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[Rah'Dick]

Agreed.
By the way, it would be rather nice if XMP could read Windows' mousewheel settings from the registry, since one-row-scrolling is much too slow, especially when the playlist covers half of your screen.

[Pike84]

A tip: If you hold shift down, you can scroll two rows at a time .

[Rah'Dick]

Weak excuse ;-)
I use to scroll 5 rows at at time

[Irrational86]

Weak excuse ;-)
I use to scroll 5 rows at at time

Scroll the wheel twice as fast with [Shift] pressed and you will kind of get the same effect...

[Rah'Dick]

Fun   *scrolls like mad and finally decides to drag the scrollbar*

[Irrational86]

LMAO  

[Roj]

Better type checking so that a non-viable file doesn't crash the program.

I'd say that this one is a must...

[velusip]

..."save state"...

...just want to pause for a second and listen to some music...

- When you close the program, your last song is remembered.

- You can pause, then open another instance of XMPlay and do whatever until you are ready to go back.

[Vesh]

Yeah, I know how to do it now, that's not the issue. He even said as much in the original idea post.

[Svante]

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in my computer, which performs very bad with waveout (crackling...), so what I really want to see for next version is hardware accelerated Directsound output (works very well on my computer with other players).

[Kyle]

Sorry Ian, I know you're already working on it, but maybe  some more people who know more about this are watching the site, so i'll say it again, linux support. Most likely through OSS, as, alsa doesn't work with all sound cards(*cough*Realtek/Nforce).

[Jace]

Please, I'm now officially begging, make the roll closer to truly random.

Heh, noticed a fun thing about the random song order today!
I have a 2328 song playlist, but I had chosen 'Fear Factory' on the Find Tracks thingy..
Which narrows the amount of songs down to 94.
But still, have a look if you see what I mean

2275 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 04 - Machine Debaser.ogg
2302 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\13 - Back the f*** up.mpc
2301 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\12 - Smasher Devourer.mpc
2300 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\11 - Martyr.mpc
2299 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\10 - Acres of Skin.mpc
2298 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\09 - Resurrection.mpc
2297 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\08 - Descent.mpc
2276 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 05 - Invisible Wounds (The Suture Mix).ogg
2296 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\07 - Linchpin.mpc
2295 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\06 - Edgecrusher.mpc
2294 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\05 - Digimortal.mpc
2293 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\04 - Self Bias Resistor.mpc
2292 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\03 - Demanufacture.mpc
2277 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 06 - Resurrection (T.L.A. Big Rock Mix).ogg
2291 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\02 - What will become.mpc
2278 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 07 - Edgecrusher (Urban Assault Mix).ogg
2290 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Immortal Combat\01 - Intro.mpc
2289 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 18 - New Breed (Spoetnik Mix).ogg
2288 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 17 - Manic Cure.ogg
2279 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 08 - Descent (Falling Deeper Mix).ogg
2287 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 16 - Transgenic.ogg
2286 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 15 - Refueled.ogg
2285 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 14 - Cyberdyne.ogg
2280 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 09 - Body Hammer (Colin Richardson Mix).ogg
2281 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 10 - Zero signal (Colin Richardson Mix).ogg
2284 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 13 - Replica (Live).ogg
2282 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 11 - Cars (Numanoid Mix).ogg
2283 D:\Music\Mp3\Fear Factory\Hatefiles\Fear Factory - 12 - Dark Bodies (demo).ogg

Randomness. Gotta love it.

[Torkell]

A friend of mine decided to see how random the random function in excel is. The end result (10,000 numbers in the range 1-100 inclusive) came up with not a straight level line, but some large variances of around 20%. Given that each number should appear 100 times, it was a suprise with one set of numbers to have a number appear only about 17 times!

[Roj]

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 in my computer, which performs very bad with waveout (crackling...), so what I really want to see for next version is hardware accelerated Directsound output (works very well on my computer with other players).

That isn't going to cure your problem.  Better drivers from Creative Labs will.

[Aux]

Again about additional mouse buttons. You don't need to know API - mouse driver handles all requests. Developers of xmplay should only include scanning mouse buttons along with keyboard ones (separately, I think).

[Brian]

A summary from Ian of what's going to be new in v.3.2, and an indication of when it's likely to be released, would go down well in the near future, please.

[Torkell]

A summary from Ian of what's going to be new in v.3.2, and an indication of when it's likely to be released, would go down well in the near future, please.

Last time I asked for a changelog thread (did so ages ago, can't find the post), I think he said he preferred keeping it a suprise.

[Ian @ un4seen]

I don't like to post lists of "coming features" when they haven't been done yet. If they don't happen for some reason, it'll result in disappointment and pitchforks

Anyway... so far it's just pretty minor stuff that's been added since 3.1, as I've been concentrating on BASS 2.1 lately. Once that's released (should be very soon), I'll get started properly on XMPlay 3.2

[quark]

I have one reasonable suggestion: undo button for playlist.

Indeed a good suggestion. The button isn't that necessary for me, as long as I can press CTRL+Z. But having both a button and shortcut key would be brilliant.

Another thing that bugs me about the info/playlist window ist that it doesn't get focused when opened by a shortcut key. What I need to do is open it up (I've bound it to Windows button + numpad delete) and then ALT+TAB myself to it to give it focus. Not until then can I actually do anything in it.

Also, it's a bit of a pain that the info/playlist window is combined. I would really like them to be separate. I hope that can be made possible through a checkbox or something in a future version.

[quark]

I would love XML-based skins.

Me too. XML files and images packaged in a ZIP library would be extremely simple to create and not hard to write code for either. WMP works this way, and skins are amazingly easy to create.