max.spicer;283375 Wrote: > It sounds to me as if you are needlessly mixing the scanner mode and > accelerated playback modes. I think it would be much better if they > were entirely separate.
Thanks Max. The original proposal was simply to get rid of the accelerated playback modes. There has been quit a lot of support for that and some dissent. The revised proposal keeps the accelerated playback. Yes, this does mix the two modes but I suggest that this is not needless. On the contrary both the scanner and accelerated playback modes are tools to solve the same problem - get from -here- to -there- within a playing track. This new design puts them both in the same UI and makes it easy to use either or both. > During playback, single presses of ffwd/rwd should trigger accelerated > playback. Holding ffwd/rew when there is a current track (but not > necessarily playing) should enter the scanner mode. There is no FFWD button, only a FWD button. During playback, this has the function to skip to the next track. I do not propose to change this. > > > > 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.> > I don't think > > this makes sense when in scanner mode, but fully agree > for playback mode. What happens when you reach maximum speed? Does it > cycle back to slow speed? Does the cycle first go to 1x? What does the > pause button do? Entering scanner mode starts at 1X (that is, normal play). At maximum rate (256X/-256X) further presses have no effect. This is the same as the current accelerated playback functionality. I'm not sure what the PAUSE button does. I think that it should do Pause/Unpause, with Unpause always being at normal speed. I agree about the UP/DOWN vs. LEFT/RIGHT thing. It would probably be possible to change but I don't think that it is a sufficiently big deal. Alan. -- awy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ awy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7480 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41235 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
