Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] Updates to Usher?

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 08:40:33 -0700

On Jul 6, 2015, at 2:06 AM, Alistair <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Usher is the best video cataloguing app there is, I have tried them all and I purchased Usher.

Thank you for that.

> But it isn't perfect, it is buggy and it crashes a lot.

The majority of the crashes that we see are from non-QuickTime-native movies (i.e. WMV, MKV, etc.). I used to have a ton of such crashes (it's actually QuickTime crashing, and bringing down Usher with it). But I updated my collection to make everything native (deleted some, converted others), and I've not had any crashes since.

The bad news is that newer QuickTime is even worse about unsupported formats, so a Future Usher™ would probably just have to refuse to play those movies at all. (Or you'd need to mark them all to play in VLC or some such.)

> Tagging is a slow and laborious process.

Yes. And its reliance on Amazon as the sole source of info isn't great.

> I would like to see a system of one-click tagging, and see the metadata panel in a sidebar next to the previews window. Please reassure me that Usher is in active development. Need to see some stability improvements fairly urgently.

As much as I'd love to say we're actively working on Usher 2 right this minute, that's not true. As much as we (Peter and I) both love and use Usher, it's a niche product with very low sales. As such, its development must come after those apps that pay our bills, and those are the ones we're actively working on now.

That doesn't mean Usher 2 is dead, it just means it's in a hibernation while we work on the things we have to work on to keep the company going. We will continue to support Usher with bug fixes as needed, and we have a great list of Usher 2 features for the time when we'll be able to work on it. When is that? I honestly don't know, and I don't want to announce something that we won't be able to meet.

Probably not the answer you wanted to hear.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Alistair <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 02:06:56 -0700 (PDT)

Usher is the best video cataloguing app there is, I have tried them all and 
I purchased Usher.
But it isn't perfect, it is buggy and it crashes a lot. Tagging is a slow 
and laborious process.
I would like to see a system of one-click tagging, and see the metadata 
panel in a sidebar next to the previews window. Please reassure me that 
Usher is in active development. Need to see some stability improvements 
fairly urgently.

Thanks