Re: Issues with media features on 360

I'm sure a lot of folks here will have responses for you. 8-) You might
also want to take a look around here. As I recall, several of these items
have been discussed previously.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
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"Michael Per" <mper[at]hugewave[dot]com@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your response, Chris. Yes, I'm running XP Pro with the Media
> Connect, not an MCE. By your suggestion I'm including the mediacenter
> group, even though I suspect that MCE integration is a lot smoother than
> XP/Media Connect.
>
> - Mike
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Good items, Mike. I'd suggest you might want to post your whole list to
>> the microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter newsgroup where Media Center
>> Edition functionalities (including Extenders like the Xbox 360) are
>> discussed. From the items you've listed, it sounds like you're not
>> running a MCE computer, but just using the Media Connect software?
>> --
>> Chris H.
>> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
>> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
>> Associate Expert
>> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>
>>
>> "Michael Per" <mper[at]hugewave[dot]com@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Few things I noticed when playing around with media features with PC
>>> integration. Hopefully someone at Microsoft can take note of this, but
>>> then again maybe it's already on somebody's to-do list.
>>>
>>> 1. By far the biggest issue is the perceived album name uniqueness. By
>>> the way, the same problem applies to Windows version of current media
>>> player. When I browse artists, select one to see this artist's albums
>>> and then go into the album to see the track list I also see the tracks
>>> from different artists having albums with the same name. Now, obviously
>>> this only happens if one has multiple artists with the same album name
>>> in his collection, but it does happen. Album names such as "Live",
>>> "Unplugged" and such are generic enough that many artists have them. The
>>> point is that media library is not truly hierarchical and assumes that
>>> album names are unique - the assumption that is simply wrong and must be
>>> fixed.
>>>
>>> 2. When in the media player view the track list on the right should
>>> automatically position in a way that one can see the currently playing
>>> track in the playlist. Currently playing track should also be
>>> highlighted. This way a user will now how far down the playlist he is
>>> and what's coming next and what has just played.
>>>
>>> 3. Don't know if this possible, but it would be nice if either media
>>> connector or xbox itself automatically adjust the volume of the
>>> currently streaming track to match the other tracks, to normalize the
>>> stream in other words. Now, it shouldn't actually modify the file on the
>>> PC, just the stream going to xbox, or do it on the xbox side. It is
>>> usually a problem when shuffling through the entire collection or having
>>> a playlist with music from different artist/album which may be recorded
>>> at a different level.
>>>
>>> 4. When displaying the album list for an artist they are sorted by name.
>>> Would be a nice option to sort them by year released (obviously would
>>> have to display the year as well).
>>>
>>> 5. Some characters in the artist names cause the name to split. Example:
>>> AC/DC. It actually got split into AC and DC which is kinda weird.
>>>
>>> 6. On media remote there are no buttons to page-down and page-up.
>>> Difficult to work with long lists. Perhaps some unused buttons can be
>>> mapped to these functions. Also no buttons for volume that could be
>>> mapped to master volume, but I guess at this point it's a hardware
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> 7. When displaying pictures from the PC you start with folder names. Or
>>> rather folder icons. These icons display no "representative" picture
>>> from a folder and due to their size only show the part of folder name.
>>> What would be good is to have an option to either display icon view or
>>> text view. In the text view just show folder names and have more room to
>>> display the entire name. In icon view have a representative (random)
>>> picture instead of the generic icon. When an icon is highlighted display
>>> the full folder name somewhere on the bottom in the "tool-tip" area.
>>>
>>> 8. In pictures, the folder structure in flat, all the subfolders are
>>> displayed in one level. Would be nice to display folders hierarchically
>>> and show how many subfolders a given folder has by displaying a number
>>> inside/next to the folder icon or folder name.
>>>
>>> 9. It would be nice to have an option to display the slideshow
>>> circularly, i.e.: after the last picture show the first again and keep
>>> it going forever. Also having a playlist of pictures the same way we
>>> have playlists of music.
>>>
>>> 10. Now, this can be a lot to ask, but could be cool to be able to
>>> associate a playlist with a picture folder. So when I fire-up the
>>> playlist I automatically get the slideshow of associated folder instead
>>> of annoying visualization.
>>>
>>> 11. And of course the obvious one, why can't we play the video stored on
>>> the PC? I assume this will improve with Vista having media center
>>> features in more editions than one, but would be a very nice feature to
>>> have.
>>>
>>> That's it for now. Hope someone's listening.
>>>
>>> - Mike
>>>
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