Bugzilla – Bug 6265
NOW PLAYING: umbrella bug for all now playing issues
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:18:01 UTC
There are a large number of bugs open against "Now Playing" that likely have the same root issues. I am opening this bug as a catch-all to manage the list better, and will move all Now Playing bugs to RESOLVED/DUPLICATE pointing to this one. If any of those issues end up being separate from the over-arching Now Playing issues, I will reopen as necessary.
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Target 7.0/Priority P1
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r1275 has the following changes to the Jive menu behavior-> Changed behavior of "Now Playing" home item NowPlaying applet now creates the JiveMain menu item "go" from Home->Now Playing takes you to a "big artwork" screen (a la NowPlaying screensaver) "go" from Home->Now Playing->Big Artwork takes you to the current playlist
note to self: misc things to fix A single track playlist should descend directly from showPlaylist() into trackInfo without a button press An empty playlist should show a localized "Nothing" in the playlist The nothing shouldn't be selectable or navigable. Pressing home when on home should take you to the big artwork screen (this is noted as a FIXME in SlimBrowser) NowPlaying screen needs to update when notifications of song changes come in Hitting FWD/REW on the big artwork screen (either in Screensaver mode or not) should not exit the window, but rather should update the screen to reflect the changed track
Another case to test: Now Playing screensaver should exit and/or not start when the server connection is down.
long campfire chat that describes some bugs yet to be fixed with NowPlaying Ben K. i think the real issues might be in the bells/whistles. window transitions, fade in/out, etc. Richard T. sorry, what issues? Ben K. because i'm now updating components of the window instead of writing a new window (which, incidentally, was what was causing you to be locked out of keypresses) Richard T. oh, where has my fade gone :-O Richard T. :-( Ben K. so, when a track changes, you may not see the fade.....riiiight Richard T. you have to use windows to do transitions. Jan 6 2:30 PM Dean B. so, which jive.bin should I try now? Ben K. don't you think updating components of the window is the correct way to do this? Richard T. don't understand why changing windows caused a keypress problem. Richard T. let me upload another next door ... Richard T. i actually changed it to create a new window so the transitions worked. Jan 6 2:35 PM Ben K. okay, i can try to rework for recreating a full window on track change Richard T. dean, grab the binary from the developers room... Richard T. does the now playing screensaver mode start when you have a now playing view? Richard T. and is the no artwork icon missing? Jan 6 2:40 PM Richard T. someone on the forums suggested having a different icon for "loading artwork" and "no artwork". personally i think this is a good idea. Ben K. View paste richard- if windowStyle == 'browse' then local browser = appletManager:getAppletInstance("SlimBrowser") -- don't allow a screensaver on this window -- FIXME: ideally, screensaver would only be repressed if the screensaver was set to NowPlaying self.window:setAllowScreensaver(false) Richard T. it'll be nice on fab4 to have a wider screen, less scrolling. Ben K. definitely Ben K. layout is tricky with this few pixels Ben K. the no artwork icon thing needs to be worked out. there were some issues because the dropping of drop shadows Richard T. so why block the screensaver? i think it's meant to change between the two modes on inactivity and use. Ben K. i'll figure that out in the next 24h Richard T. k Richard T. it doesn't like going into now playing when it's turned off. Richard T. (when the player is turned off) Jan 6 2:45 PM Richard T. and if you turn the player back on, then go into now playing it says "Now Playing" but the player is "Stopped" Richard T. apart from those few niggles nice work, i think your getting the hang of lua :-D Ben K. I'll investigate not putting a screensaver block in...there were problems with skin/layout/iconbar when I removed that block, but I can probably fix them with some effort
another point to fix: empty playlist should read 'Nothing' in the playlist menu, and this item should not be selectable. There's a bug open against this somewhere, but can't find it.
The NowPlaying (aka "big artwork") development is complete. NOTE: There is now a clear separation now between the NowPlaying screen and the Playlist screen. A lot of the bugs referenced in this umbrella bug are for Playlist and not NowPlaying. I'm going to go through them one by one and re-open those that are about the Playlist. The merge from Richard on the scrolling branch should have some fixes for Playlist as well. I will be running through some test cases, probably early next week, to see that the Playlist screen is updating correctly in all situations. I will be closing/amending Playlist bugs as I go through them. Moving this bug to RESOLVED
This bug has recently been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 Please try that version, if you still see the error, then reopen this bug. To download this version, please navigate to: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
Is there any hope for those of us who would love to see the largest artwork possible in the Now Playing screen? Alternately, could we have a screensaver called 'Show Artwork', which displays the same supersize cover as in Track Info. If the Artist, Album, and Title scrolled across the top/bottom that would be fine too :-)
(In reply to comment #23) > Is there any hope for those of us who would love to see the largest artwork > possible in the Now Playing screen? > > Alternately, could we have a screensaver called 'Show Artwork', which displays > the same supersize cover as in Track Info. If the Artist, Album, and Title > scrolled across the top/bottom that would be fine too :-) > Not knowing if this was the right place for the above request, I filed this: https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9343