Quote: Originally Posted by
natedawgg 
this will be implemented in the very near future. i am considering 2 things in this area. the first is being able to make a playlist from within the app (very simple to implement on my side). second importing playlists from itunes or whatever other program a playlist is made in (much harder for me to implement, although not impossible by any means)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most people using your app will be using it with an independent computer system hooked up to their car, and not using it with iTunes very much. Therefore, I think the ability to create and save playlists instantly from within the app would be much more useful than integrating it with iTunes, where any changes to the playlist would be done on the iTunes side then ported to your front end.
Quote: Originally Posted by
natedawgg speaking of update. air provides a nice auto-update feature that will allow the app (when connected to the internet) to check and see if it is current and if not it will automatically download and install the newest version. I am going to implement this for the next beta release.
Auto-update is King.
Quote: Originally Posted by
natedawgg this was a speed to release problem. i was coding to fast to stop and think of basic functionality.
No worries. That's why you have beta-testers like us to do your proofreading. You do your thing, we'll do ours. You code, we'll check. You're doing an awesome job imho.
Quote: Originally Posted by
natedawgg im not sure if that is an air problem or not. i honestly never thought of that, but i will look into it further, the must be a way. and honestly the volume controls are only for the flash player and not the actual system (os volume). i am not 100% sure but i dont think air can give access to system info such as volume. it was designed to have the system volume at 100% and then control the music inside flash.
I don't mind leaving the system volume at a constant 100% and using the flash player's volume control. I was turning up the volume after the ATT button, and discovered that I needed to click a whole bunch of times to raise the volume.
I think most (not including me) people will also be considering an external control knob for volume on their systems.
Quote: Originally Posted by
natedawgg shuffle has not been implemented yet. the button is just a place holder until i can acutally implement that feature
That's ok. That would probably come at the same time as the playlists (to shuffle within a playlist/artist, etc.) Don't forget repeat modes: repeat one, repeat disk/playlist/artist, repeat all.
Quote: Originally Posted by
natedawgg i agree and it should not be too difficult to add, however it will rely completely on the individual file's meta data or id3 tag. the problem that i am running into is getting the metadata from a .aac, m4a song. .mp3 work fine however. i will look into this more but it will take some time.
No worries. I think playlists would be priority over this, so take your time.
Also, I know this is thinking really far ahead, but does AIR support smooth and nice animations such as a "ripple" animation if you click on the screen? Eventually it'd be nice to have customizable skins or background pics and cool little animations.
ACTUALLY that brings up a good point: visualizers/slideshows? I know you're focusing on the audio app right now, but have you given any thought into being able to throw up a visualizer or slideshow while your music is playing? Just a thought.