Alot of good ideas - especially the playing now window one which is something that was buggine me a LOT when I set this up on someone's machine.
Also the following features would be nice:
1. (already said) a text only list with customisable text columns that display instead of thumbnails
2. A method of searching for files like there is in main mode. The difference is this would be designed for very basic entry mode. The best way I can think of is an onscreen keyboard to enter the search text. There could be an option for this for configuration mode:
- normal mode
- mobile mode (this would let you enter text like you do in a mobile which is PERFECT for remotes with 0-9 buttons on them
http://www.myhtpc.net/images/screens/large/titlesearch.jpgit could be presumed that only basic searches would be done and not long complex ones so if you did a :
search by: all/title/artist/name/year etc where we could just click up onto the 'search by' and then right click to make the option change as to what we were searching by it'd make it pretty basic and easy. Just an idea.
3. Ability to customise the tree so I could for instance always have a link to see the list of what's 'playing now' with just one button click. I could then navigate up and down the list and use -> to go into a list of options for each file (play again, remove from playlist, move up playlist, etc. etc.)
4. When I reach the end of a tree if I click -> again it then either as mentioned jumps to the right hand pane or it would do as suggested for playing now and bring up a list of options (add to playing now (next), add to end of playing now, replace playing now, etc. etc.)
5. there needs to be some way of choosing how files/albums are added to the playing now window - maybe I slipped up but I couldn't see one - this needs to be on a per track/album method not a global option that's set then forgotten type thing.
Maybe let us go through and select a bunch of tracks, then push a button that brings up options where we decide if we want to add all the tracks to playing now, replace playing now, insert into playing now and play etc.
6. More customisable views. This for instance is a great way to browse an album and choose tracks in it:
http://www.myhtpc.net/images/screens/large/music2.jpgThis is a great view if I want a lot of info about one file (eg for a film)
http://www.myhtpc.net/images/screens/large/small_video8.jpg