different there. You can turn off split page view in the preferences page (click on your username -> Preferences). 10: You can't do it from the web app at the moment. The Android app is needed to do this (for now). Any edits done from the Android app will get synced. 11: Can you mention some of the things you dislike about the upload form?

tsm 12y ago
OCR could be very exciting...I'll be interested to see how that works. That said, I'm not quite sure what the value-add would be. Full-text search isn't super-handy. Searching by musical phrase would be nice, but very hard to make user-friendly. If it automatically parsed out the title and composer that'd also be cool (especially when I upload a 64-tune collection), but from a ML perspective that's not entirely easy. I wish the website remembered my login. For my taste the upload form is too cutesy. The faux iPad is a bit much (and makes the site seem very tablet-centric, when in fact it works fine in any browser), there's a lot of real estate devoted to each file and yet somehow they look cluttered, showing PDF in huge letters isn't really necessary when the file extension is shown (and the hover effect makes it seem clickable when it's not), and most importantly there's no obvious way to exit the form—it was a leap of faith to just go to a new page and assume everything had been uploaded correctly. Also, "Remove file" doesn't seem to work—files removed from the upload form (that had already been uploaded) still show up in my library. And then there's no way to delete them from the Web UI. --- I realize I have a specific use case, but the ideal for me would be to snap a picture of a tune I have in a music book, have your OCR magic autofill the title and composer, and let me slap some tags on it. Once that happens I'll become an active user up until I have a personal crisis regarding whether I want to pay $9/month for that or not. But as it stands right now, it really does just feel like an unpolished version of Dropbox
- fkefal 12y ago
  "Remove file" is a "known issue". Your criticism is valid (thanks). I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "no obvious way to exit the form" though. Since there are progress bars and checkmarks, what else would you suggest to indicate that uploading is done? There's also a counter at the navbar. What you described in the last paragraph is our current focus. It's not easy but we think it would be very useful. What do you think about OMR (Optical Music Recognition)? Would you find it useful in any way? For example a use case would be to snap a picture of a score and have it played back.

by fkefal 12y ago

tsm 12y ago

OCR could be very exciting...I'll be interested to see how that works. That said, I'm not quite sure what the value-add would be. Full-text search isn't super-handy. Searching by musical phrase would be nice, but very hard to make user-friendly. If it automatically parsed out the title and composer that'd also be cool (especially when I upload a 64-tune collection), but from a ML perspective that's not entirely easy. I wish the website remembered my login. For my taste the upload form is too cutesy. The faux iPad is a bit much (and makes the site seem very tablet-centric, when in fact it works fine in any browser), there's a lot of real estate devoted to each file and yet somehow they look cluttered, showing PDF in huge letters isn't really necessary when the file extension is shown (and the hover effect makes it seem clickable when it's not), and most importantly there's no obvious way to exit the form—it was a leap of faith to just go to a new page and assume everything had been uploaded correctly. Also, "Remove file" doesn't seem to work—files removed from the upload form (that had already been uploaded) still show up in my library. And then there's no way to delete them from the Web UI. --- I realize I have a specific use case, but the ideal for me would be to snap a picture of a tune I have in a music book, have your OCR magic autofill the title and composer, and let me slap some tags on it. Once that happens I'll become an active user up until I have a personal crisis regarding whether I want to pay $9/month for that or not. But as it stands right now, it really does just feel like an unpolished version of Dropbox

fkefal 12y ago
"Remove file" is a "known issue". Your criticism is valid (thanks). I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "no obvious way to exit the form" though. Since there are progress bars and checkmarks, what else would you suggest to indicate that uploading is done? There's also a counter at the navbar. What you described in the last paragraph is our current focus. It's not easy but we think it would be very useful. What do you think about OMR (Optical Music Recognition)? Would you find it useful in any way? For example a use case would be to snap a picture of a score and have it played back.