Thank you.
I'd like to try Panel out some more on my JRiver-dedicated MS-surface Pro 4.
However (my two cents):
--There are a few too many albums per screen to comfortably browse/take in at once, and
--I have a lot of classical albums with longer titles, which are all cut off very early; it's just not "nice" to look at super-short metadata "stubs" everywhere.
I understand -- and love -- the value of keeping things simple and providing a streamlined, focused functionality, almost like an "appliance" (e.g., a waffle iron). This promises to offer a welcome counterpoint, in many ways, to the classic JRiver GUI; a calming oasis for "just playing the music" when there's currently no curating to do!
However ... I feel Panel's current lack of almost any GUI customization makes it feel just too limited. The ultra-bare bones feel signals that it's an early development alpha/beta, something to check out as merely a curiosity, despite it being amazingly stable and a nest for several very matured apps. Surface impressions matter.
If Panel could be developed in the following two ways, it could take a quantum leap for me. It could become my preferred "front end" for JRiver playback:
--Basic controls to re-size the main visual elements (album art, metadata font)
--List view(s) as alternative to the album-cover view, everywhere that's relevant/logical
P.S. -- Plex's web app front end is visually beautiful, BTW.
Thank you.