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Queue current track's album, Skip Album, Rewind Album patch

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yegods:
edited to add: currently these patches are Ipod Video only, but very easy to modify for supporting other players, as described in the patch text...

this is the feature i wanted most out of rockbox, and it wasn't there, so i whipped it up myself.  Please give it a try.  following are links to the two patches you need to install for the feature.  please report or fix bugs in the patches forum.  here is a description of the patch:

While in WPS screen, Double-clicking the OK button will queue the entire album of the currently playing track. it will then start playing the album from track 1.

While in WPS screen, double-clicking the right (ffwd) button will skip all track in the current album, and start playing on the first track of the playlist that is not the current album.

While in WPS screen, double-clicking the left (rewind) button will start playing the first track of the album currently playing... that it finds previous to the current track. in other words, it backs up one by one until it finds a track that isn't on the current album, and then plays the next track.

this is only enabled for Ipod Video currently. If you wish to enable this functionality for other players, then modify the Double Click patch to work with your player, as described in the Double Click patch post. Then modify this patch to work with your player, by adding the double click commands to the player's keymap c file, in the wps section. follow the same format and placement as in keymap-ipod.c.

patches required:

Double Click:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7555

Album Mods:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7571

yegods:
strange... so silent about what i found to be a very desirable feature.  doesn't anyone listen to whole albums anymore?  is it a soundbyte world we live in?

Llorean:
Well, for one thing, if you're in filetree mode, skipping albums is quite easy without any added code.

Secondly, please don't double post. See the forum posting guidelines.

yegods:
this is needed for car mode, and i will be in WPS mode 99% of the time.  so it is not easy to skip an album.  PLUS, the mods give more than just skipping an album... they allow you to queue an album from the currently playing track.  meaning, you have a random play list, and you can play any album from the track that comes up, and then return to the play list after that album plays -- or (using my other mod) skip the album if you didn't really want to hear it.  cool eh?

AlexP:
It is incredibly easy to skip albums from the wps if you use filetree (like me!).

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