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Paul Sauro f7db73097a Playlist viewer: Add new options to allow formatting using tags
Offer new options to show elegantly your entries in any playlist/dynamic playlist viewer. This is especially important if you dual boot an iPod with Stock OS and want to sync with iTunes; with this very popular setup, file names are obfuscated which results in any Rockbox playlist viewer difficult to enjoy, and it was a long standing issue reported by several Rockbox users over the years. The only way to show the title was to open a contextual menu on each song to get infos about the selected song, which is a very long and anti-ergonomic process to understand what is on your current playlist/randomized playlist. The idea of this patch is to provide new alternatives that the user can select. I personally selected the Title & Album view which provides excellent readability.

This patch was built with performance in mind using lazy loading to load one by one the tags then cache a string and use the little cache as much as possible to make scrolling in the same area as smooth as possible. Performance remains very acceptable even on an iPod 4G with its original hard drive. Using a real compact flash with my iPod Mini 2G reduces the latency even more.

Those new options are disabled by default because they impact noticeably the scrolling performance and are less relevant if your files are decently properly named.

Unfortunately, the search feature in a playlist will need to continue to use the raw filename because reading the tags for a whole playlist is a performance disaster. This works decently while viewing just because I made a code that load those one by one as much as possible.

I focused also on testing that the opening of the playlist viewer UI remained fast, and loading one by one with lazy loading allows to get very little overhead in this regard.

Change-Id: I00d9c802e29f8372447813b035bbae207a016467
2024-09-09 18:21:38 -04:00
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advanced_topics misc: Add 'mpga' as a valid file extension 2022-02-01 13:23:39 -05:00
appendix Playlist viewer: Add new options to allow formatting using tags 2024-09-09 18:21:38 -04:00
configure_rockbox Integrate the new option to the theme engine and to the manual 2024-08-28 21:38:35 -04:00
frontpage fix a few manual warnings 2020-11-22 03:48:28 +00:00
getting_started Manual: Add Eros Q Native Bootloader download link 2022-04-19 21:27:57 -05:00
intro manual: Update copyright year to 2024. 2024-07-17 17:17:08 -04:00
main_menu bookmarks: show 'Create Bookmark' for unsaved playlists 2024-06-01 11:42:47 -04:00
platform manual: Fix html manual build on MPIO HD200 2024-07-12 08:52:24 -04:00
plugins plugins: extract redundant functionality from stats/properties 2024-07-28 20:18:41 +02:00
rockbox_interface Reworks to the shuffle system to improve performance and allow fast shuffling from a big library (but this work for all database views) 2024-08-31 10:44:20 -04:00
working_with_playlists manual: update browsing, playlists, bookmarking, ipod keymap 2024-04-24 05:50:28 +02:00
credits.pl manual: Don't expect first char of name in CREDITS to be ASCII. 2021-08-20 21:17:56 +02:00
gsearch.js Manual: add search box to HTML output. 2011-06-19 15:43:41 +00:00
LaTeX.Rules Set latex input to /dev/null to avoid blocking on errors 2015-01-12 12:18:26 +01:00
latexfilter.pl Filter LaTeX output for errors. 2012-06-19 21:32:10 +02:00
Makefile makefiles: Suppress stray backslash warnings with grep 3.8 2023-03-21 04:48:31 -04:00
Makefile.pdflatex manual: Just call the PDF build artifact rockbox-manual.pdf 2024-07-12 11:57:14 -04:00
mkidx.ist Add style file for index. 2006-10-25 18:28:09 +00:00
preamble.tex manual: Fix up some issues to try and get texlive2021 working ok. 2022-05-09 10:36:42 -04:00
rockbox-html.cfg manual: Replace all rockbox.org urls with https. 2020-12-12 23:17:04 -05:00
rockbox.tex Add the identifying header 2010-03-27 16:02:39 +00:00
spellcheck.sh Update spellcheck script. 2011-08-09 23:14:41 +00:00
spelldict.pws Update spellcheck script. 2011-08-09 23:14:41 +00:00