At first blush, this seems absolutely delightful. I'd second most of ComputerGuru's critiques and add that:
1. I find it odd that Preferences is a tab versus its own dialog. I shouldn't need to access it that often, so I don't think it merits the same visual prominence as my library or playlists.
2. If you stick with the all-in-one window approach, it seems like you should fold the "About" and "Check for Updates" dialogs into the main window, possibly as siblings to the Preferences items.
3. I wish the currently playing song was visually highlighted in the main library view.
4. I can't seem to enqueue an entire playlist from the top level Playlists screen.
5. There's no intuitive way to go "back" after drilling into a Playlist's detailed view.
6. There's no easy way to look at the contents of several playlists one after another.
I feel like 5 and 6 could be solved by redesigning the top level playlists view to include both the lists of playlists and their contents, a la the Library view. I get the impression that ComputerGuru wants something similar in his note #7.
1. I find it odd that Preferences is a tab versus its own dialog. I shouldn't need to access it that often, so I don't think it merits the same visual prominence as my library or playlists.
2. If you stick with the all-in-one window approach, it seems like you should fold the "About" and "Check for Updates" dialogs into the main window, possibly as siblings to the Preferences items.
3. I wish the currently playing song was visually highlighted in the main library view.
4. I can't seem to enqueue an entire playlist from the top level Playlists screen.
5. There's no intuitive way to go "back" after drilling into a Playlist's detailed view.
6. There's no easy way to look at the contents of several playlists one after another.
I feel like 5 and 6 could be solved by redesigning the top level playlists view to include both the lists of playlists and their contents, a la the Library view. I get the impression that ComputerGuru wants something similar in his note #7.
Bravo! This is great!