new theme (kinda): retroTape

[cereal_killer]

Oops, sorry people, my fault.

Should have been more patient. After waiting until the disk finished to spin and of course after a reboot all album arts were shown perfectly in the menus and in the wps as well.

The clipped menus (e.g. viewing current playlist) when loading a new album art is still present, but scrolling up or down some lines makes all lines reach to the album art again. No big issue for me.

In contrast to when starting my player, the responsiveness is fine after some short time.

I pretty much like the idea of displaying three alternating views of the album art in the same area. (Doesn't the iPod classics OF behave like that, but the album arts are kind of floating?) Would definitely look nice.

Anyway, great theme.

Thank you audio-i.

Greetings,

c_k.

[audio-i]

Should have been more patient. After waiting until the disk finished to spin and of course after a reboot all album arts were shown perfectly in the menus and in the wps as well.

I asked if you had rebooted because I've seen some album art odd behavior when switching themes (sometimes AA seems to be not recognized after one or more themes selected)

I pretty much like the idea of displaying three alternating views of the album art in the same area. (Doesn't the iPod classics OF behave like that, but the album arts are kind of floating?) Would definitely look nice.

Right, on the ipod classic it seems to float. If it's ever possible to alternate the three views from AA, I will surely include it

I personally like the black background more the the blue one in the "inlay", but I think I just use the backdrop from your beta release and change the colour of the bar manually.

Both the former image and the new one resulted from scanning an old cassette inlay card I found somewhere, which I thought would be nicer than just making a new and "perfectly looking" one  
Perhaps you're better off taking the current pertinent images (retroTape_bd.bmp and bd_b.bmp) and converting them to grayscale (the result should be very similar) with something like IrfanView etc. since some additional things changed besides the colour.

Edit: I made the modification myself, you can find it here http://www.datafilehost.com/download-413be7a7.html

[cereal_killer]

Hey audio-i,

thank you for the mod and uploading it. The scanned inlay looks perfect as it is. That really gives me the old school cassette inlay feeling.

I tried changing the theme and then change back to retroTape, but the album art showed up immediately. I can't tell, why this wasn't the case when first using your theme.

Keep up your great work,

c_k.

[hobb0001]

FYI, the counter runs out of space when a podcast or audiobook track runs longer than 60 minutes. The counter tries to display, say, "1:03:42" but doesn't have enough horizontal pixels to display it. Maybe the counter could drop the seconds after the time exceeds an hour?

It's a minor issue, but I thought you'd like to know.

[audio-i]

Well, it's just that it wasn't designed to support playing times over 59min 59sec, mainly because I didn't find a nice way to make it work. Yotto had the idea of adding "extra counters", but I thought it wasn't worth changing the counter and making it wider, with two additional spaces that wouldn't look "natural", and that would be empty most of the time, except in the (occasional?) cases when playing time is an hour or more.

I very much like your idea of hiding the seconds when the current time is over 59min 59sec. It would be much easier if we had, besides a "total current time" tag, something like separate tags for "current track hour", "current track minutes" and "current track seconds". But anyway, I thought that since we now have %if conditionals, I could define a viewport for elapsed times below 60min (as it is now), and a viewport that would be left aligned and shorter to display elapsed times over an hour, so that the seconds would be trimmed (not shown); but I couldn't make it work. I couldn't find how to define the comparison value... perhaps someone knows how to?

I tried:

%?if(%pc, <, 60)<%Vd(nt)|%Vd(et)>
%?if(%pc, <, 60:00)<%Vd(nt)|%Vd(et)>
%?if(%pc, <, 0:60:00)<%Vd(nt)|%Vd(et)>
%?if(%pc, <, 1:00:00)<%Vd(nt)|%Vd(et)>
%?if(%pc, <, 3600)<%Vd(nt)|%Vd(et)>

(nt is the "normal time" viewport, et is the "extra time" viewport)

Edit: it seems %pc is a string so it wouldn't work like this... JdGordon provided a very fast http://pastebin.com/N4774ymg (see also FS#12005 )

Edit 2: I also tried %pS(3600)<%Vd(nt)|%Vd(et)> without luck, it returns false after about 5min 20sec

[moontan]

I'm new to rockbox so I never saw the original that inspired you but this theme knocked me off my feet. It's especially sweet eye candy for me because I grew up with a tape recorder and I played with it a lot. Can't stop watching the tape spin from one reel over to the other. It's a shame themes can't have their own sounds for buttons pressed. Which speaker does the 5th generation ipod use to produce the clicking sound when browsing the menus in the Apple OS? Could that be used for this purpose? Having the original tape deck "click" each time I press play or pause would really top this off. Thanks for this theme!

[audio-i]

@moontan, it'd be very cool to be able to do what you described, but unfortunately it's not yet possible (but perhaps not impossible in the future?). I don't know the technical details of the "piezo" to explain it, perhaps some dev might.

[Chronon]

There's a patch on flyspray: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/5111

It looks like it's sort of functional but not quite ready to be committed.  Of course, on top of this, you would need some way for themes to play their own sounds (and choose output source, etc.), which seems like a pretty substantial change in itself.

[[Saint]]

It's a lot more than sort-of functional...



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[peaceful1]

can you please update it for D2 & fuze 
PLEASE! PLEASE ! PLEASE !!
After i have update rockbox the theme didn't worked as usual.

thanks for all your hard work

[audio-i]

sure  but, you mean update the touchscreen areas, or something else is not working right? I don't have a D2 it helps me if you give me all the details you can

[peaceful1]

i only can see the menu the playback screen is plain white

[audio-i]

It seems that the problem was the touchscreen syntax change. Would you please try this (attached) modifications out? Assuming you have the latest retroTape version (the one available on the theme site), you would have to rename the here attached file "retroTape_sbs.txt" to "retroTape.sbs" and copy it (replace the current one) to your device's .rockbox/wps folder. The attached file retroTape.wps also goes there. Finally, retroTape.cfg has to be copied to the device's .rockbox/themes folder. Please let me know if everything is working OK.

[peaceful1]

thanks it worked the fonts were just a bit bigger than usual. can you please update the Fuze ver.2  as well ?

[audio-i]

thanks it worked the fonts were just a bit bigger than usual.

The fonts didn't change, perhaps it's the new adjustable spacing feature?

can you please update the Fuze ver.2  as well ?

Making themes for devices you don't have is not so easy anymore  what's happening with the Fuze?