Post by: nila on August 11, 2002, 08:19:16 pm
Seeing as your playing with version 9 and adding random features to it I thought I'd throw a few your way so you could possibly add them to it.
Also, I'd like to volunteer as a beta tester for it.
Could you add these fields:
Last Played date
Total Number of Times Played
Imported Date
Also the ability to edit the id3 tags of a song and save them without the song starting again from the beginning.
I'd also LOVE it if you'd make the import files feature smarter so it could detect covers for albums saved in a folder along with their covers.
Also (I know I mentioned it before but it's quite an important one to me so I'll just mention it quickly) the ability to filter the playlists by artists who have Less than or More than X songs to get rid of artists who only are in my collection by being in compilations or to filter in only artists with a half decent amount of songs.
The ability to browse explorer style my computer is now a huge bonus.
I'd also like a feature to export all my settings just from going to file - export settings, rather than having to do it manually and even then loosing all my registry settings.
I'd like the install program to be smarter so I didn't have to reselect all my file associations each time I install an updated version.
Smarter renaming rules so that I could for instance specify a format (artist - album - track # - track title) but then also specify alternative ones for tracks that missed specific fields.
File truncating when burning and file names are over 256 - I'd love to be able to have an option for these files instead of just having their names being cut short, have their names instead re-created from the id3 tags using formats of my choice.
Ability to have Media Jukebox span playlists over multiple cd's for burning.
Make it prompt weather or not to empty the playlist after a cd is burnt.
cant think of anything else right now :)
Oh yeah,
for your sake more than mine,
I HUGELY recommend making it support the PC iPOD as this would be something you could then use to make Apple advertise your program which would give you a LOT of business.
Post by: PhatPhreddy on August 12, 2002, 12:03:46 am
One big file album rips and CUE sheet support...
Compression with Monkeys to APE and APL support..
Then also how about offline CDDB services... FreeDB allows the DL of its database and this is enormously useful for those that dont have a Ripping PC networked or perhaps are on dialup... I dont know if Gracenote have restrictive licencing but FreeDB local database access would be really cool (though FreeDB is not as good as CDDB)...
More web remote intergration...
More access via SDK's to all aspects of the app for external developers...
Post by: PhatPhreddy on August 12, 2002, 12:16:49 am
A DPLII decoder plug in (so that only those that want to pay the dolby licence buy it) for less than $50... The ability to play DTS 24/96 redbook CD's would also be mighty cool as PowerDVD is nothing like as friendly as MJ...
A DVD-A player (lots to solve in this, MLP decoder, etc) for less than $200 or there abouts...
The first DVD-A player for the PC (I dont think Sony will ever let SACD into the PC arena) will be a watershed moment and could be the item that breaks the dam and gets DVD-A the momentum it needs... This coupled with 24/192 soundcards at $150 or so (ego sys) is a really hot proposition... I understand the need for no ripping of this simply a DVD based playback mechanism... The AVS crowd wuld be all over this....
Feeling brave ?
Post by: graham131 on August 12, 2002, 01:04:11 am
Post by: Chico on August 12, 2002, 03:50:54 am
A couple of my V9 requests are:
1) Have all library and playlist files in a centeral location with a unique name that reflects the library or playlist name.
2) The ability to control handheld devices (Play, Stop, Pause, FF, RW, Skip, Next, Previous...). My intrest is for the Nomad Jukebox, but I assume everyone will want the same for their particular handheld.
Chico
Post by: Mirko on August 12, 2002, 04:19:56 am
You can actually do a central archive with the version 8. Just "rename" the files to a subdirectory, where you would like to have all the files. I do this with g:\medienarchiv already.
Post by: PhatPhreddy on August 12, 2002, 05:14:24 am
This only becomes important for madmen like me with too many PC's around who like to tie them all together but currenlty I am struggling..
Party mode is doable with a central update server (I have my central server RDC'ed with XP pro and terminal into it for DB maintainance) but its hardly elegant...
Media Server does not pass out the Cover art (I believe) and with that being so nice with Glissando I dont want to give that up..
Sharing the DB on a network drive was not advised...
I guess I could set a backup tool to backup and propogate my central DB and cover art folders to my client (player) machines each night (in fact that could be your way of doing it... Daily updade specified DB's) and this sounds like something I should investigate...
I will keep jumping back in here as I think of more... :D !!
Post by: Matt on August 12, 2002, 06:04:10 am
Post by: Mirko on August 12, 2002, 06:57:22 am
Ok. Would you please include this in ver9? I did spend quite some time on updating, file by file, the lyrics-tag and I'm now somewhat dis-satisfied that they don't show up.
Thanks in advance.
Post by: bennyd on August 12, 2002, 07:59:54 am
- Smart crossfade (end of song detection, no crossfade until song
really ends, etc.)
- Be able to see Playing now and Media Library together (see Winamp
3)
- To be able to see which playlist you are playing at that moment.
(if you add or delete a song from playing now, that it
shows "Modified Playlist", see Winamp 3)
- export playlist with right mouse click
- Look for album art on the internet while you're playing the track
(see MusicMatch)
- Auto importing from specified folder(s)
Post by: Gatobrit on August 12, 2002, 08:17:22 am
Don't forget all the v9 talk regarding "Shuffle" and "Random" from the thread/s some time back.
Shuffle / cross-fade options specifiable by smartlist / playlist / album. For example, when I play "Dark Side of the Mooon" I always want it in track order, gapless but with no cross-fade.
Alternatively, simply have an overall / global option to "Play Albums Gapless in Track Order" or something.
Speed up ripping / encoding. I have a 52X CD drive and a P4 1500MHz system and MP3 VBR ripping is not as fast as it should (or could?) be.
Batch / background CDDB lookup.
Pop and squeak filtering in Media Editor.
Listening to: 'Valerie' from 'Chronicles' by 'Steve Winwood' on Media Jukebox
Post by: SkylarPlane on August 12, 2002, 08:35:34 am
1). Please remove all duplicates
2). When MJ cannot identify the name and artist, read the file name
and display and ask the person to fill in the needed info and
then update the file, even if you have to copy it over so it
will from then on have the needed info.
It's very frustrating to have to clean up everytime one updates
Skylar
Post by: Riff on August 12, 2002, 08:43:02 am
Also, I would like an option so that you if there is no album art for a particular song, the visualizations with album art should not come up for that track. Not too big a deal, but it would be nice - especially for HTPC use.
Post by: lee269 on August 12, 2002, 09:17:44 am
Also a way of finding which files have no cover art associated with them. Album view has a nice visual way of doing it by colouring items in the tree, but a cover art db field would be just as useful.
Post by: Duane on August 12, 2002, 10:43:25 am
Post by: hvy duty on August 12, 2002, 10:56:48 am
I think everybody has asked about the dup files, we have a long time ago.
This would be a great asset for MJ. JimH was talking about a plugin and a little extra money for it don't know what happened there but hope you can add it to MJ9.
Post by: nila on August 12, 2002, 12:57:57 pm
i know this might be a grey area so I'd like to hear your opinions on it but my computer at home is networked (the one with all my music on it) and so I can play the music on it from all my computers and use it as a music server for my house (pretty sure I could do this with the original cd's too and still be not breaking any copyright laws) but one problem I have is that each computer can only act on the main server as a server. I'd like them to all be able to move, edit, copy, create playlists etc on the main computer easily.
This is obviously a big job though and not as easy as my other requests to just slip in. Not sure what copyright implications it might have too. I'd definitely LOVE the other computers to be able to create playlists though on the music computer.
Post by: sekim on August 12, 2002, 02:17:06 pm
Visualizations. Make 'em play like winamp. I know this is only glitter for MJ, but they could be a whole lot better. This about the only thing winamp does really well. Is it possible for MJ to do this also?
More toolbar button choices. Analyze Replay Gain comes to mind. Have it on the toolbar, click, searches library for files needing that special touch, takes off and does it thing. Make it save the results automatically. Preferably in the background while doing something else with MJ.
Real compatibilty with external word or spreadsheet programs for mass tag updating. Export tag info, edit, re-import changed data and be able to read what the external app has done. Many requests for this. Or...can MJ be made to behave like said programs?
More later.
Listening to: 'Mind Riot' from 'Badmoterfinger' by 'Soundgarden' on Media Jukebox
Post by: JaredH on August 12, 2002, 04:05:10 pm
Post by: JaredH on August 12, 2002, 04:14:05 pm
Post by: Chico on August 12, 2002, 06:39:16 pm
Also, retain the postion and highlighted files of previous views when changing views. If I leave Media Library and go to Playing now, then go back to Media Library, it should be in the same state and list position I left it, not back to the beginning of the list.
Post by: mountainman on August 12, 2002, 08:35:44 pm
By the way, if ripping DVD's is illegal, then nevermind.
Post by: Sergio on August 13, 2002, 12:34:30 am
I'd like to have an "MP3-Gapless" playback mode, so that I can hear my MP3's without gaps. This has been discussed before, and can be achieved by adding a play mode similar to smooth crossfade, only with a very small interval, say 0.01s.
Also, a better playing time estimate would be really good. I am trying to make a plugin that relies heavily on the current playback time and I find that if I seek, there's a big de-synch between the real playback time and the playback time reported by MJ.
Post by: phelt on August 13, 2002, 01:14:59 am
I don't care about dupe finding, but it sounds like it would be a very popular feature. If it would stop the shouting, I'm for it.
I would like more flexibility in view schemes: if I could include track names in the branched view, that would be great.
Gapless MP3 playback would be cool.
Omnipresent Playing Now - there's a resizable area for the visualizations above the Playing Now browser view, so could that same area be omnipresent (ie, visible while browsing the Media Library, etc) and contain the contents of Playing Now? That would rock.
Post by: Scronch on August 13, 2002, 01:45:11 am
Scronch
Post by: Sergio on August 13, 2002, 03:15:46 am
Post by: Brak on August 13, 2002, 03:52:18 am
Make the DSP studio window dockable. It's annoying to have to alt-tab back and forth to adjust the settings then replay the section to see if it sounds right. Plus, it's a heck of a lot more interesting than those worthless visualizations.
Put buttons for skip 5 seconds forward and back with the other playback controls. Those are especially handy commands when listening to audiobooks.
And speaking of audiobooks, how about a playback speed adjuster? When playing DVDS and videos in a decent DVD player, you can fast forward and slow down. I want to be able to do the same thing with plain audio files. That way I can skim through a one-hour audio file to find where I fell asleep while listening.
Thanks
Post by: Marty3d on August 13, 2002, 05:06:54 am
- dupefinding, but in playlists or Playing now (right-click -> remove duplicates perhaps?) not physical
- Replay Gain smarter so it could be applicable on albums, continuous tracks are a disaster to listen to when RP'd
- Cover arts visible somehow (haven't thought out how) even though the track/album isn't playing
- Top hits with customizable date ranges (maybe even with dynamic ranges...like "Week(Now)"...that would be REALLY cool!)
- Fully transparent for multiple users on one computer, each user has its own library (or shared if wanted) and no "re-install" for each user
- No more convert to temporary files if you want to burn with effects and RP...I don't mind if the burning process takes a bit longer, I do mind about diving into settings and change output and stuff!
- Customizable hotkeys for play, rewind, pause etc.
- (Just a wild idea :)) Detachable player/library/playlist/info windows! Optional of course ;) Then you can see whatever window you like, a playlist AND Media library at the same time!
- Smarter handling of folders. It's a minor mess to rename a folder for an album for instance. Now I remove the album from MJ library, rename it, and import it again...sigh...:)
- Separate some functions in the properties window. I really didn't like that I was forced to watch MJ browse through all files and then see it doing that again when I chose to do some RG...perhaps I just want to see RP being more intuitive? For example: Actually be able to see/sort files that are/aren't RP'd?
And don't forget, I love MJ! No human or product is perfect...right?
Post by: Rusty on August 13, 2002, 05:24:45 am
I really only have two big ones (wishes that is) that I'm always on about & they are:
1) Decent Pop, Scratch & Hiss filtering in Media Editor (in real time & even perhaps with a Assistance Wizzard if possible) to enable proper clean up of audio inputs from tape & vinyl sources.
2) Simplify this Replay Gain mess ... Put a simple one click button on one of the right click drop down menu's e.g. = "VOLUME LEVEL PLAYLIST" etc, to enable Volume Levelling of all tracks, regardless of file type (OGG, APE, MP3 etc) prior to burning, or even perhaps for your entire Media Library if that's what everyone wants ... But definitely for the various songs in a Compilation Playlist prior to burning!
Could we perhaps be kept informed about the various features that already have made & are destined for the Version 9 inclusion cut?
Kindest regards - Rusty (listening to "UNDECIDED" by the Masters Apprentices).
Post by: Steven Grimm on August 13, 2002, 09:39:46 am
Post by: yughi on August 13, 2002, 09:44:40 am
All that time this program has been the best on the market. Now I don't buy much online, in the group of software, but this kind of software is worth is money.
What I would love to see is even MORE export and import formats. Every format has it's own use and and it's very usefull to have even more.
Anyhow, perfect product and am very interrested in what 9 will bring.
Post by: Mirko on August 13, 2002, 09:50:16 am
So this could be somewhat more difficult to JRiver than I thought. Maybe it is possible for ver11 or so
Post by: nila on August 13, 2002, 04:43:54 pm
Better way of dealing with Radio stations - I'd like to be able to easily export my list of stations, to send them to friends etc.
Have an 'I love you button' that I can press every time I realise how much I love the program and feel like letting you guys know.
ALOT of communication with Rhino so that AV v2 (which I'm testing and is SUPER fast) is VERY tightly integrated with MJ.
Option to choose where the Covers are saved (in the data dir or in the same dir as the songs themselves if they're all in the same dir).
I'd like the actual MJ interface to be more configurable so that I can customise where the different screens are and which screens appear at what time. ie. I'd lilke to be able to choose to have the current playlist showing at all times maybe, have the DSP studio showing at all times (Gotta say, this feature is VERY easy to miss with the way it's currently set up). - Take a look at cuteftp pro for an example where they redid the GUI and set it up to allow you to move each screen around more. Also ACDSee (latest version).
An input box on the 'player' so that I can type in a time and it will jump to that time for me.
Ability to loop a song between two spots and have it just keep looping.
Tempo control added to the DSP.
An 'Intro' mode that just plays the first X seconds of all tracks in the current playlist.
1-10 for song ratings as 1-5 just isn't giving me anywhere near enough options to be able to use for decent ratings. Include an easy option to upgrade from v8 by doubling all ratings already set so 1=2, 2=4, 3=6, 4=8, 5=10 maybe with an option for the user to specify what each old rating maps to (they could do: 1=1, 2=3, 3=5, 4=7, 5=9 if they wanted).
Replay gain added better - would like a button or an option in the tools menu that I could click and it would simply analyse the Replay Gain of mp3's that didn't have it worked out already and save this value. Not have to select all the mp3s properties then tell it to skip ones already analysed.
Low memory usage mode (possibly just comes into effect with Mini MJ) that drops the db from memory and just plays my songs using as little excess memory as possible so it can run quietly in the background.
more later....
Post by: Chico on August 13, 2002, 05:38:30 pm
"I don't care about more burner features, I just want EAC integrated into MJ
I don't care about dupe finding, but it sounds like it would be a very popular feature. If it would stop the shouting, I'm for it."
Who cares that you don't care?
Just post what you do care about.
Post by: dedidio on August 13, 2002, 05:46:45 pm
looking forward to image features.
P.S. thanks for fixing TV
Post by: BigCat on August 13, 2002, 09:06:47 pm
The most important thing for me would be the ability to create user configured "sequenced" property editing rules. The way it is now with a new file I must (after entering Properties): edit the tags, then one at a time use those drop down tools like Clean File Properties, then Rename File From Properties, etc...
It would be nice if I could maybe just clean up the tags, highlight all the files, then click one button I had previously configured to do all this stuff in the right sequence the way I like it.
At the least MJ should remember the last settings I used when editing.
Also, a way to view, COMPARE, syncronize id3v1 and idv2 tags
Support/ show more tags
Improved Media file property layout in general- the tools are awesome! They should be out where you can see and access them with buttons and right clicking, not just on the drop down menu!
Fit more info on the same screen - the info in the last screen in Properties (Format) should be somewhere in the first screen (General). Instead of four screens (general, playlists, images, format), it should be just one or two.
Better capitalization- a user defined "exceptions" dialog with some presets (like in Mp3-Tag Studio)
"APPLY" command in "media file properties" for saving individual files!!!
Batch / BACKGROUND CDDB lookup
Batch / BACKGROUND replay gain analysis
Batch / BACKGROUND search for files that don't have v1/v2, etc. tags
Batch / BACKGROUND cover art lookup
Thanks,
~BigCat~
Post by: Mirko on August 13, 2002, 09:14:45 pm
I thought about it some days now. And I will try to suggest some usefull features with it:
I've quite a lot of pictures to handle (digicam *g*). To do this I now use ACDSee. Since a few days ACDSee keeps crashing, if I visit more than a couple of pictures. So stability will be first.
Second.
I would like an option to specify the size of the thumbnails, because most of the time I use 1024x768-resolution but my girlfriend uses 1280x1024. So we have different needs for thumbnail-sizes and I personally don't like "resized thumbnails".
Third. This is a must have feature.
We usually do a picture-evening after vacations. We use a laptop in combination with a TV. So we have to look at the pictures at fullscreen and with smart controls (e.g. the cursor-keys) to switch from one picture to another (forwards and backwards). But usually we create a selection of pictures first, so no one falls asleep looking at thousands of similar things. I think an easy to use "playlist"-like handling would be a solution.
The most important in this features is easy handling. I don't like spending more time handling the slideshow than telling the stories. Another easy way could be using right mouse button for forward and left for backward. Doubleclick for "end slideshow".
Third, 5. Nice to have.
Let me assign an audio-playlist to a picture-playlist for background music. Don't do a direct assignment "one audio - one picture" (because we usually don't look 5min to one picture). Oh... _this_ feature could also make MJ a "killer application"; maybe it's not nice to have but a must have ;-)
Fourth.
I would like to have the pictures organized like my MP3-files (e.g. G:\Medienarchiv\pictures) with "category" (vacation, fun, art, flowers...), "time" (year), "location" (rhodes, at home, doesn't matter), "sub-location" (for the town/site), "size" (resolution, maybe dpi). So I think it would be usefull to have a "rename all"-function with _other_ options than mp3-files (because I'd like to have the option to put the pictures to some other storage-directory than my audio without having to switch this option every time).
I would like to see this as easy as the audio-renaming (because my pictures tend to have filenames like "DSC12947" and I would like to have them like "vacation - rhodes 2002 - kameiros.jpeg" saved in "g:\medienarchiv\pix\2002\Vacation\Rhodes\").
Fifth. This is must have feature.
Show the EXIF(?)-information ("exposure", "zoom", "Blende"(engl?)) from the digi-cam-pictures (they are automatically added to the jpeg/tiff). I think it is similar to mp3-tags. It would also be usefull to filter/organize by these informations. And please show them, as an option, together with the thumbnail (this one I hate in ACDSee. You have to switch around to see); maybe show it in the status-line at the bottom.
Sixth. Nice to have feature.
Histogram-function. This means changing the brightness distribution (you might know this from Photoshop or similar programs, particularly if you do digitcal photos). I have to use this quite often, because the most pictures are not optimal (even with a 4mpix camera... exposure). Maybe some _simple_ edit tools (like cutting and turning). Or let me easily "double-click" and start the default-editor for this particular file-type.
Seventh. The future.
Let Media Server "stream" the pictures (maybe with the assigned audio-playlist) to another computer like mp3-files. Let the other computer create playlists and do the slideshow (it would be Ok, if the server stores the playlists). So it would be possible to store the pictures onto the server and use a laptop and an ethernet-link to show the familiy, what you did that 2 weeks.
Ok. Maybe you find this usefull. Would like to hear comments from others.
Post by: BigCat on August 13, 2002, 09:15:52 pm
NUMBER TWO - Karaoke
-Karaoke Emulation with synchronized lyrics and image display
-Lyrics Synchronization Editor, to create Karaoke Lyrics (you possibly could dominate that growing market).
NUMBER THREE - EAC!
Another big vote for using MJ as an EAC frontend! If this is possible it would be huge news in the industry! Can you imagine?
As you might tell from my above post I have been thinking about this stuff for a long time and hoped some of it would end up in V8.xxx (especially the editing stuff). Like everyone else here, I care.
Thanks for the great program!
~BigCat~
Post by: Brak on August 14, 2002, 01:25:39 am
And if you don't want to set it up that way, please consider making the context menus (and everything else) more customizable. It'd be useless to ask for something as customizable as MS Word, but please use the standard commands or let me set it up to do just that. I'm constantly tinkering with my songs' playlists and would really like for it to take less work to get to this feature (and no, the send to feature isn't enough since I need to know what lists it's already in before adding a song to new ones).
Thanks for listening.
Post by: Jazzwolf on August 14, 2002, 07:19:53 pm
Post by: gkerber on August 14, 2002, 08:28:02 pm
Post by: Nick LeFave on August 14, 2002, 09:24:09 pm
The ability to view Artist/Album and Album(compilation only) in one view. To do this, maybe add a field to say sort as a compilation album. Also not to have the individual Artist track from the compilation appear in the list. Compilation tracks only appear with compilation.
Here's an example
Charley Patton - Godfather Of The Delta Blues
Hell Hounds On My Trail: Songs Of Robert Johnson <<>>
Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Sessions
Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues <<>>
ZZZ - Ice Cream For Everybody
Adding this ability to the Media Library would make this program an even more representative candidate for the pinnacle of media jukeboxes.
Post by: phelt on August 15, 2002, 12:26:24 am
Post by: nila on August 15, 2002, 02:17:42 am
It's not even at the Alpha testing stage yet I dont think what to speak of Beta and then final. Many months away at least.
Here's something CRUCIAL for v9.
You might not think it's crucial but that's because you just dont realise it yet :).
ICONS - I wanna be able to choose more icons for file types associated with MJ and I want to be able to set different icons for the different file types easily.
I know I can do this in Windows Explorer but two things:
1 - changing the icon for one type automatically changes it for all types associated with MJ due to the way it's been associated.
2 - changing it this way is slow and painful.
The reason I want this so much is because when browsing with windows explorer playlists and actual songs look the same by glancing at the file and this is really annoying, makes it alot harder and less simple to edit.
Winamp v2 used to give us a lot of different icon choices which was great but now they've got rid of that feature for v3 (I blame AOL for that probably).
Also, some more interesting, colourful icons would be nice.
Petty I know but it'd be a VERY nice feature. I'm currently setting all the associations manually and giving them winampv2 icons - it's a slow and painful way of doing it but worth it in the end.
Post by: cjdshaw on August 15, 2002, 04:55:17 am
Album Artist
Album
This should already be the default for the Artist/Album scheme. MJ will group by Album Artist if it exists, otherwise by artist. At least this will group your compilations as albums, rather than scattering them about as individual artists. They will all show up under Various, like this:
Charley Patton - Godfather Of The Delta Blues
Howlin' Wolf - Memphis Sessions
Various - Hell Hounds On My Trail: Songs Of Robert Johnson
Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
ZZZ - Ice Cream For Everybody
Post by: Chico on August 15, 2002, 11:31:48 am
No flaming was intended, dude! (Actually, it was meant as a joke.)
Your suggestions were good. I agree that multiple windows would definately be a plus. I don't no about additional burning features as MJ does quite well with burning both data and audio CDs. The dupe finder I feel is a good idea. Those with 1000|PLS| files may want to weed out the dupes and a having MJ help there would be a plus. I know that my collection is relatively small at 7000|PLS| files, and I'm sure that I have some dupes (not many though as I try to keep track of it as I add to the collection).
To All....
On a different note reguarding visuals...
Is there any visual like "White Cap" available for MJ? That is one of the most awsome vis's. It is one of my favorite Sonique visuals.
Post by: kandarohidharmapala on August 21, 2002, 02:29:44 pm
Post by: sekim on August 22, 2002, 05:27:31 pm
Seems like there a ton of pop-ups for everything MJ does. Maybe keeping (all of) them in the right pane when a selected action is requested would give MJ a more 'streamlined?' look. This may have to be done with addition of a more thorough toolbar perhaps? Anyway, just daydreaming about how things could be...
Listening to: 'Just So You Know' from 'The War of Art' by 'American Head Charge' on Media Jukebox
PS - Another fine band from Minnesota.
Post by: Jafo on August 23, 2002, 09:35:23 am
I would love for MJ9 to be able to play winamp visualizations, while I enjoy MJ8's visuals they just don't come close to winamp's.
I would also like this. Specifically Mildrop.
Post by: Influxor on August 23, 2002, 10:16:55 am
Post by: faithless on August 23, 2002, 03:19:51 pm
The MJ visualisations are great - but they would be even better if we could use the Winamp ones.
Thanks.
Mark
UK
Post by: DracutInn on August 23, 2002, 08:21:53 pm
Thanks----Great product!
Post by: Mr.X on August 24, 2002, 12:35:28 pm
Multi-threaded ripping and encoding, the way it used to be done in v7 and early v8 and still in EAC. ie:
Rip a track, start encoding, rip next track (without waiting for encoding to finish)
I don't like the way the latest v8 rip/encode works, and it's useless for people like me who use external encoders.
Why was that feature removed from v8, anyway?
-Mr.X
Post by: Neil on August 24, 2002, 01:15:06 pm
Post by: Kerensky on August 30, 2002, 07:15:02 pm
General Suggestions:
1. Try to work out a deal to use EAC's ripping engine.
2. Add support for iPod.
3. Add an option for jumping to “Playing Now” with single songs instead of just albums.
4. Add option for displaying track info for currently playing song in taskbar.
5. Add support for controlling basic functions when MJ is minimized in the system tray, and via right-clicking in taskbar.
6. Add tool to help find duplicate songs in media library.
7. Move, or allow moving, search bar to toolbar or other location on the main window.
8. Add option to hide “Seq” column in the “Playing Now” and "Playlist" windows.
9. Enable more customization of the left tree panel, including being able to hide and/or delete certain parts.
10. Add ability to completely cache a song or even album in the background while playing.
11. Add option to auto collapse open left tree directories when MJ jumps to “Playing Now” to play a song.
12. Add support for MP3Pro and HDCD.
13. Add ability to view foreign language characters (Unicode) in playlists, media tree, and elsewhere.
14. Make new better quality icons throughout MJ.
Skinning Engine Suggestions:
1. Mega-Me and Mini-Me should have the same skinning features/abilities.
2. Skinning engine should have all the features that Winamp 3.0 has.
3. Mini-me skins should be able to display the left media tree pane, instead of just the playlist pane.
4. Instead of having to use standard fonts, include support for skinned fonts. This is where, with .bmps, you can map out a alphabet, and numbers that the player would use instead of a regular font. Quintessential, Coolplayer, and Winamp 3 already support this with their skinning engines and it's one of the coolest features I've ever seen.
5. With the mute function, I'd like a way to keep the mute button displaying the down .bmp while the player is muted.
6. With playlists in mini-me mode, there should be the ability to customize what info in displayed. The default seems to be Track # - Artist - Song Name - Song Length. This may be possible already, but I haven't been able to find out how. Personally I'd just like to display Track # - Song Name - Song Length.
7. When displaying the elapsed or remaining time, allow skin authors to specify how many digits are displayed at any one time. Right now from what I can see, MJ displays only as many digits as is needed (with most songs usually m:ss), but for instance in one of my skins I'd like to specify that the elapsed time be displayed like hh:mm:ss always even is the unused digits only display 0's when not being used.
8. Add support for Windows XP features like ClearType font smoothing and Alpha Blending Window edges.
9. Include ability to specify the background color of the currently playing song.
10. Include ability to change the icons throughout MJ.
Post by: gkerber on August 31, 2002, 06:29:57 am
And I still don't know what the STOP NEXT PREV buttons on the toolbar do in v8.
Post by: drosoph on August 31, 2002, 02:32:38 pm
Post by: drosoph on August 31, 2002, 03:11:55 pm
Post by: drosoph on August 31, 2002, 03:15:10 pm
Also, I would like to be able to turn ON a feature to REMOVE SONGS FROM PLAYLIST WHEN PLAYED ...
Thanks
Post by: KingSparta on August 31, 2002, 03:21:09 pm
>>> REMOVE SONGS FROM PLAYLIST WHEN PLAYED .
tht might not be a bad option, this way if for some reason you need to stop the playlist you dont play the songs over again when you start playing.
Post by: Galley on September 01, 2002, 06:39:23 am
2. I'd like a CD's info saved as "Artist - Album Title" (in the "CD and DVD media" section of the media library), not just as "album Title". How can I tell ten discs apart that area all labelled as "Greatest Hits"? DVD's should be labelled as "DVD - DVD Title"
3. Different icons for different file types
Post by: ejgutierrez on September 01, 2002, 08:08:07 am
One more vote. Please,please,please ...
Post by: zevele1 on September 01, 2002, 12:08:37 pm
Here an exemple;there is only 2 free programs to check songs in double or more.
One is very primitive,the other is primitive.With the same problem for both:they just tell you the songs in double.You cannot play them,export and so on.
A MJ plug-in would let us do it inside MJ.Send to...,move to,send to playlist,play the songs.
Again the plug-in do not have to be included in the basic price,but to buy like Slide Show
Each plug-in in the $5-10 range and a "bonus pack" at $? with all the plug-in
Post by: Nila on September 02, 2002, 03:49:37 am
Got myself hold of a copy of v9. Just tested it.
First thing that comes to mind that needs to be changed is all the different options on the left. Firstly I'd like to be able to rename the parent nodes from say web media to radio stations or whatever else I felt like.
Secondly, there are so man options there that I'd like to be able to choose to hide some of the nodes.
Also, I'm using the my computer node to browse images and it's just showing me the details. No thumbnails of the images.
I checked most of the file/edit/tools etc menu's and couldn't see one labeled icons or view mode. I would have expected to have found it under 'view'.
I think this is the same thing as the other thread going on about how complex, it's not how complex that's the problem, just how easy it is to find options. Changing from file details to thumbnails should be ssuper easy if you want it to be an image browser.
Post by: JimH on September 02, 2002, 04:21:58 am
Try the instructions I wrote in the thread where you got V9.
Jim
Post by: Nila on September 02, 2002, 06:37:19 am
I finally worked it out but it was said more just to indicate that for the first time user it's not going to be self explanatory. I'm a pretty competant computer user, have a degree in comp. sci and it took me over 10 mins to work it out.
The average user will take far longer and get fed up trying if that's what they're after.
I also found it too eventually in the menu's but the name it was given was not at all clear.
Post by: Nila on September 02, 2002, 06:45:17 am
By layout I mean which columns are showing and the order they are in.
The reason this is useful is sometimes I want to see all the info. at other times I'll just want to see some, when I'm organising my mp3's I might care more about the location, when simply using I only care about artist, album, track number and song name, etc. It'd be REALLY nice to have an easy option to jump between different setups for the colums etc. One of the entries in the drop down list, pinned to the bottom of it should be: ...create new view mode.
Just another way of making the feature easy to use for beginners I reckon :).
Post by: Nila on September 02, 2002, 06:49:41 am
the dockable properties is nice, but the left and right arrows for moving between areas isn't the nicest way of doing it (in my opinion).
When I go past the playlist field for instance it freezes a bit as it gets the info and I dont need this as I dont want this option.
I think a drop down list would be far more useful as I could jump straight from one option to the next without having to go through any others. Also, it would allow all the options to be seen easily.
I could click the list and be able to see all the different areas that I could work on. Far nicer and more informative than clicking through each one.
Post by: sekim on September 02, 2002, 07:29:44 am
It'd be REALLY nice to have an easy option to jump between different setups for the colums etc. One of the entries in the drop down list, pinned to the bottom of it should be: ...create new view mode.
Nila,
Excellent idea. Noticed that you can right click on the column headers and uncheck whatever you didn't want to see. But a list of customised list views would really work good. Defaults could be included, but I think most would like the idea of only seeing what they wanted to when using MJ. Example, if messing around with images you wouldn't necessarily need to know bitrate info. And right now this is shown when I select some of the included jpgs from XPs sample images. So, unless a default for images were included, the customise feature would make more sense.
Post by: drosoph on September 02, 2002, 03:47:13 pm
Post by: drosoph on September 02, 2002, 03:49:18 pm
During the RIP CD process, I have the CALCULATE REPLAY GAIN ANALYSIS box checked .. but this step is NOT being performed ..
Also, the default MJ Plugin shows an error when trying to load and I have to cancel it ... Therefore, I cannot use the Replay gain calculations during playback ... Is everyone having this problem ?
Post by: drosoph on September 02, 2002, 03:52:45 pm
That way, I could set the ALBUM view to show the Cover Art ... but the Genre View, to show the Columns of info ...
And, to be able to set which columns show for each branch of the tree would be SWEET !!!
Post by: JimH on September 02, 2002, 04:00:30 pm
This version is for preview only. It still has lots of bugs we'll need to chase. We're just giving people who have contributed a lot to the development process a very early look.
Hope you'll understand.
Jim
Post by: drosoph on September 02, 2002, 04:19:48 pm
I never know where it's at, if its locked up, etc ..
Can you put some sort of PROGRESS BAR, % Completed, or even perhaps the FILENAME that is currently being saved ... that way I know if there was some sort of LOCK UP During tag changes, I know what file is causing the error (ie, File is Read-Only, too large, etc) ...
Thanks
Post by: drosoph on September 02, 2002, 05:47:08 pm
Also, there seems to be a loop problem in the CD RIP Process ... If the YADB database fails, it tries over and over to loop up the CD information .. When the CD, DVD, And Handheld tab is selected ...
Post by: Nila on September 03, 2002, 05:29:36 am
Post by: KingSparta on September 03, 2002, 05:57:30 am
>> Will CDDB be in the future releases ? YADB is VERY limited ...
i think the answer is NO and that is because of the license requirements in CDDB.
basicly tells the company you can only use our service not FreeDB etc... with CDDB.
It will take sometime for YADB to list all the cd-roms but i think they have a good start.