New features with an SD Card anyone?

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joulupukki

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I spent the weekend experimenting with a couple of ideas that could be done if you add a microSD card into Q-Tune. With an SD Card (formatted as FAT32) inserted into Q-Tune, you hold down the footswitch button while you plug it into your computer with a USB-C data cable and then it mounts as a USB drive.

What I've built (not yet released and still testing) is:
  1. Standby Image Support
  2. Set List Support
Standby Images
You just copy JPEG images sized to either 240x320 (portrait) or 320x240 (landscape) into the /standby/ directory. There'll be a new SD Card Image option in Settings > Display > Standby Screen where you can select your images to be shown on the standby screen. If you have multiple images in your /standby/ directory, you can press and hold the footswitch to advance to the next image in the list.

Set Lists
You copy a plain text file (.txt) into the /setlists/ directory for every set list you want available. The name of the set list is the file name. Q-Tune will automatically resize the font based on how many lines you have in the file. To advance to a different set list (if you have multiple), press and hold the footswitch in standby mode.

Here are a few examples:
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(I found that cool Death Star image here: https://www.deviantart.com/rocklou/art/Star-Wars-Death-Star-Wallpaper-649222725)

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Any early feedback or tweaks before we release these new features?
 
jwin615 said:
How about winamp style screensavers that respond to your playing?
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Ooo, that'd be cool! That kind of thing wouldn't require an SD Card but it'd be a little limited by the FPS of this screen (the more things I put on the screen, the slower FPS it runs at). But, I could experiment!

If you run in Buffered Bypass mode, some of the standby screens are interactive (like the Reactor one).

Has anyone discovered the other little games yet? Tap the screen using Corner Quest. Control the paddle with either your finger or ... with your guitar strings. Use the lower strings to move left and the higher strings to move right. Q-Spawn has a cool little training game built-in too.
 
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