Hi, "offending party" here. :-)

Phil Meyer;270717 Wrote: 
> I see that numbers are now shown next to favorites in the WebUI
> favorites screen.
> 
> Whilst I can see this could be useful as the numbers map to the remote
> hotkeys (press and hold 1 for favorite #1), this isn't ideal, and
> personally I think it makes the WebUI favorites list look a bit naff,
> as the numbers are totally irrelevant here.

Since the web UI is the easiest place to set up (and, now that I
understand the drag-and-drop in the new Default skin, rearrange the
order), I think displaying the numbers in the web UI is useful, and
therefore relevant.

> I can't get half of my favorites to work through the hotkeys.

Start filing some bugs. In SS 6.x and below, the Favorites acted like
presets on a car radio, making it very easy to play favorite tracks,
etc. If that's worse in SC7, file a bug. I've actually found SC7 better
in at least one regard. With SS 6.x, I could not  make a Favorite out of
an album -- instead I saved a playlist and got to it through the
Playlists menu. With SC7, I have an album set up as a Favorite and it
works well.

> Eg. my first favorite is "Radio Stations", which is a folder structure
> of radio stations.  if I press and hold 1, it can't play this favorite
> (and I wouldn't really want it to play all radio stations!).  It would
> be better if it just jumped into Favorites > Radio Stations, so I could
> pick the station I want to play, or not associate a hotkey at all with
> that favorite.

Associating the hotkey with putting you in some menu/INPUT.list screen
sounds good to me.

> I have a radio station within "Radio Stations" that I would like to make
> accessible through a hotkey.  The only way currently is to add this as
> it's own unique favorite entry, and appear in the first 10 entries in
> the favorites list.  I can't browse to Favorites > Radio Stations > LBC
> News, and make that a favorite, so I would have to manually look at the
> url that that station points to, and add that manually as a favorite
> and move it up my favorites list to set the hotkey number.

Start at the VFD Now Playing screen, right arrow, and up arrow to "Go
right to add to favorites" -- that should work. Yes, you can use the
web UI to move it up in the Favorites list. I think that's smart. You
don't want adding a favorite to change the hotkey assignment of any
existing Favorites. http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6929

> I think it may be a little frustrating that every time the order of
> favorites changes, the hotkeys for all following favorites changes. 
> eg. delete favorite #1, and favorite #2 becomes #1, etc.

See the ticket listed above --
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6929 -- adding a new
favorite should not change the assignments of existing favorites. If
you've got a test case that's not working as it should, please file a
bug.

> It would be better if the hotkeys were configured through a separate
> screen (eg. something like Settings > Advanced > Remote Hotkeys) where
> any playable item can be chosen to associate with a number key, or have
> a "hotkey number" property on each entry in the favorites screen where a
> number can be chosen to associate with the selected favorite item.
> 
> As an analogy, take a mobile phone.  Most have the option of
> associating speed dial numbers to any phone number in the contacts
> list, rather than the first 10 numbers in the list.
> 

My phone defaults to using the next available slot. Actually that does
bring up a good point. If I have 5 favorites and delete the 3rd, it
might be nice if, like my cell phone, that wouldn't affect favorites
number 4 and 5. Feel like filing an enhancement request?

-Peter


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