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I was very excited to see this app as I've wanted a more feature-rich music app for a while. Especially one with search. Overall, this app has potential, but simply can't replace the stock app for me yet for one main reason - it doesn't have any of my itunes playlists. I LOVE the ability to make a list on the phone, but there's no way I'm recreating all of my lists I already spent enough time making in itunes. Until this app can import the itunes playlists, there's just no way I can use it. If I've somehow missed a way to import these, someone please let me know!
The secondary main reason that I can't use this app yet, is that it takes far too long after you click a category in the library section (artist/song/albums) for it to load the list. For me, it's about 3 seconds for "Artist," about 13 seconds for "Song," and about 5 seconds for "Albums." Even 3 seconds is a very long time when comparing it to the instant loading for the stock app - and 13 seconds is just ridiculous. When I'm looking for a song, I don't want to be waiting anything longer than a second, but preferably as fast (instant) as the stock app.
And a couple other nuances I've noticed so far:
- I wish the search was live updating (every time you press another letter, like contacts, app store, quickgold, and basically everything else on the phone). It's better than nothing, and I love the category search/sort aspect, but I wish it was live just the same.
- It would be nice if the song lists used the new style of listing that apple implemented with 2.1, where it lists the song in bold and then lists the artist/album in the same line just under it in the lighter grey text. I actually love how simplify media does this part, even better than apple with 2.1, because it doesn't list the album (I don't think, or at least it lists artist first, I can't check it now, either way it's better than apple). The problem with the way that apple did this is that if the album title is too long, you can't see the artist. And I don't know about you guys, but I would much rather see the artist name than the album name if it's a choice. This was a huge oversight (and possibly a mistake?) by apple, IMHO.
- I don't listen to many podcasts, but I do listen to some. They don't seem to be there yet. They might come with the video update or whatever, I just haven't seen this mentioned yet. I don't listen to any audiobooks, but this is another that isn't implemented yet, for those who care.
Like I said, overall, this app has a ton of potential. A feature rich music player replacement is a blessing, and I'm sure this is eventually going to replace the stock app for me. He just needs to work out some of the kinks.
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10-27-2008, 02:52 AM
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