CENTRAFUSE BETA [1.5] Requests - Page 4

tj!2k4 · 11-02-2005, 08:47 AM

Quote: 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!

press the lower left song display area to cycle through album art/visusalization

coucouillu · 11-02-2005, 01:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by tj!2k4

press the lower left song display area to cycle through album art/visusalization

Yeah thank you.
Great!

Could some one give a link (if it exists) for the centrafuse manual

TheKingPlaza · 11-02-2005, 01:46 PM

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!!

veetid · 11-02-2005, 02:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by alti

Is it possible to offer the user a choice of whether pressing on the top bar with the song info opens the quick media window or if it enlarges the enbeded \ plugin window? The new way of enlarging the window is a very small area and is distracing to press while driving. This was one of my favorite and most used features of CF, now half the time i miss or press to far over and the window dissapears alltogether, which is annoying when you are tring to enlarge the window quickly to better see a turn on the GPS screen you are about to come up on.

it is being redesigned and will be much easier to press... I made those top bars way too small....

There is a complete new skin in the works that is going to be amazing, trust me...

note: my partner/designer made this first skin layout without a 7" touchscreen or having ever used a carputer... he has both now...

david

veetid · 11-02-2005, 02:03 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by coucouillu

I would suggest something about MUSIC MANAGER:

In my case, some of mp3's have not their ID TAG filled.

So sometimes I am in the case that Music manager don't find an mp3 althought the song is on HDD.

So i suggest to add a boutton "File name" which couls search in the full file name in the case that there is no found in "artist", "album" or "song" mode. (because of ID TAG not filled for exemple)

The inconvienient is a supplementary field in music database (main.dat) and perhaps longer music database bulding.

David what do you think about that?

will do... I needed something to fill that space for one more button

RPM_VR4 · 11-02-2005, 02:03 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, 02:04 PM

Quote: 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, 02:09 PM

Quote: 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, 02:19 PM

And the abilitty to add new visualizations?

PURDooM · 11-02-2005, 10:35 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, 10:40 PM

^^

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

PURDooM · 11-02-2005, 11:02 PM

Quote: 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, 12:32 AM

Quote: 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, 01:06 AM

Quote: 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, 01:37 AM

Quote: 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