Rockit 5 - Feature Requests

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DJ Cam said:
Rick,

You prob know I have never used your software, but a quick question. I am looking for something that will let me use 4 decks at once. I can use 4 with virtual dj but it doesn't run very well. I need 4 decks that I can setup as a main output and a monitor select all will Auto BPM matching like Virtual DJ. Is this something you software is capable of doing or will be available with the new release?
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There's a 4 deck skin for Rockit currently, but no BPM matching.

As to the future, I can't realistically answer that (things change), but currently my design criteria does not include BPM matching. It would require me to raise my prices quite a bit, farm out support, and just generally end up being a rewrite of VDJ.

At the moment, I would like to continue keeping the price reasonable, and the focus on usability and stability -- rather than just throwing things in to make a quick buck, and having it haunt me down the road. :)
 
SoftJock Rick said:
There's a 4 deck skin for Rockit currently, but no BPM matching.

As to the future, I can't realistically answer that (things change), but currently my design criteria does not include BPM matching. It would require me to raise my prices quite a bit, farm out support, and just generally end up being a rewrite of VDJ.

At the moment, I would like to continue keeping the price reasonable, and the focus on usability and stability -- rather than just throwing things in to make a quick buck, and having it haunt me down the road. :)
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Thanks Rick!
 
Rick, I think I heard something about being able to re-size fonts on the fly in V5.

Care to elaborate?

Also, is there a way using a keyboard command to close a search, auto mix que or request que boxes?

I can only close them wit a mouse.
 
What about having the ability to resave over a current playlist. My reason, I add songs each week to my Prime Cuts folder. Then, I go into RockIt and add those files into the library. For me to recreate the Playlists folder, I have to delete it out of the C: drive and then resave. Would really like to just hit the 'create playlist' button and resave over the old Prime Cuts folder.

As always, Rick.....these are just my suggestions. If they can or could be implemented without risk of creating stability problems, then great. If not, don't mess with it. ;)
 
dunlopj said:
Rick, I think I heard something about being able to re-size fonts on the fly in V5.

Care to elaborate?
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You'll have to wait until I get the trees off my house... :)



Jon Tuck said:
perhaps a stretch screen ability for all skins?
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Why? Planning on gaining some weight... :D


badblood70 said:
What about a quick cue feature. Or a jump on the while playing. It would come in handy when your trying to quickly trying to jump past a long or boring intro to a song before playing it.
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You can currently set cue points for songs in the library.
 
Randy A said:
How about a pop-up box if you add a song into a playlist that is already in the list?
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jokerswild said:
Or better yet a Remove Duplicate option...... how bout that?
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Working on different methods to do that now. You'll probably end up with a remove dupes from playlists in the Playlist Editor... The Playlist Editor has been completely redone, and offers most of the functionality of the Library Manager now :)



dunlopj said:
Rick, I think I heard something about being able to re-size fonts on the fly in V5.

Care to elaborate?
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You can now change the font, font size, and foreground and background colors in any on skin list. You can do that for just the session, or click the update skin mapper button, and it will rewrite the skin and save those changes. You can also change the font and font size in the popup lists, and they will save.


dunlopj said:
Also, is there a way using a keyboard command to close a search, auto mix que or request que boxes?

I can only close them wit a mouse.
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Alt+F4 is the standard Windows shortcut that closes the top most window, and works fine with the popup windows in Rockit, as long as that window has focus :)

I'll see if it's workable to add a specific command in Rockit though...
 
Whoops!! I opened a search box and hit Alt + F4. It asks if I want to close RockIt. I said no and it closed it anyway!
 
dunlopj said:
Whoops!! I opened a search box and hit Alt + F4. It asks if I want to close RockIt. I said no and it closed it anyway!
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Yeah, when the regular Search opens up (not the HDD search) -- for some reason, the popup window does not gain focus. Everything else that uses that window gains focus, and the Alt+F4 works normally, and just closes the popup.

For example, open up one of the queues (which uses the same window), and Alt+F4 just closes that window.

Not sure why that happens with the regular search...? :dontknow:

I'll take a looky see... :)
 
Here are some of my requests:
-Would like more granularity for setting cues i.e. typing in a number. Slider is jumpy and does not let you get it where you want it.
-The ability to flash the remaining time or an indicator "light" when song is less than 30 seconds to end.
-Reset Deck button instead of right click.
-Ability to show Automix is activated by either having the ability to change the color of the font (when activated) or turn on a "light".
-Ability to just see the comments about a song as a right click option or a button when loaded on a deck.
-Ability to drag and drop for presets (instead of browsing for the actual file name)

Thanks,
-pman
 
pman said:
Here are some of my requests:
-Would like more granularity for setting cues i.e. typing in a number. Slider is jumpy and does not let you get it where you want it.
-The ability to flash the remaining time or an indicator "light" when song is less than 30 seconds to end.
-Reset Deck button instead of right click.
-Ability to show Automix is activated by either having the ability to change the color of the font (when activated) or turn on a "light".
-Ability to just see the comments about a song as a right click option or a button when loaded on a deck.
-Ability to drag and drop for presets (instead of browsing for the actual file name)

Thanks,
-pman
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Some is already there :)

The cues are limited to one second intervals, due to Rockit's streaming decoder. But, you can set them in different ways...

Try playing a song, and pause it where you want the cue point, then right click on the deck, and choose Set Cue 1 (or 2). Also, if you use Ctrl+right arrow when a deck is not playing, you will notice it jumps 2 seconds with each press -- if you go backwards (left arrow), it goes in one second increments ;)


The flash towards the end was removed because of overhead -- but you can use a gradient progress bar, instead of the fancy ones in most skins. In that case, you can choose the colors, and quickly look at the screen to see how close to the end of a song you are. The default is green/yellow/red -- so when you see red, you know you are close to the end of the song. See the skinning reference for more info.

Reset button -- not sure... Reset is there only in case DirectSound hoses up, and the entire deck needs to be rebuilt from scratch, and all buffers cleared -- it's a last resort. It's not used to just clear a deck -- you just drop another track on it.

AutoMix and AutoMix Random lights are available -- depends on the skin -- some have it, some don't. Depends on how much space I had available when I wrote the skin (and/or how lazy I was) :D


Right click a deck when a song is loded, choose Track Properties -- the comments are there.

I'll put the drag and drop into presets into the notebook :)
 
dunlopj said:
Whoops!! I opened a search box and hit Alt + F4. It asks if I want to close RockIt. I said no and it closed it anyway!
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Ok, I figured out why that happens with the regular search popup box -- doubt I can do anything about it though...

It gets populated by our library DLL, which takes focus off Rockit altogether, which is why the Alt+F4 will close Rockit in that particular case. When a DLL takes control of another process window, the focus goes back to Window's Desktop.

Even if I put a separate command into Rockit, it will not have the focus at that point -- just the way Windows works with DLLs (interprocess communications)...

Use a skin with the search results list on it -- everything else should work fine with Alt+F4 :)


In the meantime, I'll see if anybody has figured a way around that yet...
 
Here's a few that I haven't seen yet:
- Retain contents of the search text box rather than wiping it out after a search. If I fat finger a search and get the wrong or no results I want something to show me what I searched for and allow me to re-edit my search. For instance a search for "pussy cat dolls" returned no results, if it stayed in the text box I could have removed the space and searched again.
- I assume this one's a little complex but it would be VERY helpful! Some means of rating music. In my iTunes I have songs rated with their 5 star system. I can pull up an iTunes playlist and sort it by ratings giving me the hottest songs at the top of the list. This is a HUGE help when the brain fog sets in. For instance I have a country hits playlist with about 50 songs in it, but I don't listen to country songs very often and my eyes start glazing over trying to pick 3 or 4 songs that are hot, but not burned out. In my ranked list I simply pull the tops songs and leave the few that have recently been overplayed. I thought about using the play count and incrementing the numbers by 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 for ratings use, but I'm afraid that something could reset that count and I'd be out tons of hours worth of work.


Thanks
Scott
 
scharris_99 said:
- I assume this one's a little complex but it would be VERY helpful! Some means of rating music. In my iTunes I have songs rated with their 5 star system. I can pull up an iTunes playlist and sort it by ratings giving me the hottest songs at the top of the list. This is a HUGE help when the brain fog sets in. For instance I have a country hits playlist with about 50 songs in it, but I don't listen to country songs very often and my eyes start glazing over trying to pick 3 or 4 songs that are hot, but not burned out. In my ranked list I simply pull the tops songs and leave the few that have recently been overplayed. I thought about using the play count and incrementing the numbers by 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 for ratings use, but I'm afraid that something could reset that count and I'd be out tons of hours worth of work.


Thanks
Scott
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Along those same lines -- being able to change the little music note icon would be good for me. I like to create different folder, so say I have 'Best of Country' and then 'Best of Country Slow'...I could dump them all into one folder and then change the little music note icon to indicate a slow song.
 
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