Suggestions for 3.5

[amit]

I would like to have a different scroller bmp for the playlist and the info window? is it possible to add this option?

Thanks.

[CainKellye]

What about a right-click function to next/previous track buttons, witch would make a random jump to a track?
(Because even if you use shuffled playback it still advances to the next track in the list if you click next.)

[Pike84]

Right-clicking the play/pause button already does that.

[advs]

I would like to see at next version of this Terrific player support
for DVD-Audio playback.I know this format is not popular as normal
CD-Audio but is much higher quality.As you probably know there isn't
much players for PC for this media.Only PowerDVD and the one from
Creative  .For start it isn't necessary to decode MLP and of course
display the graphical menus of the disc. 

 

[piovrauz]

If you mean DVD-Audio, the one using MPL as music compression, I doubt about it. This because MPL is proprietary (at least it ewas when I checked) and the plugin autor would have to pay some absurdly high fee. I remember I wanted to play a track found on a DVD-Audio got with my Audigy, I had to do some "magik" to get a flac out of it...
sry for the bad news...

[Zarggg]

I'd like to request the ability to resize the Options & Stuff window, or at least make it wider by a couple dozen pixels.

[Ehtyar]

May I request the ability to use SendMessage to control the simple functions of xmplay? I've seen this request around the forum occasionally, which i hope brings me a little closer to my mob. If the suggestion to enable generic plugin behavior is being considered, i would also be more than willing to code my own plugin for this kind of behavior.

Thanks, Ehtyar.

[Frosty]

still missing the option _not_ to bring xmplay to front after adding a file from the explorer (or as i do from total commander) very much..
as far as i can remember, this issue has been already pointed out in the 'suggestions for 3.4' topic but was somehow dropped/forgotten. or were there some kind of problems which have prevented the implementation of this feature?
anywho, this option would make it so much more convenient to create playlists so please consider implementing it.
other than that, i'm completely happy with that nifty playa

cheers
frost

[Tsorovan]

I believe Ian would have to eschew using DDE to open files for that to work.

[CainKellye]

Right-clicking the play/pause button already does that.

Wow, that was fast. Thx for the info!

[Rah'Dick]

I'd like to request the ability to resize the Options & Stuff window, or at least make it wider by a couple dozen pixels.

*laughs*
That's what I've been trying to tell Ian for months. He already made the window a wee bit wider (thanks), but I still wish it was fully resizable.

[advs]

That's why i said that it isn't necessary to support MLP decoding
for DVD-Audio.The MLP was a patent from Meridian and now it
is property of Dolby.But the DVD-Audio is a flexible format.It support
both Linear PCM & MLP with sampling ranges from 44.1 to 192KHz
for both PCM 16 & 24Bit analysis.As for channel configuration it support from Stereo to 5.1.
The MLP lossless compression is used normally for high (88.2 to 96Khz) sampling range
multichannel programs or to save disc space in more complicated disc configurations
with multiple formats in it (Stereo,Multichannel & Dolby Digital).
The point is that nowadays someone can author it's own DVD-Audio
discs with only Linear PCM contents very easy.There are enough applications
for that.Look at Wavelab (5 & 6),Minnetonka DiscWelder or Cirlinca DVD Audio Solo.
The last is very affordable software at just $45!.I am using this software with excellent
results  .That's why i want to enable support for this format.It isn't necessary to play
commercial DVD-Audio titles with CPPM encryption...
It's time to upgrade to a more flexible audio format than the old crap CD 

[Zarggg]

That sounds like it's the work for a plugin, rather than XMPlay. Find someone to write a plugin for it.

[tniemi]

How about a queue enhancement? We all know how it currently works, but I think we are not using it's full potential.

How about using queue as something you can just throw stuff into while rummaging your library, or HDs or CDs, or surfing the web? Things in queue would get played before things in playlist. Things in queue would vanish after being played. When queue is finally empty XMPlay would resume playing the playlist from the point it left it before stuff started to appear in the queue. Using queue would not disrupt the playlist in any way.

Let's see what this means:

• Separating playlist and queue from each other. Currently these things occupy the same space.
  
  (We would still be able to throw stuff from playlist to queue if we wanted to play them first. However, throwing stuff into queue would not delete them from the playlist.)
  
  
• The playlist needs to remember the position where it was before stuff was thrown into queue. Playing should resume from that point after queue is finished.


• A new option/feature: "Integration: Context menu: [ ] Add to XMPlay-queue" is needed.

Currently there are the following query related settings:

• "Playlist: List advancing: [ ] Stop at end of queue" - Stop, once the end of a queue has been reached.


• "Playlist: [ ] Show queue in playlist panel" - This shows only queued tracks in the playlist panel. This option is the same as clicking the "Queue" button on the playlist panel.

"Stop at end of queue" would still be Ok, but "Show queue in playlist panel" would need rethinking.

[Knurek]

How about using queue as something you can just throw stuff into while rummaging your library, or HDs or CDs, or surfing the web? Things in queue would get played before things in playlist. Things in queue would vanish after being played. When queue is finally empty XMPlay would resume playing the playlist from the point it left it before stuff started to appear in the queue. Using queue would not disrupt the playlist in any way.

Yes, yes and for the third time yes! Would make the queue much more useful IMO.

Also, one other thing. Would it be possible to split up loop options between MOD formats and the rest? I know there's a MOD only option right now, but I'd want to play MOD's with one loop+fade (as they are generally long, and looping a 20 minutes piece is pure murder) and MIDI's/AHX/etc with two loops+fade (much shorter, so the loop is rather helpful here).

This kind of setup isn't really possible now, right?

[Guest_0]

How about a queue enhancement? We all know how it currently works, but I think we are not using it's full potential.

How about using queue as something you can just throw stuff into while rummaging your library, or HDs or CDs, or surfing the web? Things in queue would get played before things in playlist. Things in queue would vanish after being played. When queue is finally empty XMPlay would resume playing the playlist from the point it left it before stuff started to appear in the queue. Using queue would not disrupt the playlist in any way.

Yes, please! The thing I would most like to see is the addition of a "queue in XMPlay" option in the right-click menu. I have all my music organized folder-tree-style, and very frequently I select the music I want to hear by navigating through the folders, instead of finding it within XMPlay. It would be so much easier if I could right-click on a file and queue it, rather than maximize XMPlay and drag the file into the queue manually. It would also be nice if this worked on multiple files, so I could highlight the ones within a folder that I wanted to hear, queue them, and have them play in order. Thanks.

[SamK]

My recent post "Suggested Additions to XMPlay" (http://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=7438.0) was submitted to an incorrect thread due to unfamiliarity with the site.  I would therefore like to suggest/request the following to be considered for inclusion in the next release.

1.)   An option to automatically remove (upon closing XMPlay) any alterations to the user profile or registry created by XMPlay.  This would return the PC to the condition it was found in before using XMPlay.
Examples might include "Associated filetypes" and "Context menu".

2.)   The ability to drag multiple music files from a file manager (external to XMPlay) and have them added to the currently playing track list by dropping them on the XMPlay icon in the system tray when used with the option "Always in tray".
Possibilities might include:
   a.)   Automatically added to the currently playing track list when dropped
or b.)   Opening a menu on dropping asking whether to add, or replace current list and begin playing
or c.)   Restore the minimized XMPlay window after a configurable period of hovering the cursor over the XMP icon in the system tray, and dropping the selection directly into the track list.

I am not a programmer and therefore am unaware of whether these requests are achievable or the complexity of doing so.

Is a road-map and time-line of future developments available?  I cannot find one but this may say more about my searching ability than anything else.

[Zarggg]

1.)   An option to automatically remove (upon closing XMPlay) any alterations to the user profile or registry created by XMPlay.  This would return the PC to the condition it was found in before using XMPlay.
Examples might include "Associated filetypes" and "Context menu".

I was silent on the actual request before, but now that I think about it... this almost seems like it should be the providence of a third-party application. Such a program could grab the current state of the Registry's settings that XMPlay would change, and then give the option to return them to that state at a later time.

I don't really see a reason why XMPlay itself should have to do this, but a helper program sounds just perfect for it.

[SamK]

I don't really see a reason why XMPlay itself should have to do this, but a helper program sounds just perfect for it.

Thanks for your feedback Zarggg.
My initial thought was also to look for such a third-party application.  I started searching prior to making my original post, and am still looking.  Do you know of such a helper program?

My lack of programming skills limit my options in terms of producing a 'home-made' solution.  An answer is probably easily achievable using a launcher/wrapper such as those used by PortableApps.com (http://portableapps.com).  This manages registry and user profile settings required by an application, and restores the original condition of the PC when the application is closed.  I know that PortableApps.com is about to extend the range of licence types it accepts from strictly GPL to include both freeware and payware.  It might be that someone with greater programming skills than I creates a launcher/wrapper for XMPlay at that juncture.

It's not that I am suggesting that XMPlay "should have to do this" as it is clearly very successful without doing this.  It is rather that the author might want to adopt this in view of the rapid rise in popularity of portable applications.  A change such as this might extend the appeal of XMPlay to a wider and growing user-base.

[Zarggg]

My initial thought was also to look for such a third-party application.  I started searching prior to making my original post, and am still looking.  Do you know of such a helper program?

Unfortunately, I do not.

[amit]

Is it possible to add to the saved settings' file,path,type,preset also replaygain info availability ?

[Brian]

Do you know of such a helper program?

Perhaps you could consider running XMPlay in a sandbox. Users of this program rave about it:

http://www.sandboxie.com/

[samplah!]

I loooove new feature for skins and new skins like Min, showing song title all the time and buttons (play, pause...) when mouse is over.

I'd like to suggest a little little thing about this. what about blinking song title when song is paused??? now i need to move the mouse over XMPlay to know whether it's paused or not.

What do u think guys???

[SamK]

Perhaps you could consider running XMPlay in a sandbox. Users of this program rave about it:

Thanks for the suggestion, Brian.  It seems that Sandboxie needs to be installed on each local PC and therefore cannot be used portably.  Looks to be a very interesting application all the same.

[Brian]

It seems that Sandboxie needs to be installed on each local PC and therefore cannot be used portably.

A guy on the Sandboxie forum is developing a portable version. Go here:

http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=9952#9952