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Asset Control
Asset Control (a UPnP / DLNA control point) is billed as the control point you have been waiting for .
In UPnP there are: Server / Control Point / Renderer, where the Server catalogues tracks, Control Point creates playlists from the Server and controls the Renderer (player), all 3 elements of UPnP could reside on the same computer, or could be on separate devices.
Asset Control is a control point built around the central idea of touch control (although functions in the normal non-touch sense), and shines on tablet based PCs.
Development Stage
Currently designated as a Beta, we are at around 99% completed as far as features are concerned (for the initial release).
A word on functionality: to close Asset Control click or move the mouse to the top right for the close box to appear.
Download (for Windows 10 / 7 / Vista / XP)
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/beta/Asset-Control.exe
907 KB
Please direct all discussions regarding Asset Control to:
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...oper*post98212
Configuration Options
Asset UPnP Configuration exposes a number of options, after changing any options restart Asset UPnP. Some of the less obvious options:
Color Scheme - changes between Black or White display
Display - alters how Asset Control Appears, Full Screen Places Asset Over the TaskBar, whilst Maximized shows the Task Bar. It is also possible to not have the close box in the top right, thus making Asset the only application which is effectively running.
Main Browse View
Label Size - sets the size of the text in the main display.
Album Display Alters how Album browsing appears.
Playlist
Auto Scroll Current Playing - if enabled will keep the current playing item on screen
Now Playing
Play Now Display / Secondary Display - these are the values displayed when playing, the secondary display is invoked when the genre matches any of the entered values.
Last edited by Spoon; 10-25-2018 at 12:20 PM.
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Re: Asset Control
'To do' Work-Schedule
The road-map we have to implement into asset control:
[ ] Activate Linn DS Extensions
[ ] Search Functionality
[ ] Playing Now Views (there will be many additional views)
[ ] Filter integration within current view (imagine looking at Artists and select Filter on Genre 'Pop', or Year 1980's..., or sort the albums on release year, or filter the artist view to show just Album Artists / Contributing Artists,
[ ] Multiple Audio Collection Handling (based on people, ie you have a collection of audio tracks, your spouse has some of yours and their own)
[ ] Jukebox mode - set playback criteria and let it play with a random selection
[ ] Metadata editing - rate tracks, fetch album art, etc all from the control point
[ ] Multiple Platforms - Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac
Features Worth Mentioning
The browsing the of UPnP tree should be the fastest out-there with near instant results even though there can be 1000's of artists loading in the background.
On the Playing Now if no input happens in 20 seconds the controls on the screen fade out to leave just the playing details.
Smart Playlist Shuffle, in that you can shuffle your playlist, then cancel the shuffle at any-time and the original order is remembered. Also shuffle can be done on a track, album, or album (and tracks in album) basis.
I am also sort of embarrassed by the presentation of my audio tracks as shown in the screen shots, it is a case of 'the cobblers shoes', I am in the process of reripping all my tracks so they have high res-art work and AccurateRip verification (my rips are from 4-5 years ago in many cases).
Last edited by Spoon; 03-26-2010 at 11:54 AM.
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Re: Asset Control
Update 13th May 2010
Minor update, which allows Asset control to work where previously it would have a red circle through the track, on certain devices (ie the track could not be added to the playlist).
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Re: Asset Control
Update 14th May 2010
Enables Asset Control to be started with a -debug command-line option, ie Start >> Run:
"C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\Asset Control.exe" -debug
This will display a debug log after Asset Control has exited, which is useful for those situations where tracks have a red circle through them and cannot be added to a playlist.
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Re: Asset Control
Minor Update
LPCM support for renderers devices which supply a frequency and channel count in supported format (ie if you saw a red circle with a line through, it should be fixed)
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Re: Asset Control
Update 26th August
Work as resumed on Asset Control again, it is the primary focus once more (R14 and Asset UPnP are code complete for their respective releases).
This first update improves the playback (previous versions could stall when working through a playlist).
It is hoped there will be regular updates, I know there is a long list of people wishing for us to activate the Linn extensions, however we have to be sure that standard UPnP is functioning as should, before moving on with something which bypasses this part.
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