Hiromacu
@RogueStar: OK, I see! I was too fast! :P
Keyboard Ratings RogueStar
Let's you rate your music library using the keyboard
Description
Initially written to make rating music using the keyboard a little more bearable. Presently it adjusts the rating of the current playing song. With time it might become a little more than a simple set of hot keys.
If you have any suggestions drop me a line before you summarily down rate. Also, consider taking comments regarding extension development to the extension home page to keep the comments section cleaner. Thanks.
Currently only supports US layout in the en-US localization or UK layout in the en-GB localization, more localizations could be added upon request. Manual layout selection to come as an option in a future build.
General Hot Key Combinations:
Control+"~" = 0 Stars
Control+"!" = 1 Star
Control+"@" = 2 Stars
Control+"#" = 3 Stars
Control+"$" = 4 Stars
Control+"%" = 5 Stars
Control+Shift+"+" = Increase rating by one star
Control+Shift+"-" = Decrease rating by one star
Control+Shift+"_" = Decrease rating by one star
Control+Shift+Right = Increase rating by one star
Control+Shift+Left = Decrease rating by one star
Note: All hot keys equate to Control+Shift+key.
Mac users, try swapping out the Control key with the Command key.
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Additional Mini Player Hot Keys:
"`" = 0 Stars
"1" = 1 Star
"2" = 2 Stars
"3" = 3 Stars
"4" = 4 Stars
"5" = 5 Stars
"-" = Decrease rating by one star
"+" = Increase rating by one star
"=" = Increase rating by one star
Note: The mini-player accepts single key hot keys since there are few GUI components to interfere with.
Number keys from the Numeric Key Pad will not work.
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Pending Feature Requests:
- Global Hot Keys
To Do:
- Make layouts user selectable
- Add sound cues
Tips:
Link hot keys to a programmable device such as a joystick. Works well if you have 7+ buttons and don't want to hunt and peck keys in the dark..
Bitcoin donations of any amount are welcome here: 19y2BaMRxQ7M1mUG5KYVTC5xfL7k45rzRw
Release Notes
-version bump for 1.9
-lots of songs to rate, so maybe more later :)
Comments
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Hiromacu
@RogueStar: Doesn't work even if I know all shortcuts!
RogueStar
I just uploaded it a few minutes ago, so bear with me. The way the keyboard hooks are a bit wonky. On a windows box the hot keys given above are the ones interpreted by the app. Effectively for the fixed star ratings you will press Control+Shift+<number>, and for the increase/decrease it only works using the +/- keys from your num pad.
RogueStar
And when I say <number>, it unfortunately won't play nicely with the num pad without potentially overloading other hot keys (it treats those as if num lock is always off).
Hiromacu
@RogueStar: OK! This update works! Thanks!
"Note: You presently have to use +/- keys from the num pad for the increase and decrease rating hot keys. The other +/- keys work differently, sorry."
My laptop unfortunately have no num pad (but the Ctrl+Shift+'=' still works). A Ctrl+Alt+left and a Ctrl+Alt+right would be useful. :P
RogueStar
i like the idea of up/down better, but I will see which ones are available after work. thanks for the comment
RogueStar
Control+Shift+Up/Down doesn't play well with the play list in full, so I have gone with your suggestion to use Control+Shift+Left/Right. Also made the hot keys friendly for people with laptop/no num pad. Thanks again.
Jerome
Yeah! Thanks for your release!!!
Hiromacu
@RogueStar: I suggested Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow and Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow because these are still work in a text-box too. But the Ctrl+Shift+'=' and the new Ctrl+Shift+'-' work in text-box as well. And I agree with you, a Ctrl+Shift combination is more handy a Ctrl-Alt.
Thanks again! :P
Hiromacu
Correction: "...a Ctrl+Shift combination is more handy than a Ctrl-Alt."
Schwadegan
Hi, your add-on seems to cause an error reported to Getsatisfaction.com
You might want to read this topic to see what its all about.
RogueStar
Thanks. Problem fixed, sorry about that.
Schwadegan
No worries, thx for a quick fix!
Hiromacu
@RogueStar: Thanks! It works well!! :)
Naatan
It would absolutely rock if you could have this work when Songbird is not the active window, I often listen to music while playing Wow, would be nice if I could just press a shortcut to rate a song without having to alt+tab.
RogueStar
That's something I really wanted as well. I will look into it, but I think global hot keys work differently. I'm not sure it can be done using just an extension.
Naatan
Seeing as Songbird already uses global hotkeys for the media controls I'd say it should be possible.. though I understand it might be more difficult than it might seem at first.
shadowwoelf
I can't get the Hotkeys Ctrl+1-5 to work. I only managed to make Ctrl+shift+'+' to work, but again only when songbird is open.
Also If possible could you allow the users to set which hotkeys they want to use in addons->options->keyboard ratings->options.
Hopefully you can get the global hot keys to work though
RogueStar
I looked into global hot keys and they are done quite differently from normal hot keys. Normal hots are just done as a set of xml/xul tags, using global hot keys requires tapping into the songbird API which I haven't out how to do properly from inside an extension. I've been busy with other things, so I haven't put much time into it yet.
@shadowwoelf - The hot keys are tied to the symbols, not the numbers, so if your keyboard is standard you need to use the shift key as well to trigger the hot key. All the current hot keys are effectively a Control+Shift combination. I had considered making the hot keys customizable, but decided that it would cause people more grief than it would solve. Many combinations don't work as a user might expect or may otherwise conflict with some other extension they have without realizing it.
shadowwoelf
@RogueStar
I have tried ctrl+shift and even caps+ctrl+!, but it is not working.
Also I could help with the extension if you want
XZ3R0
I had an addon for winamp that would decree the rating of the song if skipped or skipped a certain amount of times and increased when listened all the way though. So the rating system kind of built itself intelligently around your preferences. This could be a separate mod, but how about adding that function as an option to your addon? Just a suggestion, they dont seem to have an addon for SB that does that yet and i really want it.
RogueStar
@XZ3R0
i will add it to the feature request list when I have more details on how it would work. Could you post more details on how you see it working on the add-on home page?
@shadowwoelf
The code is pretty basic, any development help would be appreciated. The extension seems to be working fine for most people. Could you report your problem on the add-on home page with your OS, songbird version, keyboard type/layout, extensions installed?
I will set something up for better bug tracking and an SVN repository, when I get back on the development track. Bug reports/feature requests themselves are fine, but anything that requires discussions should be taken to the plug-in homepage.
shadowwoelf
@RogueStar tried to make a forum post, but the site is confusing. Gives me an error if I try to go into forums.
http://www.twobytes.com/node/30
That is the posted I made..
cristian3100
Thanks for this excellent add-on, but I have a problem, for me isn't work the combination
shift+ctrl+2
shift+ctrl+3
all others key functionally perfectly
cadwmaster
Hi, thanks for the addon, can you give some info about making functional with Global Keys and can you introduce the use of "Window Key" + numbers to change the rating.
Thanks
RogueStar
@cadwmaster: I will not introduce "Window Key" + numbers combination as a default to the extension. It has too much potential to confuse people. When I get around to adding an options window, this could become one of the available presets.
@cristian3100: I have added a localization for en-GB, however your songbird would need to be setup to use that localization for it to go into effect. There are some suggestions on how to get around this in the release notes for 0.3.3.0 if you do not want to change your localization.
wulun
Global Hot Keys is useful.
Could it be done by the add-on command line support?
Erikw
Solve the keyboard layout problem by letting the user change keyboard shortcuts in about:config or such.
Marko
please update!
robhayes
This should be default Songbird functionality. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me because the hotkeys your chose are linked to other programs (even Firefox).
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Hiromacu
@RogueStar: Hi! Interesting add-on, but how works it? What is the keyboard shortcut? :P