First of all I'd like to point that despite all criticism below I do very much appreciate all the work done. Seriously, huge amount of job and I thank developer for that.

Second, I want to be honest: I didn't buy you component, I borrowed it from the fiend of mine to test it. But since I don't ask for any support, I hope developer will read this post.

Third... well, there's no third, so let's get to the core :-)

I have version 1.02 distribution package and 1.5 upgrade. Installed upgraded, ran thru parameters, set the test album and went to frontend. We'll leave multiple template issues and overall ugliness since all these can be easily corrected and painted by user itself. My first major disappointment was music players - I checked all of'em, none worked. Every time I enabled player, I got white screen on both album and song views. I did lot of hoodoo, read ALL forum pages, but didn't find any workaround. All paths were set fine, permissions triplechecked, songs were pretty much downloadable, but not playable.

I've spent around 2 hours fighting with this issue and was ready to give up, but suddenly decided to downgrade to 1.0.2. Guess what? It worked! All players except JPW played all songs. I messed a bit with Keith Player and finished my testing. According to multiple complaints, there's definitely something devilish in new version. Sorry to say that.

However this is definitely the best Joomls component for music collection. It has great potential and should be developed further. To help with that a little I'd like to list most frustrating moments I found.

1. MC doesn't read MP3 tags.

Seriously, this is ridiculous. Type "php read mp3 tags" and you'll get 25 MILLION pages! There are plenty already cooked codes and libraries like getID3() for example. Without this feature it's extremely annoying to organize big music collections from the scratch. I have around 300 albums - to add all of them manually and to set up song names, song/album time etc will take eternity.

2. There are very few options for component of such scale.

For example, you can show/hide album details in album view, but you can't select which details to show. So if you filled like 2-3 fields, you'll get full set of 10+ cells, most of them will be empty. You can't set album cover size (not thumbnail) from backend, can't upload multiple files or archives, no way to hide a multi-player and so on.

3. Default template is a bit ugly.

I know, it can be painted in any way by messing with CSS, but I think the default one shouldn't be from 90s as well.

This is what I got after 3 hours of trying to make MC at least work properly on my site. With some coding I can make it look nice, display what I want and where I want, but any further upgrade will drop all changes if they weren't CSS-related.

I would probably buy this component if it was more... finished. Still it is the best one available. Thank you again for all your efforts, and I really hope we'll see new improved version in the closest future.