If I understand what is being asked for, I'd say it's a personal Rating System.
So cards can have 0 to 5 Hearts that would show up as a banner on them.
You give a rating between 0 ( no Hearts) to 10 (5 full Hearts) 1/2 Hearts are all the Odd Numbers

And then a Sort option based on User Rating

This way, all the cards in your Wish list would have your Own Personal Rating with anywhere from 0 to 5 full Hearts shown on it.

Reading through all these posts,

That is the best way I can Sum up collectively, what is being asked for.

0= no Hearts
1 = 1/2 Heart
2= 1 full Heart
3 = 1 and 1/2 Heart
4 = 2 full Heart
etc...
10 = 5 full Hearts

Edit: I changed it from Stars to Hearts to keep with the Favorites theme..

The bottom line is right now I have no way of knowing which cards I already previewed. So now I have to reconsider basically every card in the totem catalog. Worse yet, I will be ***** to do this forever every time I think about which card to buy ... every time!!!

I understand the reasons behind the new feature and so I will accept that it needs to be in place. But I really think there needs to be some thought put into replacing the lost functionality. The wishlist is not sufficient for this. Some others have provided suggestions so let me add mine to the list.

1. Show wishlist indicator on the cards when I click on the cards view for a given model (or everywhere cards are visible). In the past it showed the cards that I had previews of. It no longer does this. I used this to indicate to myself that I had already considered that card. If I dont own the show then there must be a reason why, such as I have decided against it. Wishlist items were the ones I have decided to get but havent done so yet. Without the wishlist indicator on the cards view then I have to click on each card to see if that card is on my wishlist.

2. If the indicator for previews is now gone for good (except for the 7) then I want the ability to privately rate cards. So once I've watched the preview I can set an indicator, that shows on each card, that indicates my thoughts. Similar to the above this indicator should be visible everywhere cards are visible but of course only visible to me.

Please dont make me rewatch hudreds of previews so I can decide what to purchase next.

One other thing.

So now every day all of the carosels (releases popular, busty, etc), are filled with cards that are tagged "New". These cards are neither new nor new to me and the vast majority are previews I have already seen. :-(

Prior to this update, when the carousel showed something tagged new it was actually new or new to me. But now this is gone. I dont know if this counts as a bug or if it is expected behavior.

I just installed the new version, and now I have 302 cards to update. Did something go wrong, and how can this card have one?

@Wyldanimal : Precise!
@cuzzin : Agree with the "NEW" thingie. Kind of waste, as the marking is basically not useful... (Started a thread about it yesterday - but apparently I'm not expressing myself very clear... ;>) )
@SimWarlock : Alizee was removed some time ago. Theres plenty of threads about that. (If you have abckup, restore her from there - otherwise you get a refund, if you ask for it, through the contact section of the program). The rest of them are probably quality updates, you just haven't noticed before.

I have all her cards downloaded and backed up but when I installed the new version this is her only card that comes up with an update

OK... Odd.
I have all her cards as well, but none shows up as updates.
Could be from before her cards were removed?

I am not sure if this was asked before, is there a way to delete the automatically downloaded previews after i have looked at it if i decide not to pick it up. this is to preserve HDD space. Is it that the cards are automatically delleted once they cycle out of rotation?

@mitchell : the previews take up to 20GB on hard disk, not more and there are 7 displayed on the carrousel.

@mitchell
Yes, the preview is automatic deleted when a girl goes out of rotation, so dont worry, your space on your Hard Drive is safe ;)

@snake @stef thanks for the info

Previews shouldn't take up ANY space on your HD...this new method is silly (nevermind annoying)

It seems a bug.
When you load initially IStripper the GUI appears always on full screen, no matter what you do to avoid it.
I went to settings and under the big Title referred to Blocking at work ( where you find the ALT-SPACE sudden deactivation of Istripper), a checkbox saying "Start deactivated" is shown ( In my case "Inicio desactivado" in Spanish language). So if you check that option, when you start IStripper it should reamain deactivated showing the grey icon at bottom bar of Windows.

This checkbox does not work. Please repair it

start deactivated, mean that iStripper Opens But is OFF.
the Models are not Activated. But the GUI still Opens.

You are missing two settings..
Run iStripper at Startup Needs to be Checked.

and the Shortcut you use needs this added to it..
-from startup
you will have to find the short cut, then right click to check it's properties.
under the Target, add the -from startup to the end of it.

start deactivated, mean that iStripper Opens But is OFF.
the Models are not Activated. But the GUI still Opens.

You are missing two settings..
Run iStripper at Startup Needs to be Checked.

and the Shortcut you use needs this added to it..
-from startup
you will have to find the short cut, then right click to check it's properties.
under the Target, add the -from startup to the end of it.

Explanation:

the -from startup, tells iStripper NOT to display the GUI when it starts, only display the icon in the system tray.
the Start Deactivated, tells iStripper to Not turn ON the Models when starting.

If you Don't have Run iStripper at Startup Checked, you Might Not get the System tray Icon to display.
then you have iStripper running, but No Icon.

so to Use the -from startup in the Target command line.
You Must also have Run iStripper at Startup Checked.

Thank you for your quick answer
I made both things : checked also "Run Istripper at Startup" and in the Direct Access Icon of Istripper which is on my desk I wrote -from startup but nothing happens

Try -fromStartup

lowercase from No Space Capital Startup

at work I have win 7, and the -from startup works for window 7
at home I have windows 8.1
and -from startup did not work, but -fromStartup did..

Also, I had Browsed to the BIN folder, and right clicked on the vghd.exe, send shortcut to desktop.
That is the shortcut I edited the properties for.

Thanks
I did exactly as you said
I put the capital letter and the result is that Istripper does not work anymore. ; I have windows 10
I´ll try to restart the computer or maybe install again Istripper

EDIT:I did exactly as you said but the solution did not work for me
Windows 10 said that there was a problem with VGHD, so I deleted -fromStartup, closed Istripper and tried again. I didn´t work
I turned off completely the computer and after a while everything was running as before of my trial changes.
I don´t Know if it is a problem of Windows 10 itself or it is specific of my Windows 10.
I thought that you would Know this for future cases
Thanks WA

before you add the -fromStartup to the shortcut
You Must have the advance setting Run iStripper at Startup Checked.

see this post where the Developer and I worked on this 2 years ago. The exiting is a built in feature if you don't have the advanced setting checked.

http://www.istripper.com/forum#/forum/thread/30005/last#post467759

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if you do not have the Run iStripper at Start checked, then the -fromStartup will cause iStripper to exit as soon as it is loaded.
In older versions the option was called Start at Bootup, now it is Run iStripper at Start.

I do have a Windows 10 machine. I will install and test. this to make sure, and let you know.

my Orig. Post is Here:

http://www.istripper.com/forum#/forum/thread/30005/last#post467725

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and a video showing what happens if you Don't have the Advance Setting checked.
VGHD loads to Memory, but exits.
youtu.be/OyNyOy2CeT0

It was my not having, the advance Setting Checked, that caused the application to exit without starting.
So you must have that Setting Checked, before you add the -fromStartup to the shortcut.

@WyldAnimal
I see . I had the Advanced setting at Startup checked of Istripper checked.
But I realize that In Windows startup (as shown in msconfig.exe that in Windows 10 sends you to the Task manager, Startup) I had disabled Desktopware / Istripper
Maybe that's the reason why I had that problem.

I disabled Windows Startup because of two things:

One: I have both Vghd Data and Models files in an external HardDisk , not only for a question of space but also in order to minimize the problems when I need to restore vghd from scratch (new computer, Totem changes suddenly from Vghd to Istripper ... and what's next?, etc.). Recently I changed my computer and I had a lot of problems.( In some cases your help has been quite important to solve those problems)

Two: It seems to me that if you load Istripper when you start the computer it takes some extra time. I feel that it also uses a lot of CPU and computer resources and sometimes when I am working, Istripper crashes or provokes Windows malfunction (This latter is something very infrequent and I am not quite sure ) I feel that VGHD was smoother for these questions.

So, if I am right, I must decide if I continue without starting Istripper when I turn on the omputer or if prefer let the GUI be quiet , not appearing suddenly when I Start Istripper

Thank you very much for your help

@WyldAnimal
I see . I had the Advanced setting at Startup checked of Istripper checked.
But I realize that In Windows startup (as shown in msconfig.exe that in Windows 10 sends you to the Task manager, Startup) I had disabled Desktopware / Istripper
Maybe that's the reason why I had that problem.

I disabled Windows Startup because of two things:

One: I have both Vghd Data and Models files in an external HardDisk , not only for a question of space but also in order to minimize the problems when I need to restore vghd from scratch (new computer, Totem changes suddenly from Vghd to Istripper ... and what's next?, etc.). Recently I changed my computer and I had a lot of problems.( In some cases your help has been quite important to solve those problems)

Two: It seems to me that if you load Istripper when you start the computer it takes some extra time. I feel that it also uses a lot of CPU and computer resources and sometimes when I am working, Istripper crashes or provokes Windows malfunction (This latter is something very infrequent and I am not quite sure ) I feel that VGHD was smoother for these questions.

So, if I am right, I must decide if I continue without starting Istripper when I turn on the omputer or if prefer let the GUI be quiet , not appearing suddenly when I Start Istripper

Thank you very much for your help

Technically No..
putting the check mark in that box also set a registry value.
So you Need to have it Checked.

But You Can, go to your Windows profile and in the Startup folder, remove the vghd.exe entry.
( or using task manager, disable it on the startup tab )

Then, Like I have done.
Browse to the BIN folder and create a Desktop Short cut to the Vghd.exe file.

Now you can edit the properties of that Short cut, and add the -fromStartup to the end of the target.

so you end up with this:
The proper registry value is set, you've blocked it from starting when you start windows, And you have a desk top Icon that will start iStripper, WithOut Opening the GUI.

I have tested it on my windows 10 OS, and It works just as I describe it.

here is a quick video of how I did it on windows 10
https://youtu.be/c_tP-o_Xs5s

Thank you
I have already disabled vghd.exe from Task Manager Startup tab and I made my shortcut of vghd.exe from the bin folder also.
So maybe I din´t edit properly the properties of the shortcut (maybe I did no add correctly (space)-fromStartup) . so I´ll try again.

Hi, I haven't downloaded the latest version because it did not seem to address the issues I'd like issued. So, if it did, please advise.

Question 1: If I'm Platinum and I want to see one single dancer doing her *entire* routine (i.e. every clip in her card) in one continuous sitting in numerical order in fullscreen mode, how can I do that?

Question 2: Are there any plans to offer Pause or Slo-Mo in Fulscreen mode? Could the space button on the keyboard be used for this? To stop pause, press same button again.

Question 3: Could you get the artificial intelligence to match clip length with music (song) length so that it seems more like a strip club where the dancer and the music start at the same time? It would be a cool feature.

Question 4: Who is the cutie on graphic announcing this upgrade?

Thanks for your hard work. OrangeHoof.

Question 1: If I'm Platinum and I want to see one single dancer doing her *entire* routine (i.e. every clip in her card) in one continuous sitting in numerical order in fullscreen mode, how can I do that?

You can create a playlist of individual clips and save it. You can then use it in fullscreen.

NB you have to be careful - some scenes are designed to play only certain types of clip If the clip type in your playlist does not match then you will get an error or skipped clips. For this reason it may be better to have the clips list as all pole or all table, etc. Even then it may not work. There are a number of threads dedicated to fullscreen scenes and how to create them.If you have a look at some of them you will see why it is difficult to do what you want.

Question 2: Are there any plans to offer Pause or Slo-Mo in Fulscreen mode? Could the space button on the keyboard be used for this? To stop pause, press same button again.

I doubt it. Fullscreen mode is entirely different to desktop mode. The scene is a list of instructions that play the clip and specific backgrounds. I have a lot of complex shader backgrounds in some of my scenes specifically set to a certain speed. I wouldn't want anything interfering with these.

Question 3: Could you get the artificial intelligence to match clip length with music (song) length so that it seems more like a strip club where the dancer and the music start at the same time? It would be a cool feature.

I wouldn't have thought this would be even worth the effort (which would be considerable). Totem are only a small team. I'd settle for being able to tie a clip playlist in with a music playlist and music playlists aren't available at the moment.

Question 4: Who is the cutie on graphic announcing this upgrade?.

Li Moon

HTH

@Number6 Thanks for the thoughtful answers and for some of the bonus developments I have probably enjoyed. Seems like some of the programming limits what can be done which also keeps the product from being all it could be. I'm not *****. I'm just saying if you see slippage in repeat buyers, this could be part of the problem. Internet sex websites have to keep building upon themselves or they'll die. I've seen some good ones that folded because simply became stale.

Don't give up just yet, buddy :) @No.6 's comments are pretty accurate as far as our knowledge goes but Totem could throw in a new idea, control or whatever, at any time after listening to our ideas and suggestions for improvement.

Other skilled members could also write add-ons to do some of the things we would like too, needing authorisation from Totem of course :)

Your number 3 question, to me seems do-able. No need for any special AI...

Apologies - I did not wish to appear overly negative on this.

One Totem's arguements (until recently) about letting us have multiple versions of the same model (in a multi-model scene) was realism, to keep the Multi-model Paris Penthouse scene as real as possible. Adding pause or slo-mo to full screen hardly add realism to it. TBH it is not something I would probably use but if other users want it then fine - as long as it doesn't screw up the way fullscreen works at the moment.

With regards to item 3 my take on @OrangeHoof's question that he wanted to exactly match clip length to music length. If so then this IMHO would be extremely difficult to do. No two members are likely to have the same music collections so the software is going to have to check the length of each music track. You would certainly need to have a lot of songs in the collection of varying lengths. If you haven't got a song of the right length - what does the software do - choose a song that is nearest the length of the clip and stop it when the clip ends?. What about songs that are longer than any of the clips (I have Hendrix, etc. tracks that are 15+ minutes long) - these would never get played. I am not sure but I thought the software used to have a facility that changed the music when the clip changed. I found it a bit jarring (suddenly changing songs after a minute or two) and had it turned off. It doesn't look like it is still avaiiable (I may have imagined it anyway). Something like that would be fairly simple to introduce however what do you do if you have multiple models in a scene? You could only really key the music off the first clip specified.

With regard to question 4, are we all agreed that Li Moon is friggin' gorgeous? :-)

PS - I would still like to see music playlists that could be keyed to a scene and/or a clips playlist.

Hehehe :) Of course you are correct with multi girls playing. There's no way to match a tune to a scene with multi-clips :(
Streamlining a tune to match an exact clip length is also difficult as tunes and clips vary in length by a great deal.

I took the No.3 question to mean starting a new tune with a new clip. The clip ends, a new clip starts with a new tune :)

Things which would be great to have in fullscreen:
1. a hotkey while in fullscreen which STARTS the music track .
2. a toggle hotkey while in fullscreen which ommits the model temporarily from the scene
that way peeps who are interrupted watching, can just appear to be enjoying an animated graphic.
hint: I think the latter could be achieved by alternating frame rates for backgrounds and model anims.