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Quote by Interneci on 2008-02-20, 15:14:Quote by Peregrine on 2008-02-05, 09:15:Current wishlist. * = comments by me.
This is an updated version of Peregrine's Whishlist summary, the "*" indicating comments by Peregrine. Comments starting with "#" are mine.
I kept Peregrine's topic numbering and just added new entries at the bottom.
- 1. the lock function. It would be nice to be able to FFWD or RWD through songs, in addition to PLAY/PAUSE while locked. Only disable the rotary VOL. *(The #1 agreed upon wishlist item) (# Can be solved in "soft hardware" by putting the Vibez into a skin bag.
- 2. nested playlisting
- 3. support for AAC audio
- 4. embedded cuesheets! would make it perfect
- 5. Pick-an-album-at-random DJ mode, or alternatively a shuffle mode that keeps album tracks together in order
- 6. "Go to album/artist" function for when listening to random mixes. I often hear a song on random play and then want to listen to the album it is from / more from the same artist.
- 7. What I would really like is to use the scroll wheel to navigate the current playlist when pressing the center button. For some reason, the scroll wheel controls volume in this view only. Additionally, if this view had all of the Now Playing functionality, then I would be in heaven.
- 8. Also a Pitch function that makes only the music/text faster/slower BUT with remaining at the same tone pitch, so that when I hear an Audio Book faster than normal the voice does not sound like Mickey Mouse!
- 9. DJ - Great feature but would like to see a filter added from which the DJ pulls rather than the entire music library. It would be nice to be able to choose Playlist, Genre, Year, etc. then choose Entertain Me, Top Tunes, etc.
- 10. More robust organization within Genre, Year, Mood, etc. Currently when you choose one of these, it lists all the tracks within that Genre and lists them alphabetically. I'd like to see them listed by Artist, Album. The Vibez has a great navigation UI for this - why not use it?
- 11. RDS for the radio *(many agreed with this one, too)
- 12. The ability to create & edit playlists independent of the Now Playing list. Karma had this, vibez does not, and I feel a tinge of sadness every time I go looking for it.
- 13. I'd really love the Vibez to have a pan/balance control.
- 14. Backlight on track change like music clip tv channels do, they announce the track titles etc at the end and beginning of each track
- 15. always start playing (or always pause) on power up, not remembering play/pause setting *(not sure this is possible with SAVING SETTINGS moved to powerdown)
- 16. Two sets of "Power Saving" settings for battery and connected mode so we can configure the backlight to stay "always on" while the Vibez is sitting in its docking station.
- 17. Automatically turn the backlight on if remote control codes are recognized while the device is connected to a power supply, so that the backlight switches on when using the docking station's remote control.
- 18. Paint a contrasting "shadow" or "halo" around the font's glyphs, such that the text's readability is improved, eg. if you select "album art" as the background image. (# also collected a few nods)
- 19. A "Play 1 Track" option (a la the Rio Carbon Developer's Cut firmware) which allows us to select whether playing 1 track (A) starts from the track (and treats the full album/directory it came from as the Now Playing list), or (B) plays just that track.
- 20. Allow to reach the editable "Now Playing" list from the Playing Screen using a single button press, eg. by making it available as a "Quick Button" option. (# Being able to skim through tracks using the wheel, as I also suggested, probably is not really important any more if the "Now Playing" list can be reached more easily.)
Maybe it'd make sense to order this list by the effort required to implement each topic? However, that's probably impossible to estimate for me.
Let me add my suggestions from the firmware thread:
21. Undo skip. Explanation: When I try to change the switch the popup menu or rewind a small amount and I'm too slow I skip to the next track or the beginning of the current track. While this is mildly annoying for music, it's a PITA for podcasts (or any spoken word content for that matter). It would be great to have a short time window in which a press on the opposite skip button would activate a kind of undo function and bring me back to where I accidentally left. Making it optional would probably becalm the lot among us users who frequently can't decide in which direction to skip.
22. I miss a DJ mode to play all tracks with at least (and not exactly) a certain number of stars.
23. There is a "delete track" quick button but I can't find a function to delete the current track from the disk anywhere in the menu. Listening to a bunch of new music and keeping only what I like is quite difficult ATM.
24. Deleting a whole directory isn't possible at the moment AFAICS.
25. Recording radio would be great (if feasible).
26. Possibility to choose a fallback background when album art is the first choice but not available.
Finally I'd like to second a wish expressed by some people in the firmware thread which is:
27. Option to set an absolute (as opposed to the current fix relative) skip amount for the seek popup menu and/or the FF/rewind buttons.
I personally like the following suggestions among 1-20 a lot: AAC, DJ filter, RDS, balance control (I'd like to add a mono function to that, for when I use only one earbud), connected mode power settings, better looking and more readable font.
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