Winamp Cloud Beta FAQ

DrO · 5th April 2013, 12:10

rob: the reason for the up arrow was that without it with how the states are wanted to be shown (as i've detailed) you had zero indication of what state a file is in with regards to being or not being in the cloud unless you looked at the cloud icon menu, etc.

before the up arrow was added, you only ever saw a blank icon for a file which is seen to be local in the main library views (which is not handled in the public beta builds) whereas the cloud source views show a greater range of the icons in use (but that's more from them only showing different states with respect to other cloud devices). and with other changes intended for the main library views, the other cloud icons are more likely to appear.

so due to how it all works, WAFA and the web client show things more as expected because (especially with the web client) they don't have most of the local files present and instead show the full and partial cloud icons most of the time. plus they are dedicated views whereas unless you're using the cloud sources views, the main library views are still heavily in-progress of being altered.

finally, there have been countless hours spent over the icon situation and as such this is what is deemed as wanted for the time being until reviewed / determined by those making the final product decisions that it needs to be changed. so there will not be any changes to the display logic unless i'm explicitly told to change it.

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5th April 2013, 12:10	#11
DrO Winamp / SHOUTcast Developer and continuing 3rd Party Plug-in Developer Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: UK Posts: 24,386	rob: the reason for the up arrow was that without it with how the states are wanted to be shown (as i've detailed) you had zero indication of what state a file is in with regards to being or not being in the cloud unless you looked at the cloud icon menu, etc. before the up arrow was added, you only ever saw a blank icon for a file which is seen to be local in the main library views (which is not handled in the public beta builds) whereas the cloud source views show a greater range of the icons in use (but that's more from them only showing different states with respect to other cloud devices). and with other changes intended for the main library views, the other cloud icons are more likely to appear. so due to how it all works, WAFA and the web client show things more as expected because (especially with the web client) they don't have most of the local files present and instead show the full and partial cloud icons most of the time. plus they are dedicated views whereas unless you're using the cloud sources views, the main library views are still heavily in-progress of being altered. finally, there have been countless hours spent over the icon situation and as such this is what is deemed as wanted for the time being until reviewed / determined by those making the final product decisions that it needs to be changed. so there will not be any changes to the display logic unless i'm explicitly told to change it.