Re: [Banshee-List] Some features I would definitely like for Banshee 1.2 !

[Bastian Brand <brandb student ethz ch>]

I also have a proposal for a new feature: The playlist (i.e. the window
with the tracks when I'm in the music browser) should follow the playing
song - right now the list stays at the place it is and doesn't jump down
when a track further down is played. Would this be possible and would
you even like it?

On 06/20/2008 10:48 PM, Chris Van Steenlandt wrote:
> For those who do not know it yet : banshee 1.2 is on the way and
> scheduled for July.
> Banshee 1.0 knocked a few people off their feet but once recovered
> they found out that 1.0.0 had it tiny little annoyances that resulted
> in peopled grabbing back to Amarok. banshee 1.2 has the potential to
> take away those annoyances and make sure that you won't have to look
> back anymore to your beloved Amarok.
>
> A couple of features already in SVN trunk :
> - correct treatment of compilation albums (this was a real bummer in
> 1.0.0 for a lot of people)
> - automatic detection in your library directory of new tracks
> - recommendations
>
> What I would like to add (listed in order of personal preference) :
> - A composer tag in the 'edit track information' window. For the
> moment you can visualize the composer as a column but you can't edit it !
> - Manually adding cover art : I've seen several solutions proposed
> (like the old 'cover.jpg' in the track's directory) but according to
> me the most elegant and versatile is that you either 1) drag an image
> over where the cover art is shown (I believe this used to be possible)
> but that you can also 2) right click on the cover art which would open
> up a dialog window to select a .jpg file, the default directory would
> be the one of the song currently playing; you can than still select
> you're beloved 'cover.jpg'.
> - Upon initially collection cover art for the first time, Banshee
> should first check out the album directory to see if a .jpg/.jpeg file
> is available and then take that one in stead of start searching
> directly on the internet. Note that you then best have only one .jpg
> file in your directory.
> - Using the replay gain option when playing back songs. It's not
> neccesary that Banshee calculates the Replay gain tag for you, it
> would be sufficient to just use it.
>
> Anybody agree with this list ? Anybody want to add ? Keep in mind that
> we should not make the list to long ...
>
> BTW, congrats to the Aaron's team for this marvelous product. If you
> guys keep on pushing this hard, we will end up having Banshee as
> standard media player in the next Ubuntu release ... :-)
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