CENTRAFUSE BETA [1.5] Requests

**RPM_VR4** · 11-02-2005, 03:03 PM

I'm still kinda trying to figure this new stuff out, but with the multiple playlist thing (clicking the HDD icon) and the Quick Library thing, the media manager is even more Album centric then ever. It just doesn't make sense at all if your entire collection is composed of downloads rather than rips (plus it really sucks that I still don't get album art since I have ID3 art rather than folder.jpg).

90% of my "Albums" only contain one song. The other 9% contain 2-3 songs. The last 1% has maybe 5 songs on average and I think I only have one complete album in my 5000+ song collection. I do not organize my collection in album directories, only artist directories. I do not want the same album art for every song by an artist, so I have album-art embedded in ID3 on a per song basis. I want all my music sorted by Artist-Title, not Artist-Album-Track#.

Will CF ever accomodate my library/listening style?

**veetid** · 11-02-2005, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by coucouillu

Why visuals don't work in fullsreen?
Is it normal or a bug?
In the previous version, visuals were enabled in fulscreen , with 1.5 now , only album cover is available!

I made the mini and fullscreen vis be able to be seperate... when in fullscreen click the info bar and it will toggle between the visuals... when you click the main vis and go back to CF, your mini will still be at whatever vis it was before...

david

**veetid** · 11-02-2005, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

I'm still kinda trying to figure this new stuff out, but with the multiple playlist thing (clicking the HDD icon) and the Quick Library thing, the media manager is even more Album centric then ever. It just doesn't make sense at all if your entire collection is composed of downloads rather than rips (plus it really sucks that I still don't get album art since I have ID3 art rather than folder.jpg).

90% of my "Albums" only contain one song. The other 9% contain 2-3 songs. The last 1% has maybe 5 songs on average and I think I only have one complete album in my 5000+ song collection. I do not organize my collection in album directories, only artist directories. I do not want the same album art for every song by an artist, so I have album-art embedded in ID3 on a per song basis. I want all my music sorted by Artist-Title, not Artist-Album-Track#.

Will CF ever accomodate my library/listening style?

I do plan to add support to read art from the file, it's on my list of things to do next go around for sure...

david

**replicant** · 11-02-2005, 03:19 PM

And the abilitty to add new visualizations?

**PURDooM** · 11-02-2005, 11:35 PM

2 questions:

- Is there a way to get rid of the external application title bar?
- Whats the recomended way to invoke fullscreen in this version?

**tj!2k4** · 11-02-2005, 11:40 PM

^^

- no, and;
- it's in that application title bar

**PURDooM** · 11-03-2005, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by tj!2k4

^^

- no, and;
- it's in that application title bar

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iGmod looks like crap when it embeds. And thats a pretty small spot to press for touchscreen.

1.4:
http://img48.exs.cx/img48/723/7mainshowcase29uo.jpg

1.5:
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/152/150uk.jpg
http://img271.imageshack.us/img271/6007/156xp.jpg - wasted space

The problem is more apparent with open menus, nothing is sized right. And the visible space is actually smaller. I suppose my request is to have the old look for embedding back (optional header, nice large fullscreen button)

**veetid** · 11-03-2005, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by PURDooM

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iGmod looks like crap when it embeds. And thats a pretty small spot to press for touchscreen.

1.4:
http://img48.exs.cx/img48/723/7mainshowcase29uo.jpg

1.5:
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/152/150uk.jpg
http://img271.imageshack.us/img271/6007/156xp.jpg - wasted space

The problem is more apparent with open menus, nothing is sized right. And the visible space is actually smaller. I suppose my request is to have the old look for embedding back (optional header, nice large fullscreen button)

the header was made a little too small, but there is a bug... the header and size area is not suppose to look like it does in your screen shots... I am looking into it... something is going wrong when the resolution is not native...

david

**Zerach** · 11-03-2005, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by TheKingPlaza

The only thing I miss is a skin editor. I think centrafuse has it all.. it's just the layout that not suites me.. Have take a look at the skin.xml. It's not so hard I think but too much work to make your own skin.

Yeah a skin editor would be nice!!

I'm on it!

I've taken it apon myself to develope one for this version of CF. It'll take some time but expect good things. I noticed this great front end is lacking in skins and I think it's to do with the complexity of creating a skin, rather than having good artists using CF. So I've tasked myself with making it easier than it is right now to develop test and implement a skin.

Cheers,

Zerach

**veetid** · 11-03-2005, 02:37 AM

Originally Posted by Zerach

I'm on it!

I've taken it apon myself to develope one for this version of CF. It'll take some time but expect good things. I noticed this great front end is lacking in skins and I think it's to do with the complexity of creating a skin, rather than having good artists using CF. So I've tasked myself with making it easier than it is right now to develop test and implement a skin.

Cheers,

Zerach

you rock.... once the base gets stable then the main skins will not have to be changed... just new plugins and plugin updates will have to be reskinned...

david