Recent changes to feature-requests

Ratings in tracklist

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:36:27 -0000

Would be nice to see (or even be able to change) the ratings when
rightclicking a cover.

Party shuffle

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:19:38 -0000

If Clutter could link into the new "Party-shuffle" feature of
iTunes it would be great!
Currently, Cntrl-Clicking onto a CD cover brings up a list of
the tracks, and clicking on a track plays it immediately.
If there could be a preference or even a "tick-box" that
could let you choose to add the track to the party-shuffle
cue or to play it right away, it could really enhance the
power of Clutter.

Cmd-click for "send-to-back/bottom"

john manoogian III — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 02:34:11 -0000

thought of another feature i want to add:

when you're arranging your clutter around, sometimes
you want certain things on top. clicking an album
brings it to the front. but i want to send things to
the back, too, ala "send to back" in flash or
illustrator. so command-clicking could send something
to the BOTTOM of the stack.

what do you think?

add on-enter handler to amazon search text field

john manoogian III — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:53:27 -0000

so that hitting Enter or Return submits the query,
instead of having to press the button with the mouse

Windowed Mode

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 03:09:54 -0000

No really, Clutter is the only way to listen to music on the
computer...but here is what I would prefer:

1) That album covers can optionally be displayed in their own
window (or "canvas" if you will) instead of the desktop.

2) That this aforementioned window would have "Tabs" that you
could give labels to ("Favorite CDs," "New Stuff to Listen To," "Best
Hip-Hop I Have," etc). No need for Smart Albums or anything or
auto-creating lists or whatever else people want. I don't mind
doing it myself I just want the option.

thanks!

Fetch from Walmart

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 18:24:14 -0000

Walmart's music store has much larger images than Amazon. . . .

Add "Copy to iPod" ability

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:16:44 -0000

It would be great if you could add the ability to right-
click on a CD cover Window and access a menu item
that would copy the album's songs onto a connected
iPod...or some similar functionality...

(if I was a developer I'd lend a hand, but I'm not...sorry)
stongemp@yahoo.com

Three Usability Improvements...

gz76 — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:39:34 -0000

FIND COVERS
In the 'Find Covers on Amazon' dialogue box, it would be good if
more information was available, inc.:

1. The ability to zoom each image to determine which variation of
the cover art you would prefer to choose.

2. Dimensions of artwork were displayed to allow the choice of the
largest (or smallest, depending on user preference) image
available.

HIGHLIGHT COLOUR
As per a previous feature request, it would also be good if you
could define the highlight colour. This could be specified in the
Clutter preferences using the standard OS X colour
choose.

COVER ART 'GROUPING'
Some sort of overlay on each cover image to allow basic visual
grouping of cover art by the user. These groupings could be
automatically defined be music genre, or could be user defined.
Perhaps there could be a switch to toggle the display of these on
and off as they could potentially detract from the visual simplicity
of Clutter - I see this as an extension of the play/pause control
overlay requested by Sprote ("Put player controls on CD that's now
playing"), or even via the use of coloured CD spines rather than
black ones.

An extension of this could also allow for the temporary hiding and
display of cover art based on groups (this is useful if your desktop
is REALLY cluttered!).

gz76.

Pulsing the size of the active cd

Patrick Lemmens — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:46:26 -0000

While looking the wildwindows site and the example app I saw it is
possible to pulse the size of cd covers. This could be used to
indicate which one is playing.

Caution should be taken in using this though. I wouldn't recomment
using unofficial Apple API's.

macosxhints replacement PlayArtistAlbum.scpt

Foo — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:15:40 -0000

For your consideration:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040430183813805&query=clutter

Clutter make extensive use of AppleScript to create the playlist that will contain the album you want to listen to. To find the tracks of the corresponding artist and album in your library, the AppleScript routine was scanning every song -- way too slow!

Read the rest of the hint for one solution to this problem...