Phil Meyer;250943 Wrote: > My most frequent use for fast-forwarding is when I am listening to > podcasts that I have downloaded and scanned into my music library. For > example, Coverville. An episode of this podcast generally lasts 30mins > to an hour. When I hear a bad song, I want to skip forward to the > next. With no audio feedback, I would not know when to stop > fast-forwarding. I'd have to look at the current playtime, > fast-forward a bit, stop, listen and then fast-forward or rewind a bit. > With an automatic acceleration in the FF/REW speed, this would be even > worse. The functionality would be totally useless. > > I think some form of audio feedback is essential, and in my opinion > expected by those who are not techically aware - those that are moving > from CD playback.
How would you feel about DVR-like behavior? Press Fwd once and you jump ~30 seconds ahead (rough computation based on file size if not natively supported format?), pres Rew once and you jump ~10 seconds back. The UI should let users choose different Fwd and Rew jump amounts. Perhaps even better -- momentary presses would have that DVR-like behavior, and held presses would have Alan's proposed behavior. > I also use KDF's Scanner plugin, so > I have the best of both worlds. This is useful for long tracks, when I > do know where I want to jump to, as it is quicker than fast-forwarding. > However, I think this is the less-likely scenario. I can't think of > many times when I have specifically needed to jump to a known position > in a song I use my Squeezeboxes and a RadioShark AM/FM capture device to "time shift" radio programs. Often I have to stop playing a program mid-way. I use SongScanner to resume playback in these cases (I'd like to have something like MythTV's "saved position" functionality.) -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41235 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
