I've been using RR for a week now. Really nice piece of work, but my listening style did not match with the way RR handles the songs etc and it was not as responsive as i have wished for.
I also don't need the other stuff at the moment.
So I spent this weekend doing my own thing.
Winamp in it's newest version is too slow imo, so i've used wmp 10.
The response of the program is really snappy and ui is also fast. I have about 60000 songs in my playlist
Total skinnability probably won't be available, but colour schemes and background and button pictures will become an option if someone wants to use this. But I do have a job and it will take a day or two to get to it. If i do it, i will probably put in the option to specify one colour scheme and pictures for the day and one for the night etc (you know what i mean).
I will 1st focus on major bugs (1 or 2 i know of) then stuff will be added as i get the hardware and the need for it. Probably in this order - phone support, equilizer, voice recognition, tv tuner, gps, obd etc.
steps to get it started
put the file in your folder you want it to be
open it
click load files
click add folder and add all the folders you want to add (this folders you add will be kept there) if it is tenths thousands of files you might experience a 10 second lag.
click on the folder, the subdirectories will open underneath it an the files on the right
then you click select all and enqueue or play selected. note select all is not necessary it will automatically select all if none selected. to multiple select a few of them you use ctrl key
youll probably wont have keyboard.
(You will also notice a search all folders button at the top. that will open a winamp jump to type box with on screen keyboard. if from the search all folders screen it will list all your songs and movies in all the folders and subfolders youve added. the you may filter out a select few by using the keyboard on screen or just click on one to add all to your playlist. it will start at the selected one.)
now you after that first step you will be back at the main screen left to right top to bottom you have -
Visualization or small movie screen (click once to either full screen or back
to small)
Playlist management buttons
Load files
Search - there you may go to a selected song, works the same as
winamp's jump to.
Filters for music only or videos only press the filter again to remove it
Minimize button
Close button
Playlist and at its bottom the "Now playing" if applicable
with the progress / track bar. song detail like artist and title are updated as
you go (that information i'm working on to get it as elegantly and fast as
possible, but it does have it's problems)
Bottom left you have the previous / play pause and next buttons
Underneath that you have the Mute/unmute and volume trackbar.
Above the play pause etc button there is the time / date etc. that box will be the "info panel" where the summarized detail ie phone call or sms'es, obd alerts, weather and temp data will be shown.
One click on it will bring up a more detailed and/or controls for that specific task. Ie. Clock and date will bring up calender with alarms to do's etc
Phone will bring up the phone control stuff.
Some of the hidden controls
1 - Play is also pause, hold it down for a second and it becomes stop.
2 - Next track if held down is fast forward and prev track = rewind
3 - if you want to go to a certain position of the song or movie press the now playing at the bottom to where you want it to go
Well writing this almost took longer than writing the whole application.
Let me know if it is worth putting in the colour schemes etc.
Thank you
and the url =
http://www.nothing.co.za/CarMC.rar
note - you need windows xp with themes enabled for it to look good
, the bottom "now playing" should be a good indication that it is playing
Linear Mode
