next/prev track key mapping, just a thought!

[Brett]

Hey I was wondering if anyone has submitted this as an official bug/feature request.

I noticed that you can change tracks if your in the visualization mode by pressing the channel up/down. I also noticed that while your browsing the menues you can press stop/play/pause to control the music, however pressing channel up/down moves you within the menu. Why not map the next/prev track to a different button so that users could change tracks while browsing the menues?

-Brett

[falchulk]

Hit the live tv button, ch + or -, then hit it again. It will put you right back where you were. Just one extra push.

[Opus4]

You can configure your remote nearly any way you want. (If it is the Hauppauge remote, edit irremote.ini to switch key assignments.) While SageTV always combines Ch +/- with either Up/Down or Pg Up/Pg Down, you can use Up/Down and/or Pg Up/Pg Down by themselves. The biggest problem is determining how you want your remote confiugred to best operate for you. (It would be nice to be able to use Ch +/- and ff/rew on their own buttons instead of always bundled with something else.)

- Andy

Edit: I now see falchulk already gave a workaround that doesn't really need key/button remapping.

[Brett]

Originally posted by Opus4
(It would be nice to be able to use Ch +/- and ff/rew on their own buttons instead of always bundled with something else.)

Yeah this is the problem.

Channe up / down is also shared with music prev/next and with navigating menues top/bottom. Way to much!

I would actually think prev/next track would share better with skip back / skip forward command. Why? Because this is typically mapped to the prev/next on a remote, and it would not interfere with the menu.

I realize its beta and this is where we should catch some realworld testing. With that said I think the entire layout of keys should be reconsidered. I realize Sage has for a long time used the same keys. But sometimes change is for the better. I mean ^D for play makes little sense to me, or ^X for guide. The (default) keyboard mapping makes it much more difficult to navigate for first-time users in my opinion.

Ulitimately I would perfer to be able to assign keyboard shortcuts to multiple (nonconflicting) commands. Like assign '>' to both next track on the music player and to skip forward 1x. Ofcourse ultimately I would also like to erase keyboard commands I have accidentially added as well .

Until then Falchulks method seems to work, so thanks for the tip!

I am trying to get a better Sage2 profile bundled with the snapstream Firefly, but so far I am limited because by default some commands do not even have values. Such as skip forward 2x.

-Brett

[Opus4]

Originally posted by Brett
I would actually think prev/next track would share better with skip back / skip forward command. Why? Because this is typically mapped to the prev/next on a remote, and it would not interfere with the menu.

Maybe not _that_ menu, but it would still interfere elsewhere...

I wouldn't mind having more separated commands for those who are using a remote with more buttons.

- Andy