Snugtone

Roadmap

What’s coming, in order and without dates. Up to 1.2 it’s settled; from 1.3 on, each version comes when its condition is met, and if it isn’t, nothing happens.

  1. 1.1

    Living with it

    In progress
    • Mini player. A small window, always on top, with the cover, the title, the controls and the bar. It has its own shortcut to switch, and it remembers where you left it.
    • Smart playlists. Save a search as a living playlist, evaluated when you open it. Exporting it to M3U freezes it.
    • Shuffle by album. Shuffles whole albums and keeps their tracks in order.
    • Taskbar buttons. Previous, play and next when you hover over the icon. If they don’t fit in this version, they move to 1.2.
  2. 1.2

    The collection

    After 1.1
    • Duplicates. Two FLAC or ALAC files with the same audio MD5 are the same recording, whatever they’re called. For MP3 and Opus, “possible” duplicates by title, artist and duration.
    • Incomplete albums. Compares an album with its release’s track list on MusicBrainz and says which tracks are missing. Only for albums you’ve already looked up there: it never goes online on its own.
    • The album’s extras. The back cover, the booklet and whatever else is in the album’s folder, in a viewer from the album view.
    • Local stats. Most played, what you haven’t listened to in a while, by month. Offline.
  3. 1.3

    The output

    Comes when there’s a way to capture what comes out and compare it with the file. It will be released with that measurement.
    • Exclusive output on Windows. WASAPI exclusive mode: Snugtone talks to the device directly, without the system mixer in between. It’s a setting, off by default, and if the device refuses it, it falls back to shared mode and says so. Between two tracks with different sample rates the device is reopened, and that’s a short gap.
  4. 1.4

    The case

    Comes when 1.3 is done.
    • The album case, in 3D. Front, spine and back cover, with a lid that opens, made from the extras of 1.2.
  5. 1.5

    Another machine

    Comes when there’s a second computer to test it with.
    • Your music on another computer at home. A network folder as a library folder: scanning it, watching it even when no notifications arrive, and the other computer being off never takes anything out of the library.
  6. 1.6

    Linux

    Comes when there’s a Linux machine at hand.
    • The same program on Linux. Audio through PipeWire or ALSA, the system’s media controls, and AppImage and .deb packages.
  7. 1.7

    macOS

    Comes when Linux is done and there’s a Mac to test it on.
    • The same program on the Mac. Unsigned, like on Windows: macOS will warn when you open it, and how to go on will be explained.

  8. No date

    Only if someone asks.
    • Albums in a single file with their CUE sheet. Today a whole-album FLAC is one seventy-minute track.