Just installed Orange Squeeze and played with it a little. It found my
server and players with no trouble and got right to work. I really like
the interface. It's clean and quite intuitive, seems to function very
smoothly on my Droid 3. I've only been using it for about a half hour,
but I'm very impressed.

There is only one glitch that I've discovered so far.

When browsing in the Albums view, there's something funky about how it
handles albums that are "various artists". For example, I have an album
called "American Made - World Played", and every track in it is tagged
with that album name (and all in the same directory as well). The
artist tag for each track is different. When I brows Albums, there is
no listing for "American Made - World Played". If I browse by Artist,
there's an entry for each artist, as I would expect, and if I touch the
artist, I get a list showing the "American Made - World Played" album.
If I then touch that album, I get a full list of all the tracks (rather
than just the track specific to the artist I started with), but if I
touch Play All or any of the tracks it still only plays the one track
by the artist. I think the behavior there (in the Artists browser) is a
little wonky. And it should definitely show me the entire album when I
am browsing the Albums list. The same seems to be true for every
"various artists" album I have. As it works right now, I have no way of
playing an entire album of "various artists" except to go to each artist
and play them one track at a time.

The other controllers I use -- Duet Controllers, the standard browser
interface, SqueezeCommander, the official Logitech Android app, the
Touch, Boom and Radio panels -- all handle these albums correctly,
which is to say that the albums show up in an album browse, under their
correct album titles, and can be played in their entirety from there.

Other than that, I haven't seen any problems. The only other feature I
could suggest right off hand is to second the vote for a Preferences
setting that would turn off the screen time-out. SqueezeCommander, for
example, has a setting for this, so when the app is up, the screen
stays on, and I don't have to mess with phone settings every time.
That's a minor thing, but it is a nicety.

Overall, I have to say I really like how the UI is structured, and
certainly don't mind working around a glitch or two during its "1.x"
release. I can see this ultimately becoming my primary Android-based
control app if it proves to be stable and consistent (as I'm sure it
will) and there aren't too many other bugs (as I'm sure there won't
be). Very nice job!


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