New Features Progress Update

**reddeath30** · 08-25-2005, 05:47 PM

I dont mind you bringing up all of this. I appreciate people making sure the programs works. This will also help people to know how the program works too. It helps me develop the program better and see what people are having a hard time with so I can make it better. Keep it up!

When you have shuffle selected, the button is lit right(just checking)? I made sure that it worked on my development machine and I just checked it on my home machine too and its working ok. Its strange that you are having this problem.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I know that sometimes it will shuffle in the very next song and seem like its not working, then it will jump 5 or 6 songs away, or even 3 or 4 songs in a row is also possible. The next and previous buttons dont shuffle even when its selected by the way, is this how it is happening maybe? Tell you what; can you tell me exactly what your doing, and what is pressed, etc. The more details I can get, maybe I can determine what is going wrong, or what is causing it on your system. Let me know. Thanks.

**GreenBeast** · 08-26-2005, 07:29 AM

right ok. its cos i was testing it with the next and previous buttons.

it does work when i leave it to play

how come it doesn't work when you skip then?

**reddeath30** · 08-26-2005, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by GreenBeast

right ok. its cos i was testing it with the next and previous buttons.

it does work when i leave it to play

how come it doesn't work when you skip then?

Hmm.. didnt think of it I guess. I could add it quite easily, in fact it would only take a couple lines of code to add. Look for it in the next release along with the add directory button in the playlist module. Thanks again for all your work in testing it out.

**GreenBeast** · 08-26-2005, 09:12 AM

thats great thanks!
it will enable me to have a decent variety of music with out having to pre-arrange things or look at the screen

no probs. imho its the best one out there
it has all the features i need and thanks to the feedback/support cycle we've got it has all the functionality i need to, well apart from the odd thing

**reddeath30** · 08-26-2005, 10:17 AM

The shuffle code that I am using makes the selections totally random, therefore, unfortunately if you hit previous or next track buttons it will just randomly choose a song and not identify it as previous or next.

**Gixxer** · 08-26-2005, 10:28 AM

I've got to give it to reddeath. I have never seen support like You give.

**GreenBeast** · 08-26-2005, 11:40 AM

you say it randomly chooses a song when you hit the skip buttons? thats what i want but it doesn't work

**reddeath30** · 08-26-2005, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by GreenBeast

you say it randomly chooses a song when you hit the skip buttons? thats what i want but it doesn't work

Sorry, The code that I just added just skips randomly around with no rhyme or reason weather you hit the previous or next track buttons.

**GreenBeast** · 08-26-2005, 12:42 PM

right ok. that sounds pretty cool.

**GreenBeast** · 08-28-2005, 03:14 PM

thought of a cool new feature you could add...its only a small thing but i discovered its usefullness while having to use media player when i drove around today...

a volume bar, it doesn't have to be massive but i thought it could go above the track title bar (between the two volume buttons), or even behind it (the writing could sit on top of it)
it would allow you to jump to any volume in the range without having to scroll up and down (although the speed of that is much better than version 1 anyway)

what do you think?