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User Experience and Rockbox- A rethink required?

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mcuelenaere:

--- Quote from: adityabhandari on January 04, 2010, 02:34:28 AM ---*Development of an API that simplifies the development of applications

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The API is already there, the documentation not (or is incomplete). This is something I've wanted to work on, but haven't gotten to due to lack of time.


--- Quote from: adityabhandari on January 04, 2010, 02:34:28 AM ---*A simple way to apply ‘patches’ by non-developers as well, ie, without having to compile anything. E.g., there’s a patch out there that displays the metadata of songs instead of the filename in thet playlist view. And users like me want it, but can’t have it!

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This should be possible with Lua, at least if you're talking about plugins; not core modifications.

adityabhandari:

--- Quote ---This should be possible with Lua, at least if you're talking about plugins; not core modifications.
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I think I am talking about plugins only? Here's the kind of thing I have in mind. Rockbox db to read custom tags like mood, occasion etc. from the mp3 file(the addon bit) and probably a front end UI could visualize the same and could perhaps be incorporated with the rockbox player(the application bit).

mcuelenaere:

--- Quote from: adityabhandari on January 04, 2010, 07:47:09 AM ---
--- Quote ---This should be possible with Lua, at least if you're talking about plugins; not core modifications.
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I think I am talking about plugins only? Here's the kind of thing I have in mind. Rockbox db to read custom tags like mood, occasion etc. from the mp3 file(the addon bit) and probably a front end UI could visualize the same and could perhaps be incorporated with the rockbox player(the application bit).

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That requires modifications to the database (which is in Rockbox core). This is currently not possible in Lua.

What you could do however, is write a MP3 metadata parsing plugin with your front end UI all in Lua, which you could launch from the plugins menu.

Strife89:

--- Quote from: Llorean on January 04, 2010, 05:37:31 AM ---Again this is an implementation issue, not a design issue - there's no code to make it sleep.
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Does any need to be written? Rockbox's power draw when idle on many targets appears to be astoundingly low - comparable to a sleep mode.

If one stops playback, returns to the main menu, and engages the hold switch (with the setting to turn off the backlight on Hold enabled), one has almost done exactly the same thing as putting the DAP into a Sleep mode.

The exceptions are targets for which power management needs a fair bit of work. The iPods come to mind, as their screens do not turn off when the backlight does, among other nits.

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