Serento: The audiophile UPnP controller app for iOS/macOS

[lyapounov]

First congrat to enter this already crowded space. As for me, I never found better than Lumin (IOS)

But I am always happy to test new apps (FYI I am a geek)...

I therefore dpwnloaded and installed Serento on my iPad. That was easy and fast !

Then next:...

1) No server found on my network (all other apps find my minimserver without difficulty on this iPad)

2) Playing on... This iPad. It doesn't find my Linn renderer (all other apps find it without difficulty on this iPad)

And then... after 10 minutes, suddenly Serento tells me to go to the app settings to allow network scan (can't you do this by default ???) which the app did not tell me when I opened it. So basically the app wants you to be furious for 10 minutes before telling you what to do.

Then it took me another 5 minutes to find how to browse my library. I always browse by folder. And then this beautiful message:

Couldn't load this folder
This server doesn't expose a folder browser

Well of course it does. Lumin has no issue with this

Then I clicked on genre. Answer : "network error"

As I am a geek, I think I understood: I have over 10800 albums; and serento is probably downloading them. Funny, when Lumin does this, it displays a pop-up saying "downloading library"

In a nutshell : User Experience is disastrous.

Tell us when it will be improved. And I hope it will be before next two weeks; because I won't pay $50 for this app with this UX !