Yes, I can also see Preferences now. A couple of suggestions for the layout and 'Info': Seems that when the Info area is minimized/hidden, you could display only the thin bar with the control, and not the thicker 'Info' bar. Maybe better yet, display only a tab-like control in the bottom center, further minimizing the screen real estate this uses when minimized.
Instead of the pop-up info when a new track begins playing, why not use the Info area? Some things about Currently Playing: - On the Song tab, Artist is never filled in, but I get a lot of stuff in Contributors. - On the Song tab, the album cover treatment is odd. It's chopped off vertically to fit the space. I would think you'd want to scale it to show the whole cover, then display the full-sized cover on mouseover. Alternatively, you could add a scroll bar to the area where the cover is displayed. - On the Artist/Album tab you need to show the artist name for the albums. When playing a song by two different artists, it lists albums from both of the artists on this tab, but doesn't show who the albums are by. There have been some nice changes, but there's still a lot that can be improved. The biggest for me would be to improve the context menus. For instance, you could add 'Remove' to the context menu for items in the current playlist. More important, though, would be to add Play, Add and Play Next controls to a context menu for any items being browsed. More could be done with cookies, saving things like the user's Album sort order. As it stands now, because of how long it takes to load, how long it takes Albums to fully populate, and because no state is saved, for the UI to be useful, it almost has to be kept continuously open in a browser. It's not something you'd launch to skip a track or to play an album you have in mind. Using the existing web UI is far more convenient for that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98186 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
