Philip Meyer;320420 Wrote: 
> Hmm, I see that clicking TrackStat icon on the currently playing track
> displays all songs on the album within TrackStat.  I wasn't expecting
> that (assumed it would only display TrackStat info for the song).
> 
The upper part always show the currently playing song.
The lower part shows the statistic you select and it didn't make any
sense to show just a song so it felt better to show the whole album,
the song you have selected should be marked with "<--".

The ideal would be to show current playlist but the problem is that I
have no way to differ between the TS buttons in the current playlist
windows and TS buttons in other track listings. At least this was the
case earlier, but I'll take look again and see if there has been any
changes that now makes this possible.

Philip Meyer;320420 Wrote: 
> 
> If I click on "Show All", and then choose "Not Rated Songs", I see all
> songs not rated for the current album
> 
If you have clicked "Show All" it the list shouldn't be restricted to a
single album, are you saying that this is the case or do you just have a
single album without rated songs ?

Philip Meyer;320420 Wrote: 
> 
> If I click on "Show All", and then choose "Not Rated Songs", I see all
> songs not rated for the current album, which I think is ordered by
> Playcount, and then ordered randomly?  If I click to play all songs in
> the list, the songs appear sorted in a different order (both in
> TrackStat and current playlist).  Over time when the TrackStat frame
> refreshes, the order changes.
> 
The list is randomized again to make it possible to just do a refresh
to get a new selection. This doesn't make much sense in short list but
it does make sense for example for "Not Rated Songs" and the list only
shows 25 songs but you have 2000 unrated songs in your library. The
ideas was that in this case you don't want to see the same albums every
time.

I suppose one idea might be to let the refresh return the same list but
have a separate "reshuffle" button (or similar) that returns new tracks.
This might actually make it less confusing when you rate a track and it
jumps around in the list just because setting rating also means that
the list is refreshed.

Philip Meyer;320420 Wrote: 
> 
> The TrackStat Now Playing information frequently doesn't seem to get
> updated.  I have to refresh the frame when song change events happen. 
> eg. if I click play on a different song in the current playlist, or
> delete the currently playing song.
> 
It should be updated every 60 second I think and if you are playing I
think the update should be fairly synchronized with track changes. If I
remember correctly I look at the track length and tell the page to
refresh in 60 seconds or less if there are less than 60 seconds
remaining for the currently playing track. Buffering probably cause the
refresh to happen less often.

The real reason I don't want to make the refresh more often is that it
is pretty heavy for some statistics. I think there are two solutions to
this:

1. 
I could separate the "now playing" part from the "browsing" part in
different pages where only the "now playing" part would be refreshed.
This is already the case in the iPeng iPhone/iPod skin. The "now
playing" part of the TrackStat page isn't heavy and could easily be
refreshed once per second.

2.
I could implement some caching so new statistics isn't retrieved when
refreshing and instead have a separate "refresh" button that actually
retrieves new statistics. In this case a refresh would result in
exactly the same list as before without reshuffle in the way you are
currently seeing.

Do you think it is important to see both "now playing" information and
the "browsing" part on the same page or would it be enough if there was
a link to go between them ?

Philip Meyer;320420 Wrote: 
> 
> I sometimes see "<--" after an entry in the TrackStat songs list.  eg.
> "9. Fire On The Mountain  by Tangerine Dream  from   Views From A Red
> Train   <--".  I thought at first this was to signify that the song was
> currently playing, but that doesn't seem to be true.
> 
It indicates the track you've clicked on to get there when you launch
TrackStat from a TS button in a track list.

I really appreciate feedback like this, because it's hard to see all
these things when you are in the middle of the implementation. The
thing at the moment is just that I would really like to re-write most
of the statistic browsing code since it's a bit messy at the moment, so
until this is done I think I would prefer to not make a lot of small
adjustments. The re-write is still at the idea state, I haven't started
any real work yet, the problem is to actually get the time to do it...


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