Bugzilla – Bug 15538
Repurpose Repeat and Shuffle buttons
Last modified: 2013-10-11 14:09:52 UTC
Replay button not needed - can we create a new button ? ie a Show additional episodes (of the show that's currently playing) Shuffle button not needed - can we replace this with a "rate button" ? This button would open up two rating options - rate this show and rate this episode, each with 1-5 star rating option for the user.
In what sense are they suddenly "not needed"? I have a feeling that the reporter of this bug has something more specific in mind ("episodes" ?) than has been stated in the bug report. If so, spell it out.
this is not a bug, but an enhancement request based upon the touch's new interface addition of these 2 new buttons. replay and shuffle functions are artifacts of music player functionality which are not as applicable to Mediafly Channels. as such we have suggested alternate functionality which would add to the user experience, and if you would like to discuss further please feel free to loop in Keith Waxelman (kwaxelman@mediafky.com) and / or Laura Nelson / Matt Cuson Thanks
Just an FYI from a Logitech software engineer: it's not hard to disable buttons (or deliver a different button) as needed if there is metadata in the track to tell us to do so. We already do this for Pandora, Slacker, and a few others. For example, we disable rew and fwd for tracks that tell us to disable them-- -- disable rew or fw as needed if buttons.rew and buttons.rew == 0 then self:_remapButton('rew', 'rewDisabled', function() return EVENT_CONSUME end) else self.controlsGroup:setWidget('rew', self.rewButton) end if buttons.fwd and buttons.fwd == 0 then self:_remapButton('fwd', 'fwdDisabled', function() return EVENT_CONSUME end) else self.controlsGroup:setWidget('fwd', self.fwdButton) end
Would "like" to have 2 new functional buttons : Additional Episodes - shows all the additional episodes of that podcast. Ratings - Allows user to rate the show or episodes from 1-5 stars. These 2 buttons would replace the current buttons "Shuffle" and "Repeat" This is from Keith Waxelman so please contact him for any further info you may need, and thanks.
*** Bug 15497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's quite difficult at the moment to customize the now-playing screen on a per-service basis. In the future we may have additional resources to do this kind of work. We should revisit it at that time.
Oops I forgot to remove bug_meeting from these bugs.
Unassigned bugs cannot have a priority.
Mediafly is long gone.