I think the new visuals and info modes are great fun and a big
improvement, but the IR controls are annoying. The first press of the
visual select button or the info select button should definitely not cycle
to the next immediately, particularly with the visuals, because if you
press the wrong button by accident it takes multiple button presses to
get back to where you were before. There is no way to just toggle the
info display on and off now, as there used to be when there was only
one type of track info. I would like to leave the visuals running most
of the time and just occasionally want to call up the track info for a
quick peek at what's playing.

So I propose two changes, the first I'm sure should be simple to do:
1. Make the meaning of pressing the remote visual select button depend
on the current state of the display:
* if the track info display is on, switch it off.
* if the visual title display is showing, select the next visual.
* otherwise (a visual is running full-screen), display the visual title.

The second change adds a new feature I'd like, that of a track info
display that disappears by itself:
2. Make the meaning of pressing the track info select button depend on
the current state of the display:
* if the track info display is off, switch it on for a few seconds.
* if the track info display is on temporarily, select it permanently.
* otherwise, display the next style of track info.

The first change stands by itself. It means you have to press two buttons
where you might currently press only one to step to the next visual. It
also gives a more sensible meaning to pressing the visual button while the
track info is displayed; currently this appears to do nothing but actually
the next visual invisibly. I think that both these changes are desirable.


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http://ro.nu/ Robin O'Leary