Here's a preview of what we've got so far.
Keep in mind that this won't work until 9.0.126 -- which should be released tonight.
Advice and suggestions welcome.
Thanks everyone!
Oh, Matt--You Guys ROCK!
Here are some (well, many) thoughts:
1) I couldn't see any facility for direct track access--well Sequence number access.
2) How about navigation commands: Up/Down/Left/Right/ PgUp/PgDwn etc.
3) I also didn't see the existing "Jump to" command(s) in the tree to navigate to PN, Media Library, Web Media, etx.
4) When activating Party Mode, how will we get out of it. Can we pass a PIN number to deactivate Party Mode?
5) Does the shuffle command in the "Play" section take the place of the existing "Resuffle" command? [edit: oops, found it in the LIST commands]
6) Direct Ratings settings?
7) How about Locate file by Artist/Album/etc.? Very handy when listening to a smartlist and suddenly realizing you want to hear more by that Artist or from that Album. [edit: oops, found it in the LIST commands]
8) I see the LIST command to add to Playing Now, but can we retain the ability to set whether the track should be Next, At Beginning, To End, Replace, etc.?
9) How about Filter commands? Do Not filter, Play only (by view), Don't Play (by view)....
10) How about sorting? On any DB field would be great, but I'd take Artist, Album, Track Number, Sequence number.
11) Direct access to MegaMe, Hairstyle, Windowed Mode, Mini-Me (what PhatPhreddy said above).
12) I love the idea to show the DSP studio, Playback options, etc. Will there be a way to manipulate those dialog boxes? At the very least a way to access cross-fade style & time and to set which DSP effects are on....
13) Neat idea to expose the "Open..." command. Will it be possible to pass a filepath or URL to these commands?
14) I didn't see anything dealing with visualization or track information control. Plugin Forward/Back, Cycle All, None, Track Info, etc.
15) I'd also like to put in a plea to not lose the existing "Power" functionality or the "TREEPATH" functionality. It's nice to be able to "smart-toggle" MC with the Power command and direct access with the TREEPATH is great too--although if the form has to change, that's cool.
Whew, I think that's enough for now! (Note: I didn't focus on the image playback or TV/DVD systems at all because I'm not familiar with them, but we shouldn't forget them...)
Thank you very much!
Brad