Dear all,
After several years of use, and most of the time a high degree of satisfaction, I still have a list of things that are annoying or need IMHO to be improved.
Here is my list, certainly incomplete but already large enough I think. Comments are of course welcome and details will be given if needed as I tried to focus on the main points and to be synthetic.
1- Connection impossible to a device that was off during night and put on before using AS.
Iām used to disconnect the device after a listening session and power it off, while AS remains up and running.
The day after, I power back the device and let the whole setup warming up (around 1 hour). Sometimes, but not all the time, although the correct device name is displayed on the remote, sound comes from the default device (Mac mini speakers!!). Although I use the refresh button on AS to retrieve all devices, it does not work as expected and I have to restart AS.
==> Current fix: restart the AS application (restart the remote is not sufficient)
2- Mixing cue sheet and audio tracks that creates duplicated tracks.
===> Current fix: remove manually the cue sheet to restart the sync process.
==> Solution: either to have a parameter to give priority either to cue sheets or to individual tracks. Or to ask the user if preference for a given album being synced goes to cue or to tracks.
3- Unability to detect errors in cue sheets resulting in missing tracks
==> Current fix: remove the erroneous cue sheet.
==> Solution: ignore cuesheet when inconsistency is identified.
4- Flutter (if that is a correct word to describe the situation) affecting viewing of booklet that sometimes put you back on the very first page or produce an error message (cannot read the booklet).
To be noted that the flutter also affect the progress bar that is refreshed every second. It also (not 100% sure though it is related) randomly move the album covers on the remote when browsing through the list.
This appears very frequently.
===> Current fix: none.
5- No direct and fast way to go to the album being played.
WHen playing an album and accessing the configuration for example, the only way to return back to the album being played is by tapping on the track being played (bottom of the screen), then accessing the list of tracks being played (playlist), selecting a track and clicking on the menu on the right (Three dots) , and FINALLY select ādisplay albumā. A bit tedious, isnāt it?
===> Current fix: none (unless I missed some shortcuts somewhere). ===> Solution: to create a dedicated button that put you directly in the album being played.
6- No possibility to have hierarchical views when browsing through the list of albums.
Either you have one album (i.e. one item) in the album view for each disk of the collection, or you have all tracks in flat mode with just a separator giving you the album id#.
===> Current fix: none
===> Solution: a collection of albums should be reached by clicking on one cover at the top of the hierarchy to directly access the list of included albums. Ideally, it should be possible to merge several albums into a new folder, or to unmerge a complete folder to retrieve the list of all albums.
7- No check of tagging consistency when syncing a new album: this result in one album being split into several albums in case album title even slightly differs.
===> Current fix: manually update the tags and let the syncing process correct the thing.
===> Could ask user if tagging inconsistency shall be corrected or not (Through a parameter or by asking the user during the Sync process.
8- From time to time, the famous error message (request/query error) appears and the action is not performed.
===> Current Fix: none.
) number 5, I did not know the shortcut to reach the album details in two steps.
