Great App - A Couple Big Changes Needed
This app is great -- I love having an iTunes-esque music player that can integrate with my huge iTunes library in addition to my FLAC content from a separate folder.
Ive had a few moments where I found myself wanting to go to the iTunes store and had to be reminded that this app is solely for playing music and playing music well. All it took was a couple days of changing my routine to really enjoy having this program that JUST PLAYS MUSIC. Its great.
Having my music from an actively-changing playlist is also great. I love having the option to browse my music, and to have a RIGHT NOW PLAYLIST being formed according to what I want to listen to RIGHT NOW, but it needs a couple alterations for my taste.
Some things I find myself wanting that would make navigation a lot easier:
1. An option to make double clicking a song add it to the bottom of my Right Now Playlist, instead of adding the whole album and playing the song immediately. Right now, double clicking a song seems to work much the same way as it does in iTunes, but it doesnt have to. This is a separate app altogether. I would love having this as an option. My ideal setup: doule clicking on a song in my library adds it to the playlist on the left, and double clicking on a song in the playlist plays it now. Or perhaps a "Playlist mode" where this happens, and otherwise double clicking works the same way it does now.
2. Smart Playlists. I can only assume these are already in the works, considering how well-designed this app is already.
Enqueue also didnt import my Smart Playlists or Genius Playlists from iTunes, which surprised me. I expected those to be imported as regular manual playlists, regardless of whether or not Enqueue would have the same sort of "Smart" functionality. I dont need that, I just want the lists of songs.
3. An option to have the Library Browser appear on the Left AND show Genre, Artist, and Album instead of just one. (This is how I have always used iTunes and it would make my migration over to Enqueue WAY easier.)
4. Enqueue is unable to change its Audio Output source without being restarted. I use Bose Companion 5 speakers that plug in with USB, and whenever I plug them in or take them out I have to restart Enqueue, or else it makes no sound at all. The same goes for when I plug in/take out my headphones.
5. Enqueue isnt actually as fast as I had originally expected it to be, considering the other reviews. It takes longer to start up than iTunes and has some difficulty when I want to search for a particular song/artist, or change the sort order of the items in my library (alphabetizing by Album instead of Artist, or Track Number, etc.).
6. Enqueue cant handle CDs. Id love to be able to use this for importing CDs in FLAC format instead of having to use Songbird. I know I can always use iTunes to import in Apple Lossless, but Im trying to use this to replace iTunes, right?
7. Airplay. Im not even sure if this is possible due to Apples licensing, but I thought Id put it out there. This is just something Id like to see, not something the app necessarily needs.
8. The ability to turn off Growl notifications from within Enqueues Preferences.
Im really excited to see what comes of Enqueue. Im in the process of upgrading my music library to FLAC and Apple Lossless, and itll be nice to have it all in one simplified music player.
UPDATE MAY, 2013
Well, I cant honestly remember the last time Ive used Enqueue. Basically every major function that I both appreciated about Enqueue and all the things I wanted out of it were handled in this past years big iTunes update. Thought this was important to note, especially since in all this time Enqueue hasnt received any updates at all. Doesnt bode well.
zsorrow about
Enqueue