Jukebox thoughts

[kummell]

wow, the jukebox in 2.0 is a vast improvement on 1.4.10 - thanks for all your hard work!

I especially like the "chunking" by alphabet for the albums - could we have something similar for artists?

It'd also be nice to have another layer in the hierarchy - so I could go from artist to albums (and then have the songs sorted by track number, not alpha)

[phenixdragon]

I love it. I also would like it if it would show artist and when you high the artist it would show the albums (including the cover pictures) on the right side while the middle shows the name. I think showing the album covers how it is now is even a strong statement for the software.

Also sorted by track would be great!

[kummell]

one additional thing - I'd like to be able to specify the screen display while music is playing. Ideally, I'd like it to use either:

-> my HTPC screen saver
or
-> a slideshow of pictures in a specified folder (which is what my HTPC screen saver does)

I think that'd be a bit cooler than the bright wave form that's presented right now that's going to burn out my TV! (ok, maybe not burn it out, but it's not that exciting to watch)

I'd prefer that Sage have a feature to do a slideshow so that moving the mouse doesn't kill the screensaver, but having Sage use my screen saver rather than the built in screen saver would be cool...

[phenixdragon]

I also noticed that when you pick an album and move to the next screen you do not change focus to the first song in the list. It put focus on "Jukebox Home"; not being at home I believe that is the first option on the left side. But it would be nice if focus was changed to the first song in the list.

[follower]

Playlists still need a little work. I've noticed that the you can add songs to the playlist and it plays but you can't choose a song to play from the list while it is playing. Playlists do not show the song title in the list. Changing the order (similar to the slick UI in the favorites ordering) should be active in the Playlist manager. Also Randomization is not available. This is just from memory last night... Tonight I will write a true bug report.