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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: FS#9873 - Utilise buttons for playlistingRe: FS#9873 - Utilise buttons for playlisting
From: Boris Gjenero <boris.gjenero_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:17:08 -0500 Paul Louden wrote: > Boris Gjenero wrote: >> >> I find this to be a very valuable feature on other targets. I need a >> way to turn on the backlight without causing side-effects. Undoing >> side-effects is annoying. I also don't like "First Keypress Enables >> Backlight Only" because then I need to know backlight state. For >> example, if I want to go to the next track without looking, do I press >> once and maybe only turn on the backlight or press twice and maybe >> skip an additional track? >> > You can listen. If you press "next" and it doesn't go to the next track, > then you know you've turned on the backlight and can press it again. As > well, you can tap "volume up" or "volume down" for immediate feedback. > You could also simply look at the screen. And if you don't turn "first > keypress" on, you can instead just start doing what you wanted to do, > because the backlight will come on anyway. It's as simple as remembering > what screen you left your player in. > > It doesn't seem wise, to me, to intentionally avoid vastly improving the > playlisting situation simply to preserve a "backlight" button. Even > assuming you don't know the player condition, this probably only happens > occasionally. Which means one extra keypress to undo the volume change > the first time you turn on the backlight, because brief fades will be > short enough for you to remember where you are. In exchange, you save > dozens to hundreds of keypresses every single time a playlist is created > on-player. There is no workaround for the number of keypresses necessary > to make a playlist on-player, while simply remembering how you left your > player is an excellent workaround for needing a backlight button. Hmm... yeah, you're right. The playlisting improvement is more important than the loss of a backlight on button. I could get used to what you describe. -- BorisReceived on 2009-03-06 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |