Interface PTSD!

#1

I only use Vox to Play my Flac Files because the interface for Vox is just so unintuitive... As a Graphic Designer using Adobe Creative Suite On A Daily Basis as well as Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, I find the Vox Interface to be so very convoluted for even the occasional user.

There seems to be a lot of confusion for users between Collections & Playlists... I can't tell you how many Untitled Collections and Playlists I've had to delete not even knowing how I made them trying to do something else or didn't mean to do.****

I love the Graphic Design and minimalist interface but functional it is not. If I have to read a manual to understand the most basic features of an App then it soon gets deleted from my MacBook Pro... I think this App could go Viral if you could just make everything more obvious. I find myself simply converting everything Flac to iTunes MP3s and using a minimal iTunes Bar or Box and leaving Vox to collect dust because listening to the FLAC files isn't worth the pain & effort to relearn the Vox Interface every time I launch it.

1> Get rid of Collections .. just have All Music & Playlists... both from itunes and outside itunes like my Flacs. If I have time I might just redesign your interface in Photoshop and send it to you...

2> All the Hidden features & icons need have a contextual menu or something so we know they're there and what they do.... or something ... i don't have all the answers but wish it was more intuitive for even advanced Mac Users.

#2

Hey Robert,

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback, it's very important for us.

We will definitely think about your suggestions and in future we improve the functionality of VOX.

#3

I'd sooner remove playlists than collections. On my first launch it was obvious-- to me-- that it's useful to have my local SSD music in one collection, and the ones on a network drive in a separate collection; which is working perfectly.
Note sure if we can do that using playlists. If it's the same principle, then it makes sense to remove one; if not, the distinctions can maybe be made more intuitive.

#4

Well actually in hindsight it's pretty obvious the playlist is something else altogether, but might be better named `tracklist'? The confusion might be that a playlist in most other players, is indeed called a collection in Vox..

#5

Perhaps you could just steal a page from Apple's playbook and call the playlist "Up Next" or something like that. I admit that figuring out what was what was pretty unintuitive at first, but I worked it out pretty quickly. I wouldn't suggest getting rid of either of them, just a clarifying name change.

#6

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