| Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Some ideas..
Dec 25 2013 on content Cantata |
hehe yeah much better :) and posted the log as requested on the bug tracker on google code
best
Z |
|  | | Re: Re: Some ideas..
Dec 24 2013 on content Cantata |
Thx alot, wow thats cool. i did find 2 bugs in trunk after the changes
1) about~ 30% of the time the backdrops are wrong, see example
https://paste.xinu.at/jfy/
the artist is iron maiden but it pulls down depech mode
also does cantata use the artist backdrop in the root folder if available? i know now it can save it there but can it read from there (and if not would you mind adding that feature?)
2)resizing works but it splits the image when a certain size is met (see same above screenshot), wouldnt it be better and more aesthetic to just stretch the image?
can you confirm these bugs?
thx
Z
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| | | Some ideas..
Dec 23 2013 on content Cantata |
Thx CraigD
built from trunk and works great
since its the holidays and i have some spare (kids and wife allowing :)) time, and i really would like to contribute to cantata, i made some mock-ups of some ideas/usability refinements i think could benefit cantata, i wont get offended if you think it sucks or dont care for them much, just throwing out some ideas :)
1) it would be nice to have the backdrop image resize to fit current size of the window to avoid issues like this:
https://paste.xinu.at/3daDc/
2) horizontal view: would be nice to allow the user (if possible) to swap the vertical view ot horizontal view, here is a simple mock-up i created:
https://paste.xinu.at/AOla1t/
3) Add Bottom bar with small icons option. as you can see in the screenshot below, using the normal icons with the bottom bar looks really bad
https://paste.xinu.at/3daDc/
4)save/load backdrops to artist root location and not folder- currently as far as i understand it saves the same backdrop in each album folder which creates redundancy?
if you find this suggestions annoying/bizarre/uselss etc totally understand and will just bug you with normal feature requests in the future
take care
Z
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| | | only lyrics pane (again :)) and other cornucopia
Dec 23 2013 on content Cantata |
Hya CraigD
first of all happy holidays!
i know ive asked this before but i would like to ask again for an (option) to have just lyrics in the song information pane pane. i know you can decrease the size of the panel to just show lyrics but its very limiting (especially on wide screens) where i have 90% of the pane for the playlist and the lyrics as a small strip , IE:
https://paste.xinu.at/c7m/
- also i love the new design of cantata! I created monochrome icon themes for both gmpc and gmusicbrowser, examples:
https://paste.xinu.at/y2CbBA/
https://paste.xinu.at/nsIJ5/
if you like them i can send you the full svg/png images, i think some icons could fit in well in cantata and or can be used as an extra theme
-also can cantata read lyrics from id3 tags (for the files that have them)?
- kinda off topic, have you heard of beets?
http://beets.radbox.org/
its fantastic and works really well with MPD, im starting to dive into it and loving it so far
thanks alot again
best wishes
Z.
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| | | Re: Re: Re: got it
Nov 10 2013 on content Cantata |
hya
Yeah i mean the context view. it does work really well in the artist column. I usually manually download the artist image with HD quality (and store it in the root artist folder). thats why i thought it would be using that but i understand now the content view pulls from the Internet, its not a big issue but perhaps allow an option to first look for available artist image in root folder and use that if available before fetching on-line? also if image isnt available perhaps add an option to save in root artist folder to complement the save cover/lyrics
ill move the rest of the feature/bug discussion to google code as you suggested
thx
Z |
| | | Re: 2 feature requests
Nov 9 2013 on content Cantata |
Wow
Great news from MPD. i have related ideas/requests to this so ill just raise them here, would really like to hear your thoughts on these CraigD.
1.make cantata keyboard friendly as much as possible:
currently its pretty usable but some areas are lacking for mouse free operation:
-add hotkey to focus play queue area and artist/album? perhaps the current keys to switch to context,artist etc will also focus the selected area?
2. building on what rasi reported/requested i think it would be finally great to have:
a) enhancements to the dynamic player using play dates (IE, not played in last X weeks, added in 2003 etc etc) and maybe ratings (see below) with new tag options
b)ratings-add a simple 5 level rating or rating numbers perhaps using the free desktop standard (FMPS_Rating)
https://gitorious.org/xdg-specs/xdg-specs/source/575138ee6db957618631de56940540d1bcdf8525:specifications/FMPSpecs/specification.txt
3) vertical interface that better works with 16:9 laptop screens IE have the play queue on bottom of the artist/context
4) button to open Google search in browser for lyrics with current playing song+artist for lyrics that cant be found and edited manually
thx alot, again if i can help in any non coding way (i am to dumb to code :)) let me know!!
Z |
| | | Re: got it
Nov 9 2013 on content Cantata |
Just to clarify
it DOES actually use the artist image in the artists view, not in the context view for some reason, is that a bug or by design?
Z |
| | | got it
Nov 9 2013 on content Cantata |
Got it!
ok that makes sense :) its perfect now.
I cant seem to get cantata to use my local artist images. my folder structure is a bit non standard:
albums are stored like this
/home/zeltak/music/A/AC newman/get guilty/
and for artist images its stored in the artist root folder
/home/zeltak/music/B/Beck/beck.jpg
I think it does pick up the folder.jpg but not the actuall artist image.is the folder structure whats causing the problems?
Also i have alot of ideas/requests i would love to share with you and hear your opinion on and ill do it in another post?
thank you so much for all your work on cantata, its makes my life much more enjoyable each day ;-)
Z
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| | | wow great
Nov 9 2013 on content Text Now Playing |
Thx alot this is great, ive always wanted a minimal text only plasmoid. Can this support MPD:
http://www.musicpd.org/
Thanks alot!
Z |
| | | small request
Nov 8 2013 on content Cantata |
Hya again
i guess im still missing something. i tried your suggestion from a few weeks ago but i still cant completely hide the artist/album info from the context view:
https://paste.xinu.at/ZGZ3Xf/
this is the best i can get ^^
its kinda bad looking, is there no way to just have lyrics showing in the cantata window. could i request that? i really dont need the artist/album info all the time and it wastes valuable space when i tile cantata
thx
Z |
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