Show bitrate, channels and samplerate for playing tracks

[systems-rebooter]

It would be cool to see some tech info of played tracks with cherry-m, like bitrate, codec, stereo mode, frequency in player slide-bar or in any other place.

[6arms1leg]

I'd like that, too (+ indication if transcoding is on). :+1:

[devsnd]

hey systems-rebooter,

nice to see CM has grabbed your interest!

I agree that a transcoding indicator would be very useful. This is easy to implement: If the jplayer plays from a source that starts with /trans/ then it is transcoded, otherwise it is not. This could be implemented in the playlistmanager. This function decides whether a track should be transcoded or not and is called whenever the jplayer is instructed to play any media.

I however don't see any advantage in displaying the bitrate to the user, especially when the music is not transcoded. It only clutters up the interface without any additional value.

"The bitrate is 128kbit/s", yeah, but what are you going to do about it, now that you know?

[systems-rebooter]

"The bitrate is 128kbit/s", yeah, but what are you going to do about it, now that you know? Filter? :)

[tilboerner]

Filter

Hmm? So this is about more than just displaying some encoding metadata. :) What exactly do you want to do, and why? Underspecified features are hard to implement. :crystal_ball:

Keep in mind that CherryMusic isn't necessarily bound to the encoding details of the actual audio files; as @devsnd pointed out, the audio that gets played could very well be transcoded.

[systems-rebooter]

Nope. I'm for displaying only. Filter would be over-enhancement. So filtering was just a guess, which doesn't need to be coded. I mean the following: if let's say search gives back 2+ identical tracks (which resides in different albums), I'd prefer the one with higher bitrate :)