Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW
Like I said a few pages earlier, this "problem" has been "fixed" by the plugins SongScanner/Looper and the clickable progress bar in the Fishbone skin. Hooray for the plugin programmers, and hooray for Sean for having the wisdom and foresight to make this an open source platform! And Sean seems to be exceptionally in tune with the end users of his product. The system just keeps getting better and better, and I expect this will continue. Of course with such a dynamically developing system, any printed manual is destined to be out of date before it's even printed. I expect that the Wiki and online documentation will mature and take care of most of this, but the fact that the system is currently pretty geeky and the development decentralized, it's going to be hard to find all the information one might need in one place and clearly organized. I'm sure Logitech will be struggling with this as they go forward in trying to make this appeal more to the typical non-geeky consumer. It will be interesting to see what Slim v7 and Jive will bring us. -- bephillips More than 35611 songs on 2849 albums by 2050 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36446 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW
amey01;213645 Wrote: > all I need is a way to move around songs So until slimdevices improves this, you should try the SongScanner plugin, seems to be working great for me, provides just this functionality. I'm having some trouble remapping it to the ff/rw button hold, but this should be possible. You can also get to it pretty quickly by moving it to the top level of menus in the player settings. -- bephillips More than 33159 songs on 3246 albums by 2029 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36446 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW
Sweet, there it is. All the info in my signature is up to date. Upgraded from 6.5.1 fairly recently. I thought I had clicked up there a few times and had no response, but I now think that was just because of the coarseness of the control. KDF himself told me it was a 7.0 feature. Very cool. This with Song/LoopScanner goes a long way towards what I'd like to ultimately see. Now I think the progress bar needs to be just a little thicker for easier clicking, maybe I can mod that myself. I've been meaning to play with colors in Fishbone anyway. I bet a lot of the people complaining about ff/rw might not know about this. Why isn't Fishbone the default skin anyway? -- bephillips More than 33159 songs on 3246 albums by 2029 artists. Mostly flac, some mp3. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36446 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW
I'm still in 6.5, no clicking in the progress bar yet for me. I'm glad to hear that it's coming. -- bephillips More than 33159 songs on 3246 albums by 2029 artists. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM http://db.etree.org/bephillips bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36446 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Here is why no FF/RW
Thanks for the very clear explanation, Sean. And as this is the first I've replied to one of your posts, thanks so much for the Slimserver & SB3. Best tech purchase since I don't know when. After a year, my extensive collection is almost all organized and tagged up. It's been a huge project, but so rewarding, I'm rediscovering my collection, music listening is way up and TV viewing is way down. I feel smarter already. WRT ff/rw, I have also been unsatisfied with the current implementation. I just installed SongScanner and SongLoop (I'm a musician, so the ability to loop a passage of music for study is very useful). Integration of these plugins might be the way to go, they do what I want, I don't usually need to hear what I'm ff or rw. The main problem with songscanner is the number of button presses required to get where you want, even though I've placed it in the top level of the player menus. I'd like: A clickable progress bar in the browser UI, that skips to the position in the track clicked on. In the remote control interface, if not separating the buttons for ff/rw from track skip, when ff/rw is held down, a progress bar appears on the SB# screen indicating the position, and then plays at that position when released. There could be a setting to choose whether the progress bar would appear, or as SongScanner does now, a time indicator, or an option for the way it works now for those who prefer or have grown used to this. Being able to play loops out of the box would be good too. Something like SongLoop now does, perhaps with a loop button in the browser UI that pops up a dialog to enter the start and end times with a cancel button. (Changes along these lines, and a default skin something like the tan Fishbone skin with the addition of drag and drop in playlists like in SlimFX, and I'll be a perfectly satisfied customer, instead of only 99.99% now) Thanks again for the fantastic and ever improving product (how many companies can say that?) Keep up the great work! Brad http://db.etree.org/bephillips -- bephillips More than 33159 songs on 3246 albums by 2029 artists. SlimServer Version: 6.5.3 - 12361 - Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R218) - EN - utf8 Server IP address: 10.0.1.6 Perl Version: 5.8.6 darwin-thread-multi-2level MySQL Version: 5.0.22-standard On a 1.2GHz G4 Mac iBook with 768MB RAM bephillips's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36446 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
