Announce: Moose 0.21

[Dr Lovegrove]

On 03/02/06, bossanova808
<bossanova808.22mq3b (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Doc
>
> I can't definitively narrow down the slow down issues - it seems to
> happen on a regular basis though, say avery few mins, perhaps when you
> are polling the server? The minimise to tray icon definitely has some
> bugs in that it sometimes disappears, flickers regularly etc, so I'd
> look there too.

Yup, it seems to be caused by the '.net flicker-free redrawing' fighting
with the 'dr lovegrove flicker-free redrawing' on XP.. Im going to change
the way it updates and redraws, which'll hopefully help.. Im also going
to move to .net 2.0 at some point, which'll help things a bit..

> One question - often when adding albums (but not always) the tracks all
> get added, but in the wrong order - any idea why that could be??

Currently the way it adds an album is to add the album itself, rather
than the tracks (so it's really a server issue).. Plan is to add the tracks
one-by-one, which should sort this.. Trouble is if I fire a load of messages
at the server, it just falls over in a heap, so I need to queue them my end...

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- Dr Lovegrove
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove

[kweller]

il.com>
From: Kevin Weller <SlimDML (AT) TheWellers (DOT) net>
Reply-To: discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com

In article <67fb4bc40602030306v74252ffes (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com>, Dr Lovegrove
wrote:
> Currently the way it adds an album is to add the album itself, rather
> than the tracks (so it's really a server issue)..

How does the Fishbone skin do it? When I add an album through there it
is played in track order.

Kevin

[Dr Lovegrove]

On 03/02/06, SlimDML (AT) thewellers (DOT) net <SlimDML (AT) thewellers (DOT) net> wrote:
> il.com>
> From: Kevin Weller <SlimDML (AT) TheWellers (DOT) net>
> Reply-To: discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
>
> How does the Fishbone skin do it? When I add an album through there it
> is played in track order.

Im suspecting the problem's with adding the album's path, rather than
database ID (but can't repeat the problem myself)..

If you add the problem album via 'browse folders' and 'browse albums'
on the web ui, does it do different things in each case, or do they both
work ok ?

--
- Dr Lovegrove
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove

[kweller]

In article <67fb4bc40602030904v7b0e1dc5x (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com>, Dr Lovegrove
wrote:
> Im suspecting the problem's with adding the album's path, rather than
> database ID (but can't repeat the problem myself)..

I'm confused now as *every* album I queue up with Moose plays in collating
sequence rather than track number. It's not limited to any 'problem'
albums. Are you saying that when you add an album it is correctly queued in
track order?

> If you add the problem album via 'browse folders' and 'browse albums'
> on the web ui, does it do different things in each case, or do they both
> work ok ?

Adding from 'browse albums' certainly queues then in track order. I'm not
sure how I'd add an album from 'browse folders' as I don't have each folder
in a separate folder.

While we're talking about playing stuff, could you add a 'Random' button to
Moose that kicked off the 'play random' songs on the selected player? I've
no doubt someone else will want random artists/albums/years but just in
case you can't do all of them please remember I asked first so you ought to
concentrate on random songs! ;-)

(I haven't forgotten you asked for a log showing Moose killing SlimServer
on start, it's just that it won't do it when I want it to, i.e. when I have
logging on)

Kevin

[kweller]

A.0000081d.02a71e01 (AT) thewellers (DOT) net>
From: Kevin Weller <SlimDML (AT) TheWellers (DOT) net>
Reply-To: discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com

In article <VA.0000081d.02a71e01 (AT) thewellers (DOT) net>, Kevin Weller wrote:
> I'm not
> sure how I'd add an album from 'browse folders' as I don't have each folder
> in a separate folder.

Er, I'll try that again - I don't have each album in a separate folder.

Kevin

[Dr Lovegrove]

New build of Moose now up.. 0.24..

I've re-coded the Now Playing window drawing code.. It should be
much more zippy. I've also had to replace the titlebar with a
custom drawn one as putting a decent minimize to tray icon up
there was causing all sorts of grief.. I've also made the maximize
option do a kind of full-screen thing..

Give the new version a whirl and see what you think..

--
- Dr Lovegrove
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove

[kweller]

il.com>
From: Kevin Weller <SlimDML (AT) TheWellers (DOT) net>
Reply-To: discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com

In article <67fb4bc40602090617y6f4f317fx (AT) mail (DOT) gmail.com>, Dr Lovegrove
wrote:
> I've also made the maximize
> option do a kind of full-screen thing..

Looking good apart from one minor issue. Normally when I maximise a
window it maximises enough so the taskbar and system tray remain
uncovered. Moose is going full screen and hiding them.

Kevin

[0xdeadbeef]

New build of Moose now up.. 0.24..

I've re-coded the Now Playing window drawing code.. It should be
much more zippy.

The redraw obviously got much faster. If other windows are moved above Moose, this looks pretty ok now.
However when moving the Moose window it still feels a little jerky and sluggish. As if it was completely redrawn at certain times while moving and this would hinder Windows from moving the window for some tenth of a second. Strange though: can't remember to have seen this in any other application up to now.

[Dr Lovegrove]

On 10/02/06, 0xdeadbeef <0xdeadbeef.22zlzb (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:
>
> The redraw obviously got much faster. If other windows are moved above
> Moose, this looks pretty ok now.
> However when moving the Moose window it still feels a little jerky and
> sluggish. As if it was completely redrawn at certain times while moving
> and this would hinder Windows from moving the window for some tenth of a
> second. Strange though: can't remember to have seen this in any other
> application up to now.

Yeah, currently it updates the whole now playing window on a timer, which
it doesnt really need to do.. I've recoded things with this in mind though, so
it should be quite simple to implement clipping regions and things which
will seriously help, and speed it all up even more..

BTW, last night I got the MySQL scanning code working.. Dont know if
any Moose-ers are using MySQL though, so might hold off releasing it
for a bit ?

Also, the maximize issue.. Seems that forms without the titlebars style
(WS_CAPTION) maximize to the full screen, rather than the usual area..
Guess this is either a bug in .net 1.1 or a strange design decision by
the powers that be.. Either way, it's going to be awkward to do a
normal maximize, so maybe if I just rename the feature full-screen ?
Actually, I could add a 'resize to maximized size' kind of option.. Maybe
this would be the answer..

--
- Dr Lovegrove
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove

[bossanova808]

Have been using 0.24 for many hours now and it is all going very smoothly, no major problems to speak of except not being able to add various artist CDs easily.

Any chance you could add an album browsing view to it? That would solve all my problems and I could quit bugging you!!