Audio Input Timeout Enhancement Request

[Datashock]

Hi,

Thank you for providing and participating in this forum. I have spent a little time searching around here, and I am impressed so much with this company. I would like to contribute with this enhancement request.

It would be nice to have a fallback input to the visualizer if the prefered input goes silent for a while, then switch back to the prefered input when it breaks its silence.

The reasoning behind this is, I would like to have my G-Force screen saver use wave as the prefered input, but when the music stops, I'd like it to switch to one of the sound generator inputs. G-Force is much more interesting with some sort of input. Then if the music starts again on my wave input, I'd like it to automagically switch back to the wave.


Thank you from a very pleased customer,
FrankS

[gorus]

Thanks for your support, Frank. It's a cool suggestion--when we get a chance, we'll see how difficult/taxing on the system it is to detect sound on the wave input on a continuous basis. This may not be trivial because the wave input would need to be monitored every so often--and the wave input is different with different sound cards, etc. So, we'd probably need a pref to set a specific input to monitor and another pref to switch to on silence. Anyway, we'll look into it when we get a chance (right now, our hands are quite full), thanks for bringing it up.

[Datashock]

Thanks for the response.

I suspected that this would be non-trivial, but what the hey, thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

I was pretty happy to find I could switch input on the screen saver. It has been rather useful when entertaining guests.

I can switch my G-Force screen saver to use wave input, then set the Windows screen saver timeout to 1 minute. Then I have my media player open, with the playlist editor and media library browser open to full screen.

If I or a guest move the mouse, they are presented right away with all of my music, then after they have finished selecting some tunes, G-Force comes back, all without having to switch manually back and forth to full screen mode.

Anyway, fantastic product, and fantastic company!

Thanks again,

FrankS