Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
slimkid;199023 Wrote: > looks good. Now, a suggestion for a few luxury items. Lots of people use > Lazy Search plug-in. Looks like that one would require similar change. > Then, make this configurable among other server settings and you are > rocking big time. > > Cheers Thanks for the feedback! 1) I just spent a bit of time hacking the Lazy Search plugin. After a while I tried the original plugin - it already works fine for me, with no modifications at all to the plugin! This is with LazySearch2 v2.3 for slimserver 6.5.x, and the second version of my modified modules. What behaviour are you seeing? 2) Yes, a server-wide option would be good. I don't have time to do this now, but I'll definitely want to add it in. The problem is that I'd probably want to submit it as a patch to the official tree in order to avoid needing to re-write it for different versions. This would therefore require a lot more testing. Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
Hi, looks good. Now, a suggestion for a few luxury items. Lots of people use Lazy Search plug-in. Looks like that one would require similar change. Then, make this configurable among other server settings and you are rocking big time. Cheers -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
slimkid;198711 Wrote: > So, I tried it briefly, and like it so far. Glad to hear it. I'd be interested to know your opinion about doing it with pushModeLeft instead of pushMode. I'm not sure what equals what in terms of "jump back", so I've provided a new set of modules with the relevant changes. I think I prefer things this way but I need time to play with it and get used to it... +---+ |Filename: Favorites.pm | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2742| +---+ -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
Quoting slimkid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So, I tried it briefly, and like it so far. > > Does anybody know how is Perl app packaged for distribution for > Windows; I'd like to be able to build it the same way it is distributed > by Slimdevices. you would need the Active Perl Developers kit from ActiveState.com, which unfortunately costs $245. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
So, I tried it briefly, and like it so far. Does anybody know how is Perl app packaged for distribution for Windows; I'd like to be able to build it the same way it is distributed by Slimdevices. thks -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
As it turns out, the simple modifications above work fine, but they
interfere with adding things to the playlist (it always goes directly
to "now playing", even if you just pressed "add"). So I added in a
couple of "if" statements.
I've attached the modified files; search in them for "bukharin" in
order to see my changes. I suspect there's one more file that needs to
be modified in a similar way ("Buttons/BrowseUPnPMediaServer.pm"), but
I have no way of testing it so I've decided not to touch it.
Again, these files are for the linux slimserver 6.5.1, but probably
work for other operating systems.
I'd be interested to know if anyone finds this works, and if so, if
they find it useful. If so, I may be tempted to add in an option for
this behaviour, and submit the whole thing as a patch.
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Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
OK, I have a provisional, hacked-up solution as follows. For the record,
this is server version 6.5.1 on linux (though I think this code should
be the same for other operating systems..?)
In /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/BrowseDB.pm, lines 155-158 read:
$client->showBriefly({
'line'=> [ $line1, $line2 ],
'overlay' => [ undef,
$client->symbols('notesymbol') ],
});
I commented out those lines and replaced them with this single line:
Slim::Buttons::Common::pushMode($client, 'playlist');
I then did the same thing to /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/BrowseTree.pm
(lines 109-112), and to /opt/slimserver/Slim/Buttons/Favorites.pm (lines
223-225)
Then after restarting slimserver, pressing "play" from browsing either
the database or the music folder, or from favorites, goes directly to
"now playing". Great!
There are many other conditions that could occur other than the 3 I've
covered. So I'll test this out on my system for a while and see if any
bugs appear. However, so far it's working well.
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Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
Hi, I would be veruy interested in the otcome of all this. This is a thing that always bothered me. It just doesn't feel natural the way how it works right now. To me, the best solution would be that as soon as the play is pressed, 'now playing (with jump back)' screen is presented. Actually, when you look carefully the screen, this is what happens for a second, but then there's automatic jump back to the browse screen. So, it might not require awfully lot of change. I'm, wondering if there's a way to achieve that through the .map file for IR. Is it possible to ahve two commands executed for one button press. I tried a few combinations, but doesn't look like I have a right delimiter -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
Thanks kdf. I'm running linux which should simplify things - anything that doesn't work will be my fault, rather than any fault in the perl setup. If I need a hand I'll check out the developers forum. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
On 26-Apr-07, at 7:09 PM, bukharin wrote: > > Oh well indeed. For now I'll just live with it (it's no big deal > obviously - just a niggle). When I get a chance I'll look into the > server code and see how hard it is to modify the behaviour there - > surely it wouldn't require too much hacking... (famous last words) > not much. However, if you are running on windows using the EXE installer then your changes will have no effect. What you can do is go to Activestate.com, download ActivePerl and install that. Then you will be able to run SlimServer using slimserver.pl, which loads modules changes at runtime. To use this as a service, download and install Firedaemon. If you get to the point where you want to tackle this and have any trouble finding the bits you want to change, feel free to ask for assistance in the developers forum. -kdf ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
Oh well indeed. For now I'll just live with it (it's no big deal obviously - just a niggle). When I get a chance I'll look into the server code and see how hard it is to modify the behaviour there - surely it wouldn't require too much hacking... (famous last words) Cheers -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
I think your only choice is to set the screensaver time to something a lot lower than 30 seconds and live with it. There's nothing magic about 30 seconds... I've always used 5 seconds to get pretty much the same behavior - Now Playing almost immediately. You can't set it too low or the remote becomes unusable, as you've observed - either changing brightness or kicking into the idle screensaver. If that's an unacceptably long time to wait, oh well... -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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JJZolx;197791 Wrote: > Also adjust the brightness so that doesn't happen. I considered doing that, but presumably the display would then stay bright the whole time? I like the fact that it dims after 30 seconds - it both looks classy and prolongs the life of the VFD. Swapping one annoyance (needing to press "now playing") for another (needing to press "brightness") doesn't really do it for me - not to mention that it's clearly a workaround... :-) -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Go directly to "Now Playing"?
bukharin;197788 Wrote: > Yes - it means that 1 second after pressing any button, the display goes > dim. This makes browsing the menus very clumsy. Also adjust the brightness so that doesn't happen. -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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Yes - it means that 1 second after pressing any button, the display goes dim. This makes browsing the menus very clumsy. I've also tried setting it to 0, which seems to disable it altogether. -- bukharin bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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have you tried changing the screen saver delay time to somthing like 1 -- vain4 vain4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34795 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
