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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Functionality suggestion - Play QueueRe: Functionality suggestion - Play Queue
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 17:04:03 +0200 (MET DST) On Wed, 1 May 2002, Dave Chapman wrote: > I only have limited experience of MP3 players (I don't own an Archos at the > moment), which may put me in a very good or very bad position to suggest > Rockbox functionality. Well, I joined up here long before I got my own too... ;-) > What I would like to see would be the idea of a "play queue". This queue > contains the songs that you have asked your Archos to play. > > To this queue, you add either individual tracks, whole directory trees or > pre-defined playlists using the directory browser. You should be able to > add the songs to the end of the play queue (either in order or randomly), > or add the songs randomly in random locations in the play queue. > > You would also need functionality to control the play queue - reset, pause, > resume, skip to next track - and eventually also the ability to delete and > move songs in the play queue. I think this is basicly what have been talked about before (most certainly on IRC if not here). It has been refered to as "dynamic" or "anonymous" playlist. > In terms of implementation, I would vote against using text files to store > the play queue, but instead have a binary data structure (e.g. a doubly > linked-list) stored on the hard disk, with some information (e.g. the next > 8 songs) cached to minimise hard disk accesses. The play queue should take > a constant (small) amount of RAM, independent of the size of the queue. I have faith in the system Stuart written code for, that keeps the file list on disk and keeps a list of "indexes" into the file list to find the particular file names. > I don't know if the Archos can currently do this, or if this is what the > developers have in mind for Rockbox. The recent mailing-list thread on > playlists doesn't mention queuing songs/playlists. We will be able to do lots. I'm positive we will have "queuing songs". -- Daniel Stenberg -- Hacking Archos => http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox/Received on 2002-05-01 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |