Cool in principle, but the usability and latency of the app are ruining it for me at the moment. Still I'm sure these will be fixed. Would be good to get some recommendations in there somehow too.<p>For reference, just annoying me at the moment are 1) menus on side are barely noticeable, 2) menu on side is hard to click, 3) when trying to click menu I end up clicking outside the app more times than not due to latency on show 4) not obvious how to navigate app, 5) whenever I click anything it may or may not happen, and may happen 30 seconds later while I'm doing something else, 6) I'm not sure if the Download button is working, nor where it is downloading to if it does. On the plus side, when I did eventually get a song to load it played the correct song so could be a cool YouTube alternative.
Awesome app. I've been thinking of an app like this in the back of mind for a while. Since I'm usually too cheap to buy music, I often hit youtube to listen to specific songs, but it's always a bit of a pain to listen to music that way. This should make things much easier :)<p><Edit>
After playing with it for a little bit, I've got some suggestions:<p>- Not the most intuitive interface...took me a little bit to figure out where some things are.<p>- Since the songs are mostly streams from various sources, things can be slow...could use some sort of feedback when a user has activated an event or clicked a button
Very nice app, tried it out on Kubuntu 11.04 without problems. The streams run pretty fast for me, so that's a plus.<p>Hopefully you'll work a bit on the user interface, as others have mentioned. Good luck!
The author seems to be Russian; I don't understand why it doesn't dip into vk.com music database. It is vast, and combined with well-groomed metadata databases from other services, it would rock.<p>There are apps which do - for example, "last.fm free music player"<p><a href="http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Last.fm+free+music+player+users" rel="nofollow">http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Last.fm+free+music+player+users</a>
How critical is the Adobe AIR technology to the functioning of this app?<p>I'm not sure if it is a good thing to rely on since it seems to be laggy and Linux support was discontinued: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime#cite_note-0" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime#cite_n...</a>
Nice effort, and working w/o problems on Linux!<p>Two comments/suggestions 1) Not very intuitive interface - on aspect of navigation, can't figure out how to get back from screen to screen. 2) Maybe adding support for playing songs from filesystem as well will be good.
Does the fact that it's open source make it harder to shut down? Seeqpod was also an mp3 search engine like this but it was shut down.<p>Echonest also provides an mp3 search via its api.
i like the look of your tool.<p>my top feature request: playlists! and i think you need to increase feedback for the user. e.g. when i click 'play all' i see nothing that tells me that the click worked and that it will begin playing in a few seconds.<p>keep it going!