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Skip Next Song?
shoe:
It could be put in the WPS Context Menu, or assigned to SELECT in the Quick Menu (only if a track is currently being played). That would avoid the double-click worries.
Wrathernaut:
Good point on "why are you looking at your player and not the road" but by that argument, why have text display at all on it? It certainly doesn't take me but a fraction of a second to read the 2-3 words for the next song. Factor in the 3-4min avg length of a song, and there's bound to be a stop light to bump the next song the required number of times. Besides that, there's always the voice-activated, text-to-to speech device commonly installed in my passenger seat, whose searching algorithm usually coincides with my preferences.
The non-tactile controls on the gigabeat make for 1 action per "button zone" problematic at times, especially when the player is acting a little laggy.
I'm in the process of getting the code and such, and will probably just work on a "Gigabeat Car Build" as there seems to be a lot of differences in controls that work well for different situations.
To throw my $0.02 into the customizable keys, it seems to me that if you're savvy enough to have rockbox, you're savvy enough to handle nonstandard keys.
Llorean:
--- Quote ---it seems to me that if you're savvy enough to have rockbox, you're savvy enough to handle nonstandard keys.
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Believe me when I say there is no phrase or grouping of words in the English language that can possibly explain how far off base I think this statement is, having spent the last two years or so fielding Rockbox support questions.
The controls need to be consistent, and lean toward at least moderately user friendly (I think they aren't quite user friendly enough, but we don't get many people accidentally skipping directories, so it's not a big problem).
As to "why display text at all," surely you don't think that MP3 players are only ever used while driving? But if you're citing the stoplight example, I can easily remove songs from the playlist. And in fact, if I have the voice functionality enabled, I can remove songs from the playlist without ever looking at my player: Far safer than having to read the screen at all, even just to determine what's next.
AlexP:
--- Quote from: Wrathernaut on September 07, 2007, 02:56:03 AM ---To throw my $0.02 into the customizable keys, it seems to me that if you're savvy enough to have rockbox, you're savvy enough to handle nonstandard keys.
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Hahahahahaha /wipes tear from eye
You would think so wouldn't you, but no. Maybe we make installation too easy.
Wrathernaut:
--- Quote from: BigBambi on September 07, 2007, 04:14:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: Wrathernaut on September 07, 2007, 02:56:03 AM ---To throw my $0.02 into the customizable keys, it seems to me that if you're savvy enough to have rockbox, you're savvy enough to handle nonstandard keys.
--- End quote ---
Hahahahahaha /wipes tear from eye
You would think so wouldn't you, but no. Maybe we make installation too easy.
--- End quote ---
Sorry, I wasn't clear in my wording on that. If you can handle putting rockbox on, you can handle there to be an option for an alternate keymap somewhere in the options.
I will definitely concede that having a "rockbox" standard layout for all players is important and necessary. However, I'd like to be able to change the keys that aren't rockbox standard keys to do what I want.
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