Here are some of my notes as I played with Plexamp v. 3.0.3
Areas of improvement for desktop version:
- Keyboard shortcuts
- ‘?’ brings up a menu of shortcuts
- Bring back shortcuts to turn on/off visualizations
- Bring back shortcuts to cycle between visualizations
- Right-click to change visualizations will automatically scroll/jump to the currently selected visualization.
Example: If you have the visualization Scratch selected and you want to select a neighboring visualization, you have to scroll all the way to the currently selected visualization. So, if you are going in sequential order shopping for that visualization that you want, but you don't know what you want, there is a lot of needless scrolling once you get past Retrospect
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Clicking on the search button should automatically allow you to start typing for your search.
- Right now, you click on the search button → click on the search box → then start typing.
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Rating songs is a multi-click process (which, can provide protection against inadvertently changing your previous ratings) when before it was a single click process in v. 1.1.0
- Enabling 1-Tap Track Plays does not remedy this.
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Bring back two favorite visualizers, Pulsar Joy & Rose:
The visualizer Pulsar Joy reminds me of 80’s video game nostalgia.
Image Credit: Rafaël De Jongh
Global shortcuts that are working:
- Search [macOS] (Command + Shift + Spacebar)
- Refine this because if you have Plexamp as the active window, the keyboard shortcut does not work. You have to have another window as the active window or be on the desktop for this to work.
- Track ratings (Command + Option + Control + Shift + Rating number)
22-JUL-20: The search keyboard shortcut has been improved, but it’s still not quite 
. The shortcut does not work if Plexamp is already in focus. And then when you do click on the search button at the bottom of the program, yes it brings you to the search tab, but it does make it so you can automatically start typing. You still have to click inside the search box.
So, perhaps enable the search box to be typing ready without making the Aural Fixations and Recent Searches disappear until the user starts typing.
