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Post by cpirate on Mar 19, 2012 23:07:20 GMT -5
Couple of suggestions...
There is another player that you can choose to remove the status bar of the device so the player use the full screen space, this would be a nice option
This player also has a nice background feature where a small area of the cover art is sampled and used as an overall background as that track plays, looks really good behind the cover art
Cheers
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Post by GoneMAD on Mar 20, 2012 0:07:04 GMT -5
yeah i have a "full screen" mode in my list of things to do. I had a few other people suggest it.
I know the background idea you are referring to because i've tried a few times to actually do this. I would also run into a problem of not being able to blur or smooth out the image enough for it to look good. It always ended up super pixelated. I should probably try to find an open source app that does this effect and take a look at the code.
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Post by syko on Apr 2, 2012 19:17:31 GMT -5
I think that background feature is used in google's music app and it does look really nice. I will +1 that request. I'll also add a couple if I may:
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This is minor but I figured I'd mention it: Any way to have the displayed tag icons (off to the left in the now playing screen) not center themselves? Currently, when a long song title or album title is listed, the icon sits dead center to the left of that title. It makes the text to the right of the icons a bit difficult to read as they appear to run together. Having the icons at the very beginning of each item would be awesome.
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I love the feature of tapping the screen and the controls disappear and the album art grows bigger. Is there a way to have the controls disappear but leave the progress bar with the times showing? I like to see how much time I have left on any given track but want the larger album art when I have my archos docked to my vehicle's display.
This app just keeps getting better and better btw. Absolutely love the delete feature from the now playing screen. Didn't think I would use it as much as I do. Keep up the awesome work.
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Post by cpirate on Apr 2, 2012 23:09:39 GMT -5
And a +1 on point 2 above ;D
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Post by GoneMAD on Apr 3, 2012 8:03:27 GMT -5
have left on any given track but want the larger album art when I have my archos docked to my vehicle's display.
This app just keeps getting better and better btw. Absolutely love the delete feature from the now playing screen. Didn't think I would use it as much as I do. Keep up the awesome work.[/quote]
1) are you able to get a screenshot to help describe the issue.. im not completely following
2) there is a possibility this could be done pretty easily.. i will have to play around with some stuff
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Post by syko on Apr 3, 2012 12:50:14 GMT -5
Here's the link to a screenshot: dl.dropbox.com/u/17061639/GMMP1.PNGPardon my crappy microsoft paint work but I'm at work and that's the best I could do on short notice. ;-p As you can see, my arrows suggest where the icons should be rather than sitting centered on the left. Hope this helps. |
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Post by GoneMAD on Apr 3, 2012 17:26:10 GMT -5
okay I gotcha. I centered those icons because I thought it would look better, but yea I can see how it makes it confusing to read with long titles
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Post by GoneMAD on Apr 3, 2012 18:52:20 GMT -5
well i do remember i did go with centering them. Its extremely hard to line up the icon with the top of the text. I'll play around with it and see what i can do
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Post by syko on Apr 10, 2012 19:15:57 GMT -5
Just thought of something else...
Is it possible to make the "Displayed Tags" customizable or have them leave blank spaces? What I'd like to do is have it look like the following:
Slot 1 - Artist
Slot 2 - Track and Track Num
Slot 3 - Album
Slot 4 - Year
Slot 5 - Space
Slot 6 - Next Track
So that it separates the "Next Track" field from the rest of the pack.
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Post by GoneMAD on Apr 10, 2012 19:40:54 GMT -5
yeah sure.. that wont be difficult
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Post by thcol on Apr 18, 2012 12:29:14 GMT -5
Seeing as it's difficult to do the background suggestion, as proposed in the first thread, maybe it could be easier to have some artist art in the background (a little bit "greyed out" maybe).
A bit like the zune mustic player does on WP7. I always liked the look of that and it should probably be easier to do because the image processing is not as heavy as with the other background suggestion.
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Post by GoneMAD on Apr 18, 2012 13:01:34 GMT -5
yeah there are a few options for using the artwork in the background
i'll try see if i can include one for 1.3
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Post by GoneMAD on May 21, 2012 19:59:24 GMT -5
how's this?   still working out some kinks but album art as a background should be available for the ICS skins |
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Post by cpirate on May 21, 2012 20:59:06 GMT -5
Looking really good! Cant wait to try it out!
Cheers ;D
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Post by lumpadump on May 22, 2012 19:29:34 GMT -5
That looks really cool! Nice work!
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