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<blockquote data-quote="RaceNJason" data-source="post: 701141" data-attributes="member: 109892"><p>Did searches for these 3 ideas and found one that matched (item #1) but it was from a couple years back...sort of surprised it hasn't been done by this time since I'm absolutely sure other users would find it useful so I'm going to put it down again.</p><p></p><p>1) Improve right click menu for tray icon. Simply link the play, pause, previous and next toolbar functionality into the right click menu. This way for users who minimize to the tray because they are working on their computer but playing music in the background it allows them to have basic functionality without the need to restore MP every time they need to use those commands. This feature alone has made me want to use Media Player over MP, but MP can upscale music from 2 channels to my 5.1 surround sound system whereas Media Player cannot - so I'm stuck using either MP with reduced functionality but great sound or Media Player that has poor sound play but with great minimized functionality. From a programmer’s point of view, this shouldn't be a difficult feature to add since the toolbar functionality already exists, so it's just a matter of making the menu commands and linking them to already existing functions. I would do it myself...but I'm a C++ programmer using VS2003.NET (MP is C# code and apparently needs VS2005+ to work on and build). Hopefully this feature will eventually make it into a release build...it's really needed.</p><p></p><p>2) Remember (or allow for an option to remember) the last size and position of the main interface. I don't like running MP at full screen because I'm generally using it to play music in the background minimized to the tray. But when I first start it up the initial size is smaller then I would like because it squishes the preview pictures (if it didn't, I would probably be fine with the default size). So this means I have to increase the width by a lot and maybe a tiny bit on the height. If MP could simply remember what the last position and size of the main UI was...it would save users the time of having to resize it every time they restart it.</p><p></p><p>3) This one probably won't be done because it is more complex...but since I'm making this post I might as well put it in. Anyway, after setting up MP and choosing a particular database I realized I would've preferred an alternative database then the one I chose (due to the fact that the alternative database I could've directly accessed via other programs rather then always having to use the configuration UI). I could of course completely remove the program and reinstall it with different settings, but after painstakingly cataloging nearly 500 movies there is no way I want to redo that. So a conversion tool along with a little more control over location and such would definitely be a plus in this area. I did find tools online to do the conversion if I really wanted to (at a moderate cost), I couldn't find anyway to point MP to the converted database afterwards. I've been using MP for a couple months now and am pretty familiar with it...so I don't think I'm missing a feature here that would do what I want, but if I am...please someone point me in the right direction.</p><p></p><p>Jason</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RaceNJason, post: 701141, member: 109892"] Did searches for these 3 ideas and found one that matched (item #1) but it was from a couple years back...sort of surprised it hasn't been done by this time since I'm absolutely sure other users would find it useful so I'm going to put it down again. 1) Improve right click menu for tray icon. Simply link the play, pause, previous and next toolbar functionality into the right click menu. This way for users who minimize to the tray because they are working on their computer but playing music in the background it allows them to have basic functionality without the need to restore MP every time they need to use those commands. This feature alone has made me want to use Media Player over MP, but MP can upscale music from 2 channels to my 5.1 surround sound system whereas Media Player cannot - so I'm stuck using either MP with reduced functionality but great sound or Media Player that has poor sound play but with great minimized functionality. From a programmer’s point of view, this shouldn't be a difficult feature to add since the toolbar functionality already exists, so it's just a matter of making the menu commands and linking them to already existing functions. I would do it myself...but I'm a C++ programmer using VS2003.NET (MP is C# code and apparently needs VS2005+ to work on and build). Hopefully this feature will eventually make it into a release build...it's really needed. 2) Remember (or allow for an option to remember) the last size and position of the main interface. I don't like running MP at full screen because I'm generally using it to play music in the background minimized to the tray. But when I first start it up the initial size is smaller then I would like because it squishes the preview pictures (if it didn't, I would probably be fine with the default size). So this means I have to increase the width by a lot and maybe a tiny bit on the height. If MP could simply remember what the last position and size of the main UI was...it would save users the time of having to resize it every time they restart it. 3) This one probably won't be done because it is more complex...but since I'm making this post I might as well put it in. Anyway, after setting up MP and choosing a particular database I realized I would've preferred an alternative database then the one I chose (due to the fact that the alternative database I could've directly accessed via other programs rather then always having to use the configuration UI). I could of course completely remove the program and reinstall it with different settings, but after painstakingly cataloging nearly 500 movies there is no way I want to redo that. So a conversion tool along with a little more control over location and such would definitely be a plus in this area. I did find tools online to do the conversion if I really wanted to (at a moderate cost), I couldn't find anyway to point MP to the converted database afterwards. I've been using MP for a couple months now and am pretty familiar with it...so I don't think I'm missing a feature here that would do what I want, but if I am...please someone point me in the right direction. Jason [/QUOTE]
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