Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
One button press -> Remove current song from list, jump to next song
Llorean:
You only ever remove bad songs once per song. You pause and start playback, enter the menu, fast forward, rewind, and adjust volume a potentially infinite number of times. These features need a button more than removing a song does.
I would suggest not putting songs on your player if you don't like them.
As for a special release, there isn't going to be an official one. We don't do that. And it doesn't make sense as a plugin (it'd take longer to run the plugin than to just remove the song from the playlist yourself). You could implement it yourself if you feel like learning C.
Mosician:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 01, 2009, 10:43:37 PM ---You only ever remove bad songs once per song. You pause and start playback, enter the menu, fast forward, rewind, and adjust volume a potentially infinite number of times. These features need a button more than removing a song does. ...
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I looked at some of the button definitions here, e.g. Long Next which is defined as "Fast forward in track" I would like to replace with this functionality as I do not need any fast forward usually ~ in more than 90% of times. (About these things I have other for me more powerful methods, but I might write those ideas later on a separate topic.)
--- Quote ---I would suggest not putting songs on your player if you don't like them.
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It would be good if the player itself would also support this filtering process. So you could simply take over also any experimental releases on your mobile player to check them out if you feel so. Why should we have to do the prefiltering before somewhere else (e.g. on our desktop computer)? (This is a strong argument, I know. ;) )
Llorean:
You can already remove songs on your player. It only takes a couple button pressed to delete a song currently, you can probably do it in less than three seconds.
But this is clearly not something the official version of Rockbox needs on a single button press. Especially in place of fast-forward or a feature like that.
Remember, this is a place to post ideas for features you think would be acceptable for the whole population, not "ideas I want someone to program for my private use."
Mosician:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 01, 2009, 11:11:48 PM ---You can already remove songs on your player. It only takes a couple button pressed to delete a song currently, you can probably do it in less than three seconds.
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I am one of these people who thinks this is not simple enough for its importance. I prefer supersimplicity rather than "it is possible in less than three seconds".
--- Quote ---But this is clearly not something the official version of Rockbox needs on a single button press. Especially in place of fast-forward or a feature like that.
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For you, yes, for me, not. Sure I am not allowed to talk about the official version of Rockbox.
--- Quote ---Remember, this is a place to post ideas for features you think would be acceptable for the whole population, not "ideas I want someone to program for my private use."
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I know, nobody has to do anything they do not want.
I am already happy of discovering Rockbox, which means it is possible that I could do it myself (sooner or later). One of the main reasons I still did not buy any mp3 player is I do not like their "standard features". Many people just take what is released/sold, I am not a big fan of it. For simple mp3 listening I can just use my mobile phone, but of a special mp3 player I have much bigger expectations. Sadly many are already used to their "standard features."
For what are you using fast forward that often if I am allowed to ask? I would put e.g. this 3 second clicks away but not as a direct click.
Llorean:
Fast Forward and Rewind are used to seek within songs, obviously. They both need to be available at the same time, while the progress bar and/or elapsed time is visible to find locations in audio files.
As I said already, deleting is something you need, at most, once per song. The primary use of a player is listening to music, not managing music files, and the WPS button functionality represents this.
Simply, deleting a song is not as important as you think it is in terms of what Rockbox is.
Yes, Rockbox can be made to do things other music software doesn't. But "everyone else does it" doesn't immediately mean we shouldn't. Fast Forward and Rewind are very basic playback functions. "Delete song from playlist" is a feature many, many users will never even use.
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