Request: profiles

[Eduardo Rivas]

Profile (definition):
A profile is a set of parameters associated to a song. They include but are not limited to: font type, size and color; transition type; text align, title visibility (see LP528659), and bg selection.

Example:
Let's say you encounter two type of song in your DB: some are calm hymns and choruses and others are more fast-paced, modern songs. For the first you want to use a fade transition, a bold-serif font and video/image bg's from a folder you name "calm" (you can imagine what it will contain). You may also want to display the titles of this all-time classics.

On the other hand, you have the modern songs. You may want to use a light sans font, the rotate transitions and hide the titles. You will be using bg's from your "colorful-bg" folder, etc.

Lyricue should allow you to create profiles accordingly. They should be associated to the song itself, but overridable when added to the playlist to still allow the user total control. That way, you can have different styled songs even in the same playlist, and when you change these profiles in your preferences, all the associated songs will reflect the changes.

The part that might sound confusing is the bg selection parameter. The idea is that you have your bg's (image or video) split into categories in your DB (I mean with good ol' folders). You can select from which folder Lyricue should pull a random bg according to the applied profile. This will give all songs a relevant/related bg that is different every time without having the user to always choose. Of course this will be overriden if the user associates a bg via drag'n'drop.

Hope this gets implemented, will make presentations more dynamic and easier to prepare. Greetings.