[slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
Thank you for all the answers. Regarding implementing and solving this i thought i would share some ideas. I'm not a programmer etc so if anything sounds strange sorry for that. Regarding briefly showing the track info at song change, i believe there are a few implementations. First of all: Requirement: Possibillity to trigger an action at song change, either by computing the time of the track and trigger the action at song end or if there exist any function to trigger an action/event at song change.. Trigger it based on the current song's lenght might be good (see below step 3) Step (1) In a first implementation i would just like to see a checkbox in the player setting next to where you set the screen savers, which basically says Show now playing screensaver at song change. The timeout (time to show song info) could be based on the already set timeout for screensaver. Step (2) To furhter develop this, for me the next step would be to add the possibillity to specify the time to show the track (independent of the screensaver timeout and also the possibillity to chose any of the screensavers to show). This would be done by just adding another listbox in the screensavers which is for Show at song change. Also adding a timout entry below that for Time to show screensaver at song change Step (3) The final step i for this would be the possibillity to show the playing songs info at the end of it and the beginning of next song (kind of like watching an MTV video where they display the song info at the beginning and end. Then another time entry field should be added that basically says Time before song end to show screensaver The already added entry box for the screensaver would say Time to show screensaver at song change I guess this could be done by knowing the song lenght and then based on what is entered in the Time before song end to show screensaver set a time for showing the song info. As i wrote above this would require some way ot knowing the song change and for the later part knowing when there are e.g. 10 seconds left of a song. Regarding the spectrum analyzer and the text shown. Since it's today unreadable if you aren't very close to the player an option somewhere to set the text size would be excellent. -- wiped Squeezebox 3 - SS 6.3 - Core Duo T2500 - 2Gb ram - 25000 Songs - 1750 Albums (Mp3 and soon also FLAC) wiped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1542 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25479 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
i am curious tho, why do some have many comments, but nearly no votes? and how many votes are needed to get attention on optional things like these? Because people don't vote. Or because some people prefer fixing an open issue instead of adding new stuff? Sometimes those comments are used to collect data about an error, discuss possible solutions etc. And you can attach patches which might add/fix something. So feel free to add the changes needed to implement your feature ;-) -- Michael --- Help translate SlimServer by using the SlimString Translation Helper (http://www.herger.net/slim/) ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
if i may add to this... i would like to be able to set which screen savers it would show and then have it rotate them, by song or by time, or by # of songs, etc... just something to automate some variety. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25479 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
On 13-Jul-06, at 2:31 AM, MrSinatra wrote: if i may add to this... i would like to be able to set which screen savers it would show and then have it rotate them, by song or by time, or by # of songs, etc... add your vote to this: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
i added my vote to both, thx kdf. i am curious tho, why do some have many comments, but nearly no votes? and how many votes are needed to get attention on optional things like these? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.3 - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25479 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
MrSinatra Wrote: i added my vote to both, thx kdf. i am curious tho, why do some have many comments, but nearly no votes? and how many votes are needed to get attention on optional things like these? Because people don't vote. It would be nice if a vote could be placed on the comment page in Bugzilla - I think you'd see a lot more voting. No fixed number. I think it's fair to say the requests with a higher number of votes do get noticed, but it takes months and a couple dozen threads like this imploring people to vote for features that they seem so adamant about. Even then, it's up to the discretion of the developers, the development roadmap, the complexity of a solution, and whether there's a 'consensus' (if there can ever be one) on an implementation. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25479 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Briefly show now playing, song info when song is changed.
Quoting MrSinatra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i added my vote to both, thx kdf. i am curious tho, why do some have many comments, but nearly no votes? probably due to people who are not familiar with Bugzilla, don't notice teh voting system or feel that a comment is enough to make their voice heard. and how many votes are needed to get attention on optional things like these? attention is automatic. There are reviews all the time: bug-parties. If you happen to be cc'd on a large number (like I am), you see huge numbers of updates every so often on large blocks of reports. Having said that, the only way to guarantee an optional feature is to write it yourself (I know, nasty thing to say, but it's true). Other possiblities (in no particular order) are to have someone who writes a similar plugin add it to theirs. Also, oping for someone to come along who is inspired to make a patch or plugin for a given feature request, and then finally hoping that the direction of slimserver fits with the request. Of course, more votes can help influence any one of those. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
