Announce: Album Flow applet/screensaver for Radio/Touch/Controller

[ModelCitizen]

but does anyone have any ideas what I might do to try to recover it?

Wedging the battery in with a bit of cardboard seems to have done it. :-|

MC

[epoch1970]

It would be great if those of you who had crash problem in the previous version checks if this works better or not. I don't have a large library with cover art to verify it against myself.

Seems to work quite well:
I scrolled down to the beginning of letter D. My finger and wrist began experiencing some pain, so I stopped for a minute and then scrolled back all the way.
No reboot.
The battery has plenty of juice this time. The DB says 2200 albums (and that's a blatant lie dupes, tag issues...)

[MeSue]

I let it run as screen saver on the Touch and it got all the way to the C's without crashing. When I go to start dinner, I'll let it run longer.

[MeSue]

Woot! It went through all the way to the end with no crashes. I won't spoil the surprise for others, but I like what you did when it gets to the end.

[kdf]

I get the browse option under My Music on the controller, but not for Touch or Radio. Nothing other than a note showing registering of the applet in the logs. Screensaver option works fine on all of them.
-kdf

[erland]

I get the browse option under My Music on the controller, but not for Touch or Radio. Nothing other than a note showing registering of the applet in the logs. Screensaver option works fine on all of them.
-kdf

The browse option isn't available on Touch yet since I haven't found out how to catch the navigation events on it yet, it seems to differ compare to the Radio and Controller. However, the browse menu should be available on the Radio.

I assume you are connected to a local Squeezebox Server ?
Does it never appear or does it appear sometimes but disappears when you switch to mysqueezebox.com ?

[kdf]

On 2009-09-29, at 9:39 PM, erland wrote:

>
> kdf;462987 Wrote:
>> I get the browse option under My Music on the controller, but not for
>> Touch or Radio. Nothing other than a note showing registering of the
>> applet in the logs. Screensaver option works fine on all of them.
>> -kdf
>>
> The browse option isn't available on Touch yet since I haven't found
> out how to catch the navigation events on it yet, it seems to differ
> compare to the Radio and Controller. However, the browse menu should
> be
> available on the Radio.
>
> I assume you are connected to a local Squeezebox Server ?

yes indeed.

> Does it never appear or does it appear sometimes but disappears when
> you switch to mysqueezebox.com ?

how exactly does the 'my music' menu work when connected to MySB? I
only see it trying to connect to the local library so not exactly a
success there.

-kdf

[pichonCalavera]

I tried it in the Squeezeplay Desktop and it looks nice.

As for suggestions, it needs to better handle albums that haven't a square aspect ratio (for example for DVD-style artwork that have their artwork in a rectangle aspect ratio)

[MeSue]

FYI - This is still crashing on the Touch when it is left running for a long time. Most mornings I wake up to find the crash screen on the Touch after leaving it overnight on the Album flow screensaver, and it crashed again just now after it had been running about 1-2 hours.

[aubuti]

I just tried this for the first time on the SBC. It looks great - thanks! One question: is there a way to change the album sort order? I still prefer the old paradigm of how I ordered my LPs and CDs, namely, artist/year.