I'm tired of registering bugs/enhancements in bugzilla and just see them
being ignored, so I post them directly in this thread to start with. If
you really plan to start maintaining bugzilla and want me to register
them there instead, just let me know and I will do that.
I've now tried The Spotify app a bit and here are some enhancement
related feedback:
Enhancement 1:
With Triode's plugin I can select an artist in my local music library,
launch the context menu and select "On Spotify" to find more music
about that artist on Spotify. This is great especially on the Radio and
Controller where entering search stings using a knob is a bit
frustrating.
Enhancement 2:
In Triode's plugin I can select "Recent Artists", this is also very
useful since you often want to listen to artists you have listen to
before. With this menu I can easily find the artist I listened to
yesterday without having to do another search with the knob on a Radio
or Controller.
Enhancement 3:
In Triode's plugin I can select "Top 100" to list the top 100 artists,
albums, tracks in my region. Once again this is very useful on a Radio
or Controller where searching with the know is a bit frustrating.
Enhancement 4:
I also miss the "Similar Artists", "Arist Mix" and "Similar Artist Mix"
options that exists in Triode's plugin. These are very useful when you
want to discover new music using Spotify.
Enhancement 5:
The "Biography" menu in Triode's plugin is interesting but it's not as
important as the above mentioned enhancement
And some possible bugs (not sure if they are related to Spotify or
something else):
Bug 1:
In the "Recent Searches" top level menu I got multiple entries when I
did a single search. I did the search from iPeng, so I'm not completely
sure if that's causing the problem. Couldn't test with Radio due to next
point.
Bug 2:
In the beginning I had a "Recent Searches" menu but it disappeared
after I had switched to another server and back again. I uninstalled
Triode's plugin during this process also to make sure it didn't cause
any conflicts, I'm not sure if that's related. When is the "Recent
Searches" top level menu supposed to appear/disappear ? It's very
important with Spotify since the Controller/Radio doesn't have a user
friendly way to enter search strings.
Bug 3:
I have a strange behavior where some (not all) of my menus start
showing swedish translations after I've started to use/listen to the
Spotify app. I have SBS configured to use English. I could understand
if all menus were changed to swedish but it's only some of them, it
still displays "Now Playing", "My Music" and "Settings" but at the same
time I also get "Mina program" (My Apps) and "Applikationsgalleri" (App
Gallery) and "Favoriter" (Favorites) and "Sök" (Search). Is there some
MySB setting I need to change to get english menus everywhere ?
I don't have any problem reading swedish but I hate when the interface
mixes languages and since I tend to use a lot of third party plugins
which aren't localized english is the only choice that works if I want
a consistent interface.
Besides this the initial quick tests indicates that the Spotify app
works very good, my feeling is that the search related enhancements is
most important to make it useful without having to use third party
iPhone/iPad/Android clients to use it. Searching works a lot better on
a Touch or iPhone/iPad app where I have access to a virtual keyboard.
--
erland
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