FAQ
Thank you everyone for all your great feedback and wonderful suggestions.
I’ll try to answer most of your questions and give you our take on it all.
Mikael Peterson
mikael.peterson@colormonkey.se
Creative Director and Co-founder @ Color Monkey
VinylLove™ v1.7 & VinylLove™ Pocket v1.2
Misc fixes to get rid of the problems some people have experienced since updating to iOS5.
VinylLove™ Pocket – Version 1.0
iPhone/iPod touch only – A quarter the size, but the same amount of love.
VinylLove™ – Version 1.4 – Universal app
Now a universal app! Always bring VinylLove™ with you in your pocket. The iPhone/iPod Touch version is our summer treat to you who already bought the app, enjoy!
We’ve had reports that the app sometimes hangs at startup. This has happened to some users and the reason we found is if you have a really! large music collection consisting of many albums, then iOS kills the app while it’s loading the library. This of course sucks and an update has already been submitted to the app store so we’re just waiting for it to be released. Hope you can bare with us until then.
VinylLove™ – Version 1.2
Background playback support! We know, it’s about frickin’ time. And we tweaked some minor things that you most likely won’t even notice.
VinylLove™ – Version 1.1
Bug fixes
VinylLove™ – Version 1.0
Not everyone noticed, but the first version out there was 0.9 and let’s start off with some honesty: 0.9 was never meant to be released.
It’s true, it wasn’t and it’s all my fault. I messed up the release date so all the sudden it was released before we had updated all our final tweaks.
Anyways, now we have version 1.0 out there, with a Centerpiece Art that looks like we intended, and where scratching isn’t the main thing but at least it’s allowed.
There are also some bugs fixed in this version so be sure to update.
Place the pickup wherever you want
The default view of the player is made so that it’s easy for you to place the pickup in the beginning of a track. If you want to place it in a specific place within a track, simply double tap the screen and you will zoom in on the record. You can now place the pickup wherever you want.
AirPlay – it sure does work
If you have the latest iPad software all you have to do is enter the multitask menu (double click the menu key), swipe the icons to the right and there it is! The icon next to the play controls. All the effects will stream out of your speakers as well.
Why is there no music?..
..some asked themselves, and us. Like for instance our first “rater” who got stuck looking at a piece of felt. Even though we only got one single star from him (a bit harsch?), we kinda like that guy. He probably was our first paying customer.
I mean, we like all our customers equally, of course. You are all very special and we wouldn’t be anything without jada jada jada.. You get the point.
Anyways, the music comes from your iPod player and all music stored in your iPod library should automatically be available in VinylLove. If it isn’t, something is wrong, please let us know.
You can always start off by trying to kill the application and re-start it, or re-synch your library with iTunes, then let us know.
Missing album art?
If this happens, just synch your device with iTunes on your computer and all the beautiful album art will appear in your plastic crates.
Settings for dust/crackle
Seriously, we hate settings. In most cases settings are a loss for the designer or a proof of his/her ambivalence for the design. We strive to make easy to use, fun, beautiful and smart applications, and the best way to do this is to make a lot of choices. Tough choices, great choices, but most importantly choices.
In some cases, you need settings though. Like the dust/crackle setting perhaps. Since the quality of different songs varies so much and since that in return effects the dust/crackle.
We would prefer an automatic solution for this though. That adjust the volume depending on which song. We’ll see if we work it out.
For those who would like to be able to turn the effect off completely: thank you for likeing our app (!) but maybe we need to design a “regular” but awesomely cool music player for you guys?
One that’s as fun and nice as VinylLove™, but one that isn’t a vinyl record player?
Skins
We have thought about it. A lot. Even though skins probably needs settings (there are of course other ways of solving it) we do like personality and skins is a great way of letting peoples personality shine through.
That is why we are thinking about it and we’ll think about it some more, I promise.
Centerpiece Art
Why haven’t we used the Album Art for this? I mean it’s a great and quite obvious idea?
Well mainly because it gives all the records such an 80s/90s feeling. Which could be ok (even great some would say) but we truly love a cleaner look like a lot of records had in the 60s and 70s so we decided to skip he album art.
The final word is not said on this subject though.
Who knows what will happen if we do an update.
My own Centerpiece Art
Oh yeah, there was actually one guy who expected to be able to create his own Centerpiece Art. Man that’s creative. Again a design with a bunch of settings. What’s up with wanting to have a bunch of settings?
But anyways, it’s great fun that people want to be creative so please don’t ever stop! If you have an idea on how you want the Centerpiece Art should look like. Whether it’s for all records or for a special version for a select few, perhaps for one single artist or even a unique record, design it and send it to us. We would love it. And heck, maybe we’ll use it.