Skip Steps not working in MyMusic during playback (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

Incorrect V1.3 Default Now Playing screen, you use left / right to access the top album tracks / similar tracks list. (I just double checked on my HTPC). There are also 5 menu items on the left, not 4. It's also used to access the hidden right menu in some of the other now playing screens :-P

Regardless someone please consider changing FWD function to SKIP function

 

[kkendall]

Could somebody of the dev team please respond? I think it would help if one of you could let us know if and when this could be changed?

 

[catavolt]

AW: Skip Steps not working in MyMusic during playback

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[kiwijunglist]

0002551: Skip Steps no longer working in My Music - MediaPortal Bugtracker

hwahrmann (developer) - 2009-12-02 21:10

Won't be fixed. we agreed that Manfred'S changes will be left as they are.
Music Player should behave like a DVD player and not do skip steps.

hwahrmann (developer) - 2009-11-19 21:15

fix in svn 24148.

Bass player uses now the general global behaviour of g_player for FWD/REW.
Skip steps are available in Now Playing and Full screen Vis using the Left/Right keys or the respective keys on the remote.

Can you really do skip steps with left / right keys?

I havn't tried this, but can you do a custom mce mapping (mceremote.xml) conditional setup for the remote
eg. If music = playing then FFWD = skip or If window ID = now playing music then FFWD = skip. ???

 

[kkendall]

Re: AW: Skip Steps not working in MyMusic during playback

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That one confuses me. It says:

Quote:
Won't be fixed. we agreed that Manfred'S changes will be left as they are.
Music Player should behave like a DVD player and not do skip steps.

so this implies skip steps will not be available...but then:

I am fairly sure the outcome last time was that ffwd/rew will speed up / slow down playback and left/right will carry out skip steps?

this implies that it has been decided that left/right keys will do skip steps
could you clarify this?

 

[pilehave]

FFWD /REW is IMHO useless in music. Why would you want Rammstein sound like Mickey Mouse? Skipsteps would be way more useful.

 

[kkendall]

0002551: Skip Steps no longer working in My Music - MediaPortal Bugtracker

hwahrmann (developer) - 2009-12-02 21:10

Won't be fixed. we agreed that Manfred'S changes will be left as they are.
Music Player should behave like a DVD player and not do skip steps.

hwahrmann (developer) - 2009-11-19 21:15

fix in svn 24148.

Bass player uses now the general global behaviour of g_player for FWD/REW.
Skip steps are available in Now Playing and Full screen Vis using the Left/Right keys or the respective keys on the remote.

Can you really do skip steps with left / right keys?

I havn't tried this, but can you do a custom mce mapping (mceremote.xml) conditional setup for the remote
eg. If music = playing then FFWD = skip or If window ID = now playing music then FFWD = skip. ???

The report that skip steps are available in Now playing and fullscreen vis is older than the report that skip steps will not be available... so I guess they removed it again I at least can't find out how, if it is there...

I really don't think this is a good decision. All the people who want to listen to concerts, dj livesets, lectures, podcasts or other longer audio files are left out. Since MP also doesn't provide a 'dragbar' (where you can position your playpoint on the timeline) like almost all other audio players, MP is really useless to use with longer music and other audio files.

I really advise to reconsider to bring back the skip steps in the music section.
It would help so many people!