The GUI
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:07 pm
Hi.
I'll just start up by saying I love Guayadeque with all its cool feature and the fact that I can handle my big music library.
But there is something about the look of the player. To me it looks a bit cheap and underdeveloped, not aimed at being user friendly, but just hyped on features. So I just have an input on how the player could look and act.
The way I see it, from a user perspective, the information I am most interested in when I browse my music is the following: Artist, Album Title, Track Title, Track Number, Cover art, Length, Rating and maybe Year. All the rest I don't really care about. The question is how to display this information.
I don't want to look at a bunch of lines where a whole lot of the columns look the same.
Eg. If I search for "The Beatles" in my library I will see the name "The Beatles" on my screen like a hundred times but all in one column! This is not needed. Display the artist name once! Same with album title. Display it once for all the songs on the album. Then you can fit the Cover art, Year and Album rating together with it.
I want to look at my music collection as if I had hard-copies of all the records, not just a bunch of files.
I have attached a draft of how the library could look. See if you like it.
I'll just start up by saying I love Guayadeque with all its cool feature and the fact that I can handle my big music library.
But there is something about the look of the player. To me it looks a bit cheap and underdeveloped, not aimed at being user friendly, but just hyped on features. So I just have an input on how the player could look and act.
The way I see it, from a user perspective, the information I am most interested in when I browse my music is the following: Artist, Album Title, Track Title, Track Number, Cover art, Length, Rating and maybe Year. All the rest I don't really care about. The question is how to display this information.
I don't want to look at a bunch of lines where a whole lot of the columns look the same.
Eg. If I search for "The Beatles" in my library I will see the name "The Beatles" on my screen like a hundred times but all in one column! This is not needed. Display the artist name once! Same with album title. Display it once for all the songs on the album. Then you can fit the Cover art, Year and Album rating together with it.
I want to look at my music collection as if I had hard-copies of all the records, not just a bunch of files.
I have attached a draft of how the library could look. See if you like it.