[G1 Apps and Games] pjeffe:
Thanks for the feedback, we had some scalability issues on the server so we took MixZing off the market for a few days while we resolved them--should be back up in a day or two.

We'll definitely try to improve the image quality, some of it is the usual quality/size trade-off but we should be able to do better. I'm a stickler for album art too, so that's definitely a priority.

MixZing automatically tries to download album art if it's not embedded in the song file. However, to do that the song needs to have good artist/title/album tags, and since we were having server problems the other day your phone may have had trouble communicating with our server, which it needs to do to get the album art. If you're able to get artist info using the "i" button then in most cases you should get album art as well, but let me know if that's not working for you.

Thanks for the kind words, it's great to hear that along with the constructive feedback!

The >>| button should go to the next song in the queue--if you're on the last song in the queue (check the queue with the upper-right button) then it will go to the first song, so if there's only one song in the queue then it will keep playing that one over. It probably should only do that when repeat mode is on, so we'll change it to not do anything if repeat is off and you're at the end of the queue, that probably makes more sense.

You will only have one song in the queue if you've played a single song and haven't (yet) gotten recommendations for it. But if you play a playlist, album, artist, or all your songs then you'll have a number of songs and the next and previous buttons should definitely work as expected then.

There are actually two modes where we give recommendations, with your own music and with new music. If you select "New Music" from the menu then it plays 30-second previews of recommended songs, and if you rate them positively with the "+" button then it puts them in your shopping cart. This feature is currently in beta, and in the near future an update will allow you to buy the songs in your cart from Amazon.

If you're in "My Music" mode, which it is when you're playing music that's on your phone, then we try to put recommended songs in the queue. If you don't have a lot of songs on the phone, or we simply can't find any recommendations in your collection for the song(s) you're playing, then we won't put any in there. But the idea is that in most cases you should be able to start playing a song and then keep getting recommendations from MixZing that you might want to hear. And of course rating them will shape your future recommendations.

As for the progress bar/shuffle/repeat buttons/status message area overlaying the album art, just tap the album art and it will make that go away. Tap it again to bring it back.

We've tried to put a lot of this in the Help (it's in the Menu), but it's hard to convey it in such limited space.

Ahh, good question! Unfortunately the current release only shows the downloaded art in the main playback screen, not in the album and artist/album lists. That's high on the list for a near-future update!

Thanks for all the feedback, it's really great to hear it, so please keep it coming. And sorry for the long post!

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Peter Jeffe

MixZing