Posts made by deekinblooze

@jonas Thanks for the reply. Well... turning off the "playing widget" doesn't solve my problem, because although it makes the metadata go away, it also makes the cover art go away. What I want is to keep the art, but without the metadata. Now, they come and go together.

Let's talk about "playing widget". I don't see this in Clementine. I never noticed it in the Strawberry settings, probably because the meaning of it is unclear. In practical reality, this term seems to refer only to the display of the cover art (and its metadata). How is that a "widget"? To me, a widget is something with some functionality, not just a display. If this term was introduced in Strawberry, I really think it needs to be changed. It is not understandable, at least to average English speakers. Finally, is there any real purpose to turning off this widget/display? It's not replaced by anything else. Either the art is displayed, or it is not. I feel like this is an area where the UI of Strawberry could use some careful thinking-through.

@CherryStraw Thanks for the response. Of course I know that I can do "stop after this track" if I do it in the playlist. If I didn't know that, I wouldn't know that this feature existed at all, but I have explained above that it is one of my favorite features

My point in this post is that it would be good to have that feature accessible from the Queue also, not only from the playlist. Sometimes the playlist might be very long, and scrolling or searching to find the song to stop on would be troublesome. It would be much more convenient to be able to interact only with the Queue... telling it "stop playing when the queue is empty". This seems very natural to me.

Sorry, but I have gone back to Clementine. I got my old laptop working again, and then had Clementine available, where I didn't have it when I made the above post. Sure enough, Clem gives you the option to turn off the metadata display that accompanies the album cover art. I cannot imagine why Strawberry developers decided to take that existing option away from the user. All you had to do was leave it as-is. You would do your users a favor by bringing it back. Nuf said.

I'll miss the easier-to-use Queue in Strawberry, but it's a small price to pay, not to have my album cover art sullied by text overwriting it

I have always loved this feature. It helps me unplug from in front of my screen and get up and do the other things. If the music keeps playing, I have a tendency to stay, but I don't like to stop in the middle of a song, and paying enough attention to time the stop button by hand is hard

Feature request: make it possible to set "stop after this track" for a song on the queue, ideally on a right-click context menu, which doesn't seem to exist yet. If that's a lot of trouble, an almost-as-good alternative would be to have a "stop when the queue is empty" feature, which could be a little button on the Queue icon bar.

Oh, and display column settings, too: metadata attributes chosen, their order, and column widths. Ideally

I like that the Queue has been changed to be distinct per playlist, rather than global, as it was in Clementine. Good move.

The same thing should certainly be done for shuffle and repeat settings (probably even more important than Queue). Currently I find that they are still global.

Loooong time user of "this" software on Linux, from Amarok 1.4, through Clementine. Just starting with Strawberry. Looks nice.

Right away I've got a (minor) problem I can't solve. In the bottom left corner of the display is the album cover art. Accompanying the cover art is the song title, album title, artist, as text. If the window is big enough, these appear under the cover image. But I normally keep my player shrunk to a certain size. In this case, that metadata text overwrites the cover image. Urgh. Awful! I want to turn the metadata OFF entirely (even when window is big, I don't need it).

But I cannot for the LIFE of me figure out where this setting is. I know I was able to do it in Clementine (though I don't have a working copy of that handy to check now).
I have a vague sense that in Clem it is found on the cover art's right-click context menu. Please tell me where to find this setting, and if it doesn't exist, you MUST include it in the next release! Thanks.