It would be interesting. I don't necessarily *need* it, but it would be cool. For me, being able to do it with google TV (specifically the Logitech Revue) would be best. Obviously, that is always connected to my TV whereas my andriod tablet follows me around the house.
For it to be engaging, I think the screen should have some sort of animation. I had an idea (which I was going to do as an exercise to dip my toe in android development myself) to have a "now playing" screen that showed the side view of a turntable platter rotating with a strobe. Maybe even show the cartidge drop on the album and slowly move toward the center as would happen when a real lp is playing. This could even be proportional to the length of the track, like a progress indicator. The track/album/time information could be displayed on there too. When the track would change, there could be some sort of animation of the album being dropped (like a record changer or just bing placed on the platter). Prior to the animation, a record label could be displayed showing the next track, with length, artist, etc. in a format like you would see on an lp (or 45). Taking this further, you could have options for a more modern scheme where maybe it's a CD juke box or something. You could even do a old style jukebox scheme rather than a turntable. I think something like that would be really cool rather than a relatively static "now playing" screen, especially on a TV. I would certainly be rather complicated, but that's what I've envisioned. I have coding skills, but I'm not a graphic designer, so I never really got anywhere with the idea. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch, iPeng on iPod Touch, SqueezeCommander on Xoom. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeBoxServer 7.5.5 and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 37,509 songs, 2,934 albums, 515 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94004 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
