I purchased a lifetime subscription to Playground sessions a couple weeks ago but I am still within the 30 day money back guarantee stage and am demoing the product. I have some developer experience so I know it can be difficult to write a really polished, top-notch, piece of software. Overall, I'm impressed but there are some really core features that I would expect to see in $300.00 software.
I was hoping to get both a timeline of when the feature requests below would be implemented, as well as find out from the developers if they are providing updates to the product following an agile (or similar) methodology. Agile isn't required, but in order to stick with it, I'd like to hear that there is some form of scheduled update release schedule (for features--not just bug fixes
).Thank you for putting your time into this and please don't interpret the above is highly critical. I am overall happy with the product and appreciate your hard work.
- Support for multiple monitors and docking of the (now) panes/frames. I'd like to be able to move the video or sheet music windows (or both) out to another monitor. I saw this request submitted in the forums earlier last year, so perhaps this is in the process of being implemented already. This one is much more key for me then the other requests below.
- A bit stronger look-and-feel and interaction with the application (windows not losing focus and requiring mouse clicks to reactive, hot keys to move between lesson parts, hot keys to zoom, change tempo, etc.). This is pretty wide open and it should be relatively straight forward to implement but provides alot of value. I realize this is a sort of vague feature request but I am basically just looking for a user experience/UI that matches other products that cost as much as Playground.
- Kind of a tail to the above item, is a UI overhaul coming to Playground in the near future? It's one of the best piano software's out there (probably the best) for look and feel but since it is being actively maintained (most others are not), I'd like to see it soar and blow away the competition.
Thanks in advance for considering these requests and getting back to me. I will likely have a few more as I continue to play with the product.
Please Note: I may decide to go the money back route if I don't hear back on the above requests. It's nothing personal and if that happens, I will continue to check in on the status of the software from time-to-time to see if it's worth trying out again.
