Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: aqualung
There are two problems with the time slider that become really annoying
for long audio files:
1) The slider is quantized in units of 1% of the file length. For a
47 minute audio track (like I have), that means it's roughly 30 seconds
per click. You can't go backwards and forwards by a few seconds, only
in large jumps. It's even worse if an entire CD is a single track.
This remains true, even if you stretch the window sideways to make the
slider longer.
The fix is to use a finer resolution, rather than storing the percentage
directly
as an int. Scaling the slider to be 0-10000 instead of 0-100 would
probably
do the trick nicely.
2) If you mis-click, even slightly to the left on the time slider position,
it jumps left (as it should), but then *keeps*going* as long as you
hold the mouse button down.
If you were expecting to grab the slider and do a drag operation,
this leads to a really annoying result, because it steps leftwards
rather fast. Often, by the time you take your finger off the mouse
button, it's gone all the way to the beginning of the file and you've
lost your position. It's one of those "click, whoosh, drat!" experiences.
Possible solutions:
A) make the "grab" region somewhat wider
so that one doesn't miss the button so easily.
B) Put in a longer delay after the first jump, to allow the
user to take his/her finger off the button. 700
milliseconds would be about right.
-- or, better than (B) --
Have the jumping pause when the slider position passes
your mouse position. That might be a rather nice UI,
because people will then be able to click on the point
that they want, and easily lift their finger off the mouse
when the slider gets to the right point.
C) Make the "handle" of the slider accurately reflect the grab region.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
$
$ apt-cache policy aqualung
aqualung:
Installed: 0.9~beta8-2
Candidate: 0.9~beta8-2
Version table:
*** 0.9~beta8-2 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$
$ aqualung --version
Aqualung -- Music player for GNU/Linux
Build version: R-718
(C) 2004-2007 Tom Szilagyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details.
This Aqualung binary is compiled with:
Optional features:
[+] LADSPA plugin support
[ ] CDDA (Audio CD) support
[+] CDDB support
[+] Sample Rate Converter support
[+] iRiver iFP driver support
[+] Loop playback support
[+] Systray support
Decoding support:
[+] sndfile (WAV, AIFF, etc.)
[+] Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
[+] Ogg Vorbis
[+] Ogg Speex
[+] MPEG Audio (MPEG 1-2.5 Layer I-III)
[+] MOD Audio (MOD, S3M, XM, IT, etc.)
[+] Musepack
[ ] Monkey's Audio Codec
[+] WavPack
[+] LAVC (AC3, AAC, WavPack, WMA, etc.)
[+] Metadata (ID3, APE, Ogg comments)
Encoding support:
[+] sndfile (WAV)
[+] Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
[+] Ogg Vorbis
[ ] LAME (MP3)
Output driver support:
[+] OSS Audio
[+] ALSA Audio
[+] JACK Audio Server
[ ] Win32 Sound API
** Affects: aqualung (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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aqualung user interface problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257256
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