Harmonoid

Heavy problems with notorious indexing - I hope, developers will finally refuse from indexing at all, as nobody really needs it. To the point. My library is of nearly 10000 files. It took Harmonoid about 20 minutes to index the library, but afterwards Harmonoid got freaky and flew to the 2nd cycle of indexing (yeah, 2nd time!!!). Of course, I had no time to await for another indexing, so I am here to share the problem. However, Harmonoid is a rather good player apart from this indexing bug - neat and minimalistic.

EDIT: In response to the developer's comments on this review I decided to give it another chance. I exchanged some correspondence with him and I now have a fully functioning version of Harmonoid.

And I have to say, I am now very impressed. The UI is a nice blend of simple and intuitive controls with a good selection of options to arrange your music collection the way you want it. More importantly, it plays all of the common audio file formats and the resultant sound output is excellent.

The app is easily as good as all the big players in the game and it is currently handling my 70K+ tracks effortlessly.

It is also very re-assuring to know that the developer took the time to work through things with me and sort out some problems, most of which were of my own making.

My rating is now revised to 5 stars.

Utterly unusable, I'm afraid. I set Harmonoid going and it asked to index my music files (c. 40k tracks). Once going I sat back to wait on it. I started at around 18:30 hrs and by the time I went to bed, about 5 hours later, it still had over one third to do. The next morning it had finished so I set about exploring what it could do. Unfortunately, I can't tell you as every time I tried to do something it jumped into "Discovering Files" mode and everything else ground to a halt. When it finally did respond my files were in a mess. I never did get it to actually play a track. It has now been uninstalled.