I was really bored yesterday, so I modelled a Winamp Mp3 Player.
About: The Winamp player has 2 screens, one on front, one on back. Both are *optionally* backlit. You can toggle both lights in the menu. The front is the player face, which shows song info and battery power left, and the back screen is for the equalizer, playlist editor, playlist viewer, video screen, media library, and preferences menu.
The top of the player has a row of buttons on it that include play/pause, stop, next song/fast forward, previous song/rewind, shuffle, and repeat. The side of the player has the slider for the playlist viewer/editor (the slider has 3 positions, up, down, middle. It snaps back when the user is not holding it.), menu, equalizer, video viewer, media library, and preferences menu. Pressing down the slider like a button gives a menu of screens to switch the back screen to.
The bottom of the player has a volume slider, used to control the current volume.
The screens the player has are:
- Front Screen/Main Window - Shows song stats.
- Playlist Viewer - Shows the playlist, allows scrolling through the playlist, and pressing the stop button THEN the play button on a specific song will switch to that track.
- Playlist Editor - Changes the functions of the top buttons to add track/dir, remove track, clear playlist, and sort list.
- Equalizer - The next track and previous track buttons switch between on-screen sliders. The slider on the side controls the positions of the frequency sliders.
- Media Library - Also adds to the playlist, but can also be used to add/view/play files from other devices plugged into the player's USB port. I/E, the player can power it's USB port so that you can plug other PMP or Mass-storage devices into it and transfer from them.
- Video Window - Displayed automatically if a playable video is the current track. Displays the video AND video stats like time left, etc. Can also be turned on by the user to view advanced visualizations.
- Preferences Menu - Basically the options menu, but can be used to activate various plugins also. I/E Advanced Visualizations, which can be viewed with the Video window toggled on.
Images of the renderred product:
This is the front face. Note the glow of the backlit screen.
This is the back face. Note that the headphone jack is now on the opposite side.
This is the slider.
The thing on th eleft of this picture is the battery compartment. The shape looks semi-messed up, but it is not. It is meant to be easy to take off, but be able to stay on very easily.
The top buttons.
The player from the bottom
The back face again.
The Earphones. From this distance you can probably tell I used the texture for the front face on them. It actually worked quite nicely.
