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Access to the playlist menu from the WPS

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mikeage:
Since Rockbox is heavily oriented towards playlists, I'd like to propose the following change.

Right now, from the WPS, if I press and hold Select (iPod 4g), I enter the WPS Context Menu. There, the first option is sound settings, and the second is playlist.

If I want to view my current playlist, I have to do:

Hold select
Down
Select
Select.

If we were to switch the order (so that Playlist (and maybe playlist catalog) came before sound settings), then it would be

Hold select
Select
Select

which I think is somewhat easier.
 
After all, how often do people use sound settings?

arrow224:
I am not familiar with Rockbox on the iPod, but with the H3xx series, we can set,  on a long press of the record button, for the playlist to come up. I use that, so now the WPS context menu is mostly used for sound settings, or to save the playlist.

As for your situation, how good are you at programming? Perhaps you can compile your own version, with it in your order.

mikeage:

--- Quote from: arrow224 on September 28, 2006, 06:04:58 AM ---I am not familiar with Rockbox on the iPod, but with the H3xx series, we can set,  on a long press of the record button, for the playlist to come up. I use that, so now the WPS context menu is mostly used for sound settings, or to save the playlist.

--- End quote ---
iPods don't have a record button. We have menu, select, FF, RW, Play/Pause, and the wheel (at least in my 4g).


--- Quote from: arrow224 on September 28, 2006, 06:04:58 AM ---As for your situation, how good are you at programming? Perhaps you can compile your own version, with it in your order.

--- End quote ---

Already done (line 846 in onplay.c, in case anyone else wants to play with this).

I was suggesting it as a permanent change.

If you already have a shortcut in the REC button on Hxx's, then maybe it's not such a good idea. Ok, fair enough.

Llorean:
arrow224: You're using a modified build. Please don't list, as a feature, something that you're able to do because of a patch.

I know that I personally have gone into sound settings more often than I've gone into the playlist view, but it's possible it'd be a better place for it at the top.

mikeage:
I've posted a very simple patch at flyspray (http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/6082) that switches the order, if you like...

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