new toy to play with... playlist viewer in WPS (FS#10898)

[Biont]

I'm definetely going to use this in my theme as well - as soon as I can.
It looks very nice and seems pretty customizable by now

[karashata]

I have to admit I rather like where this is going, I only regret I own a DAP with very little screen space, though I may still have to play with it when I get a chance anyway to see if I can't make something work...

[JdGordon]

This just got commited I'll put my example wps on the theme site

[JdGordon]

Blame [St.] for this post....

The attached wps shows off more of this feature :p
I'm now using sublines and conditional viewports to display (alternativly) the title, author and genre of each track (with the playlist number and track time always shown)

This will be on the theme site as soon as checkwps lets me upload it :/

[psycho_maniac]

you know whats crazy? i remember when the rockbox for the h1xx series was being developed and we were talking about UI. it had this kind of feature, but photoshopped. Users said that this would never be implemented and now look how far we have come? this is great!

[yapper]

This is a very nice addition - now we need some of the more artistic types to come up with themes  

[bakseetdrivr]

once 3.5 comes out, I'm going to modify amarok for the ipod video, deleting some of the lower stuff and replacing it with playlist info

[raudonkepuraite]

A question: how many viewers can be used per screen? I understand that I am able to put them to conditional vps... right?
I have some freakn' neat wps ideas

[JdGordon]

bakseetdrivr: why wait for 3.5? (especially when it looks like there is no interest in releaseing for a while anyway)

raudonkepuraite: there is no limit to the amount of these you can put on the screen, the demo a few posts up has 5... anyone using more than 20 will get a special prize from me

psycho_maniac: you wouldnt like to find that discussion would you? would be pretty funny to look back on



If there are any tags which you really want but don't work now, let me know.

[[Saint]]

Blame [St.] for this post....

w00t!

Happy to take the blame for that


[St.]

[raudonkepuraite]

If there are any tags which you really want but don't work now, let me know.

I really want %C tag... is it possible?

[JdGordon]

its not possible

[Biont]

Works great, thanks for this feature.
This will be even better when I can display it "along" with Album Art instead of instead of it

[Chronon]

As much as I too wish there were a way to display a total time for all tracks in the buffer (don't worry!  I understand why it's a nodo)

Can you explain why it's a no-do?  Is it due to the expense of opening each file just to determine its runtime?  What about EXTM3U tags in the playlist?  There's an old patch on the tracker that's probably out of sync now that adds support for EXTM3U tags.  http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7652

However, I guess this doesn't actually help for getting the total runtime unless the entire playlist is scanned when it's loaded.  I'm not sure whether or not that's the case.

[JdGordon]

even using the EXTM3U (which doesnt guarentee correctness), there is nowhere to store these numbers, remember the playlist could be very large.
and yes, we don't want to open every file to see their length