My Music

[reven]

build: 1.1.1832.1712

ive uploaded v1.1 to the wiki, now with itunes support, the mouse/touch screen interface is finally working right, and now if you try to open a directory that isnt ready (or doesnt exist) my music wont allow you to enter it and keep on working as it should (issues before with no cd in cd drive etc, or network drive down).
ive been testing this one quite heavily and it seems quite stable, but yeah once again, try and crash it, its fun.

you can now have directories off the play list directory, when you load a playlist you are taken directly to the "playlist" screen. can delete/rename itunes playlist from an itunes.xml file. theres still a few issues with the onscreen keyboard and trying to type in via a normal keyboard (the e.keychar method doesnt exist where i need it, so this might take awhile to fix, or i might have to do it manually or something).
oh fixed the bug with the details view/currently playing item aswell.

enjoy.

[smeghead]

Going back to the APE, OGG, WMA file format thing, it is not looking like a DLL is available on the net to download. I am willing to write some C# code to extract the TAG info if you want.

I already have WMA and MP3 in Visual Basic from a previous project so converting this and then adding OGG and APE shouldn't be too much of a pain (What am I getting myself into).

Which TAGs would you want?

[reven]

it would be nice if every tag format out there was available, but the key thing to remember is speed. loading a playlist of around 1000 songs can take awhile if the tag extractor isnt written all that well.

the ones i know about that i really want are: wma, ape, ogg
assuming they have tags: m4p and m4a

really wma is the biggy.

[KingArgyle]

I believe the m4a's are using a Lossless encoding standard, basically keeping the original signal in digital form, where mp3's use lossy and discard some bits. That's about the extent of my knoweledge on the matter.

[bluesxman]

Reven,

Here's a list of bugs/wishes/other stuff I've found after having a play with MyMusic -

1. When you click on "Playlists", "PlayList" or "File List" it would be nice if you could switch focus to the list view that you've just chosen.
2. When you are viewing a playlist, or selecting one, it'd be nice to have the same bold highlight when in focus.
3. You can press the red button when playing tracks from a playlist and it will create a new playlist with just the selected track in it. Should this be restricted for use only in file view?
4. I couldn't see anyway to play a certain track in the playlist other than press skip n times to get to it. Could you make it so you can hit OK or Enter to play the selected track?
5. Pressing menu on the remote do anything (ie take you back to the main menu).
6. Once you've stopped a track playing in a playlist, I couldn't get anything playing again. I did try pressing play
7. On the PC only I get a huge track time display when playing a track - is that right?
8. It'd be nice to have an option to auto-load a playlist if it's the only one in the playlist directory.
9. What version of ID3 is supported?

Phew, thats a bigger list than I realised! Despite what it seems, I'm really pleased with this and really appreciate the work you've put in, especially with the iTunes support.

[reven]

ok
1. ill do
2. huh?
3. dont know if ill bother with, not really a bug.
4. im waiting on sub to release next version of gbpvr before i can do this (the code all done pretty much, just have to uncomment a few things).
5. err i cant remember what i did here, i think i changed it to do something else in different situations, ill test it later.
6. when u press stop the playlist clears, this is gbpvr default, i was going to ask sub to change this, i just forgot.
7. the time display should only be displayed when a track is playing, so yes
8. cant be bothered with
9. id3 v2.24 or something, so all of them *should* work

[bluesxman]

What I meant in No.2 was that the selected menu item has a solid orange background when it has focus. When you move into, say, playlist view this is not the same, it's just a border. Also the borders stay once you move focus back to the menu, or onto the Page Up/Down buttons, so it's not always obvious where you are if you are moving about a bit - especially with the lag you get when using the MVP. Hopes this is a bit clearer, it's hard to explain.

Re the track time, is it supposed to be so big???

[reven]

ok the track time is suppose to be that big, since i didnt know where to put it, and tried with different sizes/position and like that looked the best i felt, if you dont like it, you can change it in the skin.xml.

you can change the filelist selector also in the skin, i orignally planned to have 3 selectors for the filelist focus, focus-nofocus, nofocus.
focus-nofocus, is when the file is selected, but the filelist doesnt have the focus. i just never bothered changing this, im not planning on doing this anytime soon, i think its fine how it is.

[reven]

ok i just implemented #1, and i dont like it, the jump seems unnatural. so i wont implement it.

found the menu bug, i was using keys.menu not keys.home (which is the menu button on the remote, you can see why i over looked this bug).

[bluesxman]

Well these are just nit-picky suggestions for improving the interface. The only ones I really care about, you're waiting for Sub to do stuff.

I think I'll leave you alone now Thanks again for all your work.