Hijack - Possible future feature?

Assuming it doesnt already (well I havent found it yet...) I would find the ability to skip playlists from the buttons on the front.
The knob has the ability to be 'hijacked' so how about the left and right buttons?
I'd love to have these as playlist skip's, say when you hold them down instead of the skip through track which I am much less likely to want to use.

Cheers

Dave

I agree with you on finding a better way to switch playlists. I really dislike it when i do a search for a song and after it plays have to load up a playlist again. Or having to go through the menu's to load a different playlist. Don't know about using those buttons though. Im trying to think of a better way to utilize this as I sometimes use the skip buttons to fastforward into some of my Paul Oakenfold, etc... mixes that are over and hour long.

-Greg

To counter that problem with some music I have, I had just split them up before certain points in the audio. Kinda how you can add in track marks on a minidisc, then the songs are all named the same just the track is different, and it plays without gap.

Cheers

Dave

This post may be better off in the Wish List forum, because what you're asking for would have to be implemented in the player software itself. Hijack can't change playlists because there's no IR code for "next playlist" or "previous playlist." Hijack can't actually reach into the player application's space and figure out what the next playlist is or anything like that. There's no API.

Now if the Empeg developers were to implement such a thing... Or even just a fake IR code that navigated playlists... Then there's the issue of the playlists being hierarchical instead of flat, so you'd need a way to go "up" and "down" levels of playlists... Lots of stuff to be figured out. But unless there's some voodoo way of doing it, I don't think Hijack has the ability to deliver this functionality.

Mark will be by soon enough to correct me if I'm wrong.

Then there's the issue of the playlists being hierarchical instead of flat, so you'd need a way to go "up" and "down" levels of playlists

Thats me thinking of my structure and not anyone elses

Cheers

Dave

This post may be better off in the Wish List forum, because what you're asking for would have to be implemented in the player software itself. Hijack can't change playlists because there's no IR code for "next playlist" or "previous playlist." Hijack can't actually reach into the player application's space and figure out what the next playlist is or anything like that.

[Ugly hack warning]
1. Send down IR code to select playlist menu
2. Send long down IR code to select current playlist
3. Send right button code to select next playlist
4. Send select IR code
[End ugly hack]

Only works if you selected a playlist originally (not if you hit down,down,down). You could do it with a standard IR remap. Works best if your playlists are flat or nearly flat.

-Mike

There's no API

More to the point, the player itself has no concept of playlists once you've selected something to play.

The only way this could work is by remembering the menu location, as someone else has already suggested.

Sounds like a nice userland app project for somebody..

Speaking of nifty features.. here's one that may be of interest to IR macro writers:

Once the menu key is pressed/released, you can use the number buttons to go directly to specific menu items. Eg. "4" means "visuals", and "8" means "settings".

Cool!

Is this in the BUTTON FAQ applet, Tony??

Of course.

If the functionality the guys want is 'select a playlist, play it, then select the next playlist', existing 'press-and-hold menu/OK on playlist menu' comes quite close. (For those who don't know about it: the first press on menu/OK will display 'playlists' menu; if you now *hold* menu/OK, the player will jump to the last playlist selected so you don't have to wade through the whole hierarchy. This had a bug in 2.0b3: it remembered only playlists selected without using insert/prelace/append menu. I am not sure about 2.0b7.)