I want meta-oracles that aggregate information form many sources. I have many out of print books and imported movies and CDs that I don't want to enter by hand. I want more varied oracles to help with obscure metadata lookups. How about a full-screen mode with animated reshuffling and dynamic pan and zoom? What about spine artwork for a more dense shelf view? I want new shelf artwork, new media packaging templates, new ways to manipulate and view items in the shelf. But a desire for new features, and, more revealingly, a near-compulsion to dwell on the possibilities for new features, is also a sign of a great product that has already begun to inspire loyalty and admiration. That's okay, so long as the features that do exist are distributed appropriately. Some would say that this is clearly a sign of a version 1.0 product, and they'd be right. As a card-carrying member of the target market for this product, Delicious Library has fulfilled my basic needs with style and grace.īut, inevitably, I want more. Delicious Library does the most important things it needs to do, and does them exceptionally well. Their effort has been fundamentally successful. Delicious Monster has sought to understand the mindset of media collector, and has focused nearly all of its attention on satisfying the most primal needs of this market. Delicious Monster seems to subscribe wholeheartedly to the market-driven strategy demonstrated so successfully in recent years by Apple's iPod, iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie products. Overall, I think it's safe to expect the release version to be commendably stable.īut let's get back to the tension between features and the 1.0 release.
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According to the developers, these are known issues and will be fixed before 1.0. There were several cosmetic bugs, but most issues were related to data lookup: missing cover art, failed lookups, etc. I've never crashed the application and I've never lost data. But even the beta has been relatively bug free. I'm not in a good position to comment on bugs since I've been using a prerelease version of Delicious Library. The first version often doesn't do everything that the developer had initially envisioned, and it almost never does everything that customers want it to do. Producing a "1.0" release, no matter how seemingly trivial the application may be, is always a somewhat painful process.