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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
Any thoughts on whether the 3.0 version could/should be pushed to Testing?

I know some more features are wanted... but at some point I really should try and get this to "the public" ... a lot of people refuse to use the Devel repo's (probably rightly so...)
How do I tell what version I am using from within the app?

and,

I updated last night and seemed to loose the larger song description font. Did you revert or was this a HAM or repo fart?


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I'm in the "this is so cool" mode and don't even notice the GUI much as I'm still amazed and intrigued by what and how, it do what it do.

While using it on the porch tonight some of my guests would inadvertently stop the music instead of advancing to next song as they expected.

Most are working on a Friday night buzz and are relying on impaired instinct. Perhaps the perfect focus group, eh?

What I gleaned from this group of knuckle heads was:

If your highlight scheme was reversed some would not have made this mistake. (Others are basically cave men in pants so it doesn't matter what you do. But, friends are friends first none the less. )

I realize you do this with the double bars that the play arrow points to however, this graphic is not one most expect to see. Perhaps changing play to just the arrow and Grey it down while pyRadio is playing or even making it red would help. I say red because when pushed it actually stops the music.
If it was a green arrow while pyRadio was stopped they would know that pushing it will make noise come out of the round holes in those square boxes again (grunt, grunt).

Also, the consensus among the brighter folks is that the advance song button graphic should be an arrow followed by a single bar as this is what most expect to see. This graphic could be green while pyRadio is playing because after the playlist is advanced, music continues.

More testers certainly would help in finding the most/best use of graphics. Hopeful all realize that this app is connection dependent and will check the quality of their connection before reporting perceived bugs.

For example, I originally came in to post about freeze ups that we began to experience all of a sudden. ,

Apparently either my WiFi router or even the dang broadband connection itself must have throttled back automagically because after I fired up my desktop browser and connected, pyRadio began to work flawlessly again.

For the rest of the night I have switched to 3G where pyRadio has worked all day for me without complaint while I was out and about .

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Yeesh! Someone just killed the music again and that was the freakin' Kinks too.
Dang philistines...
j/k

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Well, I'm going back to focusing on my own Friday night buzz..

Rock on dude, and enjoy your weekend too.
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