2013-04-24, 16:11
Headphones is a total crap shoot for albums with long names and foreign characters. But when it works, it saves me a lot of time. I've tried working with the author to fix some bugs, but he's been MIA awhile with real life stuff so it has been slow going.
My biggest issues with Headphones are support for Japanese artists (it should use the field available on MB that has the English translated name so as to not screw up file names), long file names, and finally, the author needs to contact nzb.su and work out how to unban its service from its site. It happened a long time ago, and I think the author of headphones was working on bringing it into compliance without hammering the API, but nothing ever came of it, and it is still banned. Also has some UI bugs where you request something as wanted, and it'll say failed or something, then you refresh browser and it is correctly tagged as wanted, but that's more minor.
So, while I use it, and love the potential of it, it's not quite there yet, but in my opinion, still useful for getting new music, if not quite ready for comprehensively managing a large already-existing music library. But maybe one day it will get there.
My biggest issues with Headphones are support for Japanese artists (it should use the field available on MB that has the English translated name so as to not screw up file names), long file names, and finally, the author needs to contact nzb.su and work out how to unban its service from its site. It happened a long time ago, and I think the author of headphones was working on bringing it into compliance without hammering the API, but nothing ever came of it, and it is still banned. Also has some UI bugs where you request something as wanted, and it'll say failed or something, then you refresh browser and it is correctly tagged as wanted, but that's more minor.
So, while I use it, and love the potential of it, it's not quite there yet, but in my opinion, still useful for getting new music, if not quite ready for comprehensively managing a large already-existing music library. But maybe one day it will get there.