> The interface is really clean, the app has many useful features and honestly, the whole UX is smooth and intuitive.
It is smooth, but I disagree with clean/intuitive. I just installed it for the first time and the comments I have:
- The first screen (now playing?) has a big "Musicolet" branded square filling most of the screen (where missing album art would go), and a small "Musicolet" fuzzed out in the background behind the tiny media controls. I can't find any way to adjust the size of these media controls, though I did manage to change it so tapping on the album art will play/pause a song, so not the end of the world. But immediately puts to rest the claim of it being clean/intuitive/well-polished in my opinion.
- The tab to the left of that seems to be a queue - filled with my library on random? Seems fine.
- The tab to the right is library view. I keep mine well organize, so that will be handy.
- The fourth tab (dot in a circle in a circle?) looks like album list. Change to list view, that's better. Lots of different sorting options - great! I want it sorted by date but wait.. now it doesn't show me artist? maybe I can change the settings ... nope, I can either show album-artist, or album-year, but not album-year/artist. There's lots of white space on the second line, showing both year and artist would've made this tab useful.
- 5th tab, artist - duplicate of library view in my case.
- 6th tab - label/genre, useless as I don't manage this tag on my files
- 7th tab - i don't know what this is
- 8th tab - search, oops this isn't a tab. the button is tab sized, but I can't swipe to it like a tab. Larger button would help.
- 9th (not a tab) - settings. Go to change interface - oh I guess the 7th tab was playlists, and despite it not looking useful to me I can't push it below the line to hide it.
> I'll go as far as to say I've never seen a music player software on Windows or GNU/Linux that is as well-crafted as this. (Clementine[1] comes close but sadly it seems it's not maintained anymore).
I think Foober2000 on windows is at least as well-crafted as this (and looks similar to the shots of Clementine on that page).
I currently use foobar2000 on android. It also has significant shortcomings, but I will likely continue to use it. But musicolet looks promising so I'll keep my eye on it and see how it develops (foobar mobile has seemed unchanging since I first installed it 3 years ago).