As if the article didn’t make it obvious enough, I like my Finetune, and even something like they’ve done where you have the player in one frame and your main content section in another is plenty. I can edit playlists, check out album info, etc. on Finetune without ever having my player get stopped.

I haven’t tried the iTunes plugin. At work I don’t use iTunes much and am pretty much relegated to on-line music sources. Pandora creeps into my routine every now and then, but their repeat factor tends to be pretty high.

I may mail you separately with more detailed feedback soon. And for what it’s worth, it’s great to have your interaction as (what I assume is) a developer at Nutsie. Rather than wait for feedback to come to you directly, which I bet rarely happens, it’s great to see a company take a more proactive approach to improving their product by seeing what people are saying about it elsewhere.

We’re working on a few of the items you mentioned.

We do have the Grab Bag, which is one big playlist of music you’ve grabbed from around the site. But, we know that’s not enough. In the next couple of weeks, we are adding the ability to create many new playlists with your music, and all the other music on nuTsie.

We’ve had many internal debates over the way the player works. I agree… some sort of separate, or “pop-out” player is in order so that you can navigate more lists without interrupting the playing of a list you’ve already found.

Have you tried our iTunes plug-in — sideTunes? It would be great to get your feedback on that too.

Also, I would love to hear more details about design and user experience problems. I think you have my email now if you want to drop me a note.

Thanks,
Dave