I am also one of those who really wants to honor the development team on
the new REW/FWD feature!
Philip, did you know that if you set the player's screensaver timeout
parameter to e.g. 20 seconds, then you have - from the point you
release e.g. FWD - 20 seconds to listen from the new position
my 2 cents:
1st cent - the new ff/rew is better because it works with ogg-vorbis
files too! (80% of my library is vorbis). :-)
2nd cent - the new ff/rew is not as good because one can not hear where
one is scanning to.
3rd cent - for me, the old scan was also terribly unreliable. the new
one
The problem with the old system is that it just didn't work. I had a
squeezebox, a friend had two and we both had problems with the fast
forward. I prefer to scan forward and hear the music at 2x, 4x, etc.
But it just didn't work well. It would skip forward and then when you
stopped it to
lemmy999;363955 Wrote:
The problem with the old system is that it just didn't work.
It worked absolutely fine for me. Perhaps the distance between remote
and SB makes a difference with the detection of keypresses and
especially long hold key events. Maybe if the infra-red signal is
I was never more than 3-4 feet away when doing this. It tried different
SlimServer builds and Squeezebox firmwares. I complained on here and
some said they had the same problem, others like you said it worked
fine.
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This is a very interesting thread. Let me summarize: PLEASE GIVE US BACK
AUDIO WHILE FAST FORWARDING AND REWINDING AS A USER PREFERENCE! PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE.
As a professional mastering engineer, one of my regular tasks is to
listen/evaluate a new piece of music that comes in from a
+1 for original post, and +1 for the configurable advance suggestion
above
I can see there may have been some value to the original approach for a
few use cases, but it never worked well enough for me to bother and the
original functionality was not what unfamiliar users expected to see
(in my
verbatone wrote:
I agree, I used the FF/REW for the first time and was elated.
Philip, the old system was never consistent. Every once in a while it
would work, but generally I would hold FF, it would go to 2x, then hold
FF again, it would go to 4x, then I'd push play, and it would restart
jclyle;340266 Wrote:
I just upgraded to SC 7.2, and the fast-forward and rewind functionality
is amazing!!! Gone is the 2x, 4x, 8x seeking that we had in earlier
versions. Now we have a time clock that allows us to navigate through a
track like we would on a normal CD player.
This is a
I remember Phil was the only(?) but very vocal supporter of the old way
in the original thread in which the new way was born.
I wasn't the only person. There were quite a few threads, and bug reports
where people agreed, partially agreed or accepted that support for both seeking
and scanning
Phil Meyer wrote:
I remember Phil was the only(?) but very vocal supporter of the old way
in the original thread in which the new way was born.
I wasn't the only person. There were quite a few threads, and bug reports
where people agreed, partially agreed or accepted that support for
You were probably the only one I remembered ;)
That, is guess is true ;)
Anyway, what's done is done, and life moves on. What we have now is useable
and good (but could be better and support more features without detracting from
the simplicity).
Phil
I think the new system is good, but I actually liked kdf's Song Scanner
better. The new method works fairly well, though if I try to FF or REW
too far before letting go of the button, it seems to poop out and go
back to the original point.
What I'd really like to see is a key combination with
That way everybody can be happy - the guitarist wanting to go back a
few seconds and the podcast listener wanting to skip a multi-minute
block of commercials.
No, actually my point is that I don't know an arbitrary time to jump forward
to. I don't listen to podcasts twice; I listen to podcasts
Philip Meyer;341154 Wrote:
or instead of a solid/clear progress bar to set playback position,
show some representation of the track in terms of sound (eg. volume
level over time, oscillator, peak meter).
Phil
What a great idea!
I guess it is pretty impractical from a technical
I agree, I used the FF/REW for the first time and was elated.
Philip, the old system was never consistent. Every once in a while it
would work, but generally I would hold FF, it would go to 2x, then hold
FF again, it would go to 4x, then I'd push play, and it would restart
the song, or even
Though I was OK with old functionality + song scanner/looper + clickable
progress bar in browser UI, I like it better now out of the box. I find
it much more intuitive. Audio feedback wasn't great before, not easy
for neophytes to use. As a musician, I still would like to see some
looping
Philip, the old system was never consistent. Every once in a while it
would work, but generally I would hold FF, it would go to 2x, then hold
FF again, it would go to 4x, then I'd push play, and it would restart
the song
Well, I never had any trouble like that. I did have an occasional problem
Gone is the 2x, 4x, 8x seeking that we had in earlier versions.
Sadly, yes :(
This is a major upgrade, thanks a bunch!
I just don't get it: why some people see this as a major upgrade. Surely I'm
not the only person that sees this as a major downgrade. I've given up playing
long podcasts
It's interesting to see the different views on this. I personally love
the new mechanism. However, I understand Phil's argument.
I'm a guitar player and when I'm trying to figure out a passage of a
song, the rewind button gets a lot of use. I gave up on using the SB
for this; the iPod was
I would remember when the passage I was working on started,
so I would just scroll back using the slider to just previous.
It kind of works I guess for REW, as you may have some kind of clue as to the
absolute position you want to go back to.
Personally, I hardly ever use REW, only when I now
The old system was horrible. It was a nightmare and seemed so random and
clunky, i was amazed it was not addressed sooner. It's not perfect, and
i take some of your points Phil, but the new system is -miles- better
IMO. Its actually usable now.
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