These are the currently planned changes:
- + Showname and info/location not updating or displaying, cause known and will be fixed.
- + New GridStream Player program icon, color choice decided by GSP forum votes (a year ago). Thanks peeps.
- * The GridStream Webplayer let you choose stream/codec, it's only fair that GridStream Player should also have this feature.
- ? Support for PNG and JPG artwork similar to GridStream Webplayer, but will only show artwork for the current track.
- * Change the Auto volume to use only previous track for calculation, simplify code, hopefully get rid of the "inexplicable volume reduction" bug.
- * Add color choice for player backgrounds similar to GridStream Webplayer, might possibly add a RGB selector instead.
- * Put Info and Stats and Preferences in the tray icon menu
- * Remove double click on VUMeter and allow opening of menu using a left click instead.
- * Documentation lacked info about Alt+F4 closeing the active window of the player, and Alt+F4 on the VUMeter quitting the player.
- ? Put Status/Info/Record into taskbar thumbnail button row.
- ? Remove popup menu, Preferences window will open instead. Info and Stats window will be toggled on/off in Preference. Manual and Website buttons will be added. Mute toggle added
If anyone has any feedback or suggestions, now is the time to make them. I'm hoping to fast track this hand have something ready by the end of the month.
The things under consideration may not happen as they might involve more work than I'm willing to put in right now. If they aren't added to v5.3 they will be added to a "Wishlist" of features I'd like to see added some day.
Regarding the preferences window and moving menu stuff into it. Some stuff would make sense being moved there while others not. The player does not have a "main" window that can have the mute button etc. So this is a design conundrum.
In a similar fashion the album/song artwork is a issue, the info window is not convenient to have a image slapped into it for each line. Text wrapping and scrolling is a issue here. Just current artwork could be shown.
Muting by clicking the vumeter is something that would be cool (it existed a long time ago), but due to the way single and double click detection works this may or may not be practical to do in a reasonable time.
Regarding adding artwork to info window and moving popup menu into preferences... Would there be a point in doing that. The player having a tiny vumeter is it's key feature. I am probably the only one that have the stats window open when using the player, I'm also probably the only one that have song details enabled for the info window. Moving things around/streamlining stuff that people rarely use is not a good use of time. I use mute/unmute a lot in the menu (forgetting that it is also available if i hover the mouse over the taskbar icon).
At some point goes the line between tweaking and a full redesign, and a redesign is not in the cards currently.
But I digress.
Please take a gander at the list above, if you have some ideas/suggestions, maybe there is a small quirk you don't like and would see fixed, please post here and I'll see what I can do in the next days to implement it/tweak it.