Thread: sort options

Also, any list that is greater than say 100 items should be indexed by letter.

Example: I am in Genre1 mode and have my 20 Genres listed. I click "Rock". There are more than 100 Artists in "Rock", so I now have a list reading A-Artists, B-Artists, C-Artists, etc. I click "N-Artists" and see a list of all "Rock" artists that begin with the letter "N". I click on "Nine-Inch-Nails" and get an alphebetical listing of songs with Artist-Tag="Nine inch nails" and Genre-Tag="Rock".

If I play a song and decied I want to listen to the whole album in album order, all I have to do is change to Album1 or Album2 mode. I will see a list of all the songs on the album of the currently playing song, with the current one highlighted, and I am all set up to hear the next track of the album once the current song is over.

If I back up one level, I would see a list of all my NIN albums (if in Album1) or all albums begining with the letter "N" (if in Album2) and the currently playing NIN album would be highlighted.


This would allow multiple ways to get to any song quickly using only Up, Down, Enter, Escape, and Mode-Change buttons. Plus it allows you to queue up a non pre-made playlist (be it an album, artist, genre, or directory) fairly quickly.

It would also be nice to have text-to-speech on the highlight every time I press Up or Down on the remote (hot-key). This way I can easily navigate my entire music collection using only my steering wheel controls and without ever having to take my eyes off the road to look at the screen.

Froto's text-to-speech is not that usful since it only announces the title when you play a song, not when you are searching for one (or at least that's how it worked the last time I tried it [which was just before the CF 1.2 release]).

I do not want text-to-speech for a next-track press or after an end-of-track (or when using the touch-screen), only when using the up/down hot-keys.

Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

Example: I am in Genre1 mode and have my 20 Genres listed. I click "Rock". There are more than 100 Artists in "Rock", so I now have a list reading A-Artists, B-Artists, C-Artists, etc.

Note: If I hold "Rock" (instead of clicking it), it should queue up all the "Rock" songs and begin playing the first one.

Expanding: If I hold an Artist name in Artist mode, it should queue up all the songs by that artist in alpha-title order. If I hold an Artist name in Album1 mode, it should queue up all the songs by that artist in alpha-Album / Track # order.

Whenever you "queue something up" it should display the full list (without letter indexing).