Hi,
I've been using play pretty extensively over the last couple of months and have a couple of pet gripes that I feel need looking at:
1. It's too loud. There's no way to change the volume so when pushing the audio out though Airfoil there's distortion on some albums (Icky Thump is a good example). Since there's no way to adjust the volume it's not really possible to use Play in this situation.
2. Play is extremely prone to skipping if the system is under any type of stress. iTunes and Cog don't seem to suffer from this particular ailment so I'm hopeful this is something that could be remedied in the future.
3. The last thing I'd like to see is more intuitive playlist management. With a massive library this is an area I'd love to see improved.
I guess I should wrap up with what I do like about Play:
1. Plays all formats (Flac & Wavpack make up the bulk of my library)
2. Handles huge libraries very nicely (as opposed to say Songbird)
Many thanks for coding this App. Us Flac users would be pretty much high and dry without it (and cog of course)!
Andy
Volume issues
Re: Volume issues
Play's gain/volume is always unity, unless modified by Replay Gain. If a file is clipping it's likely because it is being amplified further down the audio chain.andys wrote:I've been using play pretty extensively over the last couple of months and have a couple of pet gripes that I feel need looking at:
1. It's too loud. There's no way to change the volume so when pushing the audio out though Airfoil there's distortion on some albums (Icky Thump is a good example). Since there's no way to adjust the volume it's not really possible to use Play in this situation.
A volume adjustment is a frequently requested feature, and is relatively simple to implement. I will likely add one for the next release.
Which version of Play have you been having problems with? The way audio is handled internally changed completely from 0.1.2 to the latest unstable build. If your problems are with 0.1.2, could you try the unstable and see how it works for you?2. Play is extremely prone to skipping if the system is under any type of stress. iTunes and Cog don't seem to suffer from this particular ailment so I'm hopeful this is something that could be remedied in the future.
Any clarification or explanation of what specifically you would be looking for?3. The last thing I'd like to see is more intuitive playlist management. With a massive library this is an area I'd love to see improved.
Out of curiosity, how large is your library?I guess I should wrap up with what I do like about Play:
1. Plays all formats (Flac & Wavpack make up the bulk of my library)
2. Handles huge libraries very nicely (as opposed to say Songbird)
Great. I take your point about the volume amplification within the track but Icky thump was a straight EAC/REACT2 rip. Apparently this is becoming commonplace - bumping up the 'volume' during production.A volume adjustment is a frequently requested feature, and is relatively simple to implement. I will likely add one for the next release.
I'm using 0.1.3b. One way to recreate the issue to to ramp up disc I/O - copying around large files should do it. Play starts to skip for me in this situation.Which version of Play have you been having problems with? The way audio is handled internally changed completely from 0.1.2 to the latest unstable build. If your problems are with 0.1.2, could you try the unstable and see how it works for you?
In regards to the playlist management - I think I'm just used to being able to view playlists by default. I guess I only got used to the browser drawer recently so I didn't even know they were there. My problem really - I'll start using playlists more over the next week and feedback anything relevant.
About 20K songs. Is that a lot? It's all relative I guess...Out of curiosity, how large is your library?
