OSX LastFM player suggestions

- qmanjosh said...
- User
- 6 Jul 2008, 01:45
OSX LastFM player suggestions

The fact that the OSX Last.FM player uses Growl is awesome.
I love it.

Couple of things that would make it better:

* It would be if it responded to the click event on a growl popup.
That way when a new song starts playing that I know I want to skip... I can click the Growl message, and the Last.FM player would pop up.

* I often am listening to a song that I've never heard before... and I want to know the name or the band's name. I wish that I could see this info in a menubar item, or maybe a dashboard widget or something... rather than having to pop up the player and context switch out of my current work.

* Is it possible to make the Menubar have the Skip button on it, rather than having to drop down into the menu in order to skip tracks?

* Speaking of the dashboard... It would be cool if the whole player (or maybe a simplified version of it) could be a dashboard widget rather than a full app. I might use that more, because as it is... I just start up the radio and then minimize the app anyway.

Just some thoughts.
Cool service... nice work. Keep it up.

[quote][b][user]qmanjosh[/user][/b] said: The fact that the OSX Last.FM player uses Growl is awesome. I love it. Couple of things that would make it better: * It would be if it responded to the click event on a growl popup. That way when a new song starts playing that I know I want to skip... I can click the Growl message, and the Last.FM player would pop up. * I often am listening to a song that I've never heard before... and I want to know the name or the band's name. I wish that I could see this info in a menubar item, or maybe a dashboard widget or something... rather than having to pop up the player and context switch out of my current work. * Is it possible to make the Menubar have the Skip button on it, rather than having to drop down into the menu in order to skip tracks? * Speaking of the dashboard... It would be cool if the whole player (or maybe a simplified version of it) could be a dashboard widget rather than a full app. I might use that more, because as it is... I just start up the radio and then minimize the app anyway. Just some thoughts. Cool service... nice work. Keep it up. [/quote]

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- fmera said...
- User
- 6 Jul 2008, 03:59
Re: OSX LastFM player suggestions

qmanjosh said:
* It would be if it responded to the click event on a growl popup.
That way when a new song starts playing that I know I want to skip... I can click the Growl message, and the Last.FM player would pop up.
growl's a notification service. can it support what you requested? i don't know, but that isn't what it's designed to do.

* I often am listening to a song that I've never heard before... and I want to know the name or the band's name. I wish that I could see this info in a menubar item, or maybe a dashboard widget or something... rather than having to pop up the player and context switch out of my current work.
but growl already does this.

* Is it possible to make the Menubar have the Skip button on it, rather than having to drop down into the menu in order to skip tracks?
someone else might want another button as much as you want a skip button. so where do you draw the line? besides, it's not very mac-like.

* Speaking of the dashboard... It would be cool if the whole player (or maybe a simplified version of it) could be a dashboard widget rather than a full app. I might use that more, because as it is... I just start up the radio and then minimize the app anyway.
you might be able to capture the onsite flash player of your playlist in safari as a dashboard widget (use the button between 'reload' and 'add bookmark') and play off that widget. uncheck the 'play audio only in dashboard' box, and you should be good to go.

mai daiz az a unsub, dey iz numbrd.
n i not knoe dat many numbrz :'(

[quote][b][user]fmera[/user][/b] said: [quote][b][user]qmanjosh[/user][/b] said: * It would be if it responded to the click event on a growl popup. That way when a new song starts playing that I know I want to skip... I can click the Growl message, and the Last.FM player would pop up.[/quote] growl's a notification service. can it support what you requested? i don't know, but that isn't [url=http://growl.info/about.php]what it's designed to do[/url]. [quote]* I often am listening to a song that I've never heard before... and I want to know the name or the band's name. I wish that I could see this info in a menubar item, or maybe a dashboard widget or something... rather than having to pop up the player and context switch out of my current work.[/quote] but growl already does this. [quote]* Is it possible to make the Menubar have the Skip button on it, rather than having to drop down into the menu in order to skip tracks?[/quote] someone else might want another button as much as you want a skip button. so where do you draw the line? besides, it's not very mac-like. [quote]* Speaking of the dashboard... It would be cool if the whole player (or maybe a simplified version of it) could be a dashboard widget rather than a full app. I might use that more, because as it is... I just start up the radio and then minimize the app anyway.[/quote] you might be able to capture the onsite flash player of your playlist in safari as a dashboard widget (use the button between 'reload' and 'add bookmark') and play off that widget. uncheck the 'play audio only in dashboard' box, and you should be good to go.[/quote]

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