airLCD

Developments and Known Bugs

Upcoming Developments

• Interactive config file generator.
• Saving the current playlist as an M3U playlist with a specified name.
• Clock screen saver.
• Logging.
• Option for quiet operation.
• PMP (Portable Media Player) Support
  • Mounting and unmounting
  • Queuing and transferring tracks
  • Ability to use "Compilation" as a search term like "Album"
  • Ability to add (least) favourite tracks to the playlist.
  • More Stats

Development Environment

The software is being tested on a Red Hat Fedora Core 4 machine. It is currently untested on any other build.

The machine has a 40x4 display, is running Amarok 1.3.9 and the display manager is Fluxbox.

Known Bugs

Report bugs on the bug tracker.

1. If the connection to LCDproc is temporarily lost, no reconnect occurs. Output for LCDproc is sent to stdout.
2. Spaces and quotes are not recognized in the ScrollSeparator option on the scroller widget.

Limitations

There are some limitations with airLCD that are there because Amarok does not provide support for them. Therefore the following features will not appear in airLCD unless Amarok implements them on their DCOP interface.

Playlist

• When viewing the playlist the current playlist in Amarok is saved to disk and that file is read by airLCD. If the playlist is modified while viewing it in airLCD (e.g. when in Dynamic mode) then these changes won't be seen until the user exits the playlist and renters it (prompting a re-reading of the playlist).
• Tracks cannot be moved around the playlist or removed from the playlist.
• Queuing of tracks is not possible only appending to the end of the playlist.