In Playing now - right mouse click and say
"Stop playing after finishing this song"
I really like this suggestion.
I'm not sure how you would indicate this to the user (Change the icon to a red stop sign, the opposite of the green "now playing" icon? Perhaps highlight the track red or a color defined by the skin?) but being able to select a track and say "stop after this track" without having to clear the rest of a playlist would be great.
I have actually requested the first thing, and it exists (although not in playing now window), if you right click the stop-button, you get the "stop after current"-function.
The "stop after current file" option doesn't seem to work if you use it within the last ~30 seconds of a song, which probably happens 50% of the time that I use the feature.
I'd really like to see a fix for that. It's one of those small things which is very frustrating.
[...]or "Stop playing after xx minutes" or "Stop playing after next 5 songs".
I
would like to see something similar to this.
What I'd really like is a "sleep timer" functionality where you can say "stop playback after XX minutes" - but interacting with the player will reset the timer.
E.g. "stop playing after 30 minutes" but display a warning for the last 60 seconds, and if you hit a button during that time, it will extend it for another 30 minutes.
But I think these suggestions are beyond the scope of "too easy" if they are to be implemented well.
The ability to manually change the search string for the cover art function. (at least for single album searches), if i have some extra information in the title, for instance "Waterloo [Japanese Edition], it can throw of the search.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but I have run into similar problems.
If I have multiple copies of an album by the same artist, but those versions have different covers, Media Center gets confused.
The files themselves are tagged correctly, but its cache only uses the most recently added cover.
So if I'm browsing Theater view, the wrong cover is displayed for example.
I'd really like Media Center to be using
[Artist] - [Album] [Description] for cover art, instead of
[Artist] - [Album]