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Ultimate Audio Playback => XXHighEnd Support => Topic started by: Telstar on March 18, 2010, 04:38:08 pm



Title: UI suggestions
Post by: Telstar on March 18, 2010, 04:38:08 pm
Not sure in which forum to put this, so i'll put it here.

Space
For small screens, the left area is too large. Therefore i suggest a smaller footprint for the album and the following reordering of buttons and elements:
-Q1 moved to the Q settings tab.
-Volume slider horizontal above or below the main elements OR Quality/upsampling settings to be put horizontal instead
-Playlist controls moved at the bottom, in horizontal, just above the album art
-Next and Next album button to be full size (i never liked when you added the latter making em smaller)
-the off button is superfluous, the program can be terminated clicking on the x (Next -track- can replace it)

Tabs
-Add an apply settings button (asked about 1 year ago  :( when the software was much more buggy)
-Remove the undemo tab ad put it in the settings or info tab. You said it couldnt be removed after registration, this way is less noticeable

Library tree (explorer)
-Allow double click on a single song in the tree to be automatically put in the playlist. Many, many times my SO wants to do that and doesnt like to use the explorer button.
-control elements in one line instead of two to optimize footprint for small screens

-(in the future maybe) allow for more than one music root (you know, like adding folders). Or maybe allow shortcuts in there to work. in my case i keep separated compressed (mp3) files, some of which are almost impossible to replace in lossless and i have to keep it out of the xxhe music root.
OR
-alternatively to not be it fussy for an entire disk as the root (but maybe exclude folders to be considered instead of the above suggestion).

That's all for now :)


Title: Re: UI suggestions
Post by: PeterSt on March 18, 2010, 04:53:18 pm
Thank you. Let's say you are too late.  :) :)

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Allow double click on a single song in the tree to be automatically put in the playlist.

Put the Playlist Area up front, rightclick on the coverart at the left, choose "Show Embedded Explorer here";
Now drag any track onto the Playlist Area ...

(not exactly what you asked for, but I guess you didn't know this one)


Title: Re: UI suggestions
Post by: Telstar on March 19, 2010, 10:26:14 am
Thank you. Let's say you are too late.  :) :)

uh?!?  ;)




Title: Re: UI suggestions
Post by: PeterSt on March 19, 2010, 11:18:40 am
You'll see ... ;)


Title: Re: UI suggestions
Post by: Calibrator on March 19, 2010, 12:33:32 pm
For small screens, the left area is too large. Therefore i suggest a smaller footprint for the album

hmmm ... if the left section is made even narrower, it will seriously restrict the number of characters displayed when browsing the listing in the galleries. As it stands at the moment, it's marginal at best when you have long titles to contend with. I find the height of the gallery listings a bonus when you need to rapidly scroll through it.

I agree that some of the buttons need a rethink for size an positioning though.

Peter has been hinting at some revamps to the GUI so I'll just sit back and see what comes out in 0.9y-9  ;)

Cheers,

Russ