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Autofocus playlist on current item

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Posted: Fri, 2008-08-22 01:36 Joe
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Feature Request:

If player is on first item in playlist, then jumps to 8th item in playlist when first item completes (repeat and shuffle flashvars are obviously on), then the playlist should autoscroll to show the 8th item, not stay showing the first item.

This current behavior which does not include autoscroll is confusing for users because they don't know what item is currently playing without scrolling through the entire playlist to find the colored entry. Is it my imagination or did v3 have this capability but v4 does not?

What do you all think?

-Joe

Posted: Thu, 2008-08-28 01:47 JesterMgee  
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Same

I never used V3 but due to issues I have been having with my current players on my site I have had to look for an alternate player. This one fits the bill greatly but I have had to use a skin to match darker colours to my site and the skins I have tried have a very dull "current item" selection tghat is hard to see in comparison to the users selection so it is hard to see what song is being played.

I would like to see the playlist auto focus when a song starts or is selected.

Posted: Sun, 2008-08-31 15:53 adventurefilmmak  
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I agree this would be an important and helpful feature. It should also work with the NEXT, ITEM and PREV sendEvent APIs.

Posted: Sun, 2008-08-31 20:32 nick  
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Same here. I'm glad it's not just me noticing this. My player (version 3) also used to automatically scroll to the current item. This version appears to no longer have this. I've tried puting in the variables that used to allow it, with no success.

Posted: Thu, 2008-09-11 08:04 JeroenW  
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This is on the todo list for 4.2:

http://code.jeroenwijering.com/trac/ticket/185

Posted: Mon, 2008-09-22 14:51 Klaus  
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This would be a great 'feature', desperately needed here as well.
I noticed that older versions auto-focus the highlight on the item currently playing, got lost on the way to 4.1... :-)

Posted: Wed, 2008-09-24 03:03 Akshay  
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So correct me if I am wrong. I just grabbed the latest trunk (rev69) and tried it and I am not sure if its working or not.

Using a playlist if a video is playing it does not updated the current track using js listeners. The only way it js can grab the current track if you use the next and prev buttons or you click on the playlist items. If the track is playing without any external control it wont update the playlist item(wont select the new item as time progresses)

I can share the link if you would like.

Posted: Wed, 2008-09-24 03:36 andersen  
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please see the demo: - http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer4/custom_playlist_advanced.html
all demos: - http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash

the custom_playlist_advanced uses an itemListener, stateListener and getPlaylist to highlight an extenal css playlist...

Posted: Wed, 2008-09-24 08:18 JeroenW  
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The built-in playlist now does advance to the next item and highlight it...

Posted: Wed, 2008-09-24 19:24 Akshay  
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Interesting. That demo works. Although what I was taking about was if its a RTMP stream lets say and the playlist has different items with the same file but with different start times. Then the playlist(internal or js current/item) does not advance

Posted: Thu, 2008-09-25 01:48 JeroenW  
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No indeed. The support for 'chopping up' a certain video/sound into chapters has still to extend a little.

Posted: Thu, 2008-09-25 02:49 Akshay  
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cool! Just making sure :)

Posted: Mon, 2009-02-02 11:09 greengeek  
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andersen wrote:

please see the demo: - http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer4/custom_playlist_advanced.html
all demos: - http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash

the custom_playlist_advanced uses an itemListener, stateListener and getPlaylist to highlight an extenal css playlist...

@andersen

I tried this demo and it works awesome! I modified it slightly to make it look better when dealing mainly with mp3 files. The only thing that is off is the mouse autofocus. It seems that if I load around 20 items and then click on something in the middle of the playlist, the item highlights correctly and plays, but my mouse focus jump down 4 or 5 items below what I clicked on.

Any idea as to what would cause this?

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