Nice design, needs global keyboard shortcuts
UPDATE: Still works well though no keyboard shortcuts were added. See review below for my gripes about lack of ability to control sound with keyboard. To add to it, it would be good even to just have a menu item + keyboard shortcut for "play/pause music". That way I could at least switch to the app and start/stop the audio without having to use the mouse to carefully select now playing and push the TINY play/pause button. Its possible in many situations to use the space bar to play/pause once you are in the now playing tab, but even that fails sometimes, bringing you to the all stations tab instead. Either way we need a global shortcut for play/pause, preferably system-wide and preferably the actual media buttons at the top of the keyboard (another reviewer pointed out that the rdio app hijacks those keys so apparently its possible!). Thanks!
Very nicely done little app, great work! The UI is definitely way nicer and more appropriate to SomaFM listening than in iTunes. Love being able to favorite stations and songs for later!
One thing I really want for it though is a way to stop the music when a different app is at the forefront. Ive become totally addicted to using the keyboard button for play/pause to control iTunes even when its in the background, especially when Im listening to radio where some songs are just wrong for what Im doing (Drone Zone is perfect for working but sometimes its just too depressing). I think there must be a way for you to make the play/pause button control your app instead of iTunes, that would be ideal. Otherwise maybe theres some other way to create a shortcut to pause music from the background? Something like cmd+play/pause would be pretty awesome if you could swing it :)
Another small thing is that the buy this button is kind of annoying in that it takes a long time to get you to a 404 screen on iTunes if the track isnt available. So far none of the tracks I checked from Drone Zone are available. Ideally it would hide the shopping cart if the song wasnt available in iTunes. Short of that it would be nice if it went straight to iTunes instead of jumping through the browser, which adds time and also makes the SomaFM app two cmd+tab strokes away from the iTunes instead of one (i.e. switching back to the SomaFM app feels like it should be just CMD+TAB but instead that takes you to the awkwardly dead browser tab instead).
Thanks for the wonderful app and most of all the marvelous music! I got this app while it was free but will be sending you another donation soon anyway :D
Jeremy Clarke about
SomaFM Radio Player, v1.0.1