Wavebar merged with Control-Bar

[KangNi]

Hello There,
first let me tell you: I Love MusicBee - I just can't live without anymore

Since i discovered the Wavebar, i thought about that it would be great to merge it with the Player "control bar".

Let me count out some advantages:
- the hard to hit thin progress bar will be replaced by the spread Wavebar
- the Wavebar time resolution will become much more increased by stretching it over the whole space for the current title + time
- more tidy and efficient GUI utilization

To give you an idea of what i suggest, please review my attached Photoshopped screen shots.


>>> http://i.tinyuploads.com/uDv9ih.jpg | http://i.tinyuploads.com/3ZpuSO.jpg <<<

Hope i could provide some inspiration.

Greetings and thanks a lot.

[psychoadept]

That's not done for the main panel, but it is done in the new compact player.  Be sure you have the latest beta, and take a look at Compact Mode.

http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Latest_Update

[9cupsoftea]

Looks great! Though the colours you chose in the photoshop seem to clash a bit for me.

I think people were talking about having a wavebar in main view in the big thread about the new compact player, but I really like your idea of having track info displayed across it a bit.

[KangNi]

Thanks for your replies.

Hello "scampbll". I updated to version 2.1.4841 and i had a look to the compact player.

Okay there is a wavebar but there is a seperate progress bar too.
So i can't see anything similar to what i was described and showed in the attached mock-up.

[psychoadept]

Okay there is a wavebar but there is a seperate progress bar too.
So i can't see anything similar to what i was described and showed in the attached screen shot.

If you right click in the compact player window and choose "customize panel settings" there is an option to "show wavebar" which will replace the progress bar with the wavebar exactly as in your mockup (except for the overlapping text).

[HHM]

That's not done for the main panel...

I'm struggling to change it:)
http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=9352.0

[KangNi]

Wow, really ? that would be outstanding

In the meanwhile i updated my mock-up with a different wavebar color to increase the font contrast.

[Alexis]

@cycon,

I like the idea of the wavebar as you suggest.
Go through this thread also if you have not. (I know it is compact player related, but there are some discussions there.)

http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=9126.0

[Steven]

Okay there is a wavebar but there is a seperate progress bar too.
So i can't see anything similar to what i was described and showed in the attached screen shot.

it sounds like you are looking at the older "classic" layout for the Compact player. The new "modern" layout is enabled in Layout(2) preferences