04-25-2020, 12:37 PM
Hello.
first the good news: as usual, there is a lot of configuration options, and the sound is good, there are no glitches, it does work as it should. And now the on/off option if called "power options" so rebooting or shutting down is more intuitive.
Second, the not-so-good-news: Now the option so update the thumbnail cache is gone. I can only regenerate? Why?
And last the extremely bad news. The usability of the UI of moOde has been going downhill now for several releases. Introducing the "adaptive UI" with the playlist "rising up" from the reduced version at the bottom has been difficult to digest, because it increases the number of steps to go from playlist to file browser or library browser from one to two: first collapse the view, then choose the type of library view. This was bad and until 6.4 I found it painful. Maybe people used to windows or, worse, to the various linux UIs can cope, but I am used to higher standards of navigating software.
Now there is no visual cue. I have to guess that clicking on the cover art will lead me to library view – this absolutely makes not sense, it is not intuitive, please do not take my message as trolling, I am calling for a little break for breathing in deep and think about UX: also great people can do mistakes, and since they are great, sadly also the mistakes are great. moOde has great features, but the UX is a pain, and you will find reviews on the internet that define the UI as "clunky".
There is no visual cue, I have to click on the cover art. The I discover that to go back I have to "close" the bottom pane?!? Why should I have to click there? One is temped to click on the "back" button of the browser, ending up to who-remembers-now-wherei-it-was.
AND, to add more lack of intuitiveness, one must choose the view from a button.
The approach that was there in 3.x (4.x as well IIRC) was: there is a series of "tabs" and one chooses the right one. File browser / library browser / cover view / playlist. Like it is now for the configuration mode. This is the right way to do it.
For the first time in years I am thinking of throwing the towel and look for other systems. With each release moOde is becoming less and less intuitive and useable. There are misalignments: see the following picture
![[Image: what.png]](https://i.ibb.co/z29mkS5/what.png)
and other visual problems. The number of steps needed to do anything increases. At the moment I am sticking with moOde only because I do not have to pay for an equaliser (and the parametric one should really have more than 4 bands, since this makes the use with, say, REW, impossible).
Please reconsider very seriously the insertion of a navigation bar, and restore the ability to go to a "large cover" view of the playlist by clicking on the cover art.
UX is not about changing the UI to make it "cleaner" and new fonts. It is about the actual useability of the UI.
Again, I am not ranting. I am trying to be useful. Put a bar to quickly change view at the top, same as when you are configuring (also configuration should NOT need an extra click either, you just go to the last used higher level pane, without the intermediate selection of Audio/Library/Network/System).
first the good news: as usual, there is a lot of configuration options, and the sound is good, there are no glitches, it does work as it should. And now the on/off option if called "power options" so rebooting or shutting down is more intuitive.
Second, the not-so-good-news: Now the option so update the thumbnail cache is gone. I can only regenerate? Why?
And last the extremely bad news. The usability of the UI of moOde has been going downhill now for several releases. Introducing the "adaptive UI" with the playlist "rising up" from the reduced version at the bottom has been difficult to digest, because it increases the number of steps to go from playlist to file browser or library browser from one to two: first collapse the view, then choose the type of library view. This was bad and until 6.4 I found it painful. Maybe people used to windows or, worse, to the various linux UIs can cope, but I am used to higher standards of navigating software.
Now there is no visual cue. I have to guess that clicking on the cover art will lead me to library view – this absolutely makes not sense, it is not intuitive, please do not take my message as trolling, I am calling for a little break for breathing in deep and think about UX: also great people can do mistakes, and since they are great, sadly also the mistakes are great. moOde has great features, but the UX is a pain, and you will find reviews on the internet that define the UI as "clunky".
There is no visual cue, I have to click on the cover art. The I discover that to go back I have to "close" the bottom pane?!? Why should I have to click there? One is temped to click on the "back" button of the browser, ending up to who-remembers-now-wherei-it-was.
AND, to add more lack of intuitiveness, one must choose the view from a button.
The approach that was there in 3.x (4.x as well IIRC) was: there is a series of "tabs" and one chooses the right one. File browser / library browser / cover view / playlist. Like it is now for the configuration mode. This is the right way to do it.
For the first time in years I am thinking of throwing the towel and look for other systems. With each release moOde is becoming less and less intuitive and useable. There are misalignments: see the following picture
and other visual problems. The number of steps needed to do anything increases. At the moment I am sticking with moOde only because I do not have to pay for an equaliser (and the parametric one should really have more than 4 bands, since this makes the use with, say, REW, impossible).
Please reconsider very seriously the insertion of a navigation bar, and restore the ability to go to a "large cover" view of the playlist by clicking on the cover art.
UX is not about changing the UI to make it "cleaner" and new fonts. It is about the actual useability of the UI.
Again, I am not ranting. I am trying to be useful. Put a bar to quickly change view at the top, same as when you are configuring (also configuration should NOT need an extra click either, you just go to the last used higher level pane, without the intermediate selection of Audio/Library/Network/System).
