Enhancements

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Hello.

First of all! Thank you for this super mega tool!

There's a small feature I liked in Winamp, and that I am always looking for
in Linux-compatible audio players.
It could be stupid, that's the "Stop at the end of the song" button, which
makes sense when a playlist has been loaded.

And hey, I know it's possible to write "clickable" links in the "About"
window. That would be nice :-)

There something missing too. I think the song currently played should be
highlighted in the playlist (bold font for example)

In the "File menu", the "recently opened" (or whatever it's called in the
english version) should be placed under "Open a location" (or whatever...
=> the second option).

When right clicking on the playlist, there's a "Choose Subtitle". I don't
understand that! A good thing to show would be a menu on which you can
select : play, pause, remove from playlist, properties

In the properties window, something nice would be the ability to change
tags ! (and see the other ones: year, track number, etc.)

I didn't saw an option to change what's shown in the playlist table, a menu
like in Winamp would be nice too (Checkboxes in the preferences pages, or
right click on the titles in the table to select them, then drag them in
the order you want).

These are a few enhancements which would make your program really great!

Good night. Keep making nice applications ;-)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mathieu....@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2009 at 9:18

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There is a command line option "-q" which means quit on complete. 

The song is "selected" when it is being played in the playlist.

the choose subtitle allows you to pick an external subtitle file to use with a 
video. 

I welcome patches if you want to provide some.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 6 Aug 2009 at 9:40

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The link the in the about dialog is clickable now in SVN

The playlist menu, play is redundant since you can play by double clicking, 
pause is
incorrect since you may not be over the playing item, delete is a valid option, 
but
there is a button right below to do that, properties not really sure what you 
want
here, the details of the file?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 7 Aug 2009 at 2:09

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Yeah. Because in the version I got (I think in the svn trunk too), the only 
things
you can see is Title, Artist, Album, Duration.
What I mean by properties (I think it was a bad french to english translation) 
are:
- Other metatags, like, year, track number, ...
- Format (e.g. MP3 128 kbps, FLAC, replay gain, etc.)
- File location (e.g. ~/Music/some/folder/some_file.ext)
- ...

Some of these informations can be viewed in the "See details" but not all. I 
also
think a popup would be good.
What would be really GREAT, is to be able to modify the tags in this popup!
(and maybe 2 buttons "prev" / "next" to edit/see tags of the others files in the
playlist.
Of course, that is not the goal of such an audio player, but it would be useful 
when
you just see there's a misstyping in it or so.

About the right click menu in the playlist, you're right with the play/pause 
things,
but the "properties/details" one is good

Others improvements I thought:
- Detect an opened Gnome-Player window / running process when it's opened and 
you
click on another file in the file explorer (nautilus).
This is to be done quickly I think as this is really really useful for an audio
player (unless you can listen to two songs at the same time => I can't!)

- It has already been discussed, but here's something to add. It would be 
convenient
that the program remember the window size at the next launch. 

- When there's only one single "audio track" (or whatever you call this in 
english),
the menu you shouldn't be able to open it (it should be grey like the others),
especially when playing a normal audio file (not a video).

- Right playlist clicking now shows a "choose subtitle file". This shouldn't 
appear
for usual mp3, ogg, flac music files.

- The "Watch TV" menu should be grey when there's no TV device connected.

- I didn't find the keys to play next song, pausing, etc. Do they exist?

(Sorry for my english.)

Bye bye

Original comment by mathieu....@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2009 at 9:10

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Others improvements I thought:
- Detect an opened Gnome-Player window / running process when it's opened and 
you
click on another file in the file explorer (nautilus).
This is to be done quickly I think as this is really really useful for an audio
player (unless you can listen to two songs at the same time => I can't!)

Single Instance mode... see the preferences...

- It has already been discussed, but here's something to add. It would be 
convenient
that the program remember the window size at the next launch. 

Preferences again...

I didn't find the keys to play next song, pausing, etc. Do they exist?

Pause - Space, P, mouse click...

Prev/Next - PgDn/PgUp... although it seems PgDn has a problem at the moment.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2009 at 10:33

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Sorry... not PgUp/PgDn but < and >

PgUp/PgDn seek 10 mins forward and back..

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2009 at 10:34

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"Single Instance mode" => found. Should be set by default I think, as this 
would be
expected by most people (saying 'Arrrr.. All these stupid windows for the same
programs' ) => like me ;-)

"window size": idem

"Space" works for pausing/playing, but it starts the file selected in the 
playlist
when you type it! => pretty strange behaviour! (however, that would be expected 
with
the "Enter" key)

< and > don't work, neither do PgDn and PgUp

And, can you send this to the french translator ? :

- Garder la fenêtre au-dessus* des autres fenêtres
=> "Fenêtre au premier plan" serait une meilleure formulation, puisque c'est 
celle
utilisée dans gnome.
*notez le trait d'union

=> "Désactiver l'embarquement du lecteur" : je sais qu'il est des fois très 
difficile
de franciser une expression anglaise purement "informatique", mais il doit  y 
avoir
une formulation plus explicite, non ?

=> dans le menu fichier il y a "Lire un emplacement". OUVRIR serait mieux.
D'ailleurs en cliquant dessus, le popup qui s'ouvre est bien intitulé "Ouvrir 
un
emplacement"...

Voilà ! have a good night!

Original comment by mathieu....@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2009 at 8:34

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Personally I do not want single instance mode by default, so I will keep it as 
an
option. 

the space on the playlist is a GTK default, I do not do anything with that 
mapping. 

>  < and > don't work, neither do PgDn and PgUp

These keys may not work if the mouse is over the playlist. This is a feature to 
let
you search for an item on the list. Close the playlist and retest. They work
correctly for me.

You can help the translations by updating the files here.

https://translations.launchpad.net/gnome-mplayer

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2009 at 3:28

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