Posted by: tfabris
Scroller Stuff - 24/07/2000 13:09
If wishes were horses, dreamers would ride. And of course, there'd be a lot of horse droppings on this BBS. Nonetheless, I'm in wishing mode today, so...
1) "Info: Line" scroller: Have all the details of the song, not just artist/track name.
2) When using the "Now and Next" display, have that scroller on there, too. Seeing as how the fifth line of the Now and Next screen disappeared, there's now this empty space there just begging to be used.
If (2) would be visually distracting enough to preclude the recently-added ability for the unit to default to "Now and Next" mode in the car, then I withdraw the wish in favor of simply re-instating the fifth line on that screen.
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Tony Fabris
Posted by: muzza
Re: Scroller Stuff - 25/07/2000 05:56
Oo yes! and how about the current playlist
and the tech stuff like current playback rate (updating for VBR)
Murray 06000047
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Posted by: phaigh
Re: Scroller Stuff - 25/07/2000 08:20
How about also adding the artist to the Now and Next screen too.
I can't tell every song on my empeg just from the title - asd that's just a 6GB unit - god knows what I'll do with a 36GB!
Paul.
Paul Haigh, 6GB, Blue
Reg: 4120 - Serial 00254
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Scroller Stuff - 25/07/2000 09:10
How about also adding the artist to the Now and Next screen too.
I think that'd make the screen way too cluttered. I'm sure they tried it and decided that song-only looked better.
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Tony Fabris
Posted by: phaigh
Re: Scroller Stuff - 26/07/2000 00:28
How about both then? I find myself switching between Now & Next and Track, so that I can tell which artist the song is from.
Personally I like Now & Next, but I can't use it as it is.
Votes for both?
Paul Haigh, 6GB, Blue
Reg: 4120 - Serial 00254
Posted by: altman
Re: Scroller Stuff - 26/07/2000 02:10
Could possibly extend now & next to have the now track, with the artist (etc) indented in small text on the line below, then the following track titles below (without artist info).
Thoughts?
Hugo
Posted by: andy
Re: Scroller Stuff - 26/07/2000 05:03
If you do start "enhancing" now and next please make sure that it is done as a new info visual rather than replacing the existing one.
Perhaps many of my tracks have short titles, but I personally think:
"track name: truncated artist name"
would be useful. Even when only a couple of letters of the artist name is available it would still be useful.
So we could have three options:
-Short now and next
-Now and Next + artists
-Now and Next + current artist (as per Hugo's suggestion)
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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...
Posted by: phaigh
Re: Scroller Stuff - 26/07/2000 09:23
I like this idea a lot.
Paul Haigh, 6GB, Blue
Reg: 4120 - Serial 00254
Posted by: phaigh
Re: Scroller Stuff - 26/07/2000 09:25
Oooh, oooh oooh - I like these ideas as well!
Personally my vote is for the one Hugo suggested, but I really like both (hugo's and the truncated artist).
I think that andy has a point about not changing the current one - I couldn't stand having Tony after my blood
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Paul.
Paul Haigh, 6GB, Blue
Reg: 4120 - Serial 00254
Posted by: tfabris
Re: Scroller Stuff - 26/07/2000 09:42
Could possibly extend now & next to have the now track, with the artist (etc) indented in small text on the line below, then the following track titles below (without artist info).Great compromise. I like it.
Under one condition: That the bottom line gets re-populated again so we don't lose yet another song title on that screen. We went from five to four, I'd hate to go down to three.
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Tony Fabris
Posted by: TommyE
Re: Scroller Stuff - 28/07/2000 05:42
That would be great.
But please add it, don't replace what is in there now.
TommyE