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03/12/2012, 10:20 PM
#26
 Originally Posted by SnotBoogie
Integrate podcasting and audiobook playing into a music player. Features that interest me that i've seen in ios are things wifi sync, automatic wifi downloading. From an app called Downcast and others, custom settings for every podcast. You can pick how many episodes to save, what to do when new episodes are found (download automatically, download over wifi only, que but don't download, etc.) I cloud storage for your podcast settings. The ability when playing a podcast to skip backwards 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or skip forward, 30 seconds or 2 minutes. Ability to vary speeds of playback is also something many people use, though i don't. But it's not all about just me so i include that. One more thing is a specific section to manage and easily delete your downloaded podcasts. Basically a mass cleanup screen. I find i like many of those feature when i listen to audiobooks as well so i include it in this category too; as something i'd integrate into the music player. Also for audiobooks chapter support. It would also be good to designate an mp3 files as music or audiobook in the tag like you can in itunes so that the music player gives the file the features you want since you may not need the chapters interface of slowed down playback for music mp3. And you don't want to make it hard on users by forcing them to learn how to recode. Better to make it simple by just allowing them to pick how its treated.
music player improvements. Better and cleaner navigation for big libraries. The biggest reason i love ipods is they sort music well. Ignore "A", "And", "The" and capital letters in tag files when sorting. My pre used to put The Beatles under the letter "t" but i normally look under "B". Ios does that, almost all music players i have on my desktop do that. There was even a patch in preware to do it. That should be standard. Another issue is the music player treated the same word capitalized as a new artists. So if you had Metallica album but one tag had an artist tagged "metallica" (lowercase) it gets listed as new artist. So if you play the abum it may skip that one lower case song. Same happens for genre; "rock" was seen as different to "Rock." Drove me nuts. especially since i had some 30000 songs in my library and pretty accurately tagged but occasionally one song had one file in an album not capitalized exactly as all the other songs. Gapless playback. I used to DJ hip-hop and mixtape and dj albums need to play gapless normally. it's not enough to just have some sort of crossfade feature. I'm not talking about mixes where that sort of thing would work. Plus i've got many mixtapes and tons of DJ Rectangle albums that don't play right without gapless playback.
Another thing that the excellent poster "SnotBoogie" pointed out, that I totally overlooked at my original post was more music integration. While I totally agree that if HP ever updates WebOS to 4.0, it definitely needs to upgrade the music app to mirror the functionality of the other competitors like the iPod more ways to integrate podcast into the native music player app.
Music Integration
Also wanted to offer my opinion on others area in which HP needs to improve before releasing the WebOS platform into a full open-source platform. The more days that passes-by without any hope for HP to give a decent upgrade to the WebOS software platform, it made me think about integrating more easy ways to add music to HP Touchpad. It's so sad that the STUPID HP didn't thought of a way to transfer music into the touchpad instead of plugging it into your computer to that task. The only option on getting music onto your TouchPad is through the old fashion way of USB-only(Seriously HP), while Google and Apple are offering more cloud mobile music service. And let's not talk about music store which completely lacks into the TouchPad itself, while Palm smartphones offers at least the Amazon Store for music purchase.
For me its unacceptable that HP overlooked that important area in which they were trying to compete with "The Apple's iPad". While Google’s Music Beta allows wireless streaming to any device running Android, and Apple's iCloud store your files in the cloud and also automatically wirelessly sync any iTunes data you already own to your iOS. devices.
The HP Catalog
One of the biggest gripes that I have with the app catalog, its not the lack of quality apps but more for the software bugs within WebOS. The most frustrating things is navigating on the catalog which can be clunky, buggy and unreliable. When searching for apps it either shows you apps as unavailable, then available, then sometimes it fails to download.
On other competing platforms like iOS, that just thing never happens to me when navigating the Apple's App Store. On iOS devices, the experience is so smooth that for me to download or look for apps it all makes it a nice experience for any user. With so many HP WebOS updates, it always intrigued me WHY HAS HP NEVER FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SQUASH THOSE AWKWARD BUGS FOUND IN THE APP CATALOG !
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