Hi,

I've given it a try to and I have to second bluegaspode's finding:
impressive quality for a first release.
One more member in the club of people who believe horizontal swiping is
a useful means of organizing pages :)

I also like some details like how the new NowPlaying information slides
in when you change a player, taking care of details is always so cool!

It's obviously not for my device, though.
The layout is nice and gives a visible clue of where you are and gives
you quick access to the player controls and the current track.
This is certainly fine for a large-screen device like one of those
Android-monster-phones with 4.3"-Displays that recently came out or for
a tablet, but on my Xperia Mini pro there's almost no space for content
left, when I use Search (where I have to use landscape since that's
where the view rotates to when I open the keyboads), there's only a
single line left for results which makes me feel a bit like on the
Squeezebox Classic.
In portrait it shows four rows which still feels like you want a
full-screen mode or something.

A few details:
* I don't like the breadcrumbs. Maybe that's my small device again but
they always only show the current menu level plus "> ... > " and I find
taking up 1/3rd of a row just to let me know that this is not a top
level menu a waste of space, a single symbol would have done,
especially since at least in portrait the tradeoff usually is that the
menu level gets truncated.

* For "Apps" I haven't found a way to do anything else but play single
tracks, is this not ready, yet, or a bug? These tracks (unlike the
menus where it's fine) also don't show artwork, at least for Spotify.

* When waiting up from sleep it takes _very_ long to reconnect to WiFi
and the server, might be my device.

* The player overview with the volume bars flickers the handle and
shows changing volume for some of my players even if nothing happens.

* I sometimes get an erroneous "loading..." message at the bottom of
the screen.

* It sometimes loses the connection to the server and I have to kill
and restart it then.


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