Hi. Hopefully these suggestions are not pipe dreams. It would be great if at least some of them could be considered before MC12 development is closed out
??
Here it goes...
Playing Now Navigation[1a] The ability to move items around in Playing Now. A simple way to achieve this could be through the inclusion of 2 new menu items on the existing context menu, ie:
| Add
| Play
|
Move Up |
Move Down | Remove
| Cancel
Each time "Move Up/Down" is selected, the item is moved up or down the list one position at a time. To minimise the number of key presses required to move an item up or down
several positions in the list, it would be good if the menu remained open and the last move command remained highlighted so that "Enter" could be pressed repeatedly.
[1b] A simple
option to reverse the PLAY and ADD context menu items (as shown above). For some of us, this would serve 2 important purposes: (a) It would help prevent "happy fingers" from hitting enter on something accidently and blowing away a current Playing Now list and (b) it would make building a Playing Now playlist on the fly much easier for those of us who like to do this.
[1c] The ability to jump to playing now and back
TO THE EXACT POINT YOU LEFT FROM -ie, as it was in MC9 and MC10. In MC12 you can jump to playing now, but you have to take the long route back.
[1d] An indicator or the like to show which items in your library are currently in Playing Now. This would be great to avoid doubling up PN items while building a playlist.
Playing Now Display Area[2] The ability to display title, length, time remaining and other useful info in the bottom half of Playing Now when viewing
DVD & VIDEO. Something similar to how track-info viz's work for audio. That way, you could toggle between fullscreen video playback and Playing Now to see this info as required. An opportunity to utilise
IMDB lookups here would also be fantastic!
Basic Tagging[3] The ability to perform basic tagging. MCE provides this through an on-screen phone keypad-like interface but perhaps some mechanism like Theater View's existing search facility could be used to select letters from a list and build words up that way.
Saving Playing Now Playlists[4] The ability to save Playing Now playlists. The playlist name could just be given a simple date/time stamp but it would be perfect if you could name it to whatever you like (again, ala MCE). The method described in [3] could be re-used to achieve this perhaps.
Rip and Burn[5] The ability to burn Playing Now content to CD/DVD. A posible solution for this could be achieved through some changes to the exisiting MCC_BURN command. If this command allowed me to pass my default burn options via command line and simply create the cd automatically based on Playing Now content, I would be able to add the function as a USEABLE custom menu item. As it stands today, MCC_BURN simply initiates the burn command in Standard View via the AW and requires far too much user interaction to be useable in Theater View. I'd like to be able to create a cd without having to leave the Theater View interface.
[6] Likewise, the ability to
rip a CD. Again, I'd be happy using the existing MCC_RIP command for this also if I just didn't have to leave Theater View and make a whole lotta key presses (which is difficult with just a remote!).
Others[7] I'll mention this for completeness only as I'm sure this would be a lot of work: Full PVR and EPG integration.
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Topic: Feature Requests for Theater View (Read 4824 times)