Rob W;489573 Wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > > I'm really enjoying getting to know Slim Control. > Great
> > 1. The scrolling artist + track title under the cover on the main > display truncates some of my longer track titles. It would be great if > this could accept any length title. Alternatively increasing the field > size (doubling it?) would be OK. Some classical track titles are very > long. (e.g. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat "Lobgesang" - 2.1 All > men, all things, all that have life and breath) > Currently, SlimControl's scrolling text features allows for text lengths 3 times the screen with. I'll think about increasing it. > > 2. If I use the keyboard to filter a list of artists, select an artist > to review their albums, then return to the artists list the filter has > been cleared. It would be more useful to me if the filter stayed set > when I return to the artists list. That way I can check the albums for > all the artists the filter has selected. > If you go back by 'sweeping-right' it won't be cleared Hitting the genres/artists/albums button will always show the complete list with no selection. But I'll consider keeping the most previously selected genre/artist/album. > > 3. In the playlist screen, track names are truncated if they are too > long for the line length. Many classical tracks then appear identical > (see above example under 1). In other displays you handle this elegantly > by providing a scrolling version of the selected item at the top of the > display. Here you show a scrolling version of the currently playing > track name, which is great, but doesn't help when I want to select > another track. Could you word wrap the track title (and artists too, I > guess)and let the selection box expand to suit? Alternatively, a > scrolling version of the selected track would allow confirmation that > the selected track is correct before moving to it. > Text-scrolling within the playlist (or any of the browser lists) is a tough one. I will see what I can do to allow for longer track names in the current playlist. -- Locuth Use your PDA/Phone as SqueezeBox remote -- http://sc.sciatec.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Locuth's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29693 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62486 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
