Jonnio;351013 Wrote: > I could see something like this picture > > http://kupuk.com/media/Zones/zones10.jpg > > Where you have as many zones as you have players, but then you can use > the wheel to scroll down to a player, center click on it, and then > "drag" it up to another zone. > > Should be much more intuitive than the current setup.
I like that. That would also work well in the web interface and could use drag-n-drop there too. I really like the idea of having zones (or "groups") of players that could contain just a single player. And I think you should be able to have groups with no players. The player group would then own the playlist, not the player. You could even make creative use of this to build playlists "offline", then move players into the group. The idea of a sync "direction" is eliminated. A player simply joins or leaves a group - wherever that command is initiated doesn't matter. It's only in the remote UI that the idea of "pulling" a player into the current group has any meaning, and if you were to put enough work into the interface, it could even be designed to allow users to control sync of any player on the server, moving them in or out of any group, just as on the Controller and in the web interface. There may even be something of an advantage if you didn't have named groups, and instead just used the generic naming of "Group 1..N". Then the semantics of the zone names don't bother people. Having the two upstairs players synced within the "Downstairs" zone would drive many users buggy. It they're in the generically named "Group 1" then it won't matter. What you could do if you just wanted a player to "leave" a sync group, without specifying a new group to join, is to move the player into the first empty group in the list. There would be as many groups as there are players. A player or server option could state whether or not a player takes (copies) its current playlist with it when it leaves a sync group. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53404 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
