vortechs/vsmediaplayerextension

Visual Studio Media Player Extension

vsmediaplayerextension's Issues

Media Scanner doesn't seem to pick up all files

One of my test directories contains sub-folders with music from DJ Billy Bunter, and none of these files are picked up by the scanner. Why?

Add ability to switch playlists via a dropdown when clicking on the playlist title

Visual Studio Media Player may fail to appear after closing and re-opening

A remote debug trace seems to suggest this is a problem with the Dispatcher not being available to raise events on

Playlist names from lowest level folder won't suit everyone

Example:

C:\My Media\Some Album\Disc 1
C:\My Media\Some Album\Disc 2
C:\My Media\Another Album\Disc 1
C:\My Media\Another Album\Disc 2

results in the following list

Disc 1
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 2

Have a think about how we can solve that!

Make the Media Scanner a background task.

Otherwise Visual Studio hangs around on startup when there is a large media library to scan

Audio Player throws the wrong state change reason when a playlist ends

It's supposed to try loading the next track, and then throw a 'Playlist Ended / Stopped' change reason / newState in the PlayStateChanged delegate.

But it doesn't.

Player shouldn't show a 'Track Length' for a live stream

It should just show the elapsed time.

Extension needs to create a 'plugins' folder in the Visual Studio directory

This is required to allow the user to modify their AVS preferences. However, whilst the v1.6 version has the ability embedded, this might require the user to launch VS in administrator mode.

Add Localization

Stop hardcoding stuff in English. Support localization and get some translation done!

Consider adding the 10-band Graphic Equalizer back in!

...re-use the Windows Form controls you have for the sliders.

Option to stop media reproduction on window close

Some users might assume that closing the window will stop content reproduction. I suggest adding this behavior as an option.

Allow users to select ANY WinAMP visualization, not just AVS

Media Scanner doesn't pick up .PLS files

The media player supports .pls files for internet based streams, but the scanner doesn't seem to pick them up

Add support for visualization user interface callbacks

Some visualizations have their own unique UI which add playback support. Implement these callbacks.

Visualizations seem to stop reacting to the music when automatically switching playlists

Or that's what it seems like. Seems to kick-in again if you manually move playlists or track.

Needs Configuration UI for Media Paths

There's no configuration ability for the root location(s) of the media

Send track information to visualization

Other visualizations are able to receive details of the current track, so should be sent via the appropriate BassVis calls

Visualizations take a few seconds to fire up

Investigate why, they're normally instant, but since the BassVis update, it's no longer the case.

MarketPlace Installation on VS2017 not working?

Will try installing on a clean machine to work out why it's breaking...

Needs Configuration UI for Visualization

There's no configuration UI for the Visualization options.
At the least there should be a 'Yes/No' to enable Visualizations

Multiple VS instances

1. opened one VS instance. Opened the control window. Started reproducing the content.

1.1. I opened a second VS instance. The control window was opened. It keeps saying "ordering content". I closed the window. When I tried to reopen it, I got the alert of multiple instances (that can be suppressed). My suggestion here is to check when control is loaded if there's already an instance open somewhere else. If yes, don't allow a second instance to be open.

1.2. I configured to suppress multiple instances warning. Closed the second VS instance. Open another VS instance. This time the window was not open. Then I went to View -> Other Windows -> "Visual Studio Media Player" and it opened fine another window (my first VS instance was still open and reproducing content) and started playing.

I think the suggestion on 1.1 fixes 1.2 as well.

Unchecking 'Enable Visualizations' doesn't work

It's supposed to disable visualizations and enable 'Album Art' view instead.

Why won't the VSIX appear in VS 2017?

I've upgraded the project to VS 2017, following all the notes on the doc site.

After fixing an issue with the BuildTools doing something screwy with an XSD and folder that didn't exist in the packages directory, the VSIX builds but never appears in VS 2017.