bigboipete
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1 year ago I can't tell, whether the scene's row height did change along the way or not.
But another thing I came across (on v4.6.1.), is a very fast auto-scroll acceleration, if you want to drag and drop a scene from far down to a high mid (or vice versa far top to low mid) position in the list. With my current 28 scenes, I often end up at the top position of the list, because auto-scroll speeds up to fast. This starts to be annoying if you aim for a position, that is just not on the screen with the first positions anymore (e.g. on my device this would be position 12... you get the picture?).
Also the dropping at the exact position is sometimes getting a bit shaky, when you want to jump over some more positions (even without "hi-speed auto-scroll"). In general the moving of scenes could use some balancing for exact placement - as far as my drag and drop abilities are concerned.
thetwom
I'm a drummer and I was very happy to find this app with the scenes feature on F-Droid. This feature makes Metronome outstanding, because as far as my search went, I couldn't find something similar.
Lately I started heavy testing under "real life conditions". But this is of course only my personal use case playing in a band. I use it to pick up the song tempo visually in advance, but not having the beat sound constantly on a headphone during playing. The ability to save fancy rhythm patterns in a scene is not my first choice. I use Metronome to have usually a 4/4th bar with different BPMs.
Here are some improvement suggestions, I came across. They all apply to the scenes view, which I used about 99% of the time:
Reduce the used space per scene on the scenes page. On my 5 inch mobile screen there can only be displayed six scenes (aka songs) at once (I think it won't be significantly more on a larger screen). In my case an average song-set for a show contains at least ten to twelve scenes/songs, ususally more. So it would be an improvement to see as much scenes as possible on the screen without limiting overall usability too much. First thing that comes to mind for space reduction is to remove the notes. Beat indictaion instead would be crucial to me.
Make the scenes manually sortable, not only by a sorting scheme like A-Z, Z-A, Tempo asc, Tempo desc. A "drag and drop" approach would be great to have the scenes in any individual order you want it.
Have dedicated space for the Start/Pause button. During rehearsal I often didn't hit the button exactly and thus selected another scene by accident. This was quite error prone, even though I consider myself on a good average level using touch-buttons...
Implying a dedicated space for the Start/Pause button, a Forward/Backward button would be another cool thing to advance in the "playlist" of scenes one by one. This would be awesome to have for an on-stage situation and even at rehearsals too.
Have a clear beat indication. The sliding blocks are looking good from a design perspective, but to my experience it's harder to visually pick up the tempo, as the grafics are a bit too "washy" to get it fast and precise. Preciving it via the given sound is not an option in a (my) band scenario, as the surrounding noise is far louder than any mobile device's speaker. Is there maybe a possibility to trigger the mobile device's LED? Or make the visual indication configurable to alternatively have just a solid colored block "flashing" on the screen (wich could also be displayed in the context of 3. and 4.).
As said this is just my personal use case and what I'd love to see as an enhancement. If you want me to split these suggestions to different issues let me know.