Phil Meyer;236524 Wrote: > >Surely that definition above (in custom.map) is for when in a playlist > >or something? And not when playing a track from a browse or something? > > I don't really see what you are trying to achieve then. > > Most people I would assume to be listening to the music they are > playing, and therefore on the Now Playing screen, which tells them what > they are listening to. If you are off browsing for more music to play, > why would you then be thinking of fast forwarding? > > >From Now Playing, you can scan through the current song by holding > down FF or REW, or by holding down play to jump into the song scanner > plugin. > > If you try to FF or REW a song whilst browsing music, you are jumped to > the Now Playing Screen, losing where you were before you did it. The > song scanner plugin seems kind of consistent with that approach, except > that you can only enter the plugin by manually navigating to it, or by > setting up a shortcut to it. > > All keys can have a different purpose depending what screen you are on. > Eg. you don't want play.hold to launch the plugin on any screen, as > play.hold is also used to invoke the mixers (when you see an underlined > m on any browse screen). > > As a shortcut has been set up to call the plugin from the now playing > screen, that seems a good place to go to when you're done. > > You can define you own shortcut to enter the plugin from wherever you > like using whatever key you want. You may be able to set up a shortcut > key within the plugin to take you to some other screen of your choice, > but it probably can't tell where you were before you entered the > plugin. It may be possible to change the plugin to return to the > previous screen when a certain key is pressed (what one would be most > sensible?). Patches welcome.
OK... Let's use an example... I browser by artist and then album to track 1 of an album... I'm listening to it and want to hear the end bit. So I want to use the (superior IMHO) 'Scanner' plugin. By the definitions we've talked about so far we can get to it in a single key depression and move to the place we want to hear. Great! Now I've listened to some more of that track and want to move into another track on that album (I have navigated to). Unfortunaly, at best, leaving the scanner has left me in 'Now Playing'. So to get back to the artist and album I have to traverse back through the menu system again... Ideally (just like the standard FF & REW) I'd be exactly where I was to start with... ie: A single left arrow would take me to the album, another to the artist etc etc... Does that explain it? -- NeilF shuttle sn45g, athlon 3200+, 512mb, xp pro (sp2), netgear dg834gt, squeeze box 3 slimserver version: 6.5.4 - 12568 - windows xp - en - cp1252, perl version: 5.8.8 mswin32-x86-multi-thread, mysql version: 5.0.22-community-nt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NeilF's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13059 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39114 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
