Andy agrees that the text 'Now Playing' takes up a lot of space.

Dean, what do you think?

Well, we have a plugin that lets you do a lot of this already, right?  Do we want to pull in that plugin or rewrite it as a way to customize?

Or better yet, the new "Now Playing Info" setting could be a series of checkboxes and not just radio buttons, letting the user add/remove the stuff that they want.  Some of these would be mutually exclusive (i.e. you couldn't have VU meter and spectrum analyzer checked at the same time), but the list could include:

Elapsed Time         [x]
Remaining Time       [ ]
Buffer Fullness      [ ]
Progress Bar         [x]
VU Meter             [x]
Spectrum             [ ]
Now Playing Text     [x]
Play/Pause Icon      [ ]
Repeat Icon          [ ]
Shuffle Icon         [ ]

What do you think?

Ah, "Time Of Day" should also be in that list...

(In reply to comment #2)
> Or better yet, the new "Now Playing Info" setting could be a series of
> checkboxes and not just radio buttons, letting the user add/remove the stuff
> that they want.  Some of these would be mutually exclusive (i.e. you couldn't
> have VU meter and spectrum analyzer checked at the same time)

That would be pretty confusing.  Practically, you can get maybe two things on that line.  Maybe set a left side and a right side option, but that seems a bit over the top.

We already have enough hooks in the server for a plugin to provide the now playing screen.  The one thing these hooks don't do is support cycling through different now playing modes using the now playing button and changing the visu modes - these are hard coded by screen type at present.

So we could trial some of this as a plugin, but it probably requires some changes to the main server if we want to include visu options and use of cycling through the options via now playing button.

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