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Preview mode for listening

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bzavala:
This is something I would love to have in Rockbox.

Sometimes when I have added a new album but don't have too much time, I only want to listen some 30 secs or so of each song so I skip to the next one.. so kinda like listening to the whole album (well, mostly intros only of each song) in only a couple of mins. I would give me an idea of whether I will like the album or not before listening to it all.

So I was wondering if Rockbox could have a Preview Mode for listening.... something like:

You'd go to Settings -> General Settings -> Playback Settings, and select a new entry called Preview Mode.

Once you go in there, there would be these options

- Preview Mode: On/Off
- Intro Time: 20 secs (can be defaulted to whatever, but the user can change the # of secs)
- whatever other setting we can think of

Everything else should work the same way (shuffle, crossfade, etc).

Hope someone else finds this useful...

Thanks in advance!


Ben   ;D

robin0800:
Personally I would do this on the computer, then if I didn't like it I would not copy it to the player.

saanaito:

--- Quote from: robin0800 on July 27, 2008, 06:58:13 AM ---Personally I would do this on the computer, then if I didn't like it I would not copy it to the player.

--- End quote ---

I share my computer, so for me (and perhaps the OP) that is not an option. This would be a very useful feature for me, because I often leech music (not illegally, mind you) and load up my Sansa with it. Problem is, my Sansa is frequently full (with a grand total of 4 GB capacity), so I must get rid of stuff I don't like to make room for more new music.

A preview feature would make the task less tedious. :)

karashata:
Not that I would likely use it (I tend to preview my music on my computer), but I do think this would be a nice feature to include.  Some of the DAPs original firmwares have this feature already and it would make Rockbox a little more fully featured and comparable to the OFs.  (Now, I know the goal of Rockbox isn't to copy everything the OFs can do for the various DAPs, but you have to agree there is a use for a feature like that...)

Llorean:
Wouldn't it make more sense to delete the songs as you listen to them?

I mean, I see it going like this:

If you preview every 20 seconds, you'll listen to a few dozen songs, then later not remember which songs you didn't like because you're not certain of the order, or which one exactly you're remembering.

If you leave it on manual control, each time a song you dislike comes up, you can delete it instantly from within Rockbox, then skip to the next.

It seems to me there's no practical benefit of the preview mode: We all have fingers, and if the goal is to remove unwanted songs it's not going to help much, if at all.

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