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Postby Ultraviolet » Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:18 pm

trickydick, I know at one point you were soliciting ideas for your next UI attempt. I have several.

1.) I've mentioned this before and I tried my hand at it and failed miserably, but I would love to see some jquery drag and drop elements at work in the playlist. The current up/down arrow system is infuriating when trying to move a song in a large playlist.

2.) This next idea is an extension of the "similar artist" mod that mqchen released. I want my own personal Pandora. I think the plugin returns similar artists from musicbrainz. I would love to do a "similar song" call, then a loop to see if those songs were present in your collection, if so, add some number to a playlist and continue. I also noticed that musicbrainz stores MusicIP song fingerprint metadata which would be an even better means of making a playlist (if one had that same info in their share--I do at least). I didn't see MusicIP referenced in the API (just looked very quickly) so this last part may not be possible. The Chrome app Perisonic that heehoo just released also seems like an awesome candidate for this.

2b.) The above does seem like a long shot. Better integration of what mqchen has already created would be awesome.

3.) Remove the Random playlist functionality from the obscure More menu to someplace obvious (e.g. with all the other player buttons).

4.) Allow for more robust Index functionality (Under Settings-->General). Because of Windows file length limitations, I have my Classical music in the parent folder [CL]. Currently I can't have this map to a "Classical" index term--it maps to "#".

5.) Persistent Search textbox. I think currently it's only present when "Home"

6.) Not sure if this next one is me or a bug with your Outlook theme: When I click an artist in the "Now Playing" section, the correct album is displayed in the main frame. If I click on the song under the artist in "Now Playing", I get
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HTTP ERROR: 404 NOT_FOUND RequestURI=/undefined


7.) I believe one version of your Outlook themes had this, but it now seems to be gone in the newest release: There used to be either "Forward" and "Back" or "Previous" and "Next" buttons that allowed you to move sequentially forward and backwards between albums alphabetically. Now it seems to be replaced by an "Other Albums" button which doesn't really seem to do anything. I loved the forward and back functionality and got a lot of positive feedback about that from my users. I would love it back.

8.) Allow resizing of the playlist window. I see various things on this board that seems to indicate that people can do that now. Is that the case, or is this functionality missing?
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Re: Wish List

Postby trickydick » Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:07 pm

the first idea (drag and drop) seems promising. I have worked with drag and drop playlists before, I will deffently try working on that aspect.

the second one, seems to be more server side, meaning java coding and even some database changing. these two areas I am having trouble with. I cannot seem to get the right plugins imported to eclipes to be able to compolie new java code. Anyone reading this and would know how, please let me know what I need. I have posted what I've tried in my original post. As for the database, I have read a lot about what sindre has iused for subsonics database. it seesm to be hyperSQL, but not entirely sure. I have been able to mount this databse but am still unable to edit it or add to it. I've used many tools to try and get it to work. no success. Anyone know of a way?

Thanks for the suggestions, ultraviolet. I will put it in my build notes. I have not begun this project as I have moved to a new job. I will get on it, once i settle in.
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Re: Wish List

Postby GreenTentacle » Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:22 pm

Actually it's pretty easy to compile Subsonic without Eclipse (but you can still use it to edit java files)

What do you need :

- Install JDK (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... index.html)
- Install Maven (http://maven.apache.org/download.html)

Then I've made a simple batch script to compile, update the differents paths to suit your installation.

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SET JAVA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_27"
cd "path to\subsonic\trunk"
path to maven\bin\mvn.bat package
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