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(98 replies, posted in Development)

Apple released new Human Interface Guidelines, updated for Leopard.
They may be interesting.

I know I am OT, but could we have someone willing to backport changes from 0.08-Leo-only to 0.07-Tiger?

If you know you are adding files to a very long playlist, bringing the cursor to the end after each addition takes only a single keystroke: End. If you forget, simply drop the files on the menu bar, position the cursor at the end of the playlist and then drag and drop the files again, this time at the end of the playlist.
I like uncluttered UIs, let's not emulate linux apps with UIs full of everything.

Right click on the Cog Dock icon?

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(2 replies, posted in Features)

I think it would be better to simply add good AppleScript support to Cog, so that you can write an extremely simple script that asks Cog the current selected song(s) and then tells the finder to change the label of that file.
You would then be able to rename files in the same way.

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(3 replies, posted in Features)

I would like to see this feature, to start from where I left.

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(2 replies, posted in Features)

What I would really like to see is a sort of daap/transcoding server, but I don't think Cog should do it.

Firefly has the problem that it transcodes to wav, so it's not streamable via Internet.
Something like firefly but with transcoding to aac at specified output bitrate would be wonderful: my internet connection has 200 kbps upload, but some are always used, so I could transcode to 128 kbps aac and listen from everywhere with iTunes.

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(28 replies, posted in Development)

Do not expect it. Intels are now better and, more important, always on schedule. Barcelona has delays Steve won't accept, given what happened with 500 MHz G4, 3 GHz G5.
Simply, forget about AMD.

And I don't think the mini will disappear: many offices wouldn't throw away current lcds to buy imacs.
And many people as well.

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(2 replies, posted in Features)

I vote for it.

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(28 replies, posted in Development)

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(39 replies, posted in Development)

Are you sure about discarding the search field? I don't use it a lot, but I do recognise its usefulness for many tasks.

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(39 replies, posted in Development)

That screenshot of Play is one of the least Mac-like interfaces I have ever seen. Woah.

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(3 replies, posted in Features)

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(4 replies, posted in General)

Great player, great skins.

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(3 replies, posted in Features)

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(11 replies, posted in Archives)

I don't know if this could help you in your decision, but I suggested the same (I really needed it) to the author of LAConvolver.
He sent me a version with the features I asked for the day after. It worked immediately, we only changed the behaviour but it was already working.

I have no experience but it seems not so time consuming.

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(39 replies, posted in Development)

I like the last image posted.
I suggest you to ship, among the customisable buttons, both the grouped (compact) and separated playback buttons (more customisable). It costs nothing.
The volume is ok in this new image.

Anyway, much better than the current, completely out of coherence, toolbar.

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(39 replies, posted in Development)

A seeker bar like the one in the example is not a seek bar. It is a progress bar for processes where you don't know the duration... it is clearly an example vspader tried, not an actual proposal! :-)

I dislike the S-R buttons. They should not be implemented as buttons like these, but with (graphically) independent buttons, just like in iTunes. The example above makes me think they are exclusive!

I still prefer a volume slider, if possible a slider with a "trick": you don't see any number, just like in 0.06, but if you click and then type a number in the keyboard, the value typed is used (after a short delay, of course) and the slider updated.

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(1 replies, posted in Features)

At the time being it gets the metadata in bold. This is easy to spot, but it makes the text larger, so that sometimes the text becomes to wide and ellipses appear before the end of the column ( |text...| ).
Why don't you switch to a black border around the line containing the laying song? it is easy to spot but it keeps the same font width.

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(11 replies, posted in Archives)

Any news? is it a planned feature for 0.08?

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(1 replies, posted in Features)

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(18 replies, posted in Features)

No, there is none.
As there are no softwares do do some quality/low level scans of burned optical media.
Mac OS X software is lacking for these things.

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(18 replies, posted in Features)

Your disc spins down in the time between two songs?? that's strange, it should spin down only after 10 minutes or so. Are your tracks so long or not?
Anyway, check the energy saving settings, it makes no sense to spin down hard disks before 10 minutes.

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(22 replies, posted in Archives)

You are right... and I ALWAYS thought the opposite, just by seeing "software development kit" in the home.
Doh.