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2010-05-26
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@florian
I see. Since I use a standard GtkTreeView to display playlists and songs in them, this is a bit tricky to do without ending up with either duplicated data or one backing store per playlist. The more I think about it, one backing store per playlist might not be too bad after all. I'll see if I get to do some prototyping.
There is also the issue with navigation. What should be used to "close" a playlist and return to the list of playlists? There is precious little screen estate as it is already. Would people go crazy if you did it by "snapping back" the device, as in, tilting it and using the accelerometer?
Suggestions?
I see. Since I use a standard GtkTreeView to display playlists and songs in them, this is a bit tricky to do without ending up with either duplicated data or one backing store per playlist. The more I think about it, one backing store per playlist might not be too bad after all. I'll see if I get to do some prototyping.
There is also the issue with navigation. What should be used to "close" a playlist and return to the list of playlists? There is precious little screen estate as it is already. Would people go crazy if you did it by "snapping back" the device, as in, tilting it and using the accelerometer?
Suggestions?
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2010-05-26
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#43
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Originally Posted by Joorin
Heya,
@florian
I see. Since I use a standard GtkTreeView to display playlists and songs in them, this is a bit tricky to do without ending up with either duplicated data or one backing store per playlist. The more I think about it, one backing store per playlist might not be too bad after all. I'll see if I get to do some prototyping.
There is also the issue with navigation. What should be used to "close" a playlist and return to the list of playlists? There is precious little screen estate as it is already. Would people go crazy if you did it by "snapping back" the device, as in, tilting it and using the accelerometer?
Suggestions?
the one backing store per playlist doesn't sound too bad IMO, but I'm not a great dev
I guess you could have a back button at the top (next to the playlist title - just like Spotify) - Or use the App Titlebar of the OS;
BUT
why not do a cool thing for power users: shake to go back?
Oh, and what about the entire app in portrait mode? Would make browsing playlists easier?
Lemme try to make some mockups.
Last edited by florian; 2010-05-26 at 18:01. Reason: some more thoughts
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2010-05-26
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#44
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Here a small mockup.
Icon credits go to the Crystal Project ( http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/ )
The idea here: the arrows at the top allow you to go to the next or previous playlist.
you've got the list of the different songs on that playlist (Title / Artist / Album).
At the bottom, you have one button for the playlist list, the arrow to show the currently playing, and the search for ... I'd say search
Icon credits go to the Crystal Project ( http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/ )
The idea here: the arrows at the top allow you to go to the next or previous playlist.
you've got the list of the different songs on that playlist (Title / Artist / Album).
At the bottom, you have one button for the playlist list, the arrow to show the currently playing, and the search for ... I'd say search
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2010-05-26
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#45
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@florian
Oh, nice. Thank you for a very stylish mock up. I will have to look into how one writes applications that handle portrait mode well. I still haven't upgraded to PR1.2 (important meetings tomorrow and on Friday) but this will be on my list.
Regarding landscape mode and playlists, I'm at the moment experimenting with finger swiping to get back to playlists. I'm just about to have a go with multiple backing stores for the songs to see how it works out.
Oh, nice. Thank you for a very stylish mock up. I will have to look into how one writes applications that handle portrait mode well. I still haven't upgraded to PR1.2 (important meetings tomorrow and on Friday) but this will be on my list.
Regarding landscape mode and playlists, I'm at the moment experimenting with finger swiping to get back to playlists. I'm just about to have a go with multiple backing stores for the songs to see how it works out.
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2010-05-26
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And it was actually a bit easier than I thought to make it work.
Here is version 0.0.3 with a vengeance.
Fixes:
+ Thread bug fixed. The GUI should be thread clean now.
+ GTK signal handling fixed here and there.
New features:
+ Playlists open into their own view separating them from the other playlists.
+ Playlist views are "closed" by swiping the screen from right to left.
Installation as before:
Unpack the tar.gz file in /home/opt and create link in /usr/bin to /home/opt/footify/usr/bin/footify.sh if you want to be able to start it directly from the XTerminal. Copy the .desktop file to the right place to get a (default) icon in the application manager.
Here is version 0.0.3 with a vengeance.
Fixes:
+ Thread bug fixed. The GUI should be thread clean now.
+ GTK signal handling fixed here and there.
New features:
+ Playlists open into their own view separating them from the other playlists.
+ Playlist views are "closed" by swiping the screen from right to left.
Installation as before:
Unpack the tar.gz file in /home/opt and create link in /usr/bin to /home/opt/footify/usr/bin/footify.sh if you want to be able to start it directly from the XTerminal. Copy the .desktop file to the right place to get a (default) icon in the application manager.
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2010-05-27
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Seems like it Segfaults a bit when you change songs quick, while the last song is still playing.
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Btw thanks for making the effort. I really like this piece of software.
Last edited by phellarv; 2010-05-27 at 07:49.
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Btw thanks for making the effort. I really like this piece of software.
Last edited by phellarv; 2010-05-27 at 07:49.
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2010-05-27
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Works perfectly! thanks a lot, also for the great install instructions. Any change this app will come up in one of the repositories?
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2010-05-28
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#49
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Originally Posted by phellarv
This is one of the thread bugs that are left. It's very important to be able to stop the reading thread when the current song is changed and for some reason this doesn't work yet.
Seems like it Segfaults a bit when you change songs quick, while the last song is still playing.
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Btw thanks for making the effort. I really like this piece of software.
Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you like it.
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2010-05-28
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#50
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Originally Posted by jacobkorf
First it has to get to Extras-devel and for that I need to get into the Garage (which I'm planning to do soon enough). After that comes .deb packaging and that's on my TODO list.
Works perfectly! thanks a lot, also for the great install instructions. Any change this app will come up in one of the repositories?
Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you like it.
You have your playlist list, with all your playlists.
When you select a playlist, it "swoops" to the side, and makes room for the playlist content (the tracks).
Basically, my problem is: I've got about 30 playlists, and some of my most commonly used ones have 300+ tracks.
Now, it's a bit difficult to scroll down the playlist like a nut, until you reach the last track on the playlist (as that's the one you always want to play
Especially, when scrolling back up then, I tap on some playlists once (tapping while scrolling), so these open too (uncollapse).
So, it would be cool to do it the way that Spotify does it on the Mobile Clients (I guess the iPod was the one that had that way of browsing tracks first).