LightningMac

one thing I noticed, didn't know if you meant for it to do this:

If you hit pause and then again hit the pause button again... works great.

BUT if you hit pause and then hit play to start the song again, it takes you back to the first song in your playlist, it does not start the song you have paused...

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aychamo

Can you post a screenshot of it?

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elcapitan

Here u go, this one is from the 8 mile soundtrack.

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snoe

Wow this looks really really great, I'll have to try this out!

One suggestion; you mention that amp isn't too smart in figuring out The beatles vs The Beatles. Something I've used in the past is when you import the songs, temporarily uppercase the album, artist and title.

aychamo

Yeah, it's a design compromise. What if you were looking at your songs, and hit pause, and then backed out of a menu and wanted to get back to another list of songs, you couldn't because when you hit play it would unpause the music instead of going into the menu. Due to the importance of the play button, I think it's best to leave pause all on it's on.

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aychamo

All of those artist tags are different. AMP sorts hierarchically from Album -> Artist -> Songname.

AMP sees it as:
Artist: Eminem; Album: 8 Mile Soundtrack
Artist: Macy Gray; Album: 8 Mile Soundtrack

So it sees "8 Mile Soundtrack" as a unique Album for Enimen. And it sees "8 Mile Soundtrack" as a unique Album for Macy Gray.

This is necessary, because suppose you had the following:

Artist: The Rolling Stones; Album: Greatest Hits
Artist: The Doors; Album: Greatist Hits

If AMP grouped matching album names, then while it would work for the "8 Mile Soundtrack", it would screw up the listings for The Rolling Stones and The Doors.

This is a "limitation" of both AMP and iTunes (except iTunes has a view where it lumps all the same album names together, which would still fail for the Rolling Stones & Doors example above)

I had this problem a long time ago, with iTunes. I solved it like this, for Soundtracks.

Say the original Artist: Album: Song was:
The Shins : Garden State Soundtrack : New Slang

I changed it to:
Soundtracks: Garden State Soundtrack: The Shings - New Slang

So the "artist" tag is "Soundtracks" (and thus all of my soundstracks for movies are with this artist tag.) And the name of the soundtrack was the "album" tag. And then the artist - songname is the "song name" tag.

So I'll have like:

Artist: Soundtracks; Album: Garden State Soundtrack; Song:The Shins - New Slang
Artist: Soundtracks; Album: Garden State Soundtrack; Song: Coldplay - Dont Panic
...
Artist: Soundtracks; Album: The Life Aquatic; Song: Devo - Gut Feeling
... etc

It works really well for me, in both iTunes and AMP.

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aychamo

Just a note, I put a little drop shadow on the volume & shuffle icons. It's not uploaded yet, but just so you know, it's noted and will be in the next update.

Any ideas for the radioSHARK menu? With the FM button, etc.. (Looks like *** just sitting there, off center, etc)

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aychamo

That will be in three years then, lol!


The first two are in now. (Unless I'm mistaken on what you mean by one click to play a song). The third is there now, minus genre. And shuffleis in there now too, by album or playlist (not genre yet though).


The bar is now the only pageup/pagedown buttons on the page with a home/end on the tips. It feels a little weird at first, but you get used to it. I had to do what would be best for a touchscreen. I have no idea bout the speed increase thing.

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aychamo

Hey, anyone with a Griffen Powermate or whatever that knob thing is. Any feedback on how that works with AMP?

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LightningMac

I have a Powermate, I'll try it out and let you know...

LightningMac

how about this button maker? it says it's freeware

http://www.tucows.com/preview/203914

aychamo

Which buttons is it that you think need to be replaced?

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LightningMac

just the controls being made into buttons... just an idea, here's button I made in less than a minute with the program mentioned above:

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raceer

One thing to keep in mind is that these controls are also at times overlayed over the screen (like volume, video player controls, etc).

If these are changed to buttons as above this would make this inconsistent. If the overlays are also buttons as above it would not improve the look if thats what u r after).

The current controls are crisp and easily readable/useable thereby improving usability. Aditionally by taking up less real estate more "white space" can be used...remember the environment this is being used in.

Don't get me wrong I personally like the aqua look and while the controls could be made as above in the current format and env, think this is not suitable.

my 2c (less with inflation)

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LightningMac

I think it looks better and would make the play function and others more visible while driving...

It's pretty... let's try it

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