Three Feature Requests

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I just purchased the software after playing with the demo for a few weeks. The price is great, and it works like a charm. I'm planning to use it next week to cue music tracks for an all day basketball event at my church.

I'd like to see the following features implemented in a future version of Combiwave...two minor and one major.

1. Artist/Song Titles From Metadata  - Rather than displaying the file name for each cue, it would be nice if Combiwave had options to display the artist and title or just the title of the song or the genre plus the title, etc., pulled from MP3 metadata...ditto for other file formats that embed info.

2. Display Options - It would be nice to have more options on columns. A widescreen monitor could handle three or four if song title and cue numbers were the only parts displayed. One idea would be a display that scaled to fill all the available space on the screen regardless of the number of cues loaded. At the least, I'd really like to see cues taking up two "lines" rather than just one. I would suggest loading the volume, pan, level meters and progress bars under the title. As it currently stands, opening any of these shortens the file name display and will actually take it out completely if too many are opened for the horizontal space to handle. 

3. Library View - This would be a major feature to add...a window to open temporarily similar to Windows Media Player's Library that would allow quick searches by title, artist name, genre, plus the ability to drag songs from the library into the main Combiwave window. This would be better than digging through layers of folders looking for a particular song.

 

Thanks,
David M.

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Hi,

Assuming you are not using the latest alpha, setting the slot name using artist and song from mp3 metadata is already implemented. click the toolbox icon, go to SLOTS and check the 'Use title - tag as alias' check box.

While there is no library feature, you can open the your music folder from within windows, search for a song then drag the required file onto a slot.

 

Hope that helps. 

Thanks.

I would actually prefer to display Artist - Title rather than Title - Album, though, so I guess it's still a feature request.

I prefer it that way too. The later alphas have the tags displayed like this by default and the tag display order and details can be modified too if you are confident in editing ini files.

If you can hold on for a while, Chris should be forthcoming.

Thanks Adrian for jumping in!

I am going to make the tags configurable in the options dialog. Maybe I can get it ready for the next alpha.

Chris

FOr request number two - Maybe Chris can make the "alias" line into a box where more info can be listed. I, personally, would like to see such a box to enter chart and other info on the artist or song.

Dear Marc,
a box to input some extra information has been added in the latest alpha (4.4.36.5):
http://www.combiwave.com/node/348