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[Dotpitch]

I'd love to full-fill the wikipedia page with the features listed there.

How often would you use custom-defined tags? I'll put A-B repeat on the list (Tsorovan also requested that some years back IIRC), but the rest is pretty much already on it or already implemented.

[saga]

That sounds like you just want another bloated swiss knife. And the first column in this table can not and will most likely never be fulfilled, because XMPlay is an audio player, not a media player.

[samplah!]

hehe, please don't make XMPlay play other things that are not music 
one of the things i love the most of XMPlay is that it's small but powerful

[klaudyuxxx]

First of all, I want to say XMPlay is a great program. Keep it that way

About playing mp3s with cue files...I know about right clicking next and back buttons to jump from a song to another, but I'd like to be able to search for or play a  specific song in a cue file. It would probably get things a bit more complicated, but I think it would be useful...

[Dany0]

I didn't mean just the part I linked to. If you scroll down a bit you'll see that XMPlay has much less features then today's most used audio players. I mean iTunes, WMP, Winamp and etc.

[wrkq]

Because the spirit of XMPlay is being lightweight. Not a "even makes coffee in its included kitchen sink" slow moloch. It has every single feature a music player needs, and a lot of useful little extensions on top of it already. Besides, a lot of the stuff in that list can be and should be implemented as plugins.
If one likes "heavyweight" players like iTunes, WMP, and post-2.x Winamp, one should use them or others similar to them. NOT try to bloat up a lightweight player.

[klaudyuxxx]

Completely agree with  you, wrkq. We don't need xmplay to make us french fries.

[Dotpitch]

I didn't mean just the part I linked to. If you scroll down a bit you'll see that XMPlay has much less features then today's most used audio players. I mean iTunes, WMP, Winamp and etc.

Are there particular features for an audio player you really miss, ones that make you go back to WMP/Winamp/iTunes to use them? Note that the list on Wikipedia is skewed (I can think of a number of features XMPlay does have and WMP, Winamp or iTunes lacks), and more isn't always better as wrkq says.

[Dany0]

It's just my personal opinion, but a lot of features can be added and won't make XMPlay become a mechabot with swiss-army knife hands

For example:
A-B repeat
Tag Editing (just copy&paste... and edit some free code)
Time Stretching/Speeding Up (quick edit the decoder)
Pitch changing (edit the decoder)
Music Store (just make your default browser render the page)

[Dotpitch]

Suggestions for XMPlay 3.6

List has been updated, go here...

[Dany0]

Only one:
new default skin. That blue-ish ugly thing looking like web pages from 1999 discourages all new users.

[Pike84]

Nicely arranged, Dotpitch!

Just a couple of remarks: isn't playback rate same as tempo (which doesn't seem to be directly related to pitch)?

Multiple custom EQ presets seems kinda redundant, since you can already save/load all settings including EQ. (Not criticizing you of course, since you're just gathering these - don't really remember who suggested that or when.)

Browsing through the rest of the list, it seems that expanding CUE files to virtual tracks is by far the most important of these; the rest is more or less useless to me. It's actually a little surprising how many suggestions have come up since 3.5.1, but most of that stuff seems pretty marginal and some isn't even feasible. Well, towards perfection ad infinitum, right ?

[Dotpitch]

Multiple custom EQ presets seems kinda redundant, since you can already save/load all settings including EQ. (Not criticizing you of course, since you're just gathering these - don't really remember who suggested that or when.)

It came from this thread:

I'd like the ability to save/load custom EQ settings.  XMPlay 3.5 has the rock, salsa, pop, jazz, flat, etc. settings built-in, and the single "custom" setting.  However, I'd like to make a bunch of custom EQ settings and save each one and load as I desire.

It is possible to use the saved settings for this, but the drawback in that is it'll load the other DSP settings (reverb, DSP plugins) as well.

Browsing through the rest of the list, it seems that expanding CUE files to virtual tracks is by far the most important of these; the rest is more or less useless to me. It's actually a little surprising how many suggestions have come up since 3.5.1, but most of that stuff seems pretty marginal and some isn't even feasible.

I'm thinking about a poll to determine what which requests are most popular, but I'm hoping for virtual tracks as well .

That blue-ish ugly thing looking like web pages from 1999 discourages all new users.

Even with the long list of alternative skins available directly from the main download page? Ah well, perhaps there's enough enthusiasm for a new skin compo .

[Dany0]

Even with the long list of alternative skins available directly from the main download page? Ah well, perhaps there's enough enthusiasm for a new skin compo .

yupee! Finally I can let my friends download XMPlay on their own 

[Elrinth]

Only one:
new default skin. That blue-ish ugly thing looking like web pages from 1999 discourages all new users.

Cool list you have there Dotpitch! Also, it's great that Ian keeps up the awesome work and updates the program so damn regulary!

I second this!
Suggestions for new default skin: MMD3, Sterling XP or Blackout

[Dotpitch]

Cool list you have there Dotpitch! Also, keep up the awesome work!

Remember I'm just a (rather active) user. Ian is the only developer of XMPlay, it's him you should thank .

[klaudyuxxx]

Good work Dotpitch! That's a nicely done list. It probably took you some time to collect all those requests/suggestions for XMPlay. It's a big list, with lots of new features. Many of them I won't use, but you can never know.
Anyway, I don't think Ian will implement all of them, but I really hope he will seriously consider "Expand CUE file to virtual tracks"

Good luck Ian!

[Musta Boogie]

Suggestions for XMPlay 3.6

Requested:

Interface

• Remote control over HTTP
• Album cover/embedded images in main window
• Bring back frame/page display
• Alternative to middle-click for visuals
• Skinnable slider or bitmap stars for ratings
• Adjustable tooltip bubble delay
• NoFlashPause stops blinking of time display
• Separate playlist/library from Info window
• Remove entries from URL/folder history
• Auto-minimize to tray
• Next-button functions as Next subsong on tracks with cue
• List selection using mouse drag
• Flash current track in playlist/library
• Cue sheet display in hours as well
• Disable seeking with scrollwheel
• Secret INI options in main documentation
• x1.5 and x2 skin enlargement options
• Horizontally resizeable main window
• Interface transparency

Playlist

• After queue, return to original playlist position/bookmark
• Play from library (bypass Playlist)
• One-time option to stop at end of queue (similar to stop at end of track)
• Expand CUE file to virtual tracks
• Expand MOD subsongs to virtual tracks
• Track grouping by album in playlist/library
• Hide tracks not matching search from library view

Integration

• Imitate Winamp window to enable external controls
• Auto-sort files before playing starts
• Pass tracks to command line tools
• Use personalized settings on limited accounts (don't rely on virtualization)
• Option to always put drag-and-dropped files at end of playlist
• Queue from Explorer context menu
• Internet radio stream database

More major or minor feature requests? Post them in this thread!

Misc adds to interface: I wish that there was a support progress (super) bar green colour  to taskbar in Win 7!

[Dotpitch]

Misc adds to interface: I wish that there was a support progress (super) bar green colour  to taskbar in Win 7!

Should it look something like this? It should be optional and the colour should be configurable, IMHO.

Btw, no need to quote the suggestions list...

[Musta Boogie]

Misc adds to interface: I wish that there was a support progress (super) bar green colour  to taskbar in Win 7!

Should it look something like this?Btw, no need to quote the suggestions list...

Correctly, so