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Wednesday, March 28. 2007

We had a useful discussion on IRC just now about the Amarok progress bar. I thought I would document it before I forgot the details.

Start off with the ugly mockup I drew up:

The idea is that the user can click a "bookmark now" button and a bookmark will be added at the current position. The bookmarks are those little triangle things in my drawing.
They could also right click on a point and add a bookmark there.
Cue files with the same filename as the music file would be loaded automatically and saved to automatically for user created bookmarks. Otherwise the database?
If the user stops listening to a song/podcast before it finishes, an automatic bookmark is created at that point. It would have a different color perhaps. I know I would find this feature very useful!
Click on the bookmark triangle to go to that point. When dragging perhaps the slider would pause for a bit on the bookmark (would have to be carefully implemented...)
Moodbar! Hopefully be default... would require porting moodbar to phonon (currently requires gstreamer).
Bart thinks the progress bar shown here would be too long. Mark really wants it to be quite long. I kind of agree with Bart, Max Howell's mockup looks good. But really the top toolbar (or "ControlBar" as its called in the code now) needs some work in general - Max's idea of a universal filter doesn't really work I don't think.

Posted by Ian Monroe in eean at 15:55 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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fantastic! This was one of the features of Quod Libet that i miss. I look forward to it's implementation. Thank you!

By the way, that screen-shot makes qt4 look great!

#1 Bearcat on 2007-03-28 20:35 (Reply)

absolutely fantastic! I'd love to be able to bookmark positions in a song.

#2 desso on 2007-03-29 06:43 (Reply)

Cool stuff, I like the idea very much, it will be a great feature for podcast-listening.

#3 Stephan (Homepage) on 2007-03-29 07:13 (Reply)

Another suggestion I made is to use a progress bar widget in the context view for bookmarking. I wouldn't like the clean look of the ControlBar to be tainted by the bookmark button and icons.

#4 Stecchino (Homepage) on 2007-03-29 08:24 (Reply)

That's a really nice feature. I would use it all the time.

One possible improvement, although I guess that this would be really difficult to implement. How about instead of having a progress bar let the highlight on the currently playing item in the playlist function as a progress bar, changing colour across the screen as the item progresses. Then if you had bookmarks on multiple items in the playlist they could be seen in the playlist. The item would not need to be selected to see the bookmark. Actually that could work even if the progress bar remained where it is.

Just an idea. If it's not clear what I mean let me know.

#5 ercan on 2007-03-30 05:16 (Reply)

Just one thought. I think bookmarks shouldn't be mixed with CUE files. CUE files are generaly on the collection directories and I would like my collection to fill up with CUE files. And I would like me CUE files messed by an accidental bookmarking I made. Maybe the files could be created in the amarok directory as moodbar does.
Other than that, the idea is great!

#6 Francisco on 2007-03-30 09:28 (Reply)

We wouldn't automatically create cue files. We might update load and write existing cue files, but otherwise store in the database.

#6.1 Ian Monroe (Homepage) on 2007-04-12 23:33 (Reply)

it is very difficult to point with the mouse at seconds-resolution in a
78minute mp3; there must some way for getting this to work; maybe a progressbar with a zoom-funktion and a minute scale on it

if it get DCOP/D-BUS support, than there should also calls for moving the cue-points around: for example a command to move the most-previous cuepoint X seconds in time (signed operation!);

#7 Hermann on 2007-03-31 02:41 (Reply)

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