HI ACX,
just want to give you a short feedback on the HDMI subject. But first of all:
Thank you! You and your team have done a fantastic job!
HDMI: I installed the 0.3 alpha version on my pi and directly connected it via HDMI to my Denon X4000 AVR. After switching the Audio output interface from analog to HDMI, my flac files 16/ 44.1 played flawlessly. Frequency of the input signal matches, so I guess no resampling occurs. No hiccups or other problems so far. I once inadvertently switched off the power without shutting runeaudio down properly. That caused rune to lose the HDMI setting. After rebooting, although HDMI Output was still selected it didn't work. I had to select Analog Output, save and then choose HDMI output (and save) again. Next: I want to test higher bitrates and see when and if problems with the RPi arise. Any suggestions what material could bring the RPi down?
ext4 wasn't a problem either.
RuneAudio: Imho the sound experience is great and it is superior compared to xbmc. I prefer to use the webUI in chrome (dolphin browser had some adjusting problems, MPdroid is also nice). Bookmarked it to the homescreen and it works like a native app. Really great! The whole rune system is clean, fast, responsive has great fonts and design. I have embedded cover art, which generally works. Sometimes it takes up to 10+ seconds to load. Maybe that is due to the size? Some cover art don't work although they should. Couldn't figure out the reason yet. It is also great to create playlists and be able to rearrange them.
Some (early) suggestions: There is one thing which is bothering me a little bit: As it was mentioned in this thread before (
ui-improvements-album-art-presentation-etc-t170.html) It would be great to change the current default mode when hitting the library button. As you can see in this screenshot
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, Imho the second row could be replaced completely for some buttons like artist, album, genre, song, playlist, folder. Thereby, browsing through the complete folder structure wouldn't be necessary and a selection of entire albums/ artists to queue would be possible. Also, updating the search function for artist/ albums (instead of tracks) would be great. One last thing about creating playlists: On my Galaxy Note 2 it takes 11 sec for the "Added to playlist notification" to vanish, which could be easily reduced to 1-2 sec.
The reason is, when consecutively selecting tracks for a playlist, the whole screen is full of notifications and during that time it is not possible to select additional tracks or go back to another artist/ album.
Thanks again for your great work! I'm really looking forward to see the project evolve! Rune really makes me enjoy listening to music again!
