Okay, but too much work to be enjoyable

Being "free" its hard to justify any criticism of this app. However, while DS Audio is an ok player, it makes finding and listening to music a lot of work.

You cant simply hit a button to have it stream random songs continuously. Instead, you always have to create a playlist -- even if you want just one song. Be sure to clear the old playlist first as the app remembers it.

There is a "Random 100" playlist, but it will generate the same random 100 until you *completely* quit the app and try again.

If you want to add a individual songs youll have to navigate to each one and add it to the playlist. But when you click a song, the whole album is unintuitively added to the playlist. Youll need to bring up a secondary menu by carefully clicking an icon to add single songs.

The workaround to these usability problems is to make playlists for everything -- and spend time to maintain those lists as your library grows.

This has been an issue for a long time (early versions of this app didnt have these problems) and I was disappointed years ago when support responded to my inquiry about the degraded usability by suggesting that I make playlists. With the announcement of improved usability in this new version I was really hoping for it to be better.

kiddailey about DS audio, v5.6