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[Greebo]

Well.

That pretty much summed it all up for me.

[Pike84]

What's this? Couldn't you find a "Suggestions"-thread any older than this :laugh:?

Anyway, an interesting idea, samsped, although I have no use for it myself .

[Lyx]

well, i'm an ex-xmplay user, but here is my suggestion, which is also the may reason why i switched to foobar:

Sooner or later (sooner would be better) i think a redesign of the GUI is neccessary(yep, it would break all skins).

The current horizontal drawers idea doesn't work IMHO.

Here's my idea of how to redesign the GUI:

No more horizontal drawers.

ONE vertical drawer(either upwards or downwards/option in preferences) which is vertically resizable. This drawer could have a dropdown menu somewhere where you can switch between different modes(playlist, output, plug(ged)in-modes, etc.).

Well, thats about it already. Simply but IMHO working solution: one vertically resizable drawer upwards/downwards for everything.

- Lyx

(still using MO3 for modules, using the bass-plugin for foobar - so i'm not completely away from un4seen.com :)

[Vesh]

u st00p1d l4mR! h0zironal dr4wyars r4wx!!!!!!!! GO F URsLEF ..,,.,,HARD!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

Heh. Kidding!

Heh, trust me, this is obvious. Actually *eyes Ian with laser beams* the bottom portion of the old default skin was supposed to be an expandable playlist, but something must've gotten lost in the US-to-Brit translation.  >=]

BUT, luckily, we're a little ahead of you. I'm sure all the skin-whores around here are doing the same thing I am - making a possible 3.0 default.  =P

[Pike84]

Hmm.. I don't really see the horizontal drawers a problem, since I don't much use them anymore. See, the drawers can't actually be any major issue, because they aren't needed for any function; the playlist is conveniently big in the info window and options have their own dialog now.

But anyway, I had a little suggestion of my own: A playing history, that would show something like 10-20 last played tracks. This would be good for those of us, who like big playlists with 'random play order' checked - sometimes you'd like to know what has been played recently .

[quark]

Btw, @Ian: I noticed that the XMP-Icon is 64x64 pixels - may I tell you that the biggest "legal" icon format is 48x48 (24bit)?

That's wrong. Windows XP, in "Thumbnail View", supports up to 72x72 pixels icons. The icon-file should therefore have the following formats: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and 72x72. Also, each format should have both 256 color and "Windows XP color" (almost the same as true color) versions.

The current icon is imho not good enough.

[quark]

I also find the playlist window to not be good enough. I would like it to be a seperate window which can be fully navigated by the keyboard. I don't care much about searchability and other options, I just want the window to be more managable.

Thanks.

[Vesh]

Done.

I've hacked into your system and changed all instances of xmplay on your harddrives to support this feature. Oh, btw while I was playin around I also gave you Sobig, Nimda, Blast (and re-enabled RPC DCOM and unblocked all the relevant ports), and also 3 of my favorite boot sector and bios-resident viruses [xortam7 (bios), quatloo (hd) and mcbain (hd)]. Dont try to run any antivirus though because I've also added a sweet little sub to your kernel that can detect every known virus scanner program known to myself (and this includes all non-American/non-English programs, too, so dont even try it) and will automatically fdisk all your partitions and write to your bios a tiny routine to do nothing but play the Digimon theme in loop while spinning down your fans and burning up your processor.

So, I guess in order to keep your system safe you'll have to RTFM. Which stands for: Rotate The Fans Manually.

Have a good one!

[Pike84]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Ok.. So, not to be overly rude and to ensure that things get understood: Vesh is saying that you should Read The F*cking Manual and learn that the playlist is already very managable via keyboard. So it'd be best to check xmplay.txt before posting suggestions .

Oh, and I'm not really sure if you already knew (your post seemed to hint at 'not' ), but the info window works as a separate playlist, that's resizable and all.

[Vesh]

So, not to be overly rude and to ensure that things get understood...

Nuttin rude about it. Actually, I thank you for taking the time to explain it as I kinda forgot to, myself.

[Ralesk]

On that...  it seems that when I add something to the playlist, unless I scroll it around manually, hover it, etc. it won't update in 2.8.x

[Pike84]

I'm not having this problem.. How are you adding the files?

[Ralesk]

Staying faithful to myself, with dragon droppings :laugh:

[Jace]

Same issue here, when (for example) I have the big playlist open, and I shuffle the playlist, it won't update until hovered over, scrolled or resized the window.

(One minute later: )
Hmm.. After fiddling around, I noticed that when a song is playing, it updates the playlist properly when shuffling, but when the music is stopped or unloaded, it doesn't update it without the previously mentioned actions.

Plus, when there is no music on, and I shuffle from big playlist, the small playlist window updates automatically, leaving the big playlist without any changes. And when sending the shuffle command from the small playlist, the big playlist updates without any further notice, leaving the small playlist without updates. (Sounds weird to me too, but that's how it seems to work.)

Oh, I'm on WinXP machine, as that probably counts

[Twilight_Terror]

link=board=xmplay&num=999738267&start=0#5 date=11/04/01 at 16:01:49]
  2. I have about 2Gb of Live Mixes in MP3, which, the smallest is 50Mb, and the biggest, 220Mb. Did you ever thought that files this big could exist? If you did, I cannot understand how did you decide to load the whole .mp3 file into memory.

Oh man! I do have a request. This would make a great option, because when downloading mp3s you obviously can't stream them when it wants to change filename from incomplete to complete. Thats a problem in most cases. So in memory is good, however file streaming would be better...

And of course I'm just going off the assumption that this quote is true.

[Pike84]

I don't understand, how you people have that dragg'n'drop/shuffle problem, since I'm also using the same platform (as Jace at least).. I seem to remember this issue some times back, so I'd have assumed it's gone already .

And of course I'm just going off the assumption that this quote is true.

Ouch.. This is the problem with a "suggestions" thread this old . See, the quote you picked is almost two years old, and although I'm not even sure about how the mp3s are exactly handled these days, I'm sure the issue is solved already.

[Sajadi]

Hi

Support for new Trackerformats like Renoise were useful too

[Jace]

Minor suggestion, occured to me when fiddling around:
OR function support for Find Tracks? =)
As in, find songs with 'Green' OR 'Blue' on their artist/song names

[Pike84]

Yea, why not .

[edit]Hmm, now that I think of it, this would actually have little use; because the results are visible immediately, it's easy and fast to just search again for more results .

[Jace]

That too, but if you like to use it for playing a certain band only on a huuuge playlist which takes aaages to load, and if you feel like adding another band in too..