While-playing screen
While-playing screen
Posted Oct 9, 2010 18:21 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Rock-a-droid by kugel
Parent article: Rock-a-droid
To begin with, how does one stop a playing track? Pause is easy to find, stop is not. Beyond that, if you're in the "3x3 grid" UI mode, the "buttons" on the WPS don't do what one would expect them to do; the grid seems to override them. In absolute mode, things work better.
I still wish it had the level meters and that the progress bar showed progress through the track instead of progress through the playlist, but I assume that's just a matter of theming. I've not done any of that since I got the H340 WPS the way I wanted it years ago...
I sure hope the Rockbox folks don't think I was coming down on them. Rockbox is great stuff, and I know full well what one encounters when playing with pre-alpha software.
Posted Oct 9, 2010 18:31 UTC (Sat)
by kugel (subscriber, #70540)
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You stop by long pressing the play icon. The progress bar does show the track progress. You can press it to jump around in the track. Below it shows the elapsed and remaining time (of the track), with the track's playlist position in the middle.
If you touch the screen a pop up and the rewind&fast-forward buttons will show up. In the pop you can go to the file browser (or database browser), open the quick screen (a screen which shows 4 settings for quick and easy access, costumizable for your favorite settings) and the context menu of the wps.
Touching the above half of the WPS (where the album art normally is) brings you to the current playlist.
I think the article was very fair and reflected the current state about right. As you've mentioned we know it's in a very early stage. But we're constantly working on improving it.
While-playing screen