[Android Apps and Games] AGiLiT:
5%?!?!?!!? Surely and least twice that. :laugh:

Work/life balance has been tipped to work lately so I've been slow to respond to this.

First of all, let me offer an analogy that may explain my outlook on offering critical feedback, which you are inviting me to do. When my wife (who is a professionally trained chef) and I dine out at a restaurant, if she doesn't like something, she can be savage in her critique to the point of sending it back to the kitchen. I am more inclined to finish the dish, even if I don't like it, figuring the chef must have intended it to taste that way and who am I to criticize his approach? It was my mistake for ordering it. So: my assumption is what I want or think XenoAmp should do doesn't matter as much as your vision for it.

To answer your question, I think it is important to understand where XenoAmp fits into my lifestyle. As you have probably guessed by now, music is a very important part of my life. I have an extensive music collection, a significant but not majority percentage of which has been digitized.

I spend a lot of time away from my home. Wherever I am - home or away, I probably spend about half my time listening to my collection and the other half listening to streaming music (Pandora, Shoutcast, 8track, satellite radio in my car, etc.) I have had a portable music player ever since my first PJB-100. I listen on planes, in my office, at the gym, on a bike, etc. I have never used an Apple device (my wife has an iPod, which I have to maintain for her) and I have never bought a single track on iTunes.

My music library at home (on a NAS device) is what I consider the source of truth. I do all my tagging there. It contains the highest quality copy of any audio that has been ripped. I use iTunes to maintain a transcoded copy (to reduce file size) which I use to transfer to wifey's iPod. It also offers a convenient way of transferring to my phone, since Motorola provides software (a server portion running on the PC and a client on the phone) that can keep iTunes playlists in sync. Polkast offers something similar - you should check it out if you want to understand iTunes syncing. (EDIT - Actually, Polkast doesn't sync - it just streams.)

I have been looking for a way to make my phone my go-to portable player and eliminate carrying one device. Right now, I have over 5,000 tracks transferred from my home-based digital audio collection to my phone. I don't rate songs; I don't have favorites (just like children - they're all my favorites).

What attracts me to XenoAmp is first and foremost I think it is close to becoming THE stellar app for managing and playing audio media on a mobile phone. To me, the key features (after high quality playback, of course) are the capabilities of organizing and navigating through the locally stored audio content on my phone. The ability to stream internet-based music is also very important. A good equalizer is a great value-add. Looking up lyrics is a nice to have. Acting as a remote control - I haven't had a need for it. SMB streaming - I haven't had a need for it (yet). If I'm close enough to the source (i.e., at home) I wouldn't listen through my phone. If I want to stream from my home, there are other tools for that (Audiogalaxy, which I use; Polkast, which I have tried; Google music, which I have abandoned.) Seeing tags is a great feature; changing tags is something I would do on a limited basis. Syncing is something I prefer to manage external to the player - keep the library on the phone in sync and let the player look for changes to the library.

Creating listenable random mixes is absolutely a great feature. I use it all the time. MusicIP was the absolute best at doing this - right now only Winamp and Logitech Squeezeplay are capable of still utilizing it. What you've provided with XenoAmp comes pretty close and I am eternally grateful to you for it.

Hmm... seems to me I'm using closer to 95% of XenoAmp capabilities.