Hi @mengeco,
Thanks for the positive review despite the list of shortcomings you feel are present. I wanted to respond to a few of these and gather some more information to see if there is anything we can clean up.
1) We made the decision to not register a new image size to prevent WordPress from generating a new file for every single image uploaded to the site, even images not related to playlists. Perhaps we can look into implementing a image cropping workflow in the future, but this is the first complaint we’ve received.
2) Though we designed the player to work when an image hasn’t been set, we think they look better when images are present. Once you know the way it works, UI for removing the image is just extraneous. Remove the track and add it back if you really need to remove the thumbnail instead of replacing it.
3) What kind of control are you needing over the background image?
4) The top portion is the player and represents the current track, so it displays the title of the current track and updates dynamically. The bottom portion is a static playlist. It makes sense to be visible in both places.
Some people may not like the playlist and some people may not like the title in the player and some people don’t care either way, but it’s easier to hide those elements with a snippet of CSS than it is to add them.
5) The logo is only 15px tall, which I would think is pretty tiny.
6) I’ve checked in various browsers, but haven’t seen the text overflowing the button. We also haven’t had similar reports. Can you let me know which browser you’re using so I can look into this?
I hope that helps address some of your concerns. We’ve tried to optimize things for the majority of users without introducing a ton of complexity. I realize that the decisions we made won’t appeal to everyone, but that’s the nature of these types of things.
Thanks again,
Brady
