A Dream Come True.

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.

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