Any News on Any Updates?

[Service-Team]

Virgus wrote:
> Thanks for you detailed answers!
> What made me decide to register and use SJ is the
> great support and the "will to improve"
> that makes SJ the BEST audio player on the
> market!

Thank you very much - and sorry for this delayed answer ... and sorry if we have not (yet) answered all questions.

> I answered to the main issues but before them I
> found a new issue that's worth to be mentioned:
> When I want to avoid big queues I use
> "unqueue all but marked" key. This
> works unpredictaby as the currently playing track
> is not considered "marked" [...]

If I understand your problem correctly: You would like to see the currently playing title as marked for the option "Unqueue all but marked" and as unmarked for the option "Unqueue marked". This would leave the currently playing title always in the queue.

Is this correct? However, I'm not sure if I would like such a behaviour (which would be a little bit unlogical).

Are there other opinions of other users?

> A practical example: I have a full queue, I am in
> shuffle mode and am listening to an interesting
> track and I'd like to listen to "more from
> the same" album or author. [...]

One working solution would be to select "Unqueue all but marked" from the playing track's context menu (this will mark the currently playing track) and select "More from ..." afterwards.

An alternative would be to just to ignore the additional tracks in the playlist - "More from ..." automatically adds the tracks just after the currently playing track

> [...] What would improve usability a little bit, without
> too much effort I hope, would be to enable a timer
> after which the view changes to the favourite one
> of the threes. [...]

You have luck - This feature will be available in the next update See "Playback / Automatic Control / Further options" then:

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> > 3) Alt F4 Option in Kiosk mode [...]
> This is a little "big" problem for me [...]

Another hint (or hack): In my tests it works to assign ALT-F4 to the "kiosk start/stop" command (see "Advanced / Further options / Shortcut: Kiosk mode". If you then use "Exit Silverjuke" as the "Exit action" at "Kiosk / Start", ALT-F4 should quit Silverjuke in the kiosk mode.

So far for now. Thank you very much for your ideas and for your interest - and please do not hesitate to contact or to remember us again here in the forum.

Best regards,
Your Silverjuke Team

[Virgus]

>Thank you very much - and sorry for this delayed answer ... and sorry if we have not (yet) answered all questions.

Don't worry, I know we've all so many things to do in our lives.

>If I understand your problem correctly: You would like to see the currently playing title as marked for the option "Unqueue all but marked" and as unmarked for the option "Unqueue marked". This would leave the currently playing title always in the queue.
>
>Is this correct? However, I'm not sure if I would like such a behaviour (which would be a little bit unlogical).
>Are there other opinions of other users?
>
>One working solution would be to select "Unqueue all but marked" from the playing track's context menu (this will mark the currently playing track) and select "More from ..." afterwards.

You pointed exactly the problem: the currently playing track is unmarked automatically after 4 seconds in the playing track window and that makes impossible to control this without a mouse/touchscreen.
The current playing track in my opinion should be preserved to avoid interruption of the playing and be excluded from the unqueue actions (unless you stop the play before either one of the unqueue actions).

To unqueue the "currently playing" unwanted track too you can then just go to a next "wanted" track (or enqueue it) and then unqueue all but marked tracks. It's the only way (to my limited knowledge of SJ )I can currently imagine of clearing the playlist while not stopping the play, but it needs the playing track to be kept marked...

>An alternative would be to just to ignore the additional tracks in the playlist - "More from ..." automatically adds the tracks just after the currently playing track

Here as I wrote the problem is that you cannot queue always if shuffle is on as you cannot predict if the unwanted tracks (if not already played in the last minutes) will start playing at any point.

>> enable a timer after which the view changes to the favourite one of the threes. [...]
>
>You have luck - This feature will be available in the next update See "Playback / Automatic Control / Further options" then:

That's so great to know!!

>> > 3) Alt F4 Option in Kiosk mode [...]
>> This is a little "big" problem for me [...]
>
>Another hint (or hack): In my tests it works to assign ALT-F4 to the "kiosk start/stop" command (see "Advanced / Further options / Shortcut: Kiosk mode". If you then use "Exit Silverjuke" as the "Exit action" at "Kiosk / Start", ALT-F4 should quit Silverjuke in the kiosk mode.

That's a good hack solution, I'll try and see how it behaves in the system. Thanks!

>So far for now. Thank you very much for your ideas and for your interest - and please do not hesitate to contact or to remember us again here in the forum.

Thanks to you and please keep us updated with all the nice improvements on the way!
(I'm always dreaming of using SJ as a remotable client-server front end both for audio and video)

Best regards,
V.

[Virgus]

Hi, I am playing with the autoplay feature and... it's great!!!
The best option for me is to use it with the current selection and then change the selection to preferred cds.
What I really miss with this feature is the option to turn autoplay on/off from remote while using it in kiosk mode, a pity because it's really a smart option... Don't think I already mentioned this...
Best regards,
V.

[Werner]

Hi Virgus

I'm to accede, the autoplay as button target would be nice.


Cheers
Werner

[Service-Team]

Hello Virgus,
hello Werner,
hello forum,

in Silverjuke 2.52 (coming soon) or in later versions, the AutoPlay state will be accessible via a script. See the for details (the examples on the linked page will also show how to access this property in a skin or via a shortcut for remote controls).

Best regards,
Your Silverjuke Team