Re: [Banshee-List] Feature: An Everything But Playlist

["Benjy Grogan" <benjy grogan gmail com>]

On 6/17/06, Brian Fahrlander <Brian fahrlander net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:55 -0400, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would it be possible to allow the creation of Everything But
> > playlists?  So the playlist is basically the Music Library minus
> > everything you exclude.  The reason I think this would be useful is
> > that I often put my Music Library on random, but I don't want those
> > Podcasts/Talk mp3s to be chosen, just the music.  I find myself adding
> > and then removing podcasts/talk mp3s from the Music Library to avoid
> > this hassle.
> >
> > I'd rather create a playlist of everything in the Music Library, minus
> > the few mp3s I don't want in.  The Everything But playlists would then
> > still include all new music I add to the Music Library but never what
> > I don't want.  What do you think?
>
>     As a user, and not a developer, I think it's easier to put your
> entire list in as a playlist- just click the first one, scroll it down,
> and press *shift* when you select the last one.  Then, for the ones you
> don't want, press *ctrl* while selecting them.
>
>     I'm just hesitant to invoke extra features, if they're not
> necessary- that's how Windows got to the way it is, now, with a lower
> usability than Linux....everything has extra features.   I understand
> the need, I just thing it's easier to tune the list to what you want,
> than add another feature, that's all.
>
>     Here, I find it annoying that I can't drag (copy) an entry in one
> playlist into another...so that when I come upon a great song for an
> "up" mix, I have to actually go hunt it down in the library, not just
> drag it over.  But it's not huge...

Yeah, I agree.  But the feature that you're suggesting would be
invisible to the user unless they tried to drag a song from one
playlist to another playlist.  I guess it all comes down to keeping
the codebase simple so that you limit the number of bugs.

Benjy



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