Enqueue App Reviews

Incredibly sleek and great looking interface. Light and quick on opening and playing. Intuitive UI, and plays many, many formats. Things I want, though: Little more choice as to where things are. Ex: Library/Playlist etc buttons are at top. When in fullscreen I move my mouse there and then the toolbar above rolls down and I have to wait for it to roll up and then it might happen again and so on Ability to edit info about multiple things at a time. Ability to see info about multiple things at a time. Smart playlists and genius. I know the latter is not even feasible, really, but I want it anyway. Its the only thing I really miss about iTunes. That being said, I far prefer this application to iTunes and I highly reccomend it.

Almost exactly what Ive been looking for - but crashes constantly when skipping around my library and selecting new tracks to play. Frequently need to force quit. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. (And I have more than enough RAM, so Im sure its not just my CPU)

TL;DR version: The app is simply delightful to use and worth every penny (and more). I cant believe how polished this app is for a 1.0. This app is absolutely fantastic. I keep two music libraries: one for my FLAC library (10k songs), and one for my MP3 library. The MP3s live in iTunes and are used when syncing with my iOS devices. I am using Enqueue as the new home for my FLAC library. Prior to using this app, my FLAC files lived in Songbird. Songbird accomplished the task of keeping the two libraries separate, but the UI is quirky and does not feel native on the Mac. This is very important to me. Enqueue nails all of the critical features for me and adds a bunch of "wow I never thought of that but its totally awesome" features. Some of my critical features for the perfect music app: - FLAC support. - Speed. The app needs to be really fast. - Native. Cocoa + 64-bit is a huge plus. (Check and check!) - Good IDv3 tag editing capabilities and the ability to do bulk tag modification. - A good selection of View columns for the main library view to show all sorts of details. (Almost iTunes parity, here.) - A gorgeous UI that makes sense and is consistent with the OS. - Lion 10.7 support. Fullscreen, Mac App Store (!!) baby! Some of the bonus features that this app has: - How about that sexy icon!? Wheww. - Last.fm Scrobbling support. - An innovative "Now Playing Queue" feature that allows you to drag/drop songs into a queue on the left sidebar. Very, very nice. - History tab. Shows Top Artists, Top Songs, and Recently played stats. Cant wait to see how this might improve in the future. - By default, works with the Mac keyboard playback controls. Love this! - Seems to find the album art in the album folder and automatically associate it. The performance of this app is stunning. I was able to import all 10k FLAC songs from my filesystem in like < 20 minutes. Everything loaded up fine and the tags were all in good shape. This was very impressive. The app is simply delightful to use and worth every penny (and more). I cant believe how polished this app is for a 1.0. The app has not crashed for me once and has been running for about 1 week straight. Aspects for improvement: 1) I couldnt figure out how to drag/drop folders into my library. Maybe this is possible but all of the things I tried did not work. Instead I used the "Add to Library" hotkey, which is no big deal. 2) When you enable the "Last Played" column, it shows "Invalid Date" when a song has never been played before. This should just be blank if it was Never played. To the dev: Thank you.

Very fast and lightweight while functional. I like that it doesnt maintain its own library but scans your files. No bloat, ie music store, video etc. Plays many formats including flac. The best there is.

FLAC player. Minimalistic interface. It has become my replacement for iTunes. Best music player on mac in my opinion. One note for improvement: I have noticed that if the player is not the active window then the close, minimize, and maximize buttons in the upper left hand corner do not work. I close windows like this all the time so it can be annoying having to click once to make the player the active window and then again to close it.

This is a great App, Perfect for playing my FLAC collection. I would give it 5 stars if it could play full album FLAC rips with cue sheets. Keep up the good work!

This is the easiest to use and best looking FLAC player Ive found for OS X. It plays all of my hi-res FLACs with no problem. Like others have said, part of what makes this great software is what it doesnt have, meaning bloat. iTunes has its place, to be sure, but its gained a lot of weight in since its inception.

For $10, this is a bargain. The interface is easy to use and is light on your system. It took me only a day to get used to it. I highly recommend buying this if you have lots of FLAC files and need a suitable player. As well as be able to easily import files, it can also import your itunes library and show you statistics regarding your favourite songs, allowing you to clean up your library easily. I would gladly pay twice the price for this.

In many regards, Enqueue is a fine music player, a nice alternative to iTunes. But it has its limitations, chiefly its inability to import Protected AAC music files or Smart Playlists. Due to the former, I have hundreds of songs that I cannot listen to in Enqueue. When I first ran the program and realized that the import of music was incomplete, I initially thought it was a bug of some sort and promptly emailed the developer. I will say that I was impressed with how quickly he responded (within hours) and identified the problem. However, his responsiveness does not change the fact that Enqueue cannot import protected music files. I would have liked to have known this before I made the purchase. Limitations aside, Enqueue is still worth having. I hope that a future update will somehow allow for the import (or, alternatively, the creation) of Smart Playlists. Also, it would be nice if there were a way to toggle between the Main Player and the Mini Player using the mouse, either by reprogramming the green expand-window button or adding an icon to click somewhere on the player. I wouldnt mind an option to include album art in the Mini Player, as well.

I have a USB DAC (DragonFly) and both iTunes and VOX (the other two players I have on my Air) work with it. I just select the output device in the Sound Preferences and thats all, the sound will be routed through it. This doesnt work with Enqueue, its like it doesnt check that setting, it keeps player through the laptop speakers. And theres no setting for this in the player preferences. Is there a way to make it work? If there is, Ill update my rating.

I cant even open it on a macbook pro, mountain lion

Pros: - Nice, clean, thoughtful interface. This is the best thing it has going for it. - Last.fm support - Wide support for file formats. (Though these days support for MP3, FLAC, OGG, and AAC should be standard with every player.) - Basic easy tagging once you discover the info pane. Cons: - No autoplaylists. This is a big one for me. Other players (Foobar on Windows, Clementine on Mac) let me set up or already include playlists that automatically add music by genre, date added, or any other number of attributes. Enqueue has nothing of the sort - all playlists are manually created. - Limited advanced tagging. No auto-complete of tags, no ability to add album art, etc. - Doesnt monitor library for changes. Need to rescan your library to detect new music. - History tab lacks functionality - practically useless I cant play top artists, top songs, recently added, etc. - Sluggish with large music libraries. Search, sorting, etc. takes second instead of milliseconds. I paid the cash, but am using another player (a free player with a lot more functionality) until a future comes out. Hopefully there will be additional functionality that turns this into a more full-featured player.

This app is almost excellent, but its got two dealbreaker issues: - As far as I can tell it cannot look up track info in the Gracenote database, as iTunes does. This makes finding your music difficult if it doesnt have the right metadata to begin with. - Searching and scrolling through the library is very, very slow (and Im on a brand-new, superfast MacBook Pro, so that isnt the issue). A search takes a little over a second, sometimes two, to complete, and once the results appear, scrolling through them is laggy and irritating. Bottom line: Wait to buy it until the developer addresses these problems.

Finally loving this App. The lack of support is the only thing that kept me from giving it a 5 Star rating When I first installed it, it only saw a tiny fraction of my library. The only form of support provided was an email address directly to the developer. Needless to say hes probably very busy so it took several emails and far too long to finally get a response. Once I did, his suggestion fixed the problem immediately. There should be some form of support forum, wiki, or at least a known issues page so that we can help ourselves...

Elegant, simple, fast, native. Great app! Much nicer to use than iTunes.

I bought this because the lack of a queue feature in iTunes drives me nuts. I like to surf songs in my library one at a time, and always wish I could select "play next" or something, but iTunes doesnt have that. You have to build a playlist and add to that, and then its still there the next time. Not clean. The running queue on this app is cool. However, using it isnt as handy as I would like. Agree with the other review that double clicking to add to the queue would be nice- it is called Enqueue after all. Double clicking adds everything you have sorted at that time (genre, artist, whatever) which is basically what iTunes does, ultimately. The other oddity is that once you do build a queue, by right clicking and adding, or drag and dropping, you cant reorder the songs. As you drop it in initially you can place it where you want it, but then youre stuck with that order. Not a huge deal, but Im surprised this functionality isnt there. The other annoyance, since I bought this to be a light music player (and still use itunes for syncing, store) is that clicking the three buttons at the top does not reduce the window to the mini player. You have to go to View- go to mini player, or use a hot key. Double clicking the window frame also does nothing, not even minimize. I dont have any FLAC or complicated library issues like a lot of the other reviewers; I was just hoping for a slick music player only. It does the job, but barely well enough to convince me to use it all the time.

Crashes continuously-complete waste of money.

Love a lot of what this app does. Its clear that the developer has put a lot of thought into the features. However, it seems to suffer from a bug that prevents switching of audio output devices. A pretty big show-stopper for those of us who switch between speakers & headphones. I have contacted the developer but not heard back. Bug-free, this is a four-star app.

Great app overall, works almost exactly how I want. Only thing its missing for me is smart playlists. Add that and Id give it 5/5!

It certainly has some nice features. I like the iTunes library sync, even if it is manual. But at the same time--I just spent $10 on a music player that doesnt even have repeat one. For crying out loud.