1.Is it possible to change the font size for audio items in the browser window?
2.Can the audio duration be included in the browser window as this is not visible until loaded into a player or playlist?
The first would bet more user friendly to partially sighted users, the second aid back timing before items are dropped into playlist or player.
3.Is it possible to programme hotkeys to scroll up and down the browser window?
I know you can scroll up and down with the arrows but I am thinking more of a custom keyboard.
4.Again relating to hotkeys, can we enable an hotkey to load the hightlighted audio in a browser to load to either the playlist or next available player?
These are functions we have in our current software (DualPlay) and our users would welcome the ability to maintain them.
Kind Regards Tony
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Why the need for all these custom features (see also the thread player stacks)? Simply all our presenters use a custom keyboard, no mouse for scrolling/loading audio/navigation!
Another Browser feature which would be good concerns on-the-fly databases and searching.
It would be useful to be able to search ALL on-the-fly databases, instead of first having to select the database (i.e. folder containing the audio). This would allow people to store audio in separate folders but still be able to search the entire ‘library.’
We are considering a custom app to write the duration as part of the filename.
The problem there it makes each track a unique name, so if the same track exists with a different running time it throws the scheduler out, in that the same song could play back to back.
I’m not sure whether it is possible to “teach” the browser to display the duration. As you know, it’s basically an embedded Windows Explorer (clone).
I have started to work on skin support for the browsers (to adjust font size etc.) but experienced problems. The tree view does change the font size, but does not adjust the height of each cell accordingly. Perhaps a bug in Virtual Treeview. This needs further investigation.
I'm not sure whether it is possible to "teach" the browser to display the duration. As you know, it's basically an embedded Windows Explorer (clone).
Hmm … a 'standard' Windows Explorer window can optionally contain a Duration column, but this only seems to work for MP3 files, and seems rather 'flaky' in operation here when I tested it on a directory with 700+ MP3 files in it. I suspect that Explorer needs to 'extract' the info. from inside each file before being able to display it.
I think the optional Duration field in Explorer is part of the Windows Media Player’s SDK/interfaces, though I could be wrong about that. I have not been able to try it on a PC which does not have WMP installed.