A couple of feature requests

[JenSmith]

Just found Xion for the first time this morning. Uninstalled WinAMP a few minutes later; loving it for a basic audio player without all that extra stuff that I never use.

A couple things I wouldn't mind seeing though.

First one is being able to lock the position on screen. I use the default's skin "toolbar mode" that sits right over the Windows taskbar. (Keeping it simple but effective and out of the way) Once in a while I'll accidentally drag the thing out of position. Nothing huge, but a lock toggle would be nice.

The other one is basic cover art support. Nothing huge, no automatic downloading and all that. All my music folders have a coverart.jpg image in them. All I wouldn't mind seeing is the Xion taskbar icon pop up a notification when a new song plays that includes the basic track info and a small image of the cover art, which disappears on its own after a few seconds. Needs to be able to define the name of the cover art image, and make it a toggle of course, as I'm sure not everyone wants that. Maybe the one thing I'm missing from WinAmp (or Exaile from my work desktop, Arch Linux, works the same)

Otherwise it's flawless, great program.

[Cliff Cawley]

Just found Xion for the first time this morning. Uninstalled WinAMP a few minutes later; loving it for a basic audio player without all that extra stuff that I never use.

A couple things I wouldn't mind seeing though.

First one is being able to lock the position on screen. I use the default's skin "toolbar mode" that sits right over the Windows taskbar. (Keeping it simple but effective and out of the way) Once in a while I'll accidentally drag the thing out of position. Nothing huge, but a lock toggle would be nice.

The other one is basic cover art support. Nothing huge, no automatic downloading and all that. All my music folders have a coverart.jpg image in them. All I wouldn't mind seeing is the Xion taskbar icon pop up a notification when a new song plays that includes the basic track info and a small image of the cover art, which disappears on its own after a few seconds. Needs to be able to define the name of the cover art image, and make it a toggle of course, as I'm sure not everyone wants that. Maybe the one thing I'm missing from WinAmp (or Exaile from my work desktop, Arch Linux, works the same)

Otherwise it's flawless, great program.

Hi JenSmith and welcome to the Xion Community!

I do hope to implement cover art soon. Initially I will support covert art loaded from the same folder, which is exactly what you were looking for. Thereafter I will support loading the covert art from the Tag information and then hopefully there after I'll support actually downloading it.

The taskbar notification has been suggested before and I'll be looking at implementing this as a plugin so that those interested in such a thing can simply install it into Xion and it will be available to them.

Cliff

[JenSmith]

Sounds great, looking forward to those additions.

[Ilko]

nice but Cliff, if you add that don't forget to make it as an option then we could disable it..

[Krakken]

nice but Cliff, if you add that don't forget to make it as an option then we could disable it..

I'll be looking at implementing this as a plugin so that those interested in such a thing can simply install it into Xion and it will be available to them.

[leadfoot]

Hmm. Would you have to write it yourself, or could you interface with something like CD Art Display? (http://www.cdartdisplay.com/index.php?categoryid=13) I have also seen precompiled libraries to display it, but I have no idea where I saw that (several years ago.)

[ALAS]

Hmm. Would you have to write it yourself, or could you interface with something like CD Art Display? (http://www.cdartdisplay.com/index.php?categoryid=13) I have also seen precompiled libraries to display it, but I have no idea where I saw that (several years ago.)

CD Art display is something that would in deed be interesting together with Xion. Also thought about that yet...