Buglist as per September 13, 2007

[PeterSt]

My contribution, including some already mentioned:

1. Buttons for previous and next track selection.

2. Larger area of the screen for album cover image.

3. When a track is playing it seems protected from other operations. For instance if you hit 'clear', all tracks go except that one. It is a bit fussy having to hit stop first.

4. My biggest frustration is in selecting all tracks on an album to play from my hard drive.

The current operation is a) find the album folder on my hard drive storage, b) click on it to drop down all the track titles, c) click/hold and drag over all the tracks to select them d) hit open to transfer to XXHighend.

It would be really good to have a single button operation to select the total album - perhaps a drag and drop of the album folder (hence my interest in cue files). Perhaps this is not possible.

Chris,

1. Buttons for previous and next track selection.

I don't understand this. These buttons are just there from the beginning. So what do you mean, please ?

3. When a track is playing it seems protected from other operations. For instance if you hit 'clear', all tracks go except that one. It is a bit fussy having to hit stop first.

This is by design ...
It allows you to get bored from a current Playlist, but allow the current track to finish neatly.
BUT, this does not quite workout as intended, because currently (in fact, always so far) when you operate it like I proposed (let that playing track neatly finish), that playing track will repeat again. And *this* is on the bug list.
I could allow for pressing Clear twice though, so at a second time that playing track would stop playing and disappear from the Playlist Area.

4. My biggest frustration is in selecting all tracks on an album to play from my hard drive.

... Which most probably is because you don't know how to do it ?
So, indeed selecting a complete folder currently does not work. That will be in there though. However :
What you currently should do is :
Use Explorer to find your albums. Go into the album folder. Select the tracks you want (ctrl-click, ctrl-shift-click, etc.), and DRAG them onto the Playlist Area.
Remember, use Explorer.

(hence my interest in cue files).

No, you really would not want that. Why ? because the very first thing you canNOT do then, is select (individual !) tracks from a general means, like Explorer.
XX will solve that for you in due time.

If it's not clear, please call again !

Peter

[PeterSt]

Regarding the cover art it would be nice to be able to stretch the player even more so that I can show the cover art larger than possible now. Most of my jpg's are 500x500 pixels...and it would look nice if all not needed information could be hided behind one of the tabs (more space left for the cover art and playlist.

Hi Bert,

Maybe a tad more difficult ...
Are you sure you have *and* 500x500 pictures *and* you can use them usefully ? What I mean is this :

When I scan a cover at 96dpi (which would be a normal monitor resolution), my pictures "become" 450 x 450 (or in that area, like 457 x 457). Note that this gives a 1:1 physical picture size, hence at measuring at the monitor (uhhm, 1280x1040) they will be egually large to the physical cover.

Of course I could make a 500x500 picture, but not without teaking the dpi. And if I do that, IMO things can't be 1:1 reproduced on the monitor (no matter what size you drag the picture, the dpi is wrong -> conversion).

In the end I don't bother because the cover will display as large as it is told, but since you would be very close to the 1:1 physical size, it would IMO be better to make it the real physical size (coming close to 12x12cm at 96dpi). Make it bigger and the scanner will extrapolate (or at it being bigger, interpolate, whatever).

Peter

[Chris V]

Buttons for previous and next track selection.
I don't understand this. These buttons are just there from the beginning. So what do you mean, please ?

You know after all this time and I didn't even notice them there Probably because I am conditioned to seeing them alongside 'play', 'pause' 'stop' etc

I could allow for pressing Clear twice though, so at a second time that playing track would stop playing and disappear from the Playlist Area.

That would be good

... Which most probably is because you don't know how to do it ?
So, indeed selecting a complete folder currently does not work. That will be in there though. However :
What you currently should do is :
Use Explorer to find your albums. Go into the album folder. Select the tracks you want (ctrl-click, ctrl-shift-click, etc.), and DRAG them onto the Playlist Area.
Remember, use Explorer.

Well thats sorted that out, I wasn't using Explorer  - thanks

[BertD]

In the end I don't bother because the cover will display as large as it is told, but since you would be very close to the 1:1 physical size, it would IMO be better to make it the real physical size (coming close to 12x12cm at 96dpi). Make it bigger and the scanner will extrapolate (or at it being bigger, interpolate, whatever).

My covers are 200DPI but still 500x500 pixels and that is what my screen is built on.....pixels, regardless the resolotion used.

Any program shows these pictures when 100% using 500x500 pixels on my screen, should not be an issue which resolution is used. With plain text yes, then the resolution counts...

Bert

[PeterSt]

Start printing photo's ... then you'll get the grasp of it.
Or print your covers, one with 96dpi and one with 200. Both 500x500 ...

But never mind. 

[SeVeReD]

I was just thinking, in the case of people wanting larger album pictures.... maybe a TAB (like the playlist, settings... tabs) that you'd click and it would show nothing but a larger picture of the album playing.... then maybe keep the playlist tab as is??  I dunno, I don't care much about it; my screen shuts off after a min of nonuse, which pretty much is the case when listening to music.

[BertD]

Start printing photo's ... then you'll get the grasp of it.

I have no intention to print the cover arts as photo's on paper. So why is this related to XX showing my cover arts larger on screen at moments I like to see them enlarged (500x500 pixels) with high quality and still sharp?

Bert

[PeterSt]

I wish for playback of bigger files than 64MB in Engine #1. My opsys of choice is still XP Pro and will be that for some time. As an IT Technician, Vista has so many problems/flaws still that it will be a long time before I will install it. Typical playback length of  e.g. Gregorian Chorus songs is often around 7-8-9 minutes in length.

So, XP Pro it is. And in XP the best SQ from the player is in Engine #1 with 44.1Khz output digitally to an external DAC. A little troublesome with the "can't play files bigger than 64MB" error message, click to remove it and start on the next song.

Should not think that increasing the max file size to e.g. 128 or 256MB should be a big problem? Updating some programing matrix setup maybe?

Just my 2 cents worth & biggest wish item as one of your paying customers...incredible SQ from the player, btw! Congrats on a fine product! Keep up the good work!

The 64MB is a limitation of official MS signed drivers (XP only !); Engine#2 goes around that (but with different further features and different SQ).

If you are really into listening to music, you really really should move to Vista. When you'd use the PC for music playback only, it's no big deal really.
Note that the different SQ from Vista is not a coincidence; in there Vista-only features are used which explicitly allow for the much better SQ.
MUCH better. Please try it.

[JohanZ]

Hi Peter,

During listening to the 0.9k version I have got two times a dotnet error message. See attachment. Music was still playing. I have not seen this error in any other version of XX.

Regards, Johan

[BertD]

Moving tracks within the playlist to another position shows an error (all the time). It moves the track well though...

[SeVeReD]

When using CUE file to play Björk albums (I have 4) the load times between songs is greater than 30 secs.  I'm guessing this is because of diacritical marks.  Of course if I load the single wav file the gaps between songs are correct.  I'm going to try taking out diacritical marks one at a time in her name in the cue file info and see if that helps correct... it may be as simple as that?  I don't think I have many albums with diacritical marks ... we'll see.

[PeterSt]

That would be true ...
In that case for each track the whole album has to be reloaded ...

It can be smarter, but at the time I had been more busy with it than I thought in advance. So to be honest I thought "let it be for now; other things must have more prio currently".
Remember, if you load the album (the large WAV) into the Playlist Area by means of the Library button, it will be treated as if it were no cue file ...

[SeVeReD]

That would be true ...
In that case for each track the whole album has to be reloaded ...

It can be smarter, but at the time I had been more busy with it than I thought in advance. So to be honest I thought "let it be for now; other things must have more prio currently".
Remember, if you load the album (the large WAV) into the Playlist Area by means of the Library button, it will be treated as if it were no cue file ...

Yes, no big deal for me.  Here is what I did for one of her albums to get around wait time and still use cue to get to song list.
1) Took out diacritical marks in single wav file name.
2) Took out diacritical marks in cue file name.
3) Took out diacritical marks in wav file name cue file references so it can find the single wav.
4) and here's the surprise: Took out diacritical marks in folder name files are under.

As a side side note... What do you think about adding "Name of Artist" and "Album Name" along with song title to each for each album info... would be helpful when I start mixing up songs from various albums.  As it is now with CUE file play I just see the song titile.
Kinda like this:
02. Miracle Fortress - [Five Roses #02] Have You Seen In Your Dreams
(example name from how foobar handles it)
 Thanks PeterSt.

[PeterSt]

and here's the surprise: Took out diacritical marks in folder name files are under.

Oops, sorry, wanted to tell that. Furthermore it would be about the album title; I did not try it, but I don't thing the tracknames would matter (not with cue files).

About your ideas : yes, obviously. But I'd rather wait with that until those kind of things can be added to the album (and track) data anyway.
Which it will in near future ...

[SeVeReD]

Moving tracks within the playlist to another position shows an error (all the time). It moves the track well though...

Hmm
Using CUE to see song titles, I get an error too when moving song titles.  But when I try to move the song, along with the error, it replaces the song title with the album's whole wav in the new place I moved it.

I haven't seen any of the other errors people are reporting... yet.  I'll let you know if I do.