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Originally Posted by abby_normal View Post
I have tried playing a few movies (transcoded DVDs) and I have noticed that after a few minutes, the playback suddenly stops. I play the same files in standalone mplayer and this behavior does not occur. This is the only bug I've noticed, a few other comments are listed below for you to do with as you see fit.
This sounds really bad. Is it always the same time position the playback stops at?

Originally Posted by abby_normal View Post
When I'm in the music list and I add a track to the (empty) queue, it does not start playing. I need to navigate to the queue and start it playing there, which isn't what I expect. If that's the intended functionality, perhaps you could add another button for "play now in queue" sort of like iTunes has? A "play next in queue" function would also be nice down the road.
To sum it up, the enqueue button should start playback in the queue if there's nothing playing at the moment. This sounds reasonable.

Originally Posted by abby_normal View Post
In the image viewer, is there a way to start a slideshow (i.e., automatically advance through images in the queue after a delay)? If not, this is not a high priority but it would be nice eventually. Another thing that would be nice is for the program to preload the next image in the queue so the transition is faster.
There's no slideshow yet in the image viewer. This is planned, though.
Preloading images is more of a problem on the NITs because of limited RAM. I think the N800 and N810 will be able to handle preloading rather well, but definitely not the 770.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see how well it can be done.

Originally Posted by abby_normal View Post
It is nice having the onscreen keyboard for searching but I find it a little nonintuitive. Let's say I am browsing music and I want to find a track with a particular name. I type the song name in but nothing happens unless I happen to have the tracklist for that particular album open. Is there some way around this?
The search as you type currently only searches the contents in the current list. Actually, it's up to the particular plugin how to handle the search, so implementing other search-behavior would be possible.

Originally Posted by abby_normal View Post
Finally, while I like the "finger friendly" UI, sometimes it is nice to be able to navigate and start playing solely using the d-pad. Right now if I am browsing, the d-pad up and down buttons seem to be mapped to "flick up" and "flick down," while the center button does nothing. It would be nice if the buttons instead moved the "focus" from one item to the next/previous, and clicking the center button corresponded to "play." The left-right buttons could navigate between the list of items and the types of views ("by album" / "by artist" etc.)
I'm also planning to do it this way, but it will involve some work.

Originally Posted by abby_normal View Post
Once again, great job, I really like how this app is coming along.
Thanks, I'm glad most of you like 0.96 so well.