Rockbox.org home
release
dev builds
extras
themes manual
wiki
device status forums
mailing lists
IRC bugs
patches
dev guide
translations



Rockbox mail archive

Subject: Re: NOW PLAYING CURSOR / BROWSER CURSOR

Re: NOW PLAYING CURSOR / BROWSER CURSOR

From: Bluechip <csbluechip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:59:11 +0000

>Is it possible, to have a choice in the menus, so as to have the
>browser-cursor following along as playback goes on?

Yes the option to do this is called "follow playlist" :)

BC

>Here is an example, which illustrates my delemma. Is it possible to solve
>this problem?
>
>I go into my music directory, and choose to hear the songs in - say for
>instance - Garth Brooks directory. Haven't heard thru this directory for a
>while, and am not 100% sure of the songs in there. As I enter the directory,
>the browser cursor is automatically placed on song #1. So far, everything is
>perfect, as that's the song I want to start out with; why I simply press
>PLAY. After a while, I realize that one of the songs, I don't really want to
>keep any longer. Let's - for the example - say this is song #19. To delete
>this song, I have to stop the playback, and here is where my problem is.
>Because as I stop playback, I end up on song #1 (that is where the browser
>cursor is sitting), and I will have to know exactly which song to scroll
>down to, so as to delete it. Specially anoying, as I am blind, and have to
>hear all the song titles spelled out. Is it possible, to have a choice in
>the menus, so as to have the browser-cursor following along as playback goes
>on? This is specially interesting if you have turned on the function of
>automatically continuing on to the next directory, as you may find a song
>several directories later, that you want to delete/rename; and when you stop
>playback, the cursor jumps (or still sits) where you started out.
Received on 2005-12-15

Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy