Miro - 1.2.8

First the pluses I like about Miro:
1. It still runs nicely under Tiger
2. It still runs nicely under older PPC hardware
3. It has a decent RSS and Torrent side to it.

But, for all of that, Miro is plagued by even the most simplest of things that
most users pull their hair out and say, "WTF?" "it CAN'T DO THAT?!?"

Here is a list of top ten things that Miro needs to make it a 5 star app:

10. Drag and Drop files directly into a Playlist.
I'm sorry, but iTunes has spoiled us, and the fact that you have to insanely drag and drop
onto the Miro icon ( no where else) and the videos then have to be "add to Library" link
checked to add, is ridiculous!! HEllo! I want to add videos that's why I d&D'd them in the fist place!

9. Organize Playlist by AlphaNumeric.
Drag six videos all correctly named and numbered into a playlist from the library,
and watch Miro freak out and put them in random order. again, c'mon....!

8. Be able to select the Playlist and just initiate playback.
Again iTunes lets you select a list, hit play, you get the list playing
in order. Paying attention yet....?

7. Be able to have the videos play one after another without remembering to set a
preference flag.

6. Ability to Syncronize Playlist Folders to content.
Add some content to a watched folder in Miro, make Miro add that content to the
matching Playlist.

5. Play all files from the start of the file, or at least give us the option.
Miro plays where you left off in a file you last played, or if the file is a stitch
together QT refrence movie, made up of say three smaller files pasted one after the other,
it picks the last stitch in the QT file and plays from there.
Hello! treat it as a new file, and play from the beginning.

4. Turn off BitTorrent and make it so we have to turn it on at first launch of the app.
It is on by default, and nothing like putting Miro on an older PPC box and watching it
choke because it's too busy trying to torrent, when you just want to set up playlists
of your own content.

3. Give us Google search instead of YouTube Search.
Miro's youtube search sucks @$$...it can't find the same file within 10 mins
of searching. Trash it, and just enable Google search within Miro.
Just like Safari, a little Google search bar that we can use to find our content
on Youtube faster and easier.

2. When You create a new Playlist, have the Playlist organize in Alpha-Numeric Order!
nothing like having a playlist called "Zebra Fun" and then create a new playlist called
"Bat-Thing Playhouse" and the "B" playlist just jumps in behind the "Z" playlist.
again, iTunes spoiled us on this.....You create a new Playlist, iTunes alpha-numeric
organizes the Playlists. Even an option click to just "Sort Playlist by Name" would
be sufficient!!!

and the #1 thing:

Make Miro play Video_TS folders on the Hard Drive!
Even if you have to incorporate VLC!!!!!!!

After updating I clicked "check for updates" and the message was I am up to date.I can't understand whythe Developers are labeling this version 1.2.2 when it is actually 1.2.1 which was issued last month.

RealPlayer11 automatically lists videos on web pages. You have to do a separate search through Miro to find the video. Miro is therefore impractical to web page videos.

technicaly for me miro actualy does what it is expected to do. BUT:
after startup one of the first things this app does is establishing a connection to google-analytics. (try yourself using little snitch.)
why?
it shouldn't do that.

be aware that this app potentialy contains spyware or at least is trying to gather information on you.

I'm getting the application busy ball. Last time I checked this app worked. The only things things that have changed are the latest patches to OS X.