Last Updated on September 1, 2020
In Operation
Here’s an image of nuclear in action. While the software reports version 0.5.0, we are running version 0.5.1.
The interface is well designed, clean, intuitive, and attractive. At the top are forward / back navigation buttons together with a search bar (more on that later).
The left hand column has links to the main sections of the program, including access to your local music library. The middle column hosts a variety of information depending on the context. Things like album listings, popular tracks, similar artists and other information.
The right column displays your playlist. Here you can clear the queue, save tracks as a playlist, add the current track to your playlist, favorites, or download the track. You can also add an album to a playlist in a single operation. Playlists are stored in JSON format.
Directly below the three columns is a progress bar where you can jump to a specific part of a track. Standard fare.
At the bottom of the interface resides a small image of the track’s album cover, buttons to skip to the previous and next tracks, together with a play / pause button. The right hand corner hosts loop playback, shuffle, and autoradio functionality, together with a volume slider.
The autoradio functionality is interesting. It’s an automatic song lookup. Basically, when your playback queue begins the last track in your queue, the software adds an additional track based on your playback queue. It makes some bizarre choices at times even when the autoradio craziness slider is set to less. And sometimes it’ll add a track that doesn’t play, which stops autoradio in its tracks.
Left click on a track brings up a dialog enabling you to add the track to your playback queue, play the track now, add it to your favorites, or download the track.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Dashboard
Page 4 – Downloads
Page 5 – Lyrics
Page 6 – Search Results
Page 7 – Equalizer
Page 8 – Other Features
Page 9 – Summary