Just refreshing my collection of requests.
1. A right click context menu setup for a slideshow based of the currently playing albums folder (with options for sub folders - /art/images/coverart), and with the option of the rotated reflection effect (with quality setting). All on the right click context menu when right clicking over the cover image (standard view). A cover art slideshow from the currently playing album folder - rotated reflection effect. when the trk changes to another album, so does the slideshow... and so on.
2. Option to not auto play when changing playlists. If left ON by default it should not interfere with anyone who wants auto play. Nice to have the option to turn off or some other states. I had not considered other states just on and off, but other options could be worked out for semi-auto play depending upon conditions maybe.
3. When changing playlists, and or starting MC up - to scroll down and highlight the last playing file (and options around this, inc type of highlight and colours). An easy in UI way of doing this. What I find it does do currently upon car radio playlist change is it plays the first track in the playlist and sort of scrolls down to the area where the last track was played in that list.
4. A wave form seek bar/scrub window. Not separate by default but enabled to fit (dock) nicely above the playlist buttons in standard view (just below cover art) or for that matter just above the cover art, or anywhere on the standard view (maybe). This could if one wanted to replacing the timeline altogether (optional), replacing with a waveform seek/scrub section.
With quality/graphics options to optimise and refine for those with more gpu power. Smoothing, anti-aliasing to the point it almost looks soft focus. You know, just good graphics ideas we could build on.
I would actually love to have an all in one 'soundcloud' type waveform seekbar option to play with. Integrated into standard view either in the same place as the timeline is now. And other options for placement/detachment.
5. Option to back up to a 2nd location as well as the default one at the same time. As and when jriver does it auto backing up.
6. The audio path does not show blue (direct) for the skin Black on Black. Could this be updated please.
7. Could the dark skins like Black on Black support the 'Size' option where possible please. Not sure if these are in house or user created. Black on Black being my main skin at the moment. We all use so many different options for viewing these days, and scaling. So surely skins should now take advantage of all the scaling options in JRiver.
Black on Black
Purity dark
Air
Silent Night
Peal
8. Some new black and dark grey skins by in-house which bundle with the software. new UI designs for large TV screens in dim rooms for people wanting easy on the eyes dim and night time UI's. I'm a night owl and up all night with a large plasma screen, so all dark and grey everything suits my eyes.
Taking some design cues from the above listed dark and grey skins.
9.Easier to use tools for audio books. Access from right click context menus. Remember position after X %. Color last played file X color. Show files in color which have a remembered position of X % - maybe a few colors to indicate at a glance where the track position is by just the color its displaying (red 10%, orange 50%, 80%+ green) for example - traffic light system to show track position of each audiobook track in the playlist. I know now, I have to open the tag menu and add that media tag for all audio books.
Someone (6233638) kindly gave me a little bit of code to mark my audio books in red and remember the position after 10% played. But I would NEVER had figured this out myself. I wanted this but didn't know until I asked and got the code. And this is my main issue with JRiver, its all there, but beyond my skills to even know what I need. I'm sure I need a lot, I just don't know it yet or how to even guess it its all there and implement it. I love deep but forward thinking UI's where we can do a lot of this by easy to understand visual options and cues. A massive ask I know. But maybe something for MC v21 onwards.
So I suggest for later versions of JRiver - A better, tighter integration with the back end via very modern and very forward thinking UI and right click context menus and even visual animations to show things linking and happening. More long term future plans. And obviously these are broad concept ideas from someone who would like very forward thinking new UI. I'm never going to learn scripting, even in the most basic form and lean heavily on intuitive modern UI's.
10.Old and new style VU meters able to pop out the GUI of a VST plugin.
I've got the VU meters suggested in the other recent same sort of request thread:
http://www.lsraudio.com/lvlmeter.html Where someone mentioned looking into a detached window, either from the main UI or from DSP studio.
Would be great to be able to have these display in there own detached window, without always having to open DSP studio.
Maybe there are two ideas here. One is to have VST VU's be able to detach from DSP studio and float anywhere without the need to have DSP studio main window open.
And second, to maybe have in-house VST VU meters as floating window options for JRiver down the line. I've not really found a good selection of good VU meters. The one from the link above. And ideas based off the photo in this thread:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=96388.msg664704#msg664704I mean the software is a player, it has volume control so I thought why not also offer 1-5 (old and new) VU meters bundled in. To enhance the visual impact of using JRiver without needing more 3rd party stuff. And right there in a detached border less window, and also integrated into standard view somewhere if that option was checked. Just a thought for the future.
