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

[Chronon]

Yes, it may contain all tracks on the player (or more even). 

The discussion just caught my eye and reminded me of this patch, in particular these comments by the author:

Supporting EXTM3U format has several potential benefits:
1. Instead of displaying filenames, track title and length can easily be viewed when viewing playlist (currently I think there is a patch that does it by opening each file).
2. Length of playlist can be readily calculated by summing, which can have some interesting applications such as finding how much time is left in current playlist. (Currently this is not possible yet with this patch, but I'm still thinking of possible solutions).

I can see that finding the total playtime for playlists of arbitrary length could be problematic even without the problem of opening each file.

[JdGordon]

I havnt looked at the extm3u patch, and I wouldnt have any problem accepting it if its done correctly, especially now we have this which would put it to good use. the hard thing is storing all that extra info safely.

[Biont]

... anyone using more than 20 will get a special prize from me

Do 18 viewports qualify if they're conditional viewports?



I obviously had some fun with your playlist viewer today and I noticed some things:

1. The %fn tag works like the %fm tag (->it does show the file extension) while %fm does not work at all.
Being able to leave out the file extension would be nice since file names tend to be pretty long and screen space is limited

2. The %d1,%d2,... tags would also be nice. Assuming a proper folder structure (Artist/Album/title.mp3), you could still provide useful information even without ID3-tags in most cases.

[JdGordon]

Post the wps.. looks gooood

[Biont]

It's on the theme site for Cowon D2 (and iPod Video, I guess)

http://themes.rockbox.org/index.php?themeid=508&target=cowond2

[JdGordon]

haha right. I forgot it lets you choose the offset :p and no, you need to get to 20 for the prize.
I'll fix %fn/m and I want to fix %d but there isnt much that can be done without a bit of extra work (which is planned, but no time just yet)

[Biont]

Alright, 21 viewports!



Actually, there are 22 viewports in the viewer, but the track info on the top is a normal viewport that displays the %it tag. I noticed some rare cases when the viewer would show nothing at all if the id3 info is missing. Now there's at least one line that says "unknown" in that case.

The theme is ready for upload, but the theme site's checkwps won't let me upload it at the moment.

Now what's my prize?


I'm looking forward to your fixes and I hope getting the %d tag to work won't cause too much struggle.
And thank you for all the work you put in the wps/sbs stuff. You surely know how to keep me interested in making themes for rockbox

 

[JdGordon]

you got your prize yesterday! your very own copy of the win32 d2 sim

%d is going to be a struggle so it wont happy any time soon I think. And I had a look at fn/m and its not so simple either :/

[Biont]

Hehe, I knew you'd say that Thanks again for helping me out.

Aligning works nicely for items with ID3 tags. Not sure about when there's no info, though. It seems it doesn't work there (yet)

[iPodFoo]

Any particular reason why the playlist viewer doesnt display the last track?

Im using Rockbox r24777-1002.

Ive tried several albums, always doesnt display the last track.

[JdGordon]

that was a bug which I fixed maybe 2 weeks ago...

[iPodFoo]

that was a bug which I fixed maybe 2 weeks ago...

Ok cool. Thanks. Just need to find a more up to date sim then. Cheers.