>>>>> "JAG" == J A Gardiner writes: JAG> Dear reader, I just wanted to communicate what for me, would be JAG> great additional features for the Rhythmbox media client:
A few of these are outstanding feature requests that have been made many times and/or are already in released versions, or are long standing feature requests in Bugzilla already, awaiting eager programmers. ;) Bugzilla is your friend... JAG> 1. Fade-in / fade-out track transition effect - namely, five JAG> second fade-in / fade-out transition effect between tracks. Long-standing known request: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130426 JAG> 2. With regards to podcast feeds, an option within the JAG> 'Preferences->Podcasts' menu to have Rhythmbox retrieve any JAG> available podcasts (immediately) on program start. JAG> 3. Also within the 'Preferences->Podcasts' menu, an option to JAG> keep only the latest, single podcast per each feed, i.e. download JAG> only the latest podcast, while having the program delete the old JAG> podcast as the new one has been downloaded. JAG> 4. The option to re-download a podcast JAG> (right-click->'Re-download'). JAG> 5. An option within the 'Preferences->General' menu to have JAG> Rhythmbox run minimised to the notification area / system tray on JAG> OS startup. On these podcast features, please look in Bugzilla to see if there aren't already similar bugs, if not, please file it. JAG> 6. The addition of a 'Now Playing' sidebar (instead of, or in JAG> addition to the 'Queue' sidebar) whereby only songs on this now JAG> playing list are played and will be repeated. (As it is, songs on JAG> the queue list are played once and then playback begins at the JAG> next track in the library). JAG> 7. In-built ID3 tag support. If you mean tag writing, then this is enabled by default in 0.9.6 and later. You need to have gstreamer-plugins-good >= 0.10.4 to make good use of it, however. JAG> 8. Option within the 'Music' menu to open/play the disc within JAG> your CD-Rom drive (in the event that it has not been JAG> automatically detected, e.g. it may be a CD-R/RW with no JAG> auto-start). What's wrong with simply selecting the CD source and double-clicking that? JAG> 9. Addition of a 'Stop' button on the toolbar / within the JAG> 'Control' menu. This has been discussed many times before, I think the consensus has been that no stop button is required. JAG> I have also come across the following few bugs: JAG> 1. Some podcast feeds remain at "Waiting" and subsequently are JAG> not downloaded. JAG> 2. When tracks are imported on program startup from the specified JAG> watched Library folder, often the scroll bar for the main browser JAG> window is not (initially) at the top (i.e. the first track at the JAG> top of the window that is displayed is not the first track within JAG> your library). I've noticed that. Not sure if there is an open bug on that. JAG> 3. Within the podcast browser window, the width of the individual JAG> columns fail to remain at customised widths on restart of the JAG> program. Ditto. The podcast component of rhythmbox probably needs the most love right now. JAG> I hope that this information will be helpful for you in making JAG> decisions about improvements to the player and with regards to JAG> future releases / updates. What's more, I offer the above JAG> suggestions aware that arguably the biggest asset of the JAG> Rhythmbox media client is its simplicity and practicality. Even JAG> still, I think these additional features would only make the JAG> player even more practical/complete for the everyday user. Alex _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
