Amarra re-design concept

[davidian]

@KnockKnock the latest Amarra is rock solid, it never crashed on me. In the other hand playing on Cache mode makes the opening time longer.

[blueixus]

davidian, put directly up against current Amarra it is easy to see your design is functionally better. And i tend to agree with you that design is predominately a question of function rather than subjectivity.

 

The colour question is one I have lambasted the Amarra guys about in the past so don't be backward coming forward.

 

Blue is non sensical because Amarra has to exist alongside many other colour palettes across desktops and album art. For that functional reason it should be colour neutral greyish!

 

It would be nice to think that Amarra Inc will take some notice. They sell a very premium product and it should look like it!

[davidian]

davidian, put directly up against current Amarra it is easy to see your design is functionally better. And i tend to agree with you that design is predominately a question of function rather than subjectivity.

 

The colour question is one I have lambasted the Amarra guys about in the past so don't be backward coming forward.

 

Blue is non sensical because Amarra has to exist alongside many other colour palettes across desktops and album art. For that functional reason it should be colour neutral greyish!

 

It would be nice to think that Amarra Inc will take some notice. They sell a very premium product and it should look like it!

 

Thanks for your feedback, and I really agree with you on everything but I will highlight this:" They sell a very premium product and it should look like it!"

[mrvco]

I like what you did quite a bit. It's much cleaner and well balanced. It would be nice if the Amarra folks at least gave some color options for the UI.

 

Ultimately I wish they would standardize the button sizes and provide better iconography (and/or text labels). There seem to be a lot of buttons that do the same or similar things (or insinuate that they do), it wouldn't be difficult to streamline:

 

 

• Add iTunes
  
• Add Finder
  
• Open
  
• Open
  
• Add
  
• Finder
  

 

 

• clear
  
• clear all
  

 

 

• save
  
• save
  

 

Even better, I would also like to see them make the displayed buttons context sensitive so "playlist mode" buttons were not displayed when in "itunes mode" and vice versa.

 

I like the simplicity of "playlist mode", but I wouldn't mind seeing a more integrated way to view and select existing playlists. I'd also like to be able to remove individual songs from the playlist window.

[davidian]

I like what you did quite a bit. It's much cleaner and well balanced. It would be nice if the Amarra folks at least gave some color options for the UI.

 

Ultimately I wish they would standardize the button sizes and provide better iconography (and/or text labels). There seem to be a lot of buttons that do the same or similar things (or insinuate that they do), it wouldn't be difficult to streamline:

 

 

• Add iTunes
  
• Add Finder
  
• Open
  
• Open
  
• Add
  
• Finder
  

 

 

• clear
  
• clear all
  

 

 

• save
  
• save
  

 

Even better, I would also like to see them make the displayed buttons context sensitive so "playlist mode" buttons were not displayed when in "itunes mode" and vice versa.

 

I like the simplicity of "playlist mode", but I wouldn't mind seeing a more integrated way to view and select existing playlists. I'd also like to be able to remove individual songs from the playlist window.

 

Good observations!

[KnockKnock]

Rock solid??? Not In this (quite normal) setup. It has crashed here maybe 50-60 times before I gave up

 

KnockKnock

 

 

@KnockKnock the latest Amarra is rock solid, it never crashed on me. In the other hand playing on Cache mode makes the opening time longer.

[coot]

Any and ALL music player displays (including Amarra) should be as wide as possible to accommodate long classical titles.

[davidian]

Any and ALL music player displays (including Amarra) should be as wide as possible to accommodate long classical titles.

 

I doesn't need to be necessarily wider, there are different ways to display larger names, eg: Tooltips, lateral animation, two lines text, etc.