Re: End of list beep

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
Andrew Hart wrote: Of course, the idea isn't to wait for the beep and go around a second time; the aim is to get close to it on the first pass. The beep is to let you know you've muffed it and also gives you a guide for the second attempt which can be made simply by keeping the button

Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread pondlife
As I see it, the problem is that list entries are never voiced until the button is released (and 0.25 of a second has passed). If list.c is modified so that first and last entries are voiced immediately, I don't think we'd need this beep, right? pondlife

Re: Wavpack Hybrid Decoding Status

2009-06-15 Thread pondlife
Good work! At this point, I'd suggest that you host your patches on Flyspray as that might be higher profile and help you get help (testing and/or developing) for the buffering side of things. pondlife

Re: Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
pondlife wrote: As I see it, the problem is that list entries are never voiced until the button is released (and 0.25 of a second has passed). If list.c is modified so that first and last entries are voiced immediately, I don't think we'd need this beep, right? That's more or less what

Re: Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
alex wallis wrote: Having the beep rather than the speech is more efficient than waiting for two or three letters to be read in a file name. You don't need to wait for two or three letters to be read. The voice won't stop unless it's the last item in the list. A beep is not as intrusive

Re: Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread pondlife
Either way, I think the list should speak the last entry before the button is released. I've put a patch up at FS#10336 and would welcome feedback on what it breaks! pondlife

Re: Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
Paul Louden wrote: alex wallis wrote: Having the beep rather than the speech is more efficient than waiting for two or three letters to be read in a file name. You don't need to wait for two or three letters to be read. The voice won't stop unless it's the last item in the list. Sorry,

Re: Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
alex wallis wrote: Having the beep rather than the speech is more efficient than waiting for two or three letters to be read in a file name. You don't need to wait for two or three letters to be read. The voice won't stop unless it's the last item in the list. A beep is not as

Re: Simpler solution?

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
alex wallis wrote: That is not entirely correct, the file name is read after the beep if you are just going up or down with the joystick with single movements, however if you hold the joystick down in a given direction you just hear the beep. Admittedly it gets played continuously until you

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
snip That's neat. Since the lists are circular, I would never have thought that holding the key down, which normally repeats, would stop at the list ends. It is inconsistent behaviour from a UI design point of view, but a handy feature to have. I never new about it either. If it is in the

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
snip Incidentally, searching for a particular subdirectory/file buried in a directory somewhere is much easier on the iriver H1xx/3xx players with the LCD remote since one of the buttons allows you to skip through the list a bunch of tracks at a time. Could you please tell me how this is

another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
Hi list. I have another suggestion for committal. That is the last two files I uploaded to fs #8006 I like the last version there specifically because not only does it give you a beep when the charger is removed or inserted into the player, but the beep_tune patch means that a short sequence of

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am Mo, 15.06.2009, 13:58, schrieb alex wallis: Hi list. I have another suggestion for committal. That is the last two files I uploaded to fs #8006 I like the last version there specifically because not only does it give you a beep when the charger is removed or inserted into the player, but

Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Lloyd
To add to the beep feature discussion in WM6 when you have lots of contacts and start scrolling through them for a few seconds you get a large letter appear on the screen which you then scroll through the alphabet rather than the contacts. This allows you to jump to the contact beginning with that

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
Am Mo, 15.06.2009, 13:58, schrieb alex wallis: Hi list. I have another suggestion for committal. That is the last two files I uploaded to fs #8006 I like the last version there specifically because not only does it give you a beep when the charger is removed or inserted into the player, but

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
alex wallis wrote: I agree about not over using the beep, however do you really need a huge speech message to tell you either the player is charging or the charger has been disconnected? the beep_tune patch allows a sequence of beeps differing in duration and length to play to give us an

Re: Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
To add to the beep feature discussion in WM6 when you have lots of contacts and start scrolling through them for a few seconds you get a large letter appear on the screen which you then scroll through the alphabet rather than the contacts. This allows you to jump to the contact beginning with

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
alex wallis wrote: I agree about not over using the beep, however do you really need a huge speech message to tell you either the player is charging or the charger has been disconnected? the beep_tune patch allows a sequence of beeps differing in duration and length to play to give us an

Re: Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Gordon
This has been requested many times (in the same vein as being able to jump to the next start letter...) and yes its nice, its not really possible I have an idea how to do it but it wont look nearly as good as it does in WM... 2009/6/15 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com: To add to

Re: Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
This has been requested many times (in the same vein as being able to jump to the next start letter...) and yes its nice, its not really possible I have an idea how to do it but it wont look nearly as good as it does in WM... Why is it not really possible? Even if it doesn't look as good

Re: Wavpack Hybrid Decoding Status

2009-06-15 Thread Mohamed Tarek
Congratulations Bryan ! I think it's going to be relatively easy now to make it work in the sim and continue development from there. -- MT

Re: Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Gordon
2009/6/15 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com: This has been requested many times (in the same vein as being able to jump to the next start letter...) and yes its nice, its not really possible I have an idea how to do it but it wont look nearly as good as it does in WM... Why is

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread pondlife
Barmy idea time! If you'd like beeps rather than spoken announcements, perhaps you could make your own voice file with beeps in...? You could have the whole lot in morse ;-) pondlife

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Bryan Childs
2009/6/15 pondlife pondl...@ntlworld.com Barmy idea time! If you'd like beeps rather than spoken announcements, perhaps you could make your own voice file with beeps in...? You could have the whole lot in morse ;-) What an awesome idea :)

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Hart
alex wallis wrote: [snip] Why don't you enable the dircache option? I find for me at least it means I have a lot fewer disc spin ups, which I like as of course drives are increasingly hard to find these days. Good idea. I had forgotten all about dircache.

Re: Wavpack Hybrid Decoding Status

2009-06-15 Thread Bryan Jacobs
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:57:22 +0300 Mohamed Tarek mtare...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Bryan ! I think it's going to be relatively easy now to make it work in the sim and continue development from there. -- MT Well, ideally I'd like on-target development instead of the sim. My

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
Barmy idea time! If you'd like beeps rather than spoken announcements, perhaps you could make your own voice file with beeps in...? You could have the whole lot in morse ;-) pondlife Lol that's quite funny. Unfortunately I don't no morse, but also I should imagine it would be very

New patch: Add use morse input entry to settings menu

2009-06-15 Thread David Johnston
I just put up a new patch, my first forray into RB development. It's pretty straigtforward, simply adding an entry to the menu system to set whether the user wants to use the morse code input screen rather than the standard one. I think it would be a good addition to the codebase, since it

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Thomas Martitizs0523...@htw-berlin.de wrote: Also, we beep at the end of tracks. I find it not unimaginable at all to also beep at end of lists. We don't. We beep on manual track changes. Not on playlist end or automatic track changes. (At least not on my e200

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Bryan Childsgodea...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/15 Dominik Riebeling dominik.riebel...@gmail.com We don't. We beep on manual track changes. Not on playlist end or automatic track changes. (At least not on my e200 with a current build and Track Skip Beep enabled.)

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread alex wallis
2009/6/15 Dominik Riebeling dominik.riebel...@gmail.com We don't. We beep on manual track changes. Not on playlist end or automatic track changes. (At least not on my e200 with a current build and Track Skip Beep enabled.) I think Thomas means that we *should*, not that we

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread Bryan Childs
2009/6/15 Dominik Riebeling dominik.riebel...@gmail.com We don't. We beep on manual track changes. Not on playlist end or automatic track changes. (At least not on my e200 with a current build and Track Skip Beep enabled.) I think Thomas means that we *should*, not that we do.

Re: committal of patch

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Martitz
Dominik Riebeling schrieb: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Bryan Childsgodea...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/15 Dominik Riebeling dominik.riebel...@gmail.com We don't. We beep on manual track changes. Not on playlist end or automatic track changes. (At least not on my e200 with a current

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Berry
Thomas and Alex, How about this? When the cord is plugged in either via usb or a regular charger the voice say Charging and reads the percentageof the charge. So for instance it would say "Plugged in, charging from 25^%." When you unplug how about just saying "Unplugged." Thomas Martitz

Re: Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Berry
Oh Tom, That rocks man. I love that feature. Scott Thomas Lloyd wrote: To add to the beep feature discussion in WM6 when you have lots of contacts and start scrolling through them for a few seconds you get a large letter appear on the screen which you then scroll through the alphabet rather

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Scott Berry
Hey Paul, True enough. but you have my mind whirling again. How bout an option between voice and beep. So in otherwords it would be cool to have two really high beeps for plug in and one low beep for out. Please refer to my other message for my voice idea. Scott Paul Louden wrote:

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
Scott Berry wrote: True enough. but you have my mind whirling again. How bout an option between voice and beep. So in otherwords it would be cool to have two really high beeps for plug in and one low beep for out. Please refer to my other message for my voice idea. Again, that doesn't

Re: another suggestion for committal

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Martitiz
Am 15.06.2009 23:00, schrieb Scott Berry: Thomas and Alex, How about this? When the cord is plugged in either via usb or a regular charger the voice say Charging and reads the percentageof the charge. So for instance it would say Plugged in, charging from 25^%. When you unplug how about

Re: Wavpack Hybrid Decoding Status

2009-06-15 Thread David Bryant
Hey Bryan, it sounds like things are going well; I can't wait to try some hybrid files on my iRiver! BTW, if you run into any problems or have any questions, please feel free to ask me. It would be silly for you to waste time on something that I [might] be able to clarify in 2 seconds.

For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread David Johnston
Just to make everything totally clear, I'm suggesting this patch to add to SVN. Comments? Or, is there anything else I need to do to make this more likely to happen? -David On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM, David Johnstonda...@pinkandaint.com wrote: I just put up a new patch, my first forray

Re: For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Gordon
2009/6/15 David Johnston da...@pinkandaint.com: Just to make everything totally clear, I'm suggesting this patch to add to SVN.  Comments?  Or, is there anything else I need to do to make this more likely to happen? -David On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM, David Johnstonda...@pinkandaint.com

Re: For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread Paul Louden
David Johnston wrote: Just to make everything totally clear, I'm suggesting this patch to add to SVN. Comments? Or, is there anything else I need to do to make this more likely to happen? 1) Have patience. Submitting a patch to flyspray and mentioning it on this list is all you need to do

Re: End of list beep

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Hart
alex wallis wrote: snip Incidentally, searching for a particular subdirectory/file buried in a directory somewhere is much easier on the iriver H1xx/3xx players with the LCD remote since one of the buttons allows you to skip through the list a bunch of tracks at a time. Could you

State of numerical sorting

2009-06-15 Thread Dominik Riebeling
Hello, as a new release is about to show up the question about this numerical sorting rises again. As far as I can tell nothing happend in that camp: We have no specification about how its supposed to work, no consens upon such a specification and therefore also no verification if the

Re: Advanced Solution

2009-06-15 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Scott Berryscottbb1...@gmail.com wrote: Oh Tom, That rocks man.  I love that feature. please do not top-post to this list as per list etiquette. - Dominik

Re: For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread David Johnston
2) Please, do not top post. Sorry about that. Just trying to be clear about my intention. All is clear now, though. Thanks! -David

Re: State of numerical sorting

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Martitz
Dominik Riebeling schrieb: Hello, as a new release is about to show up the question about this numerical sorting rises again. As far as I can tell nothing happend in that camp: We have no specification about how its supposed to work, no consens upon such a specification and therefore also no

Re: For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread XavierGr
2009/6/16 David Johnston da...@pinkandaint.com 2) Please, do not top post. Sorry about that. Just trying to be clear about my intention. All is clear now, though. Thanks! -David Also, as I mentioned in the tracker, it would help if you could upload the said patch. It seems to me that

Re: For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Martitz
David Johnston schrieb: Just to make everything totally clear, I'm suggesting this patch to add to SVN. Comments? Or, is there anything else I need to do to make this more likely to happen? -David For one thing, you need to give us some time to look at it :) Best regards.

FS#10335: End of playlist sample loss - Bug fix posted

2009-06-15 Thread Jeff Goode
Hi, I just posted a bug fix for FS#10335. Please take a look and give feedback. Thanks, Jeff

Re: FS#10324: WAV file output

2009-06-15 Thread Jeff Goode
Now that the bug at FS#10335 is fixed, the --debugaudio switch works as intended, and my wavwrite patch isn't needed. However, please consider committing my tweak to the simulator sound.c file located in the FS#10324 comments. Thanks, Jeff Jeff Goode wrote: Hi RB dev team, I added a

Re: For committal: morse menu patch

2009-06-15 Thread David Johnston
Also, as I mentioned in the tracker, it would help if you could upload the said patch. It seems to me that you forgot it. (or my eye sight is playing tricks on me) Oops. I could have sworn I had attached the file. Well, I just attached it for real, so feel free to try it out if you have the