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Idea: Coverview improvements
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(02-24-2025, 08:39 PM)Tim Curtis Wrote: A screen saver should never display abruptly after an event like pausing play. It should have a list of timeout options for the user to select from for example Never, 10 secs, 30 secs, 1 min, 5 mins, 10 mins, etc. With timeout options comes a monitor that has to check that the triggering event has occurred and then decrement the given timeout until its <= 0 at which point the screen saver can be displayed, or reset the timeout if the reset event occurs. Not trivial.

I over-simplified it. Of course there are timers involved.

TBH, I never though of the cover-view as a screen saver, rather as one-of-many-views available to enjoy eye-candy while listening.
In this perspective, the real screen-saver becomes the clock... but to generalize, we could have, as I mentioned, a "while playing" view, and a "while-idle" view (timer-controlled) arbitrarily selectable from a list of possible choices (as we have now, just they are not doubled for the two playing statuses we are discussing).
Yes, it needs analysis. And common sense.
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Messages In This Thread
Coverview improvements - by romain - 02-23-2025, 04:30 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 02-23-2025, 05:17 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 02-24-2025, 09:13 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 02-24-2025, 10:49 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 02-24-2025, 12:04 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 02-24-2025, 12:56 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 02-24-2025, 01:27 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 02-24-2025, 05:11 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 02-24-2025, 01:26 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by steve4star - 02-24-2025, 03:27 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 02-24-2025, 05:11 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Nutul - 02-24-2025, 07:08 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 02-24-2025, 08:39 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 02-24-2025, 09:05 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Nutul - 02-24-2025, 09:16 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-02-2025, 10:27 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-02-2025, 11:10 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-02-2025, 11:27 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-02-2025, 12:07 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-02-2025, 07:07 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-02-2025, 07:30 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-02-2025, 07:37 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-03-2025, 12:27 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-03-2025, 12:46 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-03-2025, 04:54 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-03-2025, 05:49 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-03-2025, 05:59 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-03-2025, 10:14 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-03-2025, 11:00 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-03-2025, 11:18 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-04-2025, 01:25 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-04-2025, 01:58 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-04-2025, 02:02 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-03-2025, 09:55 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-04-2025, 12:44 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-04-2025, 01:11 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-04-2025, 03:05 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-05-2025, 12:50 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-05-2025, 01:43 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-05-2025, 01:52 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-05-2025, 01:56 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-06-2025, 09:07 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-06-2025, 10:27 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-06-2025, 10:38 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-06-2025, 11:36 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-06-2025, 10:44 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-07-2025, 08:42 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-07-2025, 10:18 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-07-2025, 10:32 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-07-2025, 10:41 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-07-2025, 10:44 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-10-2025, 07:31 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-10-2025, 10:36 AM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-10-2025, 03:42 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - 03-10-2025, 05:06 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - 03-10-2025, 09:09 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - Yesterday, 04:42 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by Tim Curtis - Yesterday, 05:03 PM
RE: Coverview improvements - by romain - Yesterday, 10:22 PM

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