Quick Tracks ML Plugin (rightclick playlist menu on scrolling title)

[Hawk]

When you rightclick on the scrolling title I would like to have a playlist menu to apear.

[YtseJam]

If you're using the [bundled] Jump to File plug-in, upon right-clicking the scrolling title you get a "jump to file" option there which is basicly the same as opening the PL inorder to pick a different song and, IMO, faster to use.

Or, did you mean you want the load/save/new options from the PL to pop-up there?

[Hawk]

No, what I mean is that a track list becomes visible, so I can change songs very fast.

Dream Theater fan are you? I was present at the fanclub gig in Rotterdam. Great concert!

[YtseJam]

But what if your PL is really long? Not a viable solution for quick access to tracks, IMO.
I think the current method with JTF is good, but to each his own...

And yes, I'm indeed a sworn DT fan.
I have never been at a concert of theirs, unfortunatly. Coming to Israel doesn't seem to be at the top of their To-Do list, heh.

[Hawk]

Originally posted by YtseJam
But what if your PL is really long? Not a viable solution for quick access to tracks, IMO.
I think the current method with JTF is good, but to each his own...

Indeed I disagree; you could have submenu's for each option. I know it works because I have used it when I had QCD:



This is the only feature I miss with WA

[DrO]

Originally posted by Hawk
No, what I mean is that a track list becomes visible, so I can change songs very fast.

the only problem i can see with something like this is what happens when you have a large playlist? (as YtseJam pointed out).

for small playlists i can see how ti could be useful but it's large tracks that concern me (can't say how qcd does it since i've never used it)

-daz

[Hawk]

Well you can see it in the picture. You can group tracks on albums, year or alphabet. Its a killer feature. It may be a bit hard to imagine, but once you are used to it you can almost not do without it, believe me.

[DrO]

Originally posted by Hawk
Well you can see it in the picture. You can group tracks on albums, year or alphabet. Its a killer feature. It may be a bit hard to imagine, but once you are used to it you can almost not do without it, believe me.

a bigger piccy would help, i can't figure out much from that

-daz

[Hawk]

OK

Here it is

[crack1ty]

i made one (still in alpha/beta stage) but do to lack of interest i havent worked on it for a couple months. Here is a link to the current plugin and a screenshot

http://crackity.com/quicktracks.html

[DJ Egg]

Hey. Cool looking plugin crack1ty

Lack of interest? Surely not!

[crack1ty]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Hey. Cool looking plugin crack1ty

Lack of interest? Surely not!

Thanks DJ Egg.

I made a post in developers forum a while back (was hoping to get some developers opinions/help on it) but not a single response. Got side tracked and it has started to gather dust. Anyhow pulled up the code today and made a couple improvements that will make the menus respond faster hopefully.

Still have a small memory leak/stomp that is a bitch to find (I think I am doing something I am not supposed to with memory passed over from the ML) which causes winamp to crash on occasion(hence alpha). Am sure I can figure that out perdy quick if I actually work on it.

i really think this plugin could be as handy as the jump to file plugin thingie once/if completed.

everything would be sooo much simpler though if winamp had:
- an internal queue that played before the playlist (like in 3 from what i hear) - I have my own version of it somewhat working, but would be nice to have a queue that was shared between plugins and winamp
- a quick interface with ML to get just the list of songs in the PL.
- a message that gets called when the media library changes
(i am pretty sure all of these have been requested already and possibly during my leave, these could have been addressed...)

[electricmime]

well... it sometimes locks up for me(it seems to do it randomly)

and when i choose albums(the main thing i want it for) it plays the album backwards

but other than that, it looks nice

also.. could you add an option to add your 'main library'(or add " quicktracks->list of library things->the way you have the list set up")

[DrO]

Originally posted by crack1ty
everything would be sooo much simpler though if winamp had:
- an internal queue that played before the playlist (like in 3 from what i hear) - I have my own version of it somewhat working, but would be nice to have a queue that was shared between plugins and winamp

there are two apis in 5.04 that will help to control things a bit more easily (ie you can specify what track is played from the current playlist). i am planning on an interface with jtfe to handle all of these things so it appears like native support (a bit like how gen_hotkeys works).

that will be needed for a 1.0 of jtfe once timed queuing is in so i can work on the whole interface system in one go. may be helpful, not sure

-daz

[Hawk]

Hey Thanks crack1ty

There's the "traitor" as Chicups at the QCD forum is calling me now

http://www.quinnware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2002

He's a good guy though

Thanks for the plugin! I'll be checking it out. And I'll be getting back to you about it.

Thanks for developing this!