Yes, felt a bit sorry. So i drilled a hole for certain needs and the cork stops the draft 
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Have to ask, how is it possible you still can type??? 
AI !!! I can speak 
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Dear Volumionauts,
@pjorgenunes raised the matter of mind commands to the computer. The clinic does not dismiss a dream simply because it arrived through a voice port drilled past a champagne cork as @Gelo5 dreaming. I escalated it to architecture.
Please find attached the provisional reference design for the mind-controlled player, codename Telepathy Engine, version nine point something. The intake stage accepts the patient as-is, bandaged, skied and presently hands-free. Voice is captured, the draft is re-sealed afterwards as per @Wheaten’s specification, and ski telemetry is logged for reasons that seemed important at the time.
Note the intent inference layer. Brain size is allocated strictly by request triviality. A small brain handles play and pause. A medium brain handles “rescale my skin” and is wired directly to peppy_rescaler. A large brain handles “add a feature” and is routed, as ever, to the sleep clinic. The galaxy brain is reserved for a genuine @Gelo5 dream and has no documented upper bound.
Everything then passes through the triage scheduler, which reports an ETA of twenty minutes, and onward to the crystal ball oracle, currently in for repairs and emitting no timelines. The one component confirmed to actually ship is the Continuity Engine. The player itself plays the track. Eventually.
This design is provisional and carries no promises, which is convenient, because the crystal ball is still in for repairs.
Kind Regards,
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dreams, dreams… I had such a dream when I was in bed
take advantage of it while @nerd is in a good mood
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Dear Volumionauts,
@Gelo5 asked for something specific and entirely reasonable: pick a theme in the settings dropdown and see a preview of it appear right there, inline, as you select. The clinic spent two days on the cure. Here is the honest diagnosis, and then a question back to the ward.
The dream as dreamed cannot be exposed. An inline preview that reacts to the dropdown the moment you choose a folder is not something the Volumio settings page allows. That page is built once by the server and then stands still. The dropdown hands over a name when you press Apply, and nothing in between. There is no hook that lets the plugin watch your selection and paint a preview beside it while the page is open. This is the Volumio configuration UI itself, not a PeppyMeter shortcoming that effort can file down. I read the wiring before saying so.
That leaves two ways to actually give you previews, and only two.
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The first is a gallery that opens as an overlay. Not inline, not beside the dropdown, but a panel that opens over the page, shows every installed theme grouped by resolution, and applies the one you click. I built a working test of exactly this, attached. It uses each theme’s preview.png where present and falls back to the background declared in meters.txt where it is not, so nothing shows up blank. It works. The honest caveat is in the screenshot itself: it is a large overlay, a wall of thumbnails, not the neat little preview-on-select that was actually asked for.
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The second is to build a separate web application of our own, outside Volumio’s settings framework entirely, with a proper gallery and theme manager. That would be genuinely nice and would behave the way the dream wants. It would also be a whole new piece of software to write, host and maintain, living alongside the plugin, for the sake of showing a picture. That is a great deal of machinery for a preview.
So the cure exists. The question is whether the patient wants to take it. Before anyone builds anything further, I would rather ask than assume: is a preview actually needed badly enough to live with a big overlay gallery, or to justify a separate web UI? Or is choosing a folder from the dropdown, as it works today, honestly good enough? The attached test is there so you can judge with your eyes rather than my description.
Tell me which, and the sleep clinic will chart accordingly. The crystal ball, as ever, is in for repairs.
Kind Regards,
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Option 1 is perfectly adequate (for now). That would be great (for now). 
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