Bugzilla – Bug 2896
Scanning into the song with the number buttons
Last modified: 2006-08-16 15:14:59 UTC
What if the numbers 1...9 would work like the function of the vertical seekbar in foobar to jump in the song instead of pressing and holding the 'FWD' button for 2x, 4x ... seeking. So by pressing the number keys the playback of the song would go as: 1 ... 10% 2 ... 20% . . . 9 ... 90% The 0 is not needed because one can press 'play' to start the song from the beginning or 'FWD' to skip to the next song. See related thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20495
these numbers are actually in use to browse the current playlist. (just that showing the current song maintains an override until you start to navigate; probably a bug there) hold-modified is in use for favourites.
I'm not sure if it's a bug KFD, when you are browsing with the up/down arrow keys the current playlist you can use the number buttons to jump to certain percentage of the playlist position. When in 'Now playing' that function is not active. So this momentum could be used to skip in the _currently_ playing song to the percentage represented by the number buttons. That was my idea about. Just play around with your remote, and you'll see that could be a nice feature.
Subject: Re: Scanning into the song with the number buttons It _is_ a bug! The number buttons are supposed to proportionally scroll through the current list, except when entering text. Seems to work in the Now Playing list except when the currently playing song is up. I'd prefer not to use the number buttons to jump through the current song because if if someone were to use the numbers to jump though the list and hit the current song, they would suddenly start jumping around in a different context. I think that this is a good idea for a plugin though.
The bug in this case lies in the combination of the wakeup and showingNowPlaying logic. I can take a look at that, but will file that as a new bug to leave this enhancement as it is.
Since this is an enhancement request, it's going to need to be moved to 6.5.
This sounds like a bad idea to me. We also use the number buttons for Favorites. Untargetting for post 6.5 assessment.
I could probably add numberscroll functions to the Scanner plugin. of course, this only works with native formats (as wouldd any solution for this). The user could then assign number keys as part of a custom setup. can't get to it right away, but wanted to offer for consideration come assessment time
Can't fix in slimserver, since we're already using the number buttons for favorites. Sounds good for a plugin though!