Hi Paul, this isn't going to be too thorough just yet, I only downloaded this morning. It's still doing the basics well, I liked the help section, which is pretty much what you told me here, but I wouldn't have worked out how to get it working without that. I also like the fact that it's portrait only now.
The main screen seems to work well. It's pretty easy to adjust volume and track position.
The search in realtime looks very nice and worked well for searching tracks, but I wonder whether it might be possible to categorise search results by media type and perhaps by album or something? Also, I don't know how intuitive it is to select something and then go to the menu to play it. On my phone there is white space down the right, is it possible to put a play button there?
I really like the Images feature, I can definitely see myself at a party using that to go through pictures when I don't really want to be at a computer, maybe there could be a way to prevent some folders from coming up though? When I look at images my cover art folder is the first thing that comes up, rather than my own photos.
Finally onto view. I can see what you're going for here, and I think it could be a powerful feature, but for me it isn't quite there yet. I think I need a reason to use it and for the controls to be a little more obvious. I think that each of the views fulfils a purpose, but each is perhaps limited in some way, so when MC Remote takes the programme to each of the different views it supports each in a slightly different way. I could probably be more helpful but I'd need to think about it some more... One thing I can say is the MC icon/control panel needs to change according to what it's supposed to be doing, because sometimes it does as you'd expect, sometimes it acts as directional keys. I think that needs to be more obvious. And a little bug I came across is that sometimes when I switch between views the MC panel doesn't appear.
So those are some preliminary thoughts, I'll try and think of others that occur to me. Some features that I think would be pretty cool might be the ability to open MC from my phone and turn my computer off from my phone (if this is possible), and I'd quite like to be able to filter through stuff. This could be a screen where I can select between Music, Videos and Photos and I can scroll through artists, albums, or genres to find what I'd like to listen to. Finally, on the main screen I'd quite like to be able to swipe to the left and bring up a list of the other songs in an album, or swipe to the right and bring up with albums by that artist, or in that genre.
I hope this helps and I haven't bombarded you. You've done a great job so far.
phytio
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