Here is a revised proposal based upon some of the feedback received and
the experience of playing around with the implementation.
PROPOSAL:
- Press-and-hold ">>" (FWD) or "<<" (REW) to enter Scanner. The
scanner is a modified version of kdf's Song Scanner plugin. It
displays an input bar (as used for volume, etc.) on line 2 of the
display and counters indicating current position and length of the
current track. Once in scanner:
- The track position counter and input bar track the current
position in the track, so long as the UP or DOWN keys have not been
used. The track continues to play.
- Press UP/DOWN to go forward and back in the track position. The
track position counter and input bar track the selected position. The
unit of increment is a minimum of 1s, maximum of 5s. Tracks with 100s
<= length <= 500s are divided into 100 steps. Progressive
acceleration of the scrolling, when the UP or DOWN key is held, makes
it practical to seek to a position in tracks of varying lengths,
including (at least) up to an hour.
- After using UP/DOWN, no further change for between 1-2s will
automatically jump to the selected position and remain in the
scanner.
- Press FWD to enter 2X fast-forward mode. Repeated presses will
successively double the scanning speed. Similarly with REW for rewind
modes. The fast-forward/rewind mode and rate is indicated next to the
position counters. UP/DOWN scrolling can still be used.
- Press PLAY to resume normal PLAY and exit the scanner. Any
fast-forward/rewind mode is stopped and play continues from the
current position. Any pending position change from use of the UP/DOWN
keys is invoked.
- Press LEFT to exit scanner without applying any pending change.
Any fast-forward/rewind mode remains operational.
- The scanner will exit when the screen-saver kicks in or any other
display mode is invoked.
Currently fast-forward/rewind modes continue across track boundaries in
the current playlist. Is this really useful? It seems to me that it
would be better if play would stop when either end of the track is
reached.
This revised proposal keeps the audio feedback. There has been some
support for this although I remain to be convinced that it is really
useful. I will look for feedback once the new scanner version
(described above) is available.
I would be pleased to get feedback on these revised proposals and
additional or alternative suggestions.
Alan.
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